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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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The War on Cops
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, July 12 2016
There was never a more appropriately named book than "The War on Cops" by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas. Nor is this war against the police confined to Dallas. It is occurring across the country. Who is to blame? There is a ton of blame, more than enough to go around to the wide range of people and institutions that have contributed to these disasters. In addition to the murderers who have killed people they don't even know, there are those who created the atmosphere…
 
The War on Cops: Part II
Even in this age of runaway emotions, there are still some people who want to know the facts. Nowhere…
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Orgy of Guilt
The Islamic State, you have to acknowledge, is on quite a roll. Over the July 4 weekend, the FBI arrested…
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Hillarygate: FBI Director's Factual Conclusions Match Applicable Federal Statute
Did Hillary Clinton violate federal law by using an unsecured personal email system as Secretary of State? …
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Dem Platform Follies
On Friday, the Democratic Party unveiled its 2016 national platform, promising to put "a middle-class…
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Iovi Et Bovi: The Teflon Hillary Standard
There is a classic Latin epigram about double standards that resounds in the aftermath of the FBI's surrender…
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What Are We Celebrating?
There was a time when the Fourth of July meant something more than a three-day weekend. Speeches, writings…
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Clinton and Lynch - Corruption, Not 'Optics'
Attorney General Loretta Lynch tells us that her meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private jet on the…
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Benghazi Report Confirms Culpability of Hillary Clinton and Obama Administration
"House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton," read this week's…
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CFIF Independence Day Quiz
Take CFIF's 13 Question Independence Day Quiz to test your knowledge of American history and civics.
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Outsourcing Security Is Dumb and Deadly
It is not a theory that delegating the protection of our embassy and military personnel to other countries…
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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.