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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

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Trump's Real Punishment
By Byron York
Wednesday, January 15 2025
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively nothing. Although Trump had been convicted of 34 felonies, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to what is called "unconditional discharge," which means no jail time, no probation, and no fine or other punishment.  The reason was practical. Merchan and Bragg would have been happy to send Trump to jail, but the fact that in a few days the defendant will become president of the United States…
 
“Net Neutrality” Suffers Fatal Blow in Court
Nothing symbolizes the outgoing Biden administration’s big-government incompetence, arrogance,…
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Where Did All the Fascism Talk Go?
On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, "Is there a single person in DC or media acting…
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Why America Is in So Much Trouble
Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in…
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Thinking Big as Trump, Congress Tackle Taxes
You can say what you want about Elon Musk, but he is able to pinpoint in a single tweet some of the most…
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Trump and Musk Are Right: Legal Immigrants a Boon to U.S. Economy
The media have been playing up the "civil war" inside the GOP between what Politico calls the…
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Another Biden Parting Outrage
On Monday morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of…
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Wishing for Santa-Like Efficiency in the USA
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who's been…
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10 New Ideas to Make America's Economy Great Again in 2025
Here's my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and…
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President Biden Should Follow the Rule of Law on U.S. Steel Deal
President Joe Biden recently declared that although he “[believes] in the justice system,”…
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The Obama Doctrine Is Dead
The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Most state 2025 legislative sessions kicked off last week or this week. The remaining states will have their sessions underway by early February. Louisiana is the only exception, and it is not scheduled to convene its legislature until April.During the legislative sessions, K-12 education will continue to be a common top policy area throughout the country. Efforts to enact and expand school choice…[more]
 
 
— Keri D. Ingraham, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, Director of the American Center for Transforming Education, and a Senior Fellow at Independent Women’s Forum
 
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