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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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Inversion: America Has Gone From Attracting Global Business to Penalizing It
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 25 2014
Throughout our nation's history, Americans have taken justifiable pride in cultivating a domestic climate that attracts innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses from across the globe.  In recent years, however, our tax laws and federal regulations have eroded our international competitiveness.  Paradoxically, that has occurred during a period in which increasing globalization demands improvement, not regression.  Unfortunately, new rules announced by the Obama Administration will make the situation worse, not better.  Instead of fixing the problem, they seek to compound it. …
 
The Midterms in Prospect: The Senate (Part 3)
Over the past two weeks, I’ve presented analysis of this year’s U.S. Senate races by region…
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Report: Obama Admin Can’t Say How Much It Spends To Promote ObamaCare
A new Government Accountability Office report says the primary agency charged with ObamaCare’s…
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A New Inconvenient Truth: Antarctic Ice Levels Reach Record High
For global warming alarmists, the inconvenient truths just keep accumulating.  The unintentional…
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The Midterms in Prospect: The Senate (Part 2)
Last week, I began a three-part series on this fall’s midterm races for the U.S. Senate, with each…
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What to Hope for If GOP Controls Congress
Unless voters unexpectedly send Republican super-majorities to both chambers of Congress this November…
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The Midterms in Prospect: The Senate (Part 1)
In a two-part series earlier this year, I provided a preview of the midterm Senate races, examining which…
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Senate Democrats and Scorched-Earth Judicial Politics
Whereas Senate Democrats routinely employ scorched-Earth tactics in the realm of judicial politics, Senate…
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When Medicaid Reform Isn’t
In last week’s column, I explained why not all decisions by Republican governors to expand Medicaid…
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CFIF Star-Spangled Banner Quiz
Take our 14 Question Quiz to test your knowledge of our National Anthem. (Answer key may be found at…
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Rand Paul Changes His Tune as Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Shifts
Joe Biden uncloaked his fanciful inner hawk this week in response to escalating butchery in the Middle…
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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.