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
Thoughts on “Health Care Reform”
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, September 17 2009
Rube Goldberg, the popular cartoonist of the 1920s and 1930s, fascinated and amused a nation by drawing phantasmagorically complex machines, made from all manner of disparate parts, to perform the simplest of tasks.  In Goldberg’s cartoons, no matter how unlikely, his machines worked. We are not the first to note that our federal government frequently seeks to emulate the complexity of Goldberg machines in legislation, to perform the simplest of tasks, but almost always with the opposite result – failure.  In no legislation ever proposed or enacted – and there have…
 
Taxpayers March on Washington, D.C.
Protests.  For decades, they have been the province of the political left.  Anti-war activists…
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Norman Borlaug – Losing a Legend
When 2009 rolls to a close about 100 days from now, we can expect the usual avalanche of encomiums for…
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Remembering Patriot Day
Not to stoke the fires for those of you lamenting being back in your office, but this should have been…
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Federal Regulators Repeatedly Failed to Stop Bernard Madoff - But Now Want Even More Control Over Our Lives?
The embarrassing saga of federal regulators’ failure to stop Bernard Madoff’s multibillion-dollar…
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This “New” ObamaCare Game Is for Suckers, Just Like the Old One
First, Obama and Company bought off the drug companies.  Then the hospitals. By the time they got…
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A Victory for Free Speech or More of the McCain?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. …
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California’s Warning for America
Americans in the other 49 states can be forgiven if they don’t understand what the big deal about…
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Anything You Can Do the Fed Can Do Better?
President Obama has now nominated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term as the head…
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Taking Stock of the Obama Revolution
During a press conference at April’s G-20 Summit in London, President Obama said, “I'm the…
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Obama’s Latest "Never Mind" - $2 Trillion Deficit Recalibration
Is Barack Obama capable of saying anything that Americans can trust? That question accrued…
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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?