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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...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="668"] Biden Versus Trump on Inflation[/caption]

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Should We Fear an Inexperienced President?
By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 17 2015
A CBS News/New York Times poll released earlier this week contains an amazing statistic: More than half of GOP voters’ first choice for their party’s presidential nomination is someone who has never held elected office before. Among them, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina win the support of 54 percent of the Republican electorate. The conventional wisdom is that this represents a distaste for professional politicians reaching a boiling point. There’s probably some truth to that. There’s also, however, a danger in over-reading these results. We still have four-and-a-half…
 
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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?