{"id":16305,"date":"2020-01-26T20:26:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2020-01-26T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:26:17","slug":"news20200126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/26\/news20200126\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week (January 26th, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">News of the Week for Jan. 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-77\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/news-of-the-week\/image\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"News of the Week\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg 229w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 200px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#2ndAmendment\">Gun Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Hide_the_Decline\">Hide the Decline<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Obamacare\">Obamacare<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#War__Terror\">War &amp; Terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#National\">National News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Economy__Taxes\">Economy &amp; Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#International\">International News<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"#Opinion\">Opinion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"2ndAmendment\"><\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/youtube-removes-livestreams-of-richmond-gun-rights-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Removes Livestreams of Richmond Gun-Rights Rally<\/a><br \/>\nAs thousands of Second Amendment protesters flocked to the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond on Monday, YouTube livestreams of the protest started freezing or getting flat-out removed from the video platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/virginia-2a-black-guy-waving-trump-flag-i-am-gov-ralph-northam-and-i-am-in-blackface-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia 2A: Black Guy Waving Trump Flag, &#8216;I Am Governor Ralph Northam and I Am in Blackface Today&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nJulio Rosas from our Townhall mothership is at the Virginia Second Amendment rally today, and just posted what might be the best civil rights video of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/minorities-fired-up-in-richmond-im-a-black-american-and-enjoy-my-2a-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minorities Fired Up in Richmond: &#8216;I&#8217;m a Black American and Enjoy My 2A Rights!&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nThe media has been putting out slanderous information that Virginia&#8217;s Second Amendment pro-gun Lobby Day is full of &#8220;white supremacists.&#8221; Citizen-journalists are out on the street interviewing people and one came across a man wearing a &#8220;gun saves lives&#8221; sticker who had a lot to say about media lies. &#8220;The real reason I&#8217;m out here is, I do not support in any way, shape or form Governor Northam and the Democrats&#8217; gun control. What I also don&#8217;t support is the fact that every news piece you&#8217;ve seen on this weekend&#8230;they&#8217;ve always brought up the issue of race as if it&#8217;s nothing but white rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/articles\/guns-nra-and-american-civil-rights-movement-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Negroes With Guns: The Untold History of Black NRA Gun Clubs and the Civil Rights Movement<\/a><br \/>\nBlack NRA Gun Clubs Robert Williams With the violent crime rate increasing disproportionately in urban communities, it&#8217;s no surprise that a recent phone survey of black voters found that 80 percent felt gun violence was an \u201cextremely serious\u201d problem. However, it seems this surge in violence actually has many in the black community changing their views on gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/narrative-fail-minorities-lgbt-community-women-show-up-in-force-at-pro-gun-rally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NARRATIVE FAIL: Minorities, LGBT Community, Women Show Up In Force At Pro-Gun Rally<\/a><br \/>\nThe leftist American mainstream media tried to cast Monday&#8217;s pro-Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, as a white supremacist event that only extremists were planning on attending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/civil-war-redux-some-virginia-counties-may-want-to-secede-to-join-west-virginia-over-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Civil War Redux? Some Virginia Counties May Want to Secede to Join West Virginia Over Gun Control<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s far fetched and no one is taking it seriously &#8212; yet. But there are some Virginia counties that border West Virginia that are talking about secession from the Old Dominion and joining the Mountain State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bongino.com\/va-legislators-pass-new-gun-control-day-after-2a-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VA Legislators Pass New Gun Control Day After 2A Rally<\/a><br \/>\nBefore yesterday&#8217;s rally for the Second Amendment in Virginia even began, Virginia Democrats were smearing it as a dangerous &#8220;racist&#8221; rally. We were warned that everyone from white supremacist