DSA pins hopes on Michigan, Maine Dems distrust – Latest News
From the appropriate: DSA Pins Hopes on Michigan
The implosion of the Platner marketing campaign in Maine went “about as horribly as it possibly could have,” and now consideration turns Michigan, the place Abdul El-Sayed’s run for US senate is “really thrilling DSA hearts,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty. El-Sayed accuses reporters of “fixating” on his calls to “defund the police” as a substitute of how Medicare for All is the “centerpiece of his domestic agenda.” Hah! Though Medicare for All “is the topic he has spent his life’s work on and presumably knows more about than any other issue,” El-Sayed refuses to “ever give a price tag on what his plan would cost.” He additionally routinely blames AIPAC for every part, together with “artificial intelligence, the national debt, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”
Conservative: Maine Dems Distrust Their Voters
“Under wildly different circumstances, Democrats in Maine and Republicans in South Carolina face the problem of finding a new nominee to run for the Senate this November,” experiences the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. To change Graham Platner, Maine Democrats will convene 601 insiders “to select the new Democratic nominee” in “a pretty insular affair.” Meanwhile, South Carolina Republicans “are planning a special primary after the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham”; the one controversy is over whether or not to “exclude those who have already voted in the Democratic primary” on June 9. South Carolina’s “Republican nominee will be chosen by voters”; Maine’s “Democratic nominee will be chosen by a few hundred party officials and activists.” So: “Which is the party of democracy?”
Fertility watch: The Left vs. . . . My Babies
“The left-leaning press is wildly suspicious about the medical intervention that allowed me to become a mother,” thunders The Free Press’ Madeleine Kearns. “Restorative reproductive medicine,” a okay a RRM, “assumes that infertility is a symptom of an underlying condition” that have to be “diagnosed and treated” to “restore the patient’s health.” The left treats this “natural procreative technology” with “wild suspicion,” seeing it as a “backdoor way to further limit reproductive rights” as a result of it “was pioneered by a devoutly Catholic gynecologist” and is “championed in MAHA circles.” But help “from right-leaning groups doesn’t mean it’s a bad treatment” — and he or she has a 1-year-old to show it, plus a child sibling now on the way in which.
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Music beat: Stop the EU’s Royalties Grab
The European Union is able to take practically $300 million from American artists, and “Congress is the only body on earth that can stop it,” warns Gene Simmons at The Wall Street Journal. Because US broadcast stations don’t pay performers and labels for recordings performed on the radio, making billions off of uncompensated artists, the European Commission is trying to finish such royalty funds within the EU. Instead, the bipartisan American Music Fairness Act would be sure that Big Radio pays “performance royalties while also protecting small local broadcasters” — and in addition make “Europe’s proposal null and void.” But the House and Senate Judiciary committees have but to ship it to the ground. With Europe “threatening to take away money that artists have earned, it’s time for Congress to stand up on behalf of American artists.”
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Energy desk: Hochul Bans ‘the Future’
New York “just became the first state” to “ban the future,” due to Gov. Hochul’s one-year data-center moratorium, sighs Josh Wolfe at The Free Press, just because the “political winds” shifted and he or she’s dealing with reelection. Yet “every durable gain in living standards” has come from “technological advances,” “AI is the next chapter” — and knowledge facilities are important. Hochul’s ban is “worse than a mistake,” as a result of “if you want the little guy to compete with the giants, you don’t ration electricity”; you “flood the zone with it.” These facilities additionally create monumental demand for electricians and plumbers, driving “wages skyward.” Yes, electrical energy costs have risen, however the reply is “not less demand but more supply.” Instead, we get “elections over electricity and vibes over volts.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
