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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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China's Deadly Lies About COVID
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, January 04 2023
The only thing not going viral in China is the truth. Chinese officials are spewing lies to cover up the massive COVID outbreak there. Worse, U.S. public health officials dawdled for a week, allowing air travelers from China in without testing, while other countries immediately blocked infected travelers from entering.  Aerial photos and videos from China show body bags stacked outside hospitals and crematoria, funeral home parking lots full and hospitals overwhelmed with COVID patients jammed into hallways. In Beijing and Sichuan, over 50% of the population is infected, according to internal…
 
Remember the Hysteria Over Trump's Tax Returns?
On Dec. 30, as Washington shut down for the Christmas-New Year holidays and Republicans prepared to take…
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Will Joe Biden Follow One Objectionable FERC Nomination with Another?
When it comes to nominating the next Chair for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Joe Biden…
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Yikes! Life Is Getting Shorter in America
It's one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations or censors…
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For Jan. 6 Committee, Time for Transparency Is Running Out
Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in one week. When that happens, the Jan. 6 committee…
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Are Universities Doomed?
In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "How did you go bankrupt?"…
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CFIF Christmas Quiz
Take our 12-Question Christmas Quiz and test your knowledge of Christmas-related Americana. (The…
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Most Americans Don't Know How Bad the Border Crisis Is
This week could mark the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021…
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What's Biden Hiding?
2022 is about to end, and still no answer to the question: What caused the virus that's killed 1,096…
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Biden Celebrates Slightly-Less-Terrible Inflation Report
In what has become a miserable new normal, the U.S. Labor Department this week reported a November annualized…
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Two Antithetical Billionaires
 Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob.…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
 
 
— Chris Stirewalt, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

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