Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
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

 …[more]

August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
CFIF’s latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Sign Up
Michelle Obama's Christmas Lump of Coal
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, December 21 2016
Just what we all need to ring in the Christmas season: Un-merry millionaire Michelle Obama belly-aching about the burdens and sacrifices of public life with billionaire Oprah Winfrey. "There's nowhere in the world I can go and sit and have a cup of coffee," Obama lamented. It's a frequent grievance. In September, she told InStyle magazine: "My hopes are to recapture some of the everydayness, some anonymity. ... (I)t will be nice to open up the paper, look at the front page, and know that you're not responsible for every headline." And back in June, again with Oprah, the first…
 
A Public Service
Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous…
Read more...
The 'Diversity' Fraud
Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word "diversity."…
Read more...
 
New Study Highlights Value of Copyright and Intellectual Property to U.S. Economy
Regardless of whether one actually voted for Donald Trump, the spectacle of post-election frenzy by the…
Read more...
Trump Resistance Pins Last Hope On Electoral College
The Electoral College meets this Monday in what will be the final step in Donald Trump's improbable rise…
Read more...
 
Trump's Urgent Job: Clean Up the VA
Last week, Veterans Affairs got caught covering up the quality ratings of its 146 medical centers. VA…
Read more...
Where Are We?
We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration…
Read more...
 
Did Democrats Learn Anything From Their Attack on the Filibuster?
I won't lie. After reading the CNN piece titled "Senate Dems, powerless to stop Trump nominees,…
Read more...
Obesity, Fatty Foods, Death and Science
Something is killing us — beyond the fact that life itself is a terminal condition. This week…
Read more...
 
Obama Apparently Wasn't on "The Right Side of History" After All
Since the first days of his presidency, Barack Obama has cast himself as occupying "the right side…
Read more...
The Messy Truth About Van Jones
They never learn. The grand journalism pooh-bahs at CNN were humiliated this election cycle when WikiLeaks…
Read more...
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.