Conservative: Deepfakes & Campus Bullies
“Too many of our colleges and universities today have similar ideological priorities and methods as those people who create AI frauds,” warns Thomas Sowell at The Wall Street Journal.
AI users have “created imitations of my voice . . . saying things I have never said,” indeed “the direct opposite of what I have said.”
Meanwhile, campus bullies stamp out “contrary opinions among students and the faculty,” as if “it is words — not facts — that are crucial.”
“Scholars whose factual arguments” are at odds with lefty orthodoxy get called “‘racist’ or ‘white supremacists’ — even when in fact some of them have interracial marriages.”
In short, “the AI impersonation fraud is part of a much larger and much longer lasting undermining of the very concept of truth.”
Liberal: Defunding ICE = Electoral Poison
“Democrats have been unremittingly hostile to Trump’s immigration policy,” notes The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, despite its “undisputed success in completely shutting down the southern border to illegal immigration.”
Instead, they’ve focused on the “cruelty” of “interior enforcement,” with the left again out to “abolish” ICE.
Lacking is “any recognition” that “interior enforcement against illegal immigration” is “entirely legitimate,” as the left calls ICE “a modern-day Gestapo, Nazis, an occupying force.”
But the “There is no good ICE, only bad ICE” approach adds up to a lack “of Democratic commitment to public safety,” a losing electoral strategy.
From the right: Dems’ Cynical Open-Borders Agenda
“Instead of cooperating with federal law enforcement officers, as states governed by Republicans have done, states run by Democrats, such as Minnesota, work against President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts, needlessly creating violence and chaos,” thunders the Washington Examiner editorial board.
“If Democratic governors and mayors worked with ICE, as Republicans do, instead of working against ICE, none of the chaos afflicting Democratic states would be happening.”
“But Democrats don’t want to work with ICE” because “they don’t believe in ICE’s mission and are determined to resist it.”
They hate immigration enforcement because it targets “the population they hope to legalize later.”
It’s pure cynicism, opposing anything “that might reduce the number of people in future elections voting for Democrats.”
Progressive watch: Selling Their Souls for Votes
After progressive backlash for not accusing Israel of genocide, Scott Weiner, who’s running for Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s seat, issued a clarification, reports Commentary’s Seth Mandel: He says he does believe Israel committed genocide in Gaza but hadn’t acknowledged it earlier because it would’ve been “painful” for Jews — given how the word “genocide” connects to the Holocaust.
Expect that reasoning to now “be used by anti-Semites” to “cast doubt on the honesty of every Jew and to send conspiracists to the rooftops claiming vindication.”
“Shivving Jews,” apparently, is now seen as “a fair price to pay for a chance to become a congressman.”
Brad Lander “is running the same play” in his New York primary race against Rep. Dan Goldman.
“No matter who wins these races, Americans of conscience have already lost.”
Eye on NY: A Real Rx for Cheaper Groceries
Grocery affordability is “a real issue,” but Mayor Mamdani’s “proposed solution is unresponsive to the problem,” explains Stephen Smith at Vital City: City-run stores are a joke when “New York often struggles with even the core competencies of government.”
Instead, ask why many prices are cheaper at Wegmans and even Whole Foods than at the city’s sad chains; admit that the days of “local mom-and-pop greengrocers” are gone.
“Work with the private sector to make it easier to open new grocery stores, stimulating competition in the sector the traditional way — by increasing supply.”
Remove zoning barriers and “legalize selling groceries in more of the city.”
Politicians must “accept the benefits of welcoming in all grocers rather than trying to exclude those they deem unworthy.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
