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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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Thoughts on the 1776 Commission and Its Report
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, January 21 2021
The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry P. Arnn. The vice chair was Dr. Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the commission.) The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the historical challenges to these founding documents and the need for civic renewal. The 16-member commission was diverse in the widest sense of the familiar adjective. It included historians…
 
Biden's Timid Plan to Fight COVID-19
As COVID-19 mutates, it's becoming more contagious than the virus that invaded the U.S. about a year…
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So-Called “Net Neutrality” Threatens a Zombie-Like Return
If you wondered how things might get worse than 2020, Bloomberg has your answer.  It reported this…
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A Crazy Impeachment
Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they…
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CFIF Urges Massachusetts Governor to Veto Price Controls on Vital Food Delivery Businesses
January 8, 2021   The Honorable Charles D. Baker, Jr., Governor Commonwealth of Massachusetts…
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Cheer Up: Liberal Majorities Rarely Last Long
I’m old enough to remember 2008, when Barack Obama’s election and Democratic Congressional…
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Is the Wisdom of Homer Immune to Cancel Culture?
Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel…
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End the Deadly Vaccine Delays
If you live in Florida or Texas and you're 65 or over, you can get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine at…
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Now They Tell Us – Trump Was Tough On Russia
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Donald Trump of…
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Washington Deserves Its 'Brutalism'
In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, "From Bauhaus to Our House,"…
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What Will Historians Make of Our Annus Horribilis?
The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis — "the horrible year."…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Last night, voters in seven states were asked whether they wanted to reduce property taxes through statewide ballot initiatives. Voters in Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia said yes, while those in Wyoming and Oklahoma said no.These ballot proposals follow dozens of property tax relief measures enacted in recent years in states like Texas, Ohio, and North Dakota.Among…[more]
 
 
— Mariana Trujillo, Reason Foundation
 
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.