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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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Media Continues to Misreport ObamaCare Employer Mandate Calculation
By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, August 20 2013
Perhaps the biggest – and costliest – misunderstood ObamaCare regulation is the so-called “Employer Shared Responsibility” requirement, i.e., the mandate that all employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees must provide health insurance or pay stiff penalties. The word equivalent bears emphasizing because it looms large in the text of ObamaCare. “FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS TREATED AS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES,” declares the relevant heading in Title I, Subtitle F, Part II, Section 1513 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare. In…
 
Two Humiliating New Judicial Defeats for Obama Administration, in Remarkably Harsh Language
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How ObamaCare Is Killing Labor Unions
As ObamaCare’s implementation draws near, the costs to unions could be fatal. For private-sector…
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For Obama Analogies, Look Deeper than Carter
There was a time early in Barack Obama’s first term when armchair analysts thought they had an…
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A War Worth Fighting: Rand Paul and Chris Christie
Don’t look now, but the 2016 presidential campaign just got kicked off a few years early. The occasion:…
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Misunderstanding ObamaCare’s Employer Mandate could be Costly for Small Businesses
What if Congress amends a key part of ObamaCare, but doesn’t fix the underlying problem? That…
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CBS – Time Warner Standoff Reemphasizes Need to Deregulate TV Marketplace
While CBS and Time Warner struggle to reach agreement over fees for carrying CBS’s programming…
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“Recovery Summer,” Episode V – New Government Report Shows U.S. Economy Stalling Five Years into Recovery
Three long years ago this week, on August 2, 2010, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced…
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Obama Gripped by Intellectual Exhaustion
There are certain surefire signs that you’re losing in politics. Foremost among them: You spend…
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Detroit’s ObamaCare Bailout Could Bankrupt the Young and Healthy
With the Obama administration gearing up to spend $700 million on an advertising blitz to convince the…
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Liberals incessantly claim fealty to “science,” while falsely caricaturing libertarians and…
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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.