Singing the ActBlues, girl dads mobilized in Maine – Latest News
From the left: Singing the ActBlues
ActBlue, the Democratic donation-processing behemoth, has “been criticized by its own stakeholders for being too careless in its compliance with campaign finance laws, too lax in its policing of PACs that use its platform, and for extensive internal chaos,” warns The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner. Worse, the criticism has introduced no actual adjustments, with experiences of “sham PACs” that “use ActBlue to deceive donors” and steer money to PACs’ consultants slightly than candidates. Plus, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones has been slammed for her “top-down brand of management and a regal travel style.” A “criminal indictment” may convey “an unfortunate squandering of infrastructure that took three decades to build.” Democrats “deserve better from their own.”
From the proper: Girl Dads Mobilized in Maine
For all Maine’s “progressive credentials,” a group of 8,000 girl dads is pushing an initiative “rooted in biological reality to reclaim women’s sports,” for his or her daughters, cheers The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. Leyland Streiff & Co. intention to “get their Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine initiative on the November ballot.” They say it’s not about excluding trans college students, however getting “their daughters to take their rightful places on fields.” Opponents say the proposition “violates the Maine Human Rights Act,” which “forbids discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ ” however it aligns Maine with federal protections beneath Title IX. The group collected 70,000 signatures, however “approval was then reversed after a review by Maine’s secretary of state found more than 12,500 signatures invalid.” Mainers assist this initiative, polls show; if it doesn’t make the poll this 12 months, says Streiff, it can “in November 2027 or 2028.”
Eye on schooling: Choice Helps G&T Deliver
“Do public school Gifted and Talented (G&T) programs improve outcomes, or unfairly favor affluent families?” asks City Journal’s John Ketcham. Whines that “G&T is mostly a way to entrench disadvantage” miss “the bigger picture.” Big-city mother and father have “few realistic options”: Charter faculties, “private schools” or transferring to dear “neighborhoods zoned for higher-performing district schools” or fully out of city. In locations “where families have real alternatives, traditional public systems are more likely to create differentiated, high-quality curricula and realize parents’ expectations.” Competitive “school choice would let G&T fulfill its promise” as a program “striving for educational excellence” that “should not be abolished.”
More From Post Editorial Board
Conservative: Elon Is an Inspiration
Elon Musk changing into the world’s first trillionaire made “economists, politicians and Democrats mad,” chuckles USA Today’s Nicole Russell. Yet his (paper) wealth is “a byproduct of ingenuity, risk-taking and perseverance — traits that have always defined American success.” Vengeful billionaire-bashing Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s indignant push to tax the wealthy would discourage the “risk-taking that produces broad prosperity” and so “hurt the very people they seek to help.” Plus, most of Musk’s web value is tied up in shares — “unrealized gains that aren’t taxed until sold.” Dems see “that one man’s trillion is somehow taken from everyone else,” however Musk’s success isn’t “late-stage capitalism”: It embodies “the American spirit” and “inspires people to pursue what once seemed impossible.”
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our every day Post Opinion publication!
Thanks for signing up!
Defense beat: US Military Production Too Slow
A serious downside “with how the United States equips and arms our military” turned clear after “sending 10,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine” in 2022 cleared out a lot of the US stock, and can “require multiple years of production to replace,” frets Arthur Herman at The Free Press. America’s “defense industrial base” is in “serious turmoil,” catastrophically “atrophied” at the same time as “China’s own stockpiles and armaments industry” is on a “wartime footing.” A “drastic decrease” in main navy contractors has thinned manufacturing, and overreliance on Pentagon contracting has led firms to stretch out their timelines to make sure income stream. “Too much regulation” can also be a downside, with an “endlessly complicated bureaucratic process” that drives promising firms away “from ever getting involved with the Pentagon.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
