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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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Healthcare: Beware Price Controls and Weaker Patent Protections
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 06 2019
As debate over healthcare policy accelerates, a small number of otherwise conservative and libertarian voices who should know better have begun floating destructive proposals that would only make matters worse.  As an initial matter, it’s worth highlighting an encouraging recent Gallup survey that may surprise some.  Namely, a remarkable 80% of Americans rate their own healthcare as “excellent” or “good.”  Accordingly, policy makers should approach this debate with the understanding that proposals that would upset the proverbial apple cart and impose…
 
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One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the…
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House Unlikely to Ever Get Trump's Tax Returns
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As Barr Mulls Declassification, a Familiar Tune from Critics
In February 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released the so-called Nunes memo. In four pages,…
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The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers…
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Notable Quote   
 
"National elections take place every two years in this country, and whether it's a presidential cycle or a midterm election, overwrought commentators, partisan activists, and the candidates themselves repeat without self-awareness, let alone irony, a variant of the exhortation that 'this election is the most important of our lifetimes.' It's an age-old talking point. The motivations of those…[more]
 
 
— Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics and Executive Editor of RealClear Media Group
 
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