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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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Zika's Nasty Facts
By Betsy McCaughey
Thursday, June 16 2016
This week, mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika start biting in Florida, the Gulf States, and Southern California. It's the "virus from hell," warns Peter Hotez, Dean of Baylor University's School of Tropical Medicine. He's urging women to delay getting pregnant. Hotez worries expectant mothers in these states are already being bitten, and next spring they'll "start giving birth to brain-damaged infants." Doctors are investigating whether infants — up to age 1 — also could be impaired by these mosquito bites because their brains are still developing…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"The Democratic battle for control of the House of Representatives is entering its final stretch, with Republicans defending a narrow majority and Democrats seeking the handful of seats needed to take control of the chamber.With Election Day around the corner, competitive races have expanded across traditionally Republican districts, while a number of Democratic-held seats also remain in play…[more]
 
 
— Nicholas Ballasy, Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?