Headline: A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism
Sub-headline:Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the proudly Jewish leader of a battleground state, has dived headfirst into subjects that have wrenched apart his party.
Editor: In the wake of the win of Zohran Mamdani, propelled by New York Jewish voters, in record numbers, puts Mamdani in the drivers seat? Binyamin Appelbaum’s essay recapitulates the essay in the New York Times of May 11, 2024! Josh Shapiro now becomes the politician to watch, as the check against the political toxen of Mamdani. Binyamin Appelbaum’s political essay is the companion piece to perpetual hysteric Jonathan Greenblatt’s ‘Mamdani Monitor’, that now becomes a political cudgel of choice in the defamation of Zohran Mamdani.
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11/9/2025 8:50 A.M.
In my haste to post my comment, I forgot these two telling paragraphs of Binyamin Appelbaum comments on Zohran Mamdani!
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Tuesday’s election results have supercharged the debate among Democrats about whether the road to political recovery runs toward the middle or the left. The reason the argument persists is not because the answer is unclear but because, for many Democrats, the clear answer is unpalatable. The party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Mr. Shapiro.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York does not demonstrate the viability of progressive candidates outside of a few big cities and coastal states. Nor can Democrats solve their problems by wrapping the same ideas in better paper. The party has marginalized itself so thoroughly that even Mr. Trump’s unpopular presidency isn’t doing much to make Democrats more popular. Everything Democrats want to accomplish is downstream from figuring out how to persuade voters in places like Pennsylvania — and in a bunch of places where the Democratic brand is held in even lower regard — that the party deserves another chance.
Editor: Zanny Menton Beddoes is that dredful combination of Neo-Conservatine and Neo-Liberal: In sum the double reincarnation of Leo Strauss and Friedrich Hayek! Name her a Politica/Moral Toxin! So the latest diateribe fashoned by her minions can’t surprise its readership! Women must put their Working Lives first. The apperance of Zohran Mamdani, is just well, kismet?
Headline: Universal child care can hurt children
Sub-headline: Its growing popularity in America is a concern
Across the rich world, parents of young children face a problem. In America, one of many countries with few subsidies, a household with two working parents and two young children can spend as much on child care as on housing. This pushes families to space out or have fewer children to avoid financial ruin. High costs also keep women out of the labour force, as it can be uneconomical to return.
Politicians are scrambling to respond. In America, the right is full of talk—J.D. Vance, the vice-president, has argued in favour of lower tax rates or cash handouts for families to help mothers stay at home—but, so far, little action. Instead, it is Democratic lawmakers making moves. On November 1st New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, expanded free child care to all families with children, starting from six weeks of age (it had previously been available only to poor and middle-class ones). Zohran Mamdani, who will be sworn in as mayor of New York at the start of next year, plans to follow in Ms Grisham’s footsteps. States including Vermont and Washington have recently made child-care subsidies much more generous.
American legislators are not alone in their enthusiasm. In Australia access to subsidised day care will be broadened next year. During the school term, Britain now offers 30 hours of free child care a week to parents who bring in less than £100,000 ($130,000) after tax. Since July middle- and low-income parents in New Zealand have been able to claim rebates for 40% of child-care fees, up from 25% before. The likes of Ms Grisham and Mr Mamdani are unusual, however, in believing that the state should bear the entire cost of care for families of all income levels, starting near birth.
Editor : Beddoes just cant let go of Michelle Lujan Grisham nor Mr Mamdani, as the vipers in this Neo-Liberal/Neo-Conservative near Biblical pastiche!
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Editor: The final paragraphs of this diatribe
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The kids aren’t alright
A need for lots of adult interaction implies there are few economies of scale to be found in the care of babies and infants. By school age, an adult can oversee 20 to 30 children. At pre-school, they watch 12 or 15. In the best nurseries a carer looks after two or three. Subsidised centre-based care is of high enough quality in Finland that when a stipend was introduced to pay Finnish mothers to stay home after ten months, child development and female incomes suffered. But to reach such standards the government spends much more than the OECD average. Although New Mexico is funding its generous programme with levies on oil and gas extraction, fiscal room is more limited in New York and other states, which spells trouble.
