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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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Filibuster Frustration Boils Over
By Byron York
Tuesday, June 08 2021
New presidents have only so long to get big legislative initiatives done. It's already June, and the clock is ticking for President Joe Biden. Big bills take a long time. Congress will spend much of the summer on recess. They'll be at work in the fall, but by the end of the year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers will be obsessed with winning reelection in 2022.  But Biden has an even bigger problem than the calendar. In the last election, Democrats failed to win a majority in the Senate, and the body is now tied 50-50. If Republicans are united in opposition, Senate Democrats can pass…
 
New National Survey Shows Voters Want Bipartisan Agreement on Spending Bills, Oppose COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waivers and Reject Government Setting Prices for Health Care
ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today released key findings of a national…
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Jews Can't Let the U.S. Turn into Europe
This month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sent extra state patrols to Jewish neighborhoods after a rash…
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Senators McConnell, Braun Introduce “Don’t Weaponize the IRS Act” to Protect First Amendment Freedoms
Despite securing power last November by the slimmest of electoral margins – which should have imbued…
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Never Let a Plague Go to Waste
During America's first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal…
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Debunking Some Anti-Patent Myths
Throughout its history, the United States has led the world in protecting intellectual property (IP)…
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Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia…
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To Stop Critical Race Theory, Fight to Control School Boards
The battle to win control of school boards from the grip of racial indoctrinators is like Normandy Beach.…
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Only a few months ago, the Biden administration argued that Nord Stream 2, a proposed natural-gas pipeline…
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With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems…
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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.