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- Oh no, Beto!
- Mr. Powell, Lower That Interest Rate!
- Debt Woes of Older States
- Trump to Open Trade Talks
- Teen Vogue: Making Commies Sexy
- Audit Shows Massive Debt and Deception for Kentucky Wired
- 2018’s Biggest Horror Film: Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer
- Horseface: What if….no, but what if?
- States Ill-Prepared for Next Recession
- Congressman Tries to Zap Electric Car Credits
- ‘Cult City’ Comes Out Today
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No, Suburbia Won’t Save the Blue Wave
The Democrats and the media still cling to fantasies of a midterm blue wave despite blunders like the Kavanaugh smear and their opposition to tax cuts. Why? As Ron Brownstein puts it in a recent CNN column, “There’s a suburban tsunami driving 2018.” The problem with this claim is that, of its two underlying assumptions […]
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As a mob of thousands of migrants made their way north from Honduras toward the U.S. border last week, events in a closely-watched congressional race took an important turn. Politico reported that Democrats had pulled resources out of their campaign against Republican Rep. Will Hurd in the 23rd District of Texas. If their national leadership has […]
Republican Workers of the World Unite!
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It is no surprise that health care reform is a major campaign issue for all Americans this year. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that health care is the most important issue that voters want candidates to discuss this fall. Last year health care expenses consumed 18 percent of the U.S. economy, or $3.2 […]
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