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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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Unforced Error: GOP Congressman Inexplicably Validates “Green New Deal” Extremists
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 04 2019
When your adversaries begin self-destructing, it’s unwise to interrupt them.  It’s even more foolish to proactively throw them a lifeline to extricate them from the predicament of their own creation.  Apparently, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R – Florida) either forgot that wisdom or never internalized it in the first instance.  How else to explain his effort this week to rescue Congressional climate change extremists from the embarrassment of their own "Green New Deal" humiliation last week?  By introducing his own so-called "Green Real Deal"…
 
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The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos.…
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Better Than Obamacare
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How Bad Does Border Have To Be For Democrats To Admit It's An Emergency?
Is there any number of illegal border crossings into the United States that would strike Democrats as…
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For the past two years, a large swath of the media engaged in a mass act of self-deception and partisan…
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Green New Deal Exposes Climate Alarmists’ Insincerity
The anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change alarm movement is fraudulent and farcical.  As…
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Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles
Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals…
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Health Care Computers Can Kill You
Texting while driving is so dangerous that it's outlawed. But doctors and nurses are expected to care…
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Mueller Sent Sign After Sign On Collusion, Yet Some Would Not See
Many Trump opponents were shocked and disappointed by Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion…
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In 2016, Donald Trump overwhelmed 16 qualified Republican primary rivals and became the first major-party…
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The United States isn't a "democracy." Though every American should have learned this fact…
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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.