Electorate Complisity

How some incumbent officeholders get re-elected after accomplishing nothing in their tenure is beyond me; Gillibrand and AOC come to mind. The whole so-called “Squad,” for that matter, support all the liberal causes, get their camera time, and run their mouths incessantly, but do absolutely nothing to benefit their constituents, save for those feeding at the government trough. They are forever feathering their nests in the spoils of notoriety. Career politicians posing as public servants.

What Have We Wrought

If you run a successful business, you best gird your loins. The DOJ is now investigating Boeing. It is likely outrageous fines will result. Trump’s businesses and real estate holdings are on the chopping block to pay up on the punitive monetary findings levied against him in the liberal court system in New York. The US Attorney General is suing Apple for anti-trust and monopolistic practices in the smartphone market, apparently never having heard of Samsung. Big Pharma has long suffered at the hands of the government through lawsuits, price controls, or, in the case of COVID-19, by confiscating cutting-edge technology. It appears that lately, the government is using big business as their piggy bank with hoards of attorneys paid for with your tax dollars harvesting greenbacks from wealthy corporations. Granted, there should be regulation and oversight, but the punishment as of late seems out of scale. The message is clear:  do business in America at your own peril. And the result will be as it always is. The middle class will bear the brunt of price increases and loss of access to services as businesses pull back, and we will all suffer the consequences of less innovation in pharmaceutical research. But Leticia James, Merrill Garland, and a host of self-righteous government-sponsored drones will pad their resumes and further their careers while filling the coffers of the voracious, insatiable beast that is government. 

HUD Fudge Lunacy

HUD Secretary Martha Fudge said on NPR this morning that “the solution to homelessness is housing.” Really? Another genius brought to you by the Biden Administration. The secretary’s comments should be alarming to anyone who lives in the ‘burbs. Laura Ingraham beat her to the punch in last night’s segment, warning that the government is coming for the suburbs. Martha Fudge stated that she wants to protect inner-city enclaves from gentrification and seeks to promote affordable, low-income, cheaply constructed apartment complexes….some with bedrooms off of a common area (read dormitories), to provide 3 million units for the “unhoused.”  Because, again, the solution to homelessness is housing. Genius. We are going about housing solutions all wrong, she said. We can’t build small single-family homes anymore. They’re too expensive. And if they aren’t building these multi-family units in the city, where do you think they’re planning on putting them?  That’s right, in your lily-white suburban paradise. I see it happening everywhere. Loose zoning laws and plenty of farmland result in developers getting a greased path from government officials to put up large, cheap complexes with a high percentage of low-income units. It floods the school system with welfare recipients who, of course, require the school lunch program and after-school babysitting services and are disruptive in class. Throw in “English as a second language” programs. So the school budget goes through the roof, the quality of the school system takes a hit when teachers leave, and higher-income students flee to private schools. Taxes go up, and the productive businesses and middle class move out to greener pastures. And all it takes in these small communities is one large complex to tip the scales towards progressive voting, and the town council and the school committee become liberal activists.  Increased traffic, increased crime, less services for the original residents. Congratulations, you’re a city. I wonder if there are any plans for low-income housing in Martha’s Vineyard or Rehoboth Beach?

Pretense Of Virtue

The hypocrisy, spin, and doublespeak are in high gear with the liberal media, insensitive to video recall of their past subterfuge. Recently, NPR was praising the Biden administration for another spending spree, this time millions to support research in women’s health, an initiative spearheaded by Doctor Jill Biden. No, not that kind of doctor. She stood at the podium and railed against conventional medical practice that treats men and women the same when, in fact, women are different. Are they now?  What an interesting statement considering the democrat party’s repeated inability to define precisely what a woman is, let alone their insisting that women can become men and vice versa. Perhaps our newest Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, should weigh in on this. Maybe not. Then, in the next segment, we heard about a murderer in Georgia, the perpetrator sentenced to death. Despite unequivocal evidence of guilt in a heinous crime, the accused apparently is mentally deficient and black. Therefore, the left is claiming he is of insufficient intelligence to understand his sentence, and he was inadequately represented by the public defender because…..of course, he is a person of color. But the most amazing statement came from capital punishment activists who, praised by NPR, actually stated that despite committing murder, the accused have “a right to life.”  Really?  Perhaps we should start getting late-term fetuses to commit crimes in the womb, thus giving them a right to life as well. It’s enough to make your head spin.

