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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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Individual States Can Reinforce 2nd Amendment Rights
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 01 2018
Amendment II  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.  You'd assume that the explicit terms of the Second Amendment would resolve any debate over the individual right to keep and bear arms.  All too often throughout American history, however, that hasn't been the case.  After all, it took over two centuries of jurisprudence for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally confirm in D.C. v. Heller (2008) what the Founding Fathers considered a given:  The Second Amendment…
 
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Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass. My fondest childhood memories come from fishing with my dad on the…
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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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