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From the left: The Kimmel Distraction
“We’ve now moved to the stage of the Jimmy Kimmel story beyond immediate outrage and legit opposition to rank propaganda,” fumes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi, as Jake Tapper and relaxation of the institution ignore Google’s admission of large censorship below strain from the Biden administration.
Indeed: “How did politicians and the U.S. media respond to confirmation that the last administration engaged in wholesale censorship not of one jerkwad talk show host, but the entire world? They pretended it didn’t happen.”
We had “entire federal bureaucracies devoted to policing speech,” but The New York Times can’t even get the info because it refused to report that Google wound up suppressing correct data that corrected authorities misinformation.
Conservative: Dems Embrace Anti-ICE Extremism
A faction on the left “so vehemently opposes the enforcement of federal immigration law” that it represents “the armed extremist wing of sanctuary Democrats” cautions the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
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The assault on the Dallas ICE facility falls “squarely in line with the antifa attack on the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on the 4th of July” and different “protests or outright riots in the campaign against ICE, notably in Los Angeles.”
And “Democratic members of Congress have gotten into confrontations with authorities over the enforcement of the law.”
With a lot “anger and violence have been directed at lawful authorities on behalf of lawbreakers,” it’s clear “many Democrats have positioned themselves solidly on the side of migrants who are in the United States illegally.”
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Culture critic: The Meaning of Masculinity
As “a grenade rolled toward his boys” on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, “Gil Ta’asa had seconds to choose” earlier than throwing “himself on the explosive to shield his sons,” recounts Samuel J. Adams at City Journal.
Ta’asa’s remaining act was “a father’s sacrificial love.” In Jewish custom, “parental love transcends instinct” because it “mirrors divine love.”
Today, masculinity is caricatured “as either ugly aggression or hollow posturing”’ Ta’asa’s “example cuts through our confusion: men need calling and purpose, not just careers.”
Fatherhood is “central to human flourishing.” Gil Ta’asa, like his nation, “didn’t choose his circumstances; he chose his response.”
Our world could have “forgotten what heroes look like,” however “Gil Ta’asa — firefighter, father, protector — showed us.”
Shutdown countdown: Dems Prep To Hurt Themselves
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries “insist government won’t run” except Republicans comply with more spending and “a reversal of the central Medicaid reform in the GOP’s reconciliation bill,” marvels The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel.
That is, they’ll “give the Trump team exactly what it’s been wanting — a shutdown — in return for Democrats’ continuing to demand something they will never get. What a deal”: “hellfire for brimstone.”
Budget chief Russ Vought defined how this “will roll”: Trump’s people gained’t simply furlough federal staff; they’ll completely fire them and rehire solely these they deem essential.
Still, the left is urgent Schumer to blow all of it up.
How “amusing”: “Democrats don’t usually do shutdowns”; they “do government. Yet here we go.”
From the proper: Billionaire Brit’s US Politics Push
“The good government group Americans for Public Trust (APT)” factors to “the extensive financial activity of British billionaire Christopher Hohn” and his bankrolling of lefty causes within the United States, studies The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood.
“Through the use of his nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF),” Hohn gave over $553 million to US orgs from 2014 to 2023, funding causes like “radical environmentalism.”
He “is the largest known individual donor to Extension Rebellion,” the novel climate group, and he “purportedly dumped $7 million into the D.C.-based Center for Climate Integrity.”
CIFF additionally has worrying ties “with communist China,” and opened an workplace in Beijing in 2019, which is overseen by Chinese governmental ministries.
To stop interlopers like Hohn, APT desires “more concrete laws” to keep “foreign money out” of US politics.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
