News of the Week for Feb. 26th<\/sup>, 2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawsuit aims to remove abortion pills from market in light of Dobbs decision oveturning Roe<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shasta Supervisors deadlocked on 2nd Amendment resolution, leaving its fate uncertain<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Biden Said ‘No’ to Outright Gas Stove Ban; Is Willing to Price Them Out of Existence Instead<\/a> Al Gore gears up to sell Biden’s climate law<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China Demands U.S. Abandon Taiwan and Apologize for Shooting Down Spy Balloon<\/a> Congressional delegation visits Taiwan… again<\/a> The Origins of China’s Airships<\/a> Putin’s historic speech suffers mystery BLACKOUT across Russia as state TV channels go down ‘after huge hack’<\/a> Russia ‘aims to “absorb” Belarus by 2030 according to leaked document setting out plan to infiltrate the country’<\/a> China beats Tesla to Nigeria’s lithium riches<\/a> UN Inspectors Find Weapons-Grade Uranium at Iran Nuke Site<\/a> U.S. to Expand Troop Presence in Taiwan for Training Against China Threat<\/a> China’s Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced<\/a> China Is Practicing How to Sever Taiwan’s Internet<\/a> Wagner POWs: The Russians beat us until morale improves — or we’re dead<\/a> Russia’s Medvedev floats idea of pushing back Poland’s borders<\/a> Campaign to Boot Russia from U.N. Security Council Continues<\/a> Media outlets get a close look at China’s operations in the South China Sea<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Americans applying for controversial ‘golden passports’ more than any other nationality, report says<\/a> Democracy Is Like a Streetcar<\/a> Is Your Baby ‘Nonbinary’? Social Workers in Pennsylvania Are Now Required To Say<\/a> Explosion Destroys Ohio Metals Factory, Injuring Over a Dozen People<\/a> Chicago: 55 Schools Have Zero Students Proficient in Reading or Math<\/a> Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech<\/a> Supreme Court weighs Google’s liability in ISIS terror case<\/a> Bait and Switch: Sen. Vance Asks Biden’s FCC Nom Whether Flipped Racist Tweets are Problematic<\/a> Trump’s Appeal Becoming More Selective<\/a> NASA Confirms 1,000 Pound Meteor Hitting Ground Caused Big Boom in Texas<\/a> The ‘Great Awokening’ Is Transforming Science and Medicine<\/a> At Texas A&M, a Different Kind of “Climate Change”<\/a> What’s the Real DEI Agenda?<\/a> Man wanted for racist egg-throwing spree on San Francisco Muni bus<\/a> Democrat Jon Tester Will Seek Fourth Term as Montana Senator<\/a> Ex-Proud Boy Testifies Group Sought ‘All-Out Revolution’ in Capitol Riot<\/a> Zombie skin-rotting ‘tranq’ drug takes over streets of America as expert warns there’s no medication to reverse overdose<\/a> JWST discovery of 6 galaxies from beginning of universe ‘creates problems for science’<\/a> California Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Ban \u2018Deeply Racialized and Harmful Practice’ of Police Dogs<\/a> Lengthening Statute of Limitations to Stop Transgender-Youth Mutilations<\/a> Professor describes how woke cultists left him ‘trapped in anti-racist hell’<\/a> Out: Food deserts. In: Food swamps<\/a> Biden nationalizes DEI<\/a> Race-Baiting Radical Angela Davis Learns Some of Her Ancestors Arrived on the Mayflower<\/a> Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) Launched To Fight Equity Discrimination<\/a> First GOP Presidential Debate Scheduled for August<\/a> Brian Kemp: Time for the Georgia GOP to Leave the Georgia GOP<\/a> Florida’s “reverse woke” detransition coverage bill<\/a> The Sex-Change Lawsuits Begin<\/a> Mike Pence’s Advancing American Freedom Demands Answers on FBI Targeting ‘Radical-Traditional Catholics’<\/a> Minnesota HS Student: ‘Principal’s Attempt to Unify Us’ Ended Up ‘Pitting Us Against Each Other Based on Characteristics We Can’t Control’<\/a> Social-Justice Curricula Having Measurable Impact on Students, Study Finds<\/a> Tennessee moves to ban drag performances<\/a> Gisele Fetterman tweets about driving to Canada when news about her husband broke<\/a> Stanford’s Class of 2026 Doesn’t ‘Look Like America’<\/a> Democratic Party of Nevada in Chaos Two Years After Bernie Sanders Supporters Took Over<\/a> Nevada DSA: ‘the Democratic Party is a dead end’<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Key US inflation measure surges at fastest rate since June<\/a> The Big Myth Is Full of Recycled Anti-Capitalist Cheap Shots<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Puffin Books: From Publisher to Censor<\/a> Dulling Dahl for dullards<\/a> AMLO stands by his lefties<\/a> Penguin Will Publish Roald Dahl’s Books in Original Form After Censorship Backlash<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Racially Based ‘Justice’ Is Built on Flawed Reasoning<\/a> Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy<\/a> Coolidge: Last of the Founding-Era Presidents<\/a> Big Government vs. Different Government<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nThe Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine argues the FDA improperly rushed abortion drug mifepristone to market in 2000<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nShasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones brought a Second Amendment resolution to Tuesday evening’s board meeting, and he was confident he had the votes to pass it.