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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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ObamaCare and the Doctor Shortage
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, January 10 2013
What if 20 million Americans get mandated health insurance, but there aren’t enough primary care doctors to serve them?  Thanks to ObamaCare’s mandated expansion of insurance coverage, that’s exactly what will happen as the law exacerbates a nationwide doctor shortage.  Just after the November elections, the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care released a study projecting that the United States will need at least 52,000 additional primary care doctors by the year 2025 to meet the demands of three developments: overall population growth (33,000 new…
 
The Vindication of George W. Bush
“I just wanted to thank so many on the other side after all these years, for finally acknowledging…
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Could Mike Pence be GOP’s Best Hope in 2016?
“Washington DC does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.”  With those…
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‘Fiscal Cliff’ Fight Ended in a Draw
Conservative doomsayers should chill out. This week’s installment of a budget deal is definitely…
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As Obama Exploits Massacre for Partisan “Fiscal Cliff” Gain, Some Important Gun Facts to Consider
What happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut isn’t fairly a “tragedy.” …
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Budget’s Sessions is Right to Want Budget Sessions
One reason the substance of the “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations has been so unsatisfactory is…
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Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary: The Best Conservatives Can Hope For?
This week the White House let the press know that President Barack Obama is considering Chuck Hagel,…
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Louisiana Education Reform: Making Government Work “Public Service” Once More
Underneath the fights that have raged in recent years over the future of public employment – from…
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Right to Work: If Unions Benefit Workers, Why Must They Compel Membership?
In my former life as a labor attorney, I occasionally posed a question that union representatives across…
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Fiscal Gap Worse Than Fiscal Cliff
Negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff are understandably focusing on whether to cut or raise taxes and…
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Ben Franklin’s Conservative Economic Wisdom
Ben Franklin might have had something to say about Barack Obama’s twisted vendetta against the…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Claims that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to democracy likely contributed to Democrats' smashing success in Tuesday's elections. Ironically, the president's efforts to bring more democratic accountability to government may prove to be one of his most durable achievements -- despite persistent progressive pushback poised to ramp up under divided government. Although Trump is often described…[more]
 
 
— Benjamin Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations
 
Liberty Poll   

Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.