News of the Week for April 14th<\/sup>, 2024<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Biden Second-Term Preview in Milton, Mass.<\/a> Appeals court judge rejects Trump’s effort to delay his hush money trial as he appeals a gag order<\/a> Trump-endorsed senate candidate claims nursing home residents shouldn’t be able to vote<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Donald Trump Is Half-Right on Abortion<\/a> Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable<\/a> Arizona Presents a Test of Pro-Life Realism<\/a> ‘Forced Motherhood’: Honduras Reported To UN For Abortion Ban<\/a> <\/p>\n California law bars non-residents from carrying a gun. Does that violate the Second Amendment?<\/a> Second Amendment Roundup: Injunction Against Washington Magazine Ban Stayed Within Minutes<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Climate Cultists Conduct Secret Geoengineering Experiment in San Francisco Bay<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The NHS is killing us \u2013 it is an enemy of Britain<\/a> Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money<\/a> <\/p>\n China using AI-powered social media accounts to influence US election, Microsoft warns<\/a> Terror-State vs. Civilization<\/a> U.S. Navy Facing Major Shipbuilding Delays While China’s Navy Expansion Accelerates<\/a> Russian Troops ‘Disappearing En Masse’ in Kherson: Resistance Group<\/a> Iran has launched drone attacks at Israel, IDF military says<\/a> Kremlin, Racked by Separatist Ferment, Sows Division and Decolonization Everywhere \u2014 Except at Home<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Arizona State prof sues school for mandatory anti-white DEI training<\/a> Police: 3 dead, including shooter, in shooting at Summerlin law office<\/a> Coronium, One of the Most Enduring Mysteries (and Mistakes) in Eclipse Science<\/a> Orange County’s streetcar struggles serve as a warning to surrounding communities<\/a> Berkeley: Engineer Gets Probation for Premeditated Attempted Murder<\/a> A graffiti ‘takeover’ roils downtown Los Angeles<\/a> Indiana Court Rejects Claim That Driver’s Licenses Must Include Third Gender Option<\/a> Woke Stanford ‘math equity’ professor under scrutiny for alleged ‘reckless disregard of accuracy’ in research<\/a> Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together<\/a> Police in riot gear arrest 20 pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed college president’s office<\/a> Most people ‘want to have sex with robots,’ new Robosexuality study reveals<\/a> Kentucky Strips Dem Governor of Senate Appointment Powers<\/a> NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> UFC star Renato Moicano praises American values, urges fans to read economist’s teachings<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So Now J. D. Vance Cares about U.S. Steel Shareholders<\/a> The Wurst Option: Germany Proposes Tax Hike on Meat To ‘Save Environment’<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chechnya bans music that’s too fast or slow \u2014 including Russian anthem<\/a> Time for International Censorship Police?<\/a> Six-legged gazelle spotted in Israel<\/a> Priest jailed after man collapsed from too many erectile drugs at cleric’s sex party<\/a> A Legal Tragedy in Strasbourg<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s something about Tucker<\/a> No Resting On Our Anti-DEI Laurels<\/a> The Plague of the Easily Manipulated<\/a> Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2024<\/h1>\n
\nA 2021 state zoning law designed to densify Boston’s suburbs and push suburbanites out of their cars has set off a rebellion in the town of Milton, Mass. That revolt now appears to be spreading across the Greater Boston area. In more ways than one, the zoning brushfire now sweeping through Boston’s suburbs foreshadows a second Biden term.<\/p>\n
\nThe ruling came less than 24 hours after another appeals court judge denied Trump’s attempt to halt the trial while they seek a change of venue.<\/p>\n
\nData shows the average nursing home resident in the US is 81 years old, just four years younger than the man who endorsed Eric Hovde: Donald Trump<\/p>\n<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nDonald Trump has taken a first crack at clarifying his stances on abortion and IVF, saying in a video message this morning that abortion is a state issue while pledging support for IVF<\/p>\n
\nVoters will likely have a chance to weigh in on the issue, as abortion rights groups are attempting to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot.<\/p>\n
\nThe Arizona supreme court has ruled that an abortion ban with an exception only for the life of the mother, which was enacted by Arizona\u2019s territorial legislature as part of its 1864 criminal code and never explicitly repealed, remains in force.<\/p>\n
\nAn Indigenous woman has reported her country, Honduras, to the UN Human Rights Committee for denying her an abortion after she was raped, rights groups said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nGun rights group the Firearms Policy Coalition is suing the State of California in federal court, arguing that a state law banning out-of-state residents from carrying guns in-state violate the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
\nThe stay was issued without time to review the opinion and the motion to stay, and without allowing an opposition brief.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe silencing of challenges to pandemic lockdowns, covid treatments, and vaccines has led high levels of mistrust in the pharmaceutical industry and with our public health agencies. This ill-considered, clandestine experiment may strike the same sort of blow against climate pseudoscience.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nBeing born British should not be a death sentence but, as long as we go on believing in the National Health Service, it will be <\/p>\n
\nEarlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. I suggested that normalizing euthanasia leads to such crass beliefs, furthering our slide toward a perceived \u201cduty to die\u201d on the part of elderly, the seriously ill, and disabled people to help boost society and family resources.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nAn expert said Xi Jinping’s government is ‘doubling down’ on efforts to disrupt the US election with a flurry of AI-generated memes, original footage and infographics about divisive issues<\/p>\n
