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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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Show Me the Money - The Trump Tax Cuts Benefit the Middle Class
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, April 08 2026
Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year. Every Democrat in Congress voted no, even as they complain of a "middle-class affordability crisis." Maybe that's because to rich and famous limousine liberal Democrats, $2,000 is peanuts. But not for the rest of us. The goal of the Trump tax cut was simple: Strengthen the economy with lower tax rates, and let working and retired Americans keep more of what they earn.…
 
Everyone Knows What the Democrats' AIPAC Obsession Is Really About
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer says that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee…
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Et Tu, World Bank? Industrial Policy on the International Scene
The World Bank recently published a 276-page report supporting the idea that industrial policy belongs…
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Will the Insane Shutdown Ever End?
It seems weird to say, but Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., appears to believe Democrats…
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Let's Kill Cancer
There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible…
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Trump's Iran Deal Must Be Nothing Like Obama's
President Donald Trump recently announced that he's postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure…
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Global Cooling! Wait, Global Warming! Climate Alarmist Paul Ehrlich Dead at 93
Paul Ehrlich, who gained notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s peddling climate alarmism in the form of global…
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How Will Congress Choose to Handle the Iran Bill?
Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question – independent of the…
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Don't Count Ballots After Election Day
This week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that hinges on the meaning of Election…
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Trump Needs a Short War
How many times has President Trump said that the war in Iran, now entering its fourth week, will be brief?…
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Republicans Can Win on Health Care Affordability
For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care?…
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Notable Quote   
 
"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?