News of the Week for June 25th<\/sup>, 2017<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After Scalise Shooting, GOP Congressman Seeks to Override D.C. Gun Laws<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What happened to the traditional role of skepticism in climate science?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senate Unveils Its Obamacare “Repeal”<\/a> Netherlander Euthanasia Guru Bemoans His Handiwork <\/a> Donald Trump Is Right: You Can Repeal Obamacare And Still Cover Everyone With Pre-Existing Conditions<\/a> Illinois Compels MDs to Discuss “Benefits” of Abortion <\/a> Trump Attempts to Save Senate Obamacare Bill by Calling Ted Cruz Personally<\/a> California Single Payer is dead\u2026.for the time being<\/a> (Re)Peeling An Onion: Obamacare Edition<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China May Soon Establish Naval Base in U.S. Ally Pakistan<\/a> Terrorism, Et Cetera<\/a> The Left-Wing Terrorist’s Capitol Hill Coup d’Etat<\/a> A Century After the US Entered World War I, Modern-Day Trench Warfare Continues in Ukraine<\/a> Brewery creates “F*** you, I’m Millwall” beer in honour of man who took on London Bridge attackers <\/a> Feds Investigating Attack on Officer at Flint Airport as Act of Terror; Attacker Yelled “ALLAH AKBAR”<\/a> Brussels train station attacker, who shouted “Allahu akbar,” id’d as Moroccan national<\/a> Trump supporter run down, stabbed after political rally<\/a> Man Charged with Threatening Ohio Rep: “We’re Coming to Get Every Go**amn One of You”<\/a> Jason Chaffetz Death Threat: “Prepare for the Battle, Motherf***er”<\/a> 30 GOP Congressmen Have Been Attacked or Threatened Since May<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sen. Kamala Harris likely to face lawsuit over California attorney general conduct<\/a> Supreme Court rules the government can’t refuse to register trademarks considered offensive <\/a> Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment<\/a> Pat Boone to Trump: Get Help from an “Accomplished Comedy Writer” If You Must Tweet<\/a> East Lansing Bans Apple Farmer From Market For Being A Faithful Catholic <\/a> Skittles Is Accused of Racism for Making White Skittles <\/a> Obama NSC Advisor Susan Rice’s Unmasking Material is at Obama Library<\/a> Sources: Heller gets Democratic opponent for 2018 race<\/a> Another Left-Wing Science Scandal<\/a> New Paper Says Puberty Blockers Aren’t the Answer to Gender Confusion<\/a> Prof calls whites “inhuman assholes,” says “let them die”<\/a> Parents, teachers slam NC school district’s mandatory “white privilege” training<\/a> Family sues teacher, school after 4-year-old daughter “hog-tied” with duct tape in class<\/a> Students launch libertarian club at small Oregon college and get harassed, investigated, condemned <\/a> Here’s Why Jason Chaffetz Quit Congress<\/a> CA Court Tosses Out 14 Charges Against Pro-life Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Baby Part Market<\/a> Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast illegal votes<\/a> Pizza joint faces boycott for refusing to serve alcohol to Mexican students with non-traditional IDs <\/a> Feminist Professor: “Trumpism” Is About “Discourses of Masculinized Dominance”<\/a> Wisconsin lawmakers advance bill to suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speakers<\/a> Nebraska Democratic official ousted for allegedly wishing Steve Scalise dead<\/a> Arizona court rules illegal immigrants not eligible for in-state tuition <\/a> Deranged Feminist Attacks Church, Police, “Patriarchy” in Florida<\/a> Republicans steamrolling Dems to confirm Trump judicial nominees<\/a> Clue to Gorsuch’s ideology seen in pairings with Thomas<\/a> Democrats, FBI Collaborated on Trump Smear<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blue Dog Democrats Met With Trump Officials to Discuss Tax Reform<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Colombia’s first THREE-man marriage between a “polyamorous family” is legally recognised<\/a> Miners Drop as South Africa Escalates Black Ownership Rules<\/a> Jeremy Corbyn urges people to “occupy” empty homes as supporters plan “Day of Rage”<\/a> More South Africans receive grants than have jobs<\/a> Turkish woman beaten for “wearing shorts during Ramadan”<\/a> Berlin moves to ban advertising with “beautiful but dumb” women<\/a> 5,000 criminals in Sweden’s vulnerable areas<\/a> Church of Sweden’s First Lesbian Bishop Wants to Remove Crosses, Add Muslim Prayer Spaces To Church<\/a> One killed as Venezuelan troops fire on protesters<\/a> A Tale of Two Johnsons<\/a> Strange death of Europe<\/a> Venezuela’s Maduro is rapidly running out of friends<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recall effort stymied by Sacramento<\/a> Trans Is Mainstreaming Blood-Drinking And Twerking Second-Graders. Will We Ever Say “Enough”? <\/a> Celebrating Freedom on Juneteenth<\/a> Howard Dean’s Tweet About the Free Beacon Shows Why He’s a Clown and Not President<\/a> Volokh demolishes Feinstein in campus free speech hearing<\/a> Ted Cruz