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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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California: Becoming Venezuela Before Our Very Eyes
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 10 2020
As infernos raged this week and California descended further into its self-created dysfunctional abyss, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted the following alert:   It’s almost 3 p.m.  Time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees (or use a fan instead), turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you’re not using.  We need every Californian to help conserve energy.  Please do your part.  #FlexAlert  Responding wryly to Garcetti’s foreboding admonition, Representative Dan Crenshaw (R – Texas) tweeted, "Alexa…
 
Greek-Turkish Rivalry Again Near the Boiling Point
Almost daily, Greek and Turkish aircraft and ships fight mock battles over disputed oil and gas rights…
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Democrats' Plot to Abolish Election Night
The left and its media allies are warning Americans not to expect a winner on election night. If Donald…
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Russiagate Dead-Enders Try for Comeback
The Trump-Russia investigation effectively ended on July 24, 2019, the day special counsel Robert Mueller…
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The Democrats' Dangerous Delegitimization of the Election
In a recent deep dive in The Washington Post's Outlook section, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?"…
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Trump Treasury Department Must Allow Recovery from Venezuela's Socialist Confiscation
Venezuela, to everyone except hardened Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren acolytes, provides the latest…
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Biden Is a Prisoner of His Own Paradoxes
Joe Biden and his handlers know that he should be out and about, weighing in daily on the issues of the…
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The Anti-Trumpers Trying to Block a Vaccine
Trump-haters are so determined to defeat the president that they're opposing emergency authorization…
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As Election Nears, Another Battle Over Intelligence and Russia
A new furor has erupted over Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe's decision to give some…
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Biden Is Underperforming Hillary in Battleground States
It remains something of a mystery why there's so little apprehension among liberal pundits and Democrats…
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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.