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☆ Wisconsin’s Act 10 Is in Jeopardy
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger & Paul Gigot. Images: Getty Images/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyWisconsin progressives went for a judicial abuse trifecta last week, filing a lawsuit to overturn Act 10, the landmark 2011 law that limited the ability of public unions to bargain collectively. The case is part of the Democratic campaign to use the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court to redraw the state’s legislative district maps and end school choice. Scott Walker , has saved the Badger State from turning into Illinois or New York, where public unions essentially run the state government for their own benefit. According to the MacIver Institute, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers $16.8 billion since it was passed in 2011, making public finances more manageable at every level of government.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Paul Gigot, Mark Kelly Wisconsin, Scott Walker Organizations: Democratic, Gov, Badger, MacIver Institute Locations: Illinois, New York, Wisconsin

☆ First They Came for the Cars, Then the Cows
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: EV dealers ask Biden where they're supposed to put the glut. Yet unlike most organized religions that are genuinely committed to helping our fellow man, today’s climate movement figuratively burns heretics at the stake and demands communal sacrifices that serve no purpose but to immiserate humanity. Consider the calls at the United Nations’s COP28 climate confab this month in Dubai to reduce meat consumption. Banishing fossil fuels and gasoline-powered cars isn’t enough to achieve the climate lobby’s net-zero promised land. Now people must give up their rib-eye steaks and pepperoni pizza.

Persons: Biden, they're, Kelly Locations: Dubai

☆ Can Washington Still Do Anything?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger & Paul Gigot. Images: Getty Images/AP/ Composite: Mark KellyCan the United States government still act to solve problems and aid allies in the national interest? President Biden has asked Congress for $106 billion in supplemental spending, but he needs Republican votes to do it. Republicans want to do something to reduce the flood of migrants pouring across the border and burdening American cities, but they need Democratic votes to pass it. The necessity for compromise is obvious, but America’s polarized politics and Mr. Biden’s political weakness may tank the effort.

Persons: Bill McGurn, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Paul Gigot, Mark Kelly, Biden Organizations: United Locations: United States, Ukraine, Israel, U.S

☆ New York’s Near Zombie Apocalypse
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyImagine if nearly half of New York City lost heat for months during the winter. That’s not the plot of a new survival drama. Such a catastrophe nearly occurred last Christmas, according to an alarming recent report by energy regulators that deserves more attention. It was the fifth time in 11 years that power plant failures caused by cold weather jeopardized grid reliability.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Elliott Organizations: Zuma, New York, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, North American Electric Reliability Corporation Locations: New, New York City

☆ Many More Voters With Guns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyMore than half of American voters say that they or someone in their household owns a gun, according to a poll by NBC News. After progressives drove up firearm ownership with policies that are soft on violent crime, they can’t figure out why their gun-control ideas fail to pass. The share of voters with a firearm in the household is 52%, up from 46% in 2019 and 42% in 2013. This is no surprise, in part because rural areas tilt right, and that’s where hunting is a family event and bears might be prowling the woods.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly More Organizations: Zuma, NBC News

☆ Car Dealers to Biden: EVs Aren’t Selling
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyYou can subsidize a buyer into the auto showroom, but you can’t make him buy. That’s the word from some 3,900 car dealers across the country who on Tuesday wrote President Biden that electric vehicles are piling up unsold on their lots. They want relief from his onerous and unrealistic EV sales mandate. “There are many excellent battery electric vehicles available for consumers to purchase,” the dealers write in their letter to the President.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Biden Organizations: Zuma

☆ Amtrak Tries to Take Union Station
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Amtrak is a rolling master class on government in action, and the latest example is its effort to seize control of Union Station in Washington via the power of eminent domain. The railway wants to do a concourse modernization project to add more seating, increase signage in the terminal, and improve infrastructure. In a September hearing before Washington, D.C., federal district Judge Amit Mehta , Amtrak CEO Steven Gardner said that the current leaseholder, a company called USI, isn’t helping the railway accomplish its plans. He complained that there’s “a mismatch” between Amtrak and “a private developer looking to maximize retail and revenue.”

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Amit Mehta, Steven Gardner, isn’t, there’s Organizations: Amtrak, Station, D.C Locations: Washington

☆ Magic Pills Are Coming
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Andy Kessler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

At healthcare conferences, someone always asks, “What if there was a magic pill?” One that could cure major diseases. Inevitably, the discussion ends with, “But, of course, there is no magic pill.” So we spend, spend, spend on healthcare, from $1.4 trillion in 2000 in the U.S. to more than $4.3 trillion—18% of the economy—in 2021. These treat but don’t cure diseases. Plus, two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and stroke. According to the National Institutes of Health, “86% of health care costs are attributable to chronic disease.”

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, ” Organizations: National Institutes of Health Locations: U.S

☆ The Supreme Court Considers the Right to Trial by Jury
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear the first of two landmark cases this term challenging the runaway administrative state. At stake in SEC v. Jarkesy is a bedrock constitutional principle that colonists fought to defend in the American revolution: the right to a trial by jury. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act granted the Securities and Exchange Commission unbridled power to seek penalties administratively against any individual for violating securities laws. Democrats wanted to make it easier for the agency to punish misconduct.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Dodd, Frank Organizations: SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission

☆ The Covid Vaccine Windfall Turns for Pfizer and Moderna
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe U.S. was in a fit of Covid panic during Thanksgiving week two years ago. Share prices in Pfizer and Moderna surged. By month’s end, Pfizer’s stock-market value had surpassed $300 billion, up 50% from the start of the pandemic. In 2022 Pfizer became the first pharmaceutical company to book more than $100 billion in annual sales owing to government purchases of its vaccines and antiviral pill.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly The Organizations: Getty, Zuma, Pfizer, Moderna Locations: Mark Kelly The U.S

☆ How Bidenomics May Cost Biden the Youth Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Citing the president’s age lets Democrats off the hook for the political failure of his economic policies. Images: AP/AFP/EPA/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden turns 81 on Nov. 20, and polls show that Democrats are increasingly worried about his mental and physical decline. Mr. Biden won the youth vote by double digits in 2020, while seniors swung for Mr. Trump. Recent polls, however, show that seniors are now the only age group that favors Mr. Biden in a rematch. Bidenomics has exacted a massive wealth transfer from young people to seniors.

