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What We’re Reading: Trump Gets The Nobel, End Of Green Energy, Christians Persecuted … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gifts Trump her Nobel Peace Prize — Daily Mail

Drawing a Legal Line on DEI Coercion — City Journal

Gun Rights Group Calls Out Failed Canadian Buyback — Bearing Arms

If We Don’t Want the Chinese To ‘Lap’ Us, Let Them Sell To Us — John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

Russia’s Oil Revenue Slump Hits Budget Where It Hurts — Oilprice.com

The End of Green Energy: Fossil fuels are still king — Joel Kotkin, UnHerd

Did they forget to mention 2025 was 3,000th hottest year of Human civilization? — JoNova

Shutdowns should be painful for members of Congress, too — Sen. John Kennedy, The Hill

The return of the primitive: Minneapolis — Power Line

The ICE uproar is a conspiracy calculated to fool Americans — New York Post

Inching Toward Civil War … — HotAir

The Left’s Fake Wars and the Addiction to False Pretexts — American Greatness

There Is No Virtue Left to Signal: Why the Clintons are hiding from Congress — American Spectator

Karoline Leavitt Absolutely Nukes Reporter Who Tried to Paint ICE as Violent: ‘You’re a Left-Wing Hack’ — Western Journal

More Than 388 Million Christians Worldwide Face ‘High Levels’ of Persecution — OSV News

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