News of the Week for Feb. 17th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maximum Socialism: Bernie Sanders’ Plan For A “Maximum Wage”<\/a> U.S. Senate candidate selects guillotine as “symbol of the work we have to do”<\/a> Fracking and the Electoral College<\/a> Biden: ‘We Could Run Mickey Mouse Against This President and Have a Shot’<\/a> Andrew Yang drops out of presidential race<\/a> Influential Nevada union attacks Bernie Sanders<\/a> Sanders’ Supporters Attack Nevada’s Culinary Union After It Points Out He Would “End Culinary Healthcare”<\/a> A Nevada Union Warned Sanders Would End Their Health Insurance Plan, Now The Union Is Getting Threats<\/a> House, Senate Dems: Nominating Bernie Would Be An Electoral Disaster<\/a> Nevada Poll: Sanders 25, Biden 18, Warren 13, Steyer 11<\/a> FiveThirtyEight Predicts ‘No One’ Will Win a Majority of Democrat Delegates<\/a> Too Good To Check: Bloomberg Eyeing Hillary For VP, Says Drudge<\/a> Disaster Ahead In NV: Bernie Leads \u2014 But Six Dems In Double Digits?<\/a> Documents reveal DNC was ‘intimately involved’ in development of troubled Iowa caucus app<\/a> Too Weird To Check: New Poll Of Nevada Has … Tom Steyer Leading, Klobuchar Second<\/a> Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of a Bernie Rally<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Virginia House Passes Ban on Semi-Auto Firearms and Suppressors in Hyperpartisan Vote<\/a> Courts should overturn “Red Flag” law<\/a> Don’t Look Now, But There Was a Huge Second-Amendment Victory in Virginia Today<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dartmouth lets Green New Deal activist crash classes to campaign<\/a> Report: U.S. Led All Countries in Reducing CO2 Emissions in 2019<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Investigating the International Guidelines for “Transgender” Children<\/a> Foreign Health Systems Don\u2019t Make the Case for SandersCare<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Navy Now Wants To Retire The First Four Of Its Troublesome Littoral Combat Ships<\/a> Space Force wants ideas “in good taste” on what it should call its members<\/a> Submarines: Second Gen AIP<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama-Produced Film Wins Oscar, Producer Quotes Communist Manifesto In Acceptance Speech. Obama Praises.<\/a> Elizabeth Warren Calls For “Race-Conscious Laws”<\/a> My New Life After Transgender Despair<\/a> White male administrator resigns so faculty don’t have to censure his black female boss<\/a> “Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women”<\/a> Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients<\/a> NASA’s experimental X-59 supersonic jet could be built by the end of 2020<\/a> Texas State assignment asks future teachers to argue “whiteness is a construct of privilege”<\/a> Wow: Plurality Of Utahns Feel Positive About Romney’s Vote To Remove Trump<\/a> Law To Protect Children From Transgender Intervention Fails In South Dakota<\/a> “We’re Talking About Babies”: Ben Sasse Says Born-Alive Bill Is Not About Abortion Access<\/a> Parents Who Refuse “Gender-Affirming” Treatments Castigated as \u2018Neglectful\u2019<\/a> Ruth Bader Ginsburg Puts Nail In The Equal Rights Amendment’s Coffin <\/a> A transgender activist met with a public university’s leadership, but the school won’t say why<\/a> Wuhan Virus Watch: U.S. Military Approves 11 Coronavirus Quarantine Camps Next to Major Airports<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2020<\/h1>\n
\nIf you think Bernie Sanders has some completely radical socialist views now, you should have seen him when he was a younger man coming up in Vermont politics. During an interview with Jake Tapper this weekend, Sanders was reminded of one of his really “out there” policies from back in the day. Tapper asked him about his proposal to have a maximum wage in the United States on top of the minimum wage we already have in place. Sanders was clearly not thrilled with being reminded of this and attempted to dismiss the question out of hand. <\/p>\n
\nBre Kidman said the campaign logo is meant to be a sign of revolution by the lower and middle classes, and is not meant to be taken literally.<\/p>\n
\nLiberals openly hate the electoral college (and the Senate, but one thing at a time) because it is counter-majoritarian. To which the answer is: Yes, precisely. That\u2019s one of its strongest points. It means a winning presidential candidate has to take in a broader range of local interests if he is to win a constitutional majority, which is superior to a mere numerical majority that may be lopsided in just a few regions (like the two coasts today).<\/p>\n
