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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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America’s Economic Civil War
By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 16 2010
If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that the inconvenient truths of the free market have a way of puncturing political pretension. Take, for example, these data from a 2009 report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC):
 
"When comparing California with Texas, U-Haul says it all. To rent a 26-foot truck oneway from San Francisco to Austin, the charge is $3,236, and yet the one-way charge for that same truck from Austin to San Francisco is just $399. Clearly what is happening is that far more people want to move from San Francisco to Austin…
 
Maryland Congressional Candidate Charles Lollar Combines Tea Party Zeal with GOP Base
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Utah Congressional Candidate Morgan Philpot: Pushing Back Against Federal Restrictions on Land Use
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The ObamaCare Fit Hits the Shan: Health Insurance Costs and Spending Already Rising
In selling ObamaCare to a renitent nation just six months ago, proponents swore that it would restrain…
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Kos and Effect: A Lesson in (Tortured) Logic from the Founder of the Daily Kos
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Black Tea Party Activist Shows the Hypocrisy Behind George Soros, NAACP
In case you missed it, institutional liberalism wants you to think the Tea Party is racist.  From…
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Comparisons to Reagan in August 1982 Provide Obama Little Refuge
Unable to defend their governance with citation to substantive achievement, liberals frequently resort…
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Exclusive: The Lost First Draft of Obama’s Iraq Speech
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Living Social(ist): Alerting America to Dumb Government Policies
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An American Communist and a Soviet Defector Offer Different Interpretations of Obama at Beck Rally
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While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns
Today’s labor movement claims to hold its individual members’ welfare paramount.  So…
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"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?