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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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Bidenomics Is a Big Bust
By Stephen Moore
Tuesday, July 04 2023
Word out of the White House is that President Joe Biden wants to tout his economic successes. He's even embracing the slogan "Bidenomics" – which most people think is a term of derision and policy flops.  On the one hand, the unemployment rate is low and millions of jobs have been created over the past two years. Reality check: Virtually all of these jobs are simply the recovery of jobs that already existed in the Trump years but were lost during the COVID lockdowns – mostly in blue states. In fact, there are still five states where job totals are…
 
'Notorious RBG' and a Liberal Supreme Court Disaster
The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives…
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Americans Have Never Been Less Threatened by 'Extreme Weather'
"Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard," is the…
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Wanted: A President Who Will Embrace the Spending Challenge
Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about…
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Joe Biden Is Not OK
On June 16, President Joe Biden ended a big gun-control speech in Connecticut with the words, "God…
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Payback: Manchin Presidential Run Could Doom Biden’s Reelection
Joe Biden publicly humiliated Senator Joe Manchin (D – West Virginia) last year through his negotiating…
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Government-Backed Censors Confuse 'Disinformation' With Mainstream Opinions
Disinformation, misinformation and fake news are real problems in a world that is now mainly online.…
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Why Did Trump Do It?
There are a lot of questions surrounding the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, which…
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Biden’s Drug Price Controls Already in Legal and Political Jeopardy
Joe Biden apparently assumed that the drug price control provisions of his “Inflation Reduction…
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Railroads Are Overwhelmingly Safe, but Congress Wants More
After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10% about…
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Dems Trash U.S. Constitution
If you own a business, the leftists in Congress are coming after you. The only thing standing in their…
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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.