Source: The Hill
by JT Young
“Fortunately for both Biden and Trump, November won’t be a popularity contest. Biden is the more fortunate of the two, but only slightly so. According to Real Clear Politics average of national polling, Biden trails Trump 44.2 percent to 44.5 percent in a two-way rematch, while his unfavorable rating is 55.1 percent to Trump’s 53.7 percent. In such adverse circumstances, November will be about getting supporters to the polls: Here Biden’s disadvantage looms larger still. … One telling element that is only starting to emerge is the divergence between polls of registered and likely voters. This difference is only starting to emerge because pollsters are only now beginning to differentiate between the two potential voting groups: those eligible to vote and those indicating a greater inclination to vote.” (04/25/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4618327-its-not-just-biden-versus-trump-but-registered-versus-likely-voters/
Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York
“Former President Donald Trump is back in a Manhattan courtroom after a Wednesday break. On the way to court Thursday morning, Trump stopped at a construction site where he received an enthusiastic welcome from workers chanting, ‘USA! USA! USA!’ That just happened to occur the morning after President Joe Biden received the endorsement of the North America’s Building Trades Unions leadership in Washington. While Biden met with the bigwigs, Trump felt the love of the hard hats. As with Trump’s visit to a Harlem bodega last week, the stop-by was a planned event — these things don’t happen by accident. But it showed that even as he stands trial, Trump can work in a campaign event before court convenes.” (04/25/24)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2979440/what-democrats-want-out-of-the-trump-trial/
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Netanyahu To Biden: Shut Down The Student Protests!” (04/25/24)
https://rumble.com/v4rj5wl-netanyahu-to-biden-shut-down-the-student-protests.html
Source: SFGate
“Workers at auto plants in the South should be free to unionize without pressure from employers or anti-union governors, acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su said Thursday, even as some southern states pass laws to inhibit organized labor. ‘That choice belongs to the worker, free from intervention, either by the employer or by politicians, free from retaliation and threats,’ Su told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday in Atlanta. ‘And what we are seeing is that workers who were thought to be too vulnerable to assert that right are doing it, and they’re doing it here in the South.’ The United Auto Workers union vowed a broad campaign to organize southern auto assembly plants after winning lucrative new contracts in a confrontation with Detroit’s automakers. Last week, 73% of those voting at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee chose to join the UAW.” (04/25/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/u-s-labor-secretary-says-uaw-win-at-tennessee-19422293.php
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Finn Andreen
“Though the Western political class constantly criticizes the ‘authoritarian’ nature of certain nations, one should sweep in front of his own door first, to paraphrase Johann von Goethe. Indeed, Western nation-states and international institutions have for years been gnawing at the freedom and rights of both individuals and businesses.” (04/25/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/danger-wests-neglect-individual-rights
Source: Common Dreams
by Carmen Rojas
“Imagine it’s Monday, January 20, 2025, and by the end of the day, somewhere between 50,000 to hundreds of thousands of the 2 million federal government employees are summarily out of a job. A skeleton crew made up of a list of far-right, free-market conservatives excited to carry out an unpopular anti-democratic agenda has replaced them. Their marching orders are to cater to big business and rot every institution established to protect our lives, from education to transportation, from housing to labor to environmental protections to healthcare and more. This is not a far-fetched dystopian nightmare. It’s a plan outlined in a more than 800-page document from the conservative Heritage Foundation called Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership.” [editor’s note: The “progressive nightmare” … A government with only three branches of power, instead of ONE unelected one by default – SAT] [additional editor’s note: I haven’t read all of it, but apparently I’ve read more than Steve has – TLK] (04/25/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/project-2025-trump-devos
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
“The New York state Court of Appeals has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction. The court, in a 4-3 ruling, ruled that the judge in the New York County trial prejudiced Weinstein with improper rulings, including allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court — the highest court in New York state’s judicial system — ruled that a new trial must take place. … Weinstein also went to trial in Los Angeles, where he was convicted in December 2022 of rape. That conviction means that Weinstein will remain in prison even if a new New York trial gets established.” (04/25/24)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-ny-rape-conviction-overturned-1235881207/
Source: Heartland Institute
“2024 State of Climate Alarmism.” (04/25/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrRYMoaGWlw
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Advocates of foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel are patting themselves on the back after the passage of a $95 billion bill that includes $61 billion to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel. They’re saying that such aid demonstrates how good, caring, and compassionate America is. In the case of Israel, the aid supposedly demonstrates that America is not 100 percent antisemitic because the aid to Israel helps to cancel out the thousands of college protesters who are protesting the Israeli government’s military killing machine in Gaza, which, it is said, automatically means that the protestors are antisemitic. Is it possible for an American to oppose the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza without being considered antisemitic? Not according to proponents of foreign aid to Israel.” (04/25/24)
https://www.fff.org/2024/04/25/whats-good-about-aid-to-ukraine-and-israel/
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“Most corporate profit consists of unearned economic rents of various kinds — returns on absentee-owned land and natural resources (the title to which, directly or indirectly, mostly derive from past expropriation), patents and copyrights, regulatory barriers to entry (mostly legislated at the behest of the regulated industries), etc. That is the very definition of a zero-sum relationship, in which one party’s profit comes at the expense of the others. By far the largest sufferer from such zero-sum exchange is the working class, whose bargaining power is gravely weakened by the concentration of property in the means of production in the hands of an absentee class of capitalist owners. The founding act of capitalism, in the late medieval and early modern periods, was the expropriation of commoning rights and other communal peasant claims to the land.” (04/25/24)
https://c4ss.org/content/59568
