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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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Donald Trump's Arraignment
By Byron York
Wednesday, June 14 2023
A few days have passed since the Justice Department informed former President Donald Trump that he had been indicted. Some of the main issues involved, both legal and political, are becoming clearer than they were in the first frenzied hours after the news broke. First, the politics. The early indications are that predictions that Trump supporters would rally around him in the event of an indictment appear to be true. A poll by CBS News and YouGov found that 76% of likely Republican primary voters said that the indictment was politically motivated. When asked if the indictment would change their…
 
To Reduce Airline Ticket Prices, Expand Washington's Reagan Airport
Those who live in or near the nation's capital, or routinely travel there, know that the Washington,…
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President Joe Biden has been accused by a credible informant of allegedly taking $5 million in "a…
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Supreme Court: Unions Accountable for Deliberate Destruction
Should labor unions possess immunity to deliberately destroy employer property under the claim that such…
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What to Make of New Projections of Big Government Savings
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Remembering the Horrors of D-Day
Seventy-nine years ago this week, the Allies assaulted the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944.…
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MS-13: From El Salvador to Your Neighborhood
MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes – beheading their targets with machetes, hacking…
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Mike Pence's Ill-Starred Presidential Run
On paper, has there ever been a more qualified candidate for president than Mike Pence? Twelve years…
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U.S. Experiences Record Drug Shortages in Wake of Price Controls
"The record of price controls goes as far back as human history.  They were imposed by the…
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Resist Dangerous Political Theater and Look to 'That Which Is Not Seen'
Too many politicians are thespians. When there's a conflict – as there often is – between…
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Democrats Abandon Working Class, Become Party of Freeloaders
The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want…
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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.