From the right: A Factory of Suspicion and Contempt The Senate\u2019s role as a deliberative body assumes \u201ca certain level of competence, collegiality and goodwill\u2026<\/b>
\nFrom the right: A Factory of Suspicion and Contempt
The Senate\u2019s role as a deliberative body assumes \u201ca certain level of competence, collegiality and goodwill among its members\u201d \u2014 none of which has been displayed by lead Judiciary Committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein, asserts The Washington Post\u2019s Michael Gerson. Waiting until the end of Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearings to leak the allegation against him \u201cblindsided Feinstein\u2019s colleagues, denied the nominee a proper chance to confront the accusation and launched an important public issue under a partisan cloud.\u201d Yet Republicans, too, \u201chave demonstrated an undeniable ruthlessness in the Supreme Court nomination process.\u201d Small wonder that both sides of the political aisle now largely view the Senate with little more than \u201csuspicion and contempt.\u201d
Political scribe: What Next for Andrew Cuomo?
Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg is talking yet again about running for president, and City Journal\u2019s Bob McManus speculates on what this would mean for a presumably re-elected Gov. Cuomo. He seems \u201cwell-positioned\u201d to run himself, but beyond the prospect of Bloomberg spending millions on the race, Cuomo also faces some \u201cpotential vexations\u201d \u2014 namely, the \u201cemergence of a tougher brand of left-wing politicking\u201d in last week\u2019s legislative primaries. For all of Cynthia Nixon\u2019s charges, Cuomo \u201chas for most part governed from the center.\u201d And he knows that New York \u201cis just one market correction removed from a budget crisis that will rival those of the past,\u201d so \u201che can\u2019t be looking forward to the coming legislative session.\u201d Moreover, \u201chistorically, third terms are not kind to New York incumbents.\u201d
Conservative: No \u2018Concern\u2019 Over Past Dem Sex Assaults
Power Line Blog\u2019s Paul Mirengoff finds it \u201camusing, in a sickening sort of way,\u201d to hear Senate Democrats refuse to support a Supreme Court nominee they say has been \u201ccredibly\u201d accused of assaulting a woman in high school. Because none of them have complained about Democratic colleagues \u201ccredibly accused of, and in at least two cases admitting, assaulting women.\u201d Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown\u2019s ex-wife was hit with a restraining order after she said he \u201cthrew her up against a wall and showed \u2018physical violence and [an] abusive nature.\u2019 \u201d Delaware Sen. Tom Carper \u201cadmits he gave his ex-wife a black eye.\u201d New Jersey Sen. Cory \u201cSpartacus\u201d Booker wrote about groping a friend while in high school. And Rep. Keith Ellison, \u201ccredibly accused of assaulting two women as an adult,\u201d remains the Democratic nominee for Minnesota attorney general.
Liberal take: The Problem With All Those Lefty Profs
In recent years, notes Bloomberg\u2019s Cass Sunstein, \u201cconcern has grown over what many people see as a left-of-center political bias at colleges and universities.\u201d And that seems to be borne out by an \u201ceye-popping\u201d recent study by a Brooklyn College professor of the political affiliations of faculty at 51 of the top-rated liberal-arts colleges. It found not one university or academic field with more Republicans than Democrats. Moreover, \u201cover a third of them had no Republicans at all.\u201d That, says Sunstein, is \u201cgenuinely disturbing,\u201d especially in fields like history, political science and law, \u201cwhere the professor\u2019s political perspective might well make a difference.\u201d Because \u201cif academic hiring is skewed along ideological lines, the march toward uniformity\u201d and the prevailing orthodoxy \u201cmight be self-reinforcing.\u201d
Senator: We Need More Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Ever since the first peaceful reactor (in Arco, Idaho) went online in 1955, the United States has been the global nuclear-industry leader. But Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) at the Washington Examiner warns that our domestic fleet of reactors \u2014 104 in recent years, all safely generating clean energy,\u201d with \u201cplans for many more on the horizon\u201d \u2014 is \u201cnot growing, but shrinking.\u201d Fact is, those plans \u201chave mostly been shelved,\u201d with only two new reactors under construction. Aging plants are being \u201ceconomically challenged\u201d by competition from natural gas and subsidized renewables; others are being closed prematurely. This means we\u2019re losing a source of clean energy, even as US electricity needs are forecast to grow 29 percent by 2040. Even more problematic, our nuclear leadership is being threatened by \u201ccountries that could put world security interests at risk.\u201d
\u2014 Compiled by Eric Fettmann<\/p>\n

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