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Health watch: RFK Jr.’s Herbicide Debacle
It appears the “RFK Jr.-led Make America Healthy Again commission is planning to chicken out of a crusade against glyphosate, an herbicide that the HHS secretary has argued causes cancer,” explains The Free Press’ River Page.
The Environmental Protection Agency “has repeatedly concluded that glyphosate,” a okay a Roundup, “is safe if used according to label directions,” however “in May, the MAHA commission specifically called out glyphosate” in a report that was “effectively, a list of problems” with options to return in a second report. But banning glyphosate “could cost farmers nearly $2 billion.”
And thus, “two weeks ago, an EPA official” stated “the unreleased report was going to state that glyphosate is safe after all.” “This is what happens when the ideals of MAHA collide with a hugely powerful corner of the MAGA base” — farmers.
Schools beat: The ‘Anti-Racist’ Math Scam
Renaissance Technologies billionaire Jim Simons despatched a lot of his charitable donations to math and science analysis, however his daughter Liz is as a substitute “supercharging a movement to remake K-12 mathematics education according to social justice principles,” experiences Lee Fang at RealClearInvestigatons.
The purpose: “to motivate disadvantaged students while dispensing with the traditional features of math,” like numbers — though “no credible research” exhibits this method improves efficiency.
With the Gates Foundation becoming a member of in, billionaires are pushing lunacy like “elevating DEI practices and anti-racist activism into all math instruction” — whilst they’re met with “sharp criticism from parents and educators” as a result of approaches “that have increased rather than decreased academic rigor” have seen “notable improvements in black student performance.”
Anti-trust alert: Lobbyists Rule at Justice
“Genuine MAGA reformers” on the Justice Department are pitted in opposition to “MAGA-in-name-only lobbyists,” frets former Antitrust Division lawyer Roger P. Alford at UnHerd.
The pseudo-MAGA lobbyists — enabled by the lawyer basic’s chief of employees, Chad Mizelle, and performing Associate AG Stanley Woodward — finish run those that “strive to remain true to President Trump’s populist message.”
There’s “nothing wrong with lobbying done the right way,” however with legal settlements labored out at booze-filled lunches, these swamp creatures “are violating fundamental moral principles.”
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Liberal: Dems Must Do Better Than Newsom
Gavin Newsom “wants to be president,” grumbles Michael Baharaeen at The Liberal Patriot, and “has all but crowned himself the leader” of the Trump Resistance. But “Democrats would do well not to allow their anger at Trump” get the higher of them and back a “candidate with many of his own vulnerabilities” simply because he’s “willing to throw punches at Republicans.”
Newsom’s national appeal is “quite limited”: He’s “struggled” as governor, with California struggling “net population loss” thanks largely to the state’s “unaffordability.”
He’s spent his “career in a deep-blue state” and because the “executive of by far its most liberal major city,” when Democrats need swing voters who’ll be deeply skeptical of a “blue-state governor” who’s “failed to adequately handle the issues they care about most.”
From the correct: AI’s No Excuse for More Welfare
Tesla’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and different high rollers “envision a ‘massive wealth-redistribution system’ to placate worries over technology displacing human work,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley.
But “universal basic income” is an previous, dangerous thought.
Sure, “the economic uncertainty surrounding AI” lends “understandable appeal” to “the idea of a social insurance program in the form of a minimum level of income for everyone.”
Argh: Since “the early days” of America’s “war on poverty,” it appears we’ve misplaced the understanding that “you alleviate privation by reducing dependency on the government and creating incentives to become more productive.”
Fact is, “taking from workers to give to those who refuse to work is a recipe for resentment and a bumper crop of layabouts.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
