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☆ What Was Donald Trump Thinking?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Wokeness Hobbles Disney as It Faces the Streaming Challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For the first time since 1960, the TV and movie unions representing actors and writers are on strike over issues including better pay on streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime. Images: Zuma Press/AP/Getty Images/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyDisney CEO Bob Iger hinted this month that he might sell some of the company’s cable channels on the heels of thousands of layoffs across the business’s empire. Its stock has fallen by more than half in the past two years, and its streaming service is losing billions of dollars annually.

Persons: Mark Kelly Disney, Bob Iger Organizations: Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, Zuma Press, Getty

☆ Bidenomics and the Boom in DEI and ESG Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Democrats said decades ago they alone would run policies for black Americans. Now comes the reckoning. Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWhen the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of having “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.” Her assessment of the case is as confused as the metaphor. It is Harvard and other elite schools that have been behaving like snooty royalty. Now they will no longer be able to have their cake and eat it too.

Persons: Mark Kelly, Ketanji Brown Jackson Organizations: Harvard

☆ Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Steve Milloy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: EPA/AP/PA/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyThe global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley, Bill McGurn, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly Organizations: Reuters, University of Maine’s

☆ The Partisan Press Unwittingly Boosts RFK Jr.’s Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Root Causes of San Francisco’s Disorder
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden’s High-Speed Car Crash Is Waiting to Happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyA Tesla Model S abruptly shifted lanes and braked on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last Thanksgiving, causing an eight-car pileup that injured nine, including a toddler. The driver claimed to have been using the car’s full self-driving function, which appears to have malfunctioned. Complaints of “phantom braking” even when Teslas aren’t “self-driving” have been piling up too.

Persons: Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Tesla Organizations: Getty, San Locations: San Francisco, Oakland

☆ The Other Green-Energy Grid Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sacramento’s War on Skittles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Officials Neglect Covid Vaccines’ Side Effects
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In testimony on April 26, 2023, Randi Weingarten detailed the cosy relationship between the American Federation of Teachers, the Biden Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control regarding Covid-19 school closure policy. Images: AP/Shutterstock/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyBrianne Dressen was an energetic mom, an avid hiker and a preschool teacher—until she got a Covid vaccine. Ms. Dressen, 42, was among the first Americans to be vaccinated. She volunteered to participate in AstraZeneca ’s trial, and she received her first dose on Nov. 4, 2020, at a clinic in West Jordan, Utah. “I was more than glad to participate in the scientific process.”

☆ The Lockdowns Are Over, but the Damage Goes On
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Images: AP/Shutterstock/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyThe World Health Organization on Friday acknowledged that the Covid-19 emergency is over, six days before the Biden administration’s declaration is set to expire. How about addressing more pressing public-health problems that have festered as they’ve obsessed about the virus? Developing countries are seeing a resurgence of deadlier infectious diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis, measles and polio. In the U.S., young people are experiencing persistent problems that were aggravated by lockdowns including increased deaths, mental illness, drug overdoses and a detachment from the workforce. Call the phenomenon “long Covid lockdowns.”

☆ Gavin Newsom’s Red-State Liberation Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Journal Editorial Report: The presidential candidate tries to put away his top competitor. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyIf you listen to California Gov. Gavin Newsom , you might get the impression that the Taliban had just swept Texas and is marching on New Orleans. The potential presidential hopeful earlier this month kicked off a “Campaign for Democracy” to spread a woke message to the oppressed and benighted Americans living in red states such as Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi. The irony is that California law bans state-funded travel to 23 states because they’ve adopted policies that lawmakers in Sacramento claim are discriminatory.

☆ Joe Manchin’s Faux Betrayal and an Endless Green Bill of Goods
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Who knows if West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin truly believed the Inflation Reduction Act would reduce the deficit. Either way, he bought a green bill of goods. Several recent independent studies show that the law’s climate spending will cost trillions of dollars—many multiples more than Democrats claimed—and most of it will go to the affluent. A Goldman Sachs report last month estimated the law’s climate spending would cost $1.2 trillion over the next decade—three times as much as the Congressional Budget Office estimated last summer. One reason is the law’s sundry green-energy tax credits are uncapped, and most are available to businesses that pay little or no tax.

☆ You Can’t Throw the Bums Out if You’ve Voted With Your Feet
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation, as Adam Smith once observed. Brandon Johnson ’s victory in last week’s Chicago mayoral race is a reminder that no matter how bad things get, they can always get worse. Its high crime and taxes are driving away businesses like Citadel, Boeing and Tyson Foods. Despite some of the highest property taxes in the country, its pension funds are in a death spiral. A net 175,000 people left Cook County between 2020 and 2022.

