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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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Trump Seals Obama's Legacy
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 10 2016
"I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election.  You want to give me a good sendoff?  Go vote!" — Barack Obama, September 18, 2016  Sometime during election night, a humiliating and horrifying thought crept into Barack Obama's mind:  "This January, I will have to attend Donald Trump's inauguration."  Perhaps most depressing for Obama, a man preternaturally inclined toward scapegoating others for his failures, he has only himself to blame. …
 
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These days, there's been a lot of discussion about conservative media's culpability in creating unrealistic…
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Imagine how it feels to walk out your door for work each morning with the ominous awareness that due…
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Hillary's Climate of Hate
Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power? Only one presidential…
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Immigration Controversies
Despite controversies that rage over immigration, it is hard to see how anyone could be either for or…
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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.