'Presidential polls are ineffective. Will Trump win? Will Biden? No person has a crystal ball.'
Rex Huppke in USA Right this moment
“People are political polling themselves to dying,” says Rex Huppke. Liberals are freaking out whereas the MAGA devoted have a good time latest swing-state surveys favoring Donald Trump over President Joe Biden. Given the “stakes of this election,” we must be informing ourselves and others, not “standing open-mouthed in entrance of the firehose of “BREAKING PRESIDENTIAL POLLING NEWS.” Who will win? “There aren’t any crystal balls.” Anybody suggesting polls can predict a November end result this far out is “peddling nonsense.”
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'A special manner of seeing Justice Alito's blame-the-wife protection'
Jennifer Weiner in The New York Instances
Justice Samuel Alito says his spouse was the one who flew an upside-down flag (image of the “stop-the-steal” motion) at his home, says Jennifer Weiner. And Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blames Mrs. Menendez for his alleged “monetary chicanery.” These doubtful excuses add to a protracted historical past of “high-end wife-blaming in Washington.” Not less than the boys “blaming the missus” this time characterize their wives as “their very own folks with their very own unbiased company.” That's a “glimmer of progress.”
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'The actual motive for self-checkout bans'
C. Jarrett Dieterle at Motive
California Democrats are pushing for “banning self-checkout machines from shops within the title of preventing crime,” says C. Jarrett Dieterle. However enterprise house owners have already got incentive to part out the machines if they’re serving to shoplifters. The invoice would require shops to have at the least one worker for each two checkout machines. That and different necessities make it clear that is actually a “pro-union jobs invoice contained in the Malicious program of crime prevention.”Â
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'70 years after Brown, we're preventing the identical battles over once more'
Svante Myrick in The Hill
It has been 70 years for the reason that Supreme Court docket's landmark Brown v. Board of Schooling ruling, which not solely desegregated public faculties but additionally “cracked open doorways” to courthouses and the White Home, says Svante Myrick. So “it damage” when, days earlier than the anniversary, a Virginia faculty board restored the names of Accomplice leaders at two faculties, an indication of disrespect for Black progress. We clearly nonetheless should “guard in opposition to backsliding from main civil rights victories.”Â
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