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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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“Net Neutrality”: Pandemic Vindicates FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 23 2020
Among its other byproducts, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the asininity of casting every item in leftists’ exhaustive policy wishlist in life-or-death rhetorical terms.  After all, there’s nothing like an actual existential threat to re-contextualize cheap partisan overuse of the term “existential threat,” from climate change to so-called “Net Neutrality.”  In 2017, new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai moved to repeal a 2015 Obama Administration effort to regulate internet service as a public utility under laws written…
 
Pandemic Is But One of America's Security Concerns
The world was a dangerous place before – and will be after – the coronavirus pandemic.…
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As Virus Rages, Leaders Keep Dodging Blame
Why are some leaders so reluctant to admit that in the early days of the coronavirus crisis, they were…
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Public Being Misled About Masks
New York, New Jersey, Maryland and other states are requiring everyone to wear a mask or a substitute…
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Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand
It's reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that…
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“Big Pharma” Slurs Conspicuously Disappear
George Orwell sardonically noted the ease with which some preach pacifism from behind the protective…
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We Are Approaching COVID-19 Gut-Check Time
We are a few days away from a rendezvous with some tough conclusions about COVID-19. A number of concurrent…
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Liability Protections Needed for Those on Frontlines of COVID-19 Response and Relief Efforts
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today joined a coalition of nearly two dozen organizations,…
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Shutdown Could Kill More Americans Than COVID-19
Thursday's unemployment update confirms that over the last three weeks, nearly 17 million Americans have…
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Don't Let Democrats Federalize Elections
I'm sorry, but you have no constitutional "right" to vote by mail. You have no constitutional…
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First, Do No Harm: “Buy American” Pharmaceutical Mandate Would Threaten Innovation When We Need It Most
As revelations of China’s malfeasance amid the coronavirus pandemic proliferate, its calculating…
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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.