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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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Unions: Americans Profess to Love Them, But Few Want to Join One
By Timothy H. Lee
Friday, October 09 2026
Nothing in American life illustrates the vast chasm between "what I say" and "what I do" better than abstract approval of labor unions versus actual willingness to join one.   Respondents continue to express positivity toward unions in polls, but private-sector union membership remains at a record low of 5.9%.  People remain conceptually fine with unions, as long as they don't have to actually belong to one.   In other words, Americans regard labor unions the same way that they regard kale and public television:  admirable in the abstract, but…
 
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Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's something dangerous: price…
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In nearly every way, Americans have more material wealth, better health, better housing and more of just…
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The Senate Seat Most Likely To Flip
When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those…
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Time to End Democrats' Lynch-Law Justice for College Boys
If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law…
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A Leaner Federal Workforce Is a Win for Taxpayers
One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging…
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'When Will Markets React to Debt?' Is the Wrong Question
Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some…
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October Is National Intellectual Property Month
What single factor most accounts for American Exceptionalism?   To employ a statistical term…
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Are GOP Doomers Overreacting?
This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among…
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With the midterm elections nearing, Democrats are surging ahead in the polls, offering rhetoric about…
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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.