Shines in Senate Hearing on Campus Free Speech<\/a> POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS A GAME THE RIGHT CAN’T WIN<\/a> Trans Activists Don’t Want Compassion. They Want Science Denial And Heresy <\/a> Nevada Should Not Adopt ABA Model Rule 8.4(g)<\/a> School curriculum whitewashes communism’s history <\/a> He was the first socialist, first limousine liberal, and the first to make excuses<\/a> Usaians<\/a> Liberals Versus Political Speech<\/a> Guilt as a motivation of the left goes back a long, long way<\/a> Our leading hate group<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nFollowing Wednesday’s shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others in Alexandria, Va., Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would require the District of Columbia to recognize out-of-district concealed carry permits for firearms.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nTraditional science required a skeptical view of one’s own findings until they could be replicated, especially by others. Unfortunately, skepticism has been deleted from the latest edition of “On Being a Scientist,” a widely-read booklet published by the National Academies of Science. When I asked the NAS about this unfortunate deletion, they explained there was insufficient space to include this fundamental aspect of doing science. Yet I counted nearly 10 pages of white space in the new edition.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nSenate leadership has just released their attempt at a repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.”<\/p>\n
\nBoudewijn Chabot was the Netherlander psychiatrist who assisted the suicide of a deeply depressed woman who wanted to die after the demise of her two children. All she wanted to do was be buried between them. Chabot met with her four times over several weeks\u2013never engaged actual treatment\u2013and then supplied her with poison pills, which she took. He watched as she died.<\/p>\n
\nLiberal tongues were wagging all over the internet on Friday, because Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, while guaranteeing health insurance coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. They claim Trump’s goal is impossible. But the joke’s on them, because in this case, Donald Trump is right.<\/p>\n
\nI have predicted that “medical conscience” will become a huge social controversy in the next decade, as culture of death proponents seek to force pro-life and Hippocratic Oath-believing doctors out of medicine by compelling them to be complicit in life-taking acts such as abortion and assisted suicide.<\/p>\n
\nI can’t imagine what he could have said to put enough shine on the current version of an Obamacare replacement bill that would persuade Senator Cruz to embrace it.<\/p>\n
\nFatal flaws led to its swift demise in the state’s Assembly.<\/p>\n
\nObamacare, like ogres and onions, stinks and has layers. Repealing it involves removing those layers and at the very least putting things back the way they were (ideally, making them better.)<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nNuclear-armed Pakistan is a key ally of the United States \u2014 but the relationship is far from untroubled. And one of Washington’s main geopolitical rivals appears ready to step in.<\/p>\n
\nThere was a terrorist attack Sunday night in London and, by all indications – i.e., a white suspect who plowed his vehicle into a crowd leaving a mosque – this would appear to be an anti-Muslim terror attack. As Greg Palkot said on Fox News, this looks like a “reverse copycat” of the June 3 jihad attack on London Bridge that killed eight people.<\/p>\n
\nA Democrat-controlled House would overturn the election and impeach Trump.<\/p>\n
\nOn April 2, 1917, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson stood before a joint session of Congress, asking for a declaration of war against Germany so that the world would “be made safe for democracy.”<\/p>\n
\nA Swedish brewery as launched a beer called “F*** you, I’m Millwall,” named after the words used by a victim of the London Bridge terror attack as he fought back against the assailants. <\/p>\n
\nThe FBI is investigating the stabbing of a police officer at a Flint, Michigan airport as a possible act of terrorism.<\/p>\n
\nThe man who attempted to detonate a nail bomb at a Brussels train station and shouted “Allahu akbar” on Tuesday has been identified by Belgian authorities as a 36-year-old Moroccan national.<\/p>\n
\nThe pro-Trump supporter Tony Forman was right in the middle of a recent protest in Cathay where emotions ran hot over the sanctuary city controversy, but nothing like the violence that’s left Foreman now fighting for his life.<\/p>\n
\nLet members of Congress concealed carry. NOW.<\/p>\n
\nRep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) has released an office voicemail from March in which a man from Florida threatened to “hang [Chaffetz] from a lamppost.”<\/p>\n
