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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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Lost Retirement Horizon: Why 401(k)s Are Not OK (and Not Just Because of the Lousy Economy)
By John F. Wasik, RealClearInvestigations
Wednesday, November 16 2022
Fretting over your 401(k) lately? For all the current turbulence in these retirement plans – from their rocky recent market performance to asset managers' politicization of their investments through the "environment, social and governance" agenda – the main problem lies in their flawed design decades ago, a range of retirement experts say.   They say many retirees – particularly the less well-off – are losing out because the tax-advantaged accounts favor the well-compensated who are better able to save; also, because of the plans’ temptingly relaxed…
 
The January 6 Committee Travesty
The Jan. 6 House committee just revealed how nakedly political it is. Forget protecting the nation. The…
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Elon Musk Is Right. Divided Government Is Best
There are no saviors or miracles in democracy, only a grueling, soul-sucking, forever war of attrition.…
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CFIF Veterans Day Quiz
  Take CFIF’s 11-Question Veterans Day Quiz and test your knowledge of the brave men…
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Manchin Shocked – Shocked! – that Biden Double-Crossed Him on Energy
With the 2024 reelection layout looking much more grim for Senate Democrats than 2022, new threats from…
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Tuesday Takeaways
What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country – other than underwhelming…
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A Talk with Bill Barr about Russiagate, the FBI and Accountability
Former Attorney General Bill Barr does not mince words about FBI misconduct in its pursuit of candidate…
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Don't Fall for the Democrats' Ginned-up Social Security Scaremongering
Here are two snippets from Wednesday's New York Times piece contending that Republicans have "embraced"…
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The Left Were the Mad Scientists - We Were Their Lab Rats
As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America's current disaster is that we, the American people…
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Elon Musk Threatens the Censorship-Industrial Complex
Americans overwhelmingly believe that media censorship swung the 2020 election, and now panic has beset…
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Midterms, Biden's Agenda and the Filibuster
On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
 
 
— John Tamny, Editor of RealClearMarkets, President of the Parkview Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Market Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.