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Minneapolis beat: Homeland Security’s Bunglers
After the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, about a dozen senior immigration officers “tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated with some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting,” studies Bill Melugin on X. “While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself” into the scenario, “there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement.” Rather it appears “the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot.” Although broadly in “support of the deportation agenda,” these insiders fear “about the way it is being carried out,” “the messaging that comes with it” and “that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.”
Eye on power: Greenies’ Deep-Freeze Rx
“The weekend’s arctic blast has put much of the U.S. grid through a stress test and served as another alert about the growing risks to electric-power reliability,” clarify The Wall Street Journal’s editors. “Americans can be grateful the Biden crowd didn’t succeed in forcing all coal plants to shut down” as “grid operators, the utilities and the Trump Energy Department had to pull out all stops to keep the lights and heat on for tens of millions of Americans” — even waiving “emissions rules so fossil-fuel plants could run at maximum capacity.” Solar, wind and battery “sources contributed little power,” confirming they “aren’t reliable during inclement weather.” Is it the greens’ aim “to reduce carbon emissions by making Americans freeze?”
Storm central: Look What’s Gone Missing
Conspicuously absent from media studies on winter storm Fern “is the obligatory mention of ‘climate change’ as the cause,” notes the Issues & Insights editorial board. “It seems that bad winter weather is just weather. Whereas bad summer weather is always — always — and prominently blamed on our burning fossil fuels.” OK: One CNN piece cited “expert” claims “that ‘severe winter weather events are still possible — and perhaps even more likely’ because of global warming,” however final yr a Bloomberg piece quoted “climate ‘experts” claiming that ‘the long-term trend, especially in the normally colder parts of the U.S. and other countries, is one of warmer winters with less of the white stuff’,” whereas Time simply final month cited “climate ‘experts’ explaining how ‘climate change is causing shorter, warmer winters.’ ” “Whatever this is, it ain’t science.”
More From Post Editorial Board
Centrist: Why Credit-Card Caps Backfire
“Not a single bank has complied” with President Trump’s call to cap credit-card rates of interest at 10%, cheers The Free Press’ Joe Nocera. Phew: Without “the ability to impose high interest rates,” banks merely wouldn’t prolong unsecured credit to most people; high charges allow them to cowl their losses as “more than 19 million accounts default each year. In 2024, that amounted to $59 billion.” Under the cap, all however the wealthy and higher center class would “lose their cards” as a result of banks would lose money in any other case. Limiting credit-card charges “won’t eliminate the need for credit,” so higher-risk debtors must use “payday lenders” and “loan sharks,” whose charges are actually usurious.
Campus watch: ‘Free Speech’ Isn’t Free
“I can tell you that ‘free speech’ isn’t free,” sighs Kristan Hawkins at RealClearPolitics. She units up occasions at schools nationwide, however “manipulative schools have worked hard to develop financial and logistical obstacles to student speech — from special, additional, and often last-minute insurance to requirements for bomb-sniffing dogs.” Other boundaries embrace a “religious gag rule,” limitless delays, set off warnings to discourage attendance, cancellations because of concern of violence and doxxing. Her group, Students for Life of America, “has endured bomb threats, vandalizations, stolen and damaged property, physical attacks, urine throwing, stalking, student doxxing, and general cruelty.” And “threats of rape and murder are common.” Without higher assist, “many will be priced out of the public arena.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
