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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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Another Embarrassing Judicial Defeat for the Obama Administration
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 12 2013
“The Commission fundamentally miscalculated the scope of its discretion.”  These days, it seems the only thing rougher on Barack Obama than Russian President Vladimir Putin is our own judicial branch.  The quote above came from the written opinion of federal Judge John D. Bates, in vacating a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule forcing U.S. energy companies to surrender confidential proprietary information to foreign competitors.  All in the name of international redistribution of wealth and Dodd-Frank.  Just last month, we highlighted two humiliating…
 
Colorado Recall a Wake-Up Call to Overreaching Liberals
For all of the Democratic Party’s success in turning Colorado into a swing state, the recall of…
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From “You Didn’t Build That!” to “I Didn’t Set a Red Line,” a Deepening Crisis of American Leadership
The rhetorical tic, “Let me be clear” infects nearly every statement that Barack Obama makes. …
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America’s Fascist Moment
In an age prone to political overstatement, words have a tendency to lose their currency. How many times…
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Special ObamaCare Subsidies for Unions Might Be Next
After a very public campaign of complaints saying that the Affordable Care Act (i.e. ObamaCare) would…
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In Syria, An Invitation for Disappointment
Nearly half a decade after he won the presidency, we can now look back on Barack Obama’s rise to…
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MLK, Obama, Biden and the Miniaturization of Language
“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed…
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A Conservative Alternative to ObamaCare
One of the reasons Republicans have had such a difficult time uniting around a single alternative to…
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Australia Might Not Even Exist Without U.S. “Guns on the Ground”
“90% of white ppl are nasty.  #HATE THEM” That was the racist April 29 tweet of James…
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Kneeling Before Leviathan: The Rise of the Administrative State
When it comes to conservative bon mots, former President Gerald Ford isn’t usually thought of as…
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Media Continues to Misreport ObamaCare Employer Mandate Calculation
Perhaps the biggest – and costliest – misunderstood ObamaCare regulation is the so-called…
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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 on…[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?