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The Times’ alternate urban reality, Dems their own worst enemy and other commentary

Conservative: The Times’ Alternate Urban Reality

“The abomination that is urban ‘homelessness’ policy rests on the reinforcement of certain unspoken fictions,” thunders City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald, who then eviscerates New York Times reporter Emma Goldberg’s recent flight of fantasy. “Spotting vagrants in the urban landscape, she suggests, is a specialized skill possessed only by trained professionals” — when every New Yorker knows “street vagrancy is among the most visible features of the city’s public spaces.” Other Goldberg fictions include the idea that homeless outreach is a new thing, when it’s been the city’s “default response to street vagrancy for decades.” Others: The pretense that “homelessness is an involuntary condition caused by a lack of housing,” and that “ ‘shelter resistance’ is a myth invented by conservative critics of compassionate policy.” She fails to mention rampant “addiction or mental illness” among the homeless, nor how many can be violence-prone. Hope “that reality eventually prevails over fiction.”

Liberal: Dems Their Own Worst Enemy

Recent “favorable political winds have made it a great deal easier for Democrats to ignore the need for change” as they pretend “that their problems have been solved,” sighs Ruy Teixeira at The Liberal Patriot — with the site itself closing down as its funding “has now completely dried up.” Yet “Democratic problems” — e.g., “the yawning gap between the cultural views of the Democratic Party, dominated by liberal professionals, and those of the median working class voter,” or how “voters can reasonably question whether Democratic plans for the economy would be much of an improvement over what the previous Democratic administration delivered” — “have not been solved.” “Democrats have never come to terms with” just “how profoundly mistaken many of their priorities have been.” Until they discard that “conceit,” don’t “expect them to develop the dominant majority coalition they seek and vanquish right populism.”

Fraud watch: Lessons From Minnesota

The massive fraud uncovered in Minnesota “was not the first controversy surrounding the Somali immigrant community,” notes Scott W. Johnson at Imprimis. A 2015 congressional report revealed the community “proved to be a fertile source of ISIS recruits,” and “the Somalis involved in terrorism showed themselves to be sophisticated in their creative use of social welfare benefits.” Since the, “the Somali abuse of social welfare programs has proliferated.” Despite a decade of evidence of child-care fraud, “taxpayer funds continued to flow to these programs” amid Minnesota’s failure to “implement standard financial controls and oversight.” Feeding the Future fraudsters “siphoned off nearly $200 million of taxpayer money” in 2021, as “absurd claims of racism” scared off investigators.

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Robert Mueller “can no longer hurt innocent people,” President Trump cheered after his death, plainly thinking of the Russiagate probe. Yet “long before” that investigation, Beantown’s Howie Carr notes at his site, “Mueller was ruining the lives of innocent people in Boston.” The FBI office there helped frame four men for murder in 1965, and a parole-board member “swore to me” years after the fact that he’d seen a letter from Mueller, as acting US attorney, demanding “the frame up continue.” Later, as FBI chief, Mueller “refused to turn over exculpatory documents.” When the case finally nonetheless fell apart, the four men, or their estates, won $107 million in damages. “Trump is right”: Mueller “can no longer hurt innocent people!”

From the left: Court Rules for First Amendment

Years after reporters reporting out the Twitter Files uncovered the “plumbing of a wide-scale effort by federal agencies . . . to regulate mis-, dis-, and malinformation in the social media landscape,” a consent decree in Missouri v. Biden has “enjoined government agencies from threatening social media companies” for publishing content the government finds objectionable, cheers Racket News’ Matt Taibbi. “Everyone irrespective of party should be happy about this result,” since “a hyper-empowered chief executive” could otherwise target, “say, derogatory content about the war in Iran.”

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