FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
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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As Orwell’s “Animal Farm” Turns 80, Bernie Sanders Personifies Its Hypocritical Villains
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 21 2025
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” which remains enduringly relevant for its tragic parable of government oppression and hypocrisy.   Separately but not wholly unrelated, a recent public opinion survey somehow rates socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I – Vermont) as one of the more popular public figures among Americans.   That should unsettle Orwell devotees, because few public figures offer a better living illustration of Orwell’s grim warning than the hypocritical millionaire Sanders.  …
 
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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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Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?