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Democrat: Leave the Theatrics to Hollywood
The US leisure industry’s “gloriously cutthroat” spirit “makes America the cultural center of the world and a domestic economic growth engine,” however the go well with by a dozen blue-state attorneys common to “block the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance puts it all at risk” with bogus antitrust claims, warns Ari Emanuel at The Wall Street Journal. In their “trash” antitrust case, the AGs “pretend Amazon MGM, A24 and Lionsgate don’t exist” although their movies have grossed billions already this yr. The merged firm’s “27% share of feature-film box office” received’t “substantially lessen competition”; certainly, the deal leaves the new company “committed to at least 30 theatrical releases a year.” “The harm doesn’t begin when the attorneys general win their suit,” it started when money began to pour “into legal fees rather than productions.” “Let Hollywood creatives get back to trying to rip each other’s heads off . . . it’s what we’re best at.”
Conservative: Dems Outgrew Common Sense
Elon Musk in a current interview provided “a powerful diagnosis of the growing gulf between America and Europe, Republicans and Democrats, ‘normal people’ and the mainstream media,” remarks USA Today’s Nicole Russell. The interviewer claimed Musk “supports not just the populist right but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties”; he replied, “No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely.” Russell continues: He dared his questioner “to consider that 10 to 15 years ago, Obama and Clinton held the same views on immigration and other issues that Trump holds today, views the ‘lunatic left’ now brands far right.” At each stage of authorities, “commonsense ideas Democrats once agreed on are now dismissed as fringe” and: “The chasm between right and left” is “dug deeper by the media.”
Libertarian: Too Many Elex Over From the Start
Some 150 House races this yr “had no meaningful competition,” gripes Reason’s Eric Boehm, with incumbents “all but guaranteed another two years in office after running unopposed in their primaries” in districts which can be super-safe pink or blue seats — leaving more than 84 million Americans “effectively disenfranchised.” California, Washington and Hawaii now have “open, all-candidate primaries,” leaving solely 5 of their 63 House seats uncontested. Yes, that always means “two candidates from the same party advancing” to the common, nevertheless it beats watching more than one-third of candidates win earlier than the election even begins. “Americans should be embracing any and all ideas that aim to make elections more competitive.”
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Historian: DSA Takeover Was By Invitation
The socialist “takeover of the Democratic Party” wasn’t sparked by issues about ‘affordability,’ ” however “was merely the logical culmination of . . . radicalism within the Democratic aristocracy,” together with “Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem Jeffries,” contends Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. “Mainstream Democrats” unfold practically each “weaponized scam and national hysteria in the last two decades.” Did the “Democratic apparat calm the waters,” when “three would-be assassins got close enough to killing Trump?” Did they “at least pretend to deplore the violence” in opposition to ICE? No, socialists “did not hijack the party;” they “were spawned and nurtured by aged Democrats,” including solely antisemitism. “America will soon see how this insanity works out.”
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Urbanist: Rent Freeze at Real Risk
In response to the Rent Guidelines Board vote “to fulfill the mayor’s campaign promise” of a “rent freeze,” a group of “affected property owners” have sued “to nullify” that 0% hike, notes City Journal’s John Ketcham. A politically-motivated vote “could constitute a violation of due process.” The law requires the RGB to “weigh evidence of certain economic factors” in its deliberations, but the “evidence before the RGB — based upon the board’s own research — does not support” the freeze, because it discovered landlords’ bills up 5.3% in the final yr. Plus, a number of board members have well-documented “histories of anti-owner bias,” additionally supporting “a finding that the RGB’s decision was arbitrary and capricious.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
