News of the Week for June 12th<\/sup>, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABC poll: 80% cite inflation as top issue — and Biden gets 28% approval<\/a> FBI arrests GOP Michigan gubernatorial frontrunner for participating in the insurrection<\/a> NV Supreme Court to decide fate of ranked-choice voting, open primary ballot initiative<\/a> Michigan GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Arrested by FBI for Alleged Role in January 6 Riot<\/a> California primary results: Who is advancing to November?<\/a> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wants a Second Term<\/a> How Chesa Boudin lost San Francisco: DA resoundingly recalled for failing to get a grip on crime and disorder<\/a> L.A. mayor’s race: Rick Caruso, Karen Bass headed to November runoff<\/a> ‘Comes Across as a Cult Guy’: The Pennsylvania Candidate Freaking Out Both the Left and the Right<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clown World in ‘Killadelphia’: DA Krasner Blames NRA for South Street Massacre<\/a> No, a Heritage Foundation Witness Did Not Lie at a 2019 Hearing<\/a> Bipartisan group of senators announce agreement on gun control<\/a> Senators Strike Bipartisan Framework for a ‘Gun Safety’ Deal<\/a> A surprise: Senate group reaches deal on gun control package<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The madness of slow Joe: Sun king edition<\/a> Domestic Solar-Energy Companies Upset by Biden’s Plan to Boost Domestic Solar Energy<\/a> New Zealand Introduces a Climate Change Meat Tax<\/a> Top Producer Albemarle Risks Shutting German Plant if EU Declares Lithium a Hazard<\/a> How SCOTUS’ upcoming climate ruling could defang Washington<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients<\/a> Socialized Medicine Fail: Watch Nurse Tell Patients in British Emergency Room They Might Wait 13 Hours to See a Doc<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China secretly building PLA naval facility in Cambodia, Western officials say<\/a> China Buzzes Australia’s New Prime Minister<\/a> China-Canada tensions rising again over N.Korea air patrols<\/a> UN Report: Al-Qaida Flourishing in Taliban-Run Afghanistan, May Regain Capabilities to Launch “Long-Distance” Terror Attacks Soon<\/a> Remembering China’s “Tank Man” 33 years later<\/a> The US military is watching China’s presence grow in Latin America, and it doesn’t like where things are going<\/a> Has the Ukrainian insurgency begun?<\/a> Kavanaugh Threatened by Gunman <\/a> Are Chinese gamers leaking China’s military secrets?<\/a> Man with weapon arrested near Brett Kavanaugh’s home, officials say<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2022<\/h1>\n
\nIt’s the economy, stupid. And in 2022, it’s only the economy, stupid. Despite the White House’s best attempts to rope voters into other issues besides Joe Biden’s utterly disastrous economic policies, ABC’s latest poll shows precisely what other pollsters have demonstrated all along. While inflation rages, it’s practically the only consideration on the table in the midterms.<\/p>\n
\nA curtain-raiser for tonight’s January 6 committee hearing, reminding us why Liz Cheney can’t just “move on.” She can’t move on because the party won’t move on from trying to subvert elections. If anything, with 2020 truthers on the ballot in swing states like Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Michigan, the threat is only building.<\/p>\n
\nIn a last-chance appeal before the Nevada Supreme Court, opponents of a proposed ballot question calling for adopting open primaries and ranked-choice voting in Nevada elections argued the initiative is too broad and should not be allowed to proceed to the ballot.<\/p>\n
\nRyan Kelley, a candidate in Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial primary, has been arrested by the FBI for his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n
\nThe polls are closed, but remember: In California elections, this is just the beginning. The June top-two primary is when California voters choose their two favorites for governor, for top prosecutor, for fiscal watchdog and for a phalanx of lesser known and less competitive positions. Ditto for each of the 80 Assembly districts, 20 state Senate races and 52 congressional districts where 160, 40 and 104 candidates, respectively, will emerge after all the ballots are counted. But there may not be as many ballots to count as in previous primaries, if projections on abysmal voter turnout prove right. <\/p>\n
\nNot a good record for her.<\/p>\n
\nSan Francisco voters moved decisively to recall controversial District Attorney Chesa Boudin, ousting him in a Tuesday vote that is sure to reverberate nationwide. Early results had voters in the famously progressive city voting in favor of Proposition H, which asked if Boudin should be removed, by a 3-to-2 margin.<\/p>\n
\nBillionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass will square off in a November runoff in their costly race to become Los Angeles’ next mayor, with the two far ahead of the rest of the primary field.<\/p>\n
\nDoug Mastriano’s come-from-nowhere popularity is fusing religion and politics in a new way. He’s either Democrats’ dream opponent, or the establishment’s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe city, which is plagued by violence, makes it a felony to carry a firearm without a license, but the DA says it’s “obviously racist” to enforce this law, because it’s only a misdemeanor in the rest of the state. So instead you let armed criminals go free and then you\u2019re shocked \u2014 shocked! \u2014 that they routinely shoot each other in the streets? And then you’re going to blame the NRA for this situation? Like the NRA is to blame for these gun-toting thugs you turned loose?<\/p>\n
\nAt a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence yesterday, Representative Katie Porter (D., Calif.) went viral for her questioning of Heritage Foundation legal analyst Amy Swearer. The exchange became especially heated when Porter accused Swearer of lying under oath at a 2019 hearing on the same issue.<\/p>\n
