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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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Intellectual Property: The Fuel of Interest to the Fire of American Genius
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 09 2017
What competitive advantage begat American exceptionalism?  How, despite such a brief lifespan, did America become and remain to this day the most inventive, influential, prosperous, creative nation in human history?  Some rationalize our success as a happenstance of geography and abundance of natural resources.  But that rationalization can't explain why nations like Russia or Brazil with even greater natural resources don't begin to approximate our record of ingenuity and prosperity.  Nor does it explain why nations like Japan with comparatively meager natural resources…
 
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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.