groups to fringe militias and possibly even antifa would be showing up. Governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the rally, preventing anyone from carrying firearms at the capitol building, and signaling to the media that danger was afoot. &#8220;They&#8217;re not coming to peacefully protest. They are coming to intimidate and cause harm,&#8221; be said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Hide_the_Decline\"><\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Environment &amp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Green Energy&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/critics-blast-calif-bill-to-mandate-climate-change-lessons-call-it-brainwashing-and-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critics blast Calif. bill to mandate climate change lessons, call it brainwashing and indoctrination<\/a><br \/>\nTeaching California students about climate change may soon become mandatory. Public school teachers in California would be required to teach students as young as six-years-old about climate change under a recently proposed bill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/germany-rejected-nuclear-powerand-deadly-emissions-spiked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germany Rejected Nuclear Power\u2014and Deadly Emissions Spiked<\/a><br \/>\nAfter Fukushima, the country opted to decommission its nuclear reactors. The US has a lot to learn from what happened next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2020\/01\/25\/climate-racism-black-climate-activist-cropped-from-greta-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Racism? Black Climate Activist Cropped from Greta Photo<\/a><br \/>\nBlack climate activist Vanessa Nakate was cropped from an AP image. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Obamacare\"><\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-expedited-obamacare-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supreme Court refuses to hear expedited ObamaCare appeal<\/a><br \/>\nThe Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a motion from a coalition of Democrat-led states asking the justices to speed up the review of a federal appeals court decision that put the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in doubt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-culture-of-death-brooks-no-dissent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent<\/a><br \/>\nI have a piece today on the home page describing the pressure being put on a British Columbia hospice by the government to allow euthanasia &#8211; despite it being adverse to the hospice philosophy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7926675\/Witness-court-battle-against-gender-clinic-reveals-happened-cry-help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why did the NHS let me change sex? Star witness in court battle against clinic that fast-tracked her gender swap aged 16 reveals what happened when she made a cry for help <\/a><br \/>\nKeira Bell, aged 23, describes herself as being &#8216;stuck between the two sexes&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a name=\"War__Terror\"><\/a>War &amp; Terror<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nikitamalik\/2020\/01\/21\/tougher-terrorism-legislation-in-the-uk-will-it-be-effective\/#524e673041b4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tougher Terrorism Legislation In The U.K.: Will It Be Effective?<\/a><br \/>\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s new government is trying to make the most of its first 100 days in office with plans to put a new counter-terrorism bill before Parliament in March. Some aspects of it have been announced today (January 21), mainly, that automatic release on licence of terrorists with extended determinate sentences will end, that there will be a mandatory 14 years in prison for those preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, and that terrorists will be monitored more closely in jails. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"National\"><\/a>National<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/01\/20\/san-francisco-da-touts-progressive-ambitions-for-already-troubled-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco DA Touts Progressive Ambitions for Already Troubled City<\/a><br \/>\nChesa Boudin spent his childhood influenced by members of a radical left and violent domestic terrorist organization. During college, he worked as an English translator for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/college-republicans-accuse-university-of-threatening-to-sue-off-campus-venue-to-stop-their-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">College Republicans accuse university of threatening to sue off-campus venue to stop their event<\/a><br \/>\nThe next three venues backed out of hosting, too<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump, Betsy DeVos go to bat for religious student groups<\/a><br \/>\nThe U.S. Department of Education has proposed a new rule aimed at protecting religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/denver-post-columnist-fired-after-arguing-there-are-two-sexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Post Columnist Fired After Arguing There Are Two Sexes<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;There are only two sexes, identified by an XX or XY