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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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The Demand for Villains
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, January 26 2016
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.  The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more important things than Academy Awards and in places more important than Hollywood, including the Supreme Court of the United States. In an earlier era, the groupthink assumption was that groups that did not succeed as often, or as well, were genetically inferior. But is our current groupthink…
 
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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?