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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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Taxpayers March on Washington, D.C.
By Sam Batkins
Wednesday, September 16 2009
Protests.  For decades, they have been the province of the political left.  Anti-war activists, pro-choice proponents and roving anti-capitalist bands have all had a virtual monopoly on one of the First Amendment’s most cherished rights, the right of assembly. However, last Saturday, September 12, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers from all fifty states gathered in the aptly-named Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. to protest the excessive spending and big government programs being pushed and expanded upon by Congress and the President.  The protesters – everyday…
 
Norman Borlaug – Losing a Legend
When 2009 rolls to a close about 100 days from now, we can expect the usual avalanche of encomiums for…
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Remembering Patriot Day
Not to stoke the fires for those of you lamenting being back in your office, but this should have been…
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Federal Regulators Repeatedly Failed to Stop Bernard Madoff - But Now Want Even More Control Over Our Lives?
The embarrassing saga of federal regulators’ failure to stop Bernard Madoff’s multibillion-dollar…
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This “New” ObamaCare Game Is for Suckers, Just Like the Old One
First, Obama and Company bought off the drug companies.  Then the hospitals. By the time they got…
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A Victory for Free Speech or More of the McCain?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. …
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California’s Warning for America
Americans in the other 49 states can be forgiven if they don’t understand what the big deal about…
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Anything You Can Do the Fed Can Do Better?
President Obama has now nominated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term as the head…
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Taking Stock of the Obama Revolution
During a press conference at April’s G-20 Summit in London, President Obama said, “I'm the…
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Obama’s Latest "Never Mind" - $2 Trillion Deficit Recalibration
Is Barack Obama capable of saying anything that Americans can trust? That question accrued…
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Help Wanted: CIA Director
Memo To: Rahm Emanuel
From: O Looks like Panetta may quit before we can fire his ass, so you…
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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?