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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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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Al Gore Emerges from Hiding, Calls Us a “Criminal Generation”
By Timothy H. Lee
Tuesday, March 02 2010
Somehow, it seems poetically just that Al Gore finally emerged from his snow-covered bunker just one day after the world collectively witnessed a false Pacific tsunami alarm.  Following Chile’s tragic earthquake, we watched as a destructive wave supposedly swept toward Hawaii and other inhabited Pacific islands.  The primary difference is that we quickly recognized the falsity of Saturday’s tsunami warning, whereas Gore’s vast global warming hysteria industry continues to disintegrate in a more excruciating slow-motion, piece-by-piece fashion.  Nevertheless, let’s…
 
The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one…
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Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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“From Keynesian to Ponzian” – Obama’s Stimulus One Year Later
“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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Al Gore Pivots to the Bottom Line
Buried near the bottom of last Sunday’s Dana Milbank Washington Post piece titled “Global…
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The Age of Obama: 2009-2010
A generation from now, when historians chronicle presidential leadership around the turn of the century…
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Executive Orders Reveal Executive Weakness
It is the common fate of presidents to learn that occupying the most powerful office in the world amounts…
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Global Warming Dead-Enders Imitate Gilligan’s Island
Decades after Japan surrendered to conclude World War II, legend persisted of abandoned Japanese soldiers…
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If It’s Broke, Fix It: Paul Ryan’s Plan to Make Government Programs Sustainable
One of the most annoying things about talking policy with progressives is the ambivalence they show towards…
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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.