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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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Why Democrats Don't Want Public to Know Origins of Ukraine Probe
By Byron York
Wednesday, November 20 2019
Why are House Democrats stonewalling questions about the identity of the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower? Start by taking them at their word. Perhaps they really are concerned about the whistleblower's personal safety. They also know that, beyond a limited prohibition applying only to the inspector general of the intelligence community, no law bars anyone — in politics, media or anywhere else — from revealing the whistleblower's identity. So they worry. But there is more to the story. Should the whistleblower have connections to prominent Democrats, exposure of his identity…
 
Vindman's Claims Don't Hold Up
For Tuesday's impeachment show, House Democrats are trotting out their star witness, Lt. Col. Alexander…
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The Trump Manchurian Candidate Theory Will Never Die
One of the most durable conspiracy theories of our times finds Vladimir Putin recruiting a billionaire…
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Mexican Bloodshed Affirms Value of 2nd Amendment
"We’ve never seen such a brazen attack on U.S. citizens."   That was the disquieting…
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What Happened to California Republicans?
From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there…
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No, Michael Bloomberg Will Not Save the Democrats
WARNING: Parts of this column may bear strong resemblance to my earlier columns when Michael Bloomberg…
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Impeachment Dems Have Rumors, Not Evidence
On Wednesday, the curtain rises on the House's impeachment show, featuring State Department career diplomats…
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Trump Economy Roars, Leftists Pivot from Predicting Doom to Claiming Credit
As the American economy continues to defy naysayers and reach unprecedented heights, a funny thing has…
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ABC Keeps Covering for Jeffrey Epstein
This week, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, a group that has often infiltrated news organizations to…
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History Has Shown That Socialism Isn't the Cure
Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia…
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Democrats' Rigged Impeachment Circus
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists the impeachment procedures adopted last Thursday are "the fairest…
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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.