Down with Green hypocrisy and other commentary – New York Post

Climate desk: Down With Green Hypocrisy & Hype

From politicians who fly in private jets but tell the rest of us to consider a world without planes to activists preaching that America has to cripple our economy while posting on their iPhones made in China, its clear that the climate-change movement is full of hypocrites, fumes Scott Walker at The Washington Examiner. But what about their hyped claims? Relax: The world is not going to end in 12 years, even though hypocrites like Al Gore will keep using massive amounts of energy. What the greens really want is to change the nature of the entire economy, as a former AOC staffer all but admitted. Keep that in mind the next time you see a climate-change protest in the news.

Economy watch: NY Feds Flawed Wage Report

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently published a report pooh-poohing the impact of Gov. Cuomos 2013-2018 minimum-wage hikes on employment in Empire State counties bordering Pennsylvania. But those findings were deeply flawed, argues the Empire Centers E.J. McMahon. In fact, the regions job numbers were inflated by major job-creating casinos in two of those counties and by the inclusion of prosperous Big Apple exurb of Orange County, which differs greatly from nearby counties in both states. Allowing for these factors, job losses in the New York counties relative to the Pennsylvania ones were worse than painted. Far from a slam-dunk case for raising the minimum wage, the study was a quickie and all too simplistic. The report itself noted, Longer-term effects, if any, remain to be seen.

Conservative: Impeachers Beclown Themselves

In general, muses Roger Kimball at American Greatness, one tends to admire perseverance. But Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Get-Trump media edging toward impeachment are making fools of themselves. After all, they spent nearly three years pushing wall-to-wall lies about Donald Trump colluding with the Russians to no avail. They tried the same thing, twice, against Brett Kavanaugh. Again, nothing. Now they are back to trying to unseat a duly elected president again in vain, since voters know the score: A sliver of the population the antifa thugs, the Hollywood brats, the media sissies, the beautiful people with expensive degrees and, of course, the radical fringe of the Democratic Party all refused to accept the results of the last election. Still, Kimball concludes, to recognize their impotence isnt to play down the threat these forces pose to what we used to be able to call, without irony, the American dream.

Iconoclast: Shall We Impeach Trump?

The Weeks Matthew Walther recounts an old Northumbrian joke involving jurors debating the meanings of the words will and shall in the cry of a drowning man: I will drown, and nobody shall save me! Only one juror, McTavish, wonders why nobody bothered rescuing the poor fellow. The case for impeaching Trump may likewise turn, in part, on a grammatical curiosity. At a House hearing last week, Democrats grilled Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire over his supposed failure to submit a whistleblower report to Congress. The relevant whistleblower law says that the DNI shall submit his findings to Congress. But does shall here imply futurity with an additional element of promise or intention, or is it denoting plain old facts about the future? Depending on the legal authority you consult, shall in statutory language could mean may or must. Walther shrugs: We need a McTavish.

Culture beat: Who Killed the Sitcom?

A recent Slate piece examined the current state of comedy, and somehow the author came to the conclusion that were much, much funnier than we used to be, guffaws Mitchell Blue at the Federalist. In fact, Todays sitcoms, which feature political correctness or flashy costume design instead of humor, are simply not as funny as past sitcoms as Netflix and other streaming services that are paying about a half a billion dollars to air old shows know. But why? The biggest culprit is cancel culture, exemplified by SNLs firing of comedian Shane Gillis before hed started on the show because his humor included racial stereotypes. Perhaps people will find out how to be funny again one day, but for now, it sure seems like everyone is afraid to try.

Compiled by Karl Salzmann and Sohrab Ahmari

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