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“My hunch is heaven, as perfect as it must be, just got a bit kinder and gentler -- leaving behind that hole for you and me to fill”

Rev. Russell Levenson Jr., rector of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston

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Before he capitulated on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron had declared he would never give in to the demands of the so-called Yellow Vest protestors.

By law in France, all motorists must carry such a yellow vest in case of car trouble, but the car trouble they are rioting about for the past two weekends is not about their vehicles, but about the 5 percent hike in fuel costs that Macron had decreed as a means of combating global warming. The protests had become increasingly violent in a classic countryside versus the Capital confrontation, and had Macron not raised a white flag and rolled back the new tax, another weekend of violence was expected. He did though, and the message is clear.

As the Wall Street Journal put it: “Voters don’t believe that climate change justifies policy that would raise their cost of living and hurt the economy.” Climate change, my friends, is not an excuse to gouge tax hikes out of citizens.

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Hugh Hewitt talks with Pete Peterson, Dean of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, about a number of topics including George H. W. Bush, Orange County CA flipping from red to blue, Gavin Newsom's 17% income tax, Urban Myers retiring, fires that threatened Pepperdine and how they protected the students.

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The message went out late on Friday night: George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, had died.

He came to the presidency, of course, after serving two terms as Vice President under Ronald Reagan.

Perhaps the most illuminating moment of his leadership style came on March 30, 1981, when President Reagan was shot in an attempted assassination.

The Vice President was flying to the Southwest to speak. When he was returning to D.C., it became clear: Reagan was facing mortal danger.

Officials wanted Bush to land by helicopter at the White House, but the image of that, of course, is presidential. Bush refused.

He said: “There is one President of the United States, and he is Ronald Reagan, and he is going to pull through this. I will go by car.” And thus, the Vice President arrived at by car in a motorcade, the way he would have any other day.

That was the sort of man George H. W. Bush was: A man of modesty.

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Michael Medved and Denmark’s Bjorn Lomborg, sometimes referred to as one of the “best known global warming skeptics,” examine climate science from a socio-economic perspective.

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