Behind Bernie Sanders’ 5% wealth tax, what’s in – Latest News
Media watch: What’s in the Water at CNN?
“I can forgive a factual fumble,” however there’s “a difference between that,” quips National Review’s Jeffrey Blehar, “and whatever the hell is currently going on at CNN with their coverage of the Gracie Mansion attack.” Tuesday, the community ran its now legendary “ ‘human interest’ story” in regards to the jihadists. Even after that was “widely mocked,” anchor Abby Phillip later wrongly claimed the assault was geared toward Mayor Mamdani. A CNN reporter additionally implied Mamdani was a “target of political violence,” whereas contributor Ana Navarro “capped it all off” by characterizing the assault as an “attempt against” him. “I don’t know if this sort of ignorance is ideologically driven, down to simple pig-ignorance, or the product of a black-op psychological experiment involving LSD in the CNN water supply.”
Labor beat: Behind Sanders’ 5% Wealth Tax
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ invoice to sock billionaires with a 5% wealth tax, a “litmus test” for Democratic presidential candidates, “has attracted a coalition of supporters — chief among them government employee unions,” observes Aaron Withe at The Hill. And “the logic becomes clear” when you see how the tax directs its “projected revenue — $4.4 trillion over a decade — into an array of new federal spending programs,” which means “more federal employees, more union-eligible positions and more dues flowing into union bank accounts.” Even if the revenues falter as the rich transfer away, “the government programs” stick round. “The relationship between government union growth and federal spending is no coincidence. Larger government is, quite simply, the business model of public-sector unions.”
Higher Ed: Fixing ‘Studies’ Disciplines
“Big things are happening in higher education,” cheers John Masko on the City Journal of the University of Texas-Austin choice to consolidate 4 “studies” departments “into a single new Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.” UT Austin’s “administrators know that the ‘studies’ disciplines are really just one discipline — critical theory.” That is, “the ‘studies’ disciplines are not primarily about women, African Americans, America, or whatever their prefix happens to be”; every is merely a pretext for the examine of “critical theory.” If this consolidation “is emulated at peer institutions,” it should drastically “improve the climate of American academia,” as more college students will study “how to evaluate evidence, not how to act on assumed political conclusions.”
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Persian: Ayatollah Son’s Rise Betrays Revolution
Ali Khamenei’s son changing into “Iran’s next supreme leader” reverses the “very purpose of the revolution,” which was “above all else, a revolt against hereditary rule,” notes Reza Aslan on the Los Angeles Times. The 1979 revolt promised energy can be based mostly not on “dynasty, but moral authority rooted in religion.” Now “the premise that clerical rule” is divinely guided is “one of the last pillars supporting the Islamic Republic.” Mojtaba Khamenei is a “mid-ranking cleric whose influence derives largely from his proximity to power,” not from his stature as a giant of studying. His rise makes Iranian management “look less like divine mandate and more like dynastic inheritance.” So the revolution did “little more than replace the crown with a turban.”
Liberal: Party ‘Purity’ Ill-Serves America
Gatekeepers “within Democratic and Republican circles” now obsess with crushing “heterodoxy,” grumbles The Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin, assaulting any determine who holds “economic or cultural views significantly at odds” with “activists” and different “ideological enforcers.” Thus, Dems assail any member “saying, ‘Men can’t become women and boys shouldn’t be allowed to play in girls’ sports,’” whereas in in right now’s GOP, heterodoxy” covers “someone who says, ‘I disagree with Donald Trump.’” True believers see “DINOs and RINOs . . . everywhere in their respective parties”; these straying “from the party line,” risk being “punished, demoted, ‘primaried,’ and attacked nonstop on social media.” The great irony: Ever-more “Americans are heterodox” and would eagerly “support a heterodox legislator from the same or opposite party.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
