The Supreme Court unanimously
scaled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s power under the Clean
Water Act (CWA) by defining the “waters of the United States” on
Thursday in Sackett v. EPA. This is the ongoing saga of the Sackett family.
They’re an Idaho couple who bought a lot in a residential neighborhood
in 2004 to build a house, and in 2007 started preparing the property for
construction. Then the EPA told them that their lot might be a
federally protected wetland and that they had to restore and abandon the
property or face $40,000 per day in fines. They were also told that they had no right to take this situation to
court because thousands in daily fines were not a “final action” by EPA..........To Read More.....
My Take - Finally!!!! I've been following this case since 2011, and what was obvious to the most casual observer is that the EPA is out of control and needs to be dismantled. Here's my Sackett file.
The headline is a quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ease the minds of Americans during the Great Depression:
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only
thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat
into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of
frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of
the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced
that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical
days.
That was in the midst of the Great Depression, which FDR and his minions created. The goal of this speech was supposedly to create a positive attitude, but the reality is it as all misdirection, just like we're seeing right now with Biden. Unlike Biden, FDR was a great communicator, but as Harry Truman said of FDR, he lies. In that, both Biden and FDR excelled.
He created a massive framework of government agencies, all of which were infested with communists and Stalinist agents. We actually have a lot more to fear than just fear itself, we really have reason to fear Federal Law Enforcement,' specifically DOJ, FBI.
How many times has America heard President Joe Biden preach
about unity and how his administration would ensure the country
achieves this elusive goal? Likely too many to count, but the 2022
Edelman Trust Barometer released a new poll
that shows not only are Republicans and Democrats even more divided
than before, but also that the government is a “dividing force in
society.”
The
study included opinions from 36,000 people in 28 different countries.
Participants were asked about four main areas: government, media,
business, and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). When considering
these sectors, respondents identified which they felt were “a dividing
force” or a “unifying force” in society. Government, unsurprisingly,
scored the worst, with 48% saying the institution is a “dividing force.”
The media came in at a close second, with 46% of the same opinion.
Meanwhile, business and NGOs had more people indicating these were a
“unifying force in society,” with 45% for the former and 50% for the
latter.
As you can see, those such as NGO's and businesses, who are indebted to government, not so much small businesses as large corporate entities, support the idea government is "unifying". But in reality, government, in order to impose tyranny, rules through division.
The FBI on Wednesday finally
broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close
ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included
efforts to suppress information and censor political speech.
“The correspondence between the FBI
and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional,
longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector
engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and
industries,” the bureau said in a statement. “As evidenced in the
correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private
sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their
customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the
American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others
are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of
attempting to discredit the agency.”
Almost all of the FBI communique is
untrue, except the phrase about the bureau’s “engagements which involve
numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.”
Future disclosures will no doubt
reveal similar FBI subcontracting with other social media concerns of
Silicon Valley to stifle free expression and news deemed problematic to
the FBI’s agenda.
The FBI did not merely engage in
“correspondence” with Twitter to protect the company and its
“customers.” Instead, it effectively hired Twitter to suppress the free
expression of some of its users, as well as news stories deemed
unhelpful to the Biden campaign and administration—to the degree that
the bureau’s requests sometimes even exceeded those of Twitter’s own
left-wing censors.
The FBI did not wish to help Twitter
“to protect themselves [sic],” given the bureau’s Twitter liaisons were
often surprised at the FBI’s bold requests to suppress the expression of
those who had not violated Twitter’s own admittedly biased “terms of
service” and “community standards.”
The FBI and its helpers on the Left
now reboot the same boilerplate about “conspiracy theorists” and
“misinformation” smears used against anyone who rejected the FBI-fed Russian collusion hoax and the bureau’s peddling of the “Russian disinformation” lie to suppress accurate pre-election news about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop. d
The FBI is now, tragically, in
freefall. The public is at the point, first, of asking what improper or
illegal behavior will the bureau not pursue, and what, if anything, must be done to reform or save a once great but now discredited agency.
Consider the last four directors, the
public faces of the FBI for the last 22 years. Ex-director Robert
Mueller testified before Congress that he simply would not or could not
talk about the fraudulent Steele dossier. He claimed that it was not the
catalyst for his special counsel investigation of Donald Trump’s
alleged ties with the Russians when, of course, it was.
