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Showing posts with label Congressional Abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congressional Abuse. Show all posts

Monday, April 10, 2023

The Return to Enumerated Powers America

April 10, 2023 By Adam Vicari

It probably isn’t lost on most readers that conservatives aren’t always the best at articulating grand visions for the future or for the course of the country.  Conservatives are very good at diagnosing problems and lobbying for the negation of those problems, but not always good at crafting an alternative solution or visionary agenda to counter these problems, the problems caused by leftists.  Woodrow Wilson had his “14 points” and the League of Nations, FDR had the New Deal, LBJ had The Great Society, and the World Economic Forum has the Great Reset. 

If America makes it to 2024 (and I say “if” because, at this point, it is not guaranteed that American civilization will survive until the next election, as it may collapse for any number of reasons before that time), it is clear to me that a grand vision that is equal to or exceeds the left wing grand visions mentioned previously is needed, as a conservative alternative vision in 2024 may be America’s last shot at saving itself from plunging into the abyss.  That is why I am proposing something like a return to Enumerated Powers America. .........

According to the Constitution, the federal government is only supposed to have 18 inherent powers.  These powers are reserved for the federal government because they are things only the federal government can do, with the idea that the individual states can do everything else on their own, without the federal government intruding on their daily business.........All the rest of the administrative state (the departments of education, energy, transportation, agriculture, commerce, labor, health and human services, housing and urban development, veterans affairs, and the interior) and the additional agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, should be abolished, immediately.  ......To Read More....

Monday, June 6, 2022

The Structural Legal Rot Runs Deep

With the likelihood of a Republican tsunami at the midterms, some are already spinning wish lists of structural changes they hope will begin to take shape. Without wishing to rain on their -- or your -- parade, I’d like to point out how deep by now the structural rot goes. It’s beyond the collapse of academia and K-12 education, the evisceration of our military, government waste, the dysfunction of our health system, and the one-sidedness of media coverage. It goes to the very heart of our legal system.

This week Peter Navarro was charged by a D.C. grand jury for contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Select Committee, a purely partisan confection of Nancy Pelosi in violation of all the traditional House rules, and a clear propaganda operation. (Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, Jr. cooperated to some extent and were spared. The committee also referred them for prosecution, but the department of Justice declined to prosecute them.)

The charge against Navarro is a misdemeanor process crime but with significant possible consequences. 

Instead of following the normal procedure in such cases of notifying the person charged and allowing them to report for processing, the FBI affected to humiliate him, arrested him as he was boarding a plane and publicly handcuffing him and placing him in leg irons.

Powerline reminds us how Attorney General Eric Holder was treated when Congress held him in contempt:  ...........To Read More.... 


Sunday, May 16, 2021

Mad Max-ine Waters Abused Air Marshal Protection on Visit to Minnesota Protests: Complaint


Spencer Brown Spencer Brown May 14, 2021
 
Mad Max-ine Waters Abused Air Marshal Protection on Visit to Minnesota Protests: Complaint
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Congresswoman Maxine Waters made headlines and raised eyebrows when the California Democrat showed up in the middle of a volatile crowd in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota in April. She called for agitators who'd already turned violent "to stay in the streets" and "get more active, more confrontational" ahead of a verdict in the trial of now-convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. "We are looking for a guilty verdict," Waters told media on the scene.  

At the time, Katie reported on the hypocritical request Waters made for security on her jaunt to the North Star State: 

New documents obtained by Townhall show Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters requested an armed police escort to Minneapolis over the weekend, where she called for violent activists to "stay in the streets" during a protest against law enforcement.  Waters flew from Dulles International Airport to Minnesota-St. Paul International Airport on Saturday, April 17, just days ahead of a verdict in the George Floyd, Officer Derek Chauvin trial.  That night, Waters went to meet with protestors and demanded a guilty verdict for Chauvin "or else."

What we didn't know at the time was where the security personnel assigned to Waters came from and what her request meant for their usual duties. But now we do.........To Read More....