News of the Week for Sept. 11th<\/sup>, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are Trafalgar’s Latest Polls for Real?<\/a> What Happened When Rhode Island Rushed to Make It Easier to Vote (and Cheat)<\/a> ‘Karla Marx,’ Charlie Crist’s running mate for Florida governor, deletes tweet mourning death of Fidel Castro<\/a> Colorado county clerk Tina Peters pleads not guilty to election system tampering<\/a> Dem Senate Candidate: Treat Whites Like Sh*t<\/a> SC Democrats want their own Senate candidate to drop out<\/a> Will a Rail Strike be the “Black Swan” of the 2022 Midterm Election?<\/a> Two firearms stolen in burglary at home of L.A. mayoral candidate Karen Bass<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rape, incest exceptions pulled from S Carolina abortion bill<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jewish Group to Sue New York for Banning Guns in Houses of Worship<\/a> NRA: Over 1 million use firearms to protect themselves yearly<\/a> New way to track suspect credit card sales of guns and ammo approved by international organization<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Czech Republic: Surging Energy Prices Trigger Massive Anti-Government, Anti-EU Protests in Prague<\/a> A Man’s Thermostat Is His Castle?<\/a> The “Green Revolution” Is Impossible<\/a> Dutch city to ban meat ads in world first claim<\/a> California Politician Calls China, Europe Better Models Than Texas for Electric Vehicle Mandates <\/a> Ottawa’s emissions targets for fertilizer use unrealistic, industry report argues<\/a> Europe’s green deception: Forests destroyed for Paris Accord compliance<\/a> In Biden’s America, 1 in 6 U.S. Households Can’t Afford Their Energy Bills<\/a> Will Europeans fall for the EU’s “flatten the curve in-the-energy-tailpipe” trick?<\/a> Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted after Liz Truss becomes new Prime Minister<\/a> Why California’s green idiocy matters<\/a> California Residents Forced to Prepare for Rolling Blackouts as State Leadership Pushes ‘Green’ Initiatives<\/a> Swiss Face Up to 3 Years in Prison For Violating Heating Rules<\/a> Return of the Ice Age<\/a> British Climate Divergence: Jacob Rees-Mogg Appointed Energy Minister, as Charles is Crowned King<\/a> Amid energy crisis, activists still opposing small module nuclear reactors<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Long-term con: Obamacare was ‘paid for’ by nationalizing student loans<\/a> Seven in 10 Canadians polled say access to health care has worsened since the pandemic started<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n India Builds Up Border and Maritime Defenses Amid Rising Chinese Threat <\/a> Conservatives Plan a ‘National-Defense Renaissance’ at over $1.2 Trillion in Defense Spending<\/a> Russia is running out of high tech parts and is now reduced to buying weapons from North Korea<\/a> Putin approves new foreign policy, “Russian World”<\/a> Applications for West Point, Annapolis drop as recruiting woes hit service academies<\/a> Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Building That Stores ‘Radioactive Waste’ Damaged, U.N. Watchdog Finds<\/a> Chinese component halts deliveries of F-35 fighters<\/a> New congressional delegation arrives in Taiwan<\/a> Ukrainian counteroffensive moves east as hit squads target Russian collaborators for assassination<\/a> Poland, Baltics Agree EU Visa Ban Plan for Russians \u2013 Statement<\/a> Ukraine Update: Smashing Success?<\/a> Russia Routed in Kharkiv Counteroffensive<\/a> “It will be like an avalanche”: Ukraine seizes key strategic city; Russia “pulling back”? <\/a> Video of Russian Defense Ministry confirming it is ‘regrouping’ to the south (what will Putin do now?)<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘I’m DONE with Portland’ : Furious residents of the Dem-led city reveal to DailyMail.com why they have no choice but to sell their homes as ‘homeless drug addicts’ set up camp right outside their front doors<\/a> New Mexico county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role in US Capitol riot<\/a> Fox producer’s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit<\/a> Surveillance Video Shows Fake Trump Elector Escorting Sidney Powell Operative into Georgia County’s Elections Office Before Voting Machine Breach<\/a> Pushback Mounts Against American Bar Association Plan To Ditch Required Standardized Admissions Testing<\/a> School District Settles With Coach Who Lost His Job After Objecting to Critical Race Training<\/a> Trans Toddlers and Secret Abortions: Elite NYC Private Schools Use Summer Reading Lists to Push Radical Agenda<\/a> <\/a> Doing What the KGB Failed to Do<\/a> Portland, RIP<\/a> School recommends kindergartners read about trans INFANTS!