April 04, 2026
The Greens Seek to Deforest New York
Timothy Birdnow
New York State wants to bulldoze 11,000 acres of virgin forestland in the Finger Lakes region to put up solar panels - and it's a Democrat initiative.
Oh, and local jurisdictions, and local voters, won't have a say in the matter.
Oh, and most of this is going to take place in Livingston county, a predominantly Republican area. So the Democrats are going to destroy the homes of people who they think of as political enemies.
This is just a start; the bill would open hundreds of thousands of acres of protected land to solar farm developers across the whole state.
So much for the Democrats being the great conservationists; this will destroy multiple habitats and poison a lot of water.
Opponents of this bill should take a page from the Left and chain themselves to trees all over the area, refusing to move so they can be cut down. And they should, of course, take this to federal court. Oh, and they should get in front of Kathy Hochum Hochul's mansion and raise a furor over this.
A commenter on the post said he worked near there and the community limited windmills years ago by passing ordinances limiting the height of any tower, commercial or not, and by putting a law in place that said any solar farm would be required to restore the land to it's original condition. That staved off these developers for a long time. But apparently those days are over.
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Leftist Magazine "Rape - a Good Thing!"
Timothy Birdnow
Whatever happened to "hey hey, ho ho, yes means yes and no means no"?
Funny how the left now loves rapes when they are done by Third World immigrants against white women.
Yes, they actually said that.
Their reasoning is that if it results in mixed race children or shows that men are men no matter their color this will help end racism and so a few murders or the worst night of a woman's life is a small price to pay.
And the presupposition is that these white women secretly want it and will fall in love with their rapists, thus breaking down barriers.
If anything could do more damage to the ant-racist cause it's celebrating rape.
Not long ago we had young men on college campuses being accused of sexual assault and often having their lives ruined because the young lady they had a tryst with changed her mind in the morning and decided to salve her honor by accusing the man - who was eagerly encouraged the previous night. Universities always kept those in-house rather than call in the police because there never was a crime involved. Often the woman just was angry the guy wasn't that into her, or was listening to the Feminists on campus and made accusations that wound up on the boy's permanent record, marking him for life. In fact, they created the term "sexual assault" precisely because there were no rapes involved and they knew they had nothing that could be so categorized, so they created a new charge. Sexual assault could be anything up to and including kissing or hugging or even just putting an arm around the shoulder.
That was then. But Bill Clinton and then a host of other Democrats got caught with their pants down (literally) and so the feminist outcry against "sexual assault" died down in the interests of Realpolitik.
And so now we've come full circle, with leftists celebrating real rapes (remember when Todd Akin from Missouri started a firestorm and the GOP abandoned his run for the Senate because he used that phrase?) because they want to flood America with Third World aliens and those aliens have an unfortunate tendency to rape white girls. If they are raping black girls would these folks hold the same view? I rather doubt it.
Yes, their culture doesn't have a problem with a man just forcibly taking a woman (like the cave man days) but they are not living in their culture and they need to obey OUR customs, OUR laws, OUR traditions. If you are so hot to rape women go back home and do it there. Better yet get yourself chemically castrated!
Every one of the people at that magazine who contributed to that disgusting essay would be enraged if their daughter or their wife, or their mother was raped by some illegal. But it's fine because it's mostly happening to white women and white people deserve it in the minds of the more leftist black folks (which is what the people running this rag are).
This is a sign of just how decadent this nation has become. If you cannot even condemn rape you cannot expect to have a country at all.
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April 03, 2026
The Neuro-Hypocrites
Timothy Birdnow
Liberals must surely have a serious breach in communications...
Actually, while there may be some neural activity involved, I would argue hypocrisy is natural to Man and, frankly, unavoidable at times as there are often competing variables in life that require responses that often contradict one another.
For instance, you may not like, say, the Bush family (I despised them) but you might have voted for them anyway. Hypocrisy? Sure is but the alternative was worse. (I am so guilty.)
And frankly under such competing conditions one usually goes with the choice that best suits your own interests. It's human nature.
But of course this will set off the conscience of anyone so afflicted with one of those, and it will torment the individual. So the natural response is to dismiss the contradiction from our minds, pretend it isn't there.
That is the essence of Orwell's "double think"; hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time and ignore the contradiction. There really is no difference between that and standard hypocrisy.
The author of this article agrees:
"Most ethical choices involve a basic trade-off between personal gain and doing the right thing. When people make decisions for themselves, they face a direct temptation to secure a reward. When they watch someone else make a decision, they do not face that same temptation. This difference in perspective makes it easy to hold others to a higher standard."
Naturally so; it is the difference between objective and subjective, theory and practice. We hold certain standards but find our own standards a bit more lax than the standards we apply to others. We cut ourselves slack.
The article continues:
Valley Liu, a researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China, led a team of investigators to figure out why this disconnect happens. "As neuroscience researchers, we wanted to understand