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What We’re Reading: The Trump Raid, Masks Don’t Work, Nixing Nitrogen … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Mar-a-Lago Raid

The FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid: It’s about the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information — National Review

FBI Raid of Trump’s Home a Double Standard of Justice — Alan Dershowitz, The Hill

Is Biden Trying to Goad the Right Into a Violent Reaction to Mar-a-Largo Search? — PJ Media

Questions swirl about what exactly the F.B.I. was looking for, and why. — New York Times

Judge who green-lit raid at Mar-a-Lago donated thousands to Obama — Fox News

House GOP Pledges Investigation Of DOJ With November Win After FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago ZeroHedge

The Trump Raid’s Most Transparent Lie Power Line

IRS Stormtroopers

Biden Puts IRS Funding Ahead of Military, Border Security — Real Clear Politics

Priorities: House progressives torpedo police-funding bill while adding 87,000 IRS agents — Hot Air

Economy

U.S. Productivity Posts Biggest Ever Annual Drop in Second Quarter — Yahoo News

Larry Summers Says Inflation Has Him ‘More Worried’ Following July Jobs Report. — Red State

Misc

Newsom is like Biden Ronald Stein, CFACT

Net Zero Is Not Just For Carbon Emissions – Now It’s Nitrogen Manhattan Contrarian

California: Home of the Unfree Pacific Research Institute

IRS Union Gives 100% of PAC Spending to Democrats Americans for Tax Reform

Masks Still Don’t Work City Journal

The authoritarian impulse Jeff Jacoby, Jewish World Review

What Are We Going to Do When Our Liberties Are Taken Again? Intellectual Takeout

Senate Democrats Understand Covid Tradeoffs Library of Economics and Liberty

Neo-Inflationist Supply-Siders Paint Ideology Into Tough Corner  John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

Mobile Homes Are a Crucial Source of Affordable Housing – Politicians Are Trying To Zone Them Out of Town Reason

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