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Sorry to have been absent for a bit, but I’m happy to report a full recovery from my recent unpleasant, although not terribly serious, illness. It’s already been a bad week in the Supreme Court for progressive shibboleths. Just today, the key provision of New York’s gun restriction regime — under which the authorities had discretion to deny you a gun permit if they thought the reason you gave for wanting one was not good enough — got struck down under the Second Amendment. For what it’s worth, I’ve long thought that that provision was obviously unconstitutional, and that the...

Kirkland & Ellis tells Paul Clement and a partner to dump their Second Amendment clients. They refuse and resign.A 6-3 victory at the Supreme Court vindicating a constitutional right is usually cause for congratulations, but not these days at Kirkland & Ellis, the giant white-shoe law firm. The firm has rewarded partner Paul Clement for his triumph Thursday in the big New York gun-rights case (see nearby) by telling him to drop his gun clients or leave the firm. As Mr. Clement and his litigation partner, Erin Murphy, explain nearby, they’re leaving the firm rather than dump their clients. That’s...

Joynese Speller was excited to start a new job as a project delivery specialist for a health care company on June 6. As she wrapped up at her old nonprofit job on a Friday, she emailed her new company to confirm her start time on Monday. Hours later, she got another email: The company had some logistics to work out on their end, so Speller would actually start on Tuesday. That slid into Wednesday, and then Thursday. On Friday, Speller got a phone call. Due to budget cuts, the job she hadn’t even started yet was being eliminated. “I was...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated that there is a bit of “schizophrenia” in our energy policy where “We’ve been discouraging oil companies from maintaining refineries or opening new ones. Because we theoretically are going to transition away from gasoline.” But the problem is, there was a “misjudgment as to how long of a transition it was going to be and what we needed to do to make the transition work.” Rattner stated that “refining capacity has gone down” due to refineries shutting down...

A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after hitting his head while subway surfing on top of a New York City train Thursday evening, officials say. The boy was believed to have been riding on top of the train car as it entered the station and struck his head on “an unknown object” and suffered “severe head trauma," according to police. He was removed from the top of the train and transported to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition. Earlier this month, a video circulated on social media showing about eight people subway surfing, running and even dancing on top of...

Please define/clarify/discuss the following terms: Conservatism, Liberalism, Paleoconservatism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Libertarianism, and how they are different from one another and any similarities. Also "Classical", aka "Jeffersonian" Liberalism (Paleoliberalism?) any other isms that are worth consideration in this conversation. Please note that one is not asking for a definition or discussion of any fascist ideologies like Communism, etc.

More than two-thirds of Texas Republican voters approve of Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) job performance, according to a poll released on Thursday, despite heat he has received from former President Trump and others over his involvement in crafting bipartisan gun safety legislation. The new Morning Consult survey, conducted June 11-20, found that 68 percent of registered Republican voters in the state approved of Cornyn’s job performance, the same percentage he received when respondents were last polled between May 14 and May 23. A slightly higher percentage of Texas Republican voters have said they disapprove of the job Cornyn is doing,...

One week after a team of thugs working for Democratic Party activist Stephen Colbert were arrested for illegally entering a Capitol building in order to record themselves stalking Republican congressional leaders, news coverage of the incident has all but disappeared. Neither the U.S. Capitol Police, the arresting agency, nor the Department of Justice has produced any details of the gang’s unauthorized incursion into two Capitol buildings with the blessing of Representative Adam Schiff (R-Calif.) and two other Democratic House members. It appears the Capitol Police chief has not yet responded to a demand by Reps. James Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rodney...

On NOVEMBER 18, 1992, The New York Times printed Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice's statement: "The less we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America." Download as PDF ... The original draft of George Washington's Inaugural Address, 1789, included the following: "Should ... those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness (willingness to lay down) or venality (open to bribery) of their constituents, over leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve...

Friday 24 June 2022 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Solemnity Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Sedalia, MO Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingEzekiel 34:11-16 ©I will look after my flock myself and keep all of it in viewThe Lord God says this: I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep my sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and...

