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Posted By admin on July 23, 2017

From the left: Political Silence on Cuomo and MTA

It took Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, a Republican, to finally accomplish what few elected officials in New York dare to do: call out Gov. Cuomo for mishandling the MTA, says Ross Barkan at the Village Voice. Molinaro tweeted his astonishment at the wildly disingenuous assertion by the Governors Office that New York City owns the subway and is solely responsible for funding its capital plan. Whats really remarkable, says Barkan, is how silent New York Citys Democrats have been about the state governments culpability, even as straphangers suffer, steering clear of even mild criticism . . . at a time that cries out for finger-pointing. Says Barkan: What politicians dont understand is that no voter will punish them for naming Cuomo as the culprit of this transit crisis.

Conservative: Trump Defenders Targeting Guadagno

If President Trump means to spread his brand of pragmatic center-right populism, he has to show it can deliver victories for people other than himself, contends Noah Rothman at Commentary. But instead, the Republican National Committee is happy to play enforcer and stifle anti-Trump apostasy. And its first victim is New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, the GOP candidate to succeed Chris Christie. She needs all the help she can get, but wont be getting any from the RNC, because she called Trumps notorious Access Hollywood tape reprehensible and now must be punished. But Rothman warns that if Republican women are to be punished for saying that Trumps comments about sexually assaulting unsuspecting females were unacceptable, there are going to be a lot fewer Republican women.

Analyst: ADL Yet Again Gives Leftist Bigots a Pass

The Anti-Defamation League has just issued a new guide to help us errant Jews understand who are our true haters, naming 36 people either known for their anti-Semitism or for cozying up to anti-Semites, reports Liel Leibovitz at Tablet. And they all have one thing in common: Theyre on the right. Which means you wont find any social justice warriors who kick Jews out of their marches, or progressive activists who think you cant be both a Zionist and a feminist, or professors who believe Jews were behind the 9/11 attacks. Says Leibovitz: Its a shame. As Jews face real hate from left and right alike, we need and deserve an organization that places principles over politics.

Congressmen: The Truth Behind the CBO

Congress too often makes the mistake of blindly following projections of the Congressional Budget Office that later prove to be grossly inaccurate, suggest Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at the Washington Examiner. Fact is, its track record in providing accurate estimates to Congress leaves much to be desired. Back in the 90s, CBOs budget projections widely missed the mark even though they were made only 12 months in advance. CBO has also proven grossly ineffective at forecasting consumer choices, especially when it comes to health care. They compare the CBO to your cars GPS system: Its right quite often. But when it mistakes a boat-launch ramp for a road and tells you to turn left here, blindly following that command puts you at risk of driving into a lake.

From the right: Beware Turning Cops Into Thieves

Megan McArdle at Bloomberg says Attorney General Jeff Sessions move to reverse an Obama-era decision to ease civil forfeiture represents a dark corner of the justice system. It empowers law enforcement to seize citizens assets on the grounds that they are connected to criminal activity even without charging or convicting you. Not surprisingly, abuse is rampant. Fact is, civil-asset forfeiture is just a big-government redistribution program. The question is not so much why Sessions is reviving it but why it ever existed in the first place. (Answer: The war on drugs. But it didnt work.) Says McArdle: There are even worse things than crime, and one of them is a government that is allowed to steal our liberty like a thief in the night.

Compiled by Eric Fettmann

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