chromosome&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridianpress.com\/2020\/01\/rick-scott-guilts-europeans-for-visiting-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Scott guilts Europeans for visiting Cuba<\/a><br \/>\nIn another bold to move to put pressure on the regime in Communist Cuba, Florida Senator Rick Scott penned an open letter to European and Canadian citizens, asking them to reconsider traveling to Cuba and to &#8220;understand the full implications&#8221; of their respective trips to the island nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200121180040\/https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/ed-morrissey\/2020\/01\/21\/mcconnells-curveball-senate-must-vote-admit-house-evidence-impeachment-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McConnell&#8217;s Curveball: Senate Must Vote To Admit House Evidence In Impeachment Trial<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Senators will make their first moves today,&#8221; says CBS News, but Mitch McConnell has already made his first. In the rules that McConnell unveiled last night, the Senate will offer both sides equal time to make their cases, but envisions the Senate remaining in session for 16 hours at a time in order to expedite the process on the calendar. Any witnesses will have to get a majority vote as expected, which was also the case in the Bill Clinton impeachment trial in 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Washington lecturer claims he was demoted after pointing out male &#038; female differences<\/a><br \/>\nA UW lecturer claims he was demoted after voicing support for the fired Google employee who pointed out differences between men and women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/01\/21\/project-veritas-sanders-campaign-staffer-in-s-c-wants-to-put-republicans-in-gulags-guillotine-the-rich\/#.XidITE92IR4.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Veritas: Sanders Campaign Staffer in S.C. Wants to Put Republicans in Gulags, &#8220;Guillotine the rich&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nLast week, Project Veritas released videos exposing how a Bernie Sanders field office in Iowa employed Kyle Jurek, an antifa-supporting, Gulag-loving, recently arrested Communist who has alarming opinions about the need to &#8220;reeducate&#8221; large swaths of American voters in  Gulags and how cities need to burn if Sanders doesn&#8217;t win the nomination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/01\/22\/understanding-californias-confusing-march-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Understanding California&#8217;s confusing March elections<\/a><br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s statewide presidential primary election is upon us, and if you thought previous elections were confusing, you ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217; yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jan\/21\/guillotine-rich-project-veritas-exposes-another-ra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Guillotine the rich&#8217;: Sanders staffer says he&#8217;s ready for armed &#8216;revolution&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nVideo shows man identified as &#8216;paid&#8217; South Carolina field organizer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/education-reformer-left-china-to-escape-socialism-hes-running-for-congress-to-stop-it-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Education reformer left China to escape socialism. He&#8217;s running for Congress to stop it in America.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Radical progressives&#8221; push race preferences &#8220;to cover up their policy failure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Alabama promotes program ONLY for &#8216;Black, Hispanic, Native American, and\/or LGBT+&#8217; students<\/a><br \/>\nThe program touts a commitment to &#8220;diversity,&#8221; but excludes many ethnic and demographic groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/another-college-ditches-girls-only-programs-after-crusading-professor-files-complaints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another college ditches girls-only programs after crusading professor files complaints<\/a><br \/>\nThe same every time: &#8220;no fines, no apologies, no admission of guilt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/protesters-in-puerto-rico-call-for-governors-resignation-after-aid-found-in-warehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Protesters in Puerto Rico Call for Governor&#8217;s Resignation After Aid Found in Warehouse<\/a><br \/>\nHundreds of protesters in Puerto Rico demonstrated outside the governor&#8217;s mansion and capitol building in San Juan, calling on Governor Wanda Vazquez to resign. The protest stems from a video showing tons of disaster relief supplies &#8212; some of it from Hurricane Gloria in 2017, that was discovered in a warehouse. A video of a crowd storming the warehouse went viral on social media last week, leading to nationwide outrage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/news\/deborah-dugan-lawsuit-grammy-recording-academy-1203474490\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ex-Grammy Boss Neil Portnow Accused of Raping Female Artist in Blockbuster Complaint From Ousted CEO<\/a><br \/>\nNeil Portnow, the former CEO of the Recording Academy, stepped down after being accused of raping an unnamed recording artist, according