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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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Marching Orders for Trump's New VA Secretary
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, April 04 2018
Since President Trump ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, the question reverberating in Washington is whether Trump's new pick, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, is capable of heading a department with 360,000 employees and 9 million vets under its care. Senate Democrats carp he lacks experience running "a complex organization." Experience is overrated. President Obama's VA Secretary, Robert McDonald, failed miserably, despite having run Procter & Gamble. Vets died on phony wait lists on McDonald's watch. Jackson's last combat role was with a surgical shock trauma unit in Iraq.…
 
Caravans, Churches and Criminal Sanctuaries
Open borders tour guides in Mexico illegally shepherding 1,500 Central Americans to the United States…
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On The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Rule of Law
Recently, I took part in a debate on the question "Does the Russia investigation endanger the rule…
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You Can Try To Repeal The Second Amendment, But You Can't Repeal History
This week, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote an op-ed in The New York Times that…
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The Snitches in Your Kids' Dental Office
How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a despotic pediatric dentist. Parents who decide, for whatever…
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Do You Have a DNR?
Patients, beware. When you're admitted to a hospital, you're routinely encouraged to sign a Do Not Resuscitate…
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The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica 'Scandal' Is a Nothingburger
What the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic…
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Video: Free Market and Conservative Groups Speak Out for STRONGER Patents
In a video released today by the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF), the leaders of numerous free market…
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U.S. Postal Service Must Reduce Waste and Address Growing Threat of Counterfeit Parcels
No bureaucracy symbolizes government waste and incompetence like the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). …
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Obamacare Money Grab
Guess who's on the hook in one of the largest lawsuits ever? You. More than 100 health insurance companies…
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Another Fatal FBI Fumble in Florida
A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared…
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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.