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...

[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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Clinton’s “New College Compact” Is “No Child Left Behind” for Higher Ed
By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, August 13 2015
Political scandal always makes for more salacious news than arguments over mere public policy, so word this week that Hillary Clinton’s trove of personal e-mail during her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State contained highly classified material was bound to dominate headlines. Which is a shame, really. Because the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s announcement Monday of a “New College Compact” deserves more scrutiny than it’s now likely to get, apart from a few editorials and second-day analysis stories. Here’s the gist of Clinton’s proposal: Loans…
 
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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]
  
 
— Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor of City Journal
 
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?