‘We’re beginning to get pleasure from hatred’
Peggy Noonan in The Wall Avenue Journal
Individuals have been divided for a very long time, says Peggy Noonan. The “political polarization” has been a supply of misery. Individuals have lamented the rising “harshness of our political discourse” and the “outrageous and dehumanizing issues” each the left and the best say about one another. However we’re coming into a brand new stage the place the 2 sides “get pleasure from wanting down” on one another. “No one’s attempting to win anyone over.” We won’t go on like this ceaselessly.
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‘The failed Gaza pier proves our army is not ready for excessive climate’
Tim Gallaudet in The Hill
The unmooring in excessive seas of the Military’s floating pier for delivering humanitarian support into Gaza ought to function a “warning,” says Tim Gallaudet. The Protection Division is “failing to adequately put together for and take care of weather-related hazards.” The Biden administration’s local weather change insurance policies have “foolishly centered” on “mitigation via greenhouse fuel emission reductions.” The Pentagon “wants to focus on local weather resilience and adaptation” to be prepared for a brand new period of climate and local weather threats.
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‘Trump’s beautiful responsible verdict shatters his aura of invincibility’
Greg Sargent in The New Republic
Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush-money case shattered “one of the crucial weird issues” concerning the period of his GOP dominance — “his aura of invincibility,” says Greg Sargent. Trump has lied about all the things from his ballot energy to crowd sizes as if “conceding any trace of weak spot” would “shatter him totally.” Republicans have backed him up each time. However “a jury of atypical Individuals heroically stood up” and confirmed Trump he isn’t “past accountability.”
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‘With apologies to all these drunken sailors’
Las Vegas Assessment-Journal editorial board
President Joe Biden tries to “move himself off as a fiscal hawk” however his report is “abysmal,” says the Las Vegas Assessment-Journal editorial board. He has made “$7 trillion COVID-style budgets the brand new norm.” This yr’s deficit might exceed $1.6 trillion. “The issue is bipartisan.” Trump “did little to curb spending” and “too many” of his fellow Republicans “speak a very good recreation about fiscal sanity however succumb” to the temptation of treating the Treasury like a re-election “slush fund.”
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