Obama’s bogus voting-rights gripe, look who fears – Latest News
Conservative: Bam’s Bogus Voting-Rights Gripe
“Fainting spells on the left” over the Supreme Court’s nixing of race-based gerrymandering had been “probably to be expected” as a result of Democrats “reject colorblind public policies” and “scoff at clear evidence of America’s racial progress,” notes The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley. Ex-Prez Barack Obama’s declare that the choice will “dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities” is “nonsense,” as a result of he’s “pretending that the decision somehow threatens the black franchise” although the court docket has not touched “Section 2 protections against efforts to restrict black voting.” Obama’s actual gripe “has nothing to do with voting rights” and all the pieces to do with “the ability of Democrats to use the 1965 act to gain a partisan advantage in drawing political maps.”
Economist: Look Who Fears ‘Politics’ on the Fed
As his time as Federal Reserve chairman ends, Jerome Powell remains to be staying on the board for now, claiming concern for “political factors”’ “Cry me a river,” scoffs Brian Wesbury at RealClearPolitics. For 18 years, “Fed policy has had more impact on the political environment than” ever. Its post-2007 “quantitative easing” tripled the money provide, worsening inequality, with younger people dropping out most — and blaming capitalism; “Mayor Mamdani is the poster child for upset youth.” Plus, the Fed’s COVID-era “artificially low” rates of interest and buy of Treasury debt financed a “very damaging set of policies,” leaving the Fed and personal banks now “sitting on $1.5 trillion in losses on those bonds.” Just “who violated the separation between monetary policy and politics first?”
Health-care beat: GLP-1 Economics Lesson
“Why are GLP-1s getting cheaper” whereas total health care “remains expensive?” asks David Goldhill at City Journal. Answer: Most customers “have to pay actual prices” for GLP-1 medicine. Because protection for the weight-loss use of the drug expanded fairly slowly, producers needed to sell on to customers, and thus confronted the identical aggressive forces as different industries. “Emerging technologies” are reducing health-care prices, however “unnecessary costs” and “invented complexity” will subsume the financial savings except we redirect “dollars toward patient-consumers,” scale back “the role of intermediaries purchasing care on their behalf” and stop “expanding what routine insurance covers,” reserving it as a substitute for “genuine catastrophic risk.” Other industries as soon as thought-about “too essential for normal competition” have been remodeled. “Health care can be next.”
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Politics: Dems Embrace Antisemites
Events are displaying “almost no resistance within the” Democratic Party’s “structure to the ascendant anti-Zionist contingent,” grimaces Commentary’s Seth Mandel: “There won’t be a fight for the party; there will simply be a process in which the old hand the reins to the new.” Chris Rabb, an AOC-backed Dem House candidate, has campaigned with “anti-Semitic influencer Hasan Piker”; New Jersey House candidate Adam Hamawy was outed as “an associate of terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman — the ‘Blind Sheikh.’ ” Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner survived “revelations about his Nazi tattoo,” whereas, “Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan caught a wave of momentum after also appearing with Piker.” Even more alarming, the occasion institution is doing little “to mitigate the influence of anti-Semitic progressive celebrities.”
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Welfare watch: Trump SNAP Reforms Working
President Trump’s reforms have “cut” the “bloat” produced by the “massively increased access to food stamps” beneath Biden and Obama, cheer the Washington Examiner’s editors. Trimming 3.5 million people from the SNAP rolls is “reducing deficits and increasing independence.” Thanks to final yr’s reforms, “able-bodied adults ages 18 to 64 without children must work or participate in a job-training program” to get advantages, whereas “most immigrants” have been cut. Democrats view these “welcome developments” as a “catastrophe,” as they need the “public hooked on government benefits.” But the reforms are proving that dependency is a coverage alternative, not an financial inevitability,” and may signal the tip of the “Obama-Biden dependency machine” for good.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
