Go All Abe Lincoln and Suspend Habeas?

That's the opinion of Childers regarding the outcome of the illegal "invasion" plus the Alien Enemies Act plus Abraham Lincoln vs. Taney (see Merryman).

Interesting speculation.

"Comparative Advantage"? Not.

You could read this short essay or read this graf-summary.  Seems that Ricardo, the theorist behind "comparative advantage" knew that the theory was BS under two circumstances.

... David Ricardo understood that comparative advantage, while an elegant theory, does not always apply. Specifically, it does not apply when buying goods with assets or debts, and it does not apply when capital is mobile. Given that both of these conditions are true today, it baffles me that supposed “experts” like Peter Schiff trot out this dead horse....

In this century, asset/debt purchases and capital mobility are the norm.  Also, even in Ricardo's century (19th), it was expected that patriotic capitalists would not screw their countrymen by relocating their jobs to Lower Cost Noplaces.

Surprise!!  Today's Wall Street Boyzzzz are not patriotic.

Any questions, class??

'Dollar Down' Debbie Downers (Conspiracists?)

There is a concentrated (perhaps co-ordinated?) effort to create a panic over the USD's recent slide.

Umnnnnhhhh.....

Look at the chart here.  The USD v. Euro exchange rate over the last 10 years kinda-sorta averages 1.10--that is, the Euro was worth about $1.10 or so.

The Euro took a dive beginning late May '21, recovered half the slide, lost a bit, and is now at..........

TA-DA!!

 $1.10 or so.

 When the New York banks, New York investors, and their "economist" mouthpieces talk, check the history.

Notice they don't talk much about the price of oil--which is down to $62.50 from mid-$70's in the last two weeks or so?

Why is that, hmmmm??

The Zionists vs. Trump, Gabbard, Vance......

PowerLine highlights a screed written by someone who should be identified as a Zionist.

Somehow, those people think that eradicating Iran or perfectly preserving Israel and furthering its territorial expansion is a Constitutional requirement for US citizens.  Emanations, permutations, etc.

Sorry, Charlie.  Trump wears that "America First" hat for a reason, and that reason is NOT Israel.

The Cost of Buying the USA?

What's the cost of buying the USA's help for slaughtering Ukrainians and Russkies?

About $700 million, according to Ukraine.

Musk released numbers from Ukraine on his X account.  According to him, the Ukies bought the following:

Biden, $92 million

McConnell, $89 million

Pelosi, $86 million

Schumer, $66 million

Graham, $82 million

Romney, $71 million

Cornyn, $41 million

Schiff, $62 million

Crenshaw (who can't afford to work for only $172K/year), $20 million

Lizzie Cheney, $77 million

Kevin McCarthy, $42 million.

Gee.  Paul Ryan is not on the list. 

N.B.:  It is said that Musk's numbers are not from "official" sources.  That raises the question "Who You Gonna Believe?  Musk or Cheney?  McCarthy?  Graham?  McConnell?  (etc.)

Not a tough choice at all.

Ending EPA's "Endangerment Finding" Tyranny

Whoa!  This is another Very Big Deal!

... Some brief history is in order. The EF [Endangerment Finding] is a December 2009 determination by the Obama EPA that emissions of greenhouse gases harm the public health and welfare. Since that time, the EF has been the factual and scientific foundation of virtually all climate activity undertaken by the federal government.  

The EF was made possible by a combination of scheming by the Clinton EPA, bungling by the Bush EPA, and judicial activism resulting in the 5-4 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA... [Another utterly stupid SCOTUS decision, by the way.]

OK.  So what?

...On April 9, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, “Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations,” directing agencies to come up with lists of regulations that run afoul of recent Supreme Court decisions. Select illegal regulations, as determined by the Trump administration, will then be terminated without the notice-and-comment process of the Administrative Procedures Act. The rationale is simply that: (1) the regulations are illegal per the Supreme Court decision; (2) they are no longer operative; and (3) terminating them does not require any sort of due process, so to speak. 

