The lies of Hormuz, NIMBYs vs. jobs America needs – Latest News
From the suitable: The Lies of Hormuz
Few misinformation efforts beat the “Democratic-media” complicated’s work “to tag the Trump administration with a global energy crisis,” thunders The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel.
Remember, Iran has threatened oil disruptions “for decades and won’t stop until it is fully defanged.”
As for the charge Team Trump “had NO PLAN” for such a disruption, think about: President Trump first positioned us by gaining “energy independence,” and US capability is “expanding dramatically.”
Energy Secretary Chris Wright “has been on the phone daily with Middle East energy ministers.”
The International Energy Agency is releasing historic quantities of oil. And denying Iran the power to “hold the world hostage” will probably be a enormous “long-term gain,” all “thanks to a Trump team that had a clear-eyed, multifaceted” power plan.
Eye on NY: NIMBYs vs. Jobs America Needs
“Micron Technology Inc., a top chipmaker, wants to spend $100 billion on a new plant in central New York,” clarify the Bloomberg News editors, a project that “would help revive domestic chipmaking” and ease “an acute shortage of memory chips.”
But it should get previous “an activist group called Jobs to Move America” that “has sued in state court” claiming the environmental review was ‘unnecessarily rushed.’”
The objection is bogus: “Micron has obtained more than a dozen major permits or approvals, complied with a slew of environmental statutes” and opinions.
If Congress “wants domestic chipmaking to be viable,” it ought to “eliminate tariffs on raw materials,” “invest in new transmission capacity and grid modernization” and “ease regulation on nuclear and other clean-energy sources.”
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Border beat: Making Migration ‘Uncontrollable’
In 2014, “immigration advocacy circles” devised a “strategy” to use “a narrow procedural safeguard within immigration law” concerning asylum claims based mostly on “credible fear of persecution,” explains Alicia Nieves at Compact.
Activists on the border “prepared” households to cross screenings for asylum. Soon, “increasing numbers of migrants” arriving at “ports of entry” introduced themselves “using the same language activists had encouraged the earlier cohort to use.”
Next, “liberal legal groups used federal litigation to curtail the administration’s nascent deterrence efforts,” and “new pathways were developed through which migrants could present claims for entry.”
Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden introduced “mass migration as a force of nature outside their control,” however it was really “a phenomenon of their own making.”
Culture critic: Britain’s England-Hating Elite
Britain’s diversicrats complain that the English “countryside is a ‘white environment’ . . . definitionally hostile to nonwhite people,” fumes Joanna Williams at City Journal, so the federal government has “set out proposals to make the countryside more attractive to minorities.”
Its “plans include outreach schemes to attract more Muslims to the countryside,” corresponding to strategies that “the countryside should offer more halal food and spaces for prayer.”
Related efforts embody making Canterbury Cathedral “engage” with people “regardless of background or belief,” and “decolonizing” Shakespeare.
England’s elites imagine “that the original sin of racism not only taints everything English but also simmers beneath any unsuppressed expression of national pride,” and are thus “determined to destroy the nation’s heritage” and lead it to “cultural suicide.”
Conservative: Canada’s Anti-Semitism Surrender
After Toronto synagogues had been hit with gunfire in March, “it’s fair to say this is cause for alarm,” grumbles Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
“In the summer of 2024, a Jewish girls school in Toronto was hit with gunfire” — and twice more months later. Each 12 months after October 7, Toronto “saw a steep increase” in “incidents of nonviolent anti-Semitism.”
“Yet Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s way “to address rising anti-Semitism” was “to pour fuel on the fire” by including “her voice to the ‘genocide’ blood libel against the Jewish state.”
Meanwhile, Canada’s authorities merely supplied grants for Jews to “hunker down behind bulletproof glass.”
The National Post studies that “charges have been dropped” in case after case of anti-Israel assaults. Fixing Canada’s “broken civic culture” will “take more than offering Jews some bulletproof glass.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
