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Sports desk: MLB’s ‘Apology’ to Georgia
Major League Baseball was “implicitly making amends to Atlanta with Tuesday’s All-Star Game after moving the 2021 game in protest of Georgia election reforms,” declares J.T. Young at The Wall Street Journal. Objections to Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act, a package of common-sense measures to improve the voting process,” included calling it “racist” and “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” and so MLB “moved the All-Star Game to Denver.” Yet “criticisms of Georgia’s 2021 election law as racist and restrictive proved moot in the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.” Early voting “surged” in 2022, “hit a record high in 2024” and “the number of black Georgians casting ballots increased by 800,000” between 2020 and 2024. “By bringing the All-Star Game back to Georgia,” Major League Baseball was making “a baseball apology.”
Democrat: Our Party’s Nuts To ‘Welcome’ Zohran
Veteran Dem operative Joe Klein at Sanity Clause mocks calls to welcome Zohran Mamdani into the “big tent” of the Democratic Party. “Lefties” like Mamdani are “not a ‘new brand’ but the same old soreheads.” While his own “big tent is closed to QAnon, Proud Boys. . . and to the Democratic Socialists of America,” many Dems are “wobbly on Mamdani. Where the hell are you, Chuck Schumer?” After all, “the Democratic Socialists are the Proud Boys of the Democratic Party.” The unhappy fact is that socialism makes “a lot of sense” if in case you have “no sense of how things actually work” — it’s for people who’ve “idealism but no experience.” Meanwhile, the DNC is busying planning “litigation” towards President Trump, however it has no plans for immigration or tax reform. “Instead, we get anti-zionism and state-run grocery stores.”
Conservative: What the Autopen Scandal Reveals
It can be arduous to discover “any reasonably informed American who honestly thinks President Joe Biden wasn’t in a state of serious cognitive decline at the end of his term in office,” thunders The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson. The latest Times article on the Biden “administration’s use of the autopen” is an attempt at “damage control” in mild of probes into “the high-profile clemency decisions that came down in the final days” of his presidency. The “scandal reveals just how far the deep state was willing to go to keep a mentally compromised figurehead in office.” Indeed, on the finish of the day, the Biden “presidency stands as one of the greatest political scandals perpetrated against the American people” — and “someone needs to answer for that.”
More From Post Editorial Board
Science beat: Climate Idiocy Over Rat Boom
A examine claiming that “global warming” triggered an “increase in the urban rat population” has gotten undeserved credit, scoffs Aaron Brown at Reason. The examine “contains nothing meaningful about either climate change or rats,” as a result of, for starters, its underlying knowledge was drawn from “counting rat complaints reported by residents.” Different cities have other ways of recording rat complaints, with some together with “calls about roaches, bedbugs, cats, dogs, raccoons, and mice.” Other cities solely recorded rat bites. “Weak data and inaccurate statistics” make for unhealthy science and are no foundation for forming public coverage.
DC watch: Hold the Tears Over Rubio’s Cuts
The New York Times and Washington Post are sounding alarms after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued layoffs in his division, however the transfer requires “a little perspective,” cautions the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. With more than 80,000 staff, how “can a cut of 1,350 be ‘devastating?’” Remember, “the cuts are focused and not across the board,” with “a significant number” seemingly hitting the division’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Team Trump had “already cut most of DRL’s funding, so it was no surprise that the bureau’s staff was next” — and so they quantity to “only about 1.6% of the agency’s staff.” Besides, such workplaces solely “distracted from the department’s core goals.” Rubio wants to “keep going, to put into place the reforms he envisioned for the department.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
