when it comes to Roe v. Wade, for example, what did the court decide? Decided that we the people should answer that question, not nine people sitting in Washington, D.C. //

GARRETT: How about affirmative action?

GORSUCH: Much the same thing. What did we decide? We decided that all people are created equal, that it’s not acceptable in this country to discriminate on the basis of race. //

GARRETT: And, for those who would say but I feel something’s been ripped away from me, you would say?

GORSUCH: I would say that we’re taking it back to you. In a democracy, you’re in the driver’s seat. You’re the sovereign. Those famous three first words of the Constitution empower you. Do you really want me deciding everything for you?

GARRETT: And for a woman in a state where she no longer has the rights she once relied on, is that cold comfort?

GORSUCH: Major, all I can say is I don’t know better than you do on these questions. And that most major western democracies have decided these questions through the ballot box. //

part of me just wants to call Vladimir Duthiers an imbecile and leave it at that. His reasoning is so ridiculous as to be worthy of nothing but mockery. Would he say the same about the precedent that once allowed segregation of schools? What about the precedent that once restricted personhood for black Americans? The idea that a precedent is untouchable simply because it exists is moronic. What matters is proper legal interpretation of the law. Nothing more, nothing less.

In the end, what this Gorsuch interview shows is that Democrats have no actual argument. They are simply emoting at any given point, wrapping themselves in contradictions to garner the political outcome they want in the moment. The Supreme Court stands in the way of that, and that's why they are trying to destroy it.

A video of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was unearthed on Monday that appeared to show him threatening civil war if Donald Trump won the election.

Raskin was speaking at a discussion on voter rights hosted by a left-wing professor when he made the controversial comments, which included a pledge to disqualify Trump on January 6th, 2025 based on the Fourteenth Amendment. //

He seems completely convinced that he would be the good guy in a scenario where he and other Democrats overturned an election based on their own political whims. He calls Trump supporters "rampaging mobs" despite them representing the side that won the election in his hypothetical.

I ran into a friend, actor, and politician, Siaka Massaquoi, who looked fresh as a daisy. “Jeez,” I said to him. “This is brutal.”

“Yeah,” he replied with a smile. “I’ve been here since 3:30 am.”

What in the world? That was two hours before we arrived.

Turns out Siaka is on a “list.” He entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but has not been charged with anything. His apartment was raided by over 20 armed FBI agents on June 10, 2021, and he’s been under investigation ever since for “associating with members of a social media group.” //

As I keep repeating, he has not been charged or convicted of anything – isn’t this exactly what the Fifth Amendment was designed to prevent? Namely that you can’t be punished without due process? Where’s the due process here?

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Americans charged—not convicted, charged—with petty offenses related to Jan 6 are on terrorist watch list at TSA and must undergo invasive, extensive searches numerous times. Any Republican who thinks this regime won’t do the same under “red flag” laws is an idiot. Or John Cornyn
2:25 PM · Jun 12, 2022

In an exclusive breaking story, several Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers have come forward with information showing that former U.S. Representative and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is currently enrolled in the Quiet Skies program. Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program with its own compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist. It is the same program being weaponized against J6 defendants and their families. Quiet Skies is allegedly used to protect traveling Americans from suspected domestic terrorists. //

Air Marshals were first assigned to Gabbard on Jul. 23, a day after she criticized Kamala Harris, Biden, and the National Security State in an interview with Laura Ingraham. FAMs were mobilized on Jul. 24 and assigned to their first flight with her on Jul. 25.

In July of 2023, a uniformed Secret Service agent found a bag of cocaine in the White House. Now we don't, to this day, know who the cocaine belonged to - we may very well speculate, for instance, about a certain member of the Biden family known to have substance abuse problems, but there has been no release of evidence as to whom the drug belonged to or how it came to be in the White House.

Now we learn that the former Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned in disgrace following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, conspired to eliminate any evidence that the White House cocaine existed at all. //

It's unfortunate that Kimberly Cheatle only has one resignment in disgrace to give for her country. It's difficult, if not impossible, to see this as anything short of a partisan effort on the part of senior Secret Service officials to conceal evidence of a crime. If this is the case, it's an unforgivable act and one that should result in criminal penalties. //

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While Cheatle only had but one resignation to give, Rowe and the other three rotten USSS leaders, as per the USSSwhistleblower, are still eligible to give theirs.

