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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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Economic Freedom Index: U.S. Stabilizes In Trump's First Year
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 08 2018
For eight long years, the United States suffered continual decline in economic freedom under Barack Obama.  Anyone seeking causation for the unprecedented economic malaise under his watch need look no further than that measure.  At the beginning of 2009, when Obama entered the White House, the U.S. ranked sixth in the Heritage Foundation's annual Index of Economic Freedom, which placed us in the "Free" category.  By the time he departed, we had fallen to a record low rank of seventeenth, which reduced us to the "Mostly Free" category.  The economic consequences…
 
Coalition of More Than 100 Organizations and Individuals Endorse the Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a broad coalition made up of more than 100 of the nation’s most…
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CDC Should Put America First
Under President Obama, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent money and staff to distant…
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Memo to Dan Rather: Shut Up About Memos
Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry's…
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Republicans and Those 'Attacks' On the FBI
The news is filled with reports that Republicans in Washington are "attacking" the FBI over…
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Be Cautious, but Take the Devin Nunes Memo Seriously
For more than a year now, half of America has been driven into hysterics on a weekly basis by highly…
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Individual States Can Reinforce 2nd Amendment Rights
Amendment II  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right…
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Taxaholic Governors Try to Dodge Federal Tax Law
The governors of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey joined forces last week to announce they're suing…
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On Immigration, Trump Goes For It All
Back in 2015, before the presidential primaries began, a voter asked candidate Donald Trump if he believed…
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The Russia 'Fake News' Scare Is All About Chilling Speech
Last week, Republicans began to call for the release of a memo authored by House Intelligence Committee…
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In 2018, Focus on Intellectual Property Rights
The year 2017 witnessed remarkable progress in the realms of deregulation and tax reform, with immediate…
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Notable Quote   
 
"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.