Pope Francis wasn’t so progressive, Harvard slow – Latest News
Religion desk: Francis Wasn’t So Progressive
“Apparently, Pope Francis’s return to the arms of his Creator could no longer be postponed,” observes National Review’s Jim Geraghty following the pontiff’s death Monday.
His passing was “simultaneously expected and a surprise.” Indeed, “when you have an octogenarian pope, people are always going to fear that death is imminent.”
Francis seemingly “will be widely remembered as a man whom the US media desperately wanted to be a progressive ‘Buddy Christ.’ ”
Again and again, feedback he made had been “interpreted” as endorsements of lefty insurance policies and “later walked back by the Vatican” because it “insisted the remarks had been misinterpreted or mistranslated.”
In reality, “Francis was not nearly as progressive as his cheerleaders on the left wanted to believe he was.”
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From the precise: Harvard Slow on Jew-hate
“It’s said that timing is everything,” snarks J.T. Young on the Wall Street Journal about Harvard’s response to the suspension of federal funding by the Trump administration over its “failures to address antisemitism.”
In side-stepping Harvard’s many incidents of Jew-hatred, President Alan Garber claimed “We do not take lightly our moral duty to fight antisemitism.”
Yet it was solely in January that Harvard settled two lawsuits accusing the varsity of tolerating simply that.
And whereas it took Harvard more than a yr to deal with antisemitic incidents on campus, “it took only days for Harvard to decide it had a moral duty to reject the Trump administration’s conditions for billions of dollars in federal funding.”
If solely this combat had “inspired the same sense of urgency.”
Speech watch: Offensive Words Are No Crime
The United Kingdom’s “time-honored, liberty-enhancing principles are being supplanted by state authoritarianism,” warns Andrew Doyle at The Washington Post.
In Britain, “police are making at least 12,000 arrests per year” primarily based totally on “offensive social media posts” — which is “profoundly troubling.”
A “draconian” law in Scotland “empowers the state to prosecute citizens for words they utter in the privacy of their own homes.”
“The authoritarian speech-policing in Britain has been ramped up since rioting last summer after three young girls were stabbed to death” by a teen little one of immigrants, reportedly impressed by al Qaeda.
“We have a long way to go to restore the liberal principles that were once seen as synonymous with the British way of life.”
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Schools beat: Randi Hates Your Kids
American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten “is raging,” notes Mary Katherine Ham at Fox News.
But “not because American students just put in the worst performance on the national report card in decades.”
“Nah, it’s because some government employees might lose their jobs” attributable to President Trump’s cuts to the Department of Education.
For Weingarten & Co., “bureaucrats are always the No. 1 priority” — and their unions “use the majority of the money they bring in (your money!) to pay for political activism.”
And “to launch a raft of lawsuits against the administration, arguing — you guessed it — they can’t get fired.”
No surprise 70% of Americans “want public employee unions out of politics, and the record of this administration shows it won’t shy away from taming them.”
Eye on NY: Get Ready for Budget Cuts
“The State budget is nearly three weeks late,” thunders Patrick Orecki at Empire Report. “With agreement on policy issues close to the finish line, lawmakers should refocus on the budget.”
Policy points have dominated the finances talks, however the “critical budget issues are how the State will prepare for potentially massive federal cuts and a possible recession,” how it would “raise and spend over $252 billion of taxpayer money” and how it will possibly “improve New York’s affordability.”
Since fiscal yr 2020, “the budget’s State operating funds. . . have increased $35 billion, a whopping 33%.”
State leaders ought to “restrain spending,” plus “set aside at least $2 billion in a federal cut contingency fund” and “prioritize services.”
Down the highway, “New York needs to change its culture and stop using the budget to leverage hard policy decisions.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