Mueller also testified that he was
“not familiar” with Fusion GPS, although Glenn Simpson’s opposition
research firm subsidized the dossier through various cutouts that led
back to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. And the
skullduggery in the FBI-subsidized dossier helped force the appointment
of Mueller himself.
While under congressional oath, Mueller’s successor James Comey on some 245 occasions claimed
that he “could not remember,” “could not recall,” or “did not know”
when asked simple questions fundamental to his own involvement with the
Russian collusion hoax.
Comey, remember, memorialized a
confidential conversation with President Trump on an FBI device and then
used a third party to leak it to the New York Times.
In his own words, the purpose was to force a special counsel
appointment. The gambit worked, and his friend and predecessor Robert
Mueller got the job. Twenty months and $40 million later, Mueller’s
investigation tore the country apart but could find no evidence that
Trump, as Steele alleged, colluded with the Russians to throw the 2016
election.
Comey also seems to have reassured
the president that he was not the target of an ongoing FBI
investigation, when in fact, Trump was.
Comey was never indicted for either
misleading or lying to a congressional committee or leaking a document
variously considered either confidential or classified.
While under oath, his interim
successor, Andrew McCabe, on a number of occasions flat-out lied to
federal investigators. Or as the office of the inspector general put it:
As detailed in this
report, the OIG found that then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lacked
candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with
describing his role in connection with a disclosure to the WSJ, and that
this conduct violated FBI Offense Codes 2.5 and 2.6. The OIG also
concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an ongoing
investigation in the manner described in this report violated the FBI’s
and the Department’s media policy and constituted misconduct.
McCabe
purportedly believed Trump was working with the Russians as a veritable
spy—a false accusation based entirely on the FBI’s paid, incoherent prevaricator
Christopher Steele. And so, McCabe discussed with Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein methods to have the president’s conversations
wiretapped via a Rosenstein-worn stealthy recording device, presumably
without a warrant.
Note the FBI ruined the lives of
General Michael Flynn and Carter Page with false allegations of criminal
conduct or untruthful testimonies. Under current director Christopher
Wray, the FBI has surveilled parents at school boards meetings—on the
prompt of the National School Boards Association, whose president wrote
Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that bothersome parents upset
over critical race indoctrination groups were supposedly violence-prone
and veritable terrorists.
Under Wray, the FBI staged the psychodramatic Mar-a-Lago raid on an ex-president’s home. The FBI likely leaked the post facto myths that the seized documents contained “nuclear codes” or “nuclear secrets.”
Under Wray, the FBI perfected the
performance-art, humiliating public arrests of former White House
officials or Biden Administration opponents, whether it was the
nocturnal rousting of Project Veritas muckraker James O’Keefe in his
underwear or the arrest—with leg restraints=—of former White House
advisor Peter Navarro at Reagan National Airport for misdemeanor
contempt of Congress charge or the detention of Trump election lawyer
John Eastman at a restaurant with his family and the confiscation of his
phone. Neither O’Keefe nor Eastman has yet been charged with any
serious crimes.
The FBI arguably interfered in two
presidential elections, and a presidential transition, and possibly
determinatively so. In 2016, James Comey announced that his
investigation had found that Hillary Clinton had improperly if not
illegally used her private email server to conduct official State
Department business, some of it confidential and classified, and likely
intercepted by foreign governments. All that was a clear violation of
federal statutes. Comey next, quite improperly as a combined FBI
investigator and a de facto federal prosecutor, deduced that such
violations did not merit prosecution.
Around the same time, the FBI had
hired as a source the foreign national and political opposition hitman
Christopher Steele. It helped Steele to spread among the media his
fraudulent dossier and used its unverified and false contents to win
FISA warrants against U.S. citizens on the bogus charges of colluding
with the Russians to throw the election to Donald Trump. By the FBI’s
own admission, it would not have obtained warrants to surveil Trump
campaign associates without the use of Steele’s dossier, which it also
admittedly either knew was a fraud or could not corroborate.
Again, such allegations in the
dossier were false and, apparently, the FBI soon knew they were bogus
since one of its own lawyers—the now-convicted felon Kevin
Clinesmith—found it necessary also to alter a court-submitted document
to feign incriminatory information.
