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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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Why Are Republicans Trouncing Democrats In Fundraising?
By Byron York
Wednesday, July 26 2017
The Republican president has a job approval rating around 40 percent. The GOP has an unfavorability rating around 56 percent. And Republicans trail Democrats by nine points in an average of "generic ballot" polls. All of which makes it notable that the Republican National Committee is trouncing the Democratic National Committee when it comes to raising money, especially from small donors. The numbers are striking. In June, the RNC raised $13.5 million to the DNC's $5.5 million. For 2017 so far, the RNC has raised $75.4 million to the DNC's $38.2 million. The RNC started the year with…
 
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For anyone hoping to "drain the swamp" in America, there's no better place to start than with…
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A Winning Strategy to Repeal Obamacare
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It's "Made in America" week in Washington, D.C. You'd think this would be cause for bipartisan…
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FCC Moves to Restore Internet Freedom
When Donald Trump campaigned for president, his raison d'être was to "make America great again"…
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Trump's War on Red Tape
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The Crisis in America's Crime Labs
Junk science endangers lives. Forensic junk science in the hands of overzealous prosecutors, ignorant…
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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.