DESANTIS: Well, here's what I would just say generally. The election needs to be about the fact that Kamala Harris is an unacceptable choice for president of the United States. Doesn't matter what you thought before. Now, she cannot be president for a variety of reasons. I've articulated some. I know the campaign has done other.

Any other energy spent talking about anything else, I think, is playing on the Democrats' turf. They want the election to be about something that the VP candidate said five years ago or something that happened ten years ago. If we're arguing on that, then the Democrats are in a better spot. This is about Kamala.

She is not equipped to be president. That's why Obama didn't endorse her right out of the gate, because he knows that. Now it looks like she's corralled the nomination, but we can't act like she's somehow an acceptable choice. She's the most left-wing nominee that we have had in this country in at least fifty years. //

Hallen
12 hours ago
DeSantis is 100% right here. We all must stay focused on Harris. She is not acceptable as president. She is that bad. I mean, I hate Obama, but he was at least competent at what he did even if everything he did was awful. Harris will be bad at everything she does and she'll make huge mistakes. She'll be far worse than even Biden was. That must be the message.

Republicans -- ALL Republicans must stay on message about that.
No, don't call her puerile names. No, don't bring up her flip-flopping race claims. No, don't even bring up her using sex to gain power. Let surrogates do that.

For all pundits, politicians, Trump staff, and Trump/Vance themselves, it must be about how incompetent Harris is and what a disaster her Vice Presidency was and how influential she was with the Biden administration. That's evidence of how bad she will be as president.

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Our country was millimeters away from a presidential assassination.

My bill ensures all presidential candidates are protected and requires the Secret Service Director to be confirmed by the Senate.

USSS Directors MUST be capable and apolitical.
12:59 PM · Aug 5, 2024 //

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Senators Chuck Grassley(R-IA) and Catherine Cortez Masto(D-Nev.) have introduced the 'Protect Act' that would require Senate confirmation for all future USSS Directors. This would remove it from being a presidential appointment and bring it line with other federal law enforcement… Show more
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Better that the social media platforms let a thousand flowers bloom, and let folks figure out for themselves what is and isn't credible. This is the age of the internet, after all; we are into the third generation of Americans growing up in the Information Revolution, and while sometimes one must winnow a ton of chaff to find a grain of wheat, better we do the winnowing ourselves than to have faceless scolds sitting in a cubicle in Silicon Valley do it for us.

AMichigan Court of Claims judge ruled Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance on absentee ballot signature verification violated the state’s constitution and ordered it removed in a final order signed on Tuesday. 

In the ruling, Judge Christopher P. Yates, an appointee of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, reiterated that Benson’s “’initial presumption’ of validity in signature verification of absentee-ballot applications and envelopes mandated by the December 2023 guidance manual issued by defendants is incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan.” 

Nice silver lining, I do hope the contractor received his just rewards for that.

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My brother was an F-16 and B-1 engine mechanic back in the day. His shop had a large, perfectly smooth and level titanium table used for alignment and calibration. It also had a raised border guard all around it.

Flash back to the 60s and 70s, when as kids we had a game called Battling Top (https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/battling-tops/). Great fun, we played it often.

Flash forward to my brother's shop. Yep. He introduced his fellow mechanics to the game, only this time played on a titanium surface by people with metal-shop equipment at their disposal. Lunch and break times saw fierce competition. All manner of designs evolved -- one top carried, via bearings, a non spinning frame with arms that would drop magnets when the top was jostled, hoping to destabilize competitors (nice idea but it didn't win).

IT angle: one day someone brought in a platter assembly from a disk pack. For the youngsters here, these were several metal platters about a foot in diameter, stacked several inches (or higher) on a heavy metal spindle. This particular assembly had a spindle that, at bottom, came down to a precisely machined cone with a sharp point. Quite literally, this thing was made to spin.

The guy spun it up with an air compressor.

Seconds later, everyone in the shop dove for cover as the other tops began making contact -- and ricocheting off equipment on the way to embedding themselves in the walls.

