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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 Drive-by Smears of Clarence Thomas Never End
By David Harsanyi
Saturday, December 23 2023
Most Clarence Thomas hit pieces can't stand up to perfunctory scrutiny. But the newest doesn't even make any sense. In a new five-person-bylined article, anti-Supreme Court outfit ProPublica takes a decades-old offhand complaint the justice made about his salary and spins it into a nefarious conspiracy. In 2000, Thomas apparently groused about his pay to "vocal conservative" Rep. Cliff Stearns. (The justice was hardly alone. It was a big issue in the 2000s.) This interaction, we are informed, "set off a flurry of activity across the judiciary and Capitol Hill." By "flurry…
 
Congress, Here Are Two Bipartisan Gift Ideas for Our Children
As the festive season approaches, with its twinkling lights and merry carols, the item topping my Christmas…
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The Tyranny of the Phillips Curve
Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation. Write it on the blackboard 100 times. For decades…
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The Profiteering Migrant-Industrial Complex
This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams warned of "extremely painful" cuts to city services…
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Let's Be Clear – This Is About Joe Biden, Not Hunter Biden
When James Comer wondered on CNN whether special counsel David Weiss had indicted Hunter Biden on nine…
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CFIF to FCC: Latest Proposed 'Net Neutrality' Rule Fails as a Matter of Objective Market Realities and Violates First Amendment
The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today submitted the following Comment in opposition to the Federal…
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Biden Administration Thuggishly Seeks “March In” Power to Seize Private Drug Patents
"Nice invention you’ve got there.  Be a shame if someone marched in and seized it from…
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Congress Will Need a New Idea in 2024. Will It Choose a Good One?
With U.S. government revenues rising, 2023 might have been a good year to get America's post-COVID-19…
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Give Us Educated, Skilled Immigrants Yearning to Support Themselves
When Emma Lazarus wrote her famous line in 1883, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…
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As Trump Lead Widens, Prosecutors Step Up Pursuit
Two things are true: One, former President Donald Trump's polling – nationally, in key…
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Why Does Washington Want to Destroy America's 'Magnificent 7'?
Nothing exemplifies America's tech industry dominance in the global economy more than the meteoric rise…
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Notable Quote   
 
"As we watch public buildings, stores, and places of worship go up in smoke in France, we wonder if it could happen here. The reality is that while youth in France suffer far higher unemployment, approaching 20%, our youth here have never had more education, better technology, greater opportunity, or higher living standards. And yet many are souring on America.The number of young college graduates…[more]
 
 
— Mark Penn, Pollster, and Andrew Stein, Former New York City Council President
 
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?