At a reader’s suggestion (yes, we read the suggestion box), we have decided to run a weekly item on the HOTLINE called Laugh or Cry. And we want to offer a big award each week for the reader who submits the best example of a nutty idea the liberals have conjured up in your hometown, your state, or nationally.

Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned climate change just once in her speech before the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, wrapping it into her larger campaign theme of freedom.

After attacking her Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, on abortion, Ms. Harris declared that along with reproductive choice “many other fundamental freedoms are at stake” in the November election. Those include “the freedom to breathe clean air, and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis,” she said.

Apparently, imposing Stalinistic government rules and regulations on business and households – from what kind of car you can buy, to the light bulb you can install in your bathrooms, to what temperature you can set your home thermostat, to forcing businesses to report to the climate change police the CO2 emissions of their customers and suppliers – will make you free.

It’s right out of Humpty Dumpty’s immortal declaration to Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Thanks to Mark Morano of Climate Depot for alerting us to this mischief.