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The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

Sep 09, 2015

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Ramesh Ponnuru: "Republic=n leaders are right to want to avoid a government shutdown. But they shoul= nonetheless offer a spending bill that denies any federal funds to Planne= Parenthood. Senate Democrats could filibuster it if they wanted to -- and=Republicans could see how the debate goes. They could then give way, tempo=arily, if that's what it takes to keep the government funded. But they sho=ldn't give in preemptively." Read more...
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Jonathan Bernstein: "Republican leader= in Congress are publicly against using a shutdown threat. Senate Majority=Leader Mitch McConnell has specifically said he wants no confrontation ove= Planned Parenthood, and he and House Speaker John Boehner have been sayin= the right things about budgeting all year. ... The handful of radicals wh= would support such a deliberate course now don't count for much by themse=ves." Read more...

CHINA

William Pesek: "R=ther than just tossing more stimulus at the economy and stocks, President =i Jinping is redoubling efforts to reform the inefficient and opaque state=owned enterprises at the root of so many of China's vulnerabilities. In ot=er words, Xi is finally working to strengthen China's foundations rather t=an papering over the cracks. The bad news is that Xi could just as easily =e making things worse." Read=more...

ASIA

The Editors: "The storm sweep=ng over emerging markets has hit Malaysia at an especially fraught moment,=with Prime Minister Najib Razak embroiled in a $700 million funding scanda=. The country's economic difficulties are bad enough by themselves. The po=itical turmoil makes them all the harder to deal with." Read more...

Adam Mi=ter: "It was a deal that a developing nation such as I=donesia wasn't supposed to refuse. In return for a $5.5 billion Chinese lo=n to be repaid over 50 years, Indonesia would receive its first high-speed=rail line, a 93-mile high-tech bauble to run from the capital, Jakarta, to=the country's third-largest city, Bandung. But late last week, President J=ko Widodo's government did the unexpected and refused it ... Having the wi=l, and clearsightedness, to turn down those projects when they don't meet =ctual needs will be crucial to ensuring the long-term health of developing=economies across Asia." Read more...

RUSSIA

Leonid Bershidsky:Dmitry Kiselyov, the public face of President Vladim=r Putin's propaganda machine and one of the regime's top functionaries, is=suing the European Union for subjecting him to a travel ban and asset free=e on the grounds that he backed Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.=The case provides an interesting insight into the psychology of Putin's ac=lytes, who have long viewed Western Europe as their playground. Now, they =efuse to believe they have been cast out." Read more...

LAW
Noah Feldman= "Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused a f=deral judge's direct order to issue marriage licenses, was freed from jail=Tuesday. But some conservatives have questioned why she was there in the f=rst place, comparing her stand with that of President Barack Obama, who sa=s he won’t deport some immigrants in the U.S. without legal author=ty; with the noncooperation of 'sanctuary city' mayors with federal immigr=tion authorities; and with the refusal of California Governor Jerry Brown =o defend Proposition 8 when it was challenged in federal court. ... This c=arge of hypocrisy requires a serious response." Read more...

Megan McArdle: "Imagine, if y=u will, a law that said all doors had to be left unlocked so that the poli=e could get in whenever they needed to. Or at the very least, a law mandat=ng that the government have a master key. That's essentially what some in =he government want for your technology."

CARS

Justin Fox: "What if millenni=ls just convince themselves they aren't into cars -- or houses, or other t=appings of 20th-century middle-class life in the U.S. -- because they can'= afford them anyway? ... Changes in young adults' consumption habits have =learly been influenced by economic forces. But economic forces shape socie=al attitudes, too." Read more...

Sports

Kavitha Davidson: "An extreme=y thorough report by ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham reveals =ew details about the 2007 scandal known as Spygate, in which the New Engla=d Patriots were caught videotaping the opposing team's signals during a ga=e against the New York Jets. Among their key findings was that the spying =ctually spanned 40 games over seven seasons, from 2000 to 2007. ... If any=hing, the report confirms just how much the NFL is designed to protect its=lf." Read more...

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