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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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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Black Votes Matter
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, July 26 2016
  Black votes matter. If Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined. This is highly unlikely, given the approach used by Republicans. However, the point is that Democrats must not only continue to get nine-tenths of black votes, they also need to get a high turnout of black voters on election day. People who expected the election of President Barack Obama to lead to racial healing and a post-racial society failed to take account of the political reality that racial healing and a post-racial society would, at a minimum, reduce black voter turnout. Black…
 
Have Faith in America
I think it's time to clear the air. For those of you who still don't seem to understand my job, let me…
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Irrational Unease Over "Militarization of Police"
In harrowing and tragic detail, recent murders of police officers across the nation illustrate the mortal…
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Who Gets Absolute Moral Authority?
My 12-year-old son couldn't remember the phrase "take a walk down memory lane" last week, instead…
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Clinton Destroys Medicare
Hillary Clinton is taking a sledgehammer to Medicare. In a move calculated to fire up the extreme left…
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The Dumbest Idea
If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that…
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How Obama Divides America
At the funeral service for five slain Dallas cops, President Barack Obama delivered another one of his…
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America’s 30-year-old Tax Code, Now Serving: No One
With our two major parties holding conventions this month and setting agendas for the next four years…
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Gallup Poll: Americans Still Value Police and Military Highest
Events this summer make each day seem worse than the preceding one, creating an alarming sense of national…
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Congressional Black Corruption
If Black Lives Matter, then why have entrenched members of the Congressional Black Caucus spent more…
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Sanctuary Hospitals: Who Pays the Bills?
Medical bills are pushing more Americans into severe financial distress, even if they have insurance.…
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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.