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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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California Uses Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty to Give Driver’s Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, August 23 2012
Call it the law of intended consequences. When President Barack Obama decided he could rewrite America’s immigration laws without any input from Congress, he opened the floodgates for liberals at all levels of government to legitimize illegal aliens through bureaucratic fiat.  But even the one-time community organizer probably didn’t think California would move this quickly.  First, some context.  On June 15, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency in the Department of Homeland Security, rolled out the specifics of a plan President…
 
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Liberals Criticize Ryan Like They Did Reagan
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Government Gone Insane
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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.