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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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“You Didn’t Build That!” – New Gallup Poll Shows Business Owners Aren’t Buying What Obama Is Selling
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 02 2012
 “You didn’t build that!  Somebody else made that happen!”   It’s the summer blunder that refuses to go away.  And justifiably so.  It betrays the ugly business antipathy of a man whose viability demands artifice, whose reelection demands continuation of his 2008 opacity.  Consider:  Barack Obama was elected in 2008 by sheer fortune of timing, combined with an astonishing failure to vet him personally and professionally.  Given his inexperience, his intimate associations with convicted criminals and anti-Semitic mentors, his…
 
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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.