"Climate change is over. No, I'm not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers.

"Judged by deeds rather than words, most national governments are backing away from forced-marched decarbonization. You can date the arc of climate change as a policy priority from 1988, when highly publicized congressional hearings first elevated the issue, to 2018. President Trump's ostentatious withdrawal from the Paris Agreement merely ratified a trend long becoming evident.

"A good indicator of why climate change as an issue is over can be found early in the text of the Paris Agreement. The 'nonbinding' pact declares that climate action must include concern for 'gender equality, empowerment of women, and intergenerational equity' as well as 'the importance for some of the concept of 'climate justice.'' Another is Sarah Myhre's address at the most recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in which she proclaimed that climate change cannot fully be addressed without also grappling with the misogyny and social injustice that have perpetuated the problem for decades.

"The descent of climate change into the abyss of social-justice identity politics represents the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality. Climate alarm is like a car alarm -- a blaring noise people are tuning out."

"We are slowly appreciating over the last year that lying under oath was an Obama administration requisite for a high position in the intelligence community. FBI director Comey lied about the particular sequences of his investigation of the Clinton email scandal. He lied by omission to the president when, in his supposed Oval Office informative dissection of the Steele dossier, he failed to include the fact that it was a product of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC. Comey's various testimonies often cannot be reconciled with those of his deputy FBI director, Andrew McCabe, who was cited by the inspector general for lying.

"Comey warped a FISA-court request to spy on U.S. citizens, by deliberately withholding information from the court about the Steele dossier. Comey also has not been forthcoming about the insertion of an FBI informant into the 2016 Trump campaign. Comey has often lectured about the illegality and impropriety of leaking confidential government documents, though he later bragged about his own successful leak of such documents as a successful means of getting Special Counsel Robert Mueller appointed.

"Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan may prove to be the two most prevaricating officials in the history of any modern administration. Both have lied repeatedly while under oath to Congress, respectively, about their agencies' surveillance of American citizens, spying on Senate staffers, the U.S. drone program, and leaking the notorious Steele dossier. In their particular cases, as current media analysts, they have become completely unhinged over the reality that a crude Donald Trump was never so crude as either of them in their attempt to undermine the constitutional principle of telling the truth to Congress while under oath."

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"Google and its employees live better than almost any human beings in the world. They do so because they live in the freest and most opportunity-giving country in the world, the United States of America.

"That Google and its employees refuse to work on the military defense of their country is an expression of ingratitude (not to mention absence of patriotism) that is simply breathtaking.

"How did we produce such foolish and ungrateful people?

"They are the products of left-wing education and the left-wing media, and of living in the left-wing cocoon of Northern California and its tech industry.

"Google should be true to its convictions and change just one word of its original slogan from 'Don't be evil' to 'Don't fight evil.'"

"With a number of critical decisions set to be released by the Supreme Court this month, one in particular could have wide-ranging impact on our economy and on the very principle of federalism. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Court will decide whether to uphold its earlier decision that states cannot force businesses to collect and remit sales taxes unless the businesses has a physical presence in their state. A bad decision from the court -- as well as possible legislation from Congress -- would lead to Internet sales taxes that harm hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the nation and change the very face of the Internet economy.

"In 1992, the Court decided in Quill Corp vs. North Dakota that states do not have the power to impose sales tax burdens on businesses with no physical presence in their state. This important precedent has prevented states from being able to tax, audit or regulate businesses and individuals that do not reside in their state.State and local governments -- and some allies in Congress -- want to get their hands on as much revenue as possible and have tried to find a way to undo this precedent. The Wayfair decision will determine whether we continue this critical model -- as will subsequent decisions by Congress.

"An entrepreneur who starts an online business should not be turned into a national tax collector. There are currently over 10,000 sales tax jurisdictions in the United States. If an Internet sales tax goes through, these small businesses will now be forced to figure out and collect the taxes for all those different jurisdictions. As a former local and state official, I know firsthand how complicated these taxes can be. Certain products will qualify for one rate, while a different product will have another tax rate and the taxes in one city, town or county will differ from the rate in other parts of the state. Hard working entrepreneurs on their own, or with a few employees, would have to navigate that maze of taxes. Most will likely have to hire accountants or tax lawyers to help them figure it out -- cutting into the bottom line for a small business -- jeopardizing their profits and their ability to keep employees.

"More worrisome, such a tax would suddenly make those businesses vulnerable to audits or tax bills from states or localities they do not reside in or vote in. As a conservative, the last thing I want to see is entrepreneurs becoming the target of aggressive tax collection and audits from officials in other states. As a letter signed by numerous conservative and taxpayer groups earlier this year pointed out, 'dismantling the physical presence protection for remote retail sales could throw open the floodgates for states to aggressively attempt enforcement of not just their states tax laws, but also business and individual income tax rules, and even activist regulatory obligations on out -of-state entities.'"

