Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
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

 …[more]

August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
CFIF’s latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Sign Up
The Asylum Phenomenon on the Southern Border
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, July 04 2018
People hoping to settle in the United States wait years for a green card to be legal residents. They play by the rules. These law-abiding newcomers must feel like idiots, watching what's happening on the southern border. Hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants are walking right in. They're not waiting in line. They're using "asylum" requests as their E-ZPass. Just 12 percent of requests from El Salvadorans, 11 percent from Guatemalans and 7.5 percent from Hondurans are actually granted, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Never mind, the request gets them in.…
 
Donald Trump's Mainstream Immigration Policy
Perhaps no Trump policy has provoked more emotional reaction than the practice of separating illegal…
Read more...
Do You Really Want America to Look Like Twitter?
It looks as if the next phase of our ginned-up national moral panic will feature the public shunning…
Read more...
 
As Justice Kennedy Retires, Supreme Court Finally Ends Compulsory Public-Union Dues
Groucho Marx famously observed, "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." …
Read more...
Government Workers 'Free at Last'
Rank and file government workers won big over union bosses Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…
Read more...
 
'Abolish ICE' Zealots Occupy Fantasy Island
"No ban. No wall. No borders at all." That is the radical rallying cry of the Democratic Socialists…
Read more...
U.S. Economy Leaving Europe and the Rest of the World Behind
It wasn't supposed to happen this way.  The 2016 election of Donald Trump was supposed to usher…
Read more...
 
In China, 'Free Trade' Means Steal What You Want
What can Democrat Chuck Schumer, Republican Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump agree on? Almost nothing…
Read more...
Weapons of Mass Manipulation
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives. When researchers ignore…
Read more...
 
What Republicans Suspect About the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe
The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators…
Read more...
On North Korea, a President Who Tried Something Different
Reaction to President Trump's summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has broken down along the…
Read more...
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?