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   On 04 Dec 2022, "Viktor Tandofsky"  posted some   
   news:op6jL.55484$i761.34503@fx17.iad:   
      
   > When Biden keels over the nation will laugh at Kamala Harris.   
      
   Libertarian: Nothing New About ‘Bidenomics’   
      
   The term “Bidenomics,” argues Veronique de Rugy at Reason, is “little more   
   than marketing” — it means “nothing but the same old program of big   
   spending, big regulations, and big cronyism” Democrats have always loved.   
   “Begin with Bidenomics’ hallmark: record spending,” the “over-the-top   
   embrace of the fiscal irresponsibility of the $2 trillion American Rescue   
   Plan.” (That “turned modest post-pandemic inflation into a 40-year   
   inflation record.”) Then there’s “Biden’s reversal of Trump’s productive   
   regulatory reforms and imposition of additional regulations.” Biden has   
   “aggressively subsidized preferred industries such as semiconductors and   
   electric cars, sheltered special interests from the accountability of   
   consumers through mandates and bans, and boosted the fortunes of its union   
   friends.” The result? “Higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.”   
      
   Conservative: Supremes Did Minorities a Favor   
      
   In striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court “did Black and   
   Hispanic students a massive favor by forcing them to rely on how they   
   think, not how they look,” cheers Deroy Murdock at The Washington Times.   
   It’s the complaints of liberal leaders who bemoan the ruling that are   
   actually “racist,” because assuming “minority children need racial   
   preferences declares being Black or Hispanic a handicap.” The real   
   impediment for these kids: “government schools that leave their minds   
   empty.” Studies repeatedly show students doing exceptionally poorly in   
   government-run schools where Americans “spend more” and “get less.” The   
   court’s ruling will prompt educational excellence and rejects “mediocrity   
   and its advocates: teachers unions.”   
      
   NY crime beat: Spurn Progs, Eric — Back Cops   
      
   Mayor Adams needs to “cast aside the divisive identity politics that have   
   characterized his political rise and repudiate the misguided progressive   
   crusade to demonize police officers,” insists retired NYPD Det. James Coll   
   at City Journal. The mayor has touted his “22 years in various ranks in   
   the NYPD,” yet he’s too often “been content to criticize those who serve,   
   while celebrating his own career in the department.” His failure to   
   fiercely “support those who actually police New York City today flows from   
   his stance on relevant issues,” including supporting “the initial state   
   bail-reform law that has had disastrous results.” Keeping crime in check   
   “begins with maintaining law and order and restoring trust” in police.   
   “That can only happen with a mayor genuinely committed to supporting the   
   city’s cops.”   
      
   Health desk: Joe’s Twist on Barack’s Big Lie   
      
   President Biden’s move to curtail short-term, limited-duration health   
   plans will rob “millions” of their current insurance, warns Dean Clancy at   
   the Washington Examiner. These health plans have provided “affordable   
   alternatives to Obamacare’s high-premium, high-deductible offerings,”   
   which is why 78% of Americans support their availability. Biden suggests   
   the plans are inferior because they don’t cover as much, but his real goal   
   is to appease insurers “who want more young and healthy customers to sign   
   up for Obamacare plans to balance their risk pools.” If millions “have to   
   take on higher premiums, larger deductibles, and narrower provider   
   networks, so be it.” Hmm: Maybe Biden will recycle the Barack Obama line   
   that earned him a “Lie of the Year” award — but with a twist: “If I like   
   your insurance plan, you can keep it.”   
      
   Court watch: Dems’ Fake Ethics Scandals   
      
   “Senate Democrats are advancing a doomed Supreme Court ‘ethics’ bill,” yet   
   “the Senate doesn’t have the power to dictate” how the court conducts its   
   business — “any more than SCOTUS has the power to prescribe rules for the   
   Senate,” thunders The Federalist’s David Harsanyi. If Congress thinks any   
   justice is corrupt, it should impeach him; that’s the Senate’s only tool.   
   Yet “the effort to intimidate” the court is meant “to corrode   
   constitutional governance, so perhaps the bill makes a certain amount of   
      
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