<\/a> Police search county official’s home in connection with reporter’s killing<\/a> Texas Judge Says HIV Drug Mandate Violates Religious Freedom<\/a> Poll: More than 1 in 5 Democrats believe men can get pregnant<\/a> California Nightmare<\/a> Discrimination at Harvard, Part II<\/a> “Trans health organization” to lower minimum age for mastectomies to 15<\/a> How a single protein could unlock age-related vision loss<\/a> Hillary Says She Won’t Run for President Again. Good Riddance<\/a> Elected official who was subject of Las Vegas reporter’s stories arrested in journalist’s death<\/a> DC councilmember: Abbott and Ducey have “turned us into a border town”!<\/a> Police arrest county official in reporter’s stabbing death<\/a> When a man with a pistol shows up outside a congresswoma’s house<\/a> Steve Bannon surrenders to New York prosecutors in border wall fraud case<\/a> Oberlin College “has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case”<\/a> College threatened criminal charges for conservatives tabling on campus<\/a> Art of the deal, Wimpy style<\/a> Two DPS officers suspended over role in bungled response to Uvalde mass shooting<\/a> Corruption In the Public Schools<\/a> Illinois Will Eliminate Cash Bail for Some Crimes, Including Second-Degree Murder<\/a> Higher education continues to increase tuition despite record-breaking donations<\/a> Gorsuch: You bet we’re still investigating the Dobbs leak<\/a> Debunking Bad Arguments on America’s Declining Life Expectancy<\/a> Oregon Gov. Signs Law Allowing Students to Graduate Without Proving They Can Write or do Math<\/a> California OKs Bill That Would Strip Custody From Parents of Out-of-State Minors Seeking Trans Surgeries<\/a> Two Rocky Super-Earths Discovered Around A Nearby Star, And One Could Be Habitable<\/a> San Diego teacher defines ‘fascist’ to class as ‘whites,’ ‘heterosexuals,’ and ‘Christians’<\/a> Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Quietly Moves Illegal Immigrants to the Suburbs<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China’s Economy Is Headed For One Of The Largest Meltdowns Ever<\/a> Brazil Capitalizes on U.S. Soybean Failures<\/a> You Can’t Fight Inflation by Reducing Output<\/a> Finnish economist: “I am telling you people that the situation in Europe is much worse than many understand”<\/a> Potential for a nation-wide railway strike creeps closer <\/a> Most Americans now say they are feeling the sting of inflation in their finances<\/a> Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Voters in Chile resoundingly reject socialist constitution<\/a> Liz Truss wins Tory leadership race to become Britain’s next PM<\/a> Chile’s Voters Reject Far-Left Constitution<\/a> Chile’s Constitution Flop a Win for Basic Sanity<\/a> Irish teacher suspended from school, jailed over transgender pronouns flap<\/a> Brazil judge suspends easing of gun laws, citing election violence fears<\/a> New Far Right Role Sets Stage For Close Sweden Vote<\/a> Chile’s Voters Put the Brakes on Leftism, Reject Proposed Constitution<\/a> A Footnote on Chile, from Mark Falcoff<\/a> Legionella Identified as Cause of Unusual Pneumonia Outbreak in Argentina<\/a> What does Liz Truss see in Canada?<\/a> An age passes: Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022<\/a> Operation London Bridge: What Happens After Queen Elizabeth’s Death<\/a> The Queen dies ‘peacefully’ aged 96 after 70 years of remarkable service leaving Britain and the world in mourning<\/a> ‘Make Sweden great again.’ Far right on the cusp of power<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2022<\/h1>\n
\nIt’s a question we seem to ask every election season: Is Trafalgar seeing something nobody else is, or is it seeing something that isn’t there? The right-leaning polling firm run by Robert Cahaly made its reputation in 2016 by its ability to find Republican voters \u2014 especially the sorts of voters most favorable to Donald Trump \u2014 that other pollsters missed. Trafalgar has not had a spotless record, and its periodic failures have tended in the direction of overestimating Republicans, with its most conspicuous recent flop being polls that showed the California recall of Gavin Newsom a competitive race well after other pollsters were seeing a heavy shift toward base Democratic turnout. Still, Trafalgar’s many successes command respect when the pollster is breaking with the pack, notably its projection of a tight race for New Jersey governor last fall, which led to mea culpas from at least one of the firm’s rivals.<\/p>\n
\nAre corrupt election officials attempting to rig elections in Rhode Island? Or are the secretary of state and the Board of Elections utterly incompetent?<\/p>\n
\nKarla Mats-Hernandez (or Karla Marx, as she\u2019s affectionately known in Florida), has deleted a 2016 tweet where she mourned the death of murderous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n
\nMesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, famous for her 2020 election denialism, pleaded not guilty to a slew of felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from an election security breach Wednesday. <\/p>\n
