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What We’re Reading Today

Some headlines that caught our eye.

North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, U.N. says — Reuters

North Korea fires ‘several new missiles’ as tensions flare with the West — UK Sun

China Can Take Your Picture From 28 Miles Away — MIT Technology Review

Barr is right, Mueller is wrong — Alan Dershowitz, The Hill

‘Disgusting’: Pompeo Slams Ilhan Omar’s ‘Unbelievable Ignorance’ On Venezuela — Ed Morrissey, HotAir

No One’s Condemned White Supremicists More Than Trump Has — Ann Coulter

California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns — The Hill

Is California holding hands with Putin under the table as Russia’s works to control energy? — CFACT

Skeptical scientist hijacks AOC Congressional climate hearing — Anthony Watts

Your Love Of Wine Is Driving ‘Climate Change’ Or Something — Pirate’s Cove

Enviro Group with Cal Poly SLO Posts ‘Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet’ — Katy Grimes, California Globe

MSNBC Celebrates Kids Skipping School For The Climate — Daily Caller

Want an Energy Revolution? — Mark P. Mills, City Journal

Taxpayers Can’t Dodge Bullet Train — Steven Greenhut, The American Spectator

Florida’s Health Care Deregulation Is a Win for Doctors, Patients, and Free Markets — Eric Boehm, Reason

‘Medicare For All’ Would Cost $32 Trillion — Charles Blahous, Mercatus Center

The power of economics — Donald Boudreaux, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Persecution of Christians is modern-day ‘genocide’ — Daily Mail

Anti-Semitism is nothing new at the New York Times — Thomas Lifson, American Thinker


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