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nPresident Joe Biden likely had his fingers crossed last month while promising Americans that the administration “does not support” gas stove bans. That\u2019s because this month, his Department of Energy released a proposed rule updating energy efficiency standards with new costly and stringent standards for conventional cooking products\u2014including gas stoves\u2014that would make them unaffordable for many.<\/p>\n
\nAl Gore’s home state of Tennessee is smack at the center of what clean technology boosters dub America’s new Battery Belt.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nIn the name of preventing and fighting pandemics, the Biden administration and international entities are negotiating an agreement that would establish a public-health technocracy. The proposed treaty, known as the “WHO Convention, Agreement or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response” \u2014 or WHO CA+, for short \u2014 would transform WHO from a purely advisory organization into one with regulatory power to enact international public policies.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nAfter claiming its spy balloon was a harmless weather balloon and angrily condemning the Biden administration for shooting the balloon down (after it crossed the continental U.S.), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now not only demanding that the U.S. take all the blame for the incident but also that the U.S. abandon its unofficial ally Taiwan. As usual, the genocidal CCP is uninhibited by any interest in truth or justice.<\/p>\n
\nShould we poke the bear or poke the tiger? Why not both? On the same day that Joe Biden went to Ukraine, a congressional delegation was touching down in Taiwan to visit with governmental and industry leaders. Now both Moscow and Beijing have something new to complain about.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2021, writing for The War Zone (part of The Drive, an automotive journalism outlet), Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway analyzed a new, “gigantic” hangar in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region \u2014 about the right size for balloon development.<\/p>\n
\nVLADIMIR Putin’s speech suffered a mass blackout as Russian state TV channels were reportedly hit with a huge hack attack.<\/p>\n
\nSecret dossier says there are three different approaches to annexing Belarus. But Putin’s desire to absorb Belarus into Russia should not come as a surprise.<\/p>\n
\nChina already controls 60% of the world’s lithium processing. Now it’s exploring new frontiers to expand its dominance.<\/p>\n
\nTimes of London: “Inspectors from the United Nations have found traces of uranium enriched to near-weapons grade at a site connected to Iran’s nuclear programme.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Pentagon is helping Taiwan focus on tactics and weapon systems that would make the island harder to assault<\/p>\n
\nChina can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both.<\/p>\n
\nThe cutoff of the Matsu Islands may be a dry run for further aggression.<\/p>\n
\nFirst, the good news for Wagner\u2019s prison recruits. “Zeroing” \u2014 the policy of killing anyone who complains \u2014 has been cancelled. The bad news: Ukrainians have gotten so good at “zeroing” them that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army can’t afford to kill their own people any more. Instead, prison volunteers get beaten, or they obey orders to act as cannon fodder in battles such as Bakhmut.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as far as possible, even if that meant the frontiers of NATO member Poland.<\/p>\n
\nAt the one year mark of the invasion, Ukrainian efforts to secure Russia\u2019s removal from the Security Council continue. In an op-ed for Time this week, Ukrainian members of parliament Alona Shkrum, Dmytro Natalukha, and Lesia Vasylenko press the case that Kyiv’s diplomats have made since the outset of Russia’s military campaign.<\/p>\n
