President Donald Trump called out the leftist agenda of transgender mutilation of children during his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

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Kevin Warsh—the new, spiffy Federal Reserve chairman—just offered an old, threadbare “therapy” for nagging inflation.

On Sept. 16, the central bank increased the federal funds rate from 3.75% to 4.00%, up 0.25%—the first such hike since Aug. 1, 2023. This move was both disappointing and counterproductive.

Betraying his supply-side supporters, Warsh is peddling the exhausted and discredited Phillips Curve nonsense that inflation is fueled by too much growth and employment. Furthermore, this foolishness argues that to slow rising prices, you should hobble the economy, hinder prosperity, and hire fewer workers.

If Warsh has caught 30 seconds of news since Feb. 28, he would know that today’s chief driver of inflation is not too many booming businesses. Rather, it’s too many booming bombs in and around Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf. The Iran War, thankfully, has left the ayatollahs’ atomic toys harmlessly glowing in the dark beneath tons of rubble. If not obliterated, the mullahs’ fledgling nukes have been delayed for years, and perhaps even decades.

Unfortunately, the price for that vital improvement in national security and long-term international stability is a current increase in oil prices. Middle Eastern chaos boosts global petroleum expenses. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude cost $66.96 last Feb. 27, Iran War eve. The price on Sept. 15, Rate-hike Eve: $107.02—up 59.8%. The off-again, on-again closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the destruction that Iran’s missiles have unleashed on nearby oil-producing countries have buoyed energy prices.

This, not “runaway” GDP growth, drove August’s 3.4% year-over-year inflation rate. Indeed, the Consumer Price Index’s measure of “All items less energy” rose 2.5%—eerily close to the Fed’s 2% “healthy” inflation target.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics blames the correct culprit for the gap between 2.5% and 3.4% inflation: “The index for gasoline rose 3.9 percent in August, accounting for over one third of the monthly all items increase. The index for energy increased 2.1 percent over the month,” BLS reported. “The energy index increased 16.3 percent for the 12 months ending August.”

Hiking interest rates does zippo to protect Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines; permanently open the Strait; or place bullets between the eyes of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the ayatollahs, and Tehran’s other tyrants who oppress their own people, terrorize their neighbors, and impoverish the Earth.

Boosting interest rates to treat energy-driven inflation is quackery, much like prescribing chemotherapy to cure high cholesterol.

The Phillips Curve that Warsh pried from some witch doctor’s medicine chest has been ridiculed since at least the days of dial-up internet.

Warsh could have helped matters by admitting that the Fed has no control over the U.S. Armed Forces and their valiant efforts to neutralize the evildoers in Tehran and the damage they are doing to price stability worldwide. He should have wished America’s GIs the best of luck in wrapping up that engagement with a decisive victory that keeps the oil flowing, lowers energy prices, and decreases inflation.

Warsh should have explained, too, that economic growth, increasing productivity, and more goods to absorb any excess cash in the system also would fight inflation.

To that end, Warsh should use his highly influential voice to promote the expansion of U.S. energy capacity to the breaking point. He should urge Congress to use a Reconciliation 3.0 bill to index capital gains taxes; lower other tax rates for corporations, small businesses, families, and individuals; and otherwise increase incentives for Americans to work, save, invest, and produce. Meanwhile, by holding interest rates steady or lower, the Fed could work on behalf of the American people, rather than hammer them with higher bills.

These steps would lower inflation and keep the economy growing. Making money less affordable will not.

“A quarter-point hike sounds trivial until you see the math,” CrossCountry Mortgage’s Robert W. Ring tells me. “On a $500,000 loan, it adds an extra $1,000 annually, or $30,000 over 30 years. Warsh cannot bomb-proof the Strait of Hormuz with a rate hike. He can only blast first-time buyers out of their initial homes.”

Before Kevin Warsh bombs again, the Pentagon should give him targeting lessons.

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President Donald Trump has signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland aimed at strengthening Arctic and North Atlantic security, easing tensions over his repeated calls for Greenland to become part of the United States.

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Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said ending the Iran regime's ability to sponsor terror around the world and its quest to obtain nuclear weapons was "a reality we had to confront."

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, accusing the Democrat of supporting Hamas and inciting unrest against Jews before Netanyahu's visit to the United Nations.

‘Safeguard the Constitution’

THE CENTER SQUARE—A proposal from the administration of Gov. Josh Shapiro to overhaul disease regulations has unleashed a flood of public comments and irritated state Republicans, who claim it would allow for warrantless entry into homes and violate the public desire to limit a governor’s emergency powers.

On Monday, Democratic representative and medical doctor Arvind Venkat of Allegheny County said Republicans “are jumping to extreme conclusions” about the 502-page document, which was filed with the Independent Regulatory Review Commission in June. The period for public comment was to expire on Monday.

“They are very important to update,” Venkat said the regulations, in part because of the evolution of new diseases and new science in the 25 years since the last major update.

The IRRC was created by statute 44 years ago to review proposed regulations to make sure they are in the public interest. Its executive director, David Sumner, said Monday that the Department of Health filing was “one of the most significant rulemakings to come through our door in the last few years.”

Republican state Rep. Kathy Rapp of Warren County said there were more than 4,000 public comments and most were against the filing. The volume apparently is not unprecedented. Sumner said regulations proposed years ago associated with what generally was known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative drew 30,000 comments.

According to Sumner, the commission will evaluate it for reasonableness, clarity, and cost to comply. The entire process could take as long as two years.

Signed by Health Secretary Debra Bogen, the latest filing on “communicable and noncommunicable diseases” proposes to expand the list of reportable diseases, infections, and conditions; to address evolving standards and expert guidance; and “to ensure the overall public health and safety by reducing the spread of diseases, infections and conditions.”

The public comment period has coincided with the worst measles outbreak in the state in decades, but the filing was made long before the outbreak got widespread media attention.

Republican Rep. Russ Diamond of Lebanon County, who made headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic for his criticism of then-Health Secretary Rachel Levine and a state requirement on wearing masks in public, ripped into the new proposed regulation on Monday.

“If this regulation goes into effect, I guarantee you there will be constitutional lawsuits,” Diamond said. “With these regulations, it is like COVID 2.0.”

He pointed to a 2021 statewide referendum in which voters agreed to limit disaster declarations to 21 days rather than 90. It also gave the Legislature, not the governor, power to make an extension.

The spirit of the Department of Health regulations, Diamond said, flies in the face of the vote.

“The Shapiro administration is trying to skirt and circumvent that constitutional power by giving the Department of Health all the powers the people objected to,” Diamond said.

Senate Republicans said in written statement the proposed regulations would let state and local health agencies “enter any home, school, apartment, healthcare facility or other building without a warrant.” They also said the regulations would let the department “speak to a student in private without the consent or knowledge of a parent.”

In a letter to the IRRC, the Democratic Rep. Dan Frankel of Allegheny County, chairman of the House Health Committee, praised the department’s work to prevent disease spread.

Frankel endorsed the concept of expanding a vaccine tracking system to include additional providers; supported the addition of “prevention, containment or mitigation” as justifications for disease control measures; and suggested that its wording on the “ages of young people who might be approached in schools” be changed.

“A first-grader is not the same as a high school senior,” Frankel pointed out.

Rapp, who is the top Republican on the House Health Committee, said the filing in its current form hands “broad, unchecked authority to unelected bureaucrats.”

Originally published by The Center Square.

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Energy groups are pressing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reconsider the shuttered Indian Point nuclear plant as soaring electricity demand from artificial intelligence and data centers fuels a broader revival of nuclear power in the United States.

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