CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS AS THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN: Warren was appointed by a Republican president, Eisenhower, as was Roberts, by Bush II. Kylee Zempel details the seven decisions in which Roberts appears to be intent on leading a new “Warren Revolution” on the High Court.
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June 19, 2020
NO, MAIL-IN VOTING IS NOT THE SAME AS ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Administration Committee, which oversees the daily operations of the lower chamber of Congress and oversight of federal elections. He’s been an aggressive battler of the Democrats’ mail-in voting proposals and their proxy voting system for House members.
In the following video, Davis talks with Washington state Secretary of State Kim Wyman, who, among much else, explains why and how Nancy Pelosi’s mail-in voting proposal is a far cry from using an absentee ballot. The difference is subtle but profoundly important, according to Wyman, who oversees her state’s mail-in system, which, Oh-By-The-Way, requires voter ID to vote.
FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ THIS POST! The Heritage Foundation was censored by YouTube, but they are fighting back, according to The Federalist.
DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ORPHANED OIL WELLS IN THE U.S.? Me neither until I read this thoughtful analysis from the Institute for Energy Research. Turns out there is some creative, free-market thinking and doing on the problem.
JUDGE QUESTIONS $30 MILLION TRIAL LAWYER FEE: Trial lawyers who won the huge ($117.5 million)Yahoo Breach MDL settlement claim they should get $30 million. The judge in the case says she has a few questions about how they arrived at that preposterous figure.
WHICH HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE, RELIGION OR ATHEISM: The answer may not be what you think, regardless which side you go with. And please play nice in the comments!
June 17, 2020
GET WOKE OR GET TOSSED: Issues & Insights assesses the times, using the deplorable situation at my alma mater as Exhibit A in reaching the conclusion that “what was a non-controversial statement last week is grounds for a death sentence tomorrow.”
I am so angered by the cowardice of Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis and Athletic Director Mike Holder, and disappointed by Coach Mike Gundy caving to Chubba Hubbard’s bullying. This is only the beginning, there will be more such blackmail and college football, like the NFL and so much more, will be politicized and utterly ruined.
IS THE SENATE’S YOUNGEST MEMBER ALSO ITS MOST HONEST? Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks blunt truth to the Senate about the Senate, and the Supreme Court and federal bureaucracy.
June 15, 2020
DOES PELOSI PLAN TO KEEP HOUSE AWAY UNTIL 2021? Three Republicans in the House think she does.
WILL ZOOM ANSWER THESE PROBING QUESTIONS FROM 12 SENATORS? A bipartisan group of solons address eight key questions to Zoom’s chief executive officer.
SOME QUESTIONS JUST AIN’T FITTIN’ TO ASK: New York’s Mayor tells CCP Virus contact tracers not to ask about attendance at BLM rallies. The recently cancelled Hattie McDaniel was unavailable for comment.
THE ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND TO THE NEW LEFT’S MARCH THROUGH AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS: Eric Kaufman provides a thorough and mostly satisfying review of Mike Gonzalez’ upcoming essential history of “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free.” This book is required reading for anybody who doesn’t get that Seattle’s CHAZ is the SDS’ takeover of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in 1968 all over again, but much worse. Cancer metastasizes.
June 11, 2020
LEFT WANTS TO DEFUND THE COPS, BUT NOT THE HEAVILY ARMED FEDS: Issues & Insights wonders why the Left is howling for defunding local cops at the same time they give a free pass to those at such federal agencies as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). Bet you didn’t know polluters and New England fishermen are such dangerous characters!
June 10, 2020
KATHY SULLIVAN HAS BEEN TO DEEP SPACE AND DEEP OCEAN, TOO: Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to take a walk in space in 1984 and now she’s also been to the deepest point on Earth, the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
June 9, 2020
HAWLEY CALLS FOR DOJ CIVIL RIGHTS PROBE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ABUSES: It may already be underway, but the Missouri Republican is urging Attorney General Bill Barr to move on it.
WANT TO DEFUND THE COPS? MEET MEXICO’S AUTODEFENSAS: Only here in the states, they would be leftwing ideologues wielding the weapons rather than the drug cartels’ enforcers.
EXODUS OF US FIRMS FROM CHINA HAS BEGUN: The Epoch Times’ Emel Akan reports a strong upswing in requests for supply chain inspections from U.S. manufacturing firms with facilities in Vietnam, Burma (aka Myanmar) and the Philippines. Meanwhile, requests from China are down significantly, though the impact of the CCP Virus is a major factor.
June 7, 2020
NO, THE VAST MAJORITY OF POLICE SHOOTINGS DO NOT INVOLVE RACE: Hans Bader wonders why so many jump to the opposite conclusion when the data is clear.
PAGANISM, CHRISTIANITY AND GEORGE FLOYD: One crucial element of the George Floyd crisis is how it has exposed the stark chasm between those who view America through the bloody lens of collective guilt and those who cherish it for its emphasis on individual innocence and guilt. Joshua Mitchell, a Georgetown University politics professor lays it out in a manner so succinct that I pray it doesn’t get him fired.
June 6, 2020
DAILY GOUGE EXPLAINS IT ALL: Want to understand the political reality behind the riots? Here’s the fundamental fact, according to The Daily Gouge:
“Here’s the juice: urban police unions who block accountability for bad cops contribute to Dimocratic politicians running cities who haven’t elected Republicans in 50 years … yet somehow the cause of the problem is thrown at the feet of a President who’s only been in office 3-1/2 years?!?”
June 4, 2020
GOP REPS SAY IT’S TIME TO DOUBLE FEDERAL JAIL TERM FOR RIOTING: Rep. Ted Budd and Rep. Dan Bishop, both North Carolina Republicans, introduced a bill today doubling the fine from five to 10 years in federal prison.
RECALLING THE TRAGEDY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE IN 1989: I was a Washington Times editor then and distinctly recall gazing in admiration and wonder at the first AP photo of that Statute of Liberty that we received in the newsroom.
FORMER OBAMA INTEL OFFICIAL HELPED BAIL MOLOTOV-TOSSING NYC LAWYER: Salmah Rizvi helped prepared the presidential daily briefing during the Obama years. More recently, according to the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), the former intel analyst signed as a guarantor of the $250,000 bail for lawyer Urooj Rahman.
“Rahman was released to home confinement over the objections of government attorneys after her arrest on Saturday for throwing a lit Molotov cocktail through the window of an NYPD vehicle. Evidence presented by prosecutors included images of Rahman holding a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a van that was later found to be full of the necessary materials for making the explosive devices,” WFB reports.
But why the hub-bub? Doesn’t the First Amendment guarantee rioters and looters “protesting” racial injustice the right to toss Molotov Cocktails into police cars? I mean, it’s a civil liberties issue, right … right?
June 3, 2020
BIG MAJORITY SUPPORTS USING MILITARY AGAINST RIOTERS: Latest Morning Consult survey finds 58 percent of respondents support using the military to help law enforcement end rioting and looting sparked by Antifa and other anarchist groups in the wake of George Floyd’s horrendous May 25 murder.
June 2, 2020
IT’S ALL TRUMP’S FAULT: You’ve heard the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.” Here’s the definition of political insanity, as demonstrated daily by American progressives: “Attributing the same cause to every effect regardless of how ludicrous the linkage.”
For Exhibit A, check out Issues & Insights’ editorial for today, entitled “What’s Trump Got To Do With The George Floyd Riots?” And for Exhibit B, read the joint statement issued Monday night by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). These two clearly suffer from an incurable strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).