Happy New Year! and some links for your new year's reading

For a look at enviro prognosticators and climate change alarmists see Report Hyped by Climate Alarmists Warned of Million of Deaths, Nuclear War, Sunken Major Cities by 2020 and 2019: the year of peak green bullsh*t

In the New York Review of Books Garry Wills takes on three myths of impeachment (co-equal branches of government, checks and balances and deliberate ineptitude) in The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment.
The AP looks at what role Chief Justice Roberts may play in the trial, and how he might play it in Chief Justice Roberts faces political quagmire presiding over impeachment trial
Related to impeachment issues is If The FBI’s Contempt For The Law Is Not Reined In, Its Abuses Will Get Worse from The Federalist.

An interesting look at the creation of the term "Hispanic" and the political motives and players involved see The Invention of Hispanics in the fall edition of the Claremont Review of Books.

Are businessmen really the heroic defenders of laissez-faire capitalism? Not so says L. Reichard White in Ayn Rand's Greatest Mistake