[Creators Syndicate] "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because the law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
As if nanny state governors had been sleepwalking through the tyrannical shutdowns and their disastrous consequences last spring and summer, as if they were ignorant of the economic destruction of those they barred from going to work or operating their businesses, as if they thought it is lawful to assault natural rights and constitutional guarantees, these same governors are now beginning another wave of interferences with personal liberty. Are you listening, Governors Whitmer, Newsom, Cuomo, et al?
Slowly, over the past 10 days, while the eyes of the public and the media have been on the counting of votes in the presidential election and the ensuing allegations and litigations, governors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut and New York have threatened to impose or have begun to impose their unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and illogical efforts to shut down society in order — they claim — to rid the land of the COVID-19 virus. We just need to flatten the curve for a few weeks more...
By doing so, they have reignited the age-old debate of individual liberty versus public safety. In this case, the safety they claim to be enhancing is safety from disease. Yet, by their executive orders, they have purported to use state law to interfere with freedoms without due process that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. By doing that, they have set themselves up for criminal prosecutions when normalcy returns. You would think so, but I ain't holding my breath. History is repeating itself, without the courageous revolutionaries. It is not my neighbor, or even a thief in the night, who impairs my personal liberty — it is the government. It does so, just as King George did, under the guise of safety. Yet, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written precisely to prevent governments in America — state or federal — from interfering with our liberty, absent a jury trial at which they must prove fault.
This jury trial requirement is called due process. It is guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments, which mandate that the government comply with due process whenever it seeks to impair the life, liberty or property of any person. Of course, a constitutional guarantee is only as reliable as is the fidelity to the Constitution of those in whose hands we repose it for safekeeping.
Now, back to these nanny state governors. They have assumed to themselves the powers to write laws and enforce them. That assumption violates the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of the states in which they were elected, because the power to write laws and the power to enforce laws is required to be separated in America. We call that the separation of powers. It is, according to my late friend Justice Antonin Scalia, the most unique and freedom-protecting aspect of the Constitution, and it applies to states as well as the federal government.
Thus, when governors use police powers to interfere with personal liberty ‐ liberty that is expressly guaranteed by the Constitution ‐ and do so without a trial at which the government proves fault, they have violated both state and federal law, no matter their reasoning. Thus, all these executive orders regulating private personal behavior are profoundly unconstitutional and even criminal.
There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution. It is liberty that flows in our veins, not false promises of government safety. So how many divisions does "Liberty" have?
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[MEMRI.ORG] "Russian peacekeepers have begun their new duties in Nagorno-Karabakh. And, judging by the behavior of the Ottoman Turkish side, one can conclude that [the Turks] are not very happy about it. It looks as though Moscow has taken an important military trophy from right under Erdogan's nose, which means that [Moscow] needs to be ready for provocations: The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... will retaliate."'The ambit of the mobility of Ottoman Turkish observers will be limited to the premises of the monitoring center within the Azerbaijani territory... not on the territory of the former conflict... No peacekeeping units of the Republic of Turkey will be sent to Nagorno-Karabakh.'
"With these words, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov once again refuted claims that the new security structure in the South Caucasus will also be implemented by the Ottoman Turkish military as peacekeepers.
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a good description of moslems in general
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Unlike the US, Putin trusts the Turks about as far as he can shoot them with a cheap pistol.
Will the government’s appeasement make up for all the companies that left and won’t come back? How about the buyers who no longer trust the safety of what China wants to sell, or the security of Chinese banks and internet?
[American Thinker] On Friday the 13th, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) congratulated Joe Biden on his win in the 2020 presidential election even as the results were still being contested in the U.S. The statement issued by Beijing’s Foreign Ministry was short and formal, but the Chinese state-run media was quick to express what the Communist leadership hopes a Biden administration will mean for the advancement of China’s interests.
Global Times, the official outlet of the ruling Communist Party (CPC), ran "Experts look forward to Biden administration addressing issues that separate China, US" the following Monday. One of the three experts was Zhang Baijia, former deputy director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee. He noted "the goals of China and the US are different. The US wants to maintain its global leadership, while China hopes to safeguard its right to development." He concluded that "It's expected that the Biden administration will act differently from the Trump administration. It will abandon Trump's ’America First’ unilateralism and make changes in many aspects. But though there may be some adjustments, the basic policy that takes China as a strategic competitor will not change. For China, the policy change of the US will be both a challenge and an opportunity."
[Daily Wire] A Democratic Party official in California wants to "deprogram" tens of millions of Americans who watch Fox News and get information from other right-wing sources.
David Atkins, a regional director for California Democrats, posted a tweet on Tuesday asking how to "deprogram 75 million people" who watch Fox News and, presumably, voted for President Trump in the 2020 election. He compared the task to what was done in "post-WWII Germany or Japan."
"No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?" Atkins asked. "We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South."
"This is not your standard partisan policy disagreement. This is a conspiracy theory fueled belligerent death cult against reality & basic decency," he continued. "The only actual policy debates of note are happening within the [D]em coalition between left and center left."
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Because they're the most dangerous Trump supporters, the first people who need to be rounded up for the reeducation camps are those who own AR-15's, are expert in their use, and have lots of ammo. Good luck.
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I believe Obama had an actual blue book Clem. Seriously - it was on Amazon.
