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What We’re Reading Today: Impeachment Follies, Cauliflower Colonialism, Border Wall Confusion … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

National Security

Dem Leaders Side With Iran as Trump Admin Seeks to Counter Terror Regime โ€” Washington Free Beacon

Senior Iranian legislator calls for direct talks with U.S. in Iraq or Qatarย โ€” Al Jazeera

What did Huawei do to land in such hot water with the US? โ€” CNN Business

Huawei CEO: Conflict with U.S. โ€˜Inevitableโ€™ Because We Want to โ€˜Stand at the Top of the Worldโ€™ โ€” Breitbart

China Surveillance Tycoons Lose Billions From Threat of U.S. Sanctions โ€” Bloomberg

U.S. Considering Expanding Blacklist of Chinese Companies โ€” Wall Street Journal

Impeachment Follies

Nancy Pelosi ‘isn’t going to be able to hold off’ impeachment push from inside her party’ senior House Dem says โ€” Fox News 

Pelosi: Trump ‘cover-up’ could be ‘impeachable offense’ โ€” The Hill

Pelosi employs committee chairs to tamp down calls for Trump impeachment โ€” The Hill

Dems Tied to Obamaโ€™s Pro-Iran โ€˜Echo Chamberโ€™ Spread Terror Regimeโ€™s Anti-Trump Talking Points โ€” Washington Free Beacon

โ€˜Cover-upโ€™ accusation ends Trump, Democratsโ€™ cease-fire โ€” Washington Times

Dems Mull Subpoena After Mueller Refuses To Testify Publicly Before Congress โ€” ZeroHedge

Censure of a President as alternative to impeachmentย โ€” Congressional Research Service

Immigration

Inslee signs bill making Washington a sanctuary state โ€” The Hill

Trump Administration Pushes Back On Claim They’ve Built Less Than 2 Miles of Wall โ€” Daily Caller

‘Climate Change’

Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees’ Call To Respond To Climate Change โ€” BuzzFeed

Global Warming: It Can Do Anything! โ€” John Hinderaker, Powerline

Big Tech

Google stored plain-text passwords on its servers for 14 years โ€” PC World

Twitter co-founder calls President Trump โ€˜master of the platformโ€™ โ€” CNN

Misc

Brexit bungling dooms British PM Theresa Mayย โ€” James Tapsfield, Daily Mail

South And West Continue Rapid Growth, According To New Population Data โ€” NPR

Should the Electoral College Be Eliminated? 15 States Are Trying to Make It Obsolete โ€” New York Times

Calif. AG persecutes undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthoodย โ€” Amanda Prestigiacomo, Daily Wire

Award Show Surprise! Boos Meet De Niroโ€™s Anti-Trump Screed โ€” Hot Air

AOC says growing cauliflower is โ€˜colonial โ€” Daily Mail

Beto O’Rourke’s CNN town hall ranks near the bottom in ratings โ€” Washington Examiner

Pay to play, the Democrat way. Now it’s Elijah Cummings โ€” Monica Showalter, American Thinker


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