\nToday is the one year anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and while the US is doing a lot to fund and supply Ukraine’s effort to push Russia back inside its own borders, there\u2019s also a clear focus on making sure something similar doesn’t happen with China invading Taiwan. <\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nA new report has determined that more wealthy Americans are looking to purchase a unique status symbol \u2014 not a yacht or a private plane, but citizenship abroad via a ‘golden passport.’<\/p>\n
\nWhen you get to your stop, you get off. This famously cynical pronouncement by Turkey\u2019s Recep Erdogan has been taken to heart by American Democrats. Just win once, and we never have to worry about losing again! Here in Minnesota, the Democrats now control the House, Senate (by a single vote) and the governorship, and their radical agenda extends to remaking the state’s election laws to their advantage.<\/p>\n
\nPennsylvania social workers must now determine if newborn children identify as “nonbinary,” according to government forms reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n
\nThe cause of the explosion at the brass and bronze alloy factory is not known.<\/p>\n
\n“There were 22 schools that had no students who could read at grade level; another 33 schools claimed that no students could perform math at grade level.”<\/p>\n
\nInternet giants such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter owe much of their success to a legal shield erected by Congress in 1996.<\/p>\n
\nThe Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others.<\/p>\n
\nDon’t expect someone who says, tweets or posts radically racial comments to understand why or why not those things might be problematic, particularly when they’re up for a prominent position within President Joe Biden’s regime.<\/p>\n
\nIn the movie This Is Spinal Tap, the over-the-hill band explained its declining crowds by saying that its “appeal is becoming more selective.” Donald Trump’s latest harangue put me in mind of that euphemism<\/p>\n
\nThe impact comes about 10 years after the February 15, 2013, when an asteroid hit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, causing a spectacular explosion.<\/p>\n
\nThe “great awokening” touches every elite institution in America, mostly radiating out from our compromised system of higher education. One of the most disturbing and illuminating aspects of this cultural revolution is how much it is transforming science and medicine.<\/p>\n
\nEfforts to make the campus more welcoming have alienated students.<\/p>\n
\nDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion \u2014 pleasant words that are supposed to help improve college campuses. Students will feel more welcomed. Everyone will get along. Smiley faces all over.<\/p>\n
\nSan Francisco police are looking for a man who has been accused of yelling anti-Chinese expletives while throwing eggs at Asian passengers on a Muni bus last week.<\/p>\n
\nMontana’s incumbent Democratic senator Jon Tester announced on Wednesday that he will seek a fourth term in the U.S. Senate<\/p>\n
\nFormer leader takes stand against onetime comrades charged with seditious conspiracy<\/p>\n
\nA SKIN-ROTTING drug commonly known as “Tranq” or “Tranq dope” has hit the streets of Philadelphia and is making its way to California, The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n
\nSix enormous galaxies that formed just half a billion years after the Big Bang could rewrite what astronomers know about the birth of our universe. They contain some of the first stars that lit up the cosmos and are much bigger than scientists thought was possible, according to researchers from Penn State University.<\/p>\n
\nThe reason? Racism, of course.<\/p>\n
\nI believe that one day the transgender moral panic will come crashing down. But not before thousands of minors are harmed by having their natural puberties blocked, breasts removed, and even worse. Indeed, “De-transitioners” \u2014 people who realize they really are the sex they were born \u2014 are already appearing and complaining about how they were abandoned or pressured by medical professionals to engage in medical or surgical “affirming care” as it is incorrectly called. Some, like Chloe Cole \u2014 are planning to sue.<\/p>\n
\nI somehow missed this when it was published nearly two weeks ago. Vincent Lloyd is an associate professor at Villanova who has written a number of books including some on anti-blackness and prison abolition. To say he’s a progressive would be putting it very mildly. But this month he wrote a description of an experience he had last year. It’s titled “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell.”<\/p>\n
