Saturday Night Classics: Frontier Psychiatrist
The Three Whisky Happy Hour gang is finally all back in the U.S. after weeks of galavanting overseas, and boy is there a lot to catch up on. Among our topics this week are the signs and wonders that the Age of Trump is fully established; the Biden pardons; the farcical Penny trial; whether World War III is indeed under way, and the attempted coup in Korea, about which our resident Korea expert (and resident Korean!) John Yoo has lots of thoughts.
Along the way some fresh new insults are thrown around, with John leveling the ultimate low blow against Steve—calling him a Hegelian! Thems is fightin’ words!
Should we wake the President?
Charlie Cooke at NRO has a Corner post detailing discussions within the White House advocating preemptive pardons for Biden allies. Perhaps most curious, however, is that Mr. Biden is not involved in those discussions at this point. This got me thinking…
Obviously, the constitutional pardon power is exclusive to the President and is generally unreviewable. But what happens to a pardon if it can be argued that the president didn’t understand what he was doing or was incapable of making the decision? Do we even know whether Mr. Biden knows he pardoned Hunter? Should the judges in Hunter’s matters ask for a sworn statement from Mr. Biden?
United States Supreme Court and “Transgender” Minors
The United States Supreme Court heard on Wednesday (December 4) oral arguments on a case in which the federal (national) government and others challenged a law passed by the Tennessee legislature that governs what “treatments” medical personnel can provide to minors (not legal adults) who claim to be “transgender.”
I have not followed this particular case closely, so I am not familiar with the details of the Tennessee legislation nor with the details of the legal points made in the courts (including the Supreme Court).
Vanguard TV-3 Blew Up 67 Years Ago
As many of you know, my father co-wrote the 1955 proposal for Project Vanguard. After it won, he designed the space tracking system Minitrack and the small test vehicle satellites.
In September 1957, the head of Vanguard, Dr John Hagen, discussed the schedule of the test vehicle satellites.
Pardons Do Not Imply Guilt
The deluge is on the horizon. A blanket pardon of anyone named, or related to someone named, Biden seems imminent. And the marsupial J6 Committee. And the Faucis of the Great Fake Pandemic. Maybe Ray Epps? Will it include the unacknowledged granddaughter of the POTUS? And, of course, all of this would be completely unnecessary except for Orange Man Bad. This phenomenal moment is in no way the fault of the child sniffer-in-chief or his involvement in a grift with a maze of holding companies laundering alleged eight-figure “considerations” from foreign powers. No, this is entirely laid at the feet of the evil of the epoch, and his cruel victory dance. And we will be reminded, endlessly, forever, that pardons do not imply guilt.
What luck that we have a Biden to protect the American rule of law.
John Yoo returns to discuss a lotta legal stuff this week. He talks presidential pardons, Daniel Penny, United States v. Skrmetti and the murder of UnitedHealth’s CEO in Midtown Manhattan.
Plus, after an extra-long Thanksgiving season hiatus, the boys are back with much to be grateful for.
Is this the Golden Age for American government reform?
America’s friends of limited government have had a rough go lately. Government bureaucrats and spenders of all stripes have been living it up.
Since 2001, the last time the federal budget was balanced, federal revenues have shown a healthy growth of 3.9% annually, while inflation averaged only 2.5%. These figures would normally signify a sound, sustainable economy. But spending has grown at a rate of 5.5%, so instead we have a destabilizing gross federal debt of $36 trillion.
I hope that was a mugger
United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on Wednesday in New York City. Written on the shell casings left by his killer were the words “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose,” which suggests this was not a random killing. NYC police have been investigating the fact that UnitedHealthcare has been under attack recently from People’s Action Institute — a leftist organization with a leftist name whose website describes their goals thusly: “Advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people’s lives.” Why can’t leftists just come out and say what they want? I can think of only one possible explanation, and it’s not good.
Anyway, People’s Action Institute released the following statement recently about Medicare patients getting denied coverage. They mentioned no specific cases, but said:
“Despite having health insurance coverage, people are experiencing barriers to receiving care. The largest barrier to receiving care is the private health insurance corporations themselves refusing to authorize or pay for care.”
These people have apparently never heard of Canadian or British healthcare systems. They have also never heard of Obamacare, apparently, in which millions of people have health insurance but can’t get health care. They’re shocked. SHOCKED!
Leftists demand that government pay for health care. So we get Medicare. Today, Medicare has a $1 trillion dollar budget, 75% of which is deficit spending. And even with that, Medicare can’t come close to meeting the health care needs of elderly Americans. So it allows them to buy secondary insurance, to help cover that which Medicare just can’t afford. And even with that, the private insurance companies can’t cover everything, either. We eventually run out of other people’s money. And guess who leftists get mad at? Private insurance companies.
Questions about G-d: Who Made G-d?
I made a short series of videos considering questions about G-d that I have noticed get asked from time to time. Below is a rewriting based on the script for the first video, followed by the video itself.
I hardly know what to say about this question, but it does come up sometimes, and it needs a response. It seems to arise in response to cosmological arguments for the existence of G-d. The response “Who made G-d then?” seems to be a sort of “Gotcha!” response. Or maybe it’s an honest question.
