News of the Week (May 14th, 2023)

Posted on May 14, 2023 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for May 14th, 2023


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Firing Line Friday: Separation of Church and State

Posted on May 12, 2023 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With bakers being forced to literally “bake the cake” by using their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse over their religious objections, while the Left, from environmental Gaia worship to the “right spirit; wrong body” magical thinking of transgenderism, the question of religion in the public sphere is a long running one. Let us look back over half-a-century ago when the question of the “separation of church and state” was much different as William F. Buckley, Jr. debated Margaret Blain, Ralph Wafer, Clark DuRant, and Madalyn Murray.

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Quick Takes – Sacrificing For Gaia: Joe Biden’s Environmental Justice; California Bans Locomotives; Bugs For Lunch At A Posh British School

Posted on May 11, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: You will live in the pod, eat the bugs, and own nothing.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Gotta achieve that equity, no matter how much it hurts some people.

“President Joe Biden […] signed an executive order that would create the White House Office of Environmental Justice.

“The White House said it wants to ensure that poverty, race and ethnic status do not lead to worse exposure to pollution and environmental harm. Biden tried to draw a contrast between his agenda and that of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. GOP lawmakers have called for less regulation of oil production to lower energy prices, while the Biden administration says the GOP policies would give benefits to highly profitable oil companies and surrender the renewable energy sector to the Chinese.

“‘Environmental justice will be the mission of the entire government woven directly into how we work with state, local, tribal and territorial governments,’ Biden said in remarks at the White House.”

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Enshrining Parental Rights In Texas

Posted on May 10, 2023 by The Political Hat

     While some states are stripping parents of their right to raise their own children, Texas is instead poised to enshrining such a fundamental right in its state Constitution with two proposed measures.

     SJR 70 says:

Sec. 36. (a) A parent has the inherent right to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child and to make decisions for the upbringing of the parent’s child, including but not limited to decisions regarding the education, moral and religious training, and health care of the child.

(b) The state or a political subdivision of this state shall not interfere with the rights of a parent described by Subsection

(a) of this section unless the interference is:

(1) essential to further a compelling governmental interest; and

(2) narrowly tailored to accomplish that compelling governmental interest.

     SJR 29 goes further:

Sec. 36. (a) In this section, “parent” means a natural parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, or other legal custodian of a child.

(b) A parent has the right to direct the education of the parent’s child, including the right to: (1) make reasonable choices within the public school system;

(2) choose an alternative to public education, such as a private school, including a parochial school or home school;

(3) access and view public school teaching materials, textbooks and other instructional materials, and library books;

(4) attend meetings of the governing body of a public school; and

(5) access public school student records for the parent’s child, including the child’s student health records.

(c) The rights described by Subsection (b) of this section may not be denied or restricted because the parent or the child is an individual with a disability.

(d) The legislature by general law may provide for processes to ensure that the rights described by Subsection (b) of this section are upheld.

     This should all seem like common sense, but that a state like even Texas feels it necessary to amend its state Constitution to say so shows just how much this right is nationwide.

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The Gender Homunculus

Posted on May 9, 2023 by The Political Hat

     The magical nature of transgenderism—right soul in the wrong body—now gives us the gender homunculus (not to be confused with the “genderbread person” or the “gender unicorn”. But even the difference between “gender identity” and “biological sex” is gone now, with one having an outer shell sex which is just a shell containing a homunculus that has their real sex! Thus, all the hormones and surgeries are just making that fake husk reflect their real internal homunculus.

     This seems like a positive spin of what Theodoric of York discovered…

Theodoric of York

Theodoric of York, Gender Dysphoria Expert

“You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your … [child’s] was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that … [your child] is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her xyr [sic] stomach.”

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Let’s See How Abolishing The Police Is Working Out In West Hollywood…

Posted on May 8, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Remember how the “enlightened” Left believed that police caused crimes and were tools of the “system” of oppression, and how they should be replaced with experts in reconciliation?

     Let’s see how that’s working out in West Hollywood…

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News of the Week (May 7th, 2023)

Posted on May 7, 2023 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for May 7th, 2023


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Firing Line Friday: The Nixon Presidency

Posted on May 5, 2023 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     Republicans have ever been accused of bringing more government in the name of less government.   Richard Nixon is probably a prime example of where this is unequivocally true when it came to the government’s breadth and scope. Let us look back half-a-century ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed with Samuel Lubell the question of the Nixon Presidency.

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Quick Takes – Gender Madness: Transitioning Is A One Way Street; Transitioning Is A Flip-Flop; Lying To Parents About Children Transitioning

Posted on May 4, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Welcome to the Hotel Transgender ♪ You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave ♫…

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Oregon will fully support your right to mutilate your body to look like the opposite sex in order to fit your “gender identity”. But what if you want to de-transition and get reconstructive surgery?   Too late sucker!

“A bill in Oregon explicitly would require Oregon health-insurance plans to pay for gender-transition medical interventions — including cosmetic procedures such as electrolysis and facial feminization surgery — while not concomitantly requiring equivalent coverage for detransition care. From HB 2002 (my emphasis):

   (b) “Gender-affirming treatment” means a procedure, service, drug, device or product that a physical or behavioral health care provider prescribes to treat an individual for incongruence between the individual’s gender identity and the individual’s sex assignment at birth.

   (c) “Health benefit plan” has the meaning given that term in ORS 743B.005 [meaning, a licensed insurance company, a health care contractor, an HMO, or an association of employers].

“Detransitioners are seeking care to restore congruence with their born sex. That’s apparently a distinction that makes a big difference in terms of the proposal.

“Republican representative Ed Diehl thought the same thing. So, he filed an amendment to provide equal coverage for medical services for detransitioners and transitioners alike. Democrats rejected it out of hand. Diehl told me in an email:

I introduced a -11 Amendment to House Bill 2002. It would have mandated insurance coverage for detransition treatments, similar to how the base bill covers “gender-affirming treatment”. The amendment was flatly rejected by the Democrats. They called the amendment “controversial”.

“Oh.”

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Louisiana vs. The Groomers

Posted on May 3, 2023 by The Political Hat

     While some states are helping hide a child’s “gender transition”, Louisiana is prohibiting school employees from facilitating this during school hours as employees of the state by requiring teachers use, without permission of the parents, the students legal name, pronouns consistent with their sex, while protecting said employees from using pronouns contra the students actual sex. HB81 says in part:

B.(1)(a) An employee shall use the name, or a derivative thereof, for a student that is listed on the student’s birth certificate unless the student’s parent provides written permission to do otherwise.

(b) An employee shall use the pronouns for a student that align with the student’s sex unless the student’s parent provides written permission to do otherwise.

(2) No employee shall be required to use pronouns for any person that differ from the pronouns that align with that person’s sex if doing so is contrary to the employee’s religious or moral convictions.

(3) Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed to prohibit employees from discussing matters of public concern outside the context of their official duties.

     This is a mild and reasonable measure that will certainly make groomer howl… like they did in this video of the bill passing the Louisiana House Education Committee:

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