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Olympics beat: Trump v. Cali on Women’s Sports
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will become “a slow-motion car crash” over the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports, Jennifer Sey warns at The Spectator, with President Trump facing off against California and the US Olympic Committee.
“For the first time in history,” the LA Games will see “more women’s events than men’s” — but if biological men can fight for those medals, “it’s women who will lose. And some will get hurt.”
Gavin Newsom doesn’t toe the line on his executive order “aimed at protecting women’s sports” — yet “taxpayer dollars earmarked for Los Angeles 2028” are already flowing. “Compelled participation against biological men isn’t inclusion,” but “institutionalized abuse.”
Eye on Wall St.: A Risky Mortgage Retread
“The American public doesn’t need a sequel to ‘The Big Short,’ ” Veronique de Rugy snarks at Reason. The 2008 financial crisis traced in that film, was sparked by Washington, “specifically through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” government-sponsored lenders that (under pressure from Congress) backed “risky home loans by effectively making taxpayers cosign the mortgages.” Those “significantly loosened lending standards” wound up “inflating the housing bubble.”
Now, President Trump is floating plans to “re-privatize” Fannie and Freddie without taking taxpayers off the hook for bad loans. Aargh! “Financial entities — particularly those shielded by government guarantees — inevitably revert to risky behavior when market pressures and profit incentives align.” The only safe way to privatize Fannie and Freddie is “without any implicit government guarantees.”
From the right: A Win Over Climate Hysteria
“The right to express an opinion contrary to the ‘settled science’ was vindicated last week in the District of Columbia Superior Court,” cheers The Washington Times’ editorial board. Penn State University researcher Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” chart “stoked climate panic around the world, then he sued critics who implied his “findings were erroneous.”
A DC jury last year awarded Mann “$1 million in punitive damages,” but that “victory was based in part on a chart containing numbers that couldn’t be replicated” — so it seems he “will now end up paying the individuals he sued a total of around $1.4 million.”
Conservative: Mamdani’s Hateful Lies
Progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, already “a post-Oct. 7 vessel for the de-stigmatized tidal wave of anti-Semitism in the West,” this week “crossed a line that was staggeringly militant even in our current age of say-anything shock-jock politics,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel.
In a campaign stop at a mosque, he denounced “Israel’s pager operation, likely the most carefully targeted such operation in the history of warfare, in which the pagers only of Hezbollah exploded, maiming thousands of terrorists after the group had waged months of war on Israeli civilians.” He claimed it killed “scores of Lebanese civilians,” marvels Mandel, when “not even Lebanese authorities claimed as much.
The only way that number is accurate is if Mamdani considers Hezbollah terrorists to be civilians, which is possible, because he does not mention Hezbollah at all in his remarks.”
Civil-rights watch: Whistleblowers vs. DEI
The Justice Department’s “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act, encourages whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of illegal” discrimination, applauding Edward Blum & Adam Mortara at The Wall Street Journal.
“Universities, corporations, and nonprofit organizations have established ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies that violate the plain language of civil-rights laws,” yet “receive billions in federal funding by falsely certifying that they are in compliance with those laws.”
For instance, “a university can’t accept taxpayer dollars while condoning antisemitism on campus or treating applicants differently based on race.” The Justice initiative gives whistleblowers “an incentive to come forward and expose unlawful discrimination” by letting them collect a share of potential multimillion-dollar damages.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board