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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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Protest Culture Is Annoying and Un-American
By David Harsanyi
Monday, January 26 2026
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) likes to argue that the "whole point" of protesting is to make people "uncomfortable." Debate. Dissent. Running highly misleading political ads on TV. These are all part of our great tradition of political discourse. In this as in so much else, the Democratic darling is incorrect. Taking to the streets to disrupt the lives of average citizens is a leftist ideal, not an American one. It's antithetical to the highest virtue of republicanism, namely minding your own business. But decades ago, American leftists began conflating "activism"…
 
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Across the nation, states are fiercely competing for companies and population by slashing taxes. New…
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Minnesota and the Battle to Cripple ICE
You've seen videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers struggling to apprehend illegal immigrants…
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Americans today are justifiably angry about the price of rents and mortgages. Home prices have roughly…
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The Left's Silence on Iran Isn't Hypocrisy; It's Consistency
There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded "democracy" groups pressuring…
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The Durbin-Marshall Credit Card Mandates Are a Dangerous Prospect for U.S. Consumers
Whenever federal bureaucrats and politicians propose new regulations in the name of “consumer welfare…
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Is the Middle Class 'Shrinking' or 'Struggling'? The Difference Is Important.
"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists…
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Time to Crack Down on Fraud
Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good? Government…
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The Prime of Tough-Guy Progressivism
On Saturday, Larry Krasner, the elected Democratic district attorney of Philadelphia, posted a photo…
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Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions
Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern…
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"The Doomsday Clock, last adjusted in January, has not since moved any closer to forecasting global catastrophe. But media headlines over the course of 2026 have moved in that direction and are suggestive that midnight is drawing nearer.Silicon Valley companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, are warning that artificial intelligence -- renamed 'super intelligence' by President Trump's…[more]
  
 
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