One of these recent Supreme Court decisions listed in the executive order is 2022’s West Virginia v. EPA. In that case, the Court held that the Obama EPA’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, an ironic progeny of the EF, was unconstitutional. Under the Court’s newly adopted “major questions doctrine,” significant regulatory agency programs require express congressional authorization. The Court deemed the Clean Power Plan to be a “major question” that lacked congressional authorization and, therefore, invalid.  ...

 If you thought the Radical Left (Red disguised as Green) was screeching up to now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Just buy out the popcorn shelf at your local grocery.  You'll go through a lot of it in the next few months.  

Oh--and as a precaution--stock up on ammo, too.  It may become a necessity.

Questions Start for Mueller Team Members

 Encouraging news here.

 The U.S. attorney [Ed Martin] for the nation’s capital sent a letter last week to a former member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, [Aaron Zelinsky] scrutinizing the Mueller prosecutor’s role in targeting and convicting former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos....

... “Declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation documents released under federal Freedom of Information laws have raised questions about the integrity and legality of your work as a federal prosecutor in the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation — a probe which failed to prove then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia and is now known to be falsely predicated,” the U.S. attorney told the former Mueller team member in a Monday letter obtained by Just the News and first reported by the New York Sun....

This bozo Zelinsky is not the 10-ring of the target.  The 10-ring is Andrew Weissman, a slimebucket of the first magnitude.  

There are many more excellent targets, including the Hotpants FEEB couple.  

There's a good reason that the Deep State does NOT want Martin approved as US attorney/D.C. and this is only the first stage of that reason.

Buy your popcorn!

Dickens and SCOTUS

It may not have been Dickens who first put "The law is an ass" into print.  But he made it very well-known in the English-speaking world.

So now we have Julia Roberts, Bleeding-Heart MommyJudge ACB, and three (or more) other idiots in D.C. making that phrase come to life in our day.

As a reminder:

 The law is an ass is a derisive expression said when the the rigid application of the letter of the law is seen to be contrary to common sense.

 SCOTUS is known for its "ass" decisions;  Roe was one; Dred Scott was another.  The decision that the President could not "line-item" vetoes was a third.  There are more.

But Dickens' maxim is slightly inaccurate.  The "law" is not an ass.  

But those who write decisions contrary to common sense are, indeed, asses.

Now the only question is "Why?"

Alito & Thomas Slam CJ Julia Roberts

 Not only Julia, but Mommy-Judge ACB.

 ...“Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order,” Alito wrote in his opinion.

“I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate. Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law. The Executive must proceed under the terms of our order in Trumpv. J.G.G., 604 U. S. (2025) (per curiam), and this Court should follow established procedures.”

According to Alito, the Supreme Court only had jurisdiction if the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction first. And the Fifth Circuit could only act if the order appealed from was a denial of a preliminary injunction—not a temporary restraining order (TRO).

Alito made it clear that the far-left groups like the ACLU were manipulating the process by prematurely appealing something that wasn’t even formally denied. The High Court, according to Alito, took the bait—something he says violates precedent and basic legal procedure.

The emergency request did not stem from a real, appealable decision. Instead, the ACLU argued the district court had constructively denied a request by not acting fast enough.

“This Court had jurisdiction only if the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction of the applicants’ appeal, and the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction only if the supposed order that the applicants appealed amounted to the denial of a preliminary injunction,” Alito wrote....

That "Constitutional Crisis" coming soon is caused by SCOTUS and its inferior Courts.

As Sundance put it, "Join a Gang!  You Have More Rights!!"

We don't think Julia knows what he's asking for.

Christ Est Erstanden!

This is the chorale, not the organ piece.

The melody is based on  "Victimae Paschali Laudes", the Gregorian Chant sequence for Easter. 

This video analyzes the piece.

This is the organ piece based on the chorale/Chant tune.

He Is Risen!!  He is Risen, Indeed!! 

 

Anti-Trump Demonstrations: Boring

This news item appeared:

Another grassroots, widespread action against the Trump administration is planned nationwide on Saturday.