\nAs any Jew can tell you, it is a scary thing when race hate permeates the government. Under Democrat domination, the federal government is saturated with antiwhiteism. Critical race theory is in effect our state religion. It should surprise no one to hear Krystle Matthews, a South Carolina state representative and Democrat candidate for the US Senate, proclaim of her Caucasian constituents that “you gotta treat them like sh*t”<\/p>\n
\nSouth Carolina Democratic state representative Krystle Matthews is once again facing public criticism as she attempts to unseat Republican Senator Tim Scott. In fact, she’s hearing demands that she abandon her campaign and go home. But it isn’t the state Republicans who are denouncing her. In the latest example of the political equivalent of a classic horror film, the calls are coming from inside the house! Following the release by Project Veritas of more damning comments that she was recorded making, Democratic leaders in South Carolina are saying that Matthews needs to step aside. And yet again, a member of the definitively “anti-racist” party in the United States was recorded making some decidedly racist-sounding statements about her own constituents who happen to be white. (Krystle Matthews is Black.)<\/p>\n
\nBiden administration takes a break from Trump-Rage to negotiate with the union.<\/p>\n
\nTwo firearms were stolen during a burglary at the home of Rep. Karen Bass on Friday evening, the Los Angeles mayoral candidate said in a statement released Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nA group of South Carolina senators voted Tuesday to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban with Democrats choosing not to vote in what appeared to be a strategy to try to prevent the bill from passing through the Legislature.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe New York State Jewish Gun Club plans to sue New York for banning firearms in places of worship, calling it “unconstitutional” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n
\nThe National Rifle Association is pushing back on critics of expanded concealed carry freedoms with a new and emotional twist on its “good guy with a gun” pitch first made after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
\nCredit card industry representatives have cleared the way for a new means of tracking firearm and ammunition purchases, a move that supporters say will help flag suspicious sales and reduce gun crime.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nAs estimated 70,000 people took to the streets of Prague for the “Czech Republic First” demonstration. <\/p>\n
\nWe all use thermostats to control the temperature in our homes. In the winter, we adjust our thermostat to warm to the desired temperature; in the summer, to cool to a comfortable temperature. We do this with an eye to the cost of energy: we don’t necessarily heat our homes, or cool our homes, as much as we might wish. Like most things in life, it is a trade-off.<\/p>\n
\nLiberals tell us that we are in the midst of a transition from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy. The reality is that no such transition is taking place, nor will it. This video by Professor Simon Michaux, who doesn’t take issue with global warming hype, explains one of several reasons why this is true: the mineral requirements of a wind- and solar-based energy system can’t possibly be met. <\/p>\n
\nThe Dutch city of Haarlem is set to become the first in the world to ban advertisements for most meat because of its impact on climate change, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia’s electric vehicle mandate should align with Europe and China rather than other states such as Texas and Mississippi, a member of California’s air quality board said as it recently voted to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered cars and light trucks by 2035. <\/p>\n
\nA new industry-led report suggests Canada’s farmers can likely only achieve half of the federal government’s targeted 30 per cent reduction in fertilizer emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n
\nThis reads like a cautionary tale on the Law of Unintended Regulatory Consequences, and to some extent it is. However, it’s just as much a tale of green-movement hypocrisy, as well as yet another lesson on the impact of incentives and artificial market interventions. The New York Times explains in a sideways manner how the EU has attempted to comply with its own Paris Accord targets for carbon-dioxide reduction by, er, wiping out the forests of the continent for conversion to power.<\/p>\n
\nTwenty million U.S. households \u2014 one out of every six \u2014 can’t afford to pay their energy bills, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. This latest financial struggle hits as Americans have already been walloped with runaway inflation, higher food prices, historically expensive commutes, and rocketing interest payments on revolving debt.<\/p>\n
