Gavin Newsom partied amid LA riots, no more experiments on kids and other commentary

Eye on Cali: Gavin Partied Amid LA Riots

“As riots engulfed Los Angeles and mobs vandalized public buildings, incinerated vehicles, and assaulted law enforcement officers, California governor Gavin Newsom was enjoying a swanky wine-tasting party in Napa Valley,” report City Journal’s Christopher F. Rufo & Ryan Thorpe.

The gov was photographed at the June 7 charity fundraiser “at the Odette Estate Winery, which Newsom co-founded in 2011,” though “riots had broken out in Los Angeles the day before.”

This recalls his November 2020 feast “with political allies at the Michelin-starred French Laundry, even as he had instructed California residents to avoid getting together with family for the approaching Thanksgiving holiday.”

This time, “it was wine, rather than food, that caught Newsom’s attention. But the principle is the same: Newsom sips Cabernet while his state burns.”

Therapist: No More Experiments on Kids

Puberty is “a normal, necessary part of growing up,” but “the medical establishment is still flirting with the idea that we can chemically freeze children in time and expect no consequences,” fumes Stella O’Malley at Spiked.

“That’s why Genspect, which I founded, has launched the ‘Memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the role of puberty in adolescent development’” and created ProtectingPuberty.com to declare “that puberty is not optional, and children deserve the right to grow up — unmedicated and unmanipulated.”

Yet the British National Health Service “is now throwing £10 million at a study that will dole out puberty blockers to gender-distressed kids — again.”

Preventing puberty traps children “in a twilight state, medically sterilized and emotionally stalled, with no path back to normality.” It’s not “ medicine,” but “experimentation.”

Conservative: Dems’ Deportation Delusions

Democrats may be upset by the president’s deportation agenda, “but the reality is that Trump is following through on his promises to restore safety at the southern border and to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible,” observes USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques.

An NBC poll “found that 51% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of border security and immigration”; a CBS one, that “the majority of Americans side with Trump’s deportation agenda.”

Wow: “From transgender athletes in women’s sports to halting illegal immigration, Democrats keep finding themselves on the wrong side of issues that Americans care about.”

Business desk: RIP, FedEx’s Fred Smith

Frederick W. Smith, who died this weekend at 80, was among “the great entrepreneurs of the 20th century,” notes The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.

A Marine veteran, Smith “founded FedEx in 1973 with a handful of aircraft. By 2022 it had 560,000 employees in 220 countries.”

And it “revolutionized package and letter delivery,” promising “overnight delivery of letters and goods” — an “exemplar of American 20th-century innovation that improved the lives and businesses of tens of millions.”

Nor was Smith “afraid to speak up on public-policy issues, especially as an advocate for free-market capitalism.”

He provided “valuable” reminders that “the root of the country’s prosperity has been its openness to trade and global competition.”

“Few Americans have contributed as much to the well-being of their country.”

Legal beat: Democrats’ Empty Iran-Bombing Fury

After President Trump’s strikes on Iran, “Democratic politicians and pundits who were supportive of such unilateral actions by Democratic presidents such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are suddenly opposed to Trump using the same power,” blasts Jonathan Turley at his Res ipsa loquitur site.

They cheered when Clinton “ordered attacks in locations in Khartoum, Sudan, and Khost Province, Afghanistan.”

Before Obama-era strikes on Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “dismissed the need to consult, let alone secure authorization from, Congress.”

Obama did it again on Syria. “The War Powers Act has always been controversial and largely ineffectual,” and “the calls for impeachment are absurd given the prior actions of presidents in using this very authority.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board