Why it matters: The 50501 Movement takes momentum from recent protests to encourage Americans to become each other's "social support web" as the administration's policies target marginalized communities. ...

But does it really matter?

Here's the Milwaukee "Events" page.

Kinda quiet, eh?  No Democratic Socialists?  No UW-M or Marquette U twits?  Sad.

Let's go to 50 mile radius. 

Wow.  TWO demonstrators in Oconomowoc.  One is a lawyer, and there is more than a little irony that he works for Davis & Kuelthau.  He should look up the history on that "Davis" founding partner....

Wow.  17 demonstrators in Muskego.

Not to worry.  Some "news" outlet here will tighten up the frame of the picture in Muskego and announce "dozens."  That Oconomowoc lawyer?  Sorry, Charlie:  no free press for you!

1989: The Year Autism Became Obvious

Childers, of Coffee and Covid, noticed that RFKjr pointed to 1989 as the beginning of the autism horror, and Childers mentions a few factoids.

...Dr. Makary [Trump's FDA Grand Poohbah] offered his own personal thoughts about the possible cause. “If I had to make a hypothesis as a scientist, not as a regulator,” Makary said, “I think it is the cumulative burden of all of these exposures, environmental and dietary, that alter the microbiome.” In other words, processed foods, antiobiotics, and plasticizers. He asked, “When you carpet bomb the microbiome with all of these ingredients that don’t appear in nature … what are we doing?”

In other words, it’s not just bad genetics and bad luck.

Makary’s “multi-hit” hypothesis isn’t bad. It fits the data like a glove. Starting in the late 80’s, ultra-processed food exploded, heavily relying on high-fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and emulsifiers. C-section births and early antibiotic use became popular, both of which deplete microbiome seeding in infants. And new types of food manufacturing chemicals became commonplace, such as titanium dioxide, artificial sweeteners, and seed oils.

A raft of emerging studies increasingly link gut microbiota, immune function, and brain development, especially in early childhood. Autism seems to involve neuroinflammation and immune dysfunction— and both types of dysfunction are influenced by gut health....

Oh, but there's more, and you may have thunk this yourselves:

...Guess what also exploded in the late 80’s? Jabs. In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which instead of preventing jab injuries, opened the needle-tipped floodgates. It created a whole new market of mega-profitable, liability-free “vaccines.” In 1989, the CDC started adding new ones to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule and never looked back....

A lot remains to be seen and analyzed.  But we may have seen "Peak Pharma" a couple of years ago.  

 

Trump Lays Down the Law With Zelenskiy

The most notorious grifter in Europe--Zelenskiy of Ukraine--is about to feel the hammer. 

(But will Bo-ass-berg save him???)

 President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.

“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders.

“The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserves just as much, if not more attention.”...

Not to worry.  Some jackass Federal "judge" will order Trump to send the 3rd Armored into Russia to "bring justice and equity" to Ukraine.   Then Julia Roberts will say that Trump should 'facilitate the removal' of Russian troops.

Think "That can't happen"?

4th Circuit the New 9th

 This is becoming.....ahhh...........unbecoming.  Almost as if the Ninth Circus moved east to plague Americans from a new perch in their birdcage, filling another area with birdshit.

 

...A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge's decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her instruction to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was nominated by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote that he and his two colleagues “cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.”...

Smartass talk from some twit-in-black.

... “This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time,” Wilkinson wrote....

"The best that is within us" demands that ILLEGALS who are subject to DEPORTATION ORDERS FOLLOWING DUE PROCESS and who are LEADERS OF A TERRORIST DRUG-GANG be tossed.  The only discussion is whether to send him to his home country (where he is now) or just drop his ass into the Gulf of America from a helicopter.

And now the Twits-in-Black go to their Hilarious Commentary Page in their Decisions Template:

... “Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear,” Wilkinson wrote....

