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                            February 21, 2024Our Sneaky Phones By John Stossel
   The government and private companies spy on us.

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                            February 20, 2024What Biden Bull Market? By Stephen Moore
   President Joe Biden is boasting about the recent stock market rally. He's right that stocks have been on a tear for the last 14 months. The S&P 500 hit 5,000 for the first time in history. That's up from 500 some 30 years ago.

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                            February 16, 2024America's Dysfunctional Overclass By Michael Barone
   What does America's overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think ordinary people's splurging on natural resources is destroying the planet and needs to be cut back forcefully. And that the government needs to stamp down on ordinary people enjoying luxuries that, in their view, should be reserved for the top elites.
February 15, 2024Notes on the State of the Senate By J. Miles Coleman
Analyzing Hogan’s entry in Maryland; deciphering action out west; the 2024 Democratic downside risk.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE–Last week, national Republicans got their best possible Senate recruit in deep blue Maryland, with former Gov. Larry Hogan.
–Though Hogan will be hard pressed to actually win, as has been the case with some other recent “crossover” governors who’ve run in Senate races, his candidacy is notable enough that it moves Maryland onto the periphery of the competitive map.
–In Montana, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R, MT-2) finally entered his state’s Senate contest, setting up a primary with Tim Sheehy, who national Republicans prefer.
— In Arizona, Kari Lake, a pro-Trump election denier, received the nod from national Republicans, though Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-AZ) plans are still not known.
— With Democrats being so exposed this cycle—they hold roughly two-thirds of the Senate seats that will be up—it’ll be important for them to minimize their losses.

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                            February 14, 2024Skewed News By John Stossel
On CNN, a "reporter" interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris gushes, "I'm struck, just in your presence! Looking you in the eye, with your passion ... "
Really?

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                            February 13, 2024Vladimir Putin -- A Passive Aggressor By Daniel McCarthy
Vladimir Putin is fighting a war he can't win against forces he doesn't understand.

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                            February 9, 2024Toward a Demotic Republican Party By Michael Barone
   What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a deity (remember that the Greek gods were notoriously jealous and greedy), but demotic, from the Greek word demos, meaning the people -- the same root as democratic.
February 8, 2024The Race for the House, Part Two By Kyle Kondik
Rating changes in 7 districts a mixed bag for each party; previewing the NY-3 special.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— We are making 7 House rating changes this week, with 4 benefiting Democrats and 3 benefiting Republicans.
— Republicans continue to be closer to the magic number of 218 in our ratings than Democrats, but there are enough Toss-up races that we broadly consider the race for the House to be a Toss-up overall.
— The NY-3 special remains highly competitive less than a week before the election.

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                            February 7, 2024AI Is Coming for Your Job? By John Stossel
The media warn, "Artificial intelligence will replace millions of jobs."

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                            February 6, 2024Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?  By Daniel McCarthy
   She's just won the Grammy for album of the year.

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                            February 6, 2024Biden's War Against the Internet By Stephen Moore
It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now available and affordable to almost all Americans.

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                            February 2, 2024Systemic Lying Corrodes Once-great Institutions By Michael Barone
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind.

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                            February 2, 2024Lost Trust in Healthcare Experts – What Happened? By Brian Joondeph
Trust is foundational in relationships, whether between two individuals or between individuals and institutions.
A Gallup survey from last summer found, “Americans’ faith in major societal institutions hasn’t improved over the past year following a slump in public confidence in 2022."
February 1, 2024A Deeper Dig into the Granite By J. Miles Coleman and Kyle Kondik
The Trump, Haley, and Biden coalitions in the New Hampshire primary.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE—With a lull in the primary calendar, we thought we’d take a closer look at last week’s New Hampshire primary.
—Nikki Haley’s town-level victories were confined almost exclusively to places that Joe Biden carried in the 2020 general election.
—Although Biden showed some weakness in a few of the state’s larger cities, he carried nearly every town in the state.
—The GOP primary saw the most raw votes cast of any New Hampshire primary contest, but that was driven in part by participation from voters who likely won’t be voting Republican for president in the fall.

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                            January 31, 2024A Libertarian President! By John Stossel
   Argentina actually elected a libertarian president.

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                            January 30, 2024The Gambling Industry Wants to Make Fantasy Sports Leagues Illegal By Stephen Moore
   Here's a sad and textbook case of how companies all too often use the strong-arm of government to destroy their competition.

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                            January 30, 2024Trump's Map to the White House By Daniel McCarthy
   In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than 1 point: Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

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                            January 26, 2024DeSantis Withdrawal Paved the Way for Likely Trump-Biden Rematch By Michael Barone
What went wrong with Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign? You can list many arguable mistakes, as you can with any campaign, and you can add, as some reporters have, that the candidate was not likable or good at retail campaigning -- which mostly reflected reporters' personal dislike of DeSantis or resentment at his refusal to schmooze what he considered unfriendly press.
January 25, 2024The Fields Above the Graves: Louisiana 2024 Redistricting By J. Miles Coleman
In vintage Louisiana fashion, Democrats gain a second Louisiana seat.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Earlier this week, Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) signed a new House map that creates a second Black-majority seat in the state.
— The new district, stretching from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, would have favored Joe Biden by 20 points in 2020 and is Safe Democratic.
— Former Rep. Cleo Fields (D) seems to be a frontrunner for the new seat, and, if elected, would return to Congress after a nearly 30 year absence.
— Aside from its partisan implications, the new map could be interpreted as Landry’s attempt at punishing Rep. Garret Graves (R, LA-6).

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                            January 24, 2024The Most Dangerous Conservative By John Stossel
The New York Times put Charles Murray on the cover of its Sunday Magazine, calling him "The Most Dangerous Conservative."