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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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Delusion and Denial in the Middle East
By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 20 2012
It’s an analytical shortcoming of advanced, western societies to assume that progress is the default disposition of humanity. To a certain extent, that’s the intellectual byproduct of living in a democratic, capitalist nation. An American senior citizen alive today was born into a world where polio was still a threat, African-Americans were still subject to widespread segregation, and television was not yet invented. In his lifetime, he has seen more change – overwhelmingly to the good – than would have been accomplished over the course of centuries throughout most…
 
Obama Has Earned World’s Contempt
Nobody should even for a moment entertain the suggestion that the attacks on American outposts in Libya…
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IRS Rewrites ObamaCare to Increase Taxes
First the Supreme Court rewrote President Barack Obama’s signature health reform law to save it…
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Correcting the Clinton Record: Tax Cuts, Spending Restraint, Moderation
You never want to catch whatever Bill Clinton is spreading.  Accordingly, here’s some precautionary…
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Romney Pushes Proper Policies
Good policy is good politics. While policy wonkishness rarely wins major elections, it is true that…
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Demint-Cornyn A-PLUS Act Is Real Conservative Education Reform
With all the attention earned by state governors recently for enacting major education reforms, it’s…
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The Democratic Betrayal of African-American Voters
When Barack Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008, even his most voracious critics conceded that…
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Secret Fed Housing Giveaway Endangers Local Recovery, Safety
Unless Congress acts quickly to stop a federal pilot program to convert thousands of foreclosed houses…
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Media's One-Sided Coverage Is Clear Evidence Of Bias
The date was June 15, 1992. In an elementary school in Trenton, New Jersey, reading off a flash card…
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Medicare Case Challenges Bureaucratic Coercion
Governmental coercion, without benefit of due legal process, is just as wrong when used against an individual…
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Pew Research Center: Republicans More Knowledgeable Than Democrats (Again)
“On average, Republican voters fare somewhat better than Democratic voters (7.8 versus 6.9 questions…
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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.