THAT’S BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD TO DISCREDIT THE RESULTS IN ADVANCE, AFTER SPENDING NEARLY FOUR YEARS TRYING TO UNDO THE LAST ELECTION: Just 22% Of Americans Think 2020 Presidential Election Will Be ‘Free And Fair.’
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September 21, 2020
THESE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS REJECT COVID LOCKDOWNS: This open letter to Belgian health authorities to date has signatures of 401 medical doctors, 1,375 medically trained health professionals and 9,141 private citizens
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “ROBBING US OF OUR TUITION DOLLARS ONCE AGAIN.” Gettysburg College tells most of its students to go home. They don’t go quietly. “Previously, the college quarantined students for days, prohibiting them from leaving their rooms except to pick up meals and use the bathroom. . . . Tension on the campus was further escalated by the College’s lack of communication about whether tuition and fees paid would be reimbursed. Many students enrolled at Gettysburg paid prices they expected would cover a traditional educational experience, rather than a less resource-intensive model of remote delivery.”
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important. “When your political system can be thrown into hysteria by something as predictable as the death of an octogenarian with advanced cancer, there’s something wrong with your political system. And when your judicial system can be redirected by such an event, there’s something wrong with your judicial system, too.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Are About to Learn How Much Republicans Are Still Seething 2 Years After Kavanaugh Hearings. “Whatever grief the Democrats get in the next month or two was brought about by their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh two years ago. Their behavior towards Kavanaugh was abominable and unforgivable.”
ICYMI: FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN MY HOME-STUDIO SETUP, I POSTED A DESCRIPTION WITH PHOTOS ON SSRN: TIRED OF LOOKING GRAY AND BORING ONLINE? A SIMPLE 3-CAMERA TV STUDIO/CLASSROOM FOR LIVELY ONLINE TEACHING.
STANDING UP AGAINST DOMESTIC TERRORISM:
The left has operated under a culture of impunity for years. That needs to end.
USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Pelosi Stonewalls Bill That Would Crack Down on Chinese Influence in U.S.
IF ALLOWED, YES THEY WILL. Regardless of what Trump and Mitch do, the Democrats will (1) Eliminate the Filibuster, (2) Grant Statehood to D.C. and maybe P.R., (3) Expand the Lower Courts, and (4) Expand the Supreme Court.
Once you make the unthinkable thinkable, things change for good.
WHAT KILLED MICHAEL BROWN? Historian Shelby Steele’s new documentary provides the answers sure to outrage BLM, the Squad, the Biden Brigades, the MSM, and pretty much everybody on elite and state-run campuses. Here’s the trailer:
SWEDEN IS STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Britain threatens second lockdown, heavy fines as nation faces COVID-19 ‘tipping point.’
MAYBE IT’S TIME TO RECONSIDER CROMWELL: Paul Lay’s new book, “Providence Lost,” will either become the focus of another academic book-burning episode, or it will go mostly unnoticed. Either outcome would be a loss for the Republic.
Daniel Johnson’s excellent review for Law & Liberty of Lay’s book illustrates why thoughtful folks with a passion for understanding the historical, spiritual and legal roots of the American Revolution and Constitution should get “Providence Lost” before it’s banned.
REALITY IS COMING FOR ACADEMIA: State Auditor Tries To Fire Tenured Professor Who Participated In #ScholarStrike.
THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE WORLD’S SMARTEST WOMAN HAS SPOKEN:
SEAPOWER: Navy Mulling Extending Service Lives of Nimitz-class Carriers. “The Nimitz-class carriers are currently projected to have a 50 to 55-year service life despite the design intending the carriers to be in service for 30 years, Downey said.”
AT AMAZON, BK Cookware Skillet Black Carbon Steel, 10′.
PAUL MIRENGOFF: PRINCETON SQUIRMS. “Is this a satisfactory defense? I don’t think so.”
CHARLES LIPSON: Ginsburg’s Death and the Dangerous Politics Ahead.
