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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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Terrified Liberals Rediscover Federalism
By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, November 16 2016
It's been a traumatic week for liberals (although conservatives face their own struggle to stifle laughter and schadenfreude at liberals' expense).  Among other tragic vignettes from the past week, The New York Times reported that, "Mrs. Clinton's campaign was so confident in her victory that her aides popped open champagne on the campaign plane early Tuesday."  Our sympathies to the poor staffer tasked with cleaning up that mess.  Elsewhere across America, inconsolable college students retreated to "safe spaces" to work it all out through hug-ins.  Millennials…
 
Trump vs. the Federal Bureaucracy
Donald Trump's triumph over Hillary Clinton presages an even bigger battle against the heart of the Democratic…
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The Slacker Mandate and the Safety Pin Generation
News flash, kids: Things aren't free. Things cost money. And "free" things provided to you…
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Trump Seals Obama's Legacy
"I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard…
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Identity Politics in America: a Post-Mortem
Here is what eight years of President Obama's "post-racial" reign have wrought. The weekend…
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Votes Count, Rules Count More
The outcome of the wildest presidential election in our lifetimes will likely boil down to the rules…
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Liberals Crave Monopoly on Political Speech
Should private citizens be banned from airing documentaries critical of Hillary Clinton before Election…
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Last Chance to Get Rid of Obamacare
This election is a referendum on the Affordable Care Act. Almost everyone in America is affected, and…
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A Fifth Clinton Presidency?
I keep hearing that Hillary Clinton would be "Obama's third term." The math is wrong. Barack…
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Has Economics Failed?
It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern California —…
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When Will Liberals Answer for Obamacare's Failures?
These days, there's been a lot of discussion about conservative media's culpability in creating unrealistic…
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"The Doomsday Clock, last adjusted in January, has not since moved any closer to forecasting global catastrophe. But media headlines over the course of 2026 have moved in that direction and are suggestive that midnight is drawing nearer.Silicon Valley companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, are warning that artificial intelligence -- renamed 'super intelligence' by President Trump's…[more]
 
 
— Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, Co-Founders of INTREP360
 
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?