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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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A Gem in Chicago
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, August 30 2016
  We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long overdue surprise to see a sign that at least one major university has shown some backbone. Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, has spoken out in the plainest language against the stifling of opinions that differ from political correctness, on campuses across the country. "Free speech is at risk at the very institution where it should be assured: the university," Dr.…
 
Abstract Immigrants in an Abstract World
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Hillary Clinton's Felonious Friends in Virginia
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Rare Bright Spot: U.S. Still Leads in Intellectual Property Protection
The United States accounts for just 4% of the world's population, and our brief 240-year existence remains…
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Actor-playboy Leonardo DiCaprio walked away from a fender bender in the Hamptons this weekend without…
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Zika's Threat to a City Near You
Health officials are bowing to political correctness instead of taking obvious steps to protect residents…
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A Clash of Police Policies
Amid the rioting in Milwaukee, there is also a clash between two leading lawmen there — Milwaukee…
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Reminder: Obamacare Is Still A Disaster
So a giant, rent-seeking insurance company is accused of having threatened to leave Obamacare's health…
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Hillary Clinton Interview Betrays Contempt for 2nd Amendment
Following her recent interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Hillary Clinton suffered justified ridicule…
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How to Escape Obamacare
"You get what you pay for," the adage goes. Not with the Affordable Care Act. When open enrollment…
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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.