My "intuitive sense of liberty"--and that of my spouse, children, and grandchildren--is most noticeable  when  ILLEGALS who are subject to DEPORTATION ORDERS FOLLOWING DUE PROCESS and who are LEADERS OF A TERRORIST DRUG-GANG be tossed.  The only discussion is whether to send him to his home country (where he is now) or just drop his ass into the Gulf of America from a helicopter.

Then we can all go about our daily business with actual, genuine, liberty.

Stooges.

In the Good News Column....

 Not all black-robes are jackwads.

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor has concluded that over 9,000 Catholic employers are not required to comply with federal rules protecting employees seeking abortion and fertility treatment accommodations. This ruling came after the Catholic Benefits Association and the Bismarck Diocese challenged regulations set forth by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), arguing these rules infringed upon their religious liberties.

The lawsuit, initiated last year, contended that the EEOC’s guidelines, derived from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (effective since 2023), imposed obligations contrary to Catholic teachings. The Act mandates that employers provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy or childbirth-related requests. In 2024, the EEOC issued rules and harassment guidance meant to enforce this law, which included considerations for gender identity under sex-based discrimination.

Judge Traynor’s judgment was based on his determination that the regulations conflicted with federal laws protecting religious freedoms. He emphasized that the lawsuit’s core facts and evidence had not shifted since his earlier provisional block on the rule.

The Catholic Benefits Association, representing thousands of Catholic employers, claims the EEOC’s directives would force its members to go against their faith by accommodating abortions and fertility treatments and by compelling the use of pronouns, all incongruent with Catholic doctrine.

The First Amendment remains in effect. 

The "Press" vs. ALL the Truth on Autism

If all you know about autism is what you read in the MSM, you are seriously--seriously--under-informed.  (This report is somewhat better.)

 For the rest?

 ...To begin, they badly misquoted the new HHS Secretary. For mysterious reasons that historians will surely someday study, the media completely omitted Kennedy’s shocking autism statistics from the most recent CDC and state surveys. The autism rate continues increasing relentlessly, now up to 1 in 12.5 boys in the most recent California survey, which Kennedy called “an unrelenting upward trend.” That should have been the headline.

In other words, the fussy, selective media reporting misrepresented the urgency and specificity of his argument, since the California figure was a key piece of evidence Secretary Kennedy used to challenge the official ‘diagnostic’ narrative. Not only didn’t they headline that appalling statistic —the most recent data— but they whitewashed it altogether....

 ...Autism ‘activists’ focus on the most lightly affected, but the HHS Secretary noted that an astonishing “25% of diagnosed children are nonverbal, non-toilet trained, and exhibit severe symptoms like headbanging and sensory sensitivities.”...

TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT.  That is a very large number.

RFKjr quotes a CDC study indicating that something happened in 1989 which is the year when the autism numbers began to take off like a 747.  It is, therefore, environmental, not "genetic," (albeit some minor genetics could be involved.)

So what was the 1989 Event?

RFKjr intends to find out.

Ft McCoy Commander About to "Retire"

 It looks like the current Commander of Ft McCoy (Tomah, WI) is about to "retire."

Good old days, used to take a '50's Jeep into the boonies and...........ahh..........did you know they can drive just fine at a 30-degree angle?

 

"Article Three Insurrection" Continues

 A close reading of Article Three tells one that ONLY the Supreme Court is established in the Constitution.  All the other Federal courts are a creation of Congress (and can be UN-created by the same body.)

So when some rando insurrectionist in a black-robe costume comes on the scene to demolish the rule of law (see Article Two, Sentence # 1) Congress should act. 

Prudence demands that before we have another Andrew Jackson moment which will be approved by a large portion of the citizens.

Showboat "Van Hollen" Gets Sunk

Gee.  This is really sad.

 The government of El Salvador refused to allow Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) to see an alleged MS-13 gang member, who was mistakenly deported to the country....

The showboat "Van Hollen" was going to take the MS-13 jefe wife-beater/sex-trafficker into his home in Maryland to live with Van Hollen's wife and children back to Maryland to be set loose on the streets where the MS-13 jefe wife-beater/sex-trafficker could resume his professional activities using  Maryland residents as targets.