to a blockbuster claim filed on Tuesday by his successor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/south-dakota-hearing-on-whether-to-ban-transgender-medicine-for-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Dakota Hearing on Whether to Ban &#8220;Transgender Medicine&#8221; for Children<\/a><br \/>\nToday in Pierre, S.D., lawmakers are holding the very first state hearing on whether to ban surgical and chemical sex-change treatments for minors. The Vulnerable Child Protection Act would prohibit medical sex-change treatments for children under the age of 16 and make those directly involved guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. It would not prevent children from being socially transitioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-21\/oakland-bans-criminal-background-checks-on-potential-tenants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland bans criminal background checks on potential tenants<\/a><br \/>\nThe Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance that would prohibit landlords from asking about a potential tenant&#8217;s criminal history or rejecting them out of hand for having a record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/2nKO7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teen detransitioners are telling their stories on YouTube <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Detransitioning&#8221; is a touchy topic for the trans community. Individuals who medically transition only to figure out later that they were never truly trans are a probably unsurprising phenomenon. It&#8217;s only common sense that a certain number of people who take the leap into hormone treatments or cosmetic surgery may end up having a change of heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/john-s-2\/2020\/01\/23\/bernie-sanders-1970s-white-people-job-lot-like-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders In The 1970s: Having A Job Is A Lot Like Slavery<\/a><br \/>\nA poll published just over a week ago by Vice found Sanders and Biden statistically tied among black voters. Just two days ago, Biden was asked about the poll and denied that Sanders was leading him among any segment of black Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2020\/01\/23\/hint-theyre-not-supreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hint: They&#8217;re Not &#8220;Supreme&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nThese three losers &#8211; Luke Austin Lane, 21, Jacob Kaderli, 19, and Michael Helterbrand, 25 &#8211; decided that what they needed to do was to overthrow the government and start a race war:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/22\/798126153\/exclusive-seattle-area-voters-to-vote-by-smartphone-in-1st-for-u-s-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections<\/a><br \/>\nA district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast a ballot using a smartphone &#8211; a historic moment for American democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/01\/23\/gop-senators-kids-toys-fidget-spinners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican Senators Are Literally Playing With Kids&#8217; Toys During The Impeachment Trial<\/a><br \/>\nAccording to reports, Republican senators are passing the time during the impeachment trial with fidget spinners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5aagn#selection-421.0-539.54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lordy, There Are Tapes: 2018 Recording Appears To Capture Trump Calling For Yovanovitch&#8217;s Ouster<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s amazing that we haven&#8217;t seen more secret recordings of him surface during his presidency. He&#8217;s not a stickler for communications security, he has a knack for turning allies into enemies who might have reason to betray him (hi, John Bolton), and he&#8217;s prone to surround himself with dubious cronies like Michael Cohen and Omarosa with a penchant for secretly recording conversations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/u-minnesota-still-silent-after-student-sentenced-to-six-months-in-chinese-prison-for-twitter-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U. Minnesota still silent after student sentenced to six months in Chinese prison for Twitter posts<\/a><br \/>\nMinnesota&#8217;s U.S. Senators also decline comment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Soros partners with colleges to &#8216;transform higher education&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nBillionaire Democratic megadonor George Soros is launching a new network to &#8220;transform higher education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown prof: Judgments of gender identities are &#8216;not biology&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nA Georgetown University professor says that judgments about one&#8217;s gender identity are &#8220;not biology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/clip\/14992200\/governor-ron-desantis-announces-plans-to-eliminate-common-core-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Governor Ron DeSantis announces plans to eliminate Common Core education<\/a><br \/>\nFlorida<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/25\/federal-judge-concludes-uconn-sexual-assault-hearing-likely-violated-due-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Judge Concludes UConn Sexual Assault Hearing Likely Violated Due Process, orders university to temporarily reinstate accused student for Spring semester.