\nPutin’s forces continue their “double tapping” against the Ukrainian people. They perfected this practice in Syria. The Russians strike a community with missiles \u2014 killing some and injuring others. The injured are trapped in the rubble. Then come the rescuers, the first-responders \u2014 and the Russians strike again, killing and injuring them, too. Putin’s Russia is a terror-state, plain and simple. And the civilized world ought to oppose that state, mightily.<\/p>\n
\n“If you think the Executive Branch leadership will address this, you have not been awake the last 26-months\u2026.”<\/p>\n
\nA Ukrainian partisan movement operating in the occupied south of the country has reported mass desertions by Russian forces there, with Moscow’s troops refusing to carry out combat missions.<\/p>\n
\nIran launched an attack on Israel, escalating long-standing tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n
\nThe world’s last colonial empire, though, is Putin’s Russia.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nProfessor Owen Anderson is suing Arizona State University over a required DEI course for faculty, a requirement which he claims violates state law.<\/p>\n
\nThree people are dead following a shooting that occurred Monday morning during a deposition at a law office in Summerlin.<\/p>\n
\nDuring the 1869 total solar eclipse, astronomers thought they had discovered a new element. They were wrong, and the truth was much weirder.<\/p>\n
\nAlthough California High-Speed Rail is unlikely to ever reach Anaheim’s overbuilt ARTIC station, Orange County nonetheless has its own rail boondoggle: the OC Streetcar. Like high-speed rail, the streetcar is behind schedule, overbudget, and unlikely to provide the benefits project sponsors promised.<\/p>\n
\nBerkeley, California really is a different world. Some of the things that happen in Berkeley will never make sense to me. For instance, last month a Berkeley educated engineer (he received three degrees from the school) was sentenced to probation for an attempted murder scheme that nearly worked. Despite being caught red-handed, David Xu spent a total of 10 days in jail while his victim has suffered years of health consequences.<\/p>\n
\nClimbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have transformed their craft beyond urban aesthetics to champion community issues.<\/p>\n
\nThe court reverses a contrary trial court decision.<\/p>\n
\nMath professor and ‘math equity’ advocate Jo Boaler is accused of ‘reckless disregard for accuracy through citation misrepresentation.’<\/p>\n
\nIt would be the first time a non-American lands on the moon.<\/p>\n
\nPro-Palestinian students who stormed Pomona College president’s office were arrested and booked by riot-gear-wearing police on Friday, the Claremont Courier reported.<\/p>\n
\nTechnology has moved on in leaps and bounds from the days of blow-up dolls to realistic sex robots, which have been ‘built to satisfy,’ and researchers have tried to find out who the most likely customers are<\/p>\n
\nKentucky continues to make (legal) changes to its election laws, and the latest one of these is something that other states should probably consider if they aren’t already doing so. Like most states, Kentucky allowed the Governor to appoint a replacement when one of its Senate seats becomes vacant under certain circumstances, depending upon the amount of time left until the next election. In 2021, the state legislature rolled back the Governor’s influence in selecting a replacement. Now, the GOP supermajority in the legislature has overridden Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto and fully removed the executive branch from the process. In the future, they will hold special elections, with the winner serving the remainder of the term for the empty seat.<\/p>\n
\n“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”<\/p>\n
\nNeighborhood character, three-judge district court panels, and a moldy office.<\/p>\n
\nMoicano has won three fights in a row<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nLast year, Ohio-based steel company Cleveland-Cliffs offered $35 per share in a half-stock, half-cash buyout to purchase U.S. Steel. Then, Japan-based Nippon Steel offered $55 per share, all-cash. U.S. Steel shareholders, naturally, prefer the much higher all-cash offer.<\/p>\n
\nGerman farmers and meat producers could soon feel the brunt of yet another government decision that punishes meat-eating in the name of green policies and climate change. <\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe autonomous Russian region is trying to protect its traditional culture, which exists between 80 and 116 beats per minute<\/p>\n
\nFirst, it’s a conspiracy theory. Then, it’s something to be used only on rare occasions. Then it is a great thing that should be mandatory. <\/p>\n
\nA rare six-legged mountain gazelle has been spotted in Israel. The male gazelle has an extra pair of legs growing from its back, but wildlife experts say it seems to be managing fine with the extra appendages.<\/p>\n
\nA Polish priest has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for sex and drug crimes after a man collapsed during an orgy at his home.<\/p>\n
\nIn its review of a case brought by 2,000 elderly women, the ECHR found that the Swiss government can be held liable for violating their human rights. Why? Because Bern has made what the institution regards as inadequate contributions to mitigating the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nTucker Carlson devoted the October 9 episode of his X show to the Hamas\/Israel war. He opened by searching for “the wise path forward” and asking what we should “do next in this chaotic moment.” For some reason, he didn’t directly answer his own question. We were to infer, however, that it’s none of our business. It might be best to avert our eyes.<\/p>\n
\nThe fight to defund and ban racist campus bureaucracies is not yet over.<\/p>\n
\nWe live in a post-modern era where objective truth is considered a lie. Everyone has their own truth. Not only does everyone have their own truth, but people gravitate toward voices to reassure them their truth is right and tell them what is happening in the world.<\/p>\n
\nIn politics, you’ll always get as good as you give. Whatever you mete out to the other guys will come back to you. A wise political party will not deploy tactics it wouldn’t want its political opponents to adopt for themselves because the terms of engagement are universal.<\/p>\n