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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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Miss Me Yet? George W. Bush’s Clarity Exposes Obama’s Deficiencies
By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 18 2010
DALLAS -- Most truths in American life reveal themselves in the market long before they seep into the broader public consciousness. A tourist walking the crowded streets of Washington in January 2009 would have seen every storefront window crowded with iconography heralding the incoming Obama Administration, from life-size cardboard cutouts to the ubiquitous “hope” t-shirts that portrayed Obama in a stenciled aesthetic uncomfortably reminiscent of Jim Fitzpatrick’s legendary Che Guevara poster.
 
Then something curious happened. Within several months, Obama…
 
Chuck Schumer’s Ascendency Means More Politics, Less Progress
Fresh off an electoral thrashing that diminished his caucus and flipped the majority in the House, what…
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Nancy Pelosi’s Plan to Kill Her Own Caucus
Passing controversial legislation with narrow majorities and parliamentary tricks is a recipe for electoral…
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A Balanced Budget Amendment Doesn’t Have to Mean Higher Taxes – CFIF’s “One More Vote” Proposal Doesn’t
A balanced budget amendment, in the wrong hands or crafted in the wrong form, can unfortunately provide…
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Darrell Issa Investigates
The official Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives may be two months away, but Rep.…
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Fed Up: The Cost of Ben Bernanke’s Monetary Kamikaze Mission
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Translation: In a Washington where most decision…
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Remembering Veterans Every Day of the Year
Having a bad hair day? Wake up with a stiff neck? Got a touch of tendonitis?  Bump your head on…
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2012 May Be Even Brighter for Conservatives Than 2010
Get ready for even more conservative victories in 2012 – and that doesn’t include the presidential…
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Four Surprising Lessons from the Midterm Elections
By the time the midterm elections began to wrap up on Tuesday night, the entire affair was beginning…
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Election Results for Candidates Profiled by CFIF
Election Night 2010 decided the fate of several conservative candidates whom CFIF followed this year. …
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2008 – 2010: From “Yes We Can” to “Shove It” in Two Short Years
How things have changed since election night 2008, just two short years ago. From Chicago to Cairo,…
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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.