What We’re Reading Today: Whistleblower Shuts Up, Dem 2 Dissidents, More Tax Cuts … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye …

Whistleblower/Leaker

5 Whistleblower Facts — Tom Cleary, Heavy

Talks Halt Btw Whistleblower Lawyers & Schiff Staff — Steven Nelson, Wash Examiner

Just Another Leftist Trying To Overturn 2016 Election — Monica Showalter, AmThinker

Impeachment/Trump

The 2 Anti-Impeachment House Dems — Kerry Picket, Wash Examiner

A Presidential Fireside Chatscript? — Louis Casiano, Fox

Floor Vote May Have Changed Nothing — Brooke Singman, Fox

New York To Trump: Drop Dead — Doha Madani, NBC

Trump’s Audacious Defense — Stephen Collinson, CNN

Law & Order

Halloween In Chicago: 7-Year-Old Trick-Or-Treater Shot — Phil Helsel, NBC

Halloween In Los Angeles: 26% More Crime — KABC-TV

Econ/Spending

White House Talking More Tax Cuts — Erica Werner, Josh Dawsey & Jeff Stein, Wash Post

Senate Dems Block Defense Spending Over Trump Wall — Jordain Carney, The Hill

History

Ex-National Security Adviser Hadley: How Iraq War Started & Ended — Sarah Childress, PBS

House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston Admits To Extramarital Affairs (1998) — AP

When Reagan Attacked Syria — Micah Zenko, Council On Foreign Relations

The Democrats’ Border Wall, ‘The Tortilla Curtain,’ (1978-79) — Amy Townley, Texas State Historical Assn

Barry Goldwater Blasts Democrats’ $11 Billion ‘Impulsive, Massive, Politically-Motivated Tax‐Cut Gimmickery’ (1964) — NY Times

The Forgotten Opposition From The Left To JFK Promising The Moon — Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic

Whizzer White: The Liberal Supreme Court Justice Who Opposed Roe v Wade — Kate Stith, Yale Law

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