That boat sank.  Video at 10.

 

Lead Paint Problem? We Have Solutions!!

 It's all politics, because it most certainly is not facts.

Lead paint has been recognized as a serious health problem for MORE than 50 years, and it has been banned from use since 1978.

It's not like Milwaukee Public Schools didn't have adequate warning.

But they ignored all that, and it turns out that several (or more) schools have NEVER remediated their lead paint.

The CDC used to run tests on lead paint and painted surfaces, but Trump--in his wisdom--asked why in Hell all the taxpayers in the USA should pay for local problems, like--for example--the lazy and useless MPS Superintendents and Board members.

So Trump shut down that part of CDC.

Suddenly, MPS discovers a problem because their students develop lead paint poisoning symptoms.

So the bitching about Trump commences.  It's a Shiny Object!!!  "News" outlets take their dictation, and read their shorthand notes over the air because they are incapable of asking a question like this one:

"WHO ELSE PERFORMS LEAD PAINT TEST AND ANALYSIS??"

Type this into your search bar:   lead paint testing and analysis

FIVE results of private contractors showed up on DuckDuckGo.  About 30 showed up on Brave.

Think Corvair Johnson, the dumbest Mayor in the country, can handle it?  

How about the morons at MPS?

Maher/Trump. So What?

The first thing to know is that no one really should give a flying damn about "What Bill Maher thinks" about anything--except, perhaps, late-night television.

That's that.

 

That OKC Bombing and the FBI Coverup

 Kinda getting to be routine:  when the FBI is involved, "coverup" is going to be someplace in the article.  As they say, "Template."

 After the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI launched a massive manhunt for a mystery accomplice to Timothy McVeigh known as “John Doe 2”—only to later claim that he never existed, and that McVeigh acted largely alone.

Nearly 30 years later, an attorney in Utah named Jesse Trentadue is still working to unearth the truth through his ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for surveillance footage of the blast. According to FBI and Secret Service records, the footage shows McVeigh with another unidentified subject.

Since McVeigh’s other known accomplice, Terry Nichols, was confirmed to have been in Kansas on April 19, John Doe 2’s identity remains a subject of debate. Credible researchers have made the case that he may have been an undercover informant, or even an agent....

It's a long article; you can read the rest at your leisure.  But you get the idea, just like with the Epstein files, the JFK & RFK assassinations, the 'rest of the story' on the Butler PA near-assassin, and probably hundreds of other, far-less-prominent, stories.

FBI?  Lie.  Coverup.  Make certain that Congress never, ever, pulls off a real investigation.  (How do they do that, hmmmmmmmmm??)

 

Deportation a "Mistake"? Nope.

The whining and mewling from a (totally un-informed) MSM about deporting an MS-13 member back to his home country is disgusting.  After all, he was ordered to be deported by a judge SIX YEARS AGO.

But then, when 10-year-olds throw fits, it's disgusting.

We will give them this:  the "mistake" language that they use was actually put into the DoJ's brief, by a hard-left Democrat DoJ lawyer who has been FIRED for their treachery.  (You can expect more of this in the future.)

All the rest, including the March-Around-Around-Around at UW-Milwaukee and on S. 5th St., is theater for the TeeeVeeee crews to film.

Does Haaahvaaahd Have a RIGHT To Our Money?

 This seems rather simple.

The Administration demands that Haaaahhhvaaaahd comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964--that is, to stop its racist practices.

Haaaaahhhvaaaahd says "Shove it, Bozo!"

The Administration says "OK.  Kiss about $9 BILLION taxpayer dollars goodbye.  And don't let the door hit you in the ass."

Haaaaahhvaaaahd says "We Will SUE YOU for the MONEY!  We have RIGHTS!!!!"

The question before the Court is simple:  is Harvard entitled to taxpayer money no matter how egregiously they practice racism (and anti-Semitism, whatever that may be)?

