Iconoclast: Antifa Is All Too Real<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocratic leaders like Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY)\u201d and \u201clate-night host Jimmy Kimmel\u201d insist that Antifa \u201cdoes not exist as a group,\u201d\u00a0remarks Jonathan Turley at Res ipsa loquitur,<\/a>\u00a0yet self-identified Antifa individuals and groups recently \u201cput out a hit list poster\u201d against a Turning Point USA leader that resulted in his being \u201cattacked by a person in the signature Antifa black outfit.\u201d <\/p>\n Democrats are \u201cramping up denials of the very existence of Antifa\u201d to deflect \u201ccriticism for their own increasingly rage-filled rhetoric.\u201d <\/p>\n Antifa \u201cavoids typical leadership hierarchies and organizational structures,\u201d but \u201claw enforcement officials, like former FBI Director Christopher Wray,\u201d affirm that \u201c\u2018Antifa is a real thing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Pension beat: Cali\u2019s Losing Green Gamble<\/p>\n California\u2019s massive public-employee-pension fund CalPERS \u201clost 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean energy and technology private equity fund\u201d but \u201cwon\u2019t explain how,\u201d notes\u00a0The Center Square\u2019s Kenneth Schrupp<\/a>. <\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n The pension fund \u201csays its pension benefits are only 79% funded, leaving the state, and its taxpayers, on the hook for the other 21%.\u201d <\/p>\n To try to close its \u201cpension shortfall of approximately $180 billion,\u201d CalPERS \u201chas multiplied its investments in private equity\u201d investments in solar power, which \u201chave outperformed its other assets,\u201d at least \u201con paper.\u201d <\/p>\n But \u201cpublic finance experts say private equity is too expensive, too risky and doesn\u2019t provide enough transparency,\u201d making them inappropriate investment vehicles for pension plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n From the left: Dems Toss Boomers with Bathwater<\/p>\n \u201cThe Democratic Party\u2019s generational police are coming after\u201d the Boomers, frets\u00a0Joe Klein at Sanity Clause<\/a>: \u201cThe party\u2019s leadership is too old, it is said,\u201d so now \u201cwe have several races to demonstrate the energy and creativity of youthful candidates v. the woozy exhaustion of the elderly.\u201d <\/p>\n But many younger candidates lack \u201creal-life experience,\u201d and resemble \u201cZohran Mamdani, a perfect dilettante,\u201d or \u201cGraham Platner in Maine,\u201d a \u201cfaux proletarian.\u201d <\/p>\n Nevertheless, \u201cbring on the next generation, some of them,\u201d while keeping in mind that \u201ceven the new Democrats are out of step with America, still playing 20th century politics.\u201d <\/p>\n They have few candidates \u201cwho are willing to break the party\u2019s identitarian straitjacket.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Justice watch: Bragg\u2019s \u2018Trial That Never Was\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n