Fast Takes: College-sports bill’s killer flaw, Ceuta could be our future and more

Decency desk: College-Sports Bill’s Killer Flaw

The National Collegiate Athletic Association promotes “the Protect College Sports Act” as the answer to its “college football, conference realignment and name-image-and-likeness” problems.

But “the NCAA and its lobbyists aren’t telling anyone” that the bill “is a Trojan horse for men in women’s college sports,” thunders Kim Jones at The Wall Street Journal.

One provision would stymie federal lawsuits to protect women’s sports, “halt efforts to hold the NCAA accountable under Title IX” and undo “state protections for women and girls in school sports.”

Don’t trust the NCAA, which “permits member schools to allow men on women’s teams” and “allows men to define themselves as women and use women’s locker rooms.”

America’s “female athletes deserve the full protections of Title IX.” “Solve football, solve NIL, but don’t exempt the NCAA from Title IX and state law.”

Conservatives: Ceuta Could Be Our Future

The border rush at Ceuta — “tens of thousands of military-aged men invaded” the Spanish exclave — shows what “the Democratic Socialists of America’s mass-amnesty and open-borders policies would look like in practice,” warns the Washington Examiner’s editorial board.

Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has significantly “implemented” the dream of “mass amnesty and open borders” shared by the Western left on the premise that “we owe migrants the right to come here” because capitalism “supposedly destroyed their countries’ economies” — when in fact it was “socialist policies” that “condemned their own people to misery.”

Socialists now seek to “import that misery” wholesale, which is what happens when “governments transform border enforcement from a sovereign obligation into an exercise in ideological guilt.”

From the right: Make Dems Own Their Insanity

Rather than “panic,” Republicans in the midterms should adopt a “bold branding campaign, without apology,” argues The Washington Times’ Robert Knight.

Recall the horrors under President Joe Biden, when gas was “$5 a gallon, inflation soared as high as 9%, millions of unvetted illegals poured across the border,” and Iran was just weeks from “getting the bomb.”

“The message: If you vote Democratic at any level, you are summoning back the bad old days,” and “you are also enabling Democratic Socialists of America” and their “bizarre, anti-American agenda.”

GOP ads should “illustrate the stark moral contrast between the parties,” from Dem-enabled “billions of dollars in fraud” to lunatic pro-trans propaganda to Kindergartners to Democrats’ embrace of antisemitic America-hater Hasan Piker, who claimed America deserved 9/11. “Make the Democrats own it all.”

Pollsters: Progressive Lifeline for GOP

Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed’s fight for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nomination is “the most contentious primary of the 2026 cycle,” note Douglas E. Schoen & Carly Cooperman in The Hill, and a Dem win in the fall “is vital to the party’s chances to retake” the Senate.

Uh-oh: “El-Sayed appears to be gaining considerable momentum in the campaign’s final days,” but has struggled to gain popularity among “Independents and Black voters, two vital demographics in Michigan.”

Surveys show him trailing Republican Mike Rogers by 10 points, while “Stevens and Rogers are virtually tied.”

So the likely progressive primary victory will increase “the odds that progressives will have won the battle only to cost Democrats the war.”

Libertarian: Zo’s Bogus ‘Enemies List’ Excuse

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “packaged publication of surcharge targets” is “potentially dangerous,” but his supporters are defending him by saying “tax and property information” is public, fumes Reason’s J.D. Tuccille.

The raw data is, but this selected list has been compiled into a search-friendly file, which is a whole different thing.

And the tax hits condos and coops valued at $1 million; by NYC standards “those owners are not necessarily the richest of the rich at all. But they’re prosperous enough to stir the socialist mayor’s backers into a frenzy of envy, which is probably the intention.”

In our “age of weaponized hatreds, just being suspected of success can get you on politicians’ enemy lists.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board