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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 Transparency of the Presidential Lie
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, January 07 2010
Most of us know someone who, as is said, will lie about what he or she had for breakfast.  For those who don’t know such a stranger to veracity, meet the current President of the United States.  Now you know one. The late, lamented columnist and language explorer, William Safire, made the term “congenital liar” famous this very week (January 8) in 1996, although it seems like only yesterday that he so aptly applied the label to Hillary Clinton, then merely First Lady, then merely lying about penny ante personal corruption issues. Compared to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton…
 
Latest Data Suggests Obamanomics Continues to Stifle Rebound
It appears that the worst of our recent economic downturn may be behind us.  Unfortunately, the…
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Freedom on the March in 2010?
When the clock struck midnight on January 1, some might have asked if the state of the nation could get…
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At Decade’s End
As if to reinforce the pervasive sense of distemper gripping the public of late, the departure of the…
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Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling: Why You Should Care
For most people, “deficit spending” and the “national debt” are nothing more…
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'Twas the Week Before Christmas*
'Twas the week before Christmas, when Congress met, So eager they were, to pile on the debt; They…
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Chavez the Clown Completes Copenhagen Climate Circus
The ongoing United Nations global warming summit in Copenhagen was a circus of the absurd from its inception. …
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Two Faces of Obama in Oslo
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Working for The Man: Federal Employment Spike Exacerbates Dependency on the State
If you’re an experienced worker looking for employment during the recession and in need of some…
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In the Shadow of the Minaret
In the six and half decades since the conclusion of World War Two, Europe – the fountainhead of…
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Sarbanes-Oxley: An Unconstitutional Monument to Governmental Incompetence
Remember when Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to prevent future market failures?  It was July 30, 2002…
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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?