Trump lives inside their heads rent-free
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
23 The Lord makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him;
24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,
for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
Psalm 37:23-24 NIV
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Title 42 order set to expire
With the pandemic-era Title 42 order requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico set to expire in a few days, we’re already seeing thousands of illegal immigrants surging into the US and overwhelming border cities like El Paso. But Texas just scored a last minute court victory with a federal judge ordering Biden to keep the policy in place temporarily. The Supreme Court already ruled that Biden has the power to end the order, but the lower court judge found that he did so illegally because he failed to consider the benefits of the policy, including reducing illegal immigration and “unmeritorious asylum claims.” More details here:
https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-judge-hands-biden-big-loss-blocks-ending-trump-era-policy/
It’s unclear how much effect this will have, considering the huge mass of illegal entrants already streaming over the border, the way Biden has undercut and hamstrung enforcement, and the fact that he wasn’t doing much to enforce Title 42 in the first place. He’s fine with citing the pandemic as an excuse to use strong arm tactics on American citizens, but seems unconcerned with millions of unvetted and unvaccinated illegal immigrants pouring in.
In fact, when you look at everything he’s done to incentivize illegal immigration, eliminate border security, dismantle the border wall and sue border states for even trying to stop the invasion themselves, I half expect that the next lawsuit he’ll face will be the Mexican coyotes who smuggle illegal immigrants into the US suing him for undercutting their business model by making it too easy.
Griner speaks
WNBA player Brittney Griner made her first public statement since being sprung from a Russian prison in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-brittney-griner-says-play-basketball/
In most ways, it’s a very good statement. She says she’s “grateful” to be back in the US, thanks President Biden and all the officials who got her free and all the people who supported her, mentions Marine veteran Paul Whelan who is still being held in Russia and vows to use her platform to help efforts to bring home all Americans who are being unjustly detained in other nations.
It would have been nice, though, if she’d added, “Remember all that badmouthing and disrespect of America that I expressed before? I was wrong, and I’m sorry.”
Maritime overreach
Because America apparently has no real problems to deal with, the Biden Administration is reportedly considering limiting the speed of all motorboats over 35 feet from Florida to Massachusetts. This is to prevent them from striking and killing endangered right whales (I would think they’d only care about left whales), even though according to the government’s own numbers, there’s less than a one in a million chance of a fishing boat hitting a right whale.
One critic called the proposal “the greatest regulatory overreach in American maritime law,” one that would create a serious safety issue and a massive negative economic impact. It’s also being described as “stupid,” “ridiculous,” “unjustifiable, ineffective and unnecessary," and “not what government is supposed to do."
I beg to differ. After watching this Administration for nearly two years, I have to assume that stupid, ridiculous, unjustifiable, ineffective and unnecessary things are precisely what they think government is supposed to do.
Trump lives inside their heads rent-free
I don’t know why I keep hearing that former President Trump lives at Mar-A-Lago. Clearly, he resides 24/7 in the heads of certain Congressional Democrats.
A court loss
The Second Court of Appeals delivered a loss to four Connecticut female college athletes, as well as to common sense and biological reality, by ruling against their challenge to letting “transgender” (i.e., biological male) athletes compete in girls’ sports.
I’ll let you click the link to read the convoluted legal reasoning for why it’s apparently fine to let clearly male athletes take over girls’ sports because, to quote Shania Twain, man, they “feel like a woman.” I would think that all the evidence this case should require to prove blatant unfairness is the fact that since discovering their feminine sides, the two “trans” students in question went from mediocre male athletes to breaking 17 girls' track meet records and winning 15 women's state track championship titles.
The plaintiffs are considering an appeal. Let’s hope and pray that the SCOTUS has more sense than to ratify this scam.
Algebra struggles
Officials in Kansas are considering doing away with the requirement that college students take algebra because too many are failing it, which cuts into graduation rates.
The immediate reaction is to bemoan how dumbed-down college has become, and you wouldn’t be wrong (“I’ll have a large latte, gender studies major.”) But proponents of the change argue that algebra isn’t necessary for most professions and should only be required if you’re going on to study calculus. And I’ll admit that I haven’t had much call for algebra since getting out of school.
But even if you don’t remember all the formulas, it does instill in students some mental discipline and basic understanding of math, which would be useful in all professions, especially politics, where it’s sorely lacking. Surely, there must be some middle ground between forcing everyone to study algebra and turning out college students who think that saying 2 plus 2 equals 4 is racist oppression.
Must-Read (and warning: a little rough language)
The Ace of Spades blog assembles an important Twitter thread by John Hayward on why the left is so fixated on sexualizing children, and how long it’s actually been going on in schools before pandemic at-home classes brought it to the attention of parents.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/402323.php
The post goes on to discuss the current push to normalize pedophilia, even over the objections of gay activists who want nothing to do with it. Remember yesterday’s story about California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter claiming that the use of terms such as “groomer” and “pedophile” was discrimination and that it implies “that a person is criminal somehow merely because of their sexual orientation and gender identity"?
Fact: If your “sexual orientation or gender identity” is that you’re an adult who wants to have sex with children, then yes, you are a pedophile and a groomer, and most definitely a criminal.
More on Sam Brinton, the accused airport luggage thief
Speaking of questionable school policies, the Washington Examiner reports that Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing, “non-binary,” former Biden DOE nuclear waste official and accused airport luggage thief had another important job before this:
“Between 2017 and 2020, Brinton was head of advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project, an LGBT group focused on youth suicide prevention.” Brinton played a key role in crafting guidelines for teachers to use to decide whether an LGBTQ youth’s parents were “affirming” enough of that sexual orientation to be informed that their own child might be suicidal.