\nIf you listen to her (and I have to listen, I can’t watch the gestures. They give me heebeejeebees), you’ll hear “we’ll work very closely with the member states\u2026”, which loosely translates into “use the power of our economic purse to beat them into submission.”<\/p>\n
\nDowning Street has hinted that the ban on fracking could be lifted. It comes as new Prime Minister Liz Truss prepares to set out a new package of measures to help deal with the energy crisis.<\/p>\n
\nA couple weeks ago, I traded in my BMW in on a 2018 F150 truck. Why? Because it finally dawned on me coming back from Home Depot for what seemed like the 500th time since the pandemic (with home improvement accoutrements sticking out the back hatch of what at one time was a $65,000 German touring sedan) that this didn’t seem like the ultimate driving experience for me.<\/p>\n
\n“California ISO warned residents earlier Tuesday to be prepared for the possibility of rotating power outages and issued an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) 2 for 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.”<\/p>\n
\nNew mandate forbids setting temperature above 19\u00b0C (66.2F).<\/p>\n
\nTo Europe, anyway. Years of horrible decisions by European leaders have come home to roost, as Europeans now worry about how to heat their homes this winter. Reliance on a geopolitical enemy for much of their energy turned out to be a mistake, as Russia has now shut off gas supplies. Who could have predicted it? Other than anyone with a modicum of common sense? Which Europe’s governing class has lacked for many years.<\/p>\n
\nQueen Elizabeth II, beloved by millions, had sadly passed. Climate champion Prince Charles is now King. But Jacob Ress-Mogg wants “every last drop” of oil and gas extracted from the North Sea.<\/p>\n
\nIt has long since become obvious that the Biden energy crisis is not unique to the United States. Many nations, particularly in Europe, are running up against similar threats to the sustainability of their energy grids. The reasons vary, with some being self-inflicted wounds in the name of climate extremism while others involve external factors such as the impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Kremlin holding oil and natural gas supplies hostage. No matter the cause, solutions are required and one that is getting a fresh look in all impacted areas is nuclear energy. Long used as a boogeyman by activists, the latest generation of small module reactors (SMRs) is showing a great deal of promise and could significantly reduce reliance on currently constrained supplies of fossil fuels and unreliable renewable energy sources. But there are still activists and some of their stenographers in the mainstream media who are wringing their hands and cautioning against such “risky” forms of energy production. <\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nIt may be hard to recall these days when a Democratic White House proudly rejects any guiderails from things such as economics or the Constitution. But back in the Obama years, they considered themselves the wonks. And Obamacare was supposed to be the triumph of the wonks.<\/p>\n
\nSeven in 10 Canadians say access to health care has worsened compared to before the pandemic, according to a new Nanos Research survey conducted for the Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nNew Delhi launches first home-built aircraft carrier; bolsters defenses along the China border.<\/p>\n
\nThere’s an underappreciated sea change underway in how conservatives are approaching the U.S. defense budget. As Congress finalizes this year\u2019s defense-spending-authorization bill, a number of high-profile Republican policy makers have started to call for a budget topline that exceeds $1.2 trillion. For context, lawmakers last year authorized $768 billion in military spending.<\/p>\n
\nLast night Politico Europe published an interesting story about where Russia is starting to feel the pinch as it tries to keep its war machine going. Despite sanctions, Russia has managed to keep selling lots of oil and that has kept its economy from collapsing. But while it has lots of cash on hand it’s not so easy to import supplies of high tech chips that are needed for its weapons of war. In order to find those parts, Russia has put together a shopping list.<\/p>\n
\nUnlike the rest of the battlefield news coming out of Russia and Ukraine this summer, today\u2019s story seems rather low-key. But it’s still worth keeping in mind because it very likely speaks to the thinking of Vladimir Putin and what the Kremlin’s long-term aspirations may actually be. Yesterday, Putin signed off on a new foreign policy “clarification” for Russia. This one stresses the importance of recognizing the “Russian World.” It doesn\u2019t refer to Russia dominating the entire globe, or at least not yet. But it describes Russia as being larger than its current borders. The so-called “Russian” world includes any places where people are still predominantly of Russian ancestry and still speak the Russian language and maintain their ancestral culture. Unsurprisingly, that would include the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, but there are other places Putin has his eye on as well.<\/p>\n
