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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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World IP Day: Celebrate American Preeminence
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 25 2019
This week marks World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, which merits celebration of IP’s outsized role in making the United States the most innovative, prosperous and powerful society in human history.  For most Americans, the role of private property rights as a primary driver of what we know as American Exceptionalism goes almost without saying, at least beyond the fever swamps of freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D – New York) and the eighty or ninety candidates straining to claim the far left in the 2020 presidential race.  For the rest of us, both morality…
 
Mueller Investigation Was Driven By Pious Hypocrisy
Special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between…
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Give Warren a BS Degree in Vote-Buying
Presidential contender Elizabeth Warren's strategy is to win the Democratic nomination by promising the…
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The Personal Cost of the Trump-Russia Probe
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is over, but the reverberations of the Trump-Russia affair…
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Democrats Are Using Ilhan Omar as an Excuse to Chill Speech
Democrats have spent the past two-plus years accusing the president of the United States and his allies…
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Things That Can't Go On Forever Simply Don't
Economist Herbert Stein's old adage — "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" —…
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Rescue Border Towns and Taxpayers With 'Remain in Mexico'
President Donald Trump scored a win on Friday when a federal appeals court gave a temporary green light…
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Five Arguments the Mueller Report Won't Settle
Attorney General Bill Barr will release a redacted version of the Mueller report this week. It will,…
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Why Are Democrats Pandering to Al Sharpton?
Rev. Al Sharpton's fortunes have been on the upswing. A few years ago, then-President Barack Obama claimed…
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“Jackpot Jury” Award by Texas Jury Merits Outrage and Reversal
“Jackpot jury.”  That term instantly resonates negatively with most Americans, and…
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California has Become America's Cannibal State
For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in…
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Notable Quote   
 
"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]
 
 
— Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, Co-Founders of INTREP360
 
Liberty Poll   

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?