Liberal: Beware Beijing’s Belligerence Amid renewed attention on Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere, Washington must not “take its eye off a far more powerful adversary: China,” warns Michael D. Purzycki at The Liberal Patriot. National-security experts predict it’ll “likely be ready to invade and conquer Taiwan by 2027.” Preparing Americans inside and “outside the military for the effects of war” is vital. “The sooner American officials begin preparing the domestic economy for the shock of a war over Taiwan, the better.” The nation must be ready to replace “vital manufactured goods,” ensure “the military has enough oil to fight China” and repel “Chinese cyberattacks.” Xi Jinping may be counting on “Americans’ unwillingness to fight for long as a factor that will give China the ultimate edge in an all-out conflict.”
Education beat: Lefty Teachers’ Violent Turn The two Pittsburgh charter-school teachers fired after posting a video showing them cheering Iran’s “promise to kill President Trump” are part of a larger trend, reports the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito. “Education Week reported that teachers” in a dozen states “were either fired or placed on leave” ahead of probes into social media posts “celebrating or slyly implying their approval of Charlie Kirk’s death.” These incidents have left parents wondering what kind of “influence” or “rhetoric” such teachers — public, private or charter — are “bringing into the classroom.” “When people ask why more parents are turning to homeschooling, the answer is obvious”: Beyond “poor academic proficiency,” it’s “the culture among teachers” and what they “have posted makes that clear.”
ICE war one: Storming Churches ‘Goes Too Far’ “Again, leftists are on the wrong side of a vital issue,” roars USA Today’s Nicole Russell. They “seem to hate law, order and President Donald Trump so much” they’ll “interrupt a church service,” as they did at Cities Churches in Minnesota, to “make a point.” That “goes too far,” disrespecting a “core tenet of American belief: religious freedom” and exposing progressivism as now “anti-Christian and anti-American.” And “where is the liberal outraged for the victims of illegal immigration?” “Laken Riley might be alive today if her murderer hadn’t been free.” Minnesota’s leaders deserve “scorn for both pushing sanctuary policies and then espousing inflammatory rhetoric against ICE.” Why would “an elected official encourage a citizen to peacefully protest a federal agent enforcing federal immigration law?”
ICE war two: Minneapolis Mayor’s Obscenity. Despite the “tragic shooting of Renee Good” while “using her SUV to thwart” ICE officials, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey isn’t urging residents to let agents “do their job” but instead asking police to fight them, marvels The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. True, Good was no “career criminal,” but she did seem to think “her political positions rendered her immune from the consequences” of defying a “duly authorized” law-enforcement agent’s order. If she’d simply obeyed the command to get out of her car, she’d “be alive today.” On Sunday, Frey insisted the fight against ICE is “not just about resistance” but also “love” — but his “love” is an “obscenity” echoing Seattle’s mayor in 2020 calling protesters’ occupation of an entire police precinct a “summer of love.”
Conservative: Trump-Centered Urban Disorder Not until Trump “has a president commented with such urgency” to address crimes that lack “political significance,” argues City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. His “words break through the complacency that now treats violence as an inevitable fact of urban life.” Personally affronted by grotesque acts of “street crime,” Trump disregards “presidential norms of rhetorical restraint” in favor of an “unmediated relationship to events.” His “attempts to sic the National Guard” on crime-ridden cities “have deterred crime through their physical presence,” though only as a “short-term fix.” But Trump’s “lack of proposed” national legislation is less important than his “inclination to lay down a philosophical marker: violence is not normal and should not be tolerated.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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