News of the Week for Nov. 29th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A conspiracy less immense<\/a> Exit Sidney Powell<\/a> Trump Supporters in Georgia Threatening Boycott of Runoff Over ‘Stolen’ Election<\/a> Why Did Donald Trump Cut Sidney Powell From His Legal Team?<\/a> Californians, and Americans, reject racial quotas and preferences<\/a> California: The harms of Prop. 19 will soon be clear <\/a> Democrats confront a new reality \u2014 a tiny majority in the House<\/a> Good News \u2014 For Now: Majority Of Georgia Voters Want Split Control In Washington<\/a> Pennsylvania Certifies Election For Biden<\/a> Georgia Is On My Mind and It Is Imperative We Get Our Priorities Straight Now<\/a> Biden’s win hides a dire warning for Democrats in rural U.S.<\/a> Democrats’ Real Liability in the House<\/a> PA Judge’s Stay Order On Certification Argues Mail-In Ballots Challenge “A Viable Claim”<\/a> PA State Senator, Retweeted By Trump, Falsely Claims More Mail-In Ballots Were Returned Than Were Sent Out<\/a> No key to the keystone state<\/a> PA Supreme Court Tosses Challenge To Mail-In Ballots<\/a> Blame game erupts over Trump’s decline in youth vote<\/a> Trump: I’m Ashamed That I Endorsed Brian Kemp<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Latest Memorial to George Floyd Is in a Holocaust Museum<\/a> New book meticulously debunks NYT’s 1619 Project\u2013plus offers positive, accurate narrative of America’s past<\/a> France: Prominent Academics and Macron Administration Attack American Anti-Racist Ideology As “Anti-White”<\/a> New England Journal of Medicine Pushes Reparations<\/a> UVA prof calls for “Secretary of Equity”<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Mexico Governor Shuts Down Grocery Stores With New Public Health Order<\/a> Dead mink infected with a mutated form of COVID-19 rise from graves after mass culling<\/a> Denver Mayor Jets Off to Houston After Telling People to Avoid Thanksgiving Travel<\/a> Trump and CDC: Coronavirus vaccine deliveries will begin early December<\/a> Swedish government sidelines epidemiologist who steered country’s no lockdown experiment as deaths rise<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apple’s global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits<\/a> Turley: Third Circuit Decision On 2nd Amendment “Perfectly Tailored” For Supreme Court After Barrett Confirmation<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ocean Temperature Update<\/a> “Why did it take nine hours to go 130 miles in our new electric Porsche?”<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fifth Circuit Permits Texas and Louisiana to Defund Planned Parenthood<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did China Use Microwave Weapons Against Indian Soldiers?<\/a> China Prepares for ‘Informationized’ War<\/a> The Incredible Shrinking British Army<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DiAngelo factor<\/a> The war on standards: Magnet school admissions edition<\/a> Why I Call J.K. Rowling a Moderate on Transgender Issues<\/a> Harvard creating new “antiracism” librarian job. It pays up to $240,300 per year.<\/a> Why not “My Fuhrer”? Appeals court grills public college on forcing professor to call male student “miss”<\/a> UVA student newspaper opinion writer: “Stand up” to “racist family” at Thanksgiving<\/a> Media Unveils Bold New Plan to Win Latino Support by Calling Them Racist<\/a> Here Are The Pro-Union Labor Laws Joe Biden Has Promised To Pass As President<\/a> On Cabinet Picks So Far, Biden Could Do a Lot Worse<\/a> Carl Bernstein: I Have In My Hand A List Of 21 GOP Senators Who’ve Expressed “Extreme Contempt” For Trump Privately<\/a> “Wokeness” Infiltrates College Music Departments<\/a> Antiracism Icon Robin DiAngelo Paid More Than Black Woman for Same Job<\/a> Court Upholds Tennessee Measure Prohibiting Abortions Based on Sex, Race, or Down-Syndrome Diagnosis<\/a> Mystery of the 12-ft metal monolith discovered in middle of Utah desert – and it looks eerily similar to the machines in Space Odyssey<\/a> Professor instructs students on “decolonizing your Thanksgiving”<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2020<\/h1>\n
\nAs John notes in a nearby post, Sidney Powell has been separated from President Trump’s legal team. Politico’s Kyle Cheney is one of the first with the story here. John doesn’t do full justice to the vagaries of Powells contributions, such as they were. <\/p>\n
\nWhen Rudy Giuliani took the lectern at his 90-minute press conference last week (video below), he was accompanied by five members of the Trump campaign’s legal team including Sidney Powell. Indeed, the press conference was billed as that of the Trump legal team. After greeting the assembled reporters, Giuliani stated: “This is representative of our legal team. We’re representing President Trump and we’re representing the Trump campaign.”<\/p>\n
