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Gavin Newsom's Carbon-Neutral Grid Plan Looks To Be Going The Way Of The Bullet Train To Nowhere
Daily Caller | May 6, 2023
Kerry Jackson

California’s planned transition to a carbon-neutral electricity grid by 2045 relies heavily on offshore wind power. It might take a miracle to get there. The growth of offshore wind will have to accelerate faster than a Tesla Model S, which goes from zero to 60 in less than two seconds.

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Will Senate Hearing Expose PBMs' Unscrupulous Drug Pricing Tactics?
Forbes | Sally Pipes
May 10, 2023

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will haul executives from three insulin manufacturers and three pharmacy benefit managers before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for a hearing on “the need to make insulin affordable for all Americans. ([link removed]) ”


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City Hall Should Stay Out Of The Way Of Home-Based Businesses
Free Cities Center | Sal Rodriguez
May 5, 2023

Home-based businesses have long been a viable means by which people support themselves. It’s essential that governments make it easier, not harder, for cottage industries to thrive.


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The People's Republic of China "Police Stations" a Gulag of Transnational Repression

Right by the Bay | Steve Smith
May 9, 2023
What the FBI calls “transnational repression ([link removed].) ” is expressly illegal. This is not the international standard of policing cooperation set forth in international law but a new tactic to extend the authority of the Chinese state to other countries via a gulag of illegal police stations.

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