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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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Jobs for Us or Jobs Being Done On Us?
By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, December 08 2009
If you are like most Americans, you probably did not hear about the Obama Administration’s “jobs summit” last Thursday until you got home that night, if at all.  That’s what happens when the government schedules a meeting about how to create jobs during normal business hours.  The only folks able to attend are those that can afford to take a day off for photo ops at the White House.  Such people include representatives for labor unions, recipients of corporate welfare, academics and consultants.  Not exactly a good sampling of the real job creators: …
 
Does Barack Obama Even Comprehend "Climategate?"
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." 
~Albert…
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Death, Taxes ... and More Taxes
It has been said that taxes are the price we pay for living in a civilized society.  If that’s…
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Liberals, Despite All Evidence to the Contrary
For most of this decade, conservatives have suffered the slings and arrows of a liberal establishment…
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Still Cause for Thanks
It is, simply put, fatiguing to be a part of the loyal opposition.  With more than a year now passed…
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The Obama Doctrine: Bend at the Waist
For all the volumes that are filled about the foreign policy predilections of American presidents, a…
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Obama Administration Imitates Hugo Chavez on Internet
When asked this week whether he planned on reading Sarah Palin’s new autobiography Going Rogue…
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Dear Senior Citizens, Part Three
Oh goodness gracious, granny. By now, we thought we’d be singing “over the river and through…
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When Illegal Aliens Take Over the House, Courtesy of the U.S. Senate
Sometimes, the public square can be mistaken for an insane asylum.  On November 5th, an amendment…
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The Politician America Needs: Margaret Thatcher
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good…
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Health Care Turncoats
What do you get when you mix political expediency, prevarication, “moderate” rhetoric and…
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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.