On Thursday, the Biden Administration’s Education Department announced its proposed changes to Title IX that would drastically affect school athletics across the country, in the name of protecting “transgender” rights. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the proposed changes would completely eliminate the concept of gender-specific sports and spaces, such as restrooms and locker rooms, and would allow students to freely use whichever facilities they feel like. The new regulations would also label any instances of someone not using proper “pronouns” as sexual harassment. The Biden Education Department did refrain from issuing a definitive rule on letting biological men compete...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) Cornyn is a former Texas Supreme Court justice and a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary panel with an “A-plus” rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA). Cornyn attempted to negotiate a compromise with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in 2021 on legislation to expand background checks, but the talks fizzled. The senior Texas senator made clear early in this spring’s talks that he would not support universal background checks or bans on assault-style rifles or high-capacity magazines. Cornyn emphasized throughout the negotiations that law-abiding gun owners would not face new regulatory hurdles but instead wanted to...

James Otis (1725-1783) was the King's advocate-general of the vice-admiralty court at Boston. In 1761, he was elected as a representative of Boston to Massachusetts' colonial government, called the General Court. Download as PDF ... Otis' main political opponent was acting Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson, a politically polarizing figure whose unbending Loyalist acts greatly increased tensions with colonists. Choosing loyalty to Britain over America, Hutchinson created a storm of protests when he issued "writs of assistance." Hatred for Hutchinson's policies resulted in his home being ransacked. In February of 1761, Otis argued for five straight hours on the illegality of...

So billions of people are dying every year now from global warming? Really? In a system of freedom, the government works for the people. A fundamental responsibility of government, the employee of the people, is to not lie to the public. In the private sector, an employee would not last long if he was found to be lying to his employer. Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor, recently sat down for an interview with Axios National Political Reporter Alexi (deer in the head lights) McCammond. The interview was preprogrammed to give Ms. McCarthy all the room she needed to...

On May 30, 2020, at about 11 PM, during the George Floyd riots, Jaleel Stallings fired in the direction of people in an unmarked van who had fired at him. They said nothing before opening fire. Jaleel felt a round hit him before he fired back. They turned out to be police, who were shooting rubber bullets. When Jaleel realized they were police, he stopped firing, very quickly, and surrendered. He had fired less than five shots. The shooting was over in seconds. Jaleel was severely beaten, even though he did not resist.Because of video evidence, he was acquitted in...

"A conservative among liberals, and a liberal among conservatives," he was not consistently conservative enough for Republican President Warren G. Harding and he was not consistently liberal enough for Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt. As a result, he was passed over several times to be a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Download as PDF ... His name was Learned Hand, who served as a judge for over 50 years, first on New York's District Court, then on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Judge Hand's legal decisions were so respected they were referenced in U.S. Supreme Court Cases. Though a political...

Mayor Eric Adams led New York’s top elected officials in excoriating the US Supreme Court for overturning a century-old state gun law — warning at a Thursday press conference that “this decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence.” “There is no place in the nation this decision affects as much as New York City,” Adams said in response to the 6-3 ruling, which he added was “just not rooted in reality.” “The opinion claims to be based on the nation’s historical past, but does not account for the reality of today. It ignores the...

Ukrainian forces in Severodonetsk have been ordered to withdraw, according to the top regional official.The city is the focus of Russia's invasion as it tries to take control of large parts of eastern Ukraine."Remaining in positions that have been relentlessly shelled for months just doesn't make sense," Luhansk regional head Serhiy Haidai said.Russian forces have nearly encircled Severodonetsk in recent days, and are now targeting its twin city Lysychansk."They have received orders to retreat to new positions... and from there continue their operations," Mr Haidai told Ukrainian television on Friday morning.

Pride Month sheds light on Marxian intentions, and June isn’t even over. Pride Month. Thirty whole days devoted to aberrant sexual lifestyles and the fetishization of the perverse. With the normalization and extravagant celebration of this deviation, the inevitable arrives: the sexualization and grooming of children. We see grown men jiggling enormous – and exposed – prosthetic breasts in a young child’s face; school districts shelling out hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to introduce elementary-aged children to men, dressed as women, and behaving in a hypersexual way; and the promotion of the BDSM kink by permitting students to pull...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 25Jacob and Esau 19 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[c] and sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to...