Preview of Coming Attractions

How interesting. In the formerly prosperous but now socialist disaster known as Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro, in seeking his third term, has seen his opposition party’s candidate, Maria Corina Machado, disqualified by “authorities.”  This after she received over 90% of the vote in her party’s primary election. Meanwhile, in Russia, President Vladimir Putin wins yet another term with 87% of the vote after his opposition party’s de facto leader and anti-corruption activist, Alexei Navalny, was sent to an Arctic gulag where he mysteriously died. So this is how politics is played on the world stage. Is anyone in our media paying attention?

Abortion Distortions

Biden’s SOTU address advised the DNP’s  2024 Campaign cudgel, Abortion.

Even the Wall Street Journal celebrated with a page one photo of exuberant supporters and a headline proclaiming, “France Adds Right to Abortion to Constitution.”  As French president Macron has seen his popularity decline, he took a page from the American democrat playbook and pledged to enshrine abortion as an “irreversible right” in their constitution. This, a couple of days before an angry, if not slightly bewildered, Joe Biden made a show of chastising the Supreme Court Justices for overturning Rowe v Wade in a televised address and threatened them by suggesting the power of the female electorate will come back to bite them, vowing to once again enshrine abortion rights as the law of the land. What tasteless grandstanding from an impotent old man that didn’t belong in a State of the Union address, a performance that amounted to nothing more than a re-election speech chock full of lies and manipulation of the facts. He is supposed to be an elder statesman, not a shell of a man full of bravado and vitriol. And there you have his entire campaign in a nutshell:  abortion rights and Trump is a threat to democracy. Period. Full stop. But I digress. Back to the French, whose prime minister Gabriel Attal referenced the US as well, stating: “The freedom to have an abortion remains under threat; our rights are inherently threatened, inherently fragile. Talk to American women.”  Now, hold on a minute, Gabe. Freedom implies an unfettered ability to do whatever you want, and that’s not what the French have done here. There are restrictions in place much greater than most states in America currently allow. So, referencing America without a footnote describing individual states' rights is disingenuous. We have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but nowhere does there exist a right to kill the unborn. That is an allowance contrived by man not endowed unto us by the creator. So enough of that commandeering of language to make it seem that the righteous are being denied.  The United States is a constitutional Republic, and in our founding, the states were allowed to govern themselves within the framework of the Constitution. Thus, the decision to overturn Rowe was not an abortion ban. Rather, it corrected a flawed legal decision and turned the issue over to the states to enact their laws concerning abortion. Witness the labyrinth of gun laws that differ from state to state even though there exists an amendment to the constitution that should make that much easier to interpret. But no, despite having a concealed carry permit in Pennsylvania, the result will be an arrest for illegally possessing a firearm should the unlucky permit holder take the wrong exit and end up in New Jersey. Such is true for abortion laws as well. And pro-choice women in America continually show their arrogance by seeking access to abortion at any time during the pregnancy, right up to the moment of birth, a barbaric practice that flies in the face of both science and ethics. What difference would it be in development between aborting five minutes before birth versus five minutes after?  Are we not condoning infanticide? The “bundle of cells” argument put forth by the intellectually lazy is simply preposterous as these simpletons chant their bumper sticker slogans and blissfully ignore the facts. And this is supposed to be the party of science.  Only when it suits them. But the French may have gotten this right. Although abortion is now enshrined in their constitution, it is restricted to 14 weeks, a respectable compromise taking into account that studies show the fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks and that a vast majority of the public is most comfortable restricting the procedure to the first trimester. And that includes the US. Although the radical fringe exists on both ends of the spectrum from Ralph Northam’s callous suggestion that as a distressed newborn lies on the table, a discussion may be undertaken on whether to institute life-saving measures…..or not……..to the other end where the religious right believes in the sanctity of life at conception, a view that includes a freezer full of in vitro fertilized ovum, the fact remains that most Americans support abortion restriction at 14-16 weeks. The extremists on both sides will object,  but admittedly, one extreme involves infanticide, while the other is a belief in when life begins. To which extreme would you ethically want your margin of error? The only way forward is compromise. Listen to the majority and avoid the extremes. And with the world in turmoil, let’s not choose a president based on the abortion issue alone.  The Wall Street Journal article was, therefore, disappointing in that it leaned in on the constitutional right to abortion without emphasizing France’s moderation in restricting the procedure to 14 weeks. And that is something we should consider emulating here. The Republicans should support such compromise and remove abortion as a self-destructive campaign issue. The democrat's response will be telling. Will they agree with the majority of Americans and compromise, or will they continue to support the most radical fringe of their party and keep the issue alive as a partisan campaign cudgel?