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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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Questions Without Answers About Ukraine
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, March 23 2023
Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would that goal entail? Giving Ukraine American F-16s to strike bases and depots in Mother Russia? The gifting of 1,000 M1 Abrams tanks? Using American Harpoon missiles to sink the Russian Black Sea fleet? A huge arsenal that would guarantee total victory rather than not losing? Russia’s…
 
The Climate Apocalypse is Nigh – This Time They Really Mean It
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Twenty Years After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
It's been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W.…
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Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty
Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America's industrial might. But…
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Democrats Deserve Plenty of Blame for the Bank Crisis
The United States recently suffered the second largest bank failure in the country's history. The consensus…
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In Julie Su, Biden Nominates Another Incompetent Ideologue
Throughout his administration, everyone nominated by Joe Biden seems to offer a unique amalgam of functional…
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The President's Budget Reveals the Real Priority: Tax Hikes
Budgets are about priorities. In the Biden administration's new budget, its apparent priorities are marred…
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Are we the Byzantines?
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its…
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Biden's Banking Busts
The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and Signature…
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Joe Biden and Democrats' Chronic Crime Problem
What's one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying…
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Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don't Work.
"I have no respect for the passion of equality," Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America's…
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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.