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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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Anti-Police Mobs Undermining Thirty Years of Progress
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 09 2020
"Never trust anyone over thirty." So went the 1960s hippie mantra, never mind that it logically excluded such counterculture shamans as Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden before the decade ended.  Of course, logical fidelity wasn’t exactly the hallmark of that era of Pentagon levitation efforts and hygiene-deficient communes inhabited by figures like Charles Manson.  In any event, today that slogan’s converse – never trust anyone under thirty – might offer wiser guidance, at least insofar as our sudden societal debate over policing policy is…
 
The Fragility of the Woke
A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening…
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Yikes! It's Airborne
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With Trump, Bypass Media Coverage and Judge for Yourself
That much news coverage is biased against President Trump goes without saying. But every now and then…
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Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence
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Next Election Could Decide If Washington, D.C., Becomes 51st State
The drive to make Washington, D.C., a state has been a favorite of some Democrats for years. Why wouldn't…
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Washington Bureaucrats Drag Their Feet Against the Virus
In a pandemic, government efficiency can make the difference between life and death. You'd expect our…
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Chief Justice Roberts: Popularity Curator, Not Neutral Umpire
"Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around.  Judges are like umpires. …
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2020 Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry
The old 2020 election was supposed to be about many familiar issues. It is not any more. Up until now…
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Once Started, Mob Violence Targeting Monuments Is Hard To Stop
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Father Junipero Serra…
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Time to Reopen the Economy
Mainstream media are sounding the alarm about the coronavirus cases spiking across the South and West.…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
 
 
— John Tamny, Editor of RealClearMarkets, President of the Parkview Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Market Institute
 
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.