\nMost of you have probably heard of the concept of so-called “food deserts.” These are areas where there are few supermarkets selling fresh, healthier foods. In theory, the further people have to travel to shop for groceries, the less likely they will be to cook and eat healthy meals, leading to a decline in overall health. But the Columbia University Medical Center recently conducted a study to explore a different but related phenomenon. It’s what they call “food swamps.” These are areas where there are once again few grocery stores selling fresh foods, but an abundance of fast food joints selling burgers, fries, and other greasy, less healthy options. They concluded that there are plenty of food swamps, and people living near them are significantly more likely to experience hypertension, strokes, and heart failure.<\/p>\n
\nChris Rufo has posted a discourse he titles “Biden nationalizes the DEI bureaucracy” (“How the president’s recent executive order threatens to subvert the principles of liberty and equality”) on President Biden’s long and painful DEI executive order with this introduction.<\/p>\n
\n“Oof. That’s a little bit too much to deal with right now.”<\/p>\n
\n“We are starting equalprotect.org, the Equal Protection Project, because we’re seeing very troubling patterns in society\u2026. We are seeing that unfortunately, under the concept of equity, that there is outright discrimination on the basis of race.”<\/p>\n
\nThe RNC voted on Thursday to host the first GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee in August. “At this time, no other debates have been sanctioned, nor has the final criteria for the first debate been decided,” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote in an email to RNC members.<\/p>\n
\nA political party consists of a number of disparate elements: voters, elected officials, donors, activists, public advocates, official party organs, think tanks, and outside campaign professionals. In the Republican Party of today, some of these are in healthier shape than others. Hardly any part of the party is in worse condition right now than the official party organs at the state level. In one state after another, the official Republican Party is at best useless and at worst an affirmative enemy of the party’s causes and electoral chances. Some state parties have been taken over by zealots and lunatics, some by more cold-blooded grifters. The Arizona Republican Party’s efforts to censure anyone who dares win a statewide election in their state as a Republican is an icon of idiocy.<\/p>\n
\nFlorida continues on its quest to establish itself as “the state where woke goes to die.” The latest chapter in this story involves a new bill introduced in the state legislature known as the “Reverse Woke Act.” If passed, the proposed law would require any employer that covers “gender transition” services to also pay for detransition medical care, even if the employee had the original procedure done in another state. It would also apply if the patient is no longer with the company. The bill is seen as a shot across the bow toward states like California that bill themselves as “sanctuary” states for transgender people seeking medical services not allowed in their home state.<\/p>\n
\nSurvey data indicate that a high percentage of people who underwent sex-change operations when they were young eventually regret it. The data also suggest that most minors who express gender dysphoria have a multitude of problems, including, in many cases, autism. Yet sex-change clinics around the world frequently hustle disturbed minors into permanent, life-altering chemical regimes and brutally invasive surgery. <\/p>\n
\nAdvancing American Freedom, a policy advocacy group launched by former Vice President Mike Pence, is demanding answers from the FBI about its memo urging agents to develop \u201csources with access,” including in “places of worship,” to probe an alleged relationship between \u201cracially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” and “radical-traditional Catholic ideology.”<\/p>\n
\n“After a year of teachers telling me I’m a racist, I have never noticed race more”<\/p>\n
\nBoth critical race theory and radical gender ideology are widespread in American schools and are measurably shifting students to the political left, according to a Manhattan Institute report released Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nIn a move that seems almost certainly doomed for failure, the Tennessee state legislature passed a bill on Thursday that would ban drag shows in public spaces. Governor Bill Lee will need to decide whether to sign it into law or not. The language of the bill seems quite broad, declaring that “male and female impersonators cannot provide entertainment that appeals to prurient interest.” A first conviction under this proposed law would be treated as a misdemeanor while a second conviction would be a felony, potentially resulting in jail time.<\/p>\n
