CHILLIN’ IN THE LOFT WITH ALFONZO RACHEL.

THEY NEVER REST: No More Cooking With Gas: Environmental Activists Going After The Appliances Consumers Love.

Consumers are getting caught in the crossfire of environmental activists’ war against natural gas and the new battlefield is in the kitchen.

Environmentalists began collaborating with state government officials from across the United States at a closed-door gathering in New York this summer to lay out the plans for policies that would prevent consumers from using natural gas to cook their food or heat their homes.

The conference included representatives from the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Energy Foundation, and the World Research Institute among others, according to open records recently obtained by free market group Energy Policy Advocates and reviewed by the Washington Times.

It was hosted by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) at their Pocantico Center in Tarrytown, N.Y. where they paid for all logistical costs and emails show they also offered to cover the airfare of state government officials who needed financial assistance.

They failed to stop America’s energy boom on the supply side, so they’re going after it on the demand side.

HEH:

(Bumped).

NORTHWESTERN LAWPROF STEPHEN PRESSER: A Trump Impeachment Imperils the Constitution.

Some have begun to understand that the impeachment effort is itself an attempt to subvert our Constitutional scheme.

Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), recently published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner, arguing that by proceeding in secret, Mrs. Pelosi and her designated impeachment hatchet man, Adam Schiff, are violating our Constitutional norms of due process. These violations include the fact that the president has been deprived of the right to confront witnesses, the failure to follow the Nixon and Clinton precedents of initiating impeachment proceedings by a vote of the entire membership of the House, and the failure to accord Republicans the right to summon witnesses to the closed-door hearings.

The framers understood that impeachment would be politically divisive, and by limiting impeachable offenses to “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” they sought to ensure that impeachment would not be simply a tool of a partisan majority, and that it would not be used to frustrate the will of the people. Representative Biggs quite properly believes that what is now occurring is just what the framers feared.

What’s funny is, people say that we should impeach Trump because he’s a threat to norms and the Constitution.

TYLER O’NEIL: A Rock in the Storm: The Heritage Foundation’s Principles of Conservatism.

SOUNDS… PLAUSIBLE:  Pierre Delecto: Mitt Romney reveals his porn star name.

BYRON YORK: Thinking clearly about Trump and aid to Ukraine.

One fact that has gotten lost in the Mulvaney controversy is that the chief of staff clearly said Trump held up aid to Ukraine in part because he, Trump, wanted Ukraine to assist in the Durham investigation. At the same time, Mulvaney just as clearly denied that investigating the Bidens played any role in Trump’s decision to withhold aid.

Some press coverage conflated the two and reported that Mulvaney had admitted Trump held up the aid while demanding Ukraine “investigate Democrats.” Mulvaney, the New York Times said, “told reporters that military aid was held back in part to prod Ukraine to investigate Democrats.” The Washington Post reported that Mulvaney admitted “that Trump withheld aid meant for Ukraine to push the government there to investigate Democrats.”

But that is not what Mulvaney said at all. Investigating the roots of the Trump-Russia investigation is not “investigating Democrats.” It is investigating the actions of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies during the 2016 campaign. Holding back aid to force Ukraine to investigate the Bidens would be “investigating Democrats,” but Mulvaney specifically denied that Trump did that.

So the story is more complicated than some press coverage suggests. Four of Trump’s reasons for withholding aid were legitimate. The fifth was not. But the fact remains that the president had acceptable reasons to temporarily hold back aid. There’s more to the story than just Trump’s fifth reason. And on that, perhaps the president should just take Lowry’s advice and move on.

After the Russian collusion fizzle, it’s hard to see this story being the one that brings down Trump.

STEPHEN GREEN COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT:  One glass of wine a day is worse for the heart than binge drinking, study finds.

UM…. NO.  Horror movies make people horny.

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY NO ONE HAS SEEN THEM. OF COURSE, THEIR NOT EXISTING WOULD TOO:  Trillions of tiny alien ‘robot probes’ may be flying in space but are too small for Nasa to spot, shock paper claims.

ANOTHER ENTRANT IN THE STAKES OF LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS:  White workers are more likely than black or Latino Americans to have a good job — even with the same level of education.

IOW, THE DAY ENDS IN Y:  Pew Pushes Polling Propaganda.

SORRY. NOT PAYING ENOUGH:  Get paid $1,000 to watch Disney movies for a month.

YEAH, BUT REALLY, CHICAGO SHOULD BE A WARNING IT ITSELF:  Chicago Teachers Strike Should Be a Warning.

AND THE TIME IS VERY NEAR IF NOT ALREADY HERE WHEN THE RIGHT RESPONDS IN KIND:  Forgiveness Is A Word Democrats Do Not Understand.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Borat Doesn’t Like Free Speech Much.

OF COURSE, THE QUESTION IS “BIGGER WHAT?”  Bernie is Back and Bigger Than Ever Before.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Adam Silver Pats Self On Back Over China.

BECAUSE…. WHAT PRECISELY? THESE AREN’T THE CRAZY YEARS. THESE ARE THE RUNNING AROUND WITH UNDERWEAR ON THEIR HEADS SQUIRTING CHEESE WHIZ UP THEIR NOSES YEARS:  Female Symbol Removed From Sanitary Napkin Packaging.

BREAKING: Canada’s Justin Trudeau to form a minority government: TV projections.

Or as Michelle Malkin tweets, “Jussie Trudeau is now a real minority — and he doesn’t have to wear blackface!”

SOME PEOPLE TAKE OFFENSE AT EVERYTHING: One Quick Geeky Recommendation.  MORE HERE: Mayflies.

THAT “ELITE” NEEDS QUOTES:  The elite war on democracy.

NO ONE IS BORN IN A PERFECT WORLD. AND THE QUESTION SHOULD ALWAYS BE: PERFECT, ACCORDING TO WHOM?   Selling Out Paradise.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Snit Romney: I want my vote back, Mitt. Give me back my vote.

In 2012, I voted for this insufferable establishment icon, this inept goof who the Democrats wish every Republican would emulate. Some nights, I wake up sweating and screaming when I relive it in my nightmares. I should have taken my ballot, lit it on fire and flushed it down the Schiffhole.

But Romney does serve a purpose, as hard as that is to see through his pathetic antics. His perpetual groveling for approval – including, hilariously, from Donald Trump himself who just broke him right in front of our eyes over the Secretary of State gig – is so shameful and cringe-iliciously embarrassing that it obscures the vital role this shiny doofus can play for conservatism.

He’s a perfect conservative cautionary example.

This is Mitt.

Mitt’s a loser.

Don’t be like Mitt.

Harsh, but fair. Plus:

He’s doing it right now. He’s John Kasich with a job and a dad who was most definitely not a postman.

It’s his weakness that really grates, the pseudo-gentlemanly submissiveness to the abuse of the elite we saw for far too long among our alleged True Conservative™ betters. We’ve learned that “being the bigger man” and not fighting back were not some sort of higher principle being put into action but were, rather, the manifestation of the weakness inherent in the conservatives of the cruise ship class. Candy Crowley humiliated him in front of the entire country and he just took it. Well, we’re sick of just taking it. He and his human puffball ilk are why we said “Ahoy” to Donald Trump.

Also harsh, but fair. Though still kind of charitable, given his behavior.

MINORITY GOVERNMENT: Justin Trudeau Survives Challenge, Sort Of.