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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
By Troy Senik
Tuesday, March 02 2010
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one Republicans in the Senate having held up the capitol’s previously regnant liberalism, the District of Columbia is now infested with left-wing columnists, lattes half-emptied, breathlessly claiming that the upper chamber is broken.  They are right – and it has been for 97 years.
 
Liberals locate the Senate’s dysfunction in the anti-democratic tendencies of the filibuster. While they correctly note that the obstructionist device is not located in the Constitution…
 
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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Will President Obama Make Recess Appointments?
The President nominates.  The Senate confirms.  That is the schoolboy civics lesson regarding…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Twenty-five years after 9/11, we are entering a new era of terrorism. In recent weeks, authorities have arrested individuals who pledged allegiance to ISIS and used artificial intelligence to help plan major attacks.Although those plots were thwarted, they reveal that terrorist organizations are now using AI in far more consequential ways. AI can help 'novices' to build chemical and biological weapons…[more]
 
 
— Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., Executive Director of MEMRI
 
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