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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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“Operation Fast and Furious” – Obama Administration Endorses Guns for Mexican Drug Runners, But Not Lawful Americans
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 16 2011

Professor John Lott, economic scholar and foremost authority on the deadly real-world consequences of gun “control” laws across the globe, labeled Barack Obama “undoubtedly the most anti-gun candidate ever nominated by a major party for President.”  Well, that apparently depends on who possesses the gun.  If you’re a law-abiding American citizen, the Obama Administration would prefer that you remain defenseless.  That’s particularly true if you live in one of America’s high-crime urban hellholes where restaurants refuse to deliver…
 
Is Joe Biden More Presidential than Obama?
Say it ain’t so, but with Vice President Joe Biden being tasked with negotiating a debt ceiling…
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Presidential Debates Make a Mockery of the Democratic Process
Despite all the talk about the deficiencies of the Republican presidential field, there was a palpable…
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Pawlenty's Bigger Failing
Pundits universally seem to agree that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty hurt himself in Monday night's…
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Rick Perry, the Texas Tea Party Governor
What is it about Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry and the mere possibility he may run for the presidency…
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DNC Race-Baiting Camouflages Vote Fraud
Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat, has ripped the scab…
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Congress Strikes Back Over Obama’s War in Libya
Last week’s bipartisan rebuke of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Libya was…
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GM Thanks Taxpayers for Bailout by Calling for Tax Hikes
If you thought the genius who steered General Motors through bankruptcies and bailouts had learned anything…
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Former Fed Chairman Greenspan: I Prefer Paul Ryan’s Deficit Plan
“A republic, if you can keep it.”  So said Benjamin Franklin in 1787, responding to…
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Exclusive: Obama’s Leaked 2012 Campaign Memo
With press attention currently trained on the potential Republican presidential candidates for 2012,…
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Obama’s Hopes for An Economic Recovery by Election Day Are Doomed
Talk to stalwart Barack Obama supporters (there are still some of them out there) and many of them will…
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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.