Opinions – Page 358 – Prologue Journal

A Sanitized ‘French Connection’ vs. the Hip-Hop Gutter

Wall Street Journal Censors scrub a 50-year-old film to remove a racial slur that kids hear every day in popular music. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-sanitized-french-connection-vs-the-hip-hop-gutter-film-music-rap-slur-culture-the-exorcist-6b8f73d0

Why Are Carbon Emissions Up?

Wall Street Journal Green subsidies aren’t working when CO2 is growing faster than energy consumption. https://www.wsj.com/articles/carbon-emissions-up-inflation-reduction-act-biden-climate-change-renewable-green-energy-subsidy-b5d90085

Notable & Quotable: The Pelosi Building

Wall Street Journal ‘Dozens of dealers routinely plant themselves on, next to or across the street from the property, operating in shifts as users smoke, snort or shoot up their recent purchases.’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-the-pelosi-building-homeless-housing-drugs-remote-work-69edee08

Is China Past Its Peak?

Wall Street Journal Its rising debt, aging population and sinking housing market suggest it is. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-past-peak-demographic-bomb-aging-youth-unemployment-grad-recession-taiwan-34fda75f

Why Lawmakers Should Pass the SALT Deduction

Wall Street Journal Keep unchecked government in New York and California. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-republican-salt-state-local-tax-deduction-property-income-sales-economic-regulation-deficit-debt-tax-revenue-itemized-deduction-e4f0b79e

Regulators Gone Wild

Wall Street Journal The White House is rewriting the rules for cost-benefit analysis to unleash its regulators. https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-office-of-management-and-budget-regulations-state-attorneys-general-980c0c2a

China Will Hunt You Down

Wall Street Journal Laos arrests Lu Siwei, a Chinese human-rights lawyer, en route to the U.S. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-will-hunt-you-down-4bfaaf79

Middle-Class Revolt in Argentina

Wall Street Journal Voters turn to an outsider who wants to close the central bank. https://www.wsj.com/articles/javier-milei-argentina-election-619b8ca4

Free Raises for Everybody. Not.

Wall Street Journal New David-Bacon rules will raise costs and limit new public works. https://www.wsj.com/articles/prevailing-wage-rule-biden-administration-department-of-labor-davis-bacon-act-dab9cf22

The Post-Pandemic Murder Wave Is Cresting

Wall Street Journal Violent crime in general declined in 2020 and 2021 as a social epidemic ravaged young black men. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-post-pandemic-murder-wave-is-cresting-violent-crime-police-data-murder-110cee6c