Don't count on Federal Courts to go with "common sense." 

"Non-Violent" Child Killers, Like Planned Parenthood

Trump's call for CBS to 'lose its license' is certainly justifiable.  

Even more so, his decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood.

CBS News  reported about an ancient city just outside present-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan—”the city of the gods” or “the place where men become gods”—is best known for its twin Temples of the Sun and Moon....

 ...Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, said that the Teotihuacan altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, “especially of children.”...

Child sacrifice.  That would make the Teotihuacan tribe the model for Planned Parenthood, yes? 

CBS managed to find a "scientist" who has a different narrative on killing children.

 ...María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms “that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like.”

“We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies,” she said....

Planned Parenthood's "celestial bodies" are US dollars.  Same for the AWFLs who vote for abortion every time they get a chance.

There is nothing new under the sun.

 

Best Rule? Follow The Money!

Tucker Carlson interviews an ex-Congressman who retains multiple high-level CIA/ex-CIA contacts; that Congressman tells a similar story.

It's all about the money.

 ...in the years before Moscow’s invasion, Democrats enriched themselves politically and personally from Russian oligarchs and businesses in the region while empowering Putin with energy and technology deals that still haunt America today.

President Barack Obama, after taking office in early 2009, set in motion the merging of U.S. business interests with the Russian economy through the famous “reset” in relations between the two powers. Obama’s reset began in 2009 as an effort to cool tensions that had ballooned after Russia’s invasion of its small neighbor Georgia in 2008. 

The reset set the stage for several prominent Democrats and their benefactors to profit from the burgeoning business opportunities in Russia being facilitated by the Obama administration.

 In one case, the policy of Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to support and develop Russia’s “Silicon Valley,” known as Skolkovo, may have undermined U.S. national security while the family’s Clinton Foundation pocketed donations from Russian donors....

... Clinton’s spouse, former president Bill Clinton, also reaped rewards from the Russian reset, collecting a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital. The speech came at the same time that Secretary Clinton was opposing sanctions measures on Russian officials that later became the Magnitsky Act, Fox News reported....

Exit Clintons, enter Bidens!!

 ...Joe Biden, gave an early voice to the administration’s new policy towards Russia weeks after their term in office began. “The last few years have seen a dangerous drift in relations between Russia and the members of our Alliance,” Biden said at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 7, 2009. “It is time—to paraphrase President Obama—it's time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia.”

Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son, and his business partners took full advantage of the new thaw, waging a concerted campaign to squeeze oligarchs in Vladimir Putin's country for investments, an effort that ultimately paved the way for the first son to score a big payday from Burisma Holdings in neighboring Ukraine, Just the News previously reported....

The difference between this story and Weldon's? 

In Weldon's telling, there are a lot more people who raked in the money, including CIA agents, supervisors, and managers.

Surprised??

Malleable Expertise!

 

It Will Be EASTER

Last year, it was Tranny Day.

This year?

 

Ramesh Ponnuru Was Smart, Once

Let's not get too detailed here.

Ponnuru pretends that the TrumpTariff impositions are only about import taxes.

Maybe he's a propagandist, because he cannot be that ..........ahhh.........mentally challenged, can he?

It's hardly "just tariffs."  

There are non-tariff trade barriers.  There are pay-backs for US generosity.  There are budget-balances.  There are serious defense-industry considerations.  There are the pharmaceuticals that should be made here, and rare-earths that should be mined here.  And there are American families who would love to see a nice, steady, factory-job income.

Yes, Ramesh, BigBank, Inc., BigBond, Inc., and a variety of Venture Vultures hate tariffs; their bonuses are going to disappear.  Libertarians, who are congenital twits, hate tariffs because they live in an imaginary La-La-Land and like to beggar their neighbors.

We don't care.

We DON'T CARE.

 

Gee, Thanks, Presidents Clinton & Bush!!

The Big Bankers along with such vermin as Fink and the Goldie-Sachs crowd, weep and screech because their bonuses are threatened.

