Some consider the Nation’s Capital as “Fantasyland on the Potomac”. Other outsiders are “Fed Up” with the Federal City. It's better to consider D.C. as “the District of Calamity” (sic).
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
On Comey the Clown
Reacting to disgraced ex FBI chief James Comey entreating Americans to vote Democrat in the midterms elections, conservative radio icon Mark Levin labeled his partisan plea as a clownish ploy to avoid accountability.
Aside from removing the veneer of being a Republican, Comey's cloddish conduct in the Hillary Clinton email debacle as well as his own disgraceful leaks of his own classified memos further solidifies his clownish status as it drags down the FBI's reputation.
What will really take the cake is if Comey is foolish enough to belief his mainstream media headlines and really run for President in 2020.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
Hillary Clinton on the Kavanaugh Nomination to the Supreme Court
When Hillary Clinton was speaking before the American Federation of Teachers conference in Pittsburgh, she intimated that President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is an indication that Republicans want to bring back slavery.
Aside from the irony that the GOP was historically the party that ended slavery thru President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, Hillary's hair on fire rhetoric is remarkable.
Instead of Mrs. Clinton continuing her loser tour around liberal circles which offered various excuses why she was beaten by Donald Trump in the 2016 election, she is focusing her wrath more firmly towards the rhetoric of "The Resistance". Whether or not a old pol who profited off of insider deals, questionable charities and the aura of being an Elite can convince surging Democrat Socialists to support her is another story.
This is not the first time which Democrat operatives have sought to invoke slavery to advance their own campaign. During the 2012 cycle, ex Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed "They want to put y'all back in chains" during a rally in Danville, Virginia (which was the last capital of the Confederacy).
It is uncertain in the era #WalkAway and record low black unemployment will work to get minorities to the polls in the midterms.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
On Turgid Constitutional Ignorance
In the alluvia of analysis and opinions which followed President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, NBC New's Katy Tur attempted to ask an insightful question.
Aside from the liberal assumption embedded in the inquiry, Tur operated with an egregious error. The Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1787 not 1776. It seems that Little Katy did not grow up watching Schoolhouse Rock.
Maybe she should review the lesson as she might learn something.
That simple mistake really costs her credibility. So often we are inclined to impart wisdom on the pundits who pontificate on television. If they get a basic civics fact wrong, why should we listen to them?
Although Katy Tur was awarded the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, I think it's Unbelievable (sic). That may be the title of her book with her year covering Donald Trump, but now I know better how to analyze her reportage: Progressive, propagandistic, polemic and nescient.
Aside from the liberal assumption embedded in the inquiry, Tur operated with an egregious error. The Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1787 not 1776. It seems that Little Katy did not grow up watching Schoolhouse Rock.Maybe she should review the lesson as she might learn something.
That simple mistake really costs her credibility. So often we are inclined to impart wisdom on the pundits who pontificate on television. If they get a basic civics fact wrong, why should we listen to them?
Rejecting Tomi Lahren's Pink Slime Pro-Choice Perspectives
In offering analysis after President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court, Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren opined that conservatives seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade are effectively spitting on the Constitution.
Lahren has been outspoken in her adherence to abortion rights. She was separated from Glenn Beck's "The Blaze TV" last year because of her inconsistent opinions about abortion. This was sparked by an appearance on ABC's The View in which she argued that it was hypocritical to be anti-choice and be a small government conservative. Beck insisted that he wanted to terminate Lahren for lacking intellectual integrity.
“I can’t speak for the company and why they did it, but it had nothing to do with being pro-choice...
What I have a problem with is somebody who will change their point of view or that will say absolutely crazy, red meat things, and not have any intellectual firepower to back it up. Have the intellectual integrity to be able to back things up.”
Now Lahren laments that some conservatives want a Supreme Court to carry out religious judicial activism to get rid of Roe v. Wade (1973). Tantalizing pro-choice red meat but it like the pink slime substitute which some fast food outlets use to sell dollar menu items to a hungry public even though it causes indigestion.
Lahren assumes that any rollback of Roe would be premised on religious issues. Even the Roe decision recognizes that government has interests in unborn life in the last trimester that is viable. Prenatal medicine has made great leaps of advancement so viability is pushed closer to the 20th week of pregnancy. No signs of religion in this hermaneutic. And that does not even consider the scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of conception
Pro-Choice jurisprudence currently rests on the shaky foundation of abortion as being included in a right to privacy that is within penumbras and emanations of the Bill of Rights, as applied to states by the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Blackmun's holding in Roe is a quintessential example of judicial activism, legislating from the bench for the entire nation.
Conceptually, a texualist originalist led Supreme Court could rule that "the right to privacy" is not enumerated within the Federal Constitution and that the Tenth Amendment is applicable. This would throw the abortion issue back to the states, where it resided prior to the 1973 judicial fiat. Some states, like California and New York, would have liberal abortion laws, while other states may be more restrictive. That sort of subsidiary jurisprudence sounds like small government conservatism.
Maybe Lahren's political science studies at UNLV did not adequately cover jurisprudence. She seems to think that it is unconstitutional for the Supreme Court to overrule bad precedent or is judicial activism. In his confirmation hearing to become Chief Justice in 2005, John Roberts noted that stare decisis does not hold as a legal precedent when a matter was wrongly decided. But in Tomi Lahren's legal logic, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that overturned the Separate but Equal standard of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was just spitting on the Constitution too.
It is lamentable that Fox News turns to Tomi Lahren for legal analysis. In little more than a year, she has shifted her abortion rights advocacy from being premised on what she believes is small government conservatism to combating religious judicial activism. No wonder she burned her bridge at The Blaze TV for lacking intellectual integrity.
Some may want to consume pink slime perspectives because they are spicy tasty morsel temptations, but assuredly many leave the establishment when such dreck is seen on the television menu.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Monday, July 9, 2018
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
John Wayne on the American Flag
The Duke should have asked Sheldon Cooper on "Fun with Flags". He might have doubled the viewership.
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