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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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Intellectual Property: The Fuel of Interest to the Fire of American Genius
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 09 2017
What competitive advantage begat American exceptionalism?  How, despite such a brief lifespan, did America become and remain to this day the most inventive, influential, prosperous, creative nation in human history?  Some rationalize our success as a happenstance of geography and abundance of natural resources.  But that rationalization can't explain why nations like Russia or Brazil with even greater natural resources don't begin to approximate our record of ingenuity and prosperity.  Nor does it explain why nations like Japan with comparatively meager natural resources…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]
 
 
— John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?