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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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“I Did That!” Left Begins to Blame Biden for Inflation
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, May 19 2022
As the cavalcade of national crises lengthens, Joe Biden increasingly casts himself as a modern-day King Canute.   Canute, who lived from 995 to 1035 and ruled Denmark, Norway and England, was widely adored as a wise king who preserved order.  According to legend, however, his courtiers’ fawning reached such excess that he decided to teach them a lesson by commanding the seas to halt their rise.  When tides continued their advance and Canute’s orders obviously proved futile, he turned to his adoring followers and announced, "Let all men know how empty and worthless…
 
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2022 Index of Economic Freedom: Biden Drags U.S. to All-Time Low of 25th
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Imagine the Unimaginable
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next…
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Biden's Food-flation
Going food shopping feels like getting punched in the gut. You pick up a whole roasting chicken, hoping…
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Hunter Biden's $2 Million 'Sugar Brother'
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WTO Targets U.S. Drug Patents, and the Biden Administration Plots Surrender
Intellectual property (IP) rights – patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets – have…
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Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers
Schools are becoming indoctrination factories, trying to turn children against their country and their…
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Crony Capitalists Propose a Carbon Tax to … Reduce Energy Costs?
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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   

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