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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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A Debatable 'Debate'
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, August 11 2015
The so-called "debates," among too many Republicans to have a debate, are yet another painful sign of how much words and ideas have degenerated in our times. No one expects these televised sound bites and "gotcha" questions to be anything like the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates on the momentous national issue of slavery. But the mob scene of candidates on stage that began with the 2012 campaign, and is now being repeated, is a big step down from the modern one-on-one debates between presidential candidates that began with John F. Kennedy versus Richard Nixon in 1960. We…
 
Obama "Recovery" Objectively Worst on Record
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Yes, There Are Two Americas; No, They’re Not What You Think
It’s the defining political cliché of our age: America is a politically polarized nation.…
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Parent Trigger Agonistes: School Reform Hits a Wall
Parents shouldn’t be stuck with poor public schools for their children. In theory, public schools…
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Obama's Climate Hubris
This week, President Obama is hailing his Clean Power Plan as "the single most important step America…
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What's More Offensive Than Huckabee's Holocaust Remark? Obama's Iran Deal
In an interview with Breitbart News, Mike Huckabee accused President Barack Obama of being "naïve"…
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Is Destruction of Records Congenital to Liberals?
Is concealment and destruction of official government records somehow congenital to the contemporary…
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Bernie Sanders: Socialist, Nationalist, Romantic
Bernie Sanders is attracting crowds. The avowed socialist U.S. Senator from Vermont may be running a…
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The Iran Deal and America’s Crisis of Self-Government
There are plenty of good reasons to be depressed over the recent deal hammered out in Vienna to address…
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Obama Cronyism + Your Personal Data = Trouble
It's the most far-reaching scandal in Washington that no one wants to talk about: Tens of millions of…
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Documented Irresponsibility
People who entered the United States illegally may be called "undocumented" in politically…
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Notable Quote   
 
"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?