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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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Humiliating New Legal Defeat for Obama Administration, but Rule of Law Remains in the Balance
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 24 2014
You don't need a fancy legal degree to understand that Congress intended for every eligible American to have access to tax credits that would lower their healthcare costs, regardless of whether it was state officials or federal officials who were running the marketplace."  -White House spokesman Josh Earnest  "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."   -Chief Justice John Roberts    The Obama Administration suffered another humiliating judicial defeat this week, as the Court of Appeals for…
 
IRS, Immigration Scandals Are Destroying the Obama Administration’s Credibility
With the IRS scandal and immigration crisis revealing new depths of duplicity in the highest levels of…
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America’s Civic Failure: Have We Gotten What We Deserve?
Being a conservative — or, for that matter, any American with the decency to recoil at Barack Obama’s…
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"War on Women?" Federal Law Has Protected Contraceptives and Equal Pay for 50 Years
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act to "prohibit discrimination on account…
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Perry, Paul and the GOP’s Foreign Policy Future
What a difference a decade makes. Imagine if, in 2004 — with George W. Bush in the heat of a reelection…
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Obama’s Deferred Action and Human Trafficking Law Are a Toxic Mix
Facing blame for tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding across the border, the Obama administration…
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Obama in 2009: “You’ve Got Me.” Democrats Today: “Barack Obama? Never Heard of Him.”
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To Impeach… or Not?
When it comes to the subject of whether to impeach President Barack Obama, Republican sentiment is coalescing…
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“Innocent until proven guilty” is an unconditional canon within our legal system, right? …
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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?