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What We’re Reading Today: McConnell Won’t Push Pause, Leftist Business Hoist On Min Wage Petard, Powell & Kudlow Got To Stop Meeting Like This…And More

Election 2020

Dems In Miami Won’t Be Lincoln Vs. Douglas — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy

Debate Absences Won’t Persuade McConnell To Postpone Senate Votes — Joe Perticone, Bus Insider

Biden’s 180 On Abortion Cost Him Support — Michael New, National Review

Democrat Bigwigs Fear Debates Will Devolve Into Horror Show — Holly Otterbein, Politico

2020 Dem Candidates Proud of Tax-Spend Label — Seth McLaughlin & S.A. Miller, Wash Times

World

Iran’s Rants Will Not Make Trump Change Strategy — Fred Fleitz, Fox

North Korea: U.S. Extending Sanctions a ‘Most Extreme Hostile Act’ — Hyonhee Shin & Jack Kim, Reuters

Econ

Sweet Irony: Leftist NYC Bookstore Shut Thanks To Min Wage Hike — Steven Hayward, Powerline

Trump Is Talking the Dollar Into Decline — John Tamny, Real Clear Markets

Kudlow & Powell’s Friendship Behind Closed Doors — Jennifer Jacobs & Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg

A Stimulus During Next Recession Could Be Disastrous — Larry Kummer, Seeking Alpha

Science

If ‘Greenland is catastrophically melting,’ how do alarmists explain NASA’s growing Greenland glacier?  — Anthony Watts, WattsUpWithThat

Is 5G Dangerous? — Simon Rockman, Forbes

Justice

Dershowitz: Dems Shooting Selves In Foot Having Mueller Testify — Charles Crietz, Fox

Neil Gorsuch’s Good Fight — David French, National Review

The Unlikely Obama-Russia-Manafort Connection — Josh Gerstein, Politico

The Left

Hollywood Celebs Act Out Mueller Report Live On Stage — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Wash Post

AOC’s Mini Me: Tiffany Caban, Queens DA In Waiting — Edith Honan & Kendall Karson, ABC

Immigration

Media Hiding Illegal Aliens’ Violent Crime Incidents — Dave Seminara, The Federalist

House Dems Claim To Find More Political Motives for Census Citizenship Question — Lauren Fox and Gregory Wallace, CNN

Misc

Peggy Noonan is tired of Trump winning— Don Surber

Why Beatles John & George’s Friendship Ended — Eric Schaal, Showbiz CheatSheet

Female Airline Pilots In Ireland Told: Have An Abortion Or Lose Your Job — Martin Barillas, LifeSite News


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