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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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Four Surprising Lessons from the Midterm Elections
By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 04 2010
By the time the midterm elections began to wrap up on Tuesday night, the entire affair was beginning to seem like old hat, especially to the reporters who had been monitoring the 2010 races for over a year. Saturation coverage was so ubiquitous that even the most historic outcomes of the race were treated as tired clichés.
 
Yes, Republicans had claimed over 60 seats (a net gain bigger than any since FDR’s Democrats lost 71 in 1938), but a few particularly jaded pundits wondered whether that constituted “a wave” when the most wall-eyed predictions had…
 
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Obama Betrays a Dream, Disappoints a Nation
In American politics, nothing is permanent. On election night this year, that should be the thought running…
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Where Do We Go From Here? An Immediate Agenda for a New Republican Congress
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“Dick Cheney is out of the hospital and back to raking in money defending torture and pre-emptive…
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Notable Quote   
 
"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?