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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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Paranoid Politics
By Thomas Sowell
Monday, February 22 2016
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity — or lack of validity — of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of people — currently seven — running for their respective parties' nominations. Meanwhile, the fate of the 320 million Americans who are going to be affected by the outcome of this year's election fades into the background. The fact that Hillary Clinton's…
 
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We're still number one.  In the realm of intellectual property (IP) protection, that is. …
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Sanders the Phony VA Reformer
The New Hampshire primary has put the spotlight on Bernie Sanders. But not all his votes were honestly…
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While a TSA agent pawed my hair bun this weekend, presumably on high alert for improvised explosive bobby…
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Toxic Words
During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent…
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For eight years now, the president has reprimanded the American people for their attitudes about Islam.…
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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.