On February 16, 2016,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Monday, February 15th, Presidents Day 2016…but first, courtesy of the WSJ, we mark the passing of a truly great American with a compilation of what could be termed his greatest hits…against forces dedicated to consigning the Founding Fathers’ Republic and its Constitution to the dustbin of history:
Antonin Scalia: March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016
“Morrison v. Olson (1988), a dissent from the court’s 7-1 ruling that the Independent Counsel Act is constitutional:
…Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep’s clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf…
King v. Burwell (2015), a dissent from the court’s ruling interpreting the Affordable Care Act as extending tax credits to qualified persons in every state, not just those states that—as the law had specified—operated their own health-insurance exchanges:
…Having transformed two major parts of the law, the Court today has turned its attention to a third. The Act that Congress passed makes tax credits available only on an “Exchange established by the State.” This Court, however, concludes that this limitation would prevent the rest of the Act from working as well as hoped. So it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere.We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), writing for the majority in a 5-4 decision affirming the Second Amendment right of individuals to keep and bear arms:
…Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct…”
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, and perhaps more importantly, the country he leaves behind in his considerable wake; it pains us to say she may never see his like again.
P.S.
Report: Scalia Died From Heart Attack
Yeah…and Vince Foster moved his own body after committing suicide.
P.S.S. Inquiring Conservative minds would do well to note the Senate Majority Leader’s choice of words on an occasion so critical to the survival of the Republic:
“The American peopleshouldhave a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancyshouldnot be filled until we have a new President.”
Very bold! But we’ll believe McConnell and the rest of the Senate’s RINOs have grown spines when we see them, i.e., when it actually counts.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the 2016 Presidents Day edition with a brief bit of commentary inspired by a recent conversation with our good buddy G. Trevor. To borrow a phrase from Alice during her stay in Wonderland, things are getting curiouser and curiouser; an utterly appropriate observation given we, just as Lewis Carroll wrote of Alice, are “so much surprised” by our country’s current circumstances, “that for the moment” WE “quite forgot how to speak good English”!
On the one hand, we have Conservatives rightfully clamoring over the political-correctness, complete failure and utter lawlessness of Big Government, as personified by B. Hussein, Hillary, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, the VA, the continuing flood of illegal immigrants and the decimation of our Military…ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Not to mention spending so uncontrolled it would make Tom DeLay…or a sailor on liberty after 7 years at sea…blush.
On the other hand, the Berners believe, mountains of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, Free-Market Capitalism is the problem, and Bigger Government the solution.
Yeah…
Please tell us where it’s worked…once…just ONCE…and we’ll concede the point! Be it Plymouth, Pyongyang, Petrograd or Phnom Penh…Caracas, Cuba or Communist China, the results are in; and they’re…
The gulf between the two sides has never been larger, nor nearly as impossible to span. And frankly, given the Left’s refusal to recognize the sanctity of Freedom of Speech (let alone the rest of the Bill or Rights), or even countenance the possibility of the federal government’s hopeless ineptitude, we’re not inclined to contribute even a brick to bridge the divide.
Meanwhile, if either of these two are the answer to what ails America…
…we don’t understand the question. In all seriousness, if The Donald or Kernel Sanders told their supporters to sample some Jonestown-flavored Kool-Aid, we believe a significant portion would willingly imbibe.
Here’s the juice: while neither one of these two are perfect…
…either is infinitely preferable to any of the alternatives…though we recommend them in descending order from right to left!
Next up, in today’s installment of Tales From the Darkside, writing at the WSJ, Heather MacDonald offers the reality behind…
“A television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism.”
Her Democratic presidential rival, Bernie Sanders, met with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday. Mr. Sanders then tweeted that “As President, let me be very clear that no one will fight harder to end racism and reform our broken criminal justice system than I will.” And he appeared on the TV talk show “The View” saying, “It is not acceptable to see unarmed people being shot by police officers.”
Apparently the Black Lives Matter movement has convinced Democrats and progressives that there is an epidemic of racist white police officers killing young black men. Such rhetoric is going to heat up as Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders court minority voters before the Feb. 27 South Carolina primary.
But what if the Black Lives Matter movement is based on fiction? Not just the fictional account of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., but the utter misrepresentation of police shootings generally.
To judge from Black Lives Matter protesters and their media and political allies, you would think that killer cops pose the biggest threat to young black men today. But this perception, like almost everything else that many people think they know about fatal police shootings, is wrong.
The Washington Post has been gathering data on fatal police shootings over the past year and a half to correct acknowledged deficiencies in federal tallies. The emerging data should open many eyes.(Unfortunately, there are none so blind as those who WILL not see!)
For starters, fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths. According to the Post database, in 2015 officers killed 662 whites and Hispanics, and 258 blacks. (The overwhelming majority of all those police-shooting victims were attacking the officer, often with a gun.) Using the 2014 homicide numbers as an approximation of 2015’s, those 662 white and Hispanic victims of police shootings would make up 12% of all white and Hispanic homicide deaths. That is three times the proportion of black deaths that result from police shootings…”
But remember, Progressives positively beg you, please don’t confuse them them with the facts. When it comes to the truth, the whole truth or anything even remotely resembling the truth,…
“The “Concerned Town Hall” was advertised on campus as a meeting for “black students and students of color” and many white journalists were asked to leave before it began at a chapel located on campus.
“If there are any reporters in here, can you please exit? That was my nice warning,” a student organizer announced. In a video taken by Mark Schierbecker, a student at the school and freelance videographer who contributes to The College Fix, a white male reporter from a local newspaper, the Columbia Tribune, politely questioned the student’s request.
“We will definitely respect your privacy,” the reporter can be seen saying to the group, “Just curious, um – why are you guys afr — why are you guys asking us to leave?…”
…The group of activists eventually left and headed to another, more private location.“
Yes, far from prying eyes, video cameras, tape recorders or any other device capable of memorializing their disreputable bias.
One final note on the subject of America’s increasingly-institutionalized Black racism…and this is, as we used to say in day of the politically-incorrect F-14 community, a no-sh*tter: absent significant action forthcoming from the NFL…
…we’ve watched our last professional football game.
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