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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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For Obama, Foreign Law Trumps Vicious Rape
By Quin Hillyer
Tuesday, July 12 2011
It was bad enough that President Obama last week asked the Supreme Court to apply a law that has not even been enacted. It was worse that four of the Left’s lackeys on the Supreme Court, one short of a majority, were willing to do it. Obama’s attempted intervention to stop the execution of brutal rapist-murderer Humberto Leal Garcia (henceforth “Leal”) arose quickly and, after its failure, seems to be fading just as quickly from news attention. It shouldn’t. The Obama legal position was abusive of the rule of law, and its provenance is questionable. In 1994, then-21-year-old…
 
$278,000 For Every Job “Saved or Created,” And Now Comes the Bill
This week, we learned that 141 Obama White House aides earn over $100,000 annually.  That’s…
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Real Affirmative Action Starts with School Choice, Not Quotas
The United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to prohibit Michigan’s ban on…
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As Economy Flounders, Obama Focuses on What Americans Eat, Smoke and Drive
Delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress in February 2009, Barack Obama told the assembled…
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The Return of Liberals’ Fuzzy Math
It would be one helluva entertaining spectacle to watch liberals do back flips with budget numbers if…
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Why Can’t California Democrats Understand the Importance of Economic Growth?
With California’s new budget that went into effect on July 1, one question comes to mind about…
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ICE Slips DREAM Act in Through the Backdoor
With budgets tight and duties being reprioritized, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
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Clarence Thomas, for the Parents
One reason Supreme Court watching can be a fascinating enterprise is because diametrically opposing sides…
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Obama's Unfocused, Unrealistic Afghanistan Speech
Viewers who were unfortunate enough to tune into President Obama's Wednesday night speech at the wrong…
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American Exceptionalism: Gallup Worldwide Survey Names U.S. Most Desirable Nation
Apparently, citizens of other nations maintain a greater belief in American exceptionalism than the President…
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Only a Partial Win at Supreme Court Against Globaloney Environmental Lawsuit
The Constitution and the concept of judicial restraint each won one huge victory on Monday in an environmental…
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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.