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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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Keep on Lying, Charlie. That’s What Florida Really Wants in its Next Senator
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, November 12 2009
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is reportedly a hale fellow, well met.  Personally we wouldn’t know, because conversations with career politicians rank right below listening to a convicted criminal explaining innocence, in terms of usefulness. In fact, talking, untruthfully, is getting Crist into considerable trouble in his bid to become Florida’s next U.S. Senator. The landscape looked a lot different when the former state Attorney General and one-term Governor announced for the Senate last May.  Then, according to The Miami Herald, it took only a record 14 minutes for the…
 
If Obama Is So Bright, Why Does He Keep Drawing the Auto Insurance Analogy?
Since Barack Obama charged into the spotlight with his 2004 keynote speech at the Democratic National…
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For All They Have Done, For All They Have Sacrificed
The Congress shall have Power To provide for the common Defence  ...
To raise and support…
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The White House War on Speech
"Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right…
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Let-Them-Eat-Cake Nancy
Marie Antoinette had nothing on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, except perhaps Marie’s ignominious…
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Conservative Activists vs. the Republican Establishment, and the Future Is What?
New York Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman really needed to pull out a win in New York’s…
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Conservatism, Feet Planted
Chris Matthews: In the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, just 22 percent believe this country is on the right…
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Obama’s “Hair of the Dog” Economic Policy Creates Uncertainty, Not Lasting Recovery
The recession that began almost two years ago appears to be finally petering out, as American recessions…
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Education Reform Awakens the Silent Majority
In 1965, a young economist named Mancur Olson published a book that revolutionized the study of interest…
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Google’s Spider Web of Ties to the Obama Administration
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"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.