\nLast week we learned that Sen. John Fetterman was being admitted to the hospital to deal with serious depression which was connected to his struggles to perform his job. He’s still dealing with ongoing auditory\/language problems from a stroke which nearly killed him prior to last year’s election. And there’s some indication that the stress of continuing campaign followed by the stress of starting work in a new job has set back his recovery, maybe even permanently. At the time Fetterman’s wife asked for privacy.<\/p>\n
\nThe demographic profile of Stanford University’s class of 2026 is out, with 1,736 matriculated students set to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities. But as some perceptive critics were quick to notice, one key demographic is disproportionately underrepresented: While whites make up more than 50 percent of the nation\u2019s adolescent population, per 2019 Office of Population Affairs numbers, they were only 22 percent of Stanford’s incoming class of freshmen.<\/p>\n
\n“even key figures in Bernie world \u2014 including Sanders himself \u2014 say they are unhappy and embittered by what’s transpired”<\/p>\n
\nPolitico has an interesting story up today about the current chaos taking place in the Nevada Democratic Party. The party was upended in 2021 when Bernie Sanders supporters took it over. That was considered a big win by socialists around the country but, shockingly, it hasn’t worked out so well.<\/p>\n
\nBoisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship. <\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThe Federal Reserve\u2019s preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S. economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.<\/p>\n
\nA new entrant in the anti-neoliberalism genre fails to land any blows.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nPuffin Books’ secret rewriting of some of Roald Dahl\u2019s books is made worse for many Brits \u2014 or, at least those not in their earliest years \u2014 by the extraordinary role that Puffin used to fill in British children’s literature.<\/p>\n
\nPiers Morgan calls the rewriting of deceased author Roald Dahl’s books by his publisher a “woke overhaul.” Morgan’s New York Post column links to the Telegraph’s “stunning, damning expos\u00e9” headlined with the GIF “The (re)writing of Roald Dahl”<\/p>\n
\nDown in Mexico, President Lopez Obrador, who literally thinks he is the leader of the Third World, is engaged in a fight with the nation of Peru. You may remember that AMLO, as they call him, did not accept the change of presidents in Peru. He did not like that his “amigo” from the Left, President Pedro Castillo, was removed and replaced by VP Dina Boluarte. It was completely legal under the Peruvian constitution, but AMLO has a case of selective outrage. After all, he recently embraced the unelected “presidente” of Cuba. Peru had elections and Cuba didn’t, but AMLO loves those lefties.<\/p>\n
\n“Readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl\u2019s stories they prefer.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nProvincial justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a bail reform summit to address the increasing level of violence faced by Canadians.” Other provincial justice ministers have voiced similar concerns.<\/p>\n
\nIn the name of preventing and fighting pandemics, the Biden administration and international entities are negotiating an agreement that would establish a public-health technocracy. The proposed treaty, known as the “WHO Convention, Agreement or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response” \u2014 or WHO CA+, for short \u2014 would transform WHO from a purely advisory organization into one with regulatory power to enact international public policies.<\/p>\n
\nSince it is President’s Day, I thought I might as well post up my prepared remarks presented last Friday in Washington at the Coolidge Foundation conference that marked the centennial of Calvin Coolidge’s ascension to the White House following the death of Warren Harding. Amity Shlaes, Coolidge’s best biographer, challenged me to make the case that Coolidge belongs on Mount Rushmore, which I was only too happy to accept. As usual I departed substantially from my prepared text here, as is my usual practice in conference settings, but I forgot to record it as I had intended for use as a podcast.<\/p>\n
\nThe rare conservative who takes ideological cues from CNN was perhaps delighted on Sunday by the outlet’s apprehension over the notion that Florida governor Ron DeSantis might finally and irrevocably transform the party into a vehicle for big government.<\/p>\n