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[PJ] On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's public charge rule to go into effect, striking down a nationwide injunction from a New York judge. The rule allows the government to deny green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance and are therefore considered a "public charge."
In addition to the 5-4 decision allowing the rule to go into effect, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a concurring opinion rebuking activist judges and their rush to apply "nationwide injunctions" against Trump administration policies.
"Today the Court (rightly) grants a stay, allowing the government to pursue (for now) its policy everywhere save Illinois. But, in light of all that’s come before, it would be delusional to think that one stay today suffices to remedy the problem. The real problem here is the increasingly common practice of trial courts ordering relief that transcends the cases before them. Whether framed as injunctions of 'nationwide,' 'universal,' or 'cosmic' scope, these orders share the same basic flaw‐they direct how the defendant must act toward persons who are not parties to the case," Gorsuch wrote.
Indeed, since Trump's inauguration, judges at various levels have issued injunctions to stall or prevent administration policy opposed by liberal groups and Democratic attorneys general. This is an egregious abuse of judicial review, and Gorsuch called the judges out for it.
"Equitable remedies, like remedies in general, are meant to redress the injuries sustained by a particular plaintiff in a particular lawsuit. When a district court orders the government not to enforce a rule against the plaintiffs in the case before it, the court redresses the injury that gives rise to its jurisdiction in the first place. But when a court goes further than that, ordering the government to take (or not take) some action with respect to those who are strangers to the suit, it is hard to see how the court could still be acting in the judicial role of resolving cases and controversies. Injunctions like these thus raise serious questions about the scope of courts’ equitable powers under Article III," he explained.
[Dhaka Tribune] When has violence ever been the answer to a country’s problems?
Unfortunately, there seems to be a significant portion of the politically affiliated who still believe that it is perfectly acceptable for them to use violence as a means to make a statement.
This has become evident in the series of festivities which have taken place over the last week, with multiple people injured, including some journalists who are now seeking treatment.
With the capital’s mayoral election campaigns under way, it is nothing short of a tragedy that violence has become such an integral part of these campaigns for many.
We urge our politicians, law enforcement, and, most of all, the party candidates to instruct their followers to not resort to violence.
Now that we are in the final week before the elections, to be held on February 1, such unruly behaviour and unchecked violence threatens to derail all the work being put in by the candidates.
Bangladesh has come too far and has achieved too much in the past decade to let its democratic values be shattered at the hands of hooligans, and we must utilize every resource to ensure that this message is clear: Violence will not be tolerated and it will not be allowed to define the way our city, and indeed our nation, is run going forward.
It must be remembered that acts of violence affect all of us and, at the end of the day, is a non-partisan issue. All of us benefit from peaceful elections and the values on which Bangladesh’s democratic system was established being upheld.
There can no longer be any tolerance for those who continue to think that violence can be a solution to Bangladesh’s woes.
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"Cannot"? 'Course it can.
I know not Not, sirrah
(Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes were on track to recover on Tuesday after the S&P 500 suffered its worst day in nearly four months in the previous session on fears that a coronavirus outbreak could hit global economic growth.
Markets across the world stabilized as the head of the World Health Organisation said he was confident in China’s ability to contain the virus outbreak that has killed 106 people, prompted businesses to close operations and curbed travel.
U.S. economy and markets are not susceptible to a major slowdown due to the virus outbreak because they are more domestically focused, but share prices could falter in the near-term, Citi analyst Tobias Levkovich said in a note.
Investors will keep a close watch on Apple Inc (AAPL.O) results, due after markets close. Nikkei Asian Review reported that the company’s plans to ramp up iPhone production by 10% in the first half of this year may hit a roadblock as the coronavirus spreads across major markets like China.
[Well Seasoned Fool] Short answer; to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
The climate change boondoggle is an example of the population centers, using their majority, to fuck over the rural areas. Coal is an example. Only the Electoral College prevents this happening in politics.
Please indulge me as I try to draw parallels.
Northwest Colorado, along the Yampa River, has coal deposits in the thousands of feet deep. Much is near the surface allowing for easy, relative inexpensive, strip mining. This has led to the construction of two large electrical generating plants. The resulting jobs have allowed three generations to form families and raise children in relative comfort. Many are my relatives including, for a time, my late father.
The efficiency of the power plants is high and their contribution to pollution extremely low. For decades Colorado has required strip mines to reclaim the mines after they are closed. People passing through the area will be hard pressed to identify areas that have been mined.
Now under the pressure of the eco freaks the mines and power plants will be closing. The economic impact will create a huge depression for the area.