<\/a><br \/>\nFrom Doe v. Univ. of Connecticut, decided Thursday by Judge Michael P. Shea<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/24\/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a><br \/>\nFireburn, puppycide, and the DOJ beggars belief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota college helps &#8216;white students only&#8217; deal with &#8216;the nasty little racist inside them&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nTo commemorate MLK Day, a Minnesota college hosted a plethora of events aimed at helping white students confront their alleged &#8220;racist tendencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Economy__Taxes\"><\/a>Economy &#038; Taxes<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elainepofeldt\/2020\/01\/19\/californias-ab5-leaves-women-business-owners-reeling\/#5824506a5ef3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California&#8217;s AB5 Leaves Women Business Owners Reeling<\/a><br \/>\nAimee Benavides has built a thriving career as a translator and interpreter while homeschooling her nine-year-old daughter, who has autism, and 11-year-old son, who is heavily involved in STEM enrichment classes. What makes it all possible is the home-based business she started in 2010, after leaving a full-time job in the court system. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/china-virus-outbreak-wallop-economy-financial-markets-68443801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China virus outbreak may wallop economy, financial markets<\/a><br \/>\nNews that a new coronavirus that has afflicted hundreds of people in central China can spread between humans has rattled financial markets and raised concern it might wallop the economy just as it appears to be regaining momentum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4thst8.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/24\/newspaper-column-clark-county-teachers-union-pushing-huge-tax-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newspaper column: Clark County teachers union pushing huge tax hike<\/a><br \/>\nThe Clark County teachers union this past week launched two tax hiking ballot initiatives that would raise Nevada taxes by $1.4 billion &#8211; devastating the state&#8217;s economy and doing nothing to actually improve the quality of education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"International\"><\/a>International<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/20\/venezuelas-juan-guaido-meets-with-pompeo-in-colombia-heads-to-davos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela&#8217;s Juan Guaid\u00f3 Meets With Pompeo in Colombia, Heads to Davos<\/a><br \/>\nVenezuela&#8217;s interim president hopes to meet with his counterparts in Europe to achieve further action against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s regime<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maduro: Venezuela ready for talks with U.S.<\/a><br \/>\nVenezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro said Venezuela is prepared for direct negotiations with the U.S. to begin repairing relations and improve Venezuela&#8217;s damaged economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/you-cant-cancel-fried-chicken.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Can&#8217;t Cancel Fried Chicken!<\/a><br \/>\nA predictable dustup over sexism has arisen in Australia over a KFC ad that has caused KFC to apologize and pull the ad.<\/p>\n<p style\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wRriM-LPy24\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/comedy-loses-another-legend-monty-pythons-terry-jones-has-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comedy Loses Another Legend: Monty Python&#8217;s Terry Jones Has Died<\/a><br \/>\nComedy fans around the world were dealt a huge blow on Wednesday morning with the news that Monty Python legend Terry Jones had passed away on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200122213210\/https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2020\/01\/22\/maduro-thugs-raid-juan-guaidos-offices-hes-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maduro Thugs Raid Juan Guaido&#8217;s Offices While He&#8217;s Out Of The Country<\/a><br \/>\nAfter Juan Guaido&#8217;s opposition party was locked out of the National Assembly building this month, forcing them to meet inside of a theater, tensions continued to rise in Venezuela. Armed groups of civilian militia members known as &#8220;colectivos&#8221; (essentially a brute squad) have been harassing their members in the streets along with Maduro&#8217;s National Guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/karen-townsend\/2020\/01\/22\/coronavirus-china-source-found-death-toll-rises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus In China: Source Found As Death Toll Rises<\/a><br \/>\nWhile it is impeachment, impeachment, impeachment nonstop on cable news, other stories are out there and some of them warrant attention. Take, for instance, a health scare that is ravaging China. A coronavirus has been identified and the source of it has been determined as health officials cope with a rising death toll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ZqYtR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fake German doctor who coaxed women to electrocute themselves jailed<\/a><br \/>\nA man who impersonated a doctor in order to persuade women and girls to electrocute themselves has been jailed for 11 years in Germany, officials say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazingcatfur.ca\/2020\/01\/22\/france-smoke-grass-kill-a-jew-skip-the-trial-go-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France: Smoke Grass, Kill a Jew, Skip the Trial, Go Free<\/a><br \/>\nParis, April 4, 2017. Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish woman, is thrown from her third-floor balcony or window. Her body lands in the building&#8217;s courtyard. Her murderer first had tortured her. Neighbors had heard screams and called the police. Nine officers came, but when they heard through the door a man shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;, they ran downstairs to wait for reinforcements. When Kobili Traor\u00e9 finally surrendered, he said, &#8220;I killed the sheitan&#8221; (Arabic for &#8220;Satan&#8221;). While torturing his victim, he said, he had recited verses from the Qur&#8217;an, and the Qur&#8217;an had &#8220;ordered him to kill a Jew&#8221;. He said he had spent the previous day in a nearby mosque. He was placed in a mental institution, where he told the psychiatrist who examined him that he smoked marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2020\/01\/china-quarantines-wuhan-in-response-to-continuing-coronavirus-outbreaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China Quarantines Wuhan in Response to Continuing Coronavirus Outbreaks<\/a><br \/>\nDavos discussions include impact of Wuhan Virus on employees and the global economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/22\/maduro-butcher-oscar-perez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maduro, the Butcher: Two Years After the Assassination of Rebel Pilot \u00d3scar P\u00e9rez<\/a><br \/>\n\u00d3scar P\u00e9rez, the leader of the rebels, was shot in the head along with seven other members of the movement as per orders issued by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro on the national joint broadcast<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/17\/russian-soldiers-missions-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disguised Russian Soldiers Participate in Military Missions in Venezuela<\/a><br \/>\nVenezuelan military personnel is reportedly guarding the Russian soldiers who are disguised wearing Venezuelan Army uniforms<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-7921819\/Lock-suspected-coronavirus-patients-room-leave-UK-doctors-given-extraordinary-instruction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Lock suspected coronavirus patients in a room and leave straight away!&#8217; UK doctors given extraordinary instruction by health bosses amid fears contagious Chinese disease has made its way to Britain<\/a><br \/>\nPublic Health England issued warning after reported cases in Scotland, N Ireland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/hana-fischer\/2020\/01\/17\/secret-maduro-uruguays-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secret Ties to Ch\u00e1vez and Maduro Could Come to Light for Uruguay&#8217;s Government<\/a><br \/>\nThere is a feeling in Uruguay that there are many things that wil be revealed and they will harm the excellent reputation of prominent leftist figures<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babalublog.com\/2020\/01\/23\/bolivias-interim-government-confirms-evo-morales-hid-illegal-payments-to-cuba-for-fake-doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bolivia&#8217;s interim government confirms Evo Morales hid illegal payments to Cuba for &#8220;fake doctors&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nAs the investigation in Bolivia into the corrupt administration of ousted socialist president Evo Morales continues, the ties to Cuba&#8217;s Castro dictatorship become clearer. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/202001231078110807-we-want-to-get-into-parliament-pro-islamic-party-seeks-to-establish-itself-across-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;We Want to Get Into Parliament&#8217;: Pro-Islamic Party Seeks to Establish Itself Across Sweden<\/a><br \/>\nAmong other things, the Nuance party, whose founder was expelled from the Centre Party over alleged ties with the Turkish nationalist group the Grey Wolves, wants Islamophobia to be classified as a separate crime, and seeks a special status for Sweden&#8217;s Muslims, like that enjoyed by Jews, Roma and Sami.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1233317\/brexit-news-boris-johnson-fta-eu-trade-talks-fishing-waters-cfp-daniel-hannan-spt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Hannan says Boris Johnson WILL reverse Heath&#8217;s betrayal and reclaim UK waters<\/a><br \/>\nBORIS JOHNSON will undoubtedly reverse Edward Heath&#8217;s betrayal and reclaim control of British waters, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan told Express.