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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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“Occupy Wall Street” – Silly Circus, or Portent of a More Violent 2012?
By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, October 12 2011
“You’re going to find yourself in a country where you and your wealthy friends are going to be hunted.”  It’s been easy to dismiss “Occupy Wall Street” as a silly circus of unbathed graduate students, stoned dropouts and fossilized 1960s nostalgists who can’t even formulate a coherent platform.  But consider the brazen threat set forth above, part of an email sent anonymously last week to New York state legislators.  It suggests a much more sinister form this movement may assume as the left becomes increasingly desperate entering 2012. …
 
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Fire Eric Holder Now, Fast and Furiously
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Is Cain Able?
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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.