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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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Obama After BP: Beyond Pathetic
By Quin Hillyer
Tuesday, April 19 2011
One year to the day after the dreadful BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration’s responses to the crisis continue blowing holes in the regional and national economies. President Obama’s choices make George W. Bush’s responses to Hurricane Katrina seem like the epitome of competence and wisdom. Gulf Coast residents remember well that it took President Obama days to publicly awake from his torpor and say anything substantive about the spill. They remember the administration’s early defense of BP’s reactions; they remember its failure to…
 
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Obama’s Deficit Reduction Plan: More Spending, More Taxes, Less National Defense
Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe – who has the distinction of being both a wag and a world-class…
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Liberal Attacks Misfire on Ryan Budget Plan
The Left’s denunciation of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) 2012 “Path…
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Obama Launches 2012 Campaign, Chants of “Four More Years!” Conspicuously Absent
Ponder this surprising metric for the week in which Barack Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign. …
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The End of Eric Holder
Liberals in the media are busy commiserating with Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to reverse…
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Though Barack Obama is a polarizing politician, there’s one thing that his friends and critics…
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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.