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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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College is Overdue for a Market Correction
By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, February 04 2016
Fighting for social justice isn’t cheap. Turns out, the student demonstrations that disrupted college and university campuses last fall are having some baleful economic consequences — at least in Missouri. And that is a very good thing. The higher education bubble could use some deflating, and if the spectacle of campus unrest has parents and taxpayers rethinking the value of a four-year degree, at least as it’s currently constituted, so much the better. Standard & Poor’s, the bond-rating company, announced on Monday that it had lowered the outlook of the four-campus…
 
Chicken Little Chuckie Schumer: America's Disease-Fighting Phony
Latin America's Zika virus is the latest undocumented immigrant to hit our shores, but have no fear.…
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Obama's Job-Killing Diversity Police
If you're a white male looking for a job, it just got harder. Claiming women aren't getting paid enough…
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CFIF Scores Victory in Campaign Finance Case
On January 21, 2016, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously…
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Senator Cotton Rightly Defends Mandatory Minimum Sentences
At conservatism's core lies a reverence for wisdom accumulated through hard human experience.  Its…
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CDC Dropping the Ball on Zika
If you're pregnant or planning to be, rethink your vacation plans. The Centers for Disease Control and…
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A Tale of Two Tapes: Teen Cruz and Terror-Coddler Obama
The crack media buzzed this week with the discovery of a totally front-page, news-breaking, breathtaking…
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The Demand for Villains
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards…
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Federal Court Deals Obama Administration Another Humiliating Defeat
This was an embarrassing week for the Obama Administration on two separate but interrelated fronts.  …
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America Still Needs School Choice
Next week is National School Choice Week. Now in its sixth year, the event — really, 16,140 events…
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Mayor de Blasio: Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash
Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated…
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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?