The Congressman representing that area summed it up well, IMO.
This isn’t just a Colorado problem but is occurring all over the country. Wyoming around Gillette and West Virginia come to mind.
And the tyranny of the majority? In Colorado the four most populous counties are home to the governor, and every other state office except one, at that one is arguable. He didn’t receive a majority in his home county.
The ripples spread. The Union Pacific railroad, a major coal hauler, forecasts cutting 1,000 jobs and closing various operation centers. The BNSF is facing the same obstacles.
People may say, "so what?" Well snowflake, since much of what you consume arrives by rail, and transportation costs are passed along, your living costs will go up. And your light bill? Prepare for sticker shock.
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Cause its a union of states not the people. The Constitution was ratified by states, not popular vote. Nine small states were not going to give up their sovereignty to four larger states. The compact was arranged so that the smaller states would not be usurped by the larger ones. Four larges states or 12 major urban areas, the checks remain the same unless you want to dissolve the compact.
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/\ Not sure I've ever heard it explained (without PPT) quite as succinctly. Less than 100 words.... if Freds Auto-Werd-Count-meter is functioning correctly.
[Right Scoop] The attorney for Mick Mulvaney has just released a statement on the New York Times article regarding Bolton’s book:
In other words, Mulvaney’s attorney is suggesting that what Bolton is saying isn’t really truthful and that Mulvaney didn’t hear any of this.
I doubt this will affect the pressure campaign to get more witnesses, as Democrats are clearly trying to pick up a handful or RINOs so they can steamroll Republicans on the issue.
I wonder, if it turns out to be a 50-50 vote, if Mike Pence could vote to break a tie? Will probably never happen with everything being so close, but you never know.
This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.
We may not know all your names but thank you.
"Mr. Madison Hogg, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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I must have missed 60 minutes; which history books are they mentioned in?
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As I understand it, gun controls laws originally were meant to keep guns out of the hands of black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people. OK, mainly black people since indigenous lgbtq women had not been invented yet, but the point still stands.
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I'm sure some miscreant hacked his account. CNN and MSNBC will verify and fact-check this. I mean seriously, this is a Hahvahd man student of higher learning.
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Weapon Control Laws are older than that... When the German Tribes settled down in Roman lands they started disarming the mew serfs. The Japanese Shogunate started disarming the farmer spearmen and most of the ronin swordsmen when peace broke out.
The elites don't like armed peasants. Game Hunting Laws. you see, only Nobles can hunt other Nobles.
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Seen a picture of him lately? He is sporting a shaved guevara haircut like his one female whiney classmate and his arms look anorexic / wasting disease thin. Something is up...
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Yeah, he has managed to lose weight. How bad? His hands now look proportionally huge.
Murcek, you talking about the pic with the American Flag Barcode shirt and the grandma pillows in the background?
[Jewish World Review] I began part one of "Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?" with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide, self-injury, depression, mass shootings and loneliness (at all ages) are higher than ever recorded. It seems that Americans may have been happier, and certainly less lonely, during the Great Depression and World War II than today, even with today's unprecedentedly high levels of health, longevity, education and material well-being.
There is, of course, no single explanation, and I listed a number of possible explanations: "Increased use of illicit drugs and prescription drug abuse, and less human interaction because of constant cellphone use are two widely offered, valid explanations. Less valid explanations include competition, grades anxiety, capitalism and income inequality. And then there are young people's fears that because of global warming, they have a bleak, and perhaps no, future."
But I do believe that a loss of values and meaning are the two greatest sources of unhappiness.
Among the values lost are those of communal associations. As the great foreign observer of early American life Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831, Americans' unique strength derived largely from their participation in innumerable nongovernmental associations ‐ professional, social, civil, political, artistic, philanthropic and, of course, religious.
But these have all dwindled as government has become ever larger. Whereas Americans got together and formed bonds of friendship through nongovernmental associations, through what organizations will Americans form friendships today? In a video presentation at its 2012 national convention, the Democratic Party offered its answer: "Government's the only thing that we all belong to," the narrator said.
Then there are traditional middle-class values, like getting married first and then having children. Today, a greater percentage of Americans are born to unwed mothers than ever before, and fewer people are marrying than ever before. There are, for the first time in our history, more single Americans than married Americans. While it is certainly possible to feel lonely in a marriage, people are far more likely to feel lonely without a spouse, and increasingly without children, than with a spouse and children.
