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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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How Pundits Got Key Part of Trump-Russia Story All Wrong
By Byron York
Tuesday, March 21 2017
A key talking point in the theory that Donald Trump and the Russians conspired in the 2016 election is the allegation that last summer, during the Republican convention, the Trump campaign changed the GOP platform to weaken its stance on Russia's aggression in Ukraine. It's been cited by Democrats and anti-Trump pundits many, many times. The only problem is, it's all wrong. The reason it's wrong is this: To allege that the platform was weakened, you have to know what it was in the first place. What did the original draft of the platform say about Russia and Ukraine? Was it, in fact, changed?…
 
Chuck Schumer's Attacks on Neil Gorsuch Are Un-American
If Democrats want to filibuster President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, they're entitled to do…
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Border Adjustment Tax: A Big-Government Accomplice
The United States continues to suffer the developed world’s highest corporate tax rate, which not…
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Migration Data: Where the Left Governs, Citizens Flee
"People Moving from New York Outnumber Arrivals by Nearly Two-to-One, Report Says." …
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The Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption
Here come the hyperpartisan hounds. A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to…
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New Trump Executive Order Hurts Hawaii's Feelings
There's a race going on for states to file or join new lawsuits against President Trump's second executive…
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The GOP Repeal Plan Sucks. But Is it Better Than Nothing?
First of all, the preferred free-market plan for health care policy should be no plan whatsoever. The…
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Trump Economy Ignites After Years of Obama Malaise
For the past eight years, conservatives and libertarians correctly maintained that Obama Administration…
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The Biggest News in Washington: Deregulation
If you want to start a business, the World Bank says you'd do better to move to Canada than setting up…
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The Information Vacuum Inside the Trump Russia Controversy
Put aside, for a moment, the raging controversies over this or that aspect of Donald Trump, the Russians…
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Don't Let Politics Ruin Baseball
Jayson Stark, a longtime baseball writer for ESPN, recently asked whether Major League Baseball players'…
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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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