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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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The Next President’s Agenda
By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, January 18 2012
Okay, pretend I’m running for president. Here’s my platform. Personal income taxes: Flat rate, 20 percent. Same applies to dividends and capital gains. $7,000 exemption per person in household (no more than two adults age 18 or above). Full tax deductions for charitable contributions. Deduction for home mortgage interest for primary residence up to $2,000 per month. Deduction for health insurance or health savings accounts up to $600 premium per person per month. Deduction for retirement savings just as now. No death tax. No AMT. Everything indexed for inflation (via the “chained…
 
Poll: By 2-to-1, Americans Fear Second Obama Term
If the Obama Administration already behaves as lawlessly as we are witnessing despite the tempering prospect…
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Supreme Court Saves Religious Liberty from Obama
In a devastating smackdown of the Obama administration’s extremist, anti-religious legal philosophy…
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Is Mitt Romney the Second Coming of John Kerry?
A weak incumbent president — hated by the opposition and experiencing resistance from within his…
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Politicizing Lawsuits for Electoral Gain
Question: When is a lawsuit also a campaign tool?  Answer: Whenever losing enrages a voting bloc…
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Rogue Website Legislation: Google Says, “Don’t Be Evil… Unless It Helps Google”
As contemporary examples of malignant irony go, it’s difficult to top Google.  Recall Google’s…
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While You Were Caucusing: Obama’s 4 Moves That Hurt America
In the run-up to the Republican Iowa caucuses, President Barack Obama and his subordinates made several…
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Obama’s 2012: Governing Without Congress
2011 was Barack Obama’s year of living dangerously. Whether it was the debt ceiling showdown, the…
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Obama’s Tyrannical Tendencies
For years now I’ve warned that Barack Obama gives evidence of disturbingly authoritarian tendencies.…
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2011: The Year in Review
2012 is going to be a year dominated by politics. It will begin with the Iowa caucuses only a few days…
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Paul Ryan’s New Medicare Reform Is Pro-Market
Like night following day, another Paul Ryan reform proposal is igniting another round of teeth-gnashing…
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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?