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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Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary: The Best Conservatives Can Hope For?
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, December 19 2012
This week the White House let the press know that President Barack Obama is considering Chuck Hagel, the former Republican Senator from Nebraska, to be the next Secretary of Defense.  The trial balloon touched off an interesting debate among conservatives and libertarians about whether to support the choice.  The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is cheering on Obama to pick Hagel because of the Vietnam veteran’s skepticism over foreign interventions, and openness to “paring down” the Pentagon’s budget.  In a speech to the non-partisan Atlantic Council…
 
Louisiana Education Reform: Making Government Work “Public Service” Once More
Underneath the fights that have raged in recent years over the future of public employment – from…
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Right to Work: If Unions Benefit Workers, Why Must They Compel Membership?
In my former life as a labor attorney, I occasionally posed a question that union representatives across…
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Fiscal Gap Worse Than Fiscal Cliff
Negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff are understandably focusing on whether to cut or raise taxes and…
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Ben Franklin’s Conservative Economic Wisdom
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The Constitutional and Historical Foundations of Copyright Protection
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Bob Costas is perfectly free to unleash his shopworn leftist views upon audiences who’d probably…
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With all the attention centered on the fallout in the federal budget should President Barack Obama and…
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For decades now, Republicans have championed the vague idea of budget savings while fearfully shying…
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Public Unions, Collective Bargaining Drive California’s Deficit
Flush with an estimated $6 billion in new annual tax revenues after voters passed Proposition 30, California…
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“Fiscal Cliff?” Don’t Liberals Constantly Claim Fealty to Clinton-Era Rates?
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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?