Commentary
Regular readers know that I routinely limit my commentaries to a single topic. When that happens, other comment-worthy topics are relegated to my stack of stuff, off to the side of my desk. So, it’s time for a little catching up.
RULE OF LAW – Like most of you, I find it incredible that one person can alter the rule of law on a whim, usually for political reasons. How often have we seen a judge act as an activist, like Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case.
President Biden’s arbitrary use of presidential power to subvert the rule of law by shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline is covered in a piece by Ronald Baily in reason.com. He writes of “politicians who have learned how to subvert the rule of law by laundering their decisions through supine federal bureaucracies that interpret badly-defined laws and regulations to suit the desires of a president and his minions.
In 2013, 2014 and again in 2015 there were environmental studies, all of which played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. One study even noted that a switch from the pipeline to rail transport of Canadian crude would increase emissions by 27 precent.
Following the orders of President Obama, John Kerry, in 2015, declared that “moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change.”
With a goal of U.S. energy independence a key goal, President Trump, on March 29, 2019, used that presidential power to authorize the continued construction of the Keystone, followed by an “updated final impact study” indicating that the impact would range from negligible to minor.
In a truly arbitrary, vengeful move, President Biden stopped the Keystone with no consideration of the thousands of workers, union workers, who lost their jobs, good-paying jobs.
All presidents use their presidential powers, subverting the rule of law. However, in my opinion, Biden’s decision to shut down the pipeline, has already had more of a disastrous impact than any environmental fears. The loss of thousands of American jobs in middle America.
EQUALLY DISASTSROUS was Biden’s arbitrary stopping construction of the fence along our southern border, allowing thousands of illegals from some 20 countries to cross our border by invitation, prior to putting forth his immigration policy.
FROM THE STATES – Amid reports that Hispanics are moving to the right, we learn that Republican Javier Villabos won in a runoff election for mayor in McAllen, Texas, where 85 percent of the 150,000 population is Latino.
From flyover country … Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill that bans ballot harvesting, saying., “It’s our duty and responsibility to protect the integrity of every election.” SF 568, passed along party lines in both the House and Senate, states that only someone living in the same home or an immediate family member can deliver a completed absentee ballot for a voter.
In Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court extended the 2020 voting deadline to three days after the Nov. 3, despite Republican objection, and the recent discovery of five errors linked to Dominion Voting Systems in Fulton County, Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf will likely veto a proposed overhaul of the state’s election system.
While the bill embraces ideas from both parties, the Republican-controlled House and Senate developed comprehensive measures to improve the integrity of the vote in Pennsylvania, including the requirement of every voter to present a photo ID at the polls.
In Michigan, former Detroit Police Chief James E. Craig would defeat Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 45 to 38 if the election were held today, according to Matt Margolis of PJ Media, reporting on an Competitive Edge Research poll.
It appears that wokeness has hit the city council of Ashville, North Carolina, where they voted to pay reparations to the 11 percent black population, despite the fact that none of them personally experienced slavery in America. While details of the $2 million proposal have yet to be determined, reportedly the 10,270 blacks will receive less than $200 apiece.
Liz Cheney has jumped on the left’s criticism bandwagon to blast the GOP-led 2020 election audit in Arizona’s Maricopa County, citing it as “an effort to subvert democracy.” What is the left worried about?
People fleeing high-tax states for low and no tax states like Arizona, Texas and Florida are being met with advice to make better voting decisions, according to Patricia Tolson, writing in The Epoch Times. A sign in an Arizona shop window reads, “Don’t Califzona Our State.”
MORE NONSENSE ON “WHITENESS” – In my recent posts I have referred to professors at our colleges and universities who are focusing on white privilege, rewriting history and promoting critical race theory. It continues.
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association has published a piece in which they state, “Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility.
“The condition is fundamental, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite people. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.” Pure race-baiting hogwash.
We can no longer simply roll our eyes and assume nothing can be done to call a halt to this indoctrination of our youth. It must be faced head-on.
Lately, we are seeing school boards facing angry parents over the content of curriculums that do not meet with their family values … on religion, white privilege, systemic racism, transgenderism and subjects with sexual content.
AND FINALLY, did you notice that President Biden only selected his water-carriers from CNN, CBS and ABC to ask him questions following his NATO meeting Monday?
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
