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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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Real Danger of the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty Is in the Interpretation, Not the Text
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 19 2012
Ever heard of transnational legal theory?  If the Obama Administration gets its way, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty being negotiated in New York this month could become the kind of international legal document that transnational judges inside the United States will use to gut the Second Amendment.  One of the leading American lawyers in the transnational movement is former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh.  While at Yale, Koh published an academic article titled, “Agora: The United States Constitution and International Law: International Law as Part of Our Law.” …
 
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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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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?