Ultimately, child care is expensive. It is expensive for parents in America, it is expensive for the Finnish government and it is expensive—in the long run—in places that try to do it on the cheap. These costs are paid either via exorbitant sums handed over to day-care centres, forgone career progression, high taxes or by undermining children’s development. None is palatable. Yet the worst are the extremes: that mothers should forgo work for years or that families might be incentivised to place babies into an underfunded mode of care ill-suited to their needs. What a pity that those are the solutions American politicians seem most determined to seek.
Editor: The very notion of this collection of propagandists, stepped in the Neo-Liberal/Neo-Conservative milieu, headed by Zanny Menton Beddoes, straines credulity to the breaking point!
Headline: Emmanuel Macron lays claim to the mantle of de Gaulle
Sub-headline : Like the general, the French president aspires to rule above conventional politics
As always the headline and sub-headline at The Financial Times, are the all important rhetorical/political framing for its Neo-Liberal Apologetics, Mr. Jonathan Fenby’s Macron Press Release being its latest example. It will not disappoint the regular readers of this newspaper! His essay makes all the requisite historical comparisons with de Gaulle: the commonality between both leaders is in the exercise of megalomania, with the proviso that de Gaulle had an actual record as War Hero, and political leader. While Macron’s particular politics are defined by the exercise of the arrogance of a political arriviste. The proof of that statement, the idea and practice of a Jupiterian Politics. Note, that one of the cornerstones of Neo-Liberal political fraudulence is the idea/construct that the Left/Right divide cannot just reach some consensus, a modus vivendi, but can be subject to a political/economic emancipation. The Civic dimension is consigned to the scrapheap of the Neo-Liberal Counter-Revolution: The Free Market determines the whole of the human aspiration and endeavor!
Absent from this celebration of the arrival of Neo-Liberalism à la française is the record of spoiled ballots and abstentions- for a full report on the unaddressed questions of Fenby’s unsurprising hosannas to Macron, read this enlightening report from CNN’s on the French vote (Updated May 8 2017):
Headline: A record number of French voters cast their ballots for nobody
(CNN) Emmanuel Macron’s triumph over Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election has been hailed as a landslide victory for the centrist candidate and a widespread rejection of his rival’s far-right platform.
But Macron’s mandate may not be as overwhelming as it seems. A record number of French voters were so dismayed by their options that they either skipped the election or cast their ballots for no one at all.
The so-called “ballot blanc,” or white ballot, has a long history as a protest vote in France, going all the way back to the French Revolution. This time around, nearly 9% of voters cast blank or spoiled ballots — the highest ever since the Fifth Republic was founded in 1958.
For now, the votes, which are counted towards the turnout, are largely symbolic. But there is a movement underway for the blank ballots to count as a share of the overall election vote. According to a recent Ifop poll, 40% of French voters said they would cast a blank vote if it were recognized under French law.
In the graph that CNN provides, that I cannot reproduce here*, the percent of both ‘white’ and ‘spoiled ballots’ stands at 33.4%. Nothing like a mandate for ‘reform’ ! Except to the editors and writers of The Financial Times.
Mr. Lawrence was Representative Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff from 2005 to 2013.
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Editor: How much APIAC money did Pelosi take?
Representative Nancy Pelosi received approximately $618,120 from pro-Israel sources between 1990 and 2024. These funds are a combination of contributions from various pro-Israel groups, not solely from AIPAC, and have been disclosed through campaign finance filings.
Total amount received: $618,120 from 1990-2024.
Source of funds: The funds are from various pro-Israel sources, not exclusively AIPAC.
Time period: The data covers the period from 1990 to 2024.
