The Obama administration’s EEOC has loosed its reins.
Wearing a cap to work that has a “Don’t Tread On Me” slogan on it is a racist and EEOC-actionable thing to do.
Because Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech means whatever this Democratic administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it means.
I’ll leave aside specifics of Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s goals in appointing Supreme Court Justices. The overriding goal of Clinton is to appoint Justices who meet a series of litmus tests, none having to do with the Justice candidate’s view of the Constitution. A potential appointee must explicitly agree that Citizens United must be reversed. A potential appointee must explicitly agree that limits to individual Americans’ right to keep and bear Arms must be subject to further government restrictions—including Government determining what weapons are fit for Americans to have (no “assault” weapons—defined by her Government—for instance). A potential appointee must explicitly agree that voter ID laws, which protect the sanctity of an American’s vote, are anathema. A potential appointee must explicitly agree that religious freedom is a matter of government determination with nothing to do with individual conscience.
Clinton’s goal, then, is to turn the Supreme Court away from an impartial judicial institution into one that is explicitly political, and one that will serve Progressive goals. Regardless of what the Constitution actually says.
It won’t take many Clinton appointments, either, to turn the Court into her completely political institution. Four of the existing Justices already are political judges rather than judges who uphold the Constitution. Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have said they consider the Constitution to be a living document that lives through “updating” reinterpretations to fit their views of the times—Article V and We the People be damned. Ginsburg has gone even farther, deliberately entering the political fray and publicly stating her views of the unfitness of one of the current Presidential candidates, thereby prejudicing in advance her decisions on any case in which that President’s administration might become involved. Justice Sonya Sotomayor has said the Court benefits from her “wise Latina” and empathetic talents—again, a political position and not a legal one. Justice Elena Kagan has said that a judge’s personal values must guide the judge’s development of her opinion, not solely what the Constitution says—still another political, rather than legal, position.
Elections have consequences, and this one’s will last far longer than just the term of one administration.
The NLMSM is vociferously reporting that Republican Party Presidential candidate Donald Trump tossed a baby out of one of his rallies.
Here are actual facts from an eyewitness, via PJMedia. The eyewitness is Will Estrada, Loudoun County Republican Committee Chairman; he also was invited to give the invocation at the rally. This is what he posted on his Facebook page about the baby incident [emphasis in the PJMedia quote]. Estrada’s Facebook post is here.
One thing I want to mention is the baby crying, because that has been national news. Contrary to news stories, it was a very funny thing, Trump was very supportive of the mom calling her and her baby “beautiful” and “wonderful”, and then when the baby kept crying he turned it into a joke. Everyone was laughing and it was actually very endearing and funny. Not at all anti mom or anti baby like the media has portrayed it to be.
Estrada had an additional comment, too, this time about the media…coverage.
Which brings me to the final point: I was there and saw and heard the entire event with the mom and baby. There was nothing to it. But then after I’m reading all the news coverage saying “Trump hates moms and babies!!!” I started to doubt myself. Did I really miss a huge story right in front of me? I started asking others who were there, including a husband and wife with young kids. And everyone in the room said the same thing: there was no story here. Trump was being funny and personable and going out of his way to make sure the mom wasn’t embarrassed by making it a funny situation. My conclusion is that the media is selling us a narrative. Be very skeptical of what the media is telling you, because I saw it with my own eyes and it was something very different.
Estrada is being generous. This is the dishonesty of the media.
Here’s an example.
The vice president of the Student Government Association at the University of Houston was punished by the Student Senate for a Facebook post that read, “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter.”
The “offending” Facebook post by SGA VP Rohini Sethi has since been deleted, but below is an image of it.
UofH’s response at the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement?
[A] 50-day suspension beginning August 1, mandatory attendance of a diversity workshop, mandatory attendance of three cultural events per month, a reflection letter, and a public presentation at the Student Government Association meeting on September 28[.]
If she doesn’t complete this Mao-ist reeducation camp requirement, the SGA will banish her from their organization. And expose her to continued harassment for her effrontery.
It is rank racism that proclaims the perhaps lives matter, but especially some lives matter more than others.
…from the best damn change-maker [Bill Clinton has] met in my entire life. Indeed,
Mrs Clinton has been clear. She wants to serve as Mr. Obama’s political and policy heir, as she and he now admit. This won’t mean “change” unless the Clintons have an unusual personal definition of that word, as they do for “classified material.” A de facto third Obama term will mean the status quo, only more of it.
Here’s what Obama has accomplished with his policies, and Clinton has made no bones about wanting to do even more of it.
The slowest recovery from a recession since WWII—a period that encompasses a dozen recessions, culminating in the Panic of 2008.
Rapid retreat from the world
Here’s how Clinton wants to extend the domestic same old-same old, acceding to the demands of Independent Socialist Senator Sanders (I—he walked away from the D as soon as that no longer was convenient—VT). We can’t afford four more years of no change, especially from a change-maker who’s promising unchanged-making.
With all of this paid for by even higher taxes, including a nearly doubling of the top tax rate on long-term capital gains to 43.4% from 23.8%, which is about as anti-investment and job-killing as it’s possible to get.