News of the Week for May 5th<\/sup>, 2019<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas House passes bill allowing unlicensed handgun owners to carry in public during disaster<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n L.A. Mayor Garcetti’s “Green New Deal” would phase out gas-fueled cars<\/a> MPs make history by passing Commons motion to declare “environment and climate change emergency”<\/a> Quote of the Week: Greta Thunberg claims to be able to “see” carbon dioxide in the air<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Medicare for All” Isn’t Medicare<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why We Defend Free Seas<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hoaxers Falsely Accuse Pete Buttigieg of Sexual Assault, Likely Giving His Campaign a Boost<\/a> Cancel Culture Comes for Counterculture Comics<\/a> TED Talker Promotes Laws To Let Doctors Mutilate Minors Without Parent Consent <\/a> Male sexual harassment claims ignored by the feds’ Title IX office in Boston for eight years <\/a> Orwellian Attack on Parental Rights: Court Warns Father He’ll Be Arrested if He Calls His Daughter a Girl<\/a> Prof asks whether students should learn ‘dead white man’ Thoreau at ‘Whiteness of Walden’ event<\/a> Why Is Fox News Using Left-Wing Talking Points to Take Cheap Shots at Homeschoolers?<\/a> “Queer Feminist Mermaid” Surfaces to Challenge Susan Collins<\/a> Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns after month on leave amid investigation into her business deals<\/a> Why So Few College Students Can Write Well<\/a> Conservatives seize on Alabama state Dem’s abortion comments<\/a> “Gender equity” center says being straight doesn’t just mean being attracted to the opposite sex <\/a> “Bring Him In”: Steve Cohen Calls For Sergeant At Arms To Force Barr To Testify<\/a> Huh? Biological Man Identifies as a Woman But Plays a Man as the First Transgender Lead in U.S. Opera<\/a> Assemblyman Arambula’s daughter, holding stuffed bunny, testifies as abuse case against him begins<\/a> Sexuality textbook suggests students take “field trip” to preschools to observe potential “sexual interactions” <\/a> Neutron star collision 4.6 billion years ago sent gold, platinum to Earth<\/a> Justtice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived<\/a> Nearly 200 universities encourage, facilitate segregation among students of color <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kamala Harris Wants to Ban Right-to-Work Laws<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Developing: Juan Guaid\u00f3 Launches Military Uprising in Venezuela Against Socialist Maduro<\/a> The “final phase” in Venezuela?<\/a> The Socialist Catastrophe in Venezuela<\/a> Venezuela’s People and “Collective Ownership of the Means of Production”<\/a> Will Nigel Farage’s Brexit party sink the Tories?<\/a> Putin signs Russian internet isolation bill into law<\/a> Pro-European candidates for EU election identify Council as the “common enemy”<\/a> The fall of Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship could spell the end of Cuba’s socialist dictatorship<\/a> China putting minority Muslims in ‘concentration camps’ <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s Time To Ignore The People Who Shut Up Their Opponents By Shouting “Racist!”<\/a> Time to wake up to the size of the global education gap<\/a> Understanding the Inescapable Reality of Masculinity<\/a> The Differences between Joe Biden and Jeb Bush<\/a> Trump, Biden, and the union vote<\/a> Why Facebook’s Bans Warrant Concern<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Opinions<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nTexas moved closer this week to allowing unlicensed gun owners to carry firearms in public following a disaster.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nMayor Eric Garcetti unveiled a sweeping plan for a more sustainable Los Angeles on Monday, calling for dramatic changes to the car culture, buildings and air quality of America\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n
\nJeremy Corbyn calls for motion to “set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe”<\/p>\n
\nAt first, I thought this had to be a joke. Then I thought it must be some sort of misinterpretation. Sadly, no.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nMedicare for All would also replace Medicare’s current method of paying fees for services to every hospital, nursing home and other institutional provider. Instead, a new federal board would set an annual budget for each provider, which would receive one lump sum for current operations and another for capital expenditures. That board would be expressly forbidden by current Medicare for All bills from using quality metrics\u2014which would be necessary to prevent providers from skimping on quality with lump-sum payments.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThere is more at stake in the South China Sea than most realize.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nRemember the smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh last year? Remember when grifters like Michael Avenatti and Ronan Farrow spread far-fetched stories about Kavanaugh’s supposed crimes? Remember how desperate the libs were to believe any accusation, no matter how ridiculous, if they thought it would stop Kavanaugh? Remember how many journalists spread those scurrilous lies, with the ass-covering caveat that they were “big if true”?<\/p>\n
\nToday it’s creators, not cops, who want to banish R. Crumb, onetime king of the comics underground.<\/p>\n
\nThe most noteworthy aspect of Tandy Aye’s discussion is her concession that the doctors who administer ‘gender affirming therapy’ are sterilizing these children.<\/p>\n
\nFinally accepted a complaint after FOIA request<\/p>\n
\nLast month, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued an order that a father (referred to by the pseudonym “Clark”) may not refer to his 14-year-old daughter (pseudonym “Maxine”) as a girl or by her original name, whether in public or in private. Doing so has been ruled to constitute “family violence” because Maxine identifies as a boy. According to a separate protection order, police may immediately arrest Clark if they suspect he violated this Orwellian order.<\/p>\n
\nAmherst College in Massachusetts hosted Middlebury College professor Rebecca Kneale Gould for an event called “The Whiteness of Walden.”<\/p>\n
