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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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Celebrating Everyday Americans
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 01 2010
When you’re 234 years old, every birthday is cause for celebration.  And while it’s true that the national unemployment rate is holding steady at 10%, and no credible solution to stopping the Gulf Oil Spill is available yet, those Americans who meet every day with a calm conviction that theirs is a country worth defending have good reason to be proud this Independence Day.  In fact, the time has come for the millions of persevering Americans to demand change from Washington, D.C. – not just in how the Beltway crowd treats their fellow citizens, but the way they speak…
 
Obama is Repeating FDR’s Mistakes – Just Not the Way the Liberal Media Thinks
If modern liberalism triumphs among the professoriate, it may be because the left shares an instinctive…
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David Petraeus: An Indispensable Man for an Impossible Mission?
There are no indispensable men in American life.  That is one of the many lessons surrounding the…
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Obama Realizing the Presidency Isn’t a Videogame
“The fundamental principles of economics are not hard to understand but they are easy to forget…
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Obama Administration Fails at Leadership; Opts for Lawsuits Instead
If one were to focus exclusively on the Obama Administration’s responses to America’s rapidly…
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“Net Neutrality:” Regulating Like It’s 1934
A lot has changed since that not-so-halcyon year 1934.  So why are the Federal Communications Commission…
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: A Case Study on the Limits of Government
The ongoing home mortgage disaster that continues to transfer billions of taxpayer dollars into the black…
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Obama’s Oval Office Infomercial
Furnished from the planks of the HMS Resolute, a British ship that once patrolled the icy waters of the…
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Survey Says: Liberals Stingier, Stupider Than Conservatives
We’re all familiar with the mainstream media and popular culture myth:  conservatives are…
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Casualties of the Mexican Border War
On Monday, June 7, U.S. Border Patrol agents on bicycles were attempting to arrest two men illegally…
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Sailing Under a White Flag: The High Seas Expose the Weakness of Obama’s Foreign Policy
In a desperate bid to inject his boss with some much-needed gravitas, White House Press Secretary Robert…
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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.