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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:

 

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="874"] Climate Change? No.[/caption]

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January 17, 2025 • 07:50 AM

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That '70s Show – Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter?
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, May 08 2024
Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade – the 1970s. For those who don't remember, the late 1970s under part-time President Gerald Ford and then much worse under President Jimmy Carter was one economic and national security setback after another.  The witches' brew of high inflation of 7% to 10% by 1979 and ever-increasing tax rates – which rose as high as 70% – drove the economy into a ditch. Real family incomes cratered under Carter because inflation rose so much faster than family…
 
Colleges Side With Radicals, Their Students Be Damned
The Left and their media allies want you to believe the protests roiling college campuses are spontaneous…
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The Insanity at the Heart of the Trump Trial
Perhaps the weirdest, and by far the most unjust, thing about former President Donald Trump's trial in…
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Taxpayers Are Subsidizing College Extremism
Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas "anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black…
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Hey, Joe: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid, not “Junk Fees”
If the adage “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” occasionally feels shopworn, it nevertheless…
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Will California Hobble the U.S. Railroad Industry?
American federalism is struggling. Federal rules are an overwhelming presence in every state government…
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Four Radical Reforms to Shrink the Federal Budget
It was nearly 50 years ago that a liberal Congress completely dominated by Democrat big spenders passed…
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Trusting China in Inviting Another Pandemic
It's one thing to die from natural causes. Worse, to die from a disease leaked by Chinese scientists…
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The 'Biden Bump' That Didn't Last Long
"The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden," the influential Democratic strategist…
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Joe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides of the Oct. 7 Debate
"I condemn the antisemitic protests ..." President Joe Biden told reporters after days of anti-Jewish…
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Drug Shortages Reach Record High Following Biden’s Price Controls
Want to find a rare point of intellectual consensus amid our stubborn ideological divisions?  …
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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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Do you believe that current consumer stress, fueled by inflation and evident in current credit card data, is signaling a significant financial crisis or just a temporary shallow economic period?