The leftist dropping streak continues. First San Francisco voters of all individuals determine that they’ve had sufficient of so-called progressives laying waste to training and public security. Then the Supreme Court indicators that it’s executed seizing political powers from the individuals and their elected representatives. And now even the industrial model synonymous with counterculture capitalism is transferring towards the wise heart.
Casual observers might imagine that the nasty wokesters who now dominate campus discourse spend all their time attacking American traditions like restricted constitutional governance and free speech. Recently we realized that even after leaving campus in addition they spend wholesome parts of time attacking one another. But there are nonetheless loads of hours left within the day for coverage mischief directed at different international locations, too.
Having surveyed a world populated by too many malevolent dictators, the campus left by some means determined that the suitable targets for sanctions are our pals in democratic Israel. And the lefties even bullied various establishments into going alongside.
But the encouraging information of the day is that the San Francisco of shopper meals manufacturers is restoring service to part of the world the place there isn’t any scarcity of ice cream climate. “
Unilever
at this time introduced it has reached a brand new association for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which can make sure the ice cream stays out there to all shoppers,” says a press launch from Unilever, which provides:
The firm has offered its Ben & Jerry’s enterprise pursuits in Israel to Avi Zinger, the proprietor of American Quality Products Ltd (AQP), the present Israel-based licensee. The new association means Ben & Jerry’s might be offered below its Hebrew and Arabic names all through Israel and the West Bank below the complete possession of its present licensee.
Under the phrases of Unilever’s acquisition settlement of Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, Ben & Jerry’s and its unbiased Board had been granted rights to take choices about its social mission, however Unilever reserved main duty for monetary and operational choices and due to this fact has the appropriate to enter this association.
The new enterprise association follows a Unilever overview of Ben & Jerry’s in Israel after the model and its unbiased Board introduced final yr its determination to discontinue gross sales of its ice cream within the West Bank…
Unilever rejects fully and repudiates unequivocally any type of discrimination or intolerance. Antisemitism has no place in any society. We have by no means expressed any assist for the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) motion and don’t have any intention of adjusting that place.
Unilever may be very happy with our enterprise in Israel which provides on a regular basis family merchandise to individuals throughout the nation.
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But wait, there’s extra excellent news on establishments pushing again in opposition to intolerance. It appears that even on campus one can nonetheless discover defenders of free speech for non-leftists. Olivia Olander at Politico writes:
George Washington University is not going to cancel Justice
Clarence Thomas
’ constitutional regulation class or hearth him, regardless of backlash in opposition to his concurring opinion within the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the college introduced on Tuesday.
“Debate is an essential part of our university’s academic and educational mission,” it mentioned in an announcement addressed to “the George Washington University Community.”
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Building Back Smaller Than Expected
Your humble correspondent has been rejecting the concept that we’re doomed to undergo a recession however acknowledges that the argument is getting a bit more durable to make. Today brings yet one more sign that President
Joe Biden
ought to rule out tax hikes and in addition embrace pro-growth de-regulatory coverage earlier than it’s too late. The Journal’s Sarah Chaney Cambon stories:
The U.S. economic system entered the second quarter on shakier footing than beforehand thought.
Consumer spending, the economic system’s foremost engine, was a lot softer within the first quarter than beforehand reported, in accordance with Commerce Department gross home product revisions launched Wednesday. Spending grew at a revised annual charge of 1.8% within the first quarter, down from a earlier estimate of three.1%.
The up to date numbers revised the first-quarter contraction in financial output to an annual charge of 1.6% from 1.5%.
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America After Roe
President Biden’s approval rankings are so universally awful that he’s most likely due for no less than a modest bounce off his new low within the RealClearPolitics polling common. The common finds Biden disapprovers outnumbering approvers by 19.5 share factors.
Modestly higher information for the president than the general discovering arrives within the newest Economist/YouGov ballot, which finds him solely 17 factors underwater. But voter dissatisfaction with Joe Biden shouldn’t be information. What information shoppers could discover significantly fascinating in regards to the Economist/YouGov survey is that it included various questions on abortion and was carried out completely after the Supreme Court’s latest Dobbs determination was introduced.
Now that voters and legislators are as soon as once more allowed to determine abortion coverage, the next query and solutions from the survey could present a clue on how insurance policies could evolve:
On the topic of abortion, at what level in a being pregnant do you assume abortions needs to be banned?
Abortion ought to by no means be banned 28%
Banned after six months (the second trimester) 7%
Banned after 15 weeks 12%
Banned after three months (the primary trimester) 16%
Banned after six weeks (when a fetal heartbeat will be detected) 18%
Banned after conception (all the time banned) 20%
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The Greatest
Alyssa Hannahs of Huntington West Virginia’s WSAZ reported Wednesday morning:
Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams has handed away… Williams, who turned 98 on October 2, fought in World War II with the Marine Corps as a flamethrower on the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945…
Williams was the final surviving World War II veteran to have obtained the Medal of Honor.
“We live in the greatest country on earth and we need to be proud and express that fact,” Williams as soon as advised Military Times.
Fact verify: True.
Rest in peace, Woody Williams.
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James Freeman is the co-author of “The Cost: Trump, China and American Revival.”
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