Do you see what I see?
It’s an all-rant episode this week as Henry breaks down the latest polling on Donald Trump’s boosted favorability. (They like him. They really like him!) Plus, we go abroad to take a look at the populist movements that are sinking European establishmentarians who were meant to keep this global movement at bay.
Two very different ways to get ahead
Source: National Action Network website
In a society based on centralized control (leftist, socialist, communist, whatever), there is really only one way to get ahead. You must figure out who has political power, befriend them, and do favors for them. There is no reason for you to help the common man, so you focus on those in power. Everything is in one pie, and if you want a piece of that pie, you must serve those above you.
It Was Always a Lab Product
The House Oversight Committee has exhaustively confirmed what should have already been well-known about the origins of COVID-19 but for the concerted effort by the governments of China and the USA with the cooperation of zealously anti-Trump media to promote a lie.
The initial rise of COVID-19 cases in the northeast USA and Western Europe simultaneously began in mid-March 2020 and initially peaked in mid-April. However, virologists had already analyzed the virus in January, and Anthony Fauci knew he had a problem. It was already clear that the virus was very unlikely to have a natural origin.
Joe Biden does what he promised he would not do – pardon son Hunter – and even the Democratic shills in the media have had enough.
As the once and future FLOTUS has told of her “debanking” experiences, others such as Marc Andreessen have shared their stories. Ed Butowksky of Chapwood Investments joins the show with his tale.
Pete Hegseth is Going to Stick it Out
The attacks never stop. As I said in my first post on Pete Hegseth, they’ve organized a lynching party to take him out of the running for Secretary of the Department of Defense. How could it get any worse?
It seems that it can.
Join Ericka Redic and Jay Shepard as they welcome host of “American Journal” on InfoWars, Harrison Smith. Harrison, Ericka and Jay discuss the controversial InfoWars auction, the use of lawfare against Harrison and the InfoWars team, and the evolution of media.
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A Tale of Retro Parties, Shoulder Taps, and Officer Discretion
Let’s start with some police jargon definitions before my walk down memory lane.
Retro party: Transients that file a disabled Social Security claim. It can take some time for a disability claim to be approved, and, if approved, the monetary benefit can be back-dated to the date that the claim was filed. That retroactive payday is used to buy enough alcohol for a party in a park or homeless camp.
This week on The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of DFER and U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng interview Dava Sobel, acclaimed author of The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. Sobel delves into the life of Marie Curie, the “scientific Joan of Arc,” exploring her extraordinary journey from clandestine education in Tsarist-controlled Poland to becoming the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific disciplines. She highlights Madame Curie’s groundbreaking discoveries of radium and polonium, with her husband Pierre Curie, and her pioneering work in radioactivity. Sobel also examines Marie Curie’s role as a mentor to women scientists, her wartime contributions with mobile X-ray units, and her enduring legacy as a trailblazer for women in STEM. Through Madame Curie’s story, Ms. Sobel reflects on the power of scientific curiosity and its profound societal impact. In closing, Sobel reads a passage from her book, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.
Government Crisis in South Korea
There have been serious developments in South Korea over the past several hours, including a declaration of martial law by the South Korean president and a vote in the National Assembly lifting the martial law declaration.
I know little about the South Korean government or the formal state of our relations, though I know that tens of thousands of American troops have been stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. It appears that we have a formal treaty of alliance with South Korea.
Jeff is joined by historian Tevi Troy to discuss an issue of both historical and current relevance: what happens when the interests of commercial and industrial giants clash with those of the president? Is there anything we can learn from past rifts between the likes of Rockefeller and Roosevelt, of Ford and Wilson, to help us understand the impact of Musk, Zuckerberg, and others on our current government? Why do the interests of government and industry diverge, or converge?
#potus #industry #musk #rockefeller
The Last MSM Lie for Biden?
As of today, it appears to be the new (attempted) spin that Biden did not lie. Circumstances changed. He considered what was best for his family and he then changed his mind, which means he was sincere earlier when he said he would not issue a pardon for Hunter. Therefore, he did not lie. Sure.
Ceasefire? That’s so last week!
Two days ago my family (and many others) benefitted from the Houthi ‘alarm clock.’ At 6:22 AM, the sirens went off due to an incoming ballistic missile. This includes not just neighborhood sirens, but every phone in the house. Within about 20 seconds, we were all fully awake and in the shelter. My youngest, a 7-year-old girl, lifted up her head (she and her 10-year-old brother sleep in the shelter) and said — with a mixture of fear and disappointment: “But I thought there was a ceasefire…”
That missile was a Houthi special delivery. Two days ago, the ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon (not Hezbollah in Iraq, which never stopped firing) appeared to be holding. Today, a mere two days later, it appears to be over. Part of the post-ceasefire process will be the assignment of blame. Who broke the ceasefire? France and then the US have claimed Israel violated the ceasefire. Israel has claimed that the ceasefire was not a mere ceasing of fire but an agreement that Hezbollah would move north as per the internationally imposed 2006 ceasefire – which didn’t happen in 2006 and hasn’t happened here. So, who is right?
