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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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Intellectual Property: America Still Leads the World
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 26 2017
Consider the following relationship, and ask yourself whether it's more likely causal or purely coincidental.  Among the numerous elements of American exceptionalism, the United States maintains the world's strongest protections for intellectual property (IP) — creations of the mind, such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.  We also happen to stand unrivaled as the most inventive, artistically prolific, technologically advanced, prosperous and powerful nation in human history.  There's not even a close second.  From the Wright brothers to Neil…
 
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Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead. Two weeks ago, my husband and I received…
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Come and Take Them
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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?