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A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column titled, “What margarine can teach us about climate change.” Inspired by a book excerpt in National Geographic, that column summarized just one example … Source: Scaremongering Isn’t Science

A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column titled, “What margarine can teach us about climate change.” Inspired by a book excerpt in National Geographic, that column summarized just one example … Source: Scaremongering Isn’t Science

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released her prescription drug price-control legislation on Sept. 19, and the best thing we can say about it is that it probably won’t pass the Senate and become law. … Source: Medicare Has Tried Price Controls–and Failed

A majority of House members have now said they support an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to a New York Times survey and public statements. On Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House will begin such an inquiry. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/trump-impeachment-congress-list.html

Hundreds of pages of never-released memos and documents – many from inside the American team helping Burisma to stave off its legal troubles – conflict with Joe Biden’s narrative about the … Source: Solomon: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story | TheHill

By: Eliana Dockterman – time.com – September 25, 2019 A child opens a box. He starts jumping and screaming with joy—not an unusual sound in the halls of Mattel’s headquarters where researchers test new toys. But this particular toy is a doll, and it’s rare for parents to bring boys into these research groups to play with dolls. It’s rarer…

By: Jack Crowe & Zachary Evans – nationalreview.com – September 26, 2019 The House Intelligence Committee has released the whistleblower complaint on suspected abuse of power by President Trump. The complaint, which has been redacted, can be found here. Citing multiple White House officials, the unnamed whistleblower accuses President Trump of attempting “to solicit interference from a foreign country” during his July…

By D’Ann Lawrence White, – patch.com – September 3, 2019 The conservative evangelical group, the Liberty Counsel, has filed a motion for summary judgment asking a federal court to permanently block the City of Tampa’s ordinance prohibiting licensed counselors from providing conversion therapy to minors. The Liberty Counsel claims the ordinance violates the right to free speech and unfairly imposes significant…

By: Mary Margaret Olohan – dailycaller.com – September 24, 2019 Planned Parenthood advised Hollywood on more than 150 productions since 2014 as part of an effort to influence the abortion dialogue, a director at the nonprofit said. The nation’s largest abortion provider is losing the abortion battle in Washington but is upping its game through Hollywood, freelance journalist Nora Caplan-Bricker…

By: Victor Davis Hansen – nationalreview.com – September 24, 2019 Let them lead by example before they lecture the country on carbon emissions, gun ownership, and ‘white privilege.’ One theme of the Democratic debates is collective furor — at whom or what is not always clear, other than at Americans who voted for Trump. Or perhaps at America itself for failing…

By: Bonchie – redstate.com – September 24, 2019 This is almost too good. Predictable, but still satisfying. For most of today, we’ve been inundated with impeachment fever among Democrats, the media, and some anti-Trump Republicans. This despite the fact that there was no evidence Trump did anything illegal or untoward in a phone call between he and the new Ukrainian president….