FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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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Economy: Trump Achieves What Obama Apologists Said Was Impossible
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, March 07 2019
If Trump thinks he can get more than 3% economic growth, he’s dreaming.  
—Los Angeles Times economic columnist Michael Hiltzik, May 19, 2017  Expect a lot of boasting, but 3% growth is still nonsense. 
—New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, January 28, 2018  Apparently, the budget forecasts that U.S. economic growth will rise to 3.0 percent because of the administration’s policies – largely its tax cuts and perhaps also its regulatory policies.  Fair enough, if you believe in tooth fairies and ludicrous supply-side economics. …
 
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High-Tax Governors Scapegoat Tax Reform for the “Diabolical” Consequences of Their Own Policy Choices
Should low-tax states like Tennessee, Texas or Florida subsidize high-tax states like New York, California…
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Of all the defective characteristics that define Second Amendment restrictionists, the most detestable…
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"While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you've ever seen.Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugly precisely…[more]
  
 
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Liberty Poll   

Although Canada ultimately has much more to lose than the U.S. and does play fast and loose on some trade issues, given all other current concerns, is this the time to escalate a tariff war?