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Dana Perino - who I used to think was reasonable - called for the Dems to sue Rudy & Sidney for defamation over the elections ( according to Gateway Pundit) Guess the left kids running the show fiscally threatened her.
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They're all worried about being cut off from the gravy. Fox is now woke. DC's betting on a new boss.
Plus there's real fear for their physical safety.
Their kids and relatives are being threatened with physical harm should they say anything against the lying senile demented thief or his monstrous spawn or his prostitute of a running mate.
Let the virtue signaling begin. Nothing but good Bolsheviks here.
[Federalist] Republicans have good reason to be optimistic about the next ten years.
While the chaotic presidential race has been its own beast, Republicans had what should have been an impossibly good night in November 2020, according to corporate media pollsters. Senate Republicans knocked out a wave of overpaid and overhyped challengers, state legislative chambers and a governorship were taken, and the Democratic House Majority was cut to the bone by a wave of red upsets.
This upset, just like the surprise of 2016, is not a fluke. Through poor strategy, radical politics, and an extraordinary amount of hubris, Democrats have set up a series of problems for themselves that will not be resolved by 2022 and have the potential to cripple the left-wing enterprise for the next ten years. Here are five of the biggest.
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One not so tiny problem: if our electoral mechanism remains corrupt and broken, and if the corrupt and rotten house of DOJ-FBI-CIA is not cleaned out, and if we continue to have news blackouts and disinformation from our Pravda-press, then legislative dominance won't mean anything.
Redistrict all you like, but the absentee ballots on the midnight trucks will still give the corrupt Uniparty its desired result the next morning.
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How do we know Hunter's not getting kickbacks from the gun manufacturers?
And don't forget The Big Guy!
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Besides being cheeky, I do remember being in a larger outdoors chain and the salesman in the outdoor section had a picture of barry, 'Salesman of the Month'.
About the author: Wiki - Steven Westley Mosher[1] (born May 9, 1948[2]) is an American social scientist, anti-abortion activist, and president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), which opposes population control and abortion. In the early 1990s, he served as the director of the Claremont Institute's Asian Study Center, as well as a member of the US Commission on Broadcasting to China.[3]
[Outdoor Life] You just bought an AR-15 with the intention of accessorizing it with top-quality components to get the most out of the rifle. And there are a myriad of variables to consider, such as your intended use, geographic location, and more. But if you want one gun with the right aftermarket modifications to cover all the bases, there are some specific upgrades you need to make. My choice ingredients capitalize on the AR’s versatility, and act as a blueprint to help get you set up with the ultimate rifle.
Before we begin, know that the AR is such a modular platform that you can easily pick and choose your setup. If a specific component doesn’t work for you, simply pick one that does. The configuration of your rifle is completely up to you and, after some experimentation, you’ll eventually discover what components work best to fulfill the role you need them to.
If I set up your AR (a do-it-all weapon), the following are the modifications I would make. After years of trial and error, I’ve meticulously selected a list of components that have been thoroughly compared with other products in their categories and selected the ones that provided a significant increase in my performance, as well as the handling and function of the gun in all shooting conditions.
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1. Red dot sight w/ on/off 3x magnifier
2. Decent trigger
3. Adjustable stock
4. Large grip if large hands
5. Optional bipod.
6. --- never learned to use a sling
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Dear B, Since AR 15s are mil spec they are built w/ a little wiggle room. Just place the AW under the rear pin and squeeze down to close. Takes up some of the slack.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Advanced new prenatal ultrasound technology can detect up to 50 genders.
The technology will be put to use in clinics and hospitals right away, so parents can know if they're going to have a boy, girl, or one of the 48 other genders it's capable of detecting. There are, of course, hundreds more genders, but researchers are still working on upgrading the technology to detect all the other ones.
"There was this huge problem we were having, where parents-to-be were under the illusion that their child could only be a boy or a girl," said Brenda Watts, CEO of DiverseSound Tech, LLC, the creator of the new ultrasound. "This led to gender reveal parties where the baby was assigned the wrong gender. It was really embarrassing when everyone celebrated with pink balloons when the baby actually identified as a 30-story-tall building."
"Now you can know for sure if your little one is male, female, agender, genderfluid, pangender, demigender, or a tater tot," she added.
Unfortunately, most people who would have liked this technology are aborting their children anyway, so DiverseSound quickly filed for bankruptcy.
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Unfortunately, most people who would have liked this technology are aborting their children anyway, so DiverseSound quickly filed for bankruptcy.
Unfortunately people are aborting babies. Fortunately this nutball company went bankrupt.
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Fortunately this nutball company went bankrupt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
History is repeating itself, without the courageous revolutionaries. It is not my neighbor, or even a thief in the night, who impairs my personal liberty — it is the government. It does so, just as King George did, under the guise of safety. Yet, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written precisely to prevent governments in America — state or federal — from interfering with our liberty, absent a jury trial at which they must prove fault.
Thus, when governors use police powers to interfere with personal liberty ‐ liberty that is expressly guaranteed by the Constitution ‐ and do so without a trial at which the government proves fault, they have violated both state and federal law, no matter their reasoning. Thus, all these executive orders regulating private personal behavior are profoundly unconstitutional and even criminal.
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
[Daily Wire] A Democratic Party official in California wants to "deprogram" tens of millions of Americans who watch Fox News and get information from other right-wing sources.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Advanced new prenatal ultrasound technology can detect up to 50 genders.
