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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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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Freedom on the March in 2010?
By Sam Batkins
Wednesday, January 06 2010
When the clock struck midnight on January 1, some might have asked if the state of the nation could get any worse.  Clearly, 2009 was a year to forget, and 2008 wasn’t much better.  Millions of Americans have lost their jobs over the past two years in the wake of the worst economic recession in generations and the nation witnessed an unprecedented expansion of government power.  The federal government nationalized the banking and financial industries, raised taxes and borrowed and spent trillions of dollars.  And now, Washington is prepared to take over the health…
 
At Decade’s End
As if to reinforce the pervasive sense of distemper gripping the public of late, the departure of the…
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Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling: Why You Should Care
For most people, “deficit spending” and the “national debt” are nothing more…
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'Twas the Week Before Christmas*
'Twas the week before Christmas, when Congress met, So eager they were, to pile on the debt; They…
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Chavez the Clown Completes Copenhagen Climate Circus
The ongoing United Nations global warming summit in Copenhagen was a circus of the absurd from its inception. …
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Two Faces of Obama in Oslo
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Working for The Man: Federal Employment Spike Exacerbates Dependency on the State
If you’re an experienced worker looking for employment during the recession and in need of some…
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In the Shadow of the Minaret
In the six and half decades since the conclusion of World War Two, Europe – the fountainhead of…
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Sarbanes-Oxley: An Unconstitutional Monument to Governmental Incompetence
Remember when Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to prevent future market failures?  It was July 30, 2002…
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The Evolution of a President: Not Yet Trans-Partisan
“We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending…
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ClimateGate in Perspective: The Road Ahead
The global fallout resulting from the scandalous revelations of ClimateGate cannot be overestimated or…
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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.