\nEven the elite aren\u2019t immune to the challenges posed by a pandemic and a red-hot job market.<\/p>\n
\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday it found the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, to have suffered damage to the building that houses “fresh nuclear fuel and the solid radioactive waste storage facility.”<\/p>\n
\nAn unexpected announcement came out of the Pentagon this week. All deliveries of our F-35 Lighting fighter jets are now on hold. This includes deliveries to our own military units as well as international sales. Fortunately, they are not reporting any sort of equipment failures or flight safety issues. Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor responsible for building and testing the planes reported the discovery of a “metal component” in the jets’ engines that was manufactured in China. Given the ongoing concerns over Chinese theft of technology and spying, deliveries were halted while an examination of the component is conducted. <\/p>\n
\nEight House lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday to discuss relations with the U.S.<\/p>\n
\nUkraine has launched a new front in the counteroffensive, this time moving east into the Kharkiv region. Yesterday the Guardian reported the town of Balakliia had been encircled by Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n
\nPoland and the three Baltic states said Thursday they would temporarily restrict access for Russian citizens holding EU visas by Sept. 19 to address “public policy and security threats.”<\/p>\n
\nWhen I posted Friday evening about the push toward Kupiansk (“Ukraine: Better Late Than Never”), I was determined to err on the side of caution, not to be taken in by overly optimistic claims, but overnight saw more reports that indicate Ukraine has achieved a truly stunning breakthrough. Now, it seems confirmed that advance elements of the Ukrainian force \u2014 motorized scouting parties, at least \u2014 have reached the Oskil River south of Kupiansk, wrecked one of the bridges over the river, and pushed 40 miles down the west bank toward Horokhovatka, which is just 17 miles northeast of Izyum. If all of these reports are true, it would mean that about 10,000 Russian troops reported to be at or around Izyum are in danger of being cut off and forced to surrender.<\/p>\n
\nBig developments overnight in Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region, and the only way to describe it is: A rout.<\/p>\n
\nNYT reports Izyum in Ukraine control<\/p>\n
\nAs Ed pointed out this morning, the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east has been moving faster than anyone expected, including obviously the Russians. A couple of days ago, Ukrainian forces retook the town of Balakliia and another small town called Volokhiv Yar. From there they moved east and took control of Kupyansk.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nResidents of Portland are selling their homes due to the homeless epidemic that is ravaging the city <\/p>\n
\nA New Mexico judge on Tuesday removed January 6 rioter and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin from his elected position as a county commissioner for his role in the US Capitol attack.<\/p>\n
\nThe November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.<\/p>\n
\nA newly-uncovered piece of surveillance footage is placing renewed scrutiny on an accused fake 2020 elector, and Donald Trump’s operatives who visited a Georgia county’s election offices on the same day that their voting machines were illegally breached.<\/p>\n
\nLaw school deans and LIF head William Jacobson all oppose dropping the LSAT\/GRE as making it harder for schools to identify qualified applicants, minority or other. Is that why ABA wants to get rid of it?<\/p>\n
\n“No parent should ever have to fear the type of retaliation Coach Flynn lived through for simply questioning the curriculum being taught in his child’s classroom”<\/p>\n
\nAs school goes back into session, students in New York City’s top private schools head into the classroom having been recommended summer reading lists riddled with books about children transitioning their genders, cross-dressing, attending pride parades, getting secret abortions, and questioning their sexuality.<\/p>\n
\nState Department to Combat Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’: Report<\/p>\n
\nEarlier this summer my alma mater, Cornell, removed a bust of Abraham Lincoln as well as a copy of the Gettysburg Address from display at Kroch Library. The manuscript is one of only five in Lincoln’s handwriting.<\/p>\n