☆ How Biden Bailed Out California and New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Imagine a bank in Houston that caters to the oil-and-gas industry. It makes low-cost loans with credit-friendly terms to unprofitable shale frackers on the condition that they hold their deposits exclusively at the bank, where they earn an above-market return. It also manages the wealth of oil and gas executives. The bank uses its enormous deposits to fund more risky loans to frackers and acquire Treasury bonds and government mortgage-backed securities. As frackers burn cash, the bank struggles to redeem deposits and has to sell assets at a loss.

☆ President Biden and the Science of Aging
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

There’s no shame in growing old. Our 80-year-old president looks and acts every bit his age. There’s something to the adage that age is only a number. Someone can be biologically younger or older than his years on earth, depending on how his body and cells age. The best measure of that number comes from our telomeres—strands of DNA that cap chromosomes and protect genes.

☆ Three Years Late, the Lancet Recognizes Natural Immunity
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Lancet medical journal this month published a review of 65 studies that concluded prior infection with Covid—i.e., natural immunity—is at least as protective as two doses of mRNA vaccines. “Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death, study finds,” NBC reported on Feb. 16. The study found that prior infection offered 78.6% protection against reinfection from the original Wuhan, Alpha or Delta variants at 40 weeks, which slipped to 36.1% against Omicron. Protection against severe illness remained around 90% across all variants after 40 weeks. These results exceed what other studies have found for two and even three mRNA doses.

☆ The CDC’s Long-Covid Deception
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Many liberals label themselves “pro-science” as if that’s a political position. Then again, so many putatively scientific studies seem intended to promote progressive policies rather than advance scientific knowledge. Such studies then get amplified by the media and self-appointed experts on social media. Consider a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that claims to find that nearly 36% of Covid cases among students, faculty and staff at George Washington University resulted in “long Covid.” The study suggests that young, healthy people face a high risk of chronic debilitating symptoms after infection despite being at low risk of getting severely ill with the virus.

☆ The Climate Crusaders Are Coming for Electric Cars Too
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles won’t be enough to prevent the world from overheating. So people will have to give up their cars. That’s the alarming conclusion of a new report from the University of California, Davis and “a network of academics and policy experts” called the Climate and Community Project. The report offers an honest look at the vast personal, environmental and economic sacrifices needed to meet the left’s net-zero climate goals. Progressives’ dirty little secret is that everyone will have to make do with much less—fewer cars, smaller houses and yards, and a significantly lower standard of living.

☆ Why Vaccine Skepticism Is Growing on the Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Republicans cheered when Covid-19 vaccines rolled out two year ago. “I think the messaging should be, ‘Get a vaccine because it’s good for you to do it. You’re not going to have to have to be doing anything abnormal. The message from the Biden administration and public-health officials has been different: Vaccines are safe and effective. Those who don’t trust us should shut up.

☆ How Biden Officials Bungled a Better Vaccine
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How many times have public-health experts told us that Covid isn’t like the flu? The Food and Drug Administration last week proposed treating the virus just like the flu when it comes to recommending annual vaccines. There’s a glaring problem with this strategy: Covid isn’t seasonal. This virus has shown a remarkable ability to transmit year-round, with waves of infection occurring during summer as well as winter. But as antibodies wane during the winter, you’ll become susceptible again.

☆ The Deceptive Campaign for Bivalent Covid Boosters
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

You might have heard a radio advertisement warning that if you’ve had Covid, you could get it again and experience even worse symptoms. The message, sponsored by the Health and Human Services Department, claims that updated bivalent vaccines will improve your protection. This is deceptive advertising. But the public-health establishment’s praise for the bivalent shots shouldn’t come as a surprise. Federal agencies took the unprecedented step of ordering vaccine makers to produce them and recommending them without data supporting their safety or efficacy.

☆ Do Overweight Kids Need Pills?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Childhood obesity rates have been climbing since the 1970s, but kids have never packed on as many pounds as quickly as they did during Covid shutdowns. According to one study, the share of 5- to 11-year-olds classified as obese ballooned by nearly 40% between March 2020 and January 2021. About 1 in every 4 kids by the end of the study was considered obese. The AAP last week recommended weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery for obese adolescents and teens. Such interventions are supposed to be a last resort, but medicating children has become the go-to solution for common problems like anxiety and impulse control.

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