\nSome Republicans in Georgia are angry at their party for apparently “giving up” and acknowledging Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential race in the state.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sunday, President Donald Trump’s lawyers former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released a statement distancing themselves from Sidney Powell, the lawyer who represents former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Powell had promoted a conspiracy theory involving voter machines switching votes from Trump to Joe Biden. She appears to have grown more unhinged, recently attacking Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) and even Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who faces a runoff election against Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n
\nAmong the most surprising of the multiple surprising results in this election was California’s rejection of Proposition 16. The ballot measure was supported by the Democratic supermajorities in the state legislature, by long-established corporations, and by Silicon Valley tech firms, by leaders of mainline churches and nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n
\nThis column has previously described Prop. 19, which barely passed with 51 percent% of the vote, as a steak laced with cyanide. It may look good, but you don\u2019t want to eat it.<\/p>\n
\nWhen the dust settles from the 2020 election, House Democrats will find themselves with a very slender majority, possibly just four seats more than the majority threshold of 218. Whatever the precise number, the margin will be the smallest in the House in two decades.<\/p>\n
\nYes, yes, I know, polling \u2026 but the latest Harvard CAPS\/Harris survey isn’t quite the kind of horse-race polling that went awry in 2020. For that reason, it’s also not quite as predictive, at least theoretically, about what we can expect to see in the two Georgia runoff elections taking place on January 5th. However, it’s good news for Republicans, assuming that they can shake off attempts to undermine their own advantages in the special elections that will determine control of the Senate.<\/p>\n
\nThe fat lady may not quite be singing, but she’s doing arpeggios as a warm-up. Pennsylvania certified its election this morning, formalizing its slate of 20 electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The move comes as Team Trump appeals a decision that kept them from blocking the certification<\/p>\n
\nAs everyone is aware, two runoffs in Georgia will determine the balance of the Senate. The state is also an epicenter of extraordinary allegations regarding the implementation of election technology from Dominion, a consent agreement, and a complete circus following the election. As a Georgia resident, I would like to say it would be constructive if everyone could focus on the urgent issue: The January 5 runoff. It is by no means a sure thing.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats once dominated Koochiching County in the blue-collar Iron Range of northern Minnesota. But in this month’s presidential election, President Donald Trump won it with 60% of the vote.<\/p>\n
\nJoe Biden’s walloping victory in the popular vote didn’t translate down-ballot.<\/p>\n
\nA glimmer of hope for Donald Trump et al, or yet another oncoming train? The judge who ordered Pennsylvania to halt its election certification processes on Wednesday filed an opinion backing up the action yesterday. Judge Patricia McCullough argued that the plaintiffs’ argument that mass mail-in voting violates the state constitution is “viable,” and that a short delay won’t hurt while courts sort out the challenge.<\/p>\n
\nThis reminds me of the “data analysis” touted by Rudy Giuliani at his press conference with Sidney Powell that allegedly found many more votes cast in certain Michigan precincts than one would expect based on population. Proof that Biden and the Democrats had rigged Michigan’s election after all? Nah. It turned out those precincts were actually \u2026 in Minnesota. In red-leaning areas, in fact. In their haste to delegitimize Biden’s win and give Trump a face-saving claim of fraud to explain his defeat, his lawyers made an error a reasonably competent eighth-grader would have avoided with a bit of diligence.<\/p>\n
\nI wrote yesterday about the state trial court injunction prohibiting the governor and secretary of state from taking any further steps to perfect certification of the election, including but not limited to appointment of electors and transmission of necessary paperwork to the Electoral College. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court promptly vacated the trial court order and dismissed the case with prejudice.<\/p>\n
