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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...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="668"] Biden Versus Trump on Inflation[/caption]

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President – The Nation Is in Shambles
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, August 04 2010
The following birthday message to President Obama from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi was mistakenly posted to WikiLinks by an absent-minded congressional staffer.  August 4, 2010 Happy Birthday, Mr. President!  We in Congress hope the occasion of the 49th anniversary of your arrival in America goes much smoother than the rapid drawdown of troops in Iraq.  Or, for that matter, the (somewhat) surge in Afghanistan.  It’s hard to see how it wouldn’t.  Unlike those poor unfortunate souls, you don’t need a well-functioning central government to enjoy your…
 
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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?