\nThere’s a rule of thumb I’ve noticed over the years: Democrats want Republicans to shut up, and Republicans want Democrats to keep talking. This is particularly applicable whenever former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. opens his big yap. He’s one of the few candidates who’s been keeping this whole thing from being completely boring, because you just never know what he’ll say next. Even he doesn’t know what he’ll say next. And he doesn’t seem to realize what he just said after he says it. But odds are it’ll be completely embarrassing and counterproductive to his campaign.<\/p>\n
\nAndrew Yang, a Democratic businessman who campaigned on giving every adult American a monthly check for $1,000, will end his campaign for president after a disappointing showing in the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n
\nThe Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 (“the Culinary Union”) represents 60,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno, including workers at most of the casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and in Downtown Las Vegas. It is affiliated with UNITE HERE, which represents 280,000 workers in gaming, hotel, and food service industries in North America.<\/p>\n
\nThe union stressed that “[W]orkers should have the right to choose to keep healthcare Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 6 years, 4 months, and 10 days to protect.”<\/p>\n
\nEarlier today the Nevada Independent reported that the Culinary Union has been circulating a flyer which compares six candidates for president on a number of issues. The flyer warns that, if elected, Bernie Sanders would put an end to the health insurance the union has fought for over the years, replacing it with Medicare for All.<\/p>\n
\nBut not the only one facing Democrats this mid-winter of their malcontents. They have a fragile House majority to protect in the fall, and a Senate minority with a golden opportunity to take control of the upper chamber. If the top of the ballot pits a mainstream Democrat against Donald Trump, Democrats feel confident about their down-ballot chances.<\/p>\n
\nTwo pieces of good news coming out of Nevada for Bernie Sanders over the last 24 hours<\/p>\n
\nThe last time there was a brokered convention was in 1952. Is the next one going to happen it 2020?<\/p>\n
\nI’m as skeptical as you are. But.<\/p>\n
\nIf Democrats hope to narrow the field in their presidential primary, they\u2019ll have to look past Nevada’s caucuses. With a week to go \u2014 and with early voting set to start today \u2014 six candidates now poll in double digits in the latest Review-Journal\/AARP survey. Bernie Sanders leads with 25%, but Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are not far behind, with Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar all getting 10% or more as well.<\/p>\n
\nWhile the Democratic National Committee over the past 10 days has tried to distance itself from the troubled app that threw the results of the Iowa caucuses into disarray, a copy of the contract and internal correspondence provided to Yahoo News demonstrates that national party officials had extensive oversight over the development of the technology.<\/p>\n
\nThis is an obvious outlier from other Nevada polls and probably shouldn’t be trusted given the small sample size of 256 voters. In fact, the tight clustering of the top five candidates here plus the sizable margin of error (5.7 points) means any one of them could be leading in reality.<\/p>\n
\nKeep it classy, Bernie Bros<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe bill has faced widespread opposition from legislators and citizens alike<\/p>\n
\nA number of Nevada counties have passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in response to state lawmakers passing a “Red Flag” law in 2019 that would allow persons accused of being a potential danger to themselves or others to have their firearms confiscated by order of a judge.<\/p>\n
\nFormer New York City mayor, former Republican, current presidential candidate, and never a fan of the Bill of Rights, Mike Bloomberg just saw part of his gun-control agenda suffer a major misfire in Virginia this morning.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nProfessors “begrudgingly” comply with her requests to address students: report<\/p>\n
\nDespite being the scourge of the globalist community for daring to leave the Paris Climate Accord, the U.S. appears to be leading the way in reducing its “carbon footprint.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nBritain’s National Health Service has ordered an independent review into the use of puberty suppressants and cross-sex hormones on children. Currently, the NHS’s treatment model as applied at its only gender-identity clinic in London, run by the Tavistock trust, is based on international guidelines. However, a stream of scandals and legal action have called these guidelines into question.<\/p>\n