\nThus endeth the end run around Pennsylvania’s election. The Pennsylvania supreme court has dismissed with prejudice a challenge to its mail-in ballot system, ruling that the challenge came far too late for any remedy that involved invalidating ballots in the 2020 general election. On that point, the court was unanimous, although two justices on the seven-member panel would like a lower court to look at the challenge to Act 77’s constitutionality for future elections.<\/p>\n
\nEveryone had a scapegoat \u2014 from the president himself, to the campaign to outside groups like Turning Point USA. <\/p>\n
\nNext weekend’s rally in Georgia is, or was, supposed to unite the party before the January 5 runoffs. Good luck with that after he inevitably spends 45 minutes at the mic ranting about how Kemp and his deputies are “enemies of the people” who rigged the election against him.<\/p>\n<\/a>Riots & Revolution<\/h1>\n
\nThe viral video of police officer Derek Chauvin holding his knee on the neck of George Floyd for 8 minutes and 46 seconds shocked America, but it is a far cry from the systematic and brutal murder of millions of Jews and others at the hands of the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler. There simply is no comparison. So, why did the Holocaust Museum in Maitland, Fla., erect a massive tribute to George Floyd’s death \u2014 right by the entrance, no less?!<\/p>\n
\nPeter Wood’s new book “1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project” accomplishes two things in one. It meticulously debunks claims made in the New York Times 1619 Project and offers a positive, more accurate narrative of America’s true foundation.<\/p>\n
\nEmmanuel Macron is making enemies in the American press after his left-liberal party, La R\u00e9publique En Marche!, attempted to pass a bill that would withhold funding from academic institutions that preach values alien to the French Republic.<\/p>\n
\nReparations would grant African Americans government benefits not paid to other Americans to rectify the awful sin of slavery and the “peculiar institution’s” residual harm. It is a favored policy of hard progressives, so of course, the New England Journal of Medicine \u2014 which regularly promotes left-wing causes in its “Perspectives” section\u2014has published an article pushing the radical agenda as a supposed corrective to the disparate health outcomes between those “born Black or White” (capital letters in the text).<\/p>\n
\nA University of Virginia professor is calling on Joe Biden to create a “Secretary of Equity” cabinet position if he becomes president.<\/p>\n<\/a>Corona Virus<\/h1>\n
\nWho had a governor is going to shut down grocery stores due to the pandemic on their 2020 coronavirus bingo card? If you did, stamp that square. The governor of New Mexico is shutting down grocery stores in her state over COVID-19 testing results.<\/p>\n
\nMink infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 in Denmark appear to be rising from the dead, igniting a national frenzy and calls from local officials to cremate mink carcasses.<\/p>\n
\nI’m tired of saying this, but it’s still true: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.<\/p>\n
\nAn amazing testament to American ingenuity and Trump’s Operation Warp Speed.<\/p>\n
\nThe high-profile epidemiologist who led Sweden’s no lock-down strategy in the spring appears to be being sidelined by the government after his prediction that greater immunity would mean a lighter second wave proved badly wrong.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nExec, two officers, one other charged<\/p>\n
\nThe Supreme Court has become notoriously skittish about Second Amendment cases in the years after Heller. That may change now after a Third Circuit ruling upheld a ban on firearm ownership for felons, even those convicted of non-violent crimes. In a 2-1 decision, the court ruled that a tax-evasion conviction was sufficient for a lifetime removal of Second Amendment rights<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
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\nA considerable amount of new information on ocean temperature has been gathered since I last wrote about the subject in 2016 here. In my last post on GHCN and the National Temperature Index, it appeared that ocean temperature trends and the thermal energy distribution in oceans dominate climate change. Land-based weather stations are invaluable for weather prediction, but they tell us very little about climate change. The common definition of climate is an overall change in temperature or precipitation over a period longer than 30 years. But even 30 years is a short timeframe, 100 years might be better. On this timescale, ocean temperature trends are more significant.<\/p>\n