[PJ] Many Americans are absolutely flabbergasted by the sudden rise of the transgender movement. Immediately after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), Olympian Bruce Jenner was calling himself "Caitlyn" and activists were preaching a new understanding of gender that rejected age-old wisdom and basic biology. By 2016, Barack Obama was foisting this ideology on broad swaths of American society, as his Justice Department threatened North Carolina for protecting the privacy of women in public restrooms. Useful 'Follow the Money' pyramid graphic attached.
Last week, Jennifer Bilek shed some much-needed light on the situation in a tour-de-force article published in First Things. As it turns out, the transgender movement did not come out of nowhere. In fact, this juggernaut has been bankrolled by the heir to a massive medical device fortune and helped along by veterans of notorious liberal billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations. Rich LGBT activists allied to turn a state blue and collaborated with the U.N. to foist transgenderism on countries across the world.
She drew attention to Jon Stryker, grandson of Homer Stryker, the orthopedic surgeon who founded the Stryker Corporation. That corporation sold $13.6 billion in surgical supplies and software in 2018. Jon, the heir to the fortune, is gay. He created the Arcus Foundation to serve the LGBT community. Between 2007 and 2010 alone, Arcus gave more than $58.4 million to pro-LGBT programs and causes. Stryker himself has given more than $30 million to Arcus in that three-year period, through his stock in Stryker Medical Corporation.
Jon's sister Ronda Stryker is married to William Johnston, chairman of the wealth management firm Greenleaf Trust, where Jon Stryker served as a founding board member. Ronda is also the vice-chair of Spelman College, which received a $2 million Arcus grant for a queer studies program. Johnston and his wife have given Spelman $30 million overall, the largest gift from living donors in its 137-year history. Ronda is also a trustee of Kalamazoo College, which received a $23 million Arcus social justice leadership grant in 2012, and a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.
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By 2016, Barack Obama was foisting this ideology on broad swaths of American society,
I thought this was the original genesis of the whole bullshit 'transgender' movement, which is a late offshoot of the LGTBQWERTY movement. It's like disco coming after Motown and funk, which means it must be destroyed!
(or - like a forest fire that keeps going in spurts, take your pick).
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Are there any other victim groups waiting in the wings for when the trans movement's time is up? There is always another group but i can't think of any right now, just the usual suspects.
[The Federalist] While tens of thousands came to D.C. on Friday to protest abortion in the 47th March for Life, several hundred showed up to support the practice. Counterprotestors at the March for Life are comparatively so few that using flashy methods to get attention is understandable. These young men and women should be given some credit for their courage in coming to an event where they know they are bound to be outnumbered. Yet the obscene crudity they resorted to this year is merely a symptom of a much more malicious disease.
Before the march, one group of pro-life advocates, CEC for Life, gathered in front of the Supreme Court for an annual vigil. The group was made up of about 20 young people, who laid on the ground in a fetal position with a long red ribbon draped over them. Sarah Howell, one of the group’s leaders, said the demonstration shows how these young people are standing in solidarity with the unborn while the ribbon represents the bloodshed of abortion.
As the young people laid still with their eyes closed, one of their leaders prayed for the ending of abortion. The mood was solemn amongst the group, yet just six feet away the atmosphere was one of Bacchic revelry as counterprotestors sneered at the demonstration.
The contrast between the two groups could not be more stark. While one group mourned the 60 million babies who have been aborted, the other sang and danced. One young woman holding a sign that called pro-life advocates hypocrites, bounced up and down, spun in a circle, and wore an enthusiastic smile while chanting, "Without this basic right, women can’t be free." An older woman handed out red-stained white pants to her fellow protestors, while another walked around with a Trojan box strapped to her head, urging young men to take condoms‐because, after all, abortions are their fault, she claimed.
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
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[PJ] On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's public charge rule to go into effect, striking down a nationwide injunction from a New York judge. The rule allows the government to deny green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance and are therefore considered a "public charge."
(Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes were on track to recover on Tuesday after the S&P 500 suffered its worst day in nearly four months in the previous session on fears that a coronavirus outbreak could hit global economic growth.
[Well Seasoned Fool] Short answer; to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
[The Federalist] While tens of thousands came to D.C. on Friday to protest abortion in the 47th March for Life, several hundred showed up to support the practice. Counterprotestors at the March for Life are comparatively so few that using flashy methods to get attention is understandable. These young men and women should be given some credit for their courage in coming to an event where they know they are bound to be outnumbered. Yet the obscene crudity they resorted to this year is merely a symptom of a much more malicious disease.