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1789867\/censorship-shackles-chinas-battle-against-wuhan-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China&#8217;s battle with the Wuhan coronavirus is shackled by a toxic relationship with information<\/a><br \/>\nIn the past several weeks, a biting joke has been widely shared on Chinese social media: The new coronavirus is patriotic, so it goes, because it infected only one of China&#8217;s 33 provinces and municipalities before venturing outside of the mainland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3047720\/chinese-premier-li-keqiang-head-coronavirus-crisis-team-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5 million residents left Wuhan before lockdown, mayor reveals, as 1,000 new confirmed cases expected in city<\/a><br \/>\nHealth commission says battling the epidemic is becoming more complicated as the Chinese State Council extends the Lunar New Year holiday to February 2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"Opinion\"><\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/01\/20\/joe-biden-used-to-be-right-government-child-care-hurts-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden Used To Be Right: Government Child Care Hurts Families  <\/a><br \/>\n1980s Joe Biden made a strong case to see child care tax credits as a social policy that shapes society&#8217;s choices and values. He was right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/norways-pm-loses-majority-for-admitting-isis-fighter.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norway&#8217;s PM loses majority for admitting ISIS fighter<\/a><br \/>\nThe Washington Post reports that Norway&#8217;s prime minister has lost her parliamentary majority because one of the parties in her coalition withdrew in protest over the repatriation of a suspected ISIS member from a Syrian camp. The Prime Minister, Erna Solberg of the Conservative Party, says she will try to govern with a minority coalition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/01\/21\/why-we-must-defeat-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why We Must Defeat Socialism<\/a><br \/>\nToday, we find ourselves at a crossroads in the history of our great nation\u2014a nation founded upon the simple, self-evident truth that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/ideology-or-just-bizarre-10-dumbfounding-gender-studies-courses-on-tap-this-semester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ideology or just bizarre? 10 dumbfounding gender studies courses on tap this semester<\/a><br \/>\nThe field of women&#8217;s, gender and feminist studies hardly looks serious<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/midnight-mitch-mcconnell-badass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journalists Can&#8217;t Stop Giving Mitch McConnell Badass Nicknames<\/a><br \/>\nDemocrats and journalists\u2014to the extent that there is a meaningful difference\u2014can&#8217;t stop coming up with nicknames for Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) that make the Senate majority leader sound like a total badass, which he is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/the-senate-impeachment-dance.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Senate impeachment dance<\/a><br \/>\nThe impeachment of President Trump has never been about actually removing him from office. The Democrats has always known they would fall 15 to 20 Senate votes short of accomplishing that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2020\/01\/22\/broke-cocaine-mitch-woke-midnight-mitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broke: Cocaine Mitch. Woke: Midnight Mitch<\/a><br \/>\nEd mentioned this the other day but it seems to be spreading. It&#8217;s little more than a footnote in the entire impeachment follies, but some Democrats have been hoping to gain media traction by assigning a new nickname to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. After he unveiled plans for the lengthy Senate trial sessions that would last well into the night, his detractors in both the media and the minority took to referring to him as &#8220;Midnight Mitch.&#8221; Here&#8217;s one example from Maxine Waters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/22\/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-member-of-the-federalist-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Member Of The Federalist Society?<\/a><br \/>\nThe Judicial Conference Doesn&#8217;t Want Judges to Be Members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/liberal-legal-establishment-wrongly-attacks-conservative-federalist-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberal legal establishment wrongly attacks conservative Federalist Society<\/a><br \/>\nNot content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges&#8217; freedom of association. Their proposal should be shot down, and its remains should be buried.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/an-important-free-speech-victory-against-the-splc.