The Culture

Did the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the rule of law?

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When the plain meaning of words no longer holds true, can you really have a rule of law?

Those are the questions I am asking myself after one of the Supreme Court’s rulings last week. In the much ballyhooed voting rights case of Moore v. Harper, the majority of the justices decided that the state legislatures did not have absolute power to determine the rules on how federal elections are conducted in the states. Instead, the Court provided the judicial branch of the state veto power over the legislature thereby overruling the the plain meaning of the words of the Constitution. Instead, the Court decided what the words meant thereby amending the Constitution with their opinion.

Don’t believe me? Well, you shouldn’t and always bring the receipts so you can decide for yourself.

Here are the words from Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution on the matter with respect to the election of members of congress:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.

As you can plainly see, the supreme law of our land, the U.S. Constitution, does not mention a state’s executive nor judicial branch when referencing elections. It plainly says ”by the Legislature thereof”.

Need more? Well, ok what about the election of the president? In a post at Zero Hedge, Mark Miele provides:

And as for presidential elections, the matter is even more cut and dried. Article 2, Section 1, declares, “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.”

Again, you can plainly see that there is no mention of the executive or judicial branches in these quotes directly from the text of the U.S. Constitution.

This was judicial activism in its purest sense and needs to be called out and stopped. How can this be stopped? Given we no longer are guided by moral men and women in the courts, executive or legislatives branches of our government, Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments outlines what might be the only peaceful way to reign in the courts as well as the administrative agencies and put the power back into the people’s hands.

At the end of the day, if a law’s words do not mean what they say, and only a group of unelected judges determine how the law should be written, we no longer have rule of law and are much like Iran where their judges determine what the law is.

America’s Left is Today’s Third Reich

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We were on a family vacation in Israel recently, and as many do, we toured Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum). As we toured the museum, the tour guide described the tactics and processes used by Hitler and his thugs in turning the people of Germany against the Jewish population. At the end of the tour, my wife and I agreed that what the guide described is what is currently being done to conservatives, Christians and any one else who does not tote the line of the left. Seeking to destroy individuals simply because they do not agree with you is the left’s game. They try and convince their followers that the reason they are so miserable is due to conservatives. Personal responsibility – out the window. Every grievance their constituents have is due to conservatives. That’s their message, and given they control the educational system in the U.S., they are able to indoctrinate children in this philosophy at an early age before their reasoning skills are developed. This ensures the minds of the children are warped, and the left’s doctrine become part of the child’s core beliefs. Once established, these core beliefs are difficult to change and set the country down a similar path to Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

Waiting on the world to change

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I was listening to XM yesterday, and John Mayer’s song ”Waiting on the World to Change” came on. I’ve heard the song many times, I but never really listened to the words. For some reason, I did today and found a line that puts today’s woke/misinformation world into perspective.

Whether it is COVID, J6, ESG, DE&I or the disinformation crowd, a line in the song nails it and really tells you why free speech is needed.

And when you trust your television what you get is what you got cause when they own the information oh they can bend it all they want

Isn’t that exactly what the Twitter files has shown? How about Tucker Carlson’s release of J6 videos? COVID 19? How about the entire Trump/Russia hoax?

We are failing as a country and it is the government/media symbiote that is the reason. Time to kill all of the alphabet agencies and start fresh.

Nike suspends relationship with Kyrie Irving; Kyrie 8 launch off 

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ESPN has the headline. above Let’s see, NIKE, the company whose business supports slavery and child labor in China, has a problem with a guy who tweeted about a movie that has anti-Semitic overtones/content and failing to clarify whether he held anti-Semitic beliefs.

As a Jew, I couldn’t care less about what Kyrie believes. He’s allowed to have an opinion and has a right to free speech whether I like it or not.

The only thing I would tell Kyrie is: do your homework. Holding an opinion whose foundation is based upon ”facts” that can be proven false means you’re not an intelligent person. From watching interviews, reading prior articles about you, your position on the COVID vaccine., all suggest you’re a person of intelligence. So Kyrie, do some homework.

Regardless, I support Kyrie’s free speech and even his right to be wrong.

Question to Kyrie: Why Apologize?

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The NY Post has an article on the reaction to Kyrie Irving’s tweet of a link to an ant-Semitic movie. According to the Post’s article:

Speaking to reporters for the second time since his promotion of the film, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” Irving refused to say he was sorry, refused to say he doesn’t hold anti-Semitic beliefs, refused to say the Holocaust happened and cast himself as the victim in the entire saga.

As noted in the article, Kyrie refused to apologize at a press conference or disclaim any anti-Semitic views. He finally issued an apology after he was suspended indefinitely by the Nets. But my question is: why apologize?

As a Jew, I want all of those who hold anti-Semitic views to self-identify. I say the same about racists. I would rather you continue your rants and self-identify than issue an apology which no one knows is true or is simply a strategy to remove the focus from yourself and stop the negative financial impacts your statements are causing.

Living in the U.S. and being a free speech advocate, I realize that a lot of speech I won’t like, may cause pain and/or upset some. However, you have a right to it. You have a right to believe what you want to believe. When you continue believing things even when they are proven to be wrong, well, you’re just an idiot and no one cares what you say. Many will howl at that saying many will follow such idiots given they are cultural icons, and I say: ok. That is your right under our Constitution. Do I like it? No, but principles matter and limiting an idiot’s free speech is wrong.

Said differently, I am an actions speak loader than words and sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me guy. While I’m often reminded from my better half that words do hurt, my response is always: they do if you allow them to. To Kyrie, how you act matters much more than what you say, so I’ll watch the walk and make my determination about you and your character.

Can We Fix the Corrupt Federal Government?

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That’s a question I have been pondering for a long time. Yeah, we get to vote every couple of years, but regardless of who we vote for or which party controls the legislative and administrative branches, things seem to continue towards total federal control of every aspect of our lives.

The corruption runs deep in the federal government. Between the DoJ, FBI and DHS, the federal government can surveil you even if there is no crime. They simply open up a counter terrorism investigation on you. Now, they will track everything you do looking for a crime.

So, please vote Republican in November, because, as Dan Bongino would say, ”the republicans may not be the solution to all of your problems, but the democrats are definitely the cause.”

Time to End Qualified Immunity for Government Officials

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Chris Bray reports on another instance of local governments trampling on its citizen’s 1st Amendment Rights. Between instances like this and the DoJ and FBI’s recent activities in attempts to squelch their political enemies, our republic is truly in danger. There is only one way of dealing with this: end the qualified immunity governmental officials have. Only when individuals in government have to personally suffer the consequences of their illegal actions will some balance be restored.