Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
The State of the Union and the State of the Presidency
By Troy Senik
Thursday, January 30 2014
Back in 2008, one of the McCain campaign’s repeated attacks on Barack Obama was that he was more of a celebrity than a statesman. Based on the ratings for this week’s State of the Union address, the president ought to be glad that he chose Washington rather than Hollywood.  If this presidency was a television show, it would’ve been canceled by now. Obama’s Tuesday night sermon garnered lower rankings than any State of the Union address during George W. Bush’s tenure. Of Bill Clinton’s eight installments of the speech, only his 2000 valedictory scored more…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"There was a time when diesel fuel was usually cheaper than gasoline in the United States. That relationship began to change about 20 years ago, and since then diesel has generally traded at a premium. Today, that premium is not just persistent but unusually large, which raises an obvious question: how did we get from gasoline typically costing more than diesel to diesel costing substantially more…[more]
 
 
— Robert Rapier, Chemical Engineer In the Energy Industry
 
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