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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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Postal Reform is Opportunity for Innovation, Not Capitulation
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, September 15 2011
Last week, the Postmaster General told Congress that the United States Postal Service (USPS) could lose up to $10 billion this year due to declining mail volume and rising pension costs.  To compensate, he wants to cut delivery services, sell over 200 post offices and receive billions from a taxpayer bailout.  Congress seems willing, but the experience of other countries suggests there are much cheaper ways to get even better service.  No one disputes the need for postal reform; just the method for doing so.  Over the last ten years USPS’s mail volume has dropped 20…
 
A Conservative’s Guide to Obama’s Flawed Jobs Proposal
When President Obama appeared before a joint session of Congress last week, he pitched his newest supposed…
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Yes, $2 Gasoline is Possible
On gasoline prices, maybe Michelle Bachmann was right. The House member and presidential candidate made…
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Paul Krugman’s 9/11: A Liberal History Lesson
In case you missed it, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks…
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Obama Now on Course to Preside Over the Worst Economic Growth Since Recordkeeping Began
As if American voters needed additional confirmation of the failure of Barack Obama’s economic…
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The Hard Work of Holding Obama Accountable
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to write about, because public affairs appear to be in a holding…
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UN Reform Bill Matches Taxpayer Money to Our National Interest
With President Barack Obama continuing to send the political equivalent of a blank check to the United…
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New White House Advisor Politicizes Economics
The liberal politicization of economics continues unabated with President Barack Obama’s nomination…
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What the Non-Political World Understands
Last week I spoke to a local Kiwanis club in Mobile, Alabama. Adapted for print, here’s what I…
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Green Jobs, Red Ink: The Economic Folly of Obama’s Enviro-Meddling
Modern liberalism is a faith defined by the belief that reality is whatever the state says it is. Thus…
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Verizon and Wisconsin: Big Losses for Big Labor, Victories for Everyone Else
Big Labor warned us it would roar into 2012, an awakening colossus punishing everyone who stood in the…
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"Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump's improbable comeback in 2024 markedly…[more]
 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
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