That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
—Lysander Spooner
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Category Archives: Government
The Frustration of Fauxcahontas
.@SenWarren: "I believe in democracy, and I don't believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority wants to do. That's not in the Constitution. […] It's time to get rid of the filibuster." https://t.co/2tBTIfvv2q pic.twitter.com/UwZuKxrotg
— The Hill (@thehill) May 11, 2022
Fauxcahontas is ranting about the results of today’s abortion vote in the Senate. The bill went down 49-51. (But of course, wrong votes aren’t supposed to count in “Our Democracy.”}
Umm, that wasn’t the work of a minority. The larger group of votes were nays.
Also, Cocaine Mitch didn’t bother with a filibuster against a losing bill. Indeed, it was in the Republican’s interest to allow most of the Democrats to vote in favor of killing babies.
Overreach. Desperation. Panic. It’s going to be an interesting campaign season.
Controls All the Branches?
I believe Chief Justice Roberts, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Schumer should have a word with Peppermint Psaki.
The Lens of Experience
It appears that when our Disinformation Governance Board’s Executive Director referred to Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation,” she may have had inside knowledge of the situation. This is from her LinkedIn profile—
This is the same time period when a loan guarantee had been used to influence the Ukrainian government’s decisions concerning criminal investigations.
In other news … the chocolate ration will be increased from 30 to 20 grams per week.
In Re Stare Decisis
Dred Scott, Homer Plessy, and Fred Korematsu would like a word people who believe wrongly decided Supreme Court rulings should be left standing.
Roger Taney, John Ferguson, and Franklin Roosevelt are, and should be, maintaining an embarrassed silence.
What’s There and What’s Not
I’ve skimmed the document which Politico alleges to be a draft decision by Justice Alito striking down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. It seems to me the gist of his argument is that the Supreme Court exceeded its authority by inventing a right that had no foundation in either the Constitution or American common law or our civil traditions. Therefore, regulation of abortion is a matter for each state.
I’m not surprised by that reasoning. I hope the Court’s final ruling goes that way.
This leads me wonder what the reasoning in the pending New York State Rifle & Pistol Association case will be. That case deals with a state’s regulation of a right explicitly protected in the Bill of Rights, a right the Court has previously ruled is bound on the states via the Fourteenth Amendment. Will the justices find some new extra-Constitutional doctrine that will allow states to continue to suppress an enumerated right? Or will they tell the states that Second Amendment is fully applicable nationwide?
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There’s a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
—Colin Trevorrow
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I would never want to see our executive branch have that sort of power.
—Nina Jankowicz
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
When I was in the music business in Nashville, my usual response to this sort of performance was, “Don’t give up your day job.” However, is this woman’s case, we’d be better off if she changed careers.
The Central Scrutinizer
Nina Jankowicz, Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board
It is my responsibility to enforce all the laws
That haven’t been passed yet.
It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you
To the potential consequences
Of various ordinary everyday activities …
It’s A Bad Idea, But Is It Also Illegal?
Does the Department of Homeland Security have any statutory authority to create a Disinformation Governance Board?
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It would be a very good thing for all involved—the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left itself—if liberals take a page from David von Drehle and their own judges of the New Deal era, kick their addiction to constitutional litigation, and return to their New Deal roots of trying to win elections rather than lawsuits.
—Neal Gorsuch
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
—P. J. O’Rourke
Is Reality Intruding On The Narrative?
The WSJ reports that the Xiden administration will resume oil and gas leasing on federal land. The administration’s moratorium on leasing was shot down by a federal judge, and pressure to resume leasing has been increasing since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the administration is trying to minimize the new leases.
The Interior Department said it would make roughly 144,000 acres available for oil and gas drilling through a series of lease sales, an 80% reduction from the footprint of land that had been under evaluation for leasing.
Companies will also be required to pay royalties of 18.75% of the value of what they extract, up from 12.5%.
On the morning of 20 January, 2021, the United States was a net exporter of energy products. That changed within a few day. These leases will help turn things around, but they’re only a start in the right direction.
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Now my advise for those who die
(Taxman!)
Declare the pennies on your eyes
(Taxman!)
‘Cause I’m the taxman
Yeah, I’m the taxman
—George Harrison
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It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
—Thomas Sowell
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The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
We’ve Still A Way To Go
Inflation in March was only 8.5 %.
We are still short of 10 % for the Big Guy.
Some Theories Turn Out To Be True
If you had suggested back in 2020 that the defendants in the Whitmer kidnapping case might be the victims of FBI entrapment, you would have been branded a conspiracy theorist.
Today, a jury acquitted two of the four defendants and was unable to reach a verdict on the other two.
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The 2020 IRS Form 990 for Justice Through Music Project has still not been posted on line.
Hmmm.
Don’t Know Much Biology
How to Know You’re No Longer an A-Team Player
Isikoff says he didn’t see this coming.
That implies that he’s no longer on the inside of the Media Deep State Complex.
It’s clear the reason a grand jury has been kept in business investigating Hunter Biden is to provide an indictment if The Big Guy becomes too much of a liability. Given the failures over the past 15 months, it’s not surprising that the battle space is being prepared for a change.
Hmmmm.
A Return to Normalcy
That was Harding’s successful campaign slogan in 1920. He was running in a country turned upside-down by the Wilson’s wartime proto-Fascist government. Wilson, who was no friend of the Constitution, had stuck the government’s nose into too many corners of American life, and the people pushed back against his overreach.
I’ve been writing about the overreach the Democrats have been engaging in since the 2020 election. They’ve sought to impose abnormality on the public, and the public is starting to push back. And the trigger seems to have been what is happening to kids while they are in school.
Forced cosmetic masking and coverups of crimes against students were issues that swayed the election in Virginia last year. Racist propaganda in the form of so-called Critical Race Theory, inappropriate sexual topics in kindergarten, and hidden efforts to promote and enable “gender” transitions have sent parent lobbying at state legislatures this year.
For the most part, it seems their pushback is winning. Several states have outlawed teaching racism. This week, Florida passed a ban on inappropriate class related to sexuality.
Of course, the media and the Democrats (BIRM) are howling, and it looks as if many of them are willing to go into this November’s elections without letting go of their overreach.
Meanwhile, the public is beginning to notice that inflation is at its highest in over 40 years, that the world is tending toward WW3, and that they can’t afford to buy $55k EVs. Things are about to get uglier.
Stay tuned.
On the Flattening of Curves
Today is Day 731, and they still are requiring cosmetic masking on public transportation.