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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 Hard Work of Holding Obama Accountable
By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, September 08 2011
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to write about, because public affairs appear to be in a holding pattern. National politics seem stalemated, with a president rehashing the same stale lines and the same stale policies and congressional Republicans wisely refusing to bite on the stale bait he offers. The same left-wing president, of course, isn’t ever going to implement the sorts of fresh approaches offered by conservative reformers like Paul Ryan or Rick Santorum.  Everybody is looking to January 20, 2013 to break the logjam, and even the most voluble of pamphleteers can sometimes…
 
UN Reform Bill Matches Taxpayer Money to Our National Interest
With President Barack Obama continuing to send the political equivalent of a blank check to the United…
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New White House Advisor Politicizes Economics
The liberal politicization of economics continues unabated with President Barack Obama’s nomination…
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What the Non-Political World Understands
Last week I spoke to a local Kiwanis club in Mobile, Alabama. Adapted for print, here’s what I…
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Green Jobs, Red Ink: The Economic Folly of Obama’s Enviro-Meddling
Modern liberalism is a faith defined by the belief that reality is whatever the state says it is. Thus…
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Verizon and Wisconsin: Big Losses for Big Labor, Victories for Everyone Else
Big Labor warned us it would roar into 2012, an awakening colossus punishing everyone who stood in the…
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Holder Justice: No Conservatives Need Apply
According to every outlet of the establishment media, it was a near-earthshaking scandal when the Bush…
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School Testing Scandals Require New Era of Accountability
The newest wave of cheating scandals is threatening to sweep away the reputation of one of the most famous…
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10 Big Lies from the Obama Administration
“I won’t lie to you. I expect to be judged by results” – President Barack Obama…
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Warren Buffett: Hypocritical and Factually Incorrect in Calling for Higher Taxes
Want to silence a liberal?  Simply ask anyone demanding higher taxes to produce copies of their…
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Obama Lectures Carmakers on How to Run a Business
It turns out that all the U.S. auto industry needs to regain its dominance is an Econ 101 lecture from…
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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.