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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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What Will a Successful Trump Legacy Look Like?
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 19 2017
As eight long years under Barack Obama finally come to an end, we instinctively return in time to January 2009 and take an accounting of his legacy.  With rare exceptions such as the execution of Osama bin Laden, we survey a vast field of domestic stagnation, global weakening, wasted potential, broken promises, record racial division and scandal concealed by a compliant media.  With Obama now in our collective rear-view mirror, it's also natural to anticipate how we might survey Donald Trump's own legacy four or eight years from today.  What will success look like when we take…
 
CFIF Presidential Inauguration Quiz

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Dems Need History Lesson on U.S. Elections
Rep. John Lewis' claim that President-elect Donald Trump isn't a legitimate president wouldn't matter…
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Six Questions About the Russia Hacking Report
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As 2017 Begins, Broadcasters Exploit Outdated Federal Law to Impose Blackouts on Pay TV Consumers
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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?