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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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The “Party of Science” Somehow Misses Its Own Laboratory Failures
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 05 2026
Leftists gratingly insist – loudly and self-confidently – that they represent the “party of science.”   Following the release of the United States Census Bureau’s latest data on state population and migration, however, they maintain an amusing inability to acknowledge the laboratory failures of their agenda across America.   Those laboratories, of course, are the fifty states that constitute America’s “laboratories of democracy,” testing competing policy visions in real time.  American citizens can vote with their proverbial…
 
What's Behind the Wild New Wealth Tax Proposals?
When government grows to dominate ever-larger shares of the economy, and when politicians refuse to be…
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I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves.  They used to…
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Gushing Over Gavin
Conservatives have complained about media bias for decades. But there is bias and then there is bias.…
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Price Controls Won't Work Any Better for Republicans Than It Does Democrats
Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician. And, as…
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Trump Economy Booming Even More Than First Thought
We interrupt your ongoing mainstream media diet of doom and gloom – seeking to weaken President…
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Mamdani's Cruel Homeless Policy: Frozen Corpses and Blighted Neighborhoods
The Big Apple is about to take on a new name – Tent City, or Filth City. Or perhaps Lepto…
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Does America Have the Resolve to Deport Illegal Border Crossers?
The United States experienced a mass incursion of illegal border crossers in the years 2021 to 2025.…
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Protest Culture Is Annoying and Un-American
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) likes to argue that the "whole point" of protesting…
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Second Amendment Scores Another Victory
“When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.”   Reciting that adage…
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Phasing Out State Income Tax Key to Success in Dying Blue States
Across the nation, states are fiercely competing for companies and population by slashing taxes. New…
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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?