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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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How Biden's Pardons Normalize Abuse of Power
By David Harsanyi
Friday, January 24 2025
As expected, Joe Biden handed out 10-year blanket pardons to his corrupt family, which had profited in the millions from influence-peddling schemes.  The venality is breathtaking. The corruption is one thing. But pardons he gave government officials like Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and others has create an unprecedented moral hazard that will long outlive Biden. Ponder the long-term consequences of blanket amnesty for political allies. It's difficult to imagine anything could incentivize criminality and abuse of power more than knowing a president will simply…
 
Biden’s Parting Insult: More Killer Drug Price Controls
In its reckless departure from the White House amid a flurry of unseemly pardons and executive orders…
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Renewing Trump Tax Cuts Crucial to America's Economic Strength
The Trump tax cuts are set to expire later this year, and that poses a real challenge for policymakers…
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Trump Battles Globalism in Public Health
Good riddance to the World Health Organization – more aptly called the Woke Health Oligarchy.…
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Trump Inaugurates a New Era
Breathtaking: There's no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump's second inaugural…
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Jack Smith, The Prosecutor Who Would Never Admit What He Was Doing
President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window.…
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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. NASHVILLE…
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Remember the Lessons of Biden’s Disastrous Presidency
This week marks the milestone end of the Biden/Harris administration, and for beleaguered Americans and…
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The Only Path Leading All the Way Out of Our Inflation Quagmire
The Federal Reserve's premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the…
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Europe Takes a Bite Out of America's Apple
Envy is an ugly thing – one of the seven deadly sins. Europeans have long been dripping…
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LA's Devastating Lesson for Blue Cities Everywhere
New Yorkers, Chicagoans, Denverites and other blue-city residents should feel scared as they watch Los…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Apocalyptic global warming predictions of doom have long been fashionable, quasi-religious beliefs of 21st-century liberalism. But after the recent wildfires that have devastated the state, some California Democrats will be clinging to climate change as a matter of political survival.The epic incompetence demonstrated both by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during the crisis isn…[more]
 
 
— Jonathan S. Tobin, a Senior Contributor to The Federalist and Columnist for Newsweek
 
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