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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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Detroit vs. Houston: Laboratories for Liberalism, Conservatism
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 25 2013
Liberals incessantly claim fealty to “science,” while falsely caricaturing libertarians and conservatives as the ones stubbornly ideological and averse to real-world facts.  Scientific method, however, involves objective observation and testing beliefs against results.  In that vein, it is liberals who prove habitually impervious to facts and the disastrous real-world results of their philosophies.    Take gun control as one recurring example.  Liberals persist in their anti-Second Amendment crusade despite irrefutable data that America’s murder…
 
ObamaCare’s “Data Hub” Should be Its Death Knell
With a string of controversial policy decisions, ObamaCare’s Federal Data Hub is shaping up to…
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Why Character Still Matters
In economics, they call it the principal-agent problem. When someone else is entrusted with carrying…
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Obama Ties Nixon for Lowest Public Approval at This Point in Presidency
In 2008, Barack Obama immodestly cited Ronald Reagan as the type of “transformative” president…
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After Zimmerman: In Defense of “Stand Your Ground” Laws
Since its earliest days, the Obama administration has been guided by the mantra, “never let a crisis…
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The Next President: Who Best Compensates for Obama’s Failings?
The American electorate has a reliable propensity to behave like a spurned lover. Just as a heartbroken…
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Cutting a Check Vs. Cutting Costs: How Government Mismanages the Economy
The federal government has constructed a virtually perfect system by which to create a dependent class.…
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Illinois Joins the Other 49 States, Finally Ends Blanket Prohibition on Right to Keep and Bear Arms
This week, Illinois ended its dubious distinction as the final state prohibiting citizens from carrying…
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Dodd-Frank, ObamaCare, and the Erosion of the Rule of Law
This article was originally published by Forbes on June 10, 2013. “…He has erected…
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ObamaCare Delays Will Increase Welfare Dependency
Delaying ObamaCare’s employer mandate and verification requirements is a brilliant case of liberals…
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Behind the Headlines: The Supreme Court and Vindication of George W. Bush
This month, America passed a surprising and significant milestone.  According to Gallup, George…
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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?