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What We’re Reading Today

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Consumer Spending Soars Most in Nearly a Decade, Inflation Stays Low — The Epoch Times

Biden solidifies frontrunner status — CNN

Media Elites Mock Trump Supporters at White House Correspondents’ Dinner — The Daily Caller

Chuck and Nancy return to White House with ‘big and bold’ list of liberal demands — The Washington Times

Steve Moore blows away carbon taxes — Town Hall

Terror attack in France foiled — Times of Israel

Israeli Ambassador Calls NYT ‘Cesspool of Hostility’— The Jerusalem Post

Pentagon Sending More Troops to Southwest Border — Newsmax

Dems want climate change, tax hikes in infrastructure deal — The Hill

Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy — American Digest

Trump wants to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terror group: report — Fox News

Biden calls for everyone having the choice to buy into Medicare — The Hill

AOC Defends the VA, Says It’s a ‘Myth’ that ‘All’ System Hospitals Are ‘Broken’ — National Review

National Rifle Association Unity: Wayne LaPierre Remains CEO, Carolyn Meadows New President — Breitbart

FBI Says It Thwarted A Planned Terrorist Attack By A Man In Los Angeles Area  — NPR 

Man Arrested for Allegedly Planning to Bomb White Nationalist Rally in Southern California — Wall Street Journal

Google parent’s shares dive as YouTube changes, competition hurt revenue — Thomson Reuters

O’Rourke: Scientists Say We Have Ten Years Left to Make ‘Bold Change’ on Climate — Brietbart

Beto O’Rourke Ran Targeted Facebook Ads in Mexico — Washington Free Beacon

Biden is the Canary in the Coal Mine for Today’s Feuding Democrats — Andrew Malcolm


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John Merline

Veteran journalist John Merline was Deputy Editor of Commentary and Opinion at Investor's Business Daily. Before IBD, he launched and edited the Opinion section of AOL News, and was a member of the editorial board of USA Today, where he continues to be a regular contributor. He’s been published in the Washington Post, National Review, Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Forbes, and numerous other publications. He is regular commentator on the One America News Network and on local talk radio. He got his start in journalism under the tutelage of M. Stanton Evans.

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