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Image of the Day: Climate Change Causing Wildfires? No.

From our friends at Unleash Prosperity, another fantastic visual aid to rebut the predictable default rationalization that climate change, rather than incompetent leadership, underlies wildfires in California or elsewhere:

 

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="874"] Climate Change? No.[/caption]

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January 17, 2025 • 07:50 AM

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THE ISSUES  
   
Taxes & Economy
Health Care
 
CFIF to Congress: Don’t Mimic California’s Failures in Addressing Surprise Medical Billing Problem
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Surprise medical billing – which occurs when patients suddenly receive unexpected bills from medical providers not covered by their insurance – remains an important issue demanding a Congressional…
   
 
 
Energy & Environment
CFIF's Legal Activities
Constitution & Legal
   
Sabre/Farelogix Merger: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Needlessly Threatens U.S. Prosperity and Innovation
On Monday, January 27, trial will commence in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) misguided antitrust lawsuit seeking to prohibit…
 
Employment & Labor
Campaign Finance
Homeland Security
   
North Korean Cyber Warfare: Focused On Money, Not Missiles
Every time North Korea conducts a missile test, it understandably makes headlines around the world. While ICBMs capable of carrying nuclear payloads…
Media Issues
Defamation lawsuits by public figures such as former presidents are exceedingly difficult to maintain.   The fact that Donald Trump just successfully pursued a $16 million action against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos reveals how egregiously…
Foreign Policy
The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it's obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential,…
Legal Reform / Tort Reform
As America struggles to regain its footing, employers large and small face a potentially harrowing dilemma.  On the one hand, they cannot remain dormant indefinitely, and must reopen for business as soon as feasible and allow increasingly desperate…
State of Affairs
As expected, Joe Biden handed out 10-year blanket pardons to his corrupt family, which had profited in the millions from influence-peddling schemes.  The venality is breathtaking. The corruption is one thing. But pardons he gave government officials…
Education
Antisemitism on college campuses is intense. Incidents shot up 700% after the Oct. 6 Hamas attack on Israel. Jewish families have reason to be nervous as another school year begins. Will their sons and daughters be safe? Last year, Jewish students were…
Health Care
In its reckless departure from the White House amid a flurry of unseemly pardons and executive orders, the Biden administration seemed to save the worst for last.   Namely, one underreported but consequential item among that flurry was an action…
Immigration
The media have been playing up the "civil war" inside the GOP between what Politico calls the "MAGA Republicans and Big Tech."  The restrictionists in the party want fewer visas, and the pro-growth wing wants more. This past…
Technology & Telecom
Envy is an ugly thing – one of the seven deadly sins. Europeans have long been dripping with jealousy that American firms dominate the tech sector – cellphones, search engines, social media platforms, artificial intelligence…
Notable Quote   
 
"Apocalyptic global warming predictions of doom have long been fashionable, quasi-religious beliefs of 21st-century liberalism. But after the recent wildfires that have devastated the state, some California Democrats will be clinging to climate change as a matter of political survival.The epic incompetence demonstrated both by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during the crisis isn…[more]
 
 
— Jonathan S. Tobin, a Senior Contributor to The Federalist and Columnist for Newsweek
 
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