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What We’re Reading: Midterm Surprise, Loving Socialism, Canada Breaking Up … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

How Can Democrats Possibly Run On ‘Affordability’? — Manhattan Contrarian

California’s 2026 Billionaire Tax Act Is Unconstitutional — Hoover Institution

Data Center Proliferation Foretells Rapidly Falling Electricity Prices — John Tamny, Parkview Institute

Why the 2026 Midterms Might Fool Us All — HotAir

Price Controls Don’t Work. So Why Do So Many Democrats and Republicans Love Them? — Veronique de Rugy

College Students in U.S. Prefer Socialism to Capitalism, Survey Finds — Washington Free Beacon

There’s no defending Tucker Carlson — Washington Examiner

Will Canada Break Apart? — Power Line

Beijing’s Useful Idiots: Germany, California and the Green Road to Chinese Supremacy — Substack

U.S. September ‘Heat’ Was No Record … Many Records Set Decades Ago — Watts Up With That?

Ground beef imports are a no-win plan for consumers, producers — Pacific Research Institute

Abdul El-Sayed’s big, unearned ego might cost him Michigan — New York Post

Mamdani’s October 7 Smear — Free Press

Rubio: Only The Christian West Could Build The ‘Greatest Civilization In The World’ — Federalist

From the River to the Sea? — RealClearReligion

Rand Paul releases new batch of Fauci diary entries: ‘Early-onset Trump derangement syndrome’ — Christian Post

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