Human Interest

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey released the Green New Deal, a plan to overhaul the entire U.S. economy and "achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions" within the decade.

The plan reads like a Saturday Night Live parody of an environmentalist's wish list. The pie-in-the-sky goals range from the merely impractical to the physically impossible.

Consider a few of the Green New Deal's unrealistic demands.

John Cornyn recently said he fears drug companies may be "gaming" America's patent system. According to Texas's senior U.S. senator, some firms are making insignificant tweaks to drug formulas and then filing new patents on the upgraded medicines. Firms allegedly use these patents to prevent competing treatments from entering the market.

Sen. Cornyn cited recent increases in the price of insulin as proof of this alleged gaming. And he urged his colleagues to consider changing patent laws to prevent such abuse.

Candace Owens, a Democrat and black victim of a hate crime, was on fire when she addressed a House Judiciary Committee hearing designed to expose the hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the Donald Trump era.  What she said could derail the Democratic Party were it covered on Democratic media outlets.  She certainly derailed this hearing.  The power of her remarks was that every black person in the room knew she spoke “their” truth.  It was a Rosa Parks moment!

Ask any college senior where the best jobs are, and you'll probably hear a list of coastal metropolises: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

But economic development data tell a different story. Smaller cities away from the coasts are the true hotbeds of economic activity today, thanks to their relatively low costs of living, abundant job opportunities, and appealing community amenities.

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        George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago. Some George Mason University students and faculty have become triggered.