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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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2010: A Time for Choosing
By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 05 2010
In the logic of Washington, every election cycle is “one of the most important of our lifetimes.”  There’s a kernel of wisdom lodged inside that hyperbole.  After all, the success of a free and democratic nation, continental in scope, isn’t foreordained.  Every biannual return to the polls is one more small triumph for our improbable experiment in democracy.
 
As summer recedes into autumn, this call will be sounded once again for the 2010 midterms.  Republicans will argue that the nation’s economic health and the size of the…
 
ObamaCare Loses in Two Courts, not Just One
“Once you explain what’s in the bill, the American people of course like it.” ~Senate…
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President – The Nation Is in Shambles
The following birthday message to President Obama from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi was mistakenly posted…
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Please, Liberals, No More “Teachable Moments”
Last week’s media maelstrom over Shirley Sherrod – the Department of Agriculture employee…
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Raising Taxes on “The Rich” Will Harm the Economy
Consumer spending fuels two-thirds of the massive American economy.  Meanwhile, the top five percent…
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Democrats Launch Suicide Mission to Equate Tea Party with GOP
In a move that can only be understood as a fundamental misreading of this year’s political landscape…
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John Lott: More Guns, Still Less Crime
“I would ask gun control advocates one question:  name a single place in the entire world…
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Getting to Yes: Republicans Don’t Need Ideas to Win, But They Need Them to Govern
As the autumnal election season becomes visible on the horizon, Republicans with an eye to retaking congressional…
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A Tale of Two California Cities Provides Bellwether for Golden State’s Future
California’s intensifying economic tremors are widening the divide between two approaches to government:…
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Obama’s BP Spill Commission Places Partisanship Above Progress
This week, President Barack Obama’s BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission…
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The Public Pension Time Bomb: Coming Soon to a State Near You
In this age of fiscal sophistry, the language of public finance is riddled with economic alchemy. The…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump's improbable comeback in 2024 markedly…[more]
 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?