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Image of the Day: Climate Change Causing Wildfires? No.

From our friends at Unleash Prosperity, another fantastic visual aid to rebut the predictable default rationalization that climate change, rather than incompetent leadership, underlies wildfires in California or elsewhere:

 

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January 17, 2025 • 07:50 AM
The Upside, Risks and Limits of DOGE

The Upside, Risks and Limits of DOGE

No amount of discretionary cuts or anti-waste initiatives, no matter how worthy they are, will solve our long-term debt crisis.

It's Time to End the EV Racket

It's Time to End the EV Racket

Most of the energy that powers them is derived from fossil fuels. The manufacturing of an EV has a negligible positive benefit for the environment, if any.

MAGA – Making the Army Great Again

MAGA – Making the Army Great Again

The early resurgence underway in Army recruitment, however, marks a welcome reversal from the failures of the previous administration as the U.S. adopts a more muscular foreign policy against adversaries.

The Biden Economic Hangover

The Biden Economic Hangover

Joe Biden, imagining himself to be FDR, did enormous damage to Americans' standard of living. They will be suffering a Biden hangover for a long time to come.

CFIF Launches New Ad Highlighting Trump Administration’s Support for Certificate of Need Repeal

CFIF Launches New Ad Highlighting Trump Administration’s Support for Certificate of Need Repeal

CON laws ‘represent one of the worst’ anti-competitive healthcare regulations.

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What Makes a Jurisdiction a Judicial Hellhole?

Tiger Joyce, President of the American Tort Reform Association, discusses the latest Judicial Hellholes report, the economic impact of lawsuit abuse, the ramifications of third-party litigation funding, and the looming legal battle over plastics[more]
Second Amendment, Telecom, IP Protection and More

Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recent decision regarding handgun sales, what it means for outstanding challenges to the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and advancements that may be made with the new administration[more]
The Trump Administration and Push for a Smaller, More Limited Government

Phil Kerpen, Founder and President of American Commitment, discusses top of the agenda items for the new Trump Administration, how deregulation can drastically improve the lives of Americans and promote economic growth, and why the federal government should be firing and not hiring[more]
Greenland: President Trump’s Foreign Policy Target

Quin Hillyer, Newspaper Columnist, Writer and Editor, discusses the rationale behind President Trump’s efforts to “purchase” Greenland from Denmark, the strategic importance of the island, whether Trump’s success sends a message to Canada and/or the Panama Canal, and how the media and citizenry both are[more]
A Message to Capitol Hill from Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, discusses SBE Council’s 2025 agenda for the new Congress and administration, including a wide range of policy and legislative initiatives that will help entrepreneurs and small businesses better compete for customers and workers[more]
Regulatory Round Up and the Latest on the U.S. Steel/Nippon Steel Deal

Ryan Young, Senior Economist and Trade Policy Expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses last year’s regulatory highlights (and low points), the regulatory outlook for 2025, including the potential impact of DOGE on the volume of federal regulations, and President Biden’s baseless decision[more]
Is Democracy a Possibility in Syria?

David Adesnik, Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses what’s at stake for the United States in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime, what to expect from the new interim government, what it means for Iran, Israel, Russia and others, and whether we are witnessing[more]
SCOTUS and 'The Miseducation of America's Elites'

Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute, discusses the unprecedented but not unconstitutional idea of President-elect Trump nominating Supreme Court justices prior to a vacancy, the likelihood of an upcoming retirement of a current justice, the current caseload[more]
Notable Quote   
 
"In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington's permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump's acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday informing it that the Justice Department will no longer defend the constitutionality of federal laws that limit the ability of the president to remove the heads of 'multimember regulatory commissions…[more]
 
 
— Hans von Spakovsky, a Senior Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation
 
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