I & I Editorial BoardSome headlines that caught our eye.
Baltimore
Baltimore Rat Infestation Is So Bad They Made A Documentary About It 2 Years Ago — Daily Caller
CNN Anchor Seems to Think the Word ‘Infested’ Is Racist When Trump Says It — PJ Media
Sanders Heaps Scorn on Trump for the Very Same Thing That He Himself Said About Baltimore — LifeZette
Election 2020
ABC Poll: Mueller-Mas A Total Wash For Impeachment — Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
House Dem predicts impeachment bid will fail, make 2020 victory ‘very difficult‘ — Fox News
Trump Takes Fresh Aim at Nancy Pelosi for Her ‘Failing’ California District — PoliZette
De Blasio staffers reportedly think White House bid is ‘a joke’ — Fox News
Economy/Economics
Strong U.S. Economy Doesn’t Bode Well for Democrats — Fox News
Nobody Knows The Troubles You’ve Seen — Powerline
Minimum Wage Is Not About Helping The Poor, It’s A Boon To Organized Labor — John Steele Gordon, Commentary
Capitalism Isn’t The Reason We’re Unhappy — Mises Wire
Inflation Caps Are Price Controls By Another Name — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes
Immigration
Trump Notches Another Victory on Immigration — PJ Media
Evidence That Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy Is Working — Hot Air
Think Tanks
Overbearing Regulations Are Slowly Killing Restaurants — Reason
Major Automakers Cave to California on Trump Auto Rule — Competitive Enterprise Institute
Misc
The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins — Peggy Noonan
AOC’s Cunning Ploy To Mainstream Eco-Fascism In America — Climate Change Dispatch
Blown Away By Wind Farm Capacity Versus Actual Output — Eurasia Review
Miss Dowd Is Next At The Guillotine — Don Surber
Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America? — American Thinker
Trump Supports Labeling Antifa A ‘Major Organization Of Terror’ — Daily Caller
Boris Johnson forms “war cabinet” to prepare for no-deal Brexit — Axios
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