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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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Trump Seals Obama's Legacy
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 10 2016
"I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election.  You want to give me a good sendoff?  Go vote!" — Barack Obama, September 18, 2016  Sometime during election night, a humiliating and horrifying thought crept into Barack Obama's mind:  "This January, I will have to attend Donald Trump's inauguration."  Perhaps most depressing for Obama, a man preternaturally inclined toward scapegoating others for his failures, he has only himself to blame. …
 
Identity Politics in America: a Post-Mortem
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Votes Count, Rules Count More
The outcome of the wildest presidential election in our lifetimes will likely boil down to the rules…
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Liberals Crave Monopoly on Political Speech
Should private citizens be banned from airing documentaries critical of Hillary Clinton before Election…
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Last Chance to Get Rid of Obamacare
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A Fifth Clinton Presidency?
I keep hearing that Hillary Clinton would be "Obama's third term." The math is wrong. Barack…
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Has Economics Failed?
It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern California —…
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When Will Liberals Answer for Obamacare's Failures?
These days, there's been a lot of discussion about conservative media's culpability in creating unrealistic…
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Gallup: Public Support For Police Jumps By Record Margin
Imagine how it feels to walk out your door for work each morning with the ominous awareness that due…
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Hillary's Climate of Hate
Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power? Only one presidential…
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Immigration Controversies
Despite controversies that rage over immigration, it is hard to see how anyone could be either for 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?