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Pro-Israel Recipients – OpenSecrets
Representative Nancy Pelosi received approximately $618,120 from pro-Israel sources between 1990 and 2024. These funds are a combination of contributions from various pro-Israel groups, not solely from AIPAC, and have been disclosed through campaign finance filings.
Total amount received: $618,120 from 1990-2024.
Source of funds: The funds are from various pro-Israel sources, not exclusively AIPAC.
Time period: The data covers the period from 1990 to 2024.
Editor: Recall that The Mahattan Institute wasn’t just ethisiastic advocates of Eric Adams and his Restaurateur Cadre! Posted below is some valuable information as what this ‘Institute’ stand for!
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research – Bias and Credibility
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Right Bias sources.
Overall, we rate the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Right Biased based on editorial and policy positions that routinely favor a conservative perspective. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of transparency with funding, the use of poor sources, and a failed fact check.
Bias Rating: RIGHT Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Organization/Foundation Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
History
Founded in 1978 by Antony Fisher and William J. Casey, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative American think tank established in New York City. The primary focus is on economics and law enforcement. Its message is communicated through books, articles, interviews, speeches, op-eds, and the institute’s quarterly publication City Journal.
In review, the Manhattan Institute’s website links to research topics, publications, and projects. News items provide a snippet from an external source a member has contributed to and then a link to their site. Some sources they link to are mostly right-leaning, such as The Dispatch, City Journal, and the New York Post. Under the category of research topics, they cover Urban Policy, Education, Energy & Environment, Health Policy, Legal Reform, Pubic Sector, Economics, and more.
Editorially, the Manhattan Institute favors free-market capitalism such as this Saving Capitalism. Regarding science, they do not outright deny human-influenced climate change but disagree with government solutions: Empty Theatrics on Climate Change. Reporting on President Trump and his handling of the economy is often favorable such as this Trumped-Up Budgets.
Overall, we rate the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Right Biased based on editorial and policy positions that routinely favor a conservative perspective. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of transparency with funding, the use of poor sources, and a failed fact check. (D. Van Zandt 7/16/2016) Updated (03/24/2023)
Editor: The Clinton Dynasty confronts the fact that the old corrupt order of Pelosi, and Schumer, to forshorten the facts, of the corrupt and sclerotic Neo-Liberal Order, of pruchased AIPAC cronies, is teetering? Does the purchased loyalty of the hysterical Zionist Adam Schiff represent possible new life for Clintonism!
Editor: The first consideration to make with regard to Stephens, is that he was a former employee of the Jerusliam Post: A paid propgandist for the State of Israel! Yet he still managers to write for The New York Times that employes David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, David French, all Zionist ! Not forgetting the very fact that Mamdani is a Muslim?
Editor: Stephens introduction makes way for a ‘Self -serving ‘History’ of bad political ideas:
America First? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.
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But it isn’t just the Trump administration that is reawakening the moral and intellectual zombies of the past. Everywhere one looks there are policy necromancers.
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The platform of the national Democratic Socialists of America calls for a 32-hour workweek “with no reduction in pay or benefits”; “free public universal child care and pre-K”; “college for all”; the cancellation of “all student-loan debt”; “universal rent control”; “massive public investment to transition away from fossil fuels”; “guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry,” and “expansive paid family leave.” Not only would American workers stand to benefit, but so would everybody else, since the D.S.A. wants to offer these benefits to anyone who wishes to come to United States through an open-borders policy.
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Oh, wait — many did. “Bolivarian socialism,” welcomed by the Jeremy Corbyns of the world, took Venezuela from being South America’s richest country to a humanitarian catastrophe. Sweden attempted a form of socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, only to reverse course after it experienced massive capital flight and a financial crisis during which interest rates hit 75 percent. France’s Socialist government imposed a 75 percent tax on earnings over one million euros in 2012; it dropped the tax two years later as the wealthy packed their bags. Britain’s National Health Service, whose advocates chronically complain is “underfunded,” is in a state of perpetual crisis even as health care, according to the BBC, gobbles up roughly one third of government spending.
