Archive for 2019

ENDORSED: Hawley to Introduce Bill to Move Federal Agencies out of Washington D.C. to Economically Stagnant Areas. “The ‘Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) Act,’ which is cosponsored by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), would move 90 percent of the positions within ten executive agencies to economically distressed regions that have a stake in the work of those respective agencies.”

Flashback: Make DC A Swamp Again.

OUT ON A LIMB: Texas Judge Rules Father Has a Say in Seven-Year-Old Son’s Gender Transition.

Earlier: Texas Jury Rules Seven-Year-Old Boy Can Undergo ‘Gender Transitioning.’

UPDATE: “But the judge is simultaneously slapping a gag order on the father, forbidding him from speaking publicly about the case. That means that she might have granted the father ‘equal’ voice in whether or not the boy is castrated and further encouraged to “socially transition” into a girl boy who wears lipstick, false eyelashes, and other drag-queen accoutrements, but that she’ll also side with the mother on every point of dispute, and the father now will be forbidden, upon pain of contempt and jail, to say so in public.”

MSNBC’S HALLIE JACKSON GETS SUPER MAD WHEN REP. MATT GAETZ WON’T AGREE WITH LIBERAL TALKING POINTS: “How can you tell me it’s a fact that my committee is not involved when it was the Judiciary Committee who launched the investigation?”

More here: “Gaetz and Jackson sparred over the Ukraine scandal and the Republican lawmaker fact-checked the MSNBC anchor once more. ‘You just keep blowing through these things like they’re facts but they’re not…I have to fact check you in real time.’”

NO BOUNDARIES: TV Reporter Climbs All Over Classic Cars on Live Camera, Gets Fired. “While promoting the Sacramento International Auto Show on the local program Good Morning Sacramento, Cardenas hopped up onto the trunk of a classic yellow Ford Thunderbird before opening the door of a pink Thunderbird into an adjacent car—all on air—and the reason is lost on us.”

THE ARREST OF UCONN STUDENTS FOR USING A RACIAL SLUR IS CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. As will be any action that UConn, a state institution, takes against them. These unlawful abuses need to stop, now, and people and organizations need to stop excusing them, or we’re all next.