The FBI, on the prompt of lame-duck
members of the Obama Justice Department, during a presidential
transition, set up an entrapment ambush of National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn. It was an effort to lure Flynn into admitting to a
violation of the Logan Act, a 223-year old-law that has led to only two
indictments and zero convictions.
During the 2020 election, the FBI
suppressed knowledge of its possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Early
on, the bureau knew that the computer and its contents were authentic
and yet kept its contents suppressed.
Moreover, the FBI sought to contract
out Twitter (at roughly $3.5 million) as a veritable subsidiarity to
suppress social media traffic about the laptop and speech the bureau
deemed improper.
Again, although the FBI knew the
laptop in its possession was likely genuine, it still sought to use
Twitter employees to suppress pre-election mention of that reality. At
the same time, bureau officials remained mum when 51 former
“intelligence officials” misled the country by claiming that the laptop
had all the hallmarks of “Russian disinformation.” Polls later revealed
that had the public known the truth about the laptop, a significant
number likely would have voted differently—perhaps enough to change the
outcome of the election.
The media, Twitter, Facebook, and
former intelligence operatives were all following the FBI’s own
preliminary warning bulletin that “Foreign
Actors and Cybercriminals Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding
2020 Election Results”—even as the bureau knew the laptop in its
possession was most certainly not Russian disinformation. And, of course, the FBI had helped spread the Russian collusion hoax in 2016.
In addition, the FBI-issued phones of
agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page, along with members of Robert
Mueller’s special counsel “dream team”—all under subpoena—had their
data mysteriously wiped clean, purportedly “by accident.”
Apparently, the paramours Strzok and
Page, in particular, had much more to hide, given how earlier they had
frequently expressed their venom toward candidate Donald Trump. Strzok
boasted to Page that the FBI in general, and Andrew McCabe in
particular, had an “insurance policy” means of denying Trump the
presidency:
I want to believe the
path you threw out in Andy’s office—that there’s no way he gets
elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance
policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.
When
some of their embarrassing texts emerged, both were dismissed by the
special counsel. But Mueller carefully did so by staggering Strozk and
Pages’ departures and not immediately releasing the reasons for their
firings or reassignments.
To this day, the public has no idea
what the FBI was doing on January 6, how many FBI informants and agents
were among the rioters, and to what degree they knew in advance of the
protests. The New York Times
reporter most acquainted with the January 6 riot, Matthew Rosenberg,
dismissed the buffoonish violence as “no big deal” and scoffed, “They were making this an organized thing that it wasn’t.”
“There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol,” Rosenberg noted. We have never been told anything about that “ton”—a topic of zero interest to the January 6 select committee.
What are the people to do about a
federal law enforcement agency whose directors either repeatedly lie
under oath, or mislead, or do not cooperate with congressional
overseers? What should we do with a bureau that alters court documents,
deceives the court with information the FBI had good reason to know was
false and leaks records of confidential presidential conversations to
the media to prompt the appointment of a special prosecutor? What should
be done with a government agency that pays social media corporations to
warp the dissemination of the news and suppress free expression and
communications? Or an agency that hires a foreign national to gather
dirt on a presidential candidate and plots to ensure that there is “no
way” a presidential candidate “gets elected” and destroys subpoenaed
evidence?
What, if anything, should the people
do about a once-respected law enforcement agency that repeatedly smears
its critics, most recently as “conspiracy theorists”?
Wray, most recently, cut short his
Senate testimony on the pretext of an unspecified engagement, which
turned out to be flying out on the FBI Gulfstream jet to his vacation
home.
Yet the bureau’s lack of candor,
contrition, and cooperation has only further alienated the public,
especially traditional and conservative America, characteristically the
chief source of support for the FBI.
There have been all sorts of remedies proposed for the bureau.
The three reforms most commonly
suggested include: 1) simply dissolve the FBI in the belief that its
concentration of power in Washington has become uncontrollable and is
increasingly put to partisan service, including but not limited to the
warping of U.S. presidential elections; 2) move the FBI headquarters out
of the Washington D.C. nexus, preferably in the age of Zoom to a more
convenient and central location in the United States, perhaps an urban
site such as Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, or Oklahoma City; or
3) break-up and decentralize the FBI and redistribute its various
divisions to different departments to ensure that the power of its $11
billion budget and 35,000 employees are no longer aggregated and put in
service of particular political agendas.