Didn't see a single flower from them at any of the funerals they caused while in cahoots with Clinton and Bush the Dumber....

 ...Recent research has uncovered the significant social impact of U.S. international trade policies, linking these to increases in fatal drug overdoses and other public health crises. For instance, a 2020 study in the American Economic Review highlighted that job losses resulting from unfair trade were connected to an uptick in fatal drug overdoses, particularly among white individuals of working age. The findings suggest a correlation between policy shifts and rising “deaths of despair” since the year 2000.

Additionally, research published in 2019 in SSM – Population Health demonstrated a positive association between job losses due to trade and increased mortality from opioid overdoses at the county level between 1999 and 2015. Specifically, for every 1,000 trade-related jobs lost, there was a 2.7 percent increase in opioid-related deaths. Moreover, when the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl was involved, this increase soared to 11.3 percent, underscoring the severe consequences of employment shifts driven by unfair trade....

However, the widows were able to buy very inexpensive funeral-wear at Wally World.

ANOTHER Would-Be Trump Assassin!!

Kittle is a Wisconsin writer; this came up before the Waukesha parricide-jackwad's game was revealed.

 ...Shawn Monper, 32, of Butler — the same Pennsylvania community where Trump came within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated last July — faces federal charges of making threats to assault and murder Trump, DOGE advisor and Tesla founder Elon Musk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and others, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. ...

Kittle's a smart reporter (with a terrible radio personality).  He will have a field day digging around to find out whether Roush, Monper, and Kasap have any friends in common--and from what countries.....

 

Hegseth's Challenge, Part 2

One day, two posts about the problems Hegseth faces.  This one is cadged from Vox and describes the problems of fighting a war with stuff that is too f*n complex to use in a war.  Go ahead.  Figure that out!

 ...The PzH 2000 howitzer, while advanced, is so technically fragile that its combat usefulness is in doubt. The Leopard 1A5 tank is used mostly as makeshift artillery due to weak armor. The Leopard 2A6 is too expensive and complex to maintain at the front.

Air defense systems also face problems. The IRIS-T works well, but ammo is too costly and scarce. The Patriot system is called “unsuitable for combat” because its MAN carrier vehicles are outdated and lack spare parts....--quoting Der Spiegel

We could summarize this very irreverently as the brass' preference for Toys, Not Boys.  

IOW, 'the toys are really whiz-bang neat-o wunderwaffen toys!!  Who cares whether the boys survive'? 

You should not be surprised; these bozos-with-stars were appointed or promoted by Lefty politicians who manifest the same priorities, mutatis mutandis, in their countries toward the untermenschen:  'Take care of the non-profit NGO's and Government employees.  Who cares if the poor or homeless actually benefit?'

 

An Explainer for Amy Coney Barrett

Many of my friends have asked "What happened to Amy Coney Barrett?"

Here's the explainer, written about another female-in-authority who was FIRED, a solution we wish were possible with ACB.

... Colonel Susannah’s maternal instincts were inflamed. She experienced an overwhelming (and professionally fatal) emotional need to contradict the Vice President to calm everyone’s bruised feelings, especially the Danes among the base’s mixed-nationality group. She unleashed the dogs of virtue and loosed a base email, which began by saying she’d reflected on “actions taken, the words spoken, and how it must have affected each of you.”...

"Maternal instincts" and "emotional need"...........combined with "feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllings".....

Pretty much how ACB renders judgment on Constitutional matters found in Article Two, Sentence One. 

Sub-context:  Are girls boys?  Are boys girls?  Nope.

 

Democrat Substance

 The Governor-ette of Michigan shows us what backbone Democrats have.  Remember that this is the female who played "victim" in the FBI-led "plot" to kidnap her.  

IOW, it's all theater to the Democrats.

 

Hegseth's MASSIVE Challenge

 You don't have to read much of this essay to understand that Pete Hegseth has a challenge fit for Hercules.

At the same time, it will be clear that DOGE is going to have a field day at the Pentagon.

