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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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A Cancer Stigma Killing Thousands
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, June 05 2019
The nation's biggest meeting of cancer specialists unveiled several breakthroughs on Saturday. The horrible news is what's not improving. Only a miniscule 4% of men and women at high risk of getting lung cancer from smoking go for a CT scan to detect it while it's curable. That 4% figure has barely budged in a decade. Lung cancer detected before there's coughing or other symptoms is at least 80% to 90% curable. People who wait until they feel sick have as little as a 10% chance of surviving. Cost isn't the problem. Insurance can pay for CT (short for computed tomography) scans. But the public…
 
Sorry, Democrats, There Is No Climate Chaos
Climate isn't the same as weather — unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful.…
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Theresa May Confirms the Peril of Squishy Centrism
"Our people look for a cause to believe in.  Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and…
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Trump has Become the Democrats' Great White Whale
One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the…
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House Unlikely to Ever Get Trump's Tax Returns
House Democrats are jubilant because last week, they won two court victories in their ongoing battle…
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As Barr Mulls Declassification, a Familiar Tune from Critics
In February 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released the so-called Nunes memo. In four pages,…
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Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship
The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers…
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Mueller Changed Everything
From now on, the Trump-Russia affair — the investigation that dominated the first years of…
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Seth Meyers, Useful Idiot
After listening to Seth Meyers run interference for Rep. Ilhan Omar last week, an exasperated Meghan…
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Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Crony Capitalist Taxpayer Subsidies for Californians and the Rich
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer a promising and fascinating technological innovation, even for the most…
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Joe Biden and Restoring the Old (Pre-Trump) Order
There was a school of thought that said former Vice President Joe Biden would begin to sink in the polls…
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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?