I don’t know which is worse: letting teachers decide whether parents should be allowed to know that their own child is suicidal, or letting such monumental decisions be determined by someone who is clearly unstable but nobody’s allowed to say so.
News You Can Use
If you’re in the midst of Christmas shopping, ContextLogicInc surveyed consumers to find what people consider to be the worst gifts.
No surprise that fruitcake ranked high. I have it on good authority that there’s only one fruitcake in the world, and it keeps getting regifted year after year. But check out all the other unwanted gifts, including weight scales and gym memberships. What better way to say, “Merry Christmas! You’re fat!”
According to plan?!?
The Biden White House’s attempts to gaslight Americans are so transparent, I can’t imagine they expect anyone to fall for them except hardcore, diehard supporters who would believe it if Biden told them it was raining ice cream sundaes. Latest case in point: this jaw-dropping tweet in which the President (actually, whatever junior staffer writes his Twitter feed) claims that Biden inherited “multiple historic crises,” but now, “jobs and wages are up, and inflation and gas prices are coming down. We can see our economic plan working.”
You can tell from some of the replies at the link that nobody with brain cells numbering above double digits is buying that. What he inherited was a secure border, energy independence, 6% GDP growth, near zero inflation and gas prices that even after recent declines were still nearly a dollar lower on average than today’s. Unemployment was higher, but only because the economy was shut down by COVID. When Americans were finally allowed to go back to work, he ludicrously claimed that was him “creating millions of new jobs.”
As Twitchy.com’s editor put it, “It’s maddening. They make things twice as bad and then brag when they get ten percent better.”
I have a feeling, though, that this snake oil is not going over with Americans who are struggling to pay their bills, going deeper into debt and cutting back Christmas spending. If they believe Biden’s claim that everything’s coming up roses, then why do they smell only the fertilizer? That’s obvious from a new Wall Street Journal poll that found that two-thirds of voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction, while 52% expect the economy to get worse in 2023. Only 25% think it will get better.
Selective outrage from the media
It’s been instructive – and by “instructive,” I mean “hilarious” – to watch all the liberal media outlets fly into full-on huff mode over the outrage of Elon Musk banning liberal reporters from Twitter and violating their right to free speech. They cheered the suspensions and shadowbanning of conservatives (or else disingenuously denied it), but when they’re silenced, it’s an outrage and tragedy. It’s like Mel Brooks' rule that “tragedy is when I get a splinter in my finger, and comedy is when you fall into a manhole and die.”
Axios even wailed that there had “never been an attempt by a major social media platform to suspend so many journalists at once,” conveniently forgetting how Twitter suspended the entire New York Post newspaper for reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Also, Axios is playing pretty fast and loose with the term “journalists.”
https://instapundit.com/559420/
The difference is, these people weren’t silenced just for expressing non-PC views but for willfully violating the terms of service by retweeting a site that tracks the location of Musk’s jet, making it easier for lunatics who want to harm him to find him. Anyone who does that, of any political bent, deserves to be kicked off of Twitter. As John Daniel Davidson at the Federalist writes, “These people got what they deserved.” He notes that these media leftists “don’t care at all about free speech, and in fact actively work to quash it however they can,” and they have “for years absurdly claimed that ‘speech is violence’” then “actually engaged in the promotion of violence and got caught doing it — and we’re supposed to feel bad for them? I don’t think so.”
Musk himself made the new rules that APPLY TO ALL clear in a voice chat with a group of reporters:
“And so there is not going to be any distinction in the future between them, journalists, so-called journalists, and regular people. Everyone’s going to be treated the same. You’re not special because you’re a journalist. You’re just a Twitter — you’re a citizen. So no special treatment. You dox, you get suspended. End of story.”
And that, not concerns about free speech, is the real reason that they’re ranting and railing and melting down. This may be the first time in their lives that they’ve ever been told that regular American citizens are their equals, they have to follow the same rules as everyone else, and “You’re not special because you’re a journalist.” They need to get used to that idea. Maybe we should put "You're not special" on samplers and wall posters and send it to them for Christmas as a helpful reminder.
Kari Lake scores a court victory
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake won a court victory Friday in her lawsuit to force a revote in Maricopa County, where she claims that tech “glitches” in 59% of the polling places created hours-long lines and disenfranchised many of her supporters. The judge agreed to her request to let her attorneys examine 50 each of randomly-selected “print-on-demand” ballots, early ballots and ballots marked “spoiled” on Election Day.
https://www.westernjournal.com/not-yet-judge-delivers-massive-legal-victory-kari-lake-order/
I’m glad to hear this because some of us have been getting pretty sick of being told there’s no evidence of voter chicanery by the same people who fight like rabid badgers to keep us from being allowed to look at the evidence. Personally, I think if you want to see evidence of voter disenfranchisement, just look at the video at that link of the line that stretched on and on and on at just one polling place and ask yourself, “If I were at the end of that line, would I be able to stay there until I got to the front of it to vote?”
If the judge allows the case to proceed, there will be hearings next Wednesday and Thursday, and he’ll have to decide by December 27th whether to confirm Democrat Katie Hobbs as the winner or toss out her victory. Whether there is a revote or an appeal, this could easily go on past January 2nd, when Hobbs is set to be inaugurated. So the bad news is that Arizona might not have a new Governor for a while. The good news is that even no Governor would be better than Katie Hobbs. (I think I can safely say that for a number of reasons, chief among them that as Secretary of State, she refused to recuse herself from running this election. If you think the lines were bad on Election Day, imagine what it will be like if she’s running the DMV.)