\nA total of 30 Republican members of Congress have either been attacked or revealed that they were the victim of a death threat since the beginning of May.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nSen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., will likely lose an effort to get a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that she abused her authority as California’s attorney general.<\/p>\n
\nAsian-American band wins challenge to disparagement ban in federal law.<\/p>\n
\nFrom today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case<\/p>\n
\nEntertainer and political activist Pat Boone told PJM he\u2019s “90 percent” satisfied with President Trump’s job performance but encourages him to stop using Twitter or hire a professional comedy writer to inject “wit” into his tweets.<\/p>\n
\nEast Lansing is so intolerant of Steve Tennes\u2019s religious viewpoint that it is willing to monitor Steve’s Facebook posts and punish Steve for what he says and does outside of East Lansing.<\/p>\n
\nA marketing ploy in support of LGBT organizations backfired.<\/p>\n
\nJudicial Watch today announced that the National Security Council (NSC) on May 23, 2017, informed it by letter that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” have been removed to the Obama Library.<\/p>\n
\nRep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) plans to run against Republican Sen. Dean Heller for his Senate seat in Nevada, according to multiple people familiar with her plans.<\/p>\n
\nGlyphosate is the active ingredient in RoundUp, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide, meaning it will kill just about any plant. Since it would kill the crop as well as the weeds, for quite a few years it couldn\u2019t be used over the top of an emerging crop. Instead, its use was restricted to lower-value burndown situations, where weeds in a field would be killed prior to planting, or, e.g., to keep down weeds on railroad rights of way.<\/p>\n
\nIncreasingly, gender therapists and physicians argue that children as young as nine should be given puberty-blocking drugs if they experience gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n
\nTrinity College Professor Johnny Eric Williams appeared to endorse the idea that first responders to last week’s congressional shooting should have let the victims “fucking die” because they are white.<\/p>\n
\nWhite privilege training in the Rockingham County school system is causing a lot of headaches.<\/p>\n
\nA Missouri couple is suing their daughter’s former day care after a teacher at the school alleged “hog-tied” the 4-year-old with duct tape to keep her under control.<\/p>\n
\nYoung Americans for Liberty at Linfield College compared to terrorists, accused of threatening school’s “safe spaces”<\/p>\n
\nThe mystery revealed<\/p>\n
\n14 down, 1 to go<\/p>\n
\nA research group in New Jersey has taken a fresh look at postelection polling data and concluded that the number of noncitizens voting illegally in U.S. elections is likely far greater than previous estimates.<\/p>\n
\nDissenting student senator claims senate lacks the necessary evidence to demand boycott<\/p>\n
\nYou may think that elections are decided over issues of public policy, but that\u2019s only because you’re a stupid Republican who doesn’t have a Ph.D. in sociology like Professor C.J. Pascoe<\/p>\n
\nConservative media commentator Ben Shapiro was just a few minutes into a lecture at the University of Wisconsin last fall when more than a dozen student protesters rose from the audience and began chanting “shame!” and “safety!” in hopes of drowning him out.<\/p>\n
\nThe chairwoman of the Nebraska Democrats removed a party official from his post Thursday, after a recording surfaced that appeared to capture the official saying he was glad House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot and that he wished Scalise died.<\/p>\n
\nDACA students are “beneficiaries” of federal program, not genuine citizens, court holds.<\/p>\n
\nA mentally ill homeless woman in Florida is accused of vandalizing a policeman’s patrol car and smearing feces on a church where she left the walls defaced with nonsensical writings against “patriarchy.”<\/p>\n
\nJudiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, so far, signals a “get ‘er done” approach in the face of obstruction and delay tactics.<\/p>\n
\nTo see where Justice Neil Gorsuch might fit on the Supreme Court, watch the company he keeps.<\/p>\n
\nThe New York Post has an explosive report on the infamous “dossier” that tried to smear Donald Trump in order to swing the presidential election to Hillary Clinton. The source of the dossier is a Democratic Party opposition research firm called Fusion GPS<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nWith GOP infighting, a bipartisan plan may be the way to go.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nVictor Prada, John Rodriguez and Manuel Bermudez wed in Medellin, Colombia<\/p>\n
\nGovernment lifts black ownership requirement to 30% from 26%<\/p>\n
