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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ObamaCare: The Public Will Be Damned Only if We Allow it
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, March 11 2010
Sometimes a writer captures, with relatively few words, an understanding that humbles those of us who merely try. Such is the case with Michael Gerson, writing of ObamaCare in The Washington Post:  “Whatever the legislative fate of health reform – now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats – the reformers have failed in their argument.  Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president’s public standing…
 
President Bush Inherited His Share of “Messes,” Too
Imagine President George W. Bush slurring his predecessor Bill Clinton in the following manner during…
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Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, it was amidst an atmosphere of generalized transcendence. …
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SEIU’s Andy Stern: A Budget Vulture Feasting on the Public’s Nest Eggs
With annual federal budget deficits projected to top $1.6 trillion for the foreseeable future, President…
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The Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has a Charles Rangel problem.  All Democrats…
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Al Gore Emerges from Hiding, Calls Us a “Criminal Generation”
Somehow, it seems poetically just that Al Gore finally emerged from his snow-covered bunker just one…
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The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one…
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Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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“From Keynesian to Ponzian” – Obama’s Stimulus One Year Later
“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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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?