Econo Desk: Climate Deal picks winners and losers
The Wall Street Journal editorrecalls saying, "People's tax dollars shouldn't be used to pick winners and losers." "But that's exactly what his tax and climate deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is doing," writes unfair benefits for union workers into law. Much higher wages and benefits for unionized workers will result in 'higher project costs' that 'will be passed on to utility payers and taxpayers'. This "may also lead to higher wages in the local labor market and higher costs for manufacturers and contractors." So, ``How does this keep inflation down?''
From the right: Republicans to blame
``Liberalism is dying and the American right is winning.'' Daniel McCarthy declares in Spectator World.Democrats "run as if they were still the party of the New Deal, not the new gender" and "already have their home base." They have little to offer to voters outside the city'. It makes you look gloomy.” But the Republican Party may become "too much responsibility to handle." Can Republicans "rule a country more secular and urban than the heart of the Republican Party"?
Media Watch: 'News Silo' Killing Print
"Buried alongside iconic stations are: It is the public trust in news from all sources.” Charles Lipson of Real Clear Politics laments. Only 16% of Americans have access to news.” The change in how Americans get their news is “huge and irreversible”.Due to technological innovation and new segmented markets. “Newspapers that were once confined to the local market, like the New York Post, offer a rare alternative to left-wing newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, and they are huge. We have developed a nationwide reach.” Consumers “have more choices than ever (good), but are increasingly separated from dissenting voices (bad).” Worse, "This island nation is destined to deepen the ideological divisions in our country."
Focus on Putin: Why Vlad Got Britney
Britney, but "what kind of country Russia has become, President Vladimir Putin launched a foreign war and sank into anti-Western hysteria while stepping up repression at home".Her arrest took place "after Putin and his circle almost certainly decided to invade Ukraine." She makes a great "bargaining chip" as a "prominent American" who is "a homosexual, black, tattooed, defendant the average Russian person has no sympathy for." . And "efforts to arouse the Griner", "we will influence a Russian narrative that disproportionately values racial or sexual minorities. How many years of Putin-like anti-Western hysterics?"
Neoconservatives: Behind the Battle of Gaza
"But the main cause of this escalation is the PIJ's plans for another terrorist attack against Israeli civilians." and Washington Examiner Tom Rogan explains. Note that the PIJ is "a key instrument in Iran's covert war against Israel." Indeed, PIJ leader Ziad Nakhaleh attended a meeting in Tehran on Friday and "described the current conflict as a 'test for all parts of the resistance'." Israeli security services have expressed the view that Iran must be actively deterred. Note: “Iranian influence over the PIJ could mean that it decides to continue fighting, even as the cost of PIJ capabilities and Palestinian civilian infrastructure increases.”
— Edited by Post Editorial Board