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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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Obama “Mischaracterized” Mother’s Health Insurance Problems
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 14 2011
A new book written by a former New York Times reporter shows that candidate and then President Barack Obama grossly misrepresented – at best – his mother’s dispute with an insurance company over benefits while she was dying.  A Times article citing the book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother by Janny Scott, shows how several of Obama’s statements regarding his mother’s fight over coverage for a pre-existing condition were used to justify passage of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as ObamaCare.  In campaign stops…
 
Laws We Could Have Had Without a Liberal Obstructionist Senate
When President Barack Obama said it’s time to “eat our peas” as a nation and swallow…
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Obama’s Debt Ceiling Proposal Holds Taxpayers Hostage
To say that Barack Obama has a well-defined leadership style would be perhaps too complimentary. What…
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For Obama, Foreign Law Trumps Vicious Rape
It was bad enough that President Obama last week asked the Supreme Court to apply a law that has not…
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$278,000 For Every Job “Saved or Created,” And Now Comes the Bill
This week, we learned that 141 Obama White House aides earn over $100,000 annually.  That’s…
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Real Affirmative Action Starts with School Choice, Not Quotas
The United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to prohibit Michigan’s ban on…
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As Economy Flounders, Obama Focuses on What Americans Eat, Smoke and Drive
Delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress in February 2009, Barack Obama told the assembled…
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The Return of Liberals’ Fuzzy Math
It would be one helluva entertaining spectacle to watch liberals do back flips with budget numbers if…
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Why Can’t California Democrats Understand the Importance of Economic Growth?
With California’s new budget that went into effect on July 1, one question comes to mind about…
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ICE Slips DREAM Act in Through the Backdoor
With budgets tight and duties being reprioritized, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
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Clarence Thomas, for the Parents
One reason Supreme Court watching can be a fascinating enterprise is because diametrically opposing sides…
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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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