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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New Harvard Study: "A Troubling Divergence in the American Economy"
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 02 2014
What elements of American society boost our international competitiveness, and which ones weaken us?  In the real world, what works in America and what doesn't?  In our contemporary political climate, Americans of differing philosophies can argue until we're blue in the face about our various points of view.  It reaches the point where our disagreements often more closely resemble fanatical sports loyalties or flashing of gang signs than they do enlightened, substantive debate.  In such an environment, actual empirical studies and dispassionate surveys can provide much-needed…
 
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A new Government Accountability Office report says the primary agency charged with ObamaCare’s…
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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?