Archive for 2020
February 26, 2020
FAILURE WAS AN OPTION: Italy scrambles to contain coronavirus after admitting hospital mess-up.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Cruz scorches Sotomayor over court critique, turns tables on her dissent.
“I read it a little bit like an arsonist complaining about the noise from the fire trucks,” Cruz said of Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in Wolf v. Cook County, which dealt with regulations placing restrictions on non-citizens applying for visas to enter the U.S.
A lower court had issued a nationwide injunction against the administration, blocking the regulations, although the Cook County case only dealt with an Illinois injunction. Sotomayor used her to dissent to rail against the administration for its repeated tactic of applying for emergency stays so injunctions could be put on hold.
“It is hard to say what is more troubling,” Sotomayor wrote, “that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it,” she wrote.
But Cruz turned the issue around, stating that the Trump administration would not have to take such measures if judges were not granting an unusual number of nationwide injunctions.
“If you look to the facts of what’s happening with nationwide injunctions, I think it will explain why the Department of Justice has had to ask the Supreme Court to intervene over and over again,” Cruz said.
Indeed.
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK: On this day in 1929, Calvin Coolidge (the coolest President our nation has ever known) signed an executive order establishing Grand Teton National Park.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: KU to host art contest for students to express ‘anger’ over campus Chick-fil-A.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden’s Campaign Needs to Be Put Out of Our Misery. “Modern American presidential campaigns involve a lot of debate prep, so it’s stunning that Biden actually seems to be getting worse at these things as there are more of them. The campaign people must be chugging Pepto Bismol by the gallon every time der Bidengaffer opens his mouth now. South Carolina can do the rest of the Biden-weary nation a huge favor and send him packing for good. Unfortunately, he’s leading in the polls there at the moment. If the state does give him his first victory, we’re probably going to be forced to watch his rapid decline play out until the convention.”
Sad.
AFTER 400,000 DEAD, SOUTH SUDAN SEEKS PEACE: The country’s six-year long internal war may finally be ending.
WELL, OKAY THEN.
ISSUES & INSIGHTS: Coronavirus For All: Dems’ Plans Would Make Us Sick.
THE NAVY’S “COMMON UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLE” MANEUVERS AT NAVAL STATION NORFOLK: Take a look at the “developmental” CUSV. The photo caption says the boat is maneuvering autonomously in the Elizabeth River.
‘TIS A PITY THEY CAN’T BOTH… ACTUALLY, THEY CAN BOTH LOSE! “I’m Sorry, What?” Bloomberg Adviser Hints At Mother Of All Oppo-Research Drops On Bernie.
Just how committed is Michael Bloomberg to winning the Democratic primary? Enough to have his adviser Tim O’Brien drop this bombshell on a stunned Alisyn Camerota this morning on CNN’s New Day. Just as Camerota made an argument that Democrats might not want to go full tilt against Bernie Sanders if he’s likely to end up the nominee against Donald Trump, O’Brien promised that Team Bloomberg would hammer Sanders with everything they have.
And it’s remarkable how much information a news-media mogul can find, isn’t it? Such as advice for parents of toddlers to allow them to run naked and explore each others’ genitalia, for instance, O’Brien offers. “I’m sorry — what?” exclaims Camerota.
Ed Morrissey has much more at the link.
ON THE UPSIDE, BIDEN APPARENTLY THINKS HE’S RUNNING FOR THE SENATE: More than 85% of deportations Joe Biden would halt are criminals: ICE.
NO WORD ON WHETHER HE HAD EVIDENCE AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN OR HILLARY CLINTON: Florida man dies inside suitcase, girlfriend charged after claiming they were playing hide and seek.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: N.S.A. Phone Program Cost $100 Million, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads.
THAT’S WHAT WORRIES ME: This Is Not McGovern’s America: Crazy Bernie Can Win It All.
WELL, GOOD: Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect.
Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid.
No more.
“You had to arrive at 3 in the morning, and it might take you until the end of the day,” he said, pointing behind the office in the Maryvale neighborhood to show how long the lines got.
But no one lined up one recent weekday morning, and there were just a handful of people inside.
Incentives matter, and we shouldn’t be incentivizing people who have never paid into the system to use it.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: UAE says ready for ‘worst case’ scenarios as coronavirus spreads in Middle East.
Coronavirus spread ‘deeply concerning’ but not a pandemic: WHO’s Tedros.
Canary Wharf offices in lockdown after worker suffers coronavirus symptoms.
Brazilian Who Visited Italy Is Feared to Be First Coronavirus Patient in Latin America.
Communities fight plans to put coronavirus patients in their towns.
Coronavirus cases top 80,000 worldwide.
‘We’re Fine but Bored,’ Says Guest in Tenerife Hotel in Coronavirus Lockdown.
CEOs have ‘no clue’ on coronavirus impact in what could be a lost year for earnings, investor says.
Coronavirus Spreads: Whisky & Spirits Industry To Lose 200 Million In 2020. Weird, you think people would be drinking more.
European Stocks Fall Again as More Coronavirus Cases Are Reported Across The Continent.
