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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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Iran, Infelicitously
By Troy Senik
Wednesday, September 30 2009
If the notion of a providential plan for the United States suffers from a touch of romanticism, it’s not difficult to see where the nation’s poets got grist for their mill. 
 
How does the American Revolution succeed and then produce a stable Republic without the singular leadership of George Washington? What other Commander-in-Chief would have had the combination of strategic cunning and moral indefatigability that led Abraham Lincoln to successfully prosecute the Civil War? Would America have roused from its isolationist slumbers to defeat Hitler’s Germany…
 
Net “Neutrality” – Government’s Newest Takeover Plan and Corporate Welfare for Google
Amid the blizzard of governmental hyperactivity since Obama’s inauguration just eight months ago…
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Dear Senior Citizens, Part Two
With age comes wisdom.  Yes, there is that tired feeling of having been there, done that too many…
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A Change is Gonna Come
Eight months into the Obama presidency – as cap and trade languishes in the Congress, health care…
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New Health Care Bill, Same Old Problems
This week, the Senate Finance Committee began its review of Senator Max Baucus’ “new”…
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Reckless, Excessive Obama Warns Reckless and Excessive Behavior Won’t Be Tolerated
In a speech setting new lows in hypocrisy this week, a sanctimonious Barack Obama admonished an audience…
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Thoughts on “Health Care Reform”
Rube Goldberg, the popular cartoonist of the 1920s and 1930s, fascinated and amused a nation by drawing…
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Taxpayers March on Washington, D.C.
Protests.  For decades, they have been the province of the political left.  Anti-war activists…
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Norman Borlaug – Losing a Legend
When 2009 rolls to a close about 100 days from now, we can expect the usual avalanche of encomiums for…
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Remembering Patriot Day
Not to stoke the fires for those of you lamenting being back in your office, but this should have been…
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Federal Regulators Repeatedly Failed to Stop Bernard Madoff - But Now Want Even More Control Over Our Lives?
The embarrassing saga of federal regulators’ failure to stop Bernard Madoff’s multibillion-dollar…
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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.