Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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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Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History?
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, February 18 2026
Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy. Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree – as…
 
Should Trump Shake Up His Cabinet?
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Shut Up and Ski
Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think…
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CFIF Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Codification of Most Favored Nation (MFN) Drug Pricing
 In a letter led by Americans for Tax Reform and sent to Congress this week, the Center…
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Debunking the Walter Cronkite “That’s the Way It Is” Media Myth
Another downsizing at The Washington Post has triggered predictable lamentations and nostalgic commentaries…
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Congress May Finally Touch the 'Third Rail.' Inflation Will Hold Them Accountable.
Your representatives may finally grab the feared "third rail" of U.S. politics. When the Social…
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If ICE Is Hamstrung, Hold on to Your Wallets
A new Harvard/Harris public opinion poll shows two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of Immigration…
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Dow 50,000: A Supply-Side Miracle
When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that…
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The Clintons Are So Over
What do you call a former two-term president of the United States and his wife, a former first lady,…
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In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]
 
 
— John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?