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Latest Commentary: GOP Losing Government Shut-Down Battle -- The government shut-down is into its second week, and the polling around it is depressing if one is a MAGAt. The American people blame the Republican't Party more than the Democratic Party by a significant margin. The pressure has yet to be felt at the White House, but the members of the House and those Senate incumbents facing re-election next year are getting the message. Because Speaker Johnson has sent them home, the House membership is getting an earful in their districts. While this could go on for weeks yet, the way this is breaking is clear. The best thing the GOP can do is cut a deal and move on. The longer it takes, the worse it will be for them. [8 October] Gaza Peace Hopes Too High on Attack Anniversary -- Today marks the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, October 7, 2023. On a day that will live in infamy, Hamas killed roughly 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages. Tens of thousands of deaths later, there seeems to be some optimism in diplomatic circles that the current talks could lead to an end to hostilities and the return of the abducted. President Trump can already taste his Nobel Peace Prize, but the truth is this thing is going to fall apart because the two sides still want mutually exclusive things. There are points on which there will not be compromise because they would cause fundamental damage to the parties. [7 October] French PM Resigns, Shortest Tenure Ever -- The French political mess got worse with the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned. President Emmanuel Macron appointed him on September 9, making his time as PM the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic. Moreover, the resignation occurred just hours after he had presented his cabinet to the country. Mr. Macron can now appoint someone else to deal with the mess, and one would be surprised if any politician in France could do much better than Mr. Lecornu. Or he can dissolve the legislature and hold new elections hoping a different arithmetic in the National Assembly will make the job of governing easier. Or Mr. Macron could resign himself. New parliamentary elections are the most likely result. [6 October] Jane Goodall, 1934-2025 -- Jane Goodall came into this world in the midst of a global depression, in Hampstead, London, born to a British army officer father and a novelist mother. In her early years, they moved to the seaside town of Bournemouth, and she attended Uplands School but could not afford university. That beginning did not portend a life of science and intellectual revolution, but as the poet said, "the future is unwritten." Without university training, she went to Africa and became the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees. As a result, she changed not only humanity's understanding of its closest relatives, it changed how humans see themselves, if they look carefully. [2 October] Gaza Peace Deal Already Collapsing -- Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House Monday to reluctantly agree to a peace proposal from the Americans that he knows is a non-starter. But it gives him cover for continuing his war, and as a result, staying out of jail. The deal he accepted is already in trouble, though. His own coalition partners are criticizing it, and he has personally vowed that there will never be a Palestinian state. Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump, however, have stage managed things so that Hamas will reject the deal and take up the blame for continuing the war. [1 October] © Copyright 2025 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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