Culture critic: Rise of the Child-Killer Fangirls
“As the summer of suicidal empathy gives way to the fall of the copycat child killer,” marvels the Free Press’ Kat Rosenfield, “the perverse empathy for killer women seems to evolve every day into new and alarming forms.” As girls like Lindsay Clancy and Nakira Griner commit stunning acts, fangirls supply “reasons why they shouldn’t be held accountable for having done them.” The impulse is to forged a feminine killer “as a misunderstood martyr” and insist “that no woman ever chooses violence,” but “is driven to it.” They wrestle with the thought “that a woman, like a man, can do terrible things.” This perverse empathy “is a disservice to all the non-murderers among us — and for the murderers, a favor they surely don’t deserve.”
Republican: Even the Senate’s Going Blue
Despite righty gripes “over bad polls,” the GOP is “more likely than not to lose control of the Senate,” as effectively as the House, concludes Keith Naughton at The Hill. It “seemed inconceivable” a yr in the past, but polls recommend Democratic Senate candidates “are winning in all the 2024 competitive and Democratic states” — plus Ohio, Alaska and Texas. The last Senate could land “anywhere from a 53-47 Republican majority (no change) to a 55-45 Democratic wipeout,” but it’s wanting like at least “a slim Democratic majority”: the GOP might “hang on to 50 or 51 seats,” but the reality that “their Senate majority is in doubt at all is a major rebuke to Republicans.”
Eye on DC: Climate Left Can’t Compromise
John Podesta engineered “Joe Biden’s harmful pause on new liquefied natural gas exports” and is now out to sabotage “bipartisan permitting reform” because it might “benefit fossil-fuel production,” fumes the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. Despite his deceptive claims, the “bill doesn’t alter the National Environmental Policy Act’s requirements that agencies review and mitigate potential environmental impact of projects on federal land,” nor is it “a license to allow unfettered drilling in Yellowstone.” His “real beef” is that the accord might stop “a future Democratic administration” from repeating “his LNG ‘pause’ ” and revoking “permits for fossil-fuel projects.” Podesta ignores how the deal permits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to quickly “approve transmission lines” very important to inexperienced tasks, because for him and “the implacable climate left, keeping fossil fuels in the ground is all that matters.”
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Libertarian: Hands Off Starlink
Robert Reich’s call to “nationalize Starlink and SpaceX” because they are “too important to be left under [Elon] Musk’s control” is “crazy and reckless — and even dangerous,” warns Reason’s Robby Soave. The thought arose after “a slowdown” of satellite tv for pc methods “resulted in reduced effectiveness of Ukraine’s counterstrikes,” prompting Musk to level out that Kyiv had “violated the terms of service” by utilizing the satellites “for offensive military purposes.” Make no mistake: “It’s Musk’s company, so he makes the rules.” Threatening to seize personal enterprise sends a chilling warning across tech: “If you’re too good at what you do, we might take you over.” No: We want founders “to compete with one another to design products that make life better.” Punishing innovators “is doing Ukraine no favors” and will certainly “hurt America’s interests too.”
From the proper: A ‘Fraud Factory’ Class of Visas
Congress created the U visa to protect immigrant crime victims who undergo abuse and help detectives, but the program is now “riddled with fraud, contains no fraud protections, and is completely ineffectual at helping to solve crimes,” prices the Washington Examiner Editorial Board. It handed fraudsters “a business model: Manufacture a crime, sell the victimhood, and collect the immigration benefits” by letting the “victim” qualify as a prison witness in an unsolved “crime.” An Illinois ringleader was convicted for staging “hundreds of armed robberies.” In a survey, 61% of regulation enforcement businesses say the program doesn’t “improve their ability to investigate crimes,” but lawsuit fears pressure cops to “just sign and not question” certifications. Congress should “shut down the fraud factory and abolish the U visa.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board