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What We’re Reading Today: Impeachment Duds, Assange Charges Dropped, Larry Summers Doesn’t Love Liz … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye …

Impeachment

Partisan Impeachment Inquiry Imperils Democracy — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy

Volker, Morrison Testimony Destroys Case For Impeachment — Tristan Justice, The Federalist

Vindman Exaggerated Resume In Prepared Congressional Statement — Tristan Justice, The Federalist

World

Europe Backs Iranian Nuclear Breakout — Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone

Sweden Dropping Rape Charges Against Assange — Jazz Shaw, Hot Air

The Persecution of Christians, Sept 2019 — Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone

EU Will Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects In 2022 — Nada Bashir, CNN

Beijing Committing Ethnic Cleansing & Lying About It — Helen Raleigh, The Federalist

Election 2020

Liberal Economist Larry Summers Blasts Warren’s Tax Proposals — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC

‘Sorry Mayor Pete, But We Don’t All Look Alike’ — Kia Morgan-Smith, The Grio

Leon Cooperman: Warren’s Wealth Tax ‘Probably Unconstitutional’ — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC

Brookings Scholar: Biden ‘Woefully Out Of Step’ On Marijuana — Chloe Aiello, Cheddar

Warren Mulls Universal Basic Income — Hannah Bleau, Breitbart

National Security

Pentagon, NATO Warn EU About Defense Spending — Paul McLeary, Breaking Defense

FBI: Chicago college student Tried To Write Code For ISIS — Grace Hauck, USA Today

Law & Order

Georgia Teen Arrested For Plotting Attack On Predominately Black Church — Daniel Uria, UPI

What FBI Crime Statistics Tell Us (And Don’t) — James Davidson, The Hill

Misc

Clinton Foundation Bleeding Money With No Clintons In High Office — Thomas Lifson, American Thinker

French Nun Barred From Care Home After Refusing To Give Up Her Habit — TheLocal.fr


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