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"Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed 'Nazism' as the ideology of the California Republican Party.

"In the 'knowledge panel' that provides easy access to information next to search results, Google was showing 'Nazism' as an 'ideology' of the party as of Thursday morning. The word 'Nazism' was hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows 'Nazism' alongside other 'ideologies' of California Republicans like 'Conservatism,' 'Market liberalism,' 'Fiscal conservatism,' and 'Green conservatism.' ...

"'It is disgraceful that the world's largest search engine has labeled millions of California Republicans as Nazis,' said Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Majority Leader and potential successor to Speaker Paul Ryan. 'This is just the latest incident in a disturbing trend to slander conservatives. These damaging actions must be held to account. The bias has to stop.'"

"The latest bit of shameless hypocrisy from Sen. Chuck Schumer is an attempt to blame rising gasoline prices on President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran deal.

"Remember, that's the deal that Schumer voted against.

"Hypocrisy from Schumer in and of itself wouldn't be new or newsworthy. The latest from the Senate minority leader, though, is a window into the coming campaign.

"Take it as a warning. The Democrats will wilt away on foreign policy, even if only for political advantage at home, and, bereft of pro-growth ideas, will use government to strong-arm the markets.

"It's what they do."

"The first question that comes to mind when hearing that Hillary Clinton would like to be CEO of Facebook is: How would they fit all their servers into her bathroom?

"We learned about Clinton's desire to run the social media giant from a question posed to her during an event at Harvard University where she was receiving an award for her 'leadership.' This for a woman who didn't even have the courage to face her distraught supporters on election night 2016, own the defeat and tell them the truth. As her lackey John Podesta was lying to the confused and crying crowd at her election night party about it not being over, she was on the phone conceding to her rival Donald Trump.

"'Speaking at Harvard University before receiving an award Friday, Clinton was asked a hypothetical. ... If Clinton could be chief executive of any company right now, which company would she choose? "Facebook," Clinton said without hesitating,' the Los Angeles Times reported.

"'Clinton said that she'd want to be in charge of the social media giant because of the immense power it has over the world's flow of information. It's the biggest news platform in the world ... but most people in our country get their news, true or not, from Facebook,' according to the newspaper.

"It makes sense that the woman who set up bootlegged email servers and installed them in her bathroom while secretary of state would like to run Facebook. It's apparent her goal, since she was guaranteed to win the race (you know there are insurance policies for that, right?), was to make sure she controlled the flow of information."

"T.S. Eliot famously wrote that 'April is the cruelest month,' but when it comes to America's fiscal picture, nothing could be further from the truth about this April. The latest government numbers confirm that last month was a blockbuster for growth, federal revenues and deficit reduction.

"One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems -- from poverty, to inner-city decline, to lowering the national debt.

"We're not quite at a sustained elevated growth rate of 3 percent yet, but the latest economy snapshot tells us we are knocking on the door. The growth rate over the last four quarters came in at 2.9 percent, which was higher than any of the eight years of the Obama presidency. Halfway through this current quarter, which began on April 1, the Atlanta Federal Reserve estimates growth at 4 percent. If that persists through the end of June, we will have reached an average growth rate of 3 percent under President Trump. ...

"Now for the even better news. We are already starting to see a fiscal dividend from Mr. Trump's tax, energy and regulatory pro-business policies. The Congressional Budget Office reports that tax revenues in April -- by far the biggest month of the year for tax collections because of the April 15 filing deadline -- totaled $515 billion, which was a robust 13 percent rise in receipts over last year."

"I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me ..."

"Without China, neither Iran nor North Korea can obtain the diplomatic cover or the technological support needed to build a sophisticated nuclear-missile arsenal. And China can be convinced not to endanger its lucrative commerce with the West for the sake of irritating the United States and Europe with rogue nuclear proxies.

"Finally, Russia is a regional neighbor of North Korea and Iran. It has no strategic self-interest in having two unhinged nuclear countries nearby.

"Before the onset of the hysteria about Russian 'collusion,' the United States and Russia discussed areas of mutual benefit, such as limiting the number of dangerous third-party nations with nuclear weapons.

"For all the evil of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the potential evil of a nuclear Iran and North Korea is greater. It is time to talk about mutual strategic interests with the Russians to nullify a North Korean and Iranian nuclear threat.

"In sum, for all their obnoxious bluster, the rogue governments of North Korea and Iran are more vulnerable than ever."

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