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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The Democrats' Capricious Energy Policy Has Been a Disaster
By David Harsanyi
Friday, June 17 2022
Democrats have spent decades warning that the United States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs and cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane – every natural event, really – is now blamed on climate change. We have burdened our children with an irrational dread over their future. Then again, many in The Cult of Malthus won't even have children. So, why, if we're on the precipice of this apocalypse, if saving the planet trumps every other concern, is President Joe Biden begging…
 
What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been
Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol – and similar recent…
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Judicial Branch Checks Administrative State Run Amok
In the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers deemed bureaucratic excess so contrary to the…
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Higher Gas Prices Ahead
If you think gas prices are high now, just wait. They're going to get much higher, thanks to President…
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Joe Biden and the Powerless Presidency
There's no doubt inflation is the nation's most pressing concern. All the polls show it. All the data…
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CFIF Flag Day Quiz
Take our 14-Question Quiz to test your knowledge of our National Standard. (Answer key may be found…
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Democrats Wanted to Intimidate Justices. Now It's Getting Dangerous
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and…
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Trust in Government Falls to 20% in Pew Survey
The bigger government gets, the more it micromanages our lives, the more Americans distrust it.  …
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The Subordinate Citizen
I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to…
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Remote Work Needs to End
America needs to go back to work. Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees back to the office full time last…
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Biden Barges In
There's something remarkable about the gun debate that has arisen in the aftermath of the school shooting…
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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.