Politics

Bragg’s big gamble … and other commentary

Neocon: Bragg’s Big Gamble

Is a Trump indictment “worth꧅ the damage a politicized prosecution” of a former prez will do? .

“The progressive resistance has fantasized about Donald Trump’s indictment, conviction, ಌand incarceration.”

But Alvin Bragg’s “case against Trump” looks “paper-thin” and like🦩ly not “worth upending 230 years of American norms and customs.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday detailed an alleged “catch and kill” scheme involving a former Trump Tower doorman. Steven Hirsch

Now “expect Republicans to take advanta♍ge of the new standards he🍰’s just created.” Also, “if the latest polling is correct,” “indicting Trump in this way, at this time, is an in-kind donation to his own presidential primary campaign.”

“Trump justifies his own flouting of rules because he says the system is rigged against him. Why is Alvin Bragg trying to prove his point🀅?”

Education beat: DC HS Graduation Hoax

Even as “test scores are down and absenteeism🅠 is up,” , “the high school graduation rate in Washington, DC, is climbing” steadily since the 2018-19 school year.

“Why are so many🍎 more kids getting high school 🌊diplomas?”

Perhapꦦs “students who haven’t actually learned course material are getting passing grades anyway.”

So “fe𝔉wer students graduate with the skills they need f𓆉or college.”

Indeed the college-graduation rate for DCers has🌸 dropped from 37% to 22%.

Education researcher Max Eden tells her: 🌊When “ ‘graduation becomes close to a virtual guarantee, it also becomes pretty functionally meaningless’ ” as “ ‘you end up teaching kids a lot more poorly, both academically and morally.’ ”

GOPer: Why I’m Blocking Pentagon Nominees

When Team Biden threatened, in defiance of federal law, to make taxpayers pay for travel and time off so service members and their dependents can get abortions, “I warned Pentagon of☂ficiꦛals that I would block their nominees,” .”

They “did it anyway,” so “I’ve kept my word and put a🍌 hold on their nominees.”

Bidenites “flouted” a 40-year “bipartisan consensus that taxpayers shouldn’t be force✃d to pay for abortion except in ca꧂ses of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother.”

Yet the block only “p💜revents nominees being confirmed in large groups,” not all individual coꩲnfirmations.

For all Democrats’ fury, “an unprecedented change to t🗹he military’sꩵ abortion policy ought to go before the people’s elected representatives.”

From the right: The Left Flames the Culture War

“The left demands tolerance and acceptance but is always the first to deny that same respect to those who think differently,” , citing Monday’s CMT Music Aw𓆉ards, when “country artist Kelsea Ballerini was joined by several drag queens onstage, which was lit up with pride colors and the transgender flag.”

It was plainly a response to state legislation “restricting inappropriate ‘adult caba💟ret performances’ in the presence of children,” and “it certainly was no♓t lost on either Ballerini or CMT that many of the people who support laws such as Tennessee’s are the same people who listen to country music.”

Kelsea Ballerini performs onstage with Kennedy Davenport, Olivia Lux, Jan Sport and Manila Luzon at the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
Kelsea Ballerini performs onstage with Kennedy Davenport, Olivia Lux, Jan Sport and Manila Luzon at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. Variety via Getty Images

Indeed, “that was the entire point.

The Left is de🌺termined to force its values onto every segment of the population, especially those segments that disagree.”

Fact is: “It is impossible to keep up a ‘live and let live’ philosophy when𝄹 a militant and very influential political group relentlessly demands the celebration of its values.”

Civil rights watch: Cali’s Disability Bias

Parents seek out the “educational setting th✃at maximizes” their child’s potential, but certain California “families are prevented from achieving this goal merely because they are religious and wish to send their children to religiou꧒s schools,” .

Congress passed the Individuals wi🙈th Disabilities Education Act to “ ‘to provide fꦚor the ’ ” and eliminate barriers to “the same educational opportunities as their non-disabled peers.”

Yet Cali “will only certify ‘nonsectarian’ private schoolಞs for placeme💮nt of students with disabilities.”

A Supreme Court ruling “bars government attempts to exclude religious organizations from public programs solely because they are religious,” so Californiไa’s restriction is an “affront to the Constitution — and cannot stand.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board