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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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John Lott: More Guns, Still Less Crime
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 22 2010
“I would ask gun control advocates one question:  name a single place in the entire world where murder rates fell after gun control laws were passed.” That is the powerful challenge from economist Dr. John Lott, Jr., who was kind enough to discuss with CFIF the third edition release of his tectonic book More Guns, Less Crime.  Over a decade has passed since More Guns, Less Crime was released in 1998, immediately remaking the gun rights debate landscape.  Lott, who brought an economist’s empiricism to a debate saturated in passion but short on probative data, proposed…
 
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As the headlines remind us daily, the Obama Administration is quickly moving towards its halfway mark.…
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"The Transportation Department released a final rule Monday that aims to 'reset' the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's fuel economy standards, rolling back substantial required mileage increases for automakers' fleets implemented under the Biden administration.Dubbed 'Freedom Means Affordable Cars' by the department, the 892-page rule will impact Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards…[more]
  
 
— Kelly Livingston, Roll Call
 
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