The Democrats’ immediate demand is for Ginsburg’s seat to be left vacant until a new Senate and president can fill it. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made that demand Friday night, shortly after Ginsburg’s death was announced. All other Democrats will follow. They will pointedly add that the Republicans, who controlled in the Senate in 2016, refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing or vote after President Obama nominated him to fill Scalia’s seat. Republicans said then that nine months was too close to the election. It would be grossly unfair, Democrats say, for those same Republicans to move forward with their own nomination now.
McConnell has already rejected that argument, promising to fill every vacancy on every federal court during the current Congress. He is saying that the current situation is different since the presidency and Senate are now controlled by the same party. He will quote Democrats’ statements in 2016, when they insisted on voting immediately to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.
All of them are hypocrites. They have flipped their positions, and their justifications (then and now) are nothing more than cloaks for political advantage. They don’t care about consistency or even logic. They are fighting to win control of the Supreme Court and defeat the other side in November. They will say whatever helps their cause and hope voters forget whatever they said last time.
That last part will be pretty easy with the Infotainment industry providing 24/7 air cover.
ROGER SIMON: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You: Kavanaugh II.
Back up, Don Corleone! Democrats are threatening to “go to the mattress” if “Don” Mitch McConnell follows through on confirming “Don” POTUS’ replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.
Only slightly more genteel than the mafia, “the mattress” in this instance includes abolishing the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court, naturally with ideological semblables.
Never mind that RBG herself was against court “packing,” calling it “partisan” in an interview with Nina Totenberg, adding “9 seems to be a good number… I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried… I am not at all in favor of that…”
Or that if the Democrats pack the court with three or four new justices voting their way, and then the Republicans come back and do the same, pretty soon the Supreme Court will be as large and useless as the UN.
None of this, however, is of any moment to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), among others, or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) or, of course, the capo de tutti capi (insert the feminine, if you wish) Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has put even “impeachment” (again!) on the table if the Republicans go further.
Which means, of course, coming soon to a theatre near you: “Kavanaugh II.”
But before I go further, lest I be thought of as a partisan hack, neither side comes off here in anything close to shining armor. For all the hoity-toity talk, Supreme Court nominations and confirmations are fraught with hypocrisy, everyone claiming a high ground that doesn’t exist.
Precedents come and go and are revised again. Leaders say the opposite of what they said a year or two ago.
Meanwhile, The Constitution says nothing about timing—only that presidents nominate the justices and the Senate confirms. Even lame duck presidents have nominated justices on several occasions. It all comes down to power. If you have it, in this game you take it.
So, not surprisingly, in our era of faux-fairness the confirmation hearings have grown increasingly vitriolic. First were the notorious Clarence Thomas hearings, known forever as a “high tech lynching,” then the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, perhaps the most repellent display of uncontrolled hatred we have ever seen in the U.S. Congress, at least in our lifetimes.
The Democrat senators behaved not like barbarians at the gate, but like barbarians who had already gone through it and were raping and pillaging at will.
Why else go into politics? the Senators ask.
AND THAT WOULD WORK, HOW, EXACTLY? Pelosi Doesn’t Rule Out Using Impeachment to Block Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination.
EVERYTHING SUMMARIZED: “The boil-down is easy: Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a completely political event, where there are constitutionally defined powers that will be exercised to their utmost. Nothing more is needed, and nothing can be done about it, and each party will do what the other party would do if the roles were reversed. And that’s the same thing they did in 2016 after Justice Scalia died.”
Plus, Nancy Pelosi’s “strange glitch.”
AND THE BABYLON BEE. CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? IS REALITY NOW PUNKING US? Leftists Frantically Begin Rebuilding Everything They Burned Down So They Can Burn It Down Again.
I mean, that was my reaction to their attempt at blackmail. Oh, if we get a SOC JUS in before the election, you’ll burn things down? And we’ll be able to tell the difference…. how?