Bogus ‘beer test’ is back, China set to weaponize – Latest News
From the left: Bogus ‘Beer Test’ Is Back
Covering Dan Osborn’s impartial Senate run in Nebraska, The New York Times simply revived the “massively overused campaign reporting clichéd” beer check — is this “a guy you’d like to have a beer with”?, smirks Racket News’ Matt Taibbi. “From Bush-Gore through the 2016 cycle it was nearly impossible to escape ‘beer test’ coverage,” because it was “a way for campaign reporters to flex” as “they were usually the chief arbiters of which candidate was beer-i-er than the next.” But the check “mainly vanished” as soon as beer grew to become “a stand-in for unredeeming deplorable values”: Donald Trump was the clear “beer” man in 2016. But now it’s back “thanks to an odd edge case in which Democrats can root for an Independent without endorsing heteronormative leisure tendencies.” Oy: “Man is this country weird sometimes.”
Health beat: China Set To Weaponize Biotech
More than 40% “of the key building blocks for American medicines are sourced solely in China,” warns Bethany McLean at The Free Press. And the People’s Republic “now has almost as large a pipeline of experimental treatments as the U.S.,” per a examine in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The “scariest prospect”: “a Chinese takeover of the biotech industry so pervasive that it’s not inconceivable” Americans might turn out to be “dependent on China for their medicine,” with “catastrophic” penalties, as some within the industry insist it’s solely a matter of time earlier than China weaponizes biotech. Yes, “any action the U.S. takes will require some pain,” whether or not for sufferers or Big Pharma earnings. But “doing nothing” will solely seem to price nothing — “until it doesn’t.”
Faith beat: The Left’s Forever War on Nuns
New York state is “locked in a legal fight” with the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, whose Rosary Hill Home gives “free medical care to poor people with terminal cancer,” sighs John J. Miller at The Wall Street Journal. For two years, the state Department of Health has threatened “fines, loss of their operating license and even imprisonment” in the event that they “keep males out of the ladies’ room or separate bedrooms by biological sex,” or refuse to “recognize a ‘right to consensual sexual relations,’ including sex outside marriage.” And now New York is demanding 4 orders of nuns “assist patients who wish to commit suicide.” Argh! “The left’s forever war on nuns” dates no less than to Obama administration bid to make the Little Sisters of the Poor fund “birth control and abortion drugs, in violation of their Catholic faith,” a “never-say-die crusade” that New York’s lawyer basic nonetheless pursues.
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Conservative: Progs’ Global Unseriousness
Challenged “to offer a better path to peace than the one Israel took” after the Oct. 7 assaults, “galactically unserious” Rep. Ro Khanna claimed that “Israel could have negotiated a non-Hamas Gaza” if it “negotiated with Hamas,” marvels Commentary’s Seth Mandel, again proving that the left has “absolutely nothing to say” about avoiding wars as a result of they’ve “put zero thought” in into it.” Similarly, DSA co-chair Megan Romer argues” “We should be sending huge teams of diplomats . . . to get Russia off Ukraine’s back,” as if “double-super-negotiation” and “airdropping more pinstriped suits” would’ve satisfied Russia to withdraw. Progressives deal with international affairs as a “joke” and areas in battle “as a sandbox to play around in” on the best way to scoring political factors.
Energy watch: Nixing ‘Green Propaganda’
India and Indonesia, “comprising more than one-fifth of the world’s population,” are “dismissing the apocalyptic fantasy of the climate industrial complex” as they acknowledge that “hydrocarbons are still the future of energy,” cheers Vijay Jayaraj in The Hill. After latest main blackouts, “Indonesia is rejecting green propaganda” and “India finds itself in the same boat,” as practically 80% of its electrical energy is coal-generated. They’re planning “a massive expansion of energy trade,” together with India’s “request for more Indonesian coal to feed a ravenous power grid.” Safe to say, “no amount of U.N.-inspired fearmongering will deter the mission to secure affordable energy for the Indian populace.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
