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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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One Year Later: Internet "Eve of Destruction" Predictions Evaporate
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 20 2019
And you tell me, over and over and over again, my friend/
Ahhh, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction…   —Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction," 1965 What is it with leftists and their habit of issuing alarmist predictions that subsequently prove groundless, in their ongoing campaign to impose more and more control over every last aspect of our everyday lives?  To them, every day merely brings another alleged eve of destruction, over and over and over again.  Take climate alarmism, perhaps the most prominent example. …
 
U.S. Holds All the Cards in Showdown With Iran
In May 2018, the Donald Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive…
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Dems' Agenda: Kill Jobs; Pander to Freeloaders
Nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, including front-runners Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth…
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Three Reasons Trump-Russia Hasn't Turned Into Watergate
Why haven't efforts to impeach President Trump gained Watergate-style momentum? The lack of energy has…
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Hey, Joe Biden! Here Are Some Scandals You Forgot
"Know what I was most proud of?" presidential candidate Joe Biden told a crowd on Wednesday.…
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No, Scandinavia Doesn’t Vindicate Socialism
"Socialism only works in two places:  Heaven, where they don’t need it, and Hell, where…
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Dems' Trump Dilemma: Impeach, Imprison — Or Bluff?
Is there any doubt that many Democrats agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she says she wants…
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Why Are the Western Middle Classes So Angry?
What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump's election and the "yellow…
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In Defense of Lobbying
The media adores stories that bolster prevailing narratives about the virtuousness of "bipartisanship"…
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Healthcare: Beware Price Controls and Weaker Patent Protections
As debate over healthcare policy accelerates, a small number of otherwise conservative and libertarian…
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Law Enforcement, Media Have Changed Standards for Trump
One of the more unfortunate effects of the Trump-Russia investigation — and there have been…
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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?