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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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Californians Don’t Need More Democracy, Just Leadership
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, March 09 2011
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to balance California’s budget through tax increases is based on a familiar – and flawed – theme:  Let the people decide.  The lynchpin of Brown’s proposal is to let voters choose whether to extend expiring tax increases for an additional five years.  On its face, the pitch looks like an appeal to popular sovereignty.  In reality, it is a smokescreen to neutralize Republican opposition and tilt the budget debate in favor of big-spending special-interest groups.  There are two steps to Governor Brown’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?