BYRON YORK ON DEMOCRATS’ TWO IMPEACHMENT DECEPTIONS: Some might wonder if Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler hiked in the same area as the guy who was bitten in the neck by a low-hanging copperhead in a Mississippi tree.

DID YOU CATCH WHAT PUTIN AND PELOSI BOTH DID THE SAME DAY THIS WEEK? To be honest, I missed the dating and power-grabbing parallels, but Issues & Insights’ Tom McCardle didn’t.

A FINELY-TUNED MIRACLE OR AN ACCIDENTAL HAPPENING? That’s the question posed by the Intelligent Design folks in this arresting video. One thing everybody should be able to agree on is what an amazing place is our universe, regardless of how we believe it came to be.

DON’T MISS THIS TONIGHT AT 7 PM EST: There was so much more in the Horowitz IG FISA Report than has been reported by the MSM to date. John Spiropoulos of One America News (OAN) put it all in a one-hour investigative documentary that airs this evening.

NO, ALL THINGS AREN’T EQUAL, QUID PRO QUO-WISE: Over at Issues & Insights today, Pepperdine Economics Professor Gary Galles explains why “this-for-that” in the impeachment war doesn’t work in free markets. Personally, I thought that Smith guy from Scotland settled this issue in 1776 but evidently the rising generation prefers an impoverished green new deal to a wealthy nation.

JIMMY HOFFA IS STILL DEAD, BUT UNION CORRUPTION ISN’T: It being awards season among the glitterati and all, the Capital Research Center’s superb video about Hoffa and dirty unions is a timely reminder of the facts of history.

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT JESUS AND THE MUSHROOMS? It could be funny if it weren’t taken so seriously by folks like Joe Rogan.

BUREAUCRATIC CODING MAKES HEALTHCARE COST TOO MUCH: There’s a distinct bias in favor of government-controlled healthcare in this Reuters analysis but it still manages to provide a clear description of how bureaucracy and code manipulation drive spiraling medical bills higher. What’s left unsaid, of course, is that the federal government is the original healthcare code maker.

WAIT, IF CHOICES ARE JUST BRAIN CHEMISTRY, WHAT IS ‘FREEDOM?’ Ideas really do have consequences, perhaps none more so than viewing the choices we make as nothing more than neurons acting and reacting to other neurons between our ears.

WOULD A PHOTO OF JOE BIDEN BEING INAUGURATED SCARE YOU? Well, then just ignore the photo and go straight to the Issues & Insights editorial that drives a stake through the heart of Joe the (Plastic) Bag Man.

UH-OH, SURVEY SHOWS FAKE NEWS IS REAL: And contrary to NBC’s Chuck Todd, the Left’s false narrative continually pours out of the mainstream media, according to Just Facts. Check out, for example, what is typically believed about the middle class paying higher tax rates than the top 1 percent.

EXPECT A PARTY LINE VOTE: That is, if there ever is a tally for and against Rep. Bradley Byrne’s resolution censuring Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s delay in delivering impeachment articles to the Senate.

STEFAN HALPER LOOKING EVER MORE SKETCHY: The Federalist’ Margot Cleveland has more details. Geez, I met Halper very briefly at the Reagan-Bush headquarters in Arlington, VA. during the 1980 campaign. Seemed like a nice guy, though rather nerdy. If we’d known then what we know now …

UPDATE: Just remembered that the occasion for meeting Halper was that he was one of the people with George H.W. Bush who came over after Reagan named Bush as his veep nominee.

HOW CAN JESUS BE THE ONLY WAY IF ALL RELIGIONS TEACH THE SAME STUFF? According to Reasonable Faith, they don’t, actually. In fact, there are huge differences, and not just those at the heart of the yawning chasm that separates Christianity and Islam.

WHILE IRAN HEATS UP, LOOK WHAT TRUMP IS DOING ON THE BORDER: Actually, according to Issues & Insights, look at what is not happening on the border these days,

ERIC HOLDER TARGETS FOUR RED STATE LEGISLATURES: Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina are in the cross-hairs of major lefty campaign marked by Obama’s attorney general. Interesting parallel to the Soros and Bloomberg efforts aimed at state and local offices.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT, MADAME SPEAKER: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) appears to have support among Senate GOP leaders for his proposal for a 25-day deadline for the House to send impeachment articles to the upper chamber.

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF: He wants a hearing on why President Donald Trump ordered the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani.

CAN THERE BE ‘REASONABLE FAITH’ ABOUT JESUS’ RESURRECTION? If it’s true, it’s the central event of all history. If not, it’s an outrageous hoax. Philosopher William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith group has produced two superb videos that address the issues involved.

By the way, regardless of your view on the Jesus issues, the narrator of Craig’s video has an absolutely superb Scots’ brogue. Being a descendant of a Scots clan (MacFarlane, which is ironic, given the subject of the videos and my ancestors’ well-known expertise at cattle thievery), I have to admit possibly being a bit biased here.

IMPEACHMENT IS THE DEMOCRATS’ STALINGRAD: The parallels are a bit startling.

ATHEIST GROUP WANTS IRS TO INVESTIGATE CHURCH THAT HOSTED TRUMP RALLY: There they go again.

INDIANA REP. ASKS WHY CHINA DAILY IS DELIVERED FREE EACH MORNING TO ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: Good question, since China Daily is a product of the Chinese Communist Party and thus represents pure propaganda.

EVEN THE IG MISSED THIS LIE BY DOJ/FBI TO THE FISA COURT: Margot Cleveland explains why Christopher Steele’s dossier source(s) were NOT developed during his tenure with British intelligence. This is highly significant, as it puts the dossier yet further from the realm of credibility. (I know, who would have thought that possible?)

GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, RIP: She was a voice for honest history and historians.

Related (From Ed): Links to Himmelfarb’s articles at Commentary, and their reviews of her books.

IT’S NOT PARANOIA IF THEY REALLY ARE COMING FOR YOU: Casey Chalk at The Federalist explains that religious folks worry Democrats and the Left-Mob will take away their liberties because that’s exactly what Democrats and the Left-Mob have tried repeatedly in recent years.