'Democratic elected leadership has turned away from their pro-asylum tenets at lightning speed'
Felipe De La Hoz in The New Republic
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'Garvey might have been a beloved Dodger ... but he's no Schwarzenegger'
Los Angeles Times editorial board
Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey is trying to "make the GOP relevant in California again," says the Los Angeles Times editorial board. The 74-year-old Republican is running for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein's seat in a race dominated by three Democrats — Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter, and Adam Schiff. But "good luck" reviving a party winless in statewide elections since 2006 with "positions on guns, abortion and immigration that alienate most Golden State voters."
'Forgiving student debt is a change in policy'
Timothy P. Carney in the Washington Examiner
President Biden calls some opponents of his student loan forgiveness program "hypocrites because their businesses received emergency pandemic aid through the 2020 Paycheck Protection Program," says Timothy P. Carney in the Washington Examiner. But these "are not remotely similar programs." The law authorizing student loans "was passed with the expectation they would be paid back," so Biden is proposing a fundamental change. "The PPP loans were designed to be forgiven" if used to keep people working.
'The heinous crime of feeding the needy'
C.J. Ciaramella in Reason
Houston is a test case in "an ongoing tug-of-war that pits public order against the First Amendment right to perform charity as a form of expression," says C.J. Ciaramella in Reason. Police keep ticketing Food Not Bombs activists for "distributing free food” outside a public library, instead of in a police parking lot designated for homeless services. The city says it's "a health and safety issue." Nonsense. "The government has no right to bully good Samaritans."
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Is Mike Johnson rendering the House ‘irrelevant’?Talking Points Speaker has put the House on indefinite hiatus
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Dutch center-left rises in election as far-right fallsSpeed Read The country’s other parties have ruled against forming a coalition
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Judge rules US attorney ‘unlawfully serving’Speed Read Bill Essayli had been serving in the role without Senate confirmation
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‘Businesses that lose money and are uncompetitive won’t survive’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Border Patrol gets scrutiny in court, gains power in ICESpeed Read Half of the new ICE directors are reportedly from DHS’s more aggressive Customs and Border Protection branch
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Chicago: Scenes from a city under siegeFeature Chicago is descending into chaos as masked federal agents target people in public spaces and threaten anyone who tries to document the arrests
