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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... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Paris Is Burning – Are America's Great Cities Next?
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, November 11 2026
Paris is burning and facing economic turmoil as young protesters and criminals have taken to the streets in violent temper tantrums. The leaders of Paris sit back in a state of petrified paralysis and have forfeited control as civil protest has turned whole neighborhoods into zones of chaos and jungle warfare. It's like a scene out of a Batman movie. But voters in America's great cities from coast to coast aren't paying attention. Los Angeles just became at least the fifth major American city to elect a socialist mayor. The incompetent Karen Bass – who couldn't stop the mountain…
 
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"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]
  
 
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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.