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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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Today’s Robber Barons are on Capitol Hill
By Troy Senik
Thursday, April 22 2010
If conventional wisdom in Washington is to be believed – the beginning of a syllogism that almost never bears fruit – we are living in another Gilded Age, an epoch when rapacious captains of industry enrich themselves at the expense of “the public good” (an idea always nebulous enough to avoid empirical verification). As one Huffington Post columnist put it, “We are now at the mercy of modern Robber Barons, and if history is any judge, it is either them or us.” But the media aside, repeating a hackneyed narrative ad nauseam doesn’t make it true. The problem…
 
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Charles Krauthammer Is a Great American, and That’s a True Fact
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With elements of ObamaCare going into effect before the November mid-terms, voters in at least 31 congressional…
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Here Come the VAT, the Mother of All Taxes
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Politics isn’t the only means by which we can defend freedom and thwart the Obama Agenda. …
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Deconstructing America, One Industry at a Time
The next time you have a taste for horror, ask a liberal the following question: “What are the…
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After 230 years, are the American people coursing toward eventual divorce?  Our polarized society…
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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.