\nA bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement on principle for gun safety legislation Sunday, which includes “needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons,” they said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\nAll the screaming demanding that Congress “do something\u201d about gun violence has borne fruit. The Senators listened. The Senators spoke. And the Senators laid a legislative egg.<\/p>\n
\n“Gun control” is a misnomer in this case, actually. Most Republicans, including lead negotiator John Cornyn, oppose any measures that would limit law-abiding people’s access to guns. That includes banning under-21s from buying AR-15s even though they’re already barred by federal law from buying handguns from licensed dealers.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe mad scientists whom Gulliver discovered in Laputa had an interesting project. They sought to extract sunlight from cucumbers. The mad scientists have nothing on slow Joe, the president of the United States. We are in the middle of a historic rise in the price of gasoline. Prices are rising so fast that, if you didn’t fill up your car yesterday, you’ll be paying more for the privilege today. And slow Joe can take pride in his contribution to our plight.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Biden could be facing a legal challenge over his executive actions on green energy earlier this week. But not over the flagrant abuse of the Defense Production Act that I wrote about yesterday.<\/p>\n
\nIn the face of last month\u2019s UN warning that 49 million people in 43 countries face severe risk of starvation, the New Zealand Government has chosen now to introduce a new climate change food tax.<\/p>\n
\nTop lithium producer Albemarle Corp (ALB.N) may have to shut its Langelsheim plant in Germany if the metal used in electric vehicle batteries is declared a hazardous material by the European Union, its finance chief told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\nA legal fight over the EPA’s power to restrict greenhouse gases offers conservative justices an opportunity to tie the executive branch’s hands on a host of issues \u2014 from Covid to net neutrality.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThe Netherlands and Belgium already permit people diagnosed with dementia to sign an advance directive ordering themselves killed when they become incapacitated. This has even resulted in one case in which such a patient was euthanized despite resisting \u2014 and the government responded by changing the law to enable death-doctors to drug and euthanize such patients without permission.<\/p>\n
\nBritain’s National Health Service (NHS) has given the world plenty of examples showing why America should run from socialized medicine, such as soulless, bureaucratic decision-making and long wait times for planned procedures. Now, a shocking new video shows yet another reason: insufficient service for the community, resulting in waits of seven-and-a-half hours and up for emergency room visitors to see a doctor.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nChina is secretly building a naval facility in Cambodia for the exclusive use of its military, with both countries denying that is the case and taking extraordinary measures to conceal the operation, Western officials said.<\/p>\n
\nA Chinese fighter jet intercepts an Aussie surveillance aircraft on a routine mission in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n
\nDiplomatic tensions between China and Canada are rising again, with each country accusing the other of using their military aircraft flying near North Korea of provocation and harassment.<\/p>\n
\nAfghanistan “could once again become a base for international terrorist attacks after the withdrawal of US and Nato troops last year.”<\/p>\n
\nThirty-three years ago an unidentified Chinese man bravely stood up against the might and power of the murderous Chinese Communist Party. No one knows what happened to \u201cTank Man,\u201d but he will always be remembered and revered by those who continue to fight the evils of communism.<\/p>\n
\nUS officials and lawmakers have for years voiced concern about growing US influence in Latin America. For military and national-security leaders, that influence has security implications for the US. Despite US warnings about dealing with China, many leaders in the region see little on offer from the US.<\/p>\n
\nJob one for Russia is seizing as much territory as it can as quickly as it can before its army breaks. If you believe the Ukrainian figures, some 30,000 Russians are already KIA with many more wounded out of an original invasion force of 200,000 or so. That force was woefully undermanned relative to the military conventional wisdom that an invader needs a three-to-one advantage in numbers to sustain a prolonged occupation.<\/p>\n
\nThe Democrats smeared Brett Kavanaugh as, among other things, a rapist at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. They knew their assertions were false but made them anyway. Next, liberals published Kavanaugh’s home address along with those of other Supreme Court justices so that mobs could threaten them. Democratic officeholders did not object to this tactic.<\/p>\n
\nIf you’ve been worrying about how a leaky U.S. government can possibly compete with China’s combination of economic might and autocratic government, this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast has a few scraps of good news. The funniest, supplied by Dave Aitel, is the tale of the Chinese gamer who was so upset at the online performance of China’s tanks that he demanded an upgrade. When it didn’t happen, he bolstered his argument by leaking apparently classified details of Chinese tank performance. The story inspires me to suggest that U.S. intelligence should be subtly degrading the online game performance of other Chinese weapons systems that we need more information about.<\/p>\n
\nA man with a gun and a knife was detained by police early Wednesday morning near Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after making threats against the Supreme Court justice, according to federal officials.<\/p>\n