Bragg’s big gamble … and other commentary
Neocon: Bragg’s Big Gamble
Is a Trump indictment “worth the damage 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.”
But Alvin Bragg’s “case against Trump” looks “paper-thin” and likely not “worth upending 230 years of American norms and customs.”
Now “expect Republicans to take advantage of the new standards he’s just created.” Also, “if the latest polling is correct,” “indicting Trump in this way, at this time, is an in-kind donation to his own presidential primary campaign.”
“Trump justifies his own flouting of rules because he says the system is rigged against him. Why is Alvin Bragg trying to prove his point?”
Education beat: DC HS Graduation Hoax
Even as “test scores are down and absenteeism is up,” Reason’s Emma Camp laments, “the high school graduation rate in Washington, DC, is climbing” steadily since the 2018-19 school year.
“Why are so many more kids getting high school diplomas?”
Perhaps “students who haven’t actually learned course material are getting passing grades anyway.”
So “fewer students graduate with the skills they need for college.”
Indeed the college-graduation rate for DCers has dropped from 37% to 22%.
Education researcher Max Eden tells her: When “ ‘graduation becomes close to a virtual guarantee, it also becomes pretty functionally meaningless’ ” as “ ‘you end up teaching kids a lot more poorly, both academically and morally.’ ”
GOPer: Why I’m Blocking Pentagon Nominees
When Team Biden threatened, in defiance of federal law, to make taxpayers pay for travel and time off so service members and their dependents can get abortions, “I warned Pentagon officials that I would block their nominees,” recounts Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) at The Wall Street Journal.”
They “did it anyway,” so “I’ve kept my word and put a hold on their nominees.”
Bidenites “flouted” a 40-year “bipartisan consensus that taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother.”
Yet the block only “prevents nominees being confirmed in large groups,” not all individual confirmations.
For all Democrats’ fury, “an unprecedented change to the military’s abortion policy ought to go before the people’s elected representatives.”
From the right: The Left Flames the Culture War
“The left demands tolerance and acceptance but is always the first to deny that same respect to those who think differently,” fumes the Washington Examiner’s Kaylee McGhee White, citing Monday’s CMT Music Awards, when “country artist Kelsea Ballerini was joined by several drag queens onstage, which was lit up with pride colors and the transgender flag.”
It was plainly a response to state legislation “restricting inappropriate ‘adult cabaret performances’ in the presence of children,” and “it certainly was not lost on either Ballerini or CMT that many of the people who support laws such as Tennessee’s are the same people who listen to country music.”
Indeed, “that was the entire point.
The Left is determined to force its values onto every segment of the population, especially those segments that disagree.”
Fact is: “It is impossible to keep up a ‘live and let live’ philosophy when a militant and very influential political group relentlessly demands the celebration of its values.”
Civil rights watch: Cali’s Disability Bias
Parents seek out the “educational setting that maximizes” their child’s potential, but certain California “families are prevented from achieving this goal merely because they are religious and wish to send their children to religious schools,” warns Laura Wolk Slavis at RealClearPolitics.
Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to “ ‘to provide for the education of all children with disabilities’ ” and eliminate barriers to “the same educational opportunities as their non-disabled peers.”
Yet Cali “will only certify ‘nonsectarian’ private schools for placement of students with disabilities.”
A Supreme Court ruling “bars government attempts to exclude religious organizations from public programs solely because they are religious,” so California’s restriction is an “affront to the Constitution — and cannot stand.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
