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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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Australia Might Not Even Exist Without U.S. “Guns on the Ground”
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 22 2013
“90% of white ppl are nasty.  #HATE THEM” That was the racist April 29 tweet of James Edwards.  Today, Edwards sits in a jail cell, charged with first-degree murder in the wanton shooting of Australian Chris Lane this week in Duncan, Oklahoma.  To date, Barack Obama has yet to interrupt a round of golf to proclaim as he did during the Trayvon Martin circus that, “If I had a son, he would look like James Edwards.”  In fact, when asked about the murder at the daily White House press briefing, spokesman Josh Earnest replied, “I’m not familiar…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]
 
 
— John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations
 
Liberty Poll   

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