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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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A Public Service
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, December 20 2016
Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous idea to the surface, where it can be exposed for what it is. The New York Times can be credited — if that is the word — with performing this public service in a recent editorial against proposals to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns. They refer to what they call the National Rifle Association's "fantasy that citizens can stand up to gunmen by shooting it out." Nobody has suggested any such thing. Data collected over many years —…
 
The 'Diversity' Fraud
Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word "diversity."…
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New Study Highlights Value of Copyright and Intellectual Property to U.S. Economy
Regardless of whether one actually voted for Donald Trump, the spectacle of post-election frenzy by the…
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Trump Resistance Pins Last Hope On Electoral College
The Electoral College meets this Monday in what will be the final step in Donald Trump's improbable rise…
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Trump's Urgent Job: Clean Up the VA
Last week, Veterans Affairs got caught covering up the quality ratings of its 146 medical centers. VA…
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Where Are We?
We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration…
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Did Democrats Learn Anything From Their Attack on the Filibuster?
I won't lie. After reading the CNN piece titled "Senate Dems, powerless to stop Trump nominees,…
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Obesity, Fatty Foods, Death and Science
Something is killing us — beyond the fact that life itself is a terminal condition. This week…
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Obama Apparently Wasn't on "The Right Side of History" After All
Since the first days of his presidency, Barack Obama has cast himself as occupying "the right side…
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The Messy Truth About Van Jones
They never learn. The grand journalism pooh-bahs at CNN were humiliated this election cycle when WikiLeaks…
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The Left's Gambles
Sometimes life forces us to make decisions, even when we don't have enough information to know how the…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
 
 
— Chris Stirewalt, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?