No one dared touch the assembly until it stopped spinning on its own. The point on the spindle was now nicely rounded.

They declared the fellow the Ultimate and Eternal Lord of Battling Tops and never played again.

https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/battling-tops/

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US Vice President Kamala Harris hailed the latest jobs report and praised ‘Bidenomics’ at an event in Washington, D.C. https://reut.rs/47wSDr1

7:10 PM · Aug 4, 2023. //

The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates in a constant effort to combat inflation. Typically, when you start raising interest rates at that pace, it leads to a recession. I say "typically" because it hasn't happened yet, and many economists assumed the Fed had pulled off the soft landing. However, the sudden contraction in the jobs market has brought those worries back to the fore, and people are panicking.

If the Biden-Harris administration was taking credit for the economy a year ago, then it should be made to take credit for it now. In truth, Biden's policies did create the sharp rise in inflation that we as consumers are still dealing with. In truth, that rise in inflation led the Fed to start hiking rates, which forced the economy to begin to contract. In truth, this has led us to where we are today.

While police went door to door hunting down those who participated in the anti-migration riots, including those who simply said things online, those committing violent acts as part of the "Muslim Defense League" were left to operate freely. As of this writing, no reports of arrests have come out, and the violence is ongoing. Some videos showed police backing away as shouts of "Allahu Akbar" rang out.

Starmer couldn't find a microphone fast enough to rant about the "far-right," but he has yet to say a word about the Muslim attacks that are ongoing. The chances are that he never will. //

Nuances of this latest situation aside, what this clash of cultures shows is that the UK is no longer a place of equal justice. It's not a place where normal people can speak against the government and expect fair treatment. If you're a Brit on the wrong side of the political spectrum, you will be hunted down in your home for saying something as innocuous as speaking against migration online. If you're an Islamist shouting "Allahu Akbar" while beating people in the streets, you'll be excused and coddled. You may even be showered with taxpayer money. //

jester6
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Tribalism is the default organizing principle of humanity. Guilt is a fleeting emotion.

The West's, especially America's, experiment with melting-pot multiculturalism is a rare phenomenon in human history. Once we abandoned the ideal of colorblindness and started allowing certain disaffected tribes to assert their tribal identity, it was only a matter of time before the majority tribe's guilt faded, and they began to assert their identity.

If you are under 30 in the West, from the time you were old enough to understand what was happening around you, you have seen tribes assert their tribal identity. Whether it was race riots, Black History Month in school, or the girl in the hijab at your high school, you have watched other groups assert their identity and use it to acquire power.

This is our future.

Election Watch has compiled thousands of examples of a recent pattern that consists of elderly women making tens of thousands of donations of varying amounts to Democratic candidates and progressive activist groups.

The problem is, a donor who is listed as having made 25,000 donations of varying amounts needed, assuming three minutes per donation, would have to do nothing but make contributions 24/7, for 52 days. No bathroom breaks, no meals, no sleep.

Nobody in their right mind would do that, of course, but consider the odds of how long it would take a 75 year-old woman to make 25,000 individual donations. Extend the time for each donation from three minutes to five minutes and the total of days required working 24/7 goes up to 87.

And we haven't even mentioned the additional fact that the contribution totals for legions of the donations compiled by Election Watch are substantial. The first entry for Virginia, for example, totals nearly $840,000. //

Here's a theory: Somebody (China? Russia?) is providing millions of dollars to big groups of individuals being paid to submit donations of varying amounts using names of elderly folks gleaned from old FEC records via Act Blue and/or other contribution conduits. Do the candidates or causes know this is being done? That's one of the key questions to be answered. //

Texan1
17 hours ago
I assume it’s called “smurfing” because it only happens for blue (i.e., D) candidates?

But if we're going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States senator. It was actually played up a lot when she came into the Senate. Now she's running nationally. Obviously, the campaign has shifted. They're talking much more about - about her father's heritage and her black identity.

