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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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Civilization Requires Collective Common Sense
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, September 24 2020
Without common sense in government, civilization cannot continue. After the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and arson were often ignored. If you call 911 in a large American city, there is no guarantee that anyone will answer promptly and send out police to aid the endangered. So gun sales have soared. Some people who never…
 
Biden Keeps Scotus List Secret, Refuses to Disavow Court-Packing Scheme
In a few days, we'll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans…
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Don't Muzzle Scientists Investigating COVID-19
Though the death toll from COVID-19 just hit a staggering 200,000 in the U.S., we still don't know the…
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Why Trump's Mideast Peace Deals Matter
After Israel's resounding victory over the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian armies in 1967, the Jewish…
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White House Drug Price Control Order Threatens U.S. Pharmaceutical Preeminence
In World War II, the United States became the world’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” a label…
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CFIF Constitution Day Quiz
Take our 17-Question Quiz to test your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.
(Answer key may be…
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The News As We Once Knew It Is Dead
In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found…
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The Folly of Biden's COVID-19 Advisers
The leftist media are claiming Joe Biden has an all-star team of experts ready to take over and vanquish…
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Vindman Media Tour Obscures Key Fact About Impeachment
Last fall, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a member of the National Security Council staff, was a star witness…
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Questions the Media Should Ask Joe Biden
Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden finally held what was billed as a press conference with…
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CFIF Opposes Executive Order Importing Foreign Nations’ Socialized Medicine and Drug Price Controls
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Yesterday, President Trump committed a needless unforced error by signing…
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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.