\nFamilies made homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire should be free to occupy any empty properties they like across London’s wealthiest borough, Jeremy Corbyn has appeared to suggest.<\/p>\n
\nThe number of people receiving grants has increased by 328% in 15 years\u201a while those with jobs increased by only 24%.<\/p>\n
\nLeading rights group We Will Stop Femicide Platform said that 173 women were murdered in the first five months of 2017<\/p>\n
\nOne of the parties in the Berlin government has set out its definition for what constitutes sexism in advertising, after Berlin agreed to ban sexist billboards last year.<\/p>\n
\nSweden’s national police chief has presented a new report about the country’s problem areas, increasing the number of districts classified as vulnerable or especially vulnerable.<\/p>\n
\nEva Brunne is considered a trailblazer in her home country. As the first lesbian bishop in the Church of Sweden, she established her groundbreaking credentials, whether you agree with the move or not. Brunne apparently isn’t content to just be the first lesbian bishop. Oh no, she wants to transform the church.<\/p>\n
\nShooting outside La Carlota airbase in Caracas brings death toll from near-daily unrest to at least 76 since April.<\/p>\n
\nMy old friends at The Spectator have a meditation on Britain’s nightmare capital by Rod Liddle. <\/p>\n
\nDouglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray on Twitter) is associate editor of Britain’s Spectator and a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute. He is a prolific columnist. Gatestone has compiled his columns for the institute here. Murray’s new book is The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. It is a book full of portents and warnings for us.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s been clear for months that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had lost the support of most of his starving citizens, but now even some of the hard core Chavistas are abandoning him. <\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nMembers of the California Legislature apparently believe they have the power to change outcomes they don’t like. This is like awarding the NBA Championship to Cleveland by retroactively mandating that all of Golden State’s three point baskets be counted as only two.<\/p>\n
\nWe want people to be happy and fulfilled. But we have to admit the truth: embracing and even celebrating delusion hurts everyone.<\/p>\n
\nWith liberty and justice for all<\/p>\n
\nHoward Dean will never be President and will be remembered more for a scream than anything else. Often, Dean reveals that while he\u2019s obviously an intelligent man (he is a medical doctor, after all), he sometimes says the dumbest things.<\/p>\n
\nDemocratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) tangled with UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh yesterday over whether universities had a responsibility to handle security for controversial speakers.<\/p>\n
\n“The First Amendment is about opinions that you passionately disagree with and the right of others to express them.”<\/p>\n
\nIf there’s one thing righties believe, it’s that they could beat lefties in a fight.<\/p>\n
\nTo many trans activists, compassion and respect requires something those bound by either scientific or Judeo-Christian beliefs cannot give.<\/p>\n
\nIn my new article in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, I urge state courts to “pause” before adopting ABA Model Rule 8.4(g). This provision raises significant First Amendment issues, in that it punishes certain types of speech in forums completely disconnected from the provision of legal services. Since the article was published, the states have begun to reject the proposal. The Texas Attorney General has flat-out said the rule would be unconstitutional. Pennsylvania rejected it, as did Montana.<\/p>\n
\nWhen the state Assembly passed Assemblyman Rob Bonta\u2019s bill that would have repealed state provisions that make membership in the Communist Party a fireable offense for state employment, a firestorm of criticism ensued.<\/p>\n
\nRobert Owen and the pioneering social experiment<\/p>\n
\nYeah, I’m back on the future history and the Usaian faith. I know it starts somewhere in the 21st century. Way too meta, but my name ain’t Hubbard, so ignore that.<\/p>\n
\nThe Left wants to put people behind bars for expressing opinions that it doesn’t like.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve mentioned before that one of the most formative and important courses I ever took in college\u2014or anywhere\u2014was called “Russian Intellectual History.” I signed up not because I was so fascinated by the subject itself (although I always liked Russian literature), but because I’d been told it was an interesting course and the professor was good.<\/p>\n
\nThe concept of a “hate group” could be useful. In practice, however, it is like the concept of “hate speech,” applied to shut down heterodox speech and confine the public square to dissemination of officially approved thought. <\/p>\n