Commentary
Returning from my short vacation, I began looking through my stack of stuff, good stuff, that I have saved for my return. In addition, I collected material during the vacation that I want to share with you, along with some new stuff requiring comment. There’s a plethora of information, so I will be keeping it brief.
The Election Scene
The New York Post noted that with the deep dissatisfaction being experienced by New York voters, it’s “possible for the first time in quite a while for a Republican to win in November,” believing that person is Rep. Lee Zeldin, who hopes to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Further evidence that Hispanics have had enough of the immigration policy, or lack thereof, they elected Republican Maya Flores in a special election in Texas to serve out the term of Filemon Vela. She is the first Mexican-born woman to win a seat in Congress.
The most recent Quinnipiac poll revealed that Hispanic approval of President Biden had plummeted to 26 percent from the 55 percent recorded at the same time last year.
Forty-seven percent of likely voters would vote for the Republican candidate if the election was today according to Rasmussen’s generic congressional ballot poll.
More from the Supreme Court
In a truly blockbuster 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court opined that the EPA had overstepped when it devised that Obama regulatory program known as the Clean Power Plan.
But it isn’t only the EPA that was cited for issuing sweeping economic and political consequences. On July 10, 2021, I wrote of those unelected agency bureaucrats who were making decisions affecting our daily lives.
Referring to the environmental rules, the Court stated that “a decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself.” Bureaucrats in the EPA, not the president, and not the Congress, recently established new café standards on its own.
On the Climate Front
It seems as though Germany has hit “the green wall,” forcing drastic action or even abandonment of the net-zero pledge to reduce emissions, and it’s likely other countries will follow.
The United Nations announced that its plan to accelerate greenhouse gas emission reductions this year had stalled. The world’s biggest emitters have done little to follow through on the deal struck seven months ago in Glasgow.
“Coal plants will lumber back to life, new gas processing plants will be built, and Germany is asking Europe to delay decarbonization mandates that no longer seem realistic,” wrote Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.
Meanwhile, our feckless president continues his assault on the fossil-fuel industry, meeting with wind turbine people while he has his ignoramus energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, meet with seven U.S. oil and gas executives. What an insult!
And, get this, during an interview on CNN, White House economic advisor Brian Deese suggested the pain at the pump was a price Americans had to pay for the “future world order.”
A Democrat Campaign Trick
The full-page ad in the New York Times on Father’s Day caught my eye. A photo of a man walking hand-in-hand with a child was pictured beneath a headline reading, “To my Dad on Father’s Day.”
“Dear Dad,” it began, “I miss you every day, your sage advice, your humor, your kindness and compassion for all.
“I loved our spirited debates where, as the only Republican in the family, you were always hopeful when you would ask for a show of hands as to which child or grandchild was going to vote Republican. You tried to persuade us that you could be both a fiscal conservative as well as an advocate for racial equality, human rights, and conservation.”
The next sentence – “But you would not recognize your Republican Party now” – led the reader (not me) into five paragraphs of attack material on the GOP.
At the end, it reads, “If you asked your Republican friends in heaven if they recognized the Republican Party today, would any of them raise their hands?”
The ad was paid for by priceofmyvote.com, obviously a leftist organization.
Who Was George Floyd?
That headline with a subhead that read, “A thorough account of a little-known life,” caught my eye. It was over a book review in the New York Times. Finally, I thought, the truth about this man, who was idolized by the Black Lives Matter movement. His death, at the hands of a few out-of-control Minneapolis police officers, was unfortunately used to stir minorities there, in Seattle, Portland and Kenosha in summer riots.
While he was referred to as a “gentle giant” because of his physique, he had a rap sheet that slowly leaked out. “Shy, contemplative and good-natured,” is how the authors described Floyd.
Writing about him growing “into a strapping high school student, 6 feet 4 inches tall,” (with) dreams of becoming an athlete,” the authors told of them being upended by “the cruel reality of growing up Black and poor.”
Nonsense. How many stories have we heard about blacks in college, the NFL, NBA and MLB who made it out of poverty as men of color?
While the authors did recall his struggles with drug addiction, arrests and a five-year sentence for aggravated robbery, they chose not to delve into the real George Floyd.
Instead, they chose to write about “the structural roots of racism in the criminal justice and education systems.” Disappointing.
My July Fool’s Day “honor” goes to President Biden, again.
May God continue to bless the United State
