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31 October 2024 |
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Latest Commentary: The Day After -- There's a great deal of hand-wringing in bed-wetting going on both in the Democratic Party and in the GOP. There's an election on Tuesday, and both sides are convinced that the world will end if the other side wins. As usual, they are exaggerating. When the world gets up on Wednesday morning, none of the problems will be any different. But hat will be different is the direction America is going to take based on that election as it confronts matters There are two very distinct directions. [31 October] Vote for Kamala Harris -- The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have chosen not to endorse a presidential candidate this year. They have claimed they do so out of a sense of impartiality, and one is prepared to take them at their words, despite the clear evidence that they are back-peddling on previous anti-Trump statements in the event Mr. Trump wins the election. They are cowards. This journal begs the electorate to back Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president and vice-president. Donald J. Trump is incompetent, unAmerican and clearly suffering mental decay. Ms. Harris is competent, quite American and sharper than most. It is not really a contest if one does not have business before the federal government. [29 October] Why the Polls are Probably Wrong -- The Lord Mayor of London, not the same as the elected mayor of Londisseport that says Brexit has cost the financial sector, the City of London or just the City in the vernacular, some 40,000 jobs. Some 10,000 of those jobs are now in Dublin. Milan, Paris and Amsterdam also picked up extra positions. This was entirely predictable and predicted by those, including this journal, who believe leaving the EU was the biggest mistake any British government could have taken this millennium. Included in that noble group are 70% of the people who worked in the City at the time of the referendum. It is the result of bad policy badly done. [17 October] Court Orders Giuliani to Surrender Assets -- When a lawyer takes a case for a multi-millionaire, win or lose, that lawyer is going to make some money. That is true unless the rich man in question is Donald Trump. He has a habit of impoverishing everyone he taps for legal services. In the case of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he pressed the lies of the former president about two election workers in Georgia to such a degree that a federal court found him liable for defaming them. He claimed they had committed electoral fraud, and he was not only wrong but he was wrong loudly and publicly. And he knew it. So, yesterday a federal court gave him 7 days to hand over his valuable assets, including his Manhattan penthouse apartment. [23 October] UK Releases Prisoners Early, No More Room -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer is taking some heat for his decision to release some convicted prisoners early because there is not enough room in the prisons in Britain. A spokesman for Number 10 Downing Street noted that the PM is as angry as the public about this. The problem is not unique to the UK. Many countries, including the US, have too many people in prison. Either there are too few prison or too many people sentenced to prison, or a combination of both. Any solution requires an examination of the entire criminal court and penal systems done without an ideological ax that would need grinding. That almost certainly will not happen.[22 October] © Copyright 2024 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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