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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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Senate Leaders Go on Offense for U.S. Pharmaceutical Innovation
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 31 2025
If the best defense is a good offense, Americans should welcome an effort underway in the United States Senate to protect lifesaving pharmaceutical innovation and target the problem of foreign freeloading.   All too often in recent years, defenders of U.S. pharmaceutical leadership have been forced into a defensive stance, playing whack-a-mole against an incessant onslaught of bad policy proposals as they popped up.  From drug price control proposals to the Biden administration’s preposterous proposal to surrender American drug patents, bad ideas have been unrelenting.  …
 
Democratic Anger vs. Trump Accomplishment
President Donald Trump met with reporters in Scotland Monday to tout his new trade deal with the European…
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The Coming Clash Between Trump and NYC on Homelessness
The public is fed up with having to climb over drug-addled zombies and mumbling, mentally deranged vagrants…
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Desperately Seeking a Pro-Growth Democrat
The most recent Wall Street Journal political poll shows that Democrats have swerved into a deep ditch.…
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Obama Knew the Russiagate Intelligence Was Manufactured
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard contends that new declassified documents show that former…
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Essential Industries Rely on Plastic, So Let’s Modernize U.S. Policy
Despite widespread left-wing assurances of impending doom, the American economy maintains its impressive…
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The End of Immortality in Washington
Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government…
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CFIF Commends U.S. House Oversight Committee’s Investigation into Bloomberg-Funded State AG Lawfare
WASHIGNTON, D.C. — Since 2017, the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC) at the…
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Measuring What Americans Think About Immigration
Over the weekend, CBS News published a new poll with the headline, "Poll finds support for Trump's…
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Legacy Media Still Covering for Biden
Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency? Or were White…
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Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” Versus Reaganesque and Trumpian “Peace Through Strength”
It may be true that one invites more flies with honey than with vinegar.  It’s equally true…
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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?