Persons: Mark Kelly President Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, Trump, Bidenomics Organizations: AFP, EPA, Mr

☆ Why Stanford’s Leaders Tolerate Anti-Semitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Pushback emerges among donors and employers. Images: AP Composite: Mark KellyAfter Hamas massacred some 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, many Stanford students marched in support of the terrorist group, chanting “2, 4, 6, 8, smash the Zionist settler state.” University leaders responded with a statement supporting “academic freedom,” including the “expression of controversial and even offensive views.”This is the same university where administrators last year undertook an Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which published a catalog of words and phrases to be removed from the school’s websites. Among the proscribed terms: “American,” “immigrant” and “blind study.”

Persons: Mark Kelly, ” Organizations: Stanford, ” University, Initiative

☆ Brace for the Wind and Electric-Vehicle Bailouts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyFord assured investors last week that its generous deal with the United Auto Workers wouldn’t threaten its profitability. The same can’t be said of its electric vehicles, which lost $3.1 billion during the first nine months of this year. Those losses will doubtless grow, and anyone who thinks Washington won’t give auto makers another bailout should think again. Last week Munich-based Siemens Energy , one of the world’s top wind manufacturers, said the German government is prepared to extend as much as €16 billion (or $16.9 billion) in state guarantees to rescue it.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Ford, Washington Organizations: Reuters, United Auto Workers, Siemens Energy Locations: Munich

☆ Home Sellers Take On the Realtors Cartel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady and Kim Strassel. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Composite: Mark KellyThe 1.5 million-member National Association of Realtors spent $81.7 million on political lobbying in 2022, more than any other business group. Consider Burnett v. NAR, a federal class-action suit that Missouri home sellers have brought against the association. The case, which went to trial last week, presents an existential threat to the cartel. If the plaintiffs prevail, home buyers and sellers could save $120 billion in fees each year.

Persons: Dan Henninger, Mary O’Grady, Kim Strassel, Mark Kelly, Burnett Organizations: AFP, Getty, Bloomberg, National Association of Realtors, NAR Locations: Missouri

☆ ‘Our Enemies Are the CEOs . . . Our Comrades Are in Gaza’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, 47127a92 Organizations: seiu Locations: israel

☆ The UAW Has the Wrong Target for ‘Corporate Greed’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark KellyScientists were aghast last month when Patrick Brown , climate director at the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., acknowledged that he’d censored one of his studies to increase his odds of getting published. Credit to him for being honest about something his peers also do but are loath to admit.

Persons: Paul Gigot, Bjorn Lomborg, Mark Kelly Scientists, Patrick Brown Organizations: Breakthrough Institute Locations: Berkeley, Calif

☆ California’s Smash-and-Grab Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ DayQuil, Covid Vaccine Boosters and FDA Science
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Organizations: fda

☆ The Student-Debt Bubble Fueled a Housing Bubble
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ It Takes a Village, but in California Parents Aren’t Welcome
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: california

☆ Donald Trump, 2024 and the Reasoning Republican Voter
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: GOP candidates square off in first primary debate and clash over aid to Ukraine. Image: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSay this much for Vivek Ramaswamy: He has an impressive aptitude for attracting attention. Last Monday he tweeted a video of himself shirtless and slugging tennis balls. (It wasn’t clear whether his shots landed in.) The caption: “Three hours of solid debate prep this morning.” His lack of actual debate prep showed in his amateurish performance Wednesday evening.

Persons: Win McNamee, Vivek Ramaswamy Locations: Ukraine

☆ Regulators Gone Wild
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Image: Scott Morgan/ReutersThe Supreme Court has reined in some of the Biden Administration’s regulatory excesses, but the federal bureaucracy is relentless. And now the White House is quietly changing its analytical methods to make it easier to impose new rules while disguising their cost. If you think regulation has been running amok in the last two years, buckle up.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Scott Morgan Organizations: Biden

☆ Eric Adams and the Self-Imposed Crisis of a Sanctuary City
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: The United States is often described as a 'nation of immigrants,' but with Biden’s open river or another Trump wall, the clock on American pre-eminence could stop, as illegal immigration taints the legal path to citizenship. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyNew York politicians often believe the rest of the country cares about their problems. But the only time most people give a thought to the Empire State’s largely self-inflicted woes is when they relish the schadenfreude of seeing progressives pay for misguided policies. The Big Apple ’s migrant mess is a case in point.

Persons: Mark Kelly Organizations: Getty, Mark Kelly New, Apple Locations: United States, Mark Kelly New York

☆ The Fire in Maui and the Lesson of Greece
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Costas Synolakis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Image: Scott Morgan/ReutersWhat went wrong in Maui? Last week a fire burned the historic city of Lahaina to the ground and killed at least 93 people, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Some local politicians have called the fire the worst natural disaster in Hawaii’s history, and compared it with the 1960 tsunami in Hilo, although a 1946 tsunami in Hilo, caused by an earthquake in Alaska, killed 158.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Kate Bachelder Odell, Allysia Finley, Dan Henninger, Scott Morgan Organizations: Reuters Locations: Maui, Lahaina, Hilo, Alaska

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