\nSenator Bernie Sanders often claims that other countries’ experience with health care shows that his Medicare for All plan makes sense. He\u2019s at it again today, tweeting, “Remember: our ‘crazy idea’ of universal health care is a reality in” a long list of countries. The thing is, most of the people who think Sanders’s plan is crazy do not think it is crazy because it is impossible to have universal health coverage. They think that his plan is extremely unrealistic and cannot live up to the promises Sanders makes.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThese are exceptionally young ships to be pulled from service, underlining just how problematic and useless they truly are. <\/p>\n
\nFollowing its official creation this past December, the Space Force is looking for ideas on what the members of the newest branch of the US military should be called.<\/p>\n
\nA French firm (Naval Group, formerly DCNS) has successfully tested what it calls FC2G (Fuel Cell 2nd Generation) AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) system for 18 days in a mock-up of the complete system in an 8 meter long circular structure identical to the space it would occupy in a submarine. The FC2G performed efficiently for three weeks. This test will be repeated several times as preparations are made to install FC2G in a submarine. The FC2G is safer, more efficient and easier to operate than earlier fuel cell AIP systems, including the widely used DCNS first-generation AIP.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nThe first Netflix film produced by former President Obama and Michelle Obama\u2018s production company won an award on Sunday during the Oscars and, while accepting the award, the filmmakers recited Karl Marx’s Communist manifesto.<\/p>\n
\nThe Massachusetts senator spoke Friday night at ABC’s Democratic debates in New Hampshire where she emphasized the need to correct racism within the United States. Her comments came after fellow candidate Bernie Sanders said at the same debate that “we have a racist society from top to bottom.”<\/p>\n
\nLast December, I received an early Christmas present that I would have rejected just one year earlier: an “M” for “male” on my driver’s license.<\/p>\n
\nAccused of creating intimidating environment as head of HR<\/p>\n
\nBesides which country you are born in, in my view the most important factor by far in explaining disparities in all manner of life outcomes (poverty, unemployment, crime, education, you name it) is whether you were born out-of-wedlock. And since Americans are very interested in racial disparities, from time to time I post the federal government’s latest data on this topic.<\/p>\n
\nThe New England Journal of Medicine continually publishes advocacy articles that promote radical changes in medical ethics and public policies. For example, it uncritically published the Groningen Protocol, the infanticide bureaucratic checklist used by doctors in deciding which disabled or dying babies to euthanize in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
\nIt’ll test ways to shush sonic booms.<\/p>\n
\nDean cites Southern Poverty Law Center in defending assignments<\/p>\n
\nIt’s high time Utah broke free from this country and went its own way. I’ll fully support their right to do so.<\/p>\n
\nSome depressing news out of the Mount Rushmore State this week. State legislators there had been working on new legislation designed to protect children who are gender-confused from having invasive \u201cgender correcting\u201d medical procedures performed on them with the permission of their parents. These include hormone therapy unnatural to their growing bodies, puberty blockers, and even surgery. The legislation had already passed in the House, but a state senate committee somehow decided to kill the bill before it could even make it to a floor vote.<\/p>\n
\nRepublican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse defended a born-alive bill Tuesday and told lawmakers the legislation deals with babies born alive and not abortion access.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s one thing when adults decide to radically alter their bodies to accord with their identified gender. But when these body-altering interventions are performed on children \u2014 blocking normal puberty, mastectomies on 13-year-olds, etc. \u2014 that is a different kettle of fish.<\/p>\n
\nAt Georgetown University’s Law Center Monday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the manner in which Virginia passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is too controversial.<\/p>\n
\nTrans professor met with ‘deans and academic leaders’<\/p>\n
\nMislabeled sample resulted in release of San Diego coronavirus patient<\/p>\n