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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” Versus Reaganesque and Trumpian “Peace Through Strength”
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 17 2025
It may be true that one invites more flies with honey than with vinegar.  It’s equally true, however, that one invites peace more through strength than through deference.   This week marks the anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s infamous “Malaise Speech” to the nation, and it nicely highlights the gulf between presidents like Carter who placated America’s enemies and paid the price, versus presidents who engaged in more muscular foreign policy with undeniably better results.   Those lessons remain important today.   On July 15, 1979…
 
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"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement -- he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.So, at the eleventh hour…[more]
  
 
— Victor Davis Hanson, Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
 
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