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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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President Bush Inherited His Share of “Messes,” Too
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, March 11 2010
Imagine President George W. Bush slurring his predecessor Bill Clinton in the following manner during his 2002 State of the Union address:  “One year ago, I took office amid a developing terrorist plot that would soon become the worst attack on American soil in history, an economy rocked by severe recession following the unsustainable tech bubble, a stock market on the verge of collapse and a military weakened by eight years of neglect.  We cannot afford another so-called economic ‘expansion’ like the one from the past decade – what some call the ‘lost decade’…
 
Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, it was amidst an atmosphere of generalized transcendence. …
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SEIU’s Andy Stern: A Budget Vulture Feasting on the Public’s Nest Eggs
With annual federal budget deficits projected to top $1.6 trillion for the foreseeable future, President…
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The Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has a Charles Rangel problem.  All Democrats…
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Al Gore Emerges from Hiding, Calls Us a “Criminal Generation”
Somehow, it seems poetically just that Al Gore finally emerged from his snow-covered bunker just one…
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The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one…
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Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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“From Keynesian to Ponzian” – Obama’s Stimulus One Year Later
“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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Al Gore Pivots to the Bottom Line
Buried near the bottom of last Sunday’s Dana Milbank Washington Post piece titled “Global…
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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?