\nThere must be a reason why some people still live in Portland, but I don’t know what it is. The city has become a hellhole, devastated by crime and overrun by homeless drug addicts. Antifa is rampant, and the city’s political leaders are\u2013if this is possible\u2013even more ineffectual than the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis. <\/p>\n
\nJust ‘starting points’ for families, students to discover their ‘favorite authors’ and ‘favorite subjects’<\/p>\n
\nAuthorities served search warrants Wednesday morning in connection with the slaying of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, Las Vegas police said.<\/p>\n
\nA federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for free coverage of groundbreaking HIV prevention drugs made by Gilead Sciences Inc. “substantially burdens” the religious freedom of a Christian-owned company.<\/p>\n
\nIf your phone rang today and a pollster was on the line, how likely would you be to tell them that you agree with the statement, “some men can get pregnant?” If you\u2019re being honest and haven’t recently run short of some important medications prescribed by your mental health professional, the odds are that you\u2019re going to disagree. And if you\u2019re approaching the question in a fashion anywhere near where I\u2019m coming from, you would expect the total number of people who would agree with that statement would be somewhere in the low single digits. But that’s not what the polling firm WPA Intelligence found in a survey conducted toward the end of last month. While virtually no self-identifying Republicans agreed, 22% of Democrats found the statement to be reasonable. There was something even more startling to be found in the cross-tabs of the poll. More than one-third (36%) of white, college-educated female Democrats said they agreed. <\/p>\n
\nThe woes of the dystopian hellscape that California has become under Gavin Newsom continue to mount, as the state just declared an energy emergency with possible rotating power outages. To add insult to injury, San Francisco says it will cost $14 billion to filter nutrients from human excrement to contain a massive algae bloom responsible for poisoning the fish of the city’s waterways. The Bay Area’s homelessness and public defecation crises certainly don’t help the problem. Could it get any worse for residents of the Golden State?<\/p>\n
\nSegregated dormitories, programs, and graduations are proliferating on college campuses. That fact undermines, if not vitiates, the “compelling state interest” of educational benefits that are purportedly derived from colleges’ having a diverse student body, and which gives colleges legal permission to maintain racially discriminatory admissions policies.<\/p>\n
\nIf you were unaware that there was an international health association specifically tasked with handling transgender health issues, don’t feel alone. I’d never heard of it either until this week. But it apparently exists and it’s called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). They have been issuing guidelines to hospitals and medical practices, including those in the United States, specific to the treatment of people dealing with gender dysphoria and those seeking “transitional treatment.” And now they are preparing to release some changes to their previous policies. They are expected to lower the minimum recommended age for genital mutilation surgery from 18 to 17 and, in the case of young girls who have been convinced that they are boys, they will reportedly lower the age for mastectomies to 15. Sometimes there just are no words. <\/p>\n
\nResearch led by Sanford Burnham Prebys professor Francesca Marassi, Ph.D., is helping to reveal the molecular secrets of macular degeneration, which causes almost 90% of all age-related vision loss. The study, published recently in the Biophysical Journal, describes the flexible structure of a key blood protein involved in macular degeneration and other age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n
\nHillary Clinton recently remarked she would never seek the presidency again. Good riddance.<\/p>\n
\nLas Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German was found stabbed to death outside his home Saturday.<\/p>\n
\nBut was it turned into a newt? And did it get better? The arrival of eight thousand or so illegal immigrants over the last five months have turned our nation’s capital into a “border town,” DC council member Brianne Nadeau declared today. And she didn’t hesitate to lay blame for the Beltway’s border crisis on \u2026 Texas governor Greg Abbott and Arizona governor Doug Ducey.<\/p>\n
\nClark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday evening in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose investigation of the politician contributed to his primary election loss in June.<\/p>\n