\nA Kent couple love their new car \u2013 but their experience suggests there are problems with the charging network<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that Texas and Louisiana may remove state Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood clinics, reversing lower court rulings that prohibited the states from defunding the abortion provider.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nWhat be the strategic benefit?<\/p>\n
\nIn March 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking to the National People’s Congress, declared that the Chinese military’s most important mission was “to win local wars under Information Age conditions.”<\/p>\n
\nWhat happened to the once powerful British military?<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nThe Washington Free Beacon’s Charles Fain Lehman reports on the forum conducted via Zoom by the University of Wisconsin’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement. Doing the work that the mainstream media refuse to do, Lehman draws on documents obtained from the university in response to a freedom-of-information request for this outstanding report. <\/p>\n
\nAmerica’s top colleges and universities grant preferential treatment to Blacks applying for admissions. For example, Black applicants need not perform nearly as well as White and Asian applicants on standardized tests in order to gain admission. Admissions data from Yale exemplify the preferential treatment.<\/p>\n
\nSometimes, it feels like American society consists of a bunch of lemmings rushing to see who can fall off the cliff fastest. Elites seem to treat outright false narratives as shiny objects to chase, rushing to endorse the most insane position before someone else beats them to the punch. Predictions of climate disaster have failed to come true for decades, yet everyone endorses the climate change narrative. America has increasingly fought against outright racism for decades, yet now everyone says our institutions are “systemically racist.” Then, there’s transgenderism.<\/p>\n
\nHarvard University is creating a new position for its Ivy League campus: an “Associate University Librarian for Antiracism.”<\/p>\n
\nUnder university’s view, it could force him to use racist language, too<\/p>\n
\nAn opinion writer for the University of Virginia student newspaper encouraged her readers to “stand up” against “racist family.”<\/p>\n
\nThe ruling class knows only two ways to communicate with its subjects. (Three ways if you count omnipotent claims to be speaking on behalf of science and truth.) 1. Call them racist. 2. Tell them they’re the victims of racism<\/p>\n
\nDuring his campaign, President-elect Joe Biden promised to create “millions” of new union jobs, vowed to sign the pro-union Protecting the Right to Organize Act and received the endorsement of numerous labor unions.<\/p>\n
\nThis week, the Biden transition team is expected to name some of the more prominent appointees, including Anthony J. Blinken for secretary of state, Jake Sullivan as national-security adviser, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
\nThe funniest thing you\u2019ll see online all day. *Every* Republican in the Senate and possibly every Republican in the House has expressed “extreme contempt” for Trump privately at times, I’m sure. (Probably not QAnon ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, but remember that she’s not a congresswoman yet.) Why, some of the president’s most loyal devotees lambasted him as a lowlife when they ran against him in the 2016 primaries.<\/p>\n
\nIt shouldn’t surprise anyone that college music departments are under assault by the “woke.” These days, academics in all fields, even STEM, are under pressure to conform or face the fury of the Social Justice Warrior squads.<\/p>\n
\nDiAngelo rakes in 70 percent more for University of Wisconsin speaking gig<\/p>\n
\nThe Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that Tennessee may begin to enforce one component of a broader pro-life law that had been delayed by legal challenges and a federal judge’s temporary injunction. The component of the bill now allowed to take effect prohibits doctors from knowingly performing abortions sought because of the unborn child’s race or gender, or because the child was diagnosed in utero with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n
\nState workers in a helicopter noticed the shiny marker while flying overhead. About 10 to 12 feet tall, it’s planted in the ground and not dropped from above. There are no identifying markings and no one has claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n
\nAdvises students on how to “indigenize your Thanksgiving menu”<\/p>\n