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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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Freedom on the March in 2010?
By Sam Batkins
Wednesday, January 06 2010
When the clock struck midnight on January 1, some might have asked if the state of the nation could get any worse.  Clearly, 2009 was a year to forget, and 2008 wasn’t much better.  Millions of Americans have lost their jobs over the past two years in the wake of the worst economic recession in generations and the nation witnessed an unprecedented expansion of government power.  The federal government nationalized the banking and financial industries, raised taxes and borrowed and spent trillions of dollars.  And now, Washington is prepared to take over the health…
 
At Decade’s End
As if to reinforce the pervasive sense of distemper gripping the public of late, the departure of the…
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Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling: Why You Should Care
For most people, “deficit spending” and the “national debt” are nothing more…
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'Twas the Week Before Christmas*
'Twas the week before Christmas, when Congress met, So eager they were, to pile on the debt; They…
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Chavez the Clown Completes Copenhagen Climate Circus
The ongoing United Nations global warming summit in Copenhagen was a circus of the absurd from its inception. …
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Two Faces of Obama in Oslo
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Working for The Man: Federal Employment Spike Exacerbates Dependency on the State
If you’re an experienced worker looking for employment during the recession and in need of some…
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In the Shadow of the Minaret
In the six and half decades since the conclusion of World War Two, Europe – the fountainhead of…
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Sarbanes-Oxley: An Unconstitutional Monument to Governmental Incompetence
Remember when Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to prevent future market failures?  It was July 30, 2002…
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The Evolution of a President: Not Yet Trans-Partisan
“We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending…
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ClimateGate in Perspective: The Road Ahead
The global fallout resulting from the scandalous revelations of ClimateGate cannot be overestimated or…
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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?