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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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The Chicago Gun Myth
By David Harsanyi
Friday, July 31 2020
The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" this weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder rate: "We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons – that is hurting cities like Chicago." Although these accusations have leveled by Chicago politicians for decades now, they are a myth. For one thing, there is no state in the nation with "virtually…
 
"Conservative" George Will Prostrates Himself to Joe Biden
On July 5, 1987, columnist George Will excoriated aspiring presidential candidate Joe Biden as unfit…
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Our Summer of Cultural Suicide
Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as…
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Using Lifesaving Drugs as a Means of Redistribution
When lifesaving drugs run low, hospitals have to choose which patients get a scarce drug, while others…
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Biden VP Search Underscores Fact He's Too Old To Be President
An article in Politico got a lot of buzz in Washington, D.C., by reporting that Sen. Kamala Harris might…
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CFIF Opposes White House Executive Order Importing Foreign Nations’ Socialized Medicine and Drug Price Controls
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Regrettably, the White House today announced an executive order that effectively…
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The Problem in Portland Isn't the Law – It's the Lawlessness
Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson…
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Roll the Tape: Biden Supported “Defunding the Police”
This week, a new Rasmussen Reports survey confirms that a lopsided majority of Americans “see media…
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Why This Revolution Isn't Like the '60s
In the 1960s and early '70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in…
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The Many Dangers of Voting By Mail
President Trump has said many times that voting by mail – which will play a big role…
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Biden Will Destroy the Suburbs
If you live in the suburbs, or you're a city-dweller eyeing a move to a quiet cul-de-sac where your kids…
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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?