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By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – June 6, 2018 Both Mexico and the European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products as President Donald Trump prepares for potentially confrontational talks with allies at the Group of Seven summit. The G-7 gathering will take place Friday and Saturday in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Trump has pushed 25 percent tariffs on…

Mexico and the European Union have retaliated against the U.S. for the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Source: 4 Key Points in Tariffs Debate as Trump Heads to G-7 Summit

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recently said that trade negotiations will continue even if newly imposed U.S. tariffs are in place. Then he added, “God knows, there are plenty of tariffs the EU has on us.” President Trump echoed that complaint in a recent tweet: “If we charge a country ZERO to sell their…

By: Joshua Zumbrun & Vivian Salama – wsj.com – June 6, 2018 President Donald Trump, heading into this weekend’s meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, has signaled his intention to continue pursuing an aggressive trade agenda even if it comes at the expense of America’s standing in the world. The “world trade system is a mess,” Mr. Trump’s…

By: Ryan T. Anderson – wsj.com – June 6, 2018 A 7-2 win at the Supreme Court is a big deal. But some advocates of religious freedom minimized the importance of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, saying it was a narrow ruling that applies only to the manifest hostility to religion the commission showed in adjudicating Jack Phillips’s…

By: Jeremiah Poff – dailysignal.com – June 06, 2018 A major conservative-libertarian advocacy group has thrown its support behind President Donald Trump’s call for canceling more than $15 billion in spending as a good first step in reining in the federal budget. Americans for Prosperity praises the president’s rescission request, which would claw back up to $15.3 billion in appropriated…

By: Chad Pergram – foxnews.com – June 6, 2018 A coalition of some Republicans and nearly all Democrats is attempting to go around House GOP leaders and force a debate later this month on a series of immigration bills against the wishes of GOP leaders. How do they do it? The mechanism is called a “discharge petition.” A discharge petition…

By: Daniel Horowitz – conservativereview.com – May 29, 2018 “The liberal approach of coddling criminals didn’t work and never will. Nothing in our Constitution gives dangerous criminals a right to prey on innocent, law-abiding people.” ~Ronald Reagan, Feb. 18, 1984 The cool kids in Washington promoting the Michael Dukakis crime agenda have a clever way of enticing conservatives to support…

  By: Hank Berrien – dailywire.com – June 6, 2018 A tale of two Midwestern states: In 2014, Minnesota started implementing minimum wage increases, while Wisconsin did not. Minnesota instituted phased-in hourly increases on August 1 of each year through 2016, and indexed them to inflation based on economic conditions beginning January 2017. At the beginning of 2018, Minnesota’s minimum…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 5, 2018 A day after the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, I find myself in an uncomfortable position on two counts. First, I’m more optimistic and pleased than I was yesterday (I’m far more comfortable with cynicism). And, second, I find myself disagreeing with some of the smartest folks in conservatism. Andrew McCarthy has an…

By: Tom Gilson – stream.org – June 5, 2018 It only took moments on Monday for LGBT activists to roll out their bogus talking points again. All three appeared like clockwork in MSNBC’s inevitable LGBT reaction story on Monday afternoon. They aren’t bogus because I disagree with them. They’re bogus because they’re false, irrational, deceitful and manipulative. And yet they…