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“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher once observed. To put it another way, you can’t abolish billionaires, as Zohran 1,036,051 the D.S.A.’s poster child, would like, and still expect them to keep footing your bills.
If socialism is foolish, there’s something worse: the “socialism of fools,” antisemitism, now rapidly ascendant on the MAGA right.
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Editor: Mr. Stephens is a Zionist of the most toxic kind! Here he produces a simulacram of a critique, that should have roused the sleeping majority ? But the victory of Zohran Mamdani at 1,036,051 votes, renders Bret Stephens political commetary into a nullity!
Editor: Here is a a selection from the FT‘political report’: The Billionaire Class that the Financial Times, just doesn’t cater to but coddles, like a new born infant, in need of succor! And the cadre of political opportunists who hope to feed on the remainders! Note the appearance of the highlighted first sentence of this paragraph as evidence of an ersatz objectivity!
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However, many on Wall Street remain sceptical. In July, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon described Mamdani’s policy proposals as “ideological mush”. Financiers such as Third Point founder Daniel Loeb, billionaire Ronald Lauder and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pacs opposed to Mamdani’s candidacy.
Mamdani has also had mixed success in his efforts to win over the Jewish community. He has said that antisemitism has “no place” in the city and said he would discourage use of the term “globalise the intifada”. But last month more than 850 rabbis and cantors from across the US signed an open letter opposing his candidacy, saying his rhetoric on Israel would “encourage and exacerbate hostility towards Judaism and Jews”.
New York’s near 50,000-strong police force has also been subjected to a charm offensive. Over the summer he met a large group of rank-and-file police officers in a closed-door session, during which he apologised for the June 2020 tweet.
He has also said he intended to ask Jessica Tisch to stay on as New York police commissioner if elected. Tisch, a billionaire heiress who was appointed by Eric Adams, has been a bugbear for some on the far left, despite her wider reputation for competence and professionalism.
By keeping her on, Mamdani signalled that he “wants the best and brightest”, says Wylde. “Diverse viewpoints. It’s the Team of Rivals concept.”
His lack of government experience remains a vulnerability. In the second TV debate on October 22, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, told him his “résumé could fit on a cocktail napkin”. Cuomo said he had “never had a job”, and would struggle to run a city with 300,000 employees and a $115bn budget. He would also be no match for Trump who “thinks he’s a kid”, the former governor added.
Mamdani himself has brushed off that criticism. “What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity,” he said in one debate. Turning to Cuomo he added: “And what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.”
Mamdani remains a tough sell to many moderates. But there is no doubting his ability to connect with groups that Democrats have lost touch with — young and working-class voters and ethnic minorities — and who will be crucial to its hopes of regaining control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.
Their enthusiasm was on full display at last month’s rally in Washington Heights, held in a famous vaudeville and movie house built in 1930 that was filled to capacity with volunteers and fans.
“Fundamental change only comes from the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future,” Mamdani said. “Together, that is exactly what we have done.”
Among the attendees was Ergene Kim, a recent arts graduate. “Since the elections last year there’s been a lot of cynicism and pessimism,” she says. “A lot of my friends want to leave the country.” Mamdani, a “symbol of change and optimism”, was turning the mood around.
“It would be a huge symbolic victory for the left in this country if he wins,” she adds. “It will show we’re still fighting. It will show we’re still here.”
Editor: I can’t claim anything that might resemble objectivity, but the evidence is clear: that the political ascention of Mamdani, has precipitated not just the Financial Times, but The Economist, to levels of hysterical fear mongering of politician who is a Social Democrat and a Muslim. The Other keeps manifesting itself from within!
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The Economist is late to the game of one–upmanship against Zohran Mamdani?
Editor: Zanny Menton Beddoes and her Oxbridger Cadre seems to have weighted too long to begin its assault on Zohran Mamdani! Reader recall this from my comment of Oct 29, 2025?
Editor: Don’t call me anti-Semitic, call me Anti-Fashist !!!!
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