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...

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Illinois Joins the Other 49 States, Finally Ends Blanket Prohibition on Right to Keep and Bear Arms
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 11 2013
This week, Illinois ended its dubious distinction as the final state prohibiting citizens from carrying concealed firearms.  The change was compelled by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which ruled last year that Illinois’s draconian restrictions on the individual right to keep and bear arms amounted to a violation of the Second Amendment.  In that ruling, the Court gave state authorities until July 9 of this year to revise its regulations.  That revision didn’t come easy.  Over a month ago, the state legislature passed a law instructing…
 
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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?