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• Jonathan V. Last in The Weekly Standard:

“However you might feel about a given Trump scandal, ask yourself how you’d feel if it was President Hillary Clinton facing the same challenge.”

Mr. Last urges some Republican self-reflection when he asks his readers to “imagine we’re on an alternate planet where Hillary Clinton won the election and the parties and players are flipped.” He uses this thought experiment to condemn tribalism, which he sees as the “number one disease” afflicting American political culture. Read more »

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• A. Barton Hinkle in Richmond Times-Dispatch:

“For years, environmentalists have blasted ‘climate science deniers’ for refusing to accept the evidence for human-caused global warming. Is it time we started talking about economic-science deniers, too?”

Mr. Hinkle, who compares the debate over the minimum wage to that of climate change, argues that liberals who reject “economic science” are no better than climate-change deniers. He extends the metaphor, writing, “Different goods and services have different price elasticities, just as different greenhouse gases have different radiative forcing effects.” This does not mean that “just because a small increase has no effect, a big increase will have none, either.” Read more »

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• Jackie Gingrich Cushman in Townhall:

“While you might still argue for a more liberal or less liberal immigration policy, you would do well to base that argument on some of these key facts.”