Gee, now Kathy Tran says she regrets not condemning it. Well, I guess condemning infanticide is a pretty right-wing thing to do.
They’re not even pretending to want abortion rare any more.
[Via Instapundit, who has more]
Category Archives: Law
SPLC
I would love to see that hate group lose its tax-exempt status. I wonder if people (like Twitter) would still use them to vet others if that happened?
Fauxcahontas’s Wealth Tax
Thoughts from Tom Maguire.
It seems unconstitutional to me on its face. We had to amend the Constitution to get an income tax, and I’m pretty confident that it would be required here as well. Anyway, as Jim Bennett noted on Facebook, we should reserve comment until we can properly understand the proposal by reading it in the original Cherokee.
[Update a while later]
Want to soak the rich and help poor people? Tax fringe benefits. Yes, this would help a lot with decoupling health insurance from employment, which is how the mess got started.
Colorado
Why would any state want the rest of the country to determine its electoral votes? Why even have states (which, like the Electoral College, the Left hates, at least when they lose). Sadly, this insanity is probably Constitutional, but the Founders would weep.
TSA
Long past time to privatize it. Same with ATC. It’s stupid to let the air industry be hostage to shenanigans in DC.
Should The FBI Run The Country?
Disagreeing With DC Conventional Wisdom
…isn’t a crime, let alone an impeachable offense. It is time to rethink NATO, perhaps past time.
NATO and the EU have been free riding for a long time. It was an organization for a different era and power structure. Putin’s Russia doesn’t have the resources to conquer Europe, especially if they start getting serious about their own defense.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Yes. Europe was never a true partner in its own defense. They had a (brief) excuse in the midst of the Marshall Plan, but we’ve been indulging them in their own socialism and unwillingness to spend on their own defense for the decades since recovery. Time to rethink it.
And for those who think that Trump is Putin’s “stooge,” did Putin order him to insist that Europeans spend more on their own defense and live up to their NATO obligations?
[Bumped]
The State Of The Union
…is off.
Good. Just send a letter. I’ll be happy if there’s never another speech; there is nothing requiring it in the Constitution. If he wants to address the nation, he can do it from the Oval Office again.
[Friday-morning update]
One way you can tell that SOTUs as they’ve been done for the last century are a terrible idea is that Woodrow Wilson started this execrable circus. Unfortunately, Trump will almost certainly not take the advice. It would be behavior (and an expression of beliefs) far too Reaganesque.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
26 of 45 presidents didn’t give a SOTU speech.
The Space Frontier Act
Ted Cruz is going to try to pass it again. Hope it happens.
So, in this alternate universe in which Ted Cruz has a beard, will he be able to get the Space Frontier Act passed?https://t.co/fW2b1j68ki
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 17, 2019
Injustice
Yes, it’s what’s driving all these populist rebellions. And want to know how to make things worse? Continue to insult peoples’ character and intelligence by calling them stupid, Xist, Yist and Zist, instead of addressing their actual concerns.