Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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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Are we the Byzantines?
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, March 16 2023
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence. Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment for infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable…
 
Biden's Banking Busts
The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and Signature…
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Joe Biden and Democrats' Chronic Crime Problem
What's one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying…
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Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don't Work.
"I have no respect for the passion of equality," Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America's…
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CFIF Launches New Ads Calling for Full Repeal of Tennessee’s Certificate-of-Need Laws
“Lost Hospitals, Lost Health Care Services, Lost Jobs…It’s Time to Fully Repeal the…
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CFIF Leads Coalition Comment Opposing FTC’s Proposed Ban of Noncompete Agreements in Employment
In a formal comment filed this week with the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), more than a…
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Biden Drug Price Controls Threaten Alzheimer’s Breakthroughs
For years, we’ve hoped in vain for Alzheimer’s disease treatments that improve survival rates…
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The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters…
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The Peter (Buttigieg) Principle
In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Lawrence J. Peter. He became famous for…
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America's $100 Billion Climate Change Flop
For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have…
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Questioning Biden's Ukraine Policy Doesn't Make You an 'Isolationist'
It's not exactly a sign of a healthy democratic discourse that it's virtually impossible to ask a critical…
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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?