The next two years are dangerous
times for the FBI—and the country. The House will soon likely begin
investigations of the agency’s improper behavior. Yet, simultaneously,
the Biden Justice Department will escalate its use of the bureau as a
partisan investigative service for political purposes.
The FBI’s former embattled,
high-ranking administrators who have been fired or forced to leave the
agency—Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, James Baker, Lisa Page,
and others—will continue to appear on the cable news stations and
social media to inveigh against critics of the FBI, despite being all
deeply involved in the Russia-collusion hoax.
Merrick Garland will continue to
order the FBI to hound perceived enemies through surveillance and
performance art arrests. And the people will only grow more convinced
the bureau has become Stasi-like and cannot be reformed but must be
broken up—even as in extremis a defiant and unapologetic FBI will, as
its latest communique shows, attack its critics.
We are left with the dilemma of Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchers?
Next week, the Supreme Court will have a chance to save the free
market economy from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Even as the
court reins in the administrative state, the FTC is advancing new rules
and novel theories that stretch the limits of its mandate. Under its
progressive chair, Lina Khan, the FTC wants to cancel the gig economy,
cripple the ad-supported internet, and address racial justice, rather
than simply protect consumers.
In Axon Enterprise v. FTC, the court could take a big step toward cabining the FTC within its statutory and constitutional authority. Axon
itself involves a narrow procedural question of whether someone can
raise certain constitutional challenges to the FTC directly in federal
court, without having to wade through years of administrative processes.
As explained in a new paper,
however, the case’s import is much broader. If companies can bring the
FTC into court anytime the agency exceeds its authority, the courts can
prevent the FTC from imposing illegal rules at the outset — a critical
tool given the scope of the FTC’s agenda. Even more importantly, the
court could lay the groundwork to revisit the constitutionality of the
FTC and much of the administrative state............To Read More....
FBI agents descended on the rural home of a Catholic author and
pro-life sidewalk counselor Friday morning, and arrested him for an
alleged violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances “FACE”
Act while his terrified seven children looked on “screaming.”
The subject had no criminal record, nor any history of violence, and
had already agreed to turn himself in if a decision was made to bring
charges against him, despite the baselessness of the charges. According
to some legal experts, the raid was an attempt to intimidate and
humiliate an opponent of the Biden regime.
Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men,
an “authentically Catholic and unapologetically masculine” apostolate
opposes pornography and promotes Christian virtues among men in the
United States and Europe.............To Read More....
As many as 22 lawmakers have called upon
Attorney General Merrick Garland to provide an explanation as to why the
FBI allegedly sent 25-30 fully-armed agents to arrest Catholic pro-life
activist Mark Houck as his “screaming” children watched in horror. Released Tuesday, the open letter spearheaded
by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said that the FBI should have an “extraordinary
reason” for arresting Houck the way they allegedly did. The letter
said:
There is much to learn about the extent of the FBI’s
operations in this case, apparently since state-level charges were
apparently dismissed by local authorities in Philadelphia. Surely, the
FBI must have an extraordinary reason for showing up at the home of an
American family, allegedly with roughly 25 heavily armed federal agents,
and arresting a father in front of his seven children.
“At the moment, it appears to be an extraordinary overreach for political ends,” the letter added. The letter demanded that Merrick Garland respond by September 30.
Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas told Fox News that the raid against Houck is further indicative of how politicized
the FBI and the Department of Justice have become under President Joe
Biden...................
Editor's Note: This post was one of
twelve I linked as a singular post. However Blogger decided that post
met some "Community Standard" that offended them and "un-published" it.
So I'm posting them all separately and the cartoon will be the Cartoon
of Day. RK
August 23, 2022 By Rajan Laad
Recently, a government report revealed that COVID-19 relief efforts led to possibly the largest fraud in the history of America. The Washington Post reported that unemployment benefits of an estimated $163 billion were paid to undeserving individuals due to either error or fraud. In the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, around $58 billion was
paid to companies that shared the same addresses, phone numbers, bank
accounts, or other data as other applicants — a clear indication of fraud.