\nEveryone could hear the men on the street. The car, a black Dodge Challenger with gold rims, sped down the block, just past the congresswoman’s house. Two voices shot through the dark. “HEY, PRAMILA,” the first man shouted. “F— YOUUUUU.” Then came the second: “F— you, c—!”<\/p>\n
\nFormer President Donald Trump’s strategist Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face new charges in an alleged border-wall fundraising scam for which Trump pardoned him last year.<\/p>\n
\nFinally, Oberlin College stops fighting, and the future of Gibson’s Bakery looks brighter after six years of darkness.<\/p>\n
\nLone Star College-Tomball campus police threatened to criminally charge two conservative individuals for tabling on campus Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\nWest Virginia Senator Joe Manchin signed off on the absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act in lieu of the full Build Back Broke bill that represented the left’s shopping list. Manchin was reported to have signed off on the bill with a Wimpy deal that recalled Popeye’s friend Wimpy. Wimpy adopted the motto “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” Not a good deal. It was a recurring joke that even kids could understand.<\/p>\n
\nIt has been announced by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) that two officers have been suspended with pay while a review of DPS\u2019s role in the response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School continues. The two officers and three others have been referred to the DPS inspector general’s office for a formal investigation. Nineteen children and two teachers died that day while many law enforcement officers from various agencies stood around outside a classroom while the shooter killed the victims.<\/p>\n
\nWhat is going on in our public schools is horrifying, in several ways. Most fundamental is that the quality of education is abysmal. It is hard to see how our children are going to compete with the Chinese, or anyone else, given the pathetic level of instruction, especially in math, the sciences, and history.<\/p>\n
\nBy the way, you’re racist if you voice any criticism.<\/p>\n
\nAs colleges rake in more donations than ever before, they are still raising tuition and student fees.<\/p>\n
\nRemember this? It almost seems like history now after the full release of the Dobbs decision, and perhaps some would prefer it remain that way. Five months after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion in the case that overturned Roe, we still don’t know who leaked it.<\/p>\n
\nLife expectancy in the United States has sadly dropped once again, and progressives aren\u2019t squandering the opportunity to turn what should be a solemn reminder of the consequences of poor public policy and individual choices into a political win. Leading online liberal, novelist, and content creator John Green was quick to point out that all the countries above us in the life-expectancy index have some form of socialized medicine. This is a profoundly disingenuous and callous way of making a case for universal health care. Others peddled propaganda about how China’s life expectancy is higher than America’s.<\/p>\n
\n“SB 744 gives us an opportunity to review our graduation requirements and make sure our assessments can truly assess all students’ learning”<\/p>\n
\nOn Aug. 31, the California state Senate passed a bill that would allow courts in California to take custody of minors from out of state who come to the Golden State seeking gender transition surgeries and cross-sex hormones, even if these actions go against the wishes of the minors” parents.<\/p>\n
\nA red dwarf star just 105 light-years away may be hosting at least one habitable world.<\/p>\n
\nA teacher from Madison High School in San Diego claimed fascists are synonymous with the “modern-day Republican Party” and “white, Christian, heterosexuals,” according to a student at the school. Speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, the high school student detailed the teacher’s unhinged definition of a “fascist.” <\/p>\n
\nTX Gov. Abbott exposed another Democrat on the national stage. This is delicious.<\/p>\n
\nTorture, restraint chairs, public cavity searches, and the secret to eternal youth.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nTo hit the difficult-to-attain targets, ingenious bankers are lending and simultaneously allowing borrowers to deposit identical amounts with their institutions at identical interest rates.<\/p>\n
\nAs the article says later on in greater detail, a large part of the reason for parity between the U.S. and Brazil is the extraordinary strength of the dollar relative to other currencies right now, which is good for American importers and bad for American exporters. The level of relative strength we\u2019re currently seeing likely won’t last too long, and the U.S. advantage will likely return.<\/p>\n
