Kimberley Strassel:

“…Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the mainstream media has shed its once-noble mission — the pursuit of the truth — and instead adopted a new purpose: to take down the president…

Last week The Washington Post revealed the alarming news that House Democrats were considering having their anonymous “whistleblower” testify from a remote location, and in disguise. Just as shocking as the details of this plan was the justification the Post ladled on this Democratic effort to hide impeachment information from the public.

It explained, high up in the story, that the cloak-and-dagger approach was merely Democrats expressing “distrust of their GOP colleagues, whom they see as fully invested in defending a president who has attacked the whistleblower’s credibility and demanded absolute loyalty from Republicans.”

This, from a newspaper with a tagline of “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

Maybe the better journalistic epitaph is: Democracy dies in bias…”

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I think many people confuse and conflate President Trump’s personality with his business acumen. This is a great mistake. A mistake the President uses to his advantage. I am proud of President Trump for achieving this great breakthrough.

This was something that needed to be done. Something that many Presidents had put off as too difficult. Something that many pundits in the media considered impossible.

I congratulate the President. This achievement highlights the President’s strength, which is his experience, maturity, and business knowledge. I believe the President uses his wild personality as a bargaining chip. He is very effective as a negotiator.

On the Eve of the CNN Insider blowing the whistle on his own network…

I look forward to the exposé

“We’ve been living through this so-called insurance policy because they know we are putting a stop to their pillaging and their plundering and their hoaxes,” Trump said. “The radical Democrats policies are crazy. Their politicians are corrupt. Their candidates are terrible. They know they can’t win an election so they are pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.”

“They are scammers and con artists perpetrating hoaxes and witchhunts,”

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Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts

“…That’s because most panels are designed to supply power to the grid — not directly to houses. During the heat of the day, solar systems can crank out more juice than a home can handle. Conversely, they don’t produce power at all at night. So systems are tied into the grid, and the vast majority aren’t working this week as PG&E Corp. cuts power to much of Northern California to prevent wildfires.

The only way for most solar panels to work during a blackout is pairing them with batteries. That market is just starting to take off. Sunrun Inc., the largest U.S. rooftop solar company, said some of its customers are making it through the blackouts with batteries, but it’s a tiny group — countable in the hundreds…”

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