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a
decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have
consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at
the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent. - Ross McKitrick
By Rich Kozlovich
As I go back to view old pieces I've posted I came across this piece going back to 2008 entitled Another Skeptic. This was a letter to USA Today from Dr. Martin Hertzberg, a retired Navy meteorologist with a PhD in physical chemistry, and published with his permission. He went on to say:
As
a scientist and life-long liberal Democrat, I find the constant
regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap-trap about
human-caused global warming (the Levi, Borgerson article of 9/24/08) to
be a disservice to science, to your readers, and to the quality of the
political dialogue leading up to the election.
(Editor's Note: The first and third links work, and are up to date. RK)
The
difference between a scientist and propagandist is clear. If a
scientist has a theory, he searches diligently for data that might
contradict it so that he can test it further or refine it. The
propagandist carefully selects only the data that agrees with his theory
and dutifully ignores any that contradicts it. The global warming
alarmists don't even bother with data! All they have are half-baked
computer models that are totally out of touch with reality and have
already been proven to be false.
Here is some of the latest data.
From the El Nino year of 1998 until Jan., 2007, the average temperature
of the earth's atmosphere near its surface decreased some 0.25 C. From
Jan., 2007 until the Spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping 0.75 C. The
National Weather Service just issued a Sea Ice Advisory for the Western
and Arctic Alaskan Coastal waters for significant ice developing in the
next 10 to 14 days, with sea surface temperatures some 2 to 8 C colder
than last year. Such recent data is "just the tip of the iceberg" that
is in process of sinking the Gore-IPCC ship of cards.
That was 14 years ago, and it was obvious even then all the global warming/climate change hysteria was just propaganda, not science. And the evidence of that keeps piling up to the point there can no longer be any justification for pushing their "climate change" agenda. An agenda over a "crisis" most no longer believe in, especially since what warming there was stopped 25 years ago in what they're calling "the pause", and it still wasn't anywhere near the temperatures of the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods.
And as always, leftist hysteria is followed by demands that these heretics must be purged from
government, academia, politics and the media who disagree with their
secular religious movement, the Church of Wokeness, with the religious
tenet of socialized tyranny,
aka, socialism, leftism, communism, environmentalism and the enforcer of
it all is the Democrat party in collusion with the United Nations, the
EU and a host of strange people with a lot of money, like George Soros,
and I include Bill Gates among that host..
This "pause" is in fact a tacit acknowledgement there is no warming but they just can't bring themselves to openly admit they're wrong, hoping beyond hope warming will return and the Chicken Littles can once again come out in packs hunting down the "deniers", all heretics to the sacredness of the sect of the Church of Wokeness, the Church of the Warming Globe and it's High Priest, Al Gore:
"a C university
student, a divinity school dropout, a lawyer with no science studies, an
majority owner/investor in a company selling 'Carbon Credits' with a
vested interest in limiting CO2 for profiteering and the producer of a
movie that the British Courts found to have 9 or 11 inaccuracies and
could not be shown in British schools without identifying and
explanation of the inaccurate claims."
Al Gore’s Prediction For December 2017 Was Way, WAY Off The Mark, Andrew
West outlines some of the scare mongering spouted by The High Priest of
the Church of the Warming Globe, Al Gore. Scare mongering did I say?
Yes, but I think that's putting it mildly for what Gore has done. I
would add lying, profiteering, scamming and fraud to that list. West
goes on to say:
"Just how bad were some of Gore’s predictions? Well, for starters, he believed that the North Pole would be completely devoid of ice by today."
“NINE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH— Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years.”
“Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008. He told them that ‘the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.’
“In January 2006, Al Gore posited ‘within the next 10 years, the
world will reach a point of no return’ and ‘a true planetary
emergency’ due to global warming.”
And in the process he's managed toenrich himself immensely. Apparently he didn't think the emergency was so great he
should stop trying to get more money, or not live in massive energy
sucking "$9 million beach front home in Montecito, [California]. Guess
Al is not really afraid of sinking into the sea."
And we're shocked his predictions have been wrong?
"All good hoaxes must come to an end, and this week’s frigid and
dangerous arctic blast may be another nail in the coffin for the “global
warming” charlatans.The idea that the entire
globe is somehow filling with greenhouse gasses, thusly heating the planet up
to the point of no return, is patently absurd."