It doesn't really matter. The president mentioned it. What he also talks about far more frequently is the fact that Kamala Harris is the person who created this massive inflation which is destroying black families, white families, Hispanic families. It's her failure as border czar that has left our southern border wide open. More than 10 million illegal immigrants coming into our country. Record fentanyl coming into our country which has killed more Americans than at any other point in the history of our country with respect specifically to fentanyl.

As a tangential, secondary attack, it is obviously hurting enough that the Democrats are trying to shut that conversation down.

It is amazing (though paradoxically not surprising) that the media industry behaves as though we cannot discern their full in-the-tank position with Kamala Harris. They have spent the past two weeks literally rewriting her history on multiple political positions, selling these bald-faced lies as if her record is something that would defy basic research.

. How does the court feel about potential changes — term limits, ethics codes that are enforced by someone in ways that it isn't now?

GORSUCH: Shannon, you're not going to be surprised that I'm not going to get into what is now a political issue during a presidential election year. I don't think that would be helpful.

I have one thought to add: It is that the independent judiciary means — what does it mean to you as an American? It means that when you're unpopular, you can get a fair hearing under the law and under the Constitution. If you're in the majority, you don't need judges and juries to hear you and protect your rights — you're popular.

It's there for the moments when the spotlight's on you, when the government's coming after you. And don't you want a ferociously independent judge and a jury of your peers to make those decisions? Isn't that your right as an American? And so, I just say, "Be careful."

REPORTER: Is Kamala going to make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?

BLACK MAN ONE: Well, hold on, Greg, hold on, Greg, is Kamala black? Yes or no.

BLACK MAN TWO: I'm gonna allow her to speak on that, but to me, no.

BLACK MAN ONE: Oh...(turns to man sitting next to him), is Kamala black, yes or no?

BLACK MAN THREE: I share that same view.

BLACK MAN ONE: Wow...(turns to other man sitting next to him) is Kamala black? Yes or no.

BLACK MAN FOUR: I heard she wasn't. I heard she's half-black and half-Asian.

A forthcoming study seeks to inform how courts consider challenges to these regulations by establishing once and for all that the lawmakers who shaped the Clean Air Act in 1970 knew scientists considered carbon dioxide an air pollutant, and that these elected officials were intent on limiting its emissions.

The research, expected to be published next week in the journal Ecology Law Quarterly, delves deep into congressional archives to uncover what it calls a “wide-ranging and largely forgotten conversation between leading scientists, high-level administrators at federal agencies, members of Congress” and senior staff under Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. That conversation detailed what had become the widely accepted science showing that carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuels was accumulating in the atmosphere and would eventually warm the global climate. //

“The argument that the Clean Air Act for some reason should not include the regulation of greenhouse gases is simply wrong,” Burger said

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6 hours ago
The Biden administration wasted trillions of dollars on puffery like DEI, pronouns and the green new deal. The result was the worst inflation in US history using historic metrics.

You're telling me that the one area the Biden administration didn't want to spend money was Trump's Secret Service protection? Yeah, I can believe that. //

Clare Boothe Lucid
7 hours ago
Consider this: If Trump had not run this time, the SS would have needed to protect some Republican nominee as well as protecting Trump as a former president, so the SS would have needed two security details. They should gave been able to afford to provide both those SS details to Trump. //

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"We're not going to burn through our budget — all the extra overtime, all the extra travel, all these extra agents and resources — so that Trump can have all of these rallies every week,'"

I don’t see a problem here. Think of all the money they must be saving with both Biden and Harris hiding in the White House basement!😂

It's Orwellian, and a sign of just how far Democrats are willing to go to hold onto power. This should be a lesson to Jewish Americans. Despite past perceptions, Shapiro is no different than Bernie Sanders. He's not going to have your back when politics gets in the way. He's willing to throw Israel and Jews under the bus if it means winning the votes of rabid antisemites who chant things like "from the river to the sea." //

anon-201n
11 hours ago
We now live in a post Judeo-Christian society where there are no absolutes of right and wrong. Lying and deception are now acceptable if they advance your cause. The dem party is just about completely infused with this thinking and some in the GOP are no better. Until we acknowledge that our Creator has standards of right and wrong (e.g. the Ten Commandments) which we should follow, we will continue to sink lower and wallow in our evil in a completely chaotic world...