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Labor watch: Ensuring That Workers Want Unions
Florida is proactively working to “hold government employee unions accountable,” notes Aaron Withe at The Hill, by forcing them to display “support from an absolute majority of the people it claims to speak for.” A 2023 law calls for “recertification elections” when unions “fail to maintain the support of 60 percent of their dues-paying membership.” Saying “they didn’t bother to vote against us” can’t be a “sufficient basis” to carry unique bargaining energy.” Yet Oregon is “doing the exact opposite,” allowing authorities unions to sue teams “that contact public employees about their rights to opt out of unions.” Advocates declare that is meant to curb teams from fraudulently “impersonating a union representative,” but they’ve by no means cited “a single documented case of a worker being genuinely defrauded.”
From the left: Big Tech Censors Are Back
Big Tech is “suppressing ads for a documentary about IRS whistleblower clients,” fumes Racket’s Matt Taibbi. “Google, X, and Meta all appear to be declining to run ads,” regardless that Mark Zuckerberg “appeared at Trump’s inauguration” after “publishing a controversial letter” that “criticized the Biden administration’s pressure to ‘censor’ certain political material.” Meanwhile, FCC chair Brendan Carr issued “ham-handed threats” to networks that should “operate in the public interest” or risk “losing their licenses” over Iran protection, regardless that Trump “seemed to run against censorship in the 2024 campaign.” It appears doubtless that “as politicians of any party fall into public disfavor, they will feel greater temptation to use the awesome information-squashing gadgets available on these platforms.”
Conservative: Israel Aims To End Hostage Incentive
Israel’s Knesset “widened the application of the death penalty,” however this “landmark law” won’t ever “see the light of day,” predicts Commentary’s Seth Mandel. The invoice, which “would make it easier to avoid a death penalty for Jewish defendants than Arab defendants,” appears “designed to be scrapped by the high court.” The actual goal of the invoice is “to derail hostage deals.” Historically, “controversial swaps” of lots of or hundreds of Palestinian inmates for a few Israeli hostages “have long been understood to incentivize future hostage taking.” Because of these offers, “bloodstained terrorists” know “they will never serve out their sentences,” and so “murder convictions only temporarily remove someone from the battlefield.”
Religion desk: A Faith Revival Among the Young
“Pastor Jason Howard of the Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh saw a surge of young people flocking to his Christian congregation” the week after Charlie Kirk was murdered, stories the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito. Although “their congregation had always been predominantly youth-driven” — “this was different,” as “lines began to form.” It isn’t an remoted phenomenon: “For the first time in decades, faith in this country is growing, not retreating — particularly among our young people.” Plus, “new data show that the share of Americans who are nonreligious has dropped for the third year in a row.” There’s a “surge in Roman Catholic Church converts” throughout the US as effectively. Young people are in search of “something absolute to anchor their lives in,” contends Howard, and “God is the absolute that can anchor our lives.”
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Defense beat: To Achieve Peace, Prepare for War
“Washington has for years given priority to spending on butter over guns,” grumbles The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. “The result is a shrunken military industrial base that has been exposed by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.” Fortunately, President Trump goals “to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion.” Doing so would increase it “to 4.5%” of GDP, “which is close to the 5% goal that the President has set for NATO members.” The proposal “aims to expand the military industrial base” to make sure we’re not short of ships, “munitions or manpower.” For all of the naysaying about rising the deficit, “investing in military deterrence is also far cheaper than having to fight a war against China.” “The President’s budget shows a welcome new realism about the multiplying threats America faces.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
