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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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Paul Krugman’s 9/11: A Liberal History Lesson
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, September 14 2011
In case you missed it, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to say that the memory of that tragic day has been forever “poisoned,” becoming “an occasion of shame” because Americans allowed themselves to be lied into a bad war and polarized politics.  In reality, Krugman’s blog post marked his final descent into the leftwing nuthouse.  Krugman’s 181-word screed against common sense and decency was nothing more than a loose collection of liberal half-thoughts dumped onto a word processor and uploaded for…
 
Obama Now on Course to Preside Over the Worst Economic Growth Since Recordkeeping Began
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Green Jobs, Red Ink: The Economic Folly of Obama’s Enviro-Meddling
Modern liberalism is a faith defined by the belief that reality is whatever the state says it is. Thus…
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Big Labor warned us it would roar into 2012, an awakening colossus punishing everyone who stood in the…
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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?