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What We’re Reading Today: Media Hypocrisy, Lights Out On Solar Scheme, Liz Warren’s Plan For A Housing Shortage … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Impeachment

Dershowitz: Even If All The House Allegations Fit, The Senate Must Acquit โ€” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

Hypocritical โ€˜Newsโ€™ Media Have Done a Complete Flip-Flop on Impeachment โ€” NewsBusters

Victor Davis Hanson: Holding The Trump Card โ€” Hoover Institution interview

Impeachment Diary Preview: The Spectacle Awaits โ€” Town Hall

Energy

Note to U.S. politicians โ€“ Oil and gas is an International industry โ€” Ronald Stein, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

These hacking groups are eyeing power grids โ€” ZD Net

Another Expensive Solar Scheme Bites the Dust โ€” The American Thinker

General Derangement

Elizabeth Warren: U.S. Will Build No New Houses or Buildings Unless Carbon Neutral โ€” Washington Free Beacon

Student Govt. at Dickinson College Votes to Ban Israeli Hummus to be More โ€˜Inclusiveโ€™ โ€” Legal Insurrection

This Is Your Life on Climate Change โ€” The Atlantic

Misc

The World Is Drowning In Debt Because It’s Drowning In Production โ€” John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools โ€” Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek

17 Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Tyranny, Liberty, and Rights โ€” Gary Galles, Foundation for Economic Education

Against Tribal America: Racialism, from any side of the political spectrum, is a recipe for disaster โ€” Joel Kotkin, City Journal

At tense Virginia rally, demonstrators reject extremists, defend law-abiding gun owners โ€” NBC News

Antifa Infiltrator? Gun Rally Goers Turn on Protester Who Suggests Violence โ€” PJ Media

On the Climate Road to Serfdom โ€” WattsUpWithThat

Trump-Greta Showdown Looms As Climate Dominates Agenda At Davos โ€” ZeroHedge


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