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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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Obama Preaches Newest Version of Tax “Bracket Creep”
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, August 17 2011
Ever heard of “bracket creep”?  It’s the scourge of middle-class families, and one of the favorite weapons of tax-and-spend liberals.  Just ask Barack Obama.  On his Midwestern bus tour this week, the president hammered Republican presidential candidates for pledging not to raise taxes if elected.  In his view, the way to achieve a “balanced” debt reduction is to cut federal spending and raise taxes on Americans making more than $200,000 a year.  Obama agrees with his billionaire investor friend Warren Buffet that the rich need to “share…
 
Lawless Obama Courts Defeat
On subjects ranging from Black Panthers to black gold, the Obama administration is having a very bad…
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Do Recent Events Show the World Is Falling Apart, or Reaffirm Timeless Principles?
To some people, recent events suggest that the world as we know it is falling apart.  But think…
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Liberals Can’t Tell the Truth About Social Security Funding
During the recently concluded debt ceiling debate, prominent liberals like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)…
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Against Bernanke’s Market Manipulations
Try this thought experiment: You are sitting on a pile of cash or cash-equivalents. You are worried about…
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Debt Crisis Reveals America’s Quarter-Life Crisis
There was no shortage of disappointment in last week’s dénouement to the months-long fight…
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The Battlefield Cross
Tonight, I watched as time stood still. Battle hardened men and women wept. Tears of sadness. Tears of…
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Out of Balance: Why the Critics Are Wrong About the Balanced Budget Amendment
With the prolonged debate over the debt ceiling finally having concluded earlier this week, many Americans…
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Connie Mack: Trying to Balance the Budget a Few (Trillion) Pennies at a Time
What if a bill could provide a fail-safe way to reduce federal spending by one percent a year, cap spending…
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What Constitutes “Poverty” In America Today
Here’s an interesting fact:  The typical “poor” American enjoys substantially…
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Smaller Torts Make for Savory Politics
NEW ORLEANS:  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), meeting here this week for its annual…
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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.