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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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Barack Obama, Bubble Boy
By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 04 2012
Parents with the good sense to resist the hysterical impulses of modern child-rearing – where the young are handled with a delicacy previously reserved for antique porcelain – have long understood a counterintuitive fact: Kids who get filthy, run around outdoors and even eat the occasional serving of dirt tend to have fewer health issues over the long run. The reason: because the constant exposure to adverse circumstances boosts immunity. And as Barack Obama proved in Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the same principle holds true for politicians. Obama, it must be…
 
Unscrupulous: Obama Administration Instructs Employers to Ignore Federal Layoff Warning Law
Imagine for a moment the uproar if a Republican administration colluded with big businesses to disregard…
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USDA’s “New Era of Civil Rights” Costing Taxpayers Billions
The latest billion-dollar giveaway for unproven discrimination at the United States Department of Agriculture…
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Obama’s Racialism Harms Heroic FDNY
The Daily Caller story this week on then-candidate Barack Obama making racially charged statements in…
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Small Business Shock: 55% Would Not Start a Business in Obama’s Economic Climate
“The data paints a bleak picture, with a majority of respondents saying in the last three years…
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Vote Fraud Threatens This Year’s Elections
If this election is a close one, it could well be stolen by what would otherwise be the losing side.…
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AARP’s $2.8 Billion Medigap Windfall from ObamaCare Hurts Seniors
Faced with a choice between saving seniors money or reaping a $2.8 billion windfall, AARP traded the…
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Millions Flee California’s Predatory Liberalism
In their masterful book, “Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,”…
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CFIF Scores Legal Victory Against Campaign Finance Regulations, Vindicating First Amendment
Imagine the following harrowing scenario.  You’re an ordinary citizen.  You live in…
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If ObamaCare Is a Tax, Did It Violate the Origination Clause?
This summer, five justices on the United States Supreme Court rewrote ObamaCare to say that its individual…
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AGs: States’ Sovereignty Advances Liberty
The Center for Individual Freedom’s “State Sovereignty Project” is being…
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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.