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What We’re Reading Today: Permanent Campaigns, Myth Busted, Sandmann Was Robbed … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Election 2020

Democrats’ Presidential Also-rans Could Be Key To Battle For The Senate In 2020 — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy

How Did The Presidential Campaign Get To Be So Long? — The Conversation

Free Stuff 2020 — John Stossel, Reason

Democrats Set To Show Off Socialism — The Hill

The Seven Dumbest Things Democrats Demand You Believe — American Spectator

Economy/Economics

The Myth Of American Middle-Class Stagnation — Donald J. Boudreaux, American Institute for Economic Research

If I Were A Corporate Shill … — Mises Institute

Trump Economy Is Booming – Great News For America, Bad News For Desperate Dems — Andy Puzder, Fox News

Immigration

Citizenship And American Identity — City Journal

Kamala Harris Contradicts Herself On Illegal Immigration — Fox News

No Salad Bowl: America Is Still A Melting Pot — The American Conservative

Nonsense

Chicago Teachers Union Makes Solidarity Trip To Venezuela — Wirepoints

A California Law Would Require Trump To Release Tax Returns — Forbes

Beto O’Rourke Proposes $500 Billion Dollar Plan to Address ‘Education Inequality’ — Legal Insurrection

Misc

Teacher Unions Endorse Politics And Power, Not Quality Education — Lance Izumi/Pacific Research Institute, Washington Times

Highly Productive People: Which Political Systems Nurture Them, Which Crush Them? — Intellectual Takeout

Empiricism and Dogma: Why Left and Right Can’t Agree on Climate Change — Quilette

The Adventures Of Boris: He infuriates Metropolitan Leftists And Other Elements Of The Moral-Peacocking Classes — Law & Liberty

Nicholas Sandmann Was Denied the Justice He Deserves — American Greatness

Should We Be Optimistic About The Future Of The United States? — Manhattan Contrarian

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