\nFox News has apparently decided to pick a fight with homeschoolers\u2014the vast majority of whom are law-abiding citizens who love their children and are providing a stellar education for them. In an article with the salacious headline “‘House of Horrors’ child abuse cases reveal how offenders nationwide use homeschooling to hide their crime,” Elizabeth Llorente makes the claim that “homeschooling unwittingly also provides a convenient and legal cover for families where children are living in squalor or are being neglected and abused.” Even while admitting that most homeschooled children are “properly educated and cared for by their parents or guardians,” she goes on to describe harrowing tales of children who were abused, neglected, and killed by parents who kept them isolated at home, ostensibly using homeschooling as a cover.<\/p>\n
\nBre Kidman is first Democrat to file in Maine senate election<\/p>\n
\nBaltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh resigned Thursday, apologizing for the harm she has caused to the city’s image amid a growing scandal over her sales of a self-published children’s book series.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the loudest complaints about college graduates once they enter the workforce is that they can\u2019t write well. (I have even heard that from an old friend of mine who was for many years a partner in a big law firm. He attests that many law-school graduates are poor writers.) Almost every college has a writing course that students must take, but they don’t do much good.<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans pounced Wednesday on remarks made by an Alabama state representative opposing a state bill that would criminalize abortion.<\/p>\n
\n“There are not only two genders”<\/p>\n
\nRep. Steve Cohen called for Attorne General William Barr to be detained by the U.S. House Sergeant-at-Arms for contempt of Congress and forced to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n
\nLucia Lucas is the first transgender person to play a lead role in a U.S. opera, performing the title role in Don Giovanni at the Tulsa Opera on May 3 and May 5. Although Lucas identifies as a woman, he plays a man, singing the baritone role of Don Giovanni. This casting reveals the truth that transgender identity cannot hide: Lucas is male, not female.<\/p>\n
\nThe trial of Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, began Friday with opening statements from the Fresno County District Attorney\u2019s office and his attorneys and soon progressed to the testimony of his 7-year-old daughter, the alleged victim in the misdemeanor child abuse charge against him.<\/p>\n
\nUnclear if schools, parents would be notified of visit<\/p>\n
\nTwo neutron stars collided 4.6 billion years ago near the Earth’s solar system, sending the planet some fraction of its most precious metals, a new study says.<\/p>\n
\nMany Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employee Anita Hill \u2014 charges he denied. People may know he’s a conservative and has gone years without speaking during arguments at the court. But scholars say it would be wise to pay closer attention to Thomas.<\/p>\n
\nNew study documents rise of “neo-segregation” at universities nationwide<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nOn Saturday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) advocated a federal ban on right-to-work laws, which have been adopted by 26 states. These important laws give workers the choice of whether or not to join or pay dues or fees to the labor union that ostensibly represents them. These unions often have political stances that do not represent their workers, so the ability to opt out of paying or joining them is important for workers’ First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nOn Tuesday morning, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 launched a military coup against socialist President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced America’s support for the attempt.<\/p>\n
\nVenezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 appeared Tuesday with troops at a Caracas military base to announce a “final phase” to remove President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from office. Whether we have entered the final phase of removing Maduro, or indeed whether he will be removed at all, remains to be seen. But, as the leftists of my youth used to say, “if you don\u2019t push it, it won\u2019t fall.”<\/p>\n
\nThe dictator Maduro is still holding on, blaming “American imperialism” for the poverty his socialist regime has inflicted on Venezuela<\/p>\n
\nThe Socialist party of Great Britain asks, “When did the people of Venezuela get collective ownership of the means of production?” This is part of that perpetual argument, “True socialism has never been tried.”<\/p>\n
\nIt’s a slicker, more professional outfit than Ukip ever was<\/p>\n
\nThe move will tighten government control over information.<\/p>\n
\nAn oddly uncontroversial debate between the lead candidates of the four major pro-European political families at this month’s EU elections took place in Florence on Thursday (2 May).<\/p>\n
\nWhile the Cuban regime has survived many events that should have taken it down, the socialist Castro dictatorship has also been quite lucky. When the Castro family dictatorship has found itself on the ropes, someone or something has seemed to always show up at the last moment to throw the murderous and corrupt regime a lifeline.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps,” in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing\u2019s mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nToo many decry any discussion of group differences as instantly racist. This hurts the very people we need to be helping, and it erodes free speech norms in the process.<\/p>\n
\nToday, more than half of children worldwide are not reaching minimum levels in reading and maths. It is a global problem, but one which has significant implications for the British taxpayer.<\/p>\n
\nThe Poway synagogue shooter and the Poway synagogue hero show the two sides of aggression and violence.<\/p>\n
\nBiden may flame out in 2020 as Bush did in 2016, but in several key respects he\u2019s a different animal than the former Florida governor.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Trump is upset that the leadership of a national firefighters’ union endorsed Joe Biden. Trump sent out dozens of tweets and retweets on the subject. In one, he referred to the organization in question as “this dues sucking union.”<\/p>\n
\nI firmly believe men like Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan are truly loathsome. They’re toxic to our nation and to our culture. I’m also deeply concerned about Facebook’s decision \u2014 announced yesterday – to ban Jones and Farrakhan and other “dangerous” figures from both Facebook and Instagram<\/p>\n
\nThe Punisher, compelled self-incrimination, and a unicorn amongst unicorns.<\/p>\n