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Important Free Speech Victory Against the SPLC<\/a><br \/>\nThe Southern Poverty Law Center, as Power Line readers know, is one of America&#8217;s pre-eminent hate groups. It smears those with whom it disagrees, and the media, politicians, and, in some cases, law enforcement are happy to take its hate campaign seriously. So fighting back against the lavishly funded, but utterly corrupt, SPLC is important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2020\/01\/25\/false-dilemmas-and-real-binaries-patterns-of-error-in-logic-and-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">False Dilemmas and Real Binaries: Patterns of Error in Logic and Rhetoric<\/a><br \/>\nIn his book SJWs Always Lie, Vox Day makes the important distinction between logic (the mental process by which we seek truth) and rhetoric (the language of persuasion). Both logic and rhetoric are skills necessary to statesmanship, because the political leader must first analyze the problems of public policy (logic), then explain the problem and convince others to support his proposed solution (rhetoric). As any student of history knows, it is often the case that there are good arguments on both sides of any public-policy controversy. The classic example of this is the Athenian expedition to Sicily during the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides in his famous History presents the argument made for the expedition by Alcibiades, and the opposing argument by Nicias. Alcibiades &#8220;won&#8221; the debate &#8211; in the sense that he persuaded the Athenian assembly to approve the expedition &#8211; but as the subsequent disaster proved, Nicias was entirely correct in arguing against the expedition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/01\/24\/the-double-voting-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Double Voting Problem<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 2020, which means election year is upon us. And although Washington is currently preoccupied with the impeachment melodrama going on in the Senate, we should not lose sight of problems in our voter registration and election process that imperil the integrity of upcoming local, state, and federal elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2012\/07\/30\/those-shocking-bourgeois-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Those shocking bourgeois values<\/a><br \/>\nIn one traditional form of pornography, from the Victorian &#8220;A Man With a Maid&#8221; to the more recent &#8220;Fifty Shades of Grey,&#8221; a young woman is initiated \u2014 sometimes uncomfortably \u2014 into the mysteries of adult sexuality. In the end she is, at some level at least, grateful for the new horizons that&#8217;ve opened up to her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/karen-townsend\/2020\/01\/25\/schiff-blows-gop-support-head-pike-reference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schiff Blows Up GOP Support With &#8220;Head On A Pike&#8221; Reference<\/a><br \/>\nRep. Adam Schiff had one job. All Schiff and his fellow House managers had to do were to present their case for the impeachment of President Trump before the U.S. Senate, and the American public. Instead of bringing a few senators onto his side, especially on the idea of calling witnesses, Schiff angered the GOP senators with his reference to the &#8220;heads on a pike&#8221; news story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/25\/the-montana-blaine-amendment-case-and-the-need-for-a-consistent-approach-to-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Montana Blaine Amendment Case and the Need for a Consistent Approach to Discrimination on the Basis of Religion<\/a><br \/>\nConservatives want courts to consider the governments&#8217; bigoted motives in enacting anti-Catholic Blaine amendments, but not when it comes to Trump&#8217;s travel ban. Liberals tend to be inconsistent in the opposite way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4thst8.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/21\/happy-anniversary-citizens-united-may-free-speech-still-ring-free-across-the-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy anniversary, Citizens United: May free speech still ring free across the land<\/a><br \/>\nTen years ago today the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the free speech portion of the First Amendment, declaring in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that a federal law prohibiting people from spending their own money to make their political opinions and desires known could not pass constitutional muster. The decision has been under constant attack by Democrats ever since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/01\/the-china-myth-exposed.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The China Myth Exposed<\/a><br \/>\nFrom early in our nation&#8217;s history, America&#8217;s intellectuals have mostly looked down on their own country and yearned for it to be like someplace else\u2013someplace more sophisticated, and more in tune with &#8220;modern&#8221; intellectual currents, whatever they might be at the moment. That is a long history, which I will skip over. In our own time, American intellectuals have claimed that Soviet Russia, Germany and Japan were harbingers of the future that the U.S. needed to imitate. In each case, the point was that we had to shed our archaic freedoms and enter the brave new world of central planning under the control\u2013benign, of course!\u2013of intellectuals and bureaucrats. Strangely, however, American free enterprise has managed to outlast and surpass all of those supposedly more advanced challengers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"News of the Week\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Here is the 'News of the Week' compilation of the News for Jan. 26th, 2020.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; News of the Week for Jan. 26th, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-16305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16307,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions\/16307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}