What We’re Reading Today: Buying Unicorns, Leaving LA, ABC’s Shame … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Election 2020

These Democratic presidential candidates could be the next political casualties  — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy

Dems Decide Now Is the Perfect Time to Go Full Circular Firing Squad — The Daily Beast

Bernie Sanders Blames Apple for Silicon Valley’s Government-Created Housing Crisis — Reason

Medicare Fantasies For All

Ex-Obama Official: Warren’s Medicare for All Like Trying to ‘Buy a Unicorn’ With a Unicorn — Breitbart

The French Press: Elizabeth Warren’s Fantastical Potpourri of Absurd Assumptions and Outright Falsehoods  — The Dispatch

Impeachment Follies

Inside Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Game Plan  — New York Times

Ex-envoy denied Trump linked Ukraine meeting to push for investigations, transcripts show — Fox News

Envoy Revises Testimony to Describe Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine — New York Times

Good News

U.S. Tells U.N. It Will Begin Pulling Out of Paris Climate Treaty — AP

The Iron Pyrite State

Almost Half of CA Republicans May Flee State Over Liberal Policies — Washington Examiner

Economy            

DNC chair Tom Perez fumbles badly when Univision host points out how Trump economy has benefited Hispanics — American Thinker

Media Bias

ABC admits sitting on Jeffrey Epstein story after Project Veritas leaks video of furious anchor — Washington Times

Common Sense 101

Free stuff update: Study finds that free public college will leave 86% of students worse off — American Thinker

Pardoy (?)

Emma Watson says she’s ‘very happy’ being ‘self-partnered’ — USA Today

Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out — Babylon Bee

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