The essay is a discussion of the IG report on a drone attack which killed three USAR people in Syria last year.  We will only quote a few grafs; the rest is a must-read.

... CENTCOM had requested anti-drone defense systems based on its risk analysis, but the entire US Army only had one, count them, one, system available, and it was reserved for redeployment training. Why you'd bother to use training time to gain familiarity with a system you will never see again is an unanswered question. Needless to say, nothing is too good for the troops, and that is exactly what they get. The base had one electronic warfare system designed to counter drones, but it was not used....

That would be one systemic and then one "applied" problem.  

...Tower 22's radar was not optimized for the most likely threat. Frequently, operators could not distinguish birds from drones. A better radar system had been requested and denied....

You get the drift?  The Pentagon has a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET this year but will NOT send must-have (not "nice-to-have") equipment into danger zones. 

Excuse us for asking, but WTF are they spending ONE TRILLION DOLLARS on?

What Is "Democracy"?

PowerLine finds a real gem in a book review by Prof. Busch; he reviews a book by a fellow named Ganz.

The money graf from the review:

 ...Driving Ganz’s analysis is a particular way of thinking, captured neatly in his list of the “good guys” of the early ’90s: Jesse Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Tom Harkin, Jerry Brown, Harris Wofford. His partisan leanings lead him to make observations that he is unable or unwilling to process fully. Clearly, he fears demagoguery and authoritarianism—at least from the right—but he simply equates democracy with egalitarianism, never pairing it with constitutionalism, rights, or the consent of the governed. Yet, it is precisely democracy untethered to constitutionalism or fundamental rights that is most vulnerable to demagoguery and authoritarianism. Once that door is opened, any unscrupulous actor can walk through. Ganz quotes Huey P. Long as claiming, “There is perfect democracy [in Louisiana], and when you have perfect democracy it is pretty hard to tell it from a dictatorship.” Long might well have read Aristotle. But, sincere or not, Long was nothing if not a voice for egalitarianism—the veritable Bernie Sanders of the 1930s....

IOW, the virtue is in self-restraint (or State-restraint.)

Self-restraint:  it's not just for Lent.

 

Owen Asks the Right Question

Owen of Boots & Sabers has the right question.  

The post focuses on an unexpected result of "Free Tuition" at a prestige medical school; that result was that the "underprivileged" admissions dropped by seventy-five percent (!!).

Anyhow, here's Owen's take:

 ...What the story doesn’t talk about is outcomes. How many students were able to complete their degrees? How many graduated and went on to good careers? Colleges focus so much on the equity of admissions but not the success of their students after they graduate....

That query leads to a broader--and just as critical--question:  Is college really the One Necessary Thing?

In this country, taxpayers, parents, and students commit very large resources to 'a college education.'  But for many students, the money is wasted; they are not able to do actual "college work."  (Defining "college work" is another large problem when Harvard is forced to offer remedial math...)

In Milwaukee, Allis-Chalmers led the parade of employers requiring a college degree for all of its administrative (e.g., customer service, computer programmer, mid-level accounting) and management employees back in the mid-'70's.  (Shortly afterwards, the CEO who emitted that demand led the Company off the cliff; Allis-Chalmers is no more.)   Were those degrees really necessary?

Are they today?

Nah.   

There will be a very significant reduction in the number of colleges and universities operating in the USA over the next 10-20 years.  It's largely demographic-related; but another noticeable component is the growing perception that college is not 'all that.'

Finally!

Cutback in College "Overhead" for Research....

 Somehow or other, the "press" missed this factoid.  Could it be because the "press" never asked the question?  Could it be that the press just typed up the colleges' responses and read them on the air?

 

New @Energy policy caps university grant overhead at 15%, consistent with for-profit, non-profit, and state/local government awardees.

This saves taxpayers >$400M/yr. 

More money available for research, and less money to administrative bloat.

Imagine that!!  Everybody getting energy-research dollars can live happily with 15% for administration--except colleges and universities.

Why is that?

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