Yet, these elitists, fake scientists and globalist continue to push that agenda. An agenda that even if it could change the world's climate the amount of change would be meaningless to the world's temperatures, but the cost and the impositions would change humanities ability to live well and live longer. Their constant efforts to restrict access to energy is mind boggling, and will impact everyone and everything we do, including the ability to produce sufficient food for the world, all in the name of Climate Change.
Leftism and "fake crises" goes hand in hand.
Without hysteriathe left would have nothing to say, no matter the subject.
Without corrupt politicians they couldn't impose their fake scares and devastating solutions on humanity.
The cost of all this is staggering and all that money is wasted: The New Climate of Panic Among the Panic-Mongers - December 31, 2021 By Christopher Monckton of Benchley - A new climate panic is
gripping the far-Left profiteers of doom. Those few of Them who are
climate scientists have made fame and fortune by telling us the world is
toast unless the once-free West (though responsible for only a fifth of
the world’s sins of emission) commits economic hara-kiri. The cost of
placating climate Communism is already in the quadrillions.
We have to understand with all these hysterics we've now turned over all authority and power to the unconstitutional Fourth Branch of Government, the
bureaucracy. A Deep State rife with corruption, and that includes the judiciary, who Larry Klayman called political hacks. Unaccountable absolute authorities that are filled people who went to college and into government and believe that
government is the be all and end all, feeding at the government trough at the expense of who and what they despise and hold in contempt: America and the taxpaying citizens of this nation.
"There is only one possible conclusion
regarding the reliability of climate predictions. Outspoken
catastrophic-minded climate scientists and high-ranking officials don’t
have a clue about future climate and its consequences, and are inventing
catastrophic predictions for their own interest. Government policies
should not be based on their future predictions. Another conclusion is
that studies and opinions about future climate are heavily biased
towards negative outcomes that fail to materialize, while ignoring
positive outcomes that are materializing."
Mussolini stated: "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
Tara Walker is an Antifa terrorist who was arrested in March 2021
after the terror group smashed up an apartment building in NorthWest
Portland. Police arrested the Antifa members with guns, knives, hammers, and other weapons.................To Read More.....
When vindictive leftists get in charge: VA suspends benefits for Jan. 6 prisoner held in DC gulag - The DOJ has spitefully instructed the Department of Veterans Affairs
to allegedly suspend all benefits going to a Jan. 6 detainee named
Kenneth Harrelson, who has had his bank account frozen and has already
been imprisoned for over a year. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) blasted the move, asserting “This is
what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of
the government,” in an interview with The Epoch Times.........
The CDC stated on its website
(last reviewed Sept. 2021) that to control the spread of disease within
their borders, states have laws to enforce the use of isolation and
quarantine. The law also includes the use of police power functions in their quarantine stations. “In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and
quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of
the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society,” CDC stated on their website.....To Read More...
Editor's Note: I think my pick for Cartoon of the Day fits in well with Andrea Widburg's article, and speaks volumes on the corruption of our education system and the intellectual and moral values of the Democrat party. RK
One of the recurring news stories over the last few months is that
parents are speaking out at school board meetings to protest Critical
Race Theory, masks, and transgender pressure in their public schools.
The schools respond by trying to silence them and there have been a few
minor scuffles that local police quickly settled. The National School
Boards Association (“NSBA”) responded by demanding help from the FBI—and
“moderate” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has agreed.
George Floyd’s drug overdose while under
police restraint gave the leftists populating American schools license
to put their Critical Race Theory and transgender agendas on overdrive
in American schools. Parents have responded with protests at school
board meetings (see, e.g., here, here, and here, to give just a few examples).
But
when parents are horrified by what public schools are teaching their
children—Whites are inferior, kids can magically change sex, and masks
forever—that’s a different story. On September 29, the NSBA wrote to Joe Biden begging for federal protection for school board members.
The letter alleges “the growing number of
threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the
nation,” beyond local police departments’ abilities. However, John
Hinderaker took the time to follow-up on the news stories the NSBA cited to justify its plea for the FBI and those allegations seem overwrought:.........To Read More....
By Rich Kozlovich 