\nWe get inflation (i.e., generally rising prices) in part because the government has pumped up the supply of money relative to the production of goods and services. What is he doing with regard to those variables? Federal spending continues unabated, while Biden’s relentlessly statist economic agenda is driving down the output of goods and services. So, instead of “fighting” inflation, Biden is making it worse.<\/p>\n
\nSays Tuomas Malinen. Adds Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept: “If you turned the electricity off for a few months in any developed Western society 500 years of supposed philosophical progress about human rights and individualism would quickly evaporate like they never happened.”<\/p>\n
\nThe country is facing what could potentially be a catastrophic railway strike, when the cool-down period on labor negotiations expires on September 16th. Initial estimates are that it would cost an already struggling economy $2B a day, and the movement of both freight and commuters would grind to a virtual halt.<\/p>\n
\nMore middle-income American households earning $48,000 to $89,999 annually are struggling now compared to last November, according to a Gallup survey.<\/p>\n
\nEarly in the pandemic, Alondra Barajas had a temporary job for the Census Bureau, doing phone work from the two-bedroom apartment she shared with her mother and four younger siblings. When that job ended in late 2020, she struggled to find employment.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nYesterday we looked at the plebiscite being voted on in Chile which, if approved, would have installed a new constitution bringing sweeping socialist changes to that country. Supporters of the new document pointed to polls showing that the “reject” movement was holding a slight advantage, but the gap had been closing and the proposed constitution might still squeak through. 36-year-old President Gabriel Boric, himself an ardent socialist, was a vocal supporter of the proposed constitution, but his poll numbers have been dropping steadily ever since he took office. Those numbers were reflected in the final vote last night. With 99% of the votes having been counted, the people of Chile rejected the socialist document by a more than twenty-point margin. The socialist faction quickly conceded defeat and agreed that they would need to go back to the drawing board and develop a constitution that would garner broad support.<\/p>\n
\nForeign secretary defeats Rishi Sunak, winning 57.4% of Tory members’ votes to former chancellor’s 42.6%<\/p>\n
\nChileans voted Sunday to reject a proposed far-left constitution that was packed with gender-politics provisions and would have dramatically expanded the state.<\/p>\n
\nThe document was absurdly, disastrously, and almost unbelievably utopian. Its American cheerleaders should take note of this defeat.<\/p>\n
\nA teacher in Ireland has been suspended from work and then jailed for contempt of court after he refused to use the correct pronouns to address a transgender student.<\/p>\n
\nA Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Monday temporarily suspended several provisions implemented by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro that allowed people to buy weapons, citing a “risk of political violence” during the electoral campaign.<\/p>\n
\nSweden’s right hopes to wrest power from the ruling Social Democrats in Sunday’s general election, relying for the first time on far-right support in what is expected to be a tight race.<\/p>\n
\nOn Sunday, voters in Chile rejected a new constitution that would have represented a major turn to the left in the South American country. The vote was almost a landslide, with 62% of Chileans voting against the proposed constitution and not one of the country’s 16 regions approving the measure.<\/p>\n
\nMy old AEI colleague Mark Falcoff, whom I used to talk with frequently since his office was just two doors down from mine, is one of the preeminent Latin American experts of recent decades and author of Modern Chile, 1970-1989: A Critical History. He writes in with two propositions prompted by my item yesterday about Chile’s vote against a radical constitution<\/p>\n
\nExperts initially indicated the outbreak was of “unknown origin”, and the World Health Organization was monitoring the situation closely<\/p>\n
\nHer political inspiration is a failed utopia<\/p>\n
\nWe knew the end would come at some point, even though she often seemed invincible. At 96 years of age, Queen Elizabeth lived long enough as the regnant monarch to celebrate her 70th anniversary on the United Kingdom throne earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\nThe death of Queen Elizabeth II sets in motion a meticulously choreographed and coordinated procedure for which the palace, the government, the news media, the local authorities and the queen herself had long planned.<\/p>\n
\nTHE Queen has died peacefully aged 96 – marking an end to her historic reign and sparking an outpouring of grief around the world.<\/p>\n