Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
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

 …[more]

August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
CFIF’s latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Sign Up
ObamaCare Debate Waives Goodbye to Rule of Law
By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, May 17 2011
Implementing the various command-and-control features of ObamaCare is proving to be as damaging to the rule of law as was its passage.  In a fine piece of journalism, the Daily Caller shows that 38 of the 204 new ObamaCare waivers issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April 2011 went to swanky San Francisco nightclubs, spas and hotels in Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) district.  While the owner of Tru Spa said that ObamaCare has “been bad for us” and along with new local laws “devastated” his business, every other manager or owner contacted…
 
Obama Uses Immigration Reform as a Cynical Ploy
Barack Obama, fresh off the biggest triumph of his presidency, was given a rare opportunity by the death…
Read more...
Obama’s Investigation of CIA Interrogators Has No Integrity
Debra Burlingame is the right kind of citizen activist: a force that frightens politicians in both parties. …
Read more...
 
Beating Rattlesnakes and Bottom Feeders: Congress Fights Frivolous Lawsuits
In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama promised to support legislation “to rein…
Read more...
U.S. Tipping Point: 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist until a majority…
Read more...
 
Gunrunner Scandal Beating a Path to AG Holder’s Door
How do you go from pushing Congress for a permanent assault weapons ban to letting military-style guns…
Read more...
To Run DNC, Wasserman Schultz Be Illin’
Proof that Barack Obama is the anti-Clinton, that he is committed to left-wing ideology rather than center-left…
Read more...
 
Bin Laden and “The End of the Beginning”
Osama Bin Laden is dead. And there isn’t much more to the story than that.
 
…
Read more...
Obama Tilting at Oil Companies, Propping Up Windmills
In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the title character repeatedly makes a fool of himself with well-meaning…
Read more...
 
More Obama “Recovery” – Economy Slows While Inflation, New Unemployment Claims Rise
“Obama, Biden Declare ‘Recovery Summer’”  That was a Politico headline…
Read more...
Obama Administration Undermines Federalism to Prop Up Faltering Unions
Back in the halcyon days of the American labor movement, the protection of a union job brought with it…
Read more...
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?