From the right: Look Out, Biden World
The IRS whistleblower possibly set to expose Justice Department interference in the Hunter Biden probe should “terrify those behind the DOJ’s Biden family protection racket,” — even US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Why? “The whistleblower’s attorney” says his client can ID witnesses to his claims.” And “career investigators and career prosecutors in the DOJ tax division signed off on the recommended charges.” “Recall that in March of 2022, The New York Times began prepping the country for an indictment of Hunter Biden by soft-peddling his criminal conduct” — yet the indictment never came. Now “the whistleblower’s allegations” conflict with Garland’s “testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that” he did not interfere in the Hunter case. Indeed, “▨the political favoritism shown Hunter Biden is obvious.”
Climate watch: Ignoring Europe’s Backtrack
Europe is backing off “its aggressive carbon-zero policies” as consumers balk, . The French Green Party, ironically, tried to block plans for a carbon tax on fuel, fearing new protests from the Gilets Jaunes, the yellow-vest group whose protests “all but shut down France.” The Netherlands plan to﷽ reduce livestock by a third also led to riots. Yet President Biden “and his White House climate zealots are u🔜nlikely to learn” from Europe. Instead, they’re barreling toward “a fanciful green economy.” They clearly see climate activists and young voters as critical to Biden’s reelection campaign. But his “aggressive” proposals “could cost the climate effort significant popular support. It is happening in Europe, and it could happen here.”
Gadfly: Teen-Migrant Horror Story Vanishes
The New York Times a week ago “reported that the Biden administration had ignored and downplayed repeated signs that migrant children were being widely exploited” in total defiance of child-labor laws, yet the “scoop was effectively a one-day story,” . Blame “the left-of-center groupthink at work in most of the mainstream media.” “A lot of people who say they care about the abuse of migrants really mean that they care about the abuse of migrants during a Republican presidency. On༒ce a Democra🌄t is in office, they just assume everything is going fine.”
Libertarian: How the Left Killed Online News
“If BuzzFeed News-style journalism is dead, it was a murder-suicide,” . Buzzfeed shut down its news division last week. The autopsy reveals that “the centrality of Facebook to the distribution strategies of online news outlets over the past decade cannot possibly be overstated,” but “many in the mainstream media” decided that Donald Trꦏump’s 2016 victory was “all Facebook’s fault.” Thus, “the idea that Mark Zuckerberg, insufficiently attentive to content moderation, had allowed malignant Russian accounts to infect his platform and subvert American democracy became the preferred narrative.” Facebook responded “by nuking news,” changing “the feed to prioritize content from friends and family and punish offsite news links, and that was that.” Other media “killed the golden goose—or rather, bullied the golden goose into agreeing that more eggs would be really, really bad for society.”
Eye on NY: Teachers Union & Pols vs. Kids
New York State United Teachers is “asking the senators and assemblymembers it endorsed for re-election last year to film short videos” supporting the union’s anti-charter-school stance, . In the vids, lawmakers parrot “misleading (if not false) claims about charter schools.” Assemblyman Jarrett Gandolfo (R-LI), for one, claims charters “‘lack accountability and they siphon funds away from our public schools.” In truth, charter schools are visited by regulators yearly, “face more scrutiny than virtually any other public s🃏chool” and “have independent financial audits performed.” Why would lawmakers “act as props for a political organization such as NYSUT”? “In New York, home to the highest per-pupil spending and some of the weakest accountability rules, the legislators’ performance▨ is something of an explanation in itself.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board