FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
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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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U.N. Threatens U.S. Medical Innovation...and Our Economy
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 22 2016
Ponder this lopsided statistic for a moment.  The United States, with just 4% of the world's population, generates 64.4% - nearly two-thirds - of all new prescription and biologic drug patents worldwide.  Our nearest individual competitor, Japan, accounts for a distant second at 10.7%, and China merely 0.2%.  The entire combined European Union produces 24.8%, or about one-third of what we create, with remaining developed nations accounting for only 6.0%.  That disparity isn't due to blind luck.  It's the direct result of America's current and historical standing as the…
 
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"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court…[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?