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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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Utah Congressional Candidate Morgan Philpot: Pushing Back Against Federal Restrictions on Land Use
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, September 15 2010
Many politicians claim to know the difference between the U.S. Constitution and “The Communist Manifesto,” but very few take the time to judge legislation by whether it moves society closer to one or the other.  Morgan Philpot is one of the latter.  As a state legislator in Utah, Philpot earned attention by holding up a copy of each document on the House floor and asking his colleagues which of the two favored the bill under consideration.  Though some considered it a stunt, Philpot was serious.  To him, it was amazing to see how little people thought about constitutional…
 
The ObamaCare Fit Hits the Shan: Health Insurance Costs and Spending Already Rising
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Black Tea Party Activist Shows the Hypocrisy Behind George Soros, NAACP
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Comparisons to Reagan in August 1982 Provide Obama Little Refuge
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Exclusive: The Lost First Draft of Obama’s Iraq Speech
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Living Social(ist): Alerting America to Dumb Government Policies
Act Now: Congress and Obama Want Preferential Tax Treatment for Foreign-Owned Energy Producers CFIF…
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An American Communist and a Soviet Defector Offer Different Interpretations of Obama at Beck Rally
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While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns
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"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.