June, 2022 archive
The Grift that Keeps on Grifting 0
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, in a sane polity, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Criminal Intent 0
From the webpage:
Seth takes a closer look at the January 6 committee releasing new evidence that Trump and his lawyer John Eastman knew their plan to overturn the 2020 election would violate the law.
“A Republic, If You Can Keep It” 0
At The Denver Post, Air Force Major General (ret.) Irv Halter points out that “it’s not the economy, stupid.” Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
What happened leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, was an organized attack on our founding document and nation. Despite overwhelming evidence, people who should have been saying “no” to the lie and the liar, instead marched in lockstep behind him.
Originalist Sin 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Erwin Chemerinsky and Dennis Aftergut argue that the new-fangled notion of Consititutional Originalism as its being applied applied to the Second Amendment* is killing us. A snippet:
Simply put, there is no constitutional basis for saying that the original meaning of the Second Amendment was to protect the right of 18-to-20- year-olds to purchase a weapon of mass killing that didn’t exist when the amendment was adopted in 1791.
Nor is there the slightest indication that the Second Amendment was meant to invalidate age restrictions on purchasing firearms. This is important because, according to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, 18-to-20 year olds are responsible for homicides at three times the rate of adults 21 and older. The human brain does take time to mature.
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*Said application is a bunch of mealy-mouthed double-talk. If the persons promoting it were true orginalists, they’d outlaw everything that wasn’t a flintlock musket, but that’s another post.
Facebook Frolics 0
Aside:
I’ve reached the point that, when someone tells me some outrageously disgusting bit of “news,” the first question I ask, particularly if puts members of a protected class in a bad light, is, “Did you read that on Facebook?”
The Entitlement Society 0
Well-known author resents losing his free pass.
Racism is not just overt. It’s also covert. And this is about as covert as it gets.
Honest to Pete, he should know better.
But, clearly, he doesn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness at the drive-thru window.
The Privatization Scam, Medicare Disadvantage Dept. 0
“Medicare Advantage” was nothing but a Republican ploy to let insurance companies skim profits from the public purse. Thom explains the con.
