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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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FBI, R.I.P.?
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, August 11 2022
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI's deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump – an historical first. A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe…
 
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The Democrats' Lifespan Reduction Act
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"Last night, voters in seven states were asked whether they wanted to reduce property taxes through statewide ballot initiatives. Voters in Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia said yes, while those in Wyoming and Oklahoma said no.These ballot proposals follow dozens of property tax relief measures enacted in recent years in states like Texas, Ohio, and North Dakota.Among…[more]
  
 
— Mariana Trujillo, Reason Foundation
 
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.