Bragg’s big gamble … and other commentary


Neocon: Bragg’s Huge Gamble

Is a Trump indictment “definitely worth the injury a politicized prosecution” of a former prez will do? asks Eli Lake at The Free Press.

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

However Alvin Bragg’s “case towards Trump” appears to be like “paper-thin” and certain not “price upending 230 years of American norms and customs.”


Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg on Tuesday detailed an alleged “catch and kill” scheme involving a former Trump Tower doorman.
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Now “anticipate Republicans to benefit from the brand new requirements he’s simply created.” Additionally, “if the newest polling is right,” “indicting Trump on this method, presently, is an in-kind donation to his personal presidential main marketing campaign.”

“Trump justifies his personal flouting of guidelines as a result of he says the system is rigged towards him. Why is Alvin Bragg making an attempt to show his level?”

Training beat: DC HS Commencement Hoax

At the same time as “check scores are down and absenteeism is up,” Cause’s Emma Camp laments, “the highschool commencement fee in Washington, DC, is climbing” steadily because the 2018-19 faculty 12 months.

“Why are so many extra youngsters getting highschool diplomas?”

Maybe “college students who haven’t really realized course materials are getting passing grades anyway.”

So “fewer college students graduate with the talents they want for faculty.”

Certainly the college-graduation fee for DCers has dropped from 37% to 22%.

Training researcher Max Eden tells her: When “ ‘commencement turns into near a digital assure, it additionally turns into fairly functionally meaningless’ ” as “ ‘you find yourself educating youngsters much more poorly, each academically and morally.’ ”

GOPer: Why I’m Blocking Pentagon Nominees

When Staff Biden threatened, in defiance of federal legislation, to make taxpayers pay for journey and time without work so service members and their dependents can get abortions, “I warned Pentagon officers that I’d block their nominees,” recounts Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) at The Wall Avenue Journal.”

They “did it anyway,” so “I’ve saved my phrase and put a maintain on their nominees.”

Bidenites “flouted” a 40-year “bipartisan consensus that taxpayers shouldn’t be pressured to pay for abortion besides in instances of rape, incest or a menace to the lifetime of the mom.”

But the block solely “prevents nominees being confirmed in giant teams,” not all particular person confirmations.

For all Democrats’ fury, “an unprecedented change to the army’s abortion coverage must go earlier than the folks’s elected representatives.”

From the precise: The Left Flames the Tradition Conflict

“The left calls for tolerance and acceptance however is at all times the primary to disclaim that very same respect to those that suppose otherwise,” fumes the Washington Examiner’s Kaylee McGhee White, citing Monday’s CMT Music Awards, when “nation artist Kelsea Ballerini was joined by a number of drag queens onstage, which was lit up with pleasure colours and the transgender flag.”

It was plainly a response to state laws “proscribing inappropriate ‘grownup cabaret performances’ within the presence of kids,” and “it actually was not misplaced on both Ballerini or CMT that most of the individuals who help legal guidelines similar to Tennessee’s are the identical individuals who hearken to nation 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 on the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
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Certainly, “that was your complete level.

The Left is decided to drive its values onto each section of the inhabitants, particularly these segments that disagree.”

Truth is: “It’s not possible to maintain up a ‘reside and let reside’ philosophy when a militant and really influential political group relentlessly calls for the celebration of its values.”

Civil rights watch: Cali’s Incapacity Bias

Mother and father search out the “academic setting that maximizes” their baby’s potential, however sure California “households are prevented from attaining this objective merely as a result of they’re non secular and want to ship their kids to non secular colleges,” warns Laura Wolk Slavis at RealClearPolitics.

Congress handed the People with Disabilities Training Act to “ ‘to offer for the training of all kids with disabilities’ ” and eradicate limitations to “the identical academic alternatives as their non-disabled friends.”

But Cali “will solely certify ‘nonsectarian’ personal colleges for placement of scholars with disabilities.”

A Supreme Court docket ruling “bars authorities makes an attempt to exclude non secular organizations from public packages solely as a result of they’re non secular,” so California’s restriction is an “affront to the Structure — and can’t stand.”

— Compiled by The Put up Editorial Board