WINNING WITHOUT A MAJORITY WAS WHY THEY INTRODUCED RANKED-CHOICE VOTING: GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola won reelection Wednesday over two challengers backed by former President Donald Trump, thanks to the state’s ranked-choice-voting system, which allowed them to prevail without winning a majority of the vote.
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November 24, 2022
ICYMI, WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Colorado Club Shooter is Non-Binary, Uses They/Them Pronouns, and Addressed as ‘Mx.’
This happens over and over, and yet every time the press rushes to blame somebody on the right. To be fair, that’s because the press is largely made up of garbage people who cheerfully operate as partisan hacks.
HMM: Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Reinstated by State Supreme Court.
The Georgia Supreme Court allowed the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to once again take effect, reversing a lower court’s ruling that blocked enforcement of the 2019 law last week.
The justices on Wednesday granted a request for an emergency order brought by the state’s attorney general’s office. The state had quickly appealed the decision of Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County that allowed clinics in the state to resume appointments after six weeks of pregnancy.
Judge McBurney’s ruling on Nov. 15 permanently blocked enforcement of the state’s six-week abortion ban, finding the 2019 law was clearly unlawful at the time the state legislature passed it.
In his order, Judge McBurney said there has been a sea change in abortion law following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended federal constitutional protections for the procedure. He didn’t rule on whether an abortion ban passed in the future would violate the state’s constitution, noting that the legislature could revisit the issue and pass a new law. . . .
About a dozen states have enforced bans on nearly all abortions in the months since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. The legal battles that followed have created an uncertain and shifting landscape for abortion providers and patients in some places, prompting some clinics to open and close their doors more than once.
State courts continue to consider whether state constitutions protect the right to an abortion, an argument abortion-rights groups have made in their challenges to the bans. Lawmakers in a handful of states, meanwhile, are wrestling with whether and to what to extent to regulate abortion.
This is a plausible issue in Georgia, whose state Supreme Court has interpreted the Georgia Constitution in ways that have gone beyond the Federal Constitutions right to privacy.
Related: Kansas judge blocks state law to ban prescribing abortion drugs via telemedicine.
STANDING AGAINST THE TIDE: Chicago And (Maybe) Cornell Are First Elite Law Schools To Refuse To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Sorry kids, 81% of parents cutting Christmas spending. “Looking ahead to the upcoming Christmas season, nearly 7-in-10 registered voters are expecting to cut back on Christmas shopping this year, and 81% of parents with children under 18 are cutting back due to the increase in prices from last year.”
Related: Biden Kills Thanksgiving: 1 In 4 Families Can’t Afford Holiday.
Why, it’s as if: Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING MORNING OPEN THREAD: What are y’all cooking? I’ve got two legs of lamb marinating, and will be putting a 23lb turkey in the oven in a bit.
PROGRESSIVE HOLD ON YOUNG WEAKENING? The Washington Stand’s Dan Hart reports on data Charlie Kirk cited from a new Morning Consult survey showing a double-digit drop in support for progressive candidates among the 18-34 year old segment of the electorate in the past five years. Happy Thanksgiving!
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Emergency Oil Reserves Fall to Lowest Level Since 1984.
JULIETTE OCHIENG: On Ridicule. “When people laugh derisively at something you say – and tell you that this is what they are doing – they do it with the assumption that this type of laughter will wound you in some way. But what happens if this has no effect on you?”
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Winter Work Leather Gloves,Mechanics Gloves. #CommissionEarned
THIS AIN’T THE BEST OF THANKSGIVINGS FOR THE REPUBLIC: And Yet Thankful.
ROGER KIMBALL: The Chablis complex: The wine is renowned for its consistency, intricacy and near-immortality.
Chablis has the paradoxical distinction of being at once one of the most famous and least well known of French wines. Hugh Johnson opined that it is “one of the world’s most under-estimated treasures.” I agree.
We say that Chablis is Burgundy, but, situated on the Serein River some 100 miles southeast of Paris, Chablis is nearly 100 miles north of Beaune. Perhaps we can say that it is the Hadrian’s Wall of Burgundy. Hadrian’s bit of Britain was part of the Roman Empire, but no one would confuse it with Rome. . . .
Like its famous cousins down south, Chablis is 100 percent Chardonnay, but a hardy variety called “Beaunois,” “from Beaune.” “Chardonnay,” one wine writer observes, “responds to its cold terroir of limestone clay with flavors no one can reproduce in easier… wine-growing conditions — quite different, even from those of the rest of Burgundy to the south.” Indeed. No one would ever mistake a Chablis for, say, a Montrachet or Corton-Charlemagne. Less butter, more flint. But that is just a start.
Chablis is renowned for its consistency. Its wines can be divided into four types. At the lower end of price, richness and complexity are Petit Chablis and Chablis, of which there is a great abundance.
Then there are about eighty climats designated “Premier Cru,” of which my favorite is Fourchaume, bottled by several vintners. Where I live, these can be had for about $35-$70 and are fresh, citrusy and slightly floral. Remember those fossilized oyster shells? A dozen of their descendants will go nicely for lunch with a bottle (or two if you have company).
More select are the seven Grand Cru wines, which account for only about 1 percent of the wine produced in Chablis.
Yum.
OH, EXPERTS WEIGH IN! Mystery of sheep walking in circle for 12 days may be solved.
THEY CAN ALSO INDUCE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN THOSE LIVING WITH THEM: Neurotic people may be suffering from this deadly condition.
ONLY HATE-FILLED RIGHT-WINGERS WOULD THINK JOE BIDEN (OR HIS FAMILY) PROFITED FROM THIS USE OF GOVERNMENT RESOURCES: Biden banned all press from Hunter’s daughter’s wedding — except Vogue. How much did it cost?
Or…. you know… thinking human beings.
IF ONLY THERE WERE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY TASKED WITH ANTICIPATING AND PREPARING FOR THESE EPIDEMICS: US faces shortages of children’s antibiotics and flu drugs amid ‘tripledemic’.
THE NEW COOL RACISM, NOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: San Fran’s election director fired because he’s white.
WELL, JOE IS DEMENTED, AND WHY ARE WE TRYING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH GENOCIDAL LUNATICS? Iranian Supreme Leader Mocks Biden As Demented As Nuclear Deal Negotiations Stall.
WHAT’S THE OVER-UNDER ON HOW FAST THIS GETS SWEPT UNDER THE RUG? Suspect In Colorado Springs Shooting Claims To Be ‘Non-Binary,’ Uses ‘They/Them’ Pronouns.
BECAUSE ZHOU BI DEN IS VICE-ROI FOR HIS SERENE MAJESTY WINNIE THE XI: Why Are We Allowing Dangerous Chinese Tech Companies To Operate On American Soil?
Now ask me a tough one.
NO. IT’S JUST THE PLACE THE FRAUD WAS MOST OBVIOUS: Maricopa County Made Arizona’s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize.
HIDING UNDER THEIR BEDS, WITH THEIR BERETS AND SOME FROMAGE: Kari Lake is fighting electoral theft in Arizona. Where is the GOP?
WELL, IT IS DEMOCRAT: Democrat-run California dives deeper into suicidal policies.