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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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America Owes Mahmoud Khalil Nothing
By David Harsanyi
Sunday, October 11 2026
Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question "silly" and "disingenuous." It is not "black and white," he whined. Even if you oppose Israel's reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience. Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. After all, Hamas is designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization for, among other things, murdering…
 
Unions: Americans Profess to Love Them, But Few Want to Join One
Nothing in American life illustrates the vast chasm between "what I say" and "what I do"…
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Judge the 'Populist' Push for Price Controls on Populist Grounds
Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's something dangerous: price…
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Why Are Americans So Pessimistic?
In nearly every way, Americans have more material wealth, better health, better housing and more of just…
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The Senate Seat Most Likely To Flip
When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those…
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Time to End Democrats' Lynch-Law Justice for College Boys
If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law…
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A Leaner Federal Workforce Is a Win for Taxpayers
One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging…
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'When Will Markets React to Debt?' Is the Wrong Question
Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some…
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October Is National Intellectual Property Month
What single factor most accounts for American Exceptionalism?   To employ a statistical term…
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Are GOP Doomers Overreacting?
This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among…
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Gas Prices Are High, but So Is the Price of Liberty
With the midterm elections nearing, Democrats are surging ahead in the polls, offering rhetoric about…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
 
 
— Chris Stirewalt, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

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