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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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This “New” ObamaCare Game Is for Suckers, Just Like the Old One
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, September 10 2009
First, Obama and Company bought off the drug companies.  Then the hospitals. By the time they got to the pitifully inept AMA and the double-dealing AARP, those fast-talking sharpies were easy. They already owned the Congress, both houses with unassailable majorities stoned out of their empty gourds on the power of first spending the people’s money, then the people’s debt, then the people’s children’s children’s debt. Only the insurance companies wouldn’t roll over on their own self-destruction, so they became the designated villains. But a strange thing…
 
A Victory for Free Speech or More of the McCain?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. …
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California’s Warning for America
Americans in the other 49 states can be forgiven if they don’t understand what the big deal about…
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Anything You Can Do the Fed Can Do Better?
President Obama has now nominated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term as the head…
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Taking Stock of the Obama Revolution
During a press conference at April’s G-20 Summit in London, President Obama said, “I'm the…
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Obama’s Latest "Never Mind" - $2 Trillion Deficit Recalibration
Is Barack Obama capable of saying anything that Americans can trust? That question accrued…
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Help Wanted: CIA Director
Memo To: Rahm Emanuel
From: O Looks like Panetta may quit before we can fire his ass, so you…
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If the Public Option is Dead: Then What?
This week, opponents of a government-run health care system welcomed the news that President Obama might…
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Statism’s Waterloo
If a revolution takes root throughout the country and no one in Washington hears it, does the revolution…
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Waxmanism, the New McCarthyism
Since over-the-top name calling is the new sine qua non (see Boethius) of public policy debate…
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Do Conservatives Offer a Healthcare Alternative? Meet Paul Ryan
Support for Barack Obama’s healthcare agenda has reached a new nadir, confirming the adage that…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Claims that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to democracy likely contributed to Democrats' smashing success in Tuesday's elections. Ironically, the president's efforts to bring more democratic accountability to government may prove to be one of his most durable achievements -- despite persistent progressive pushback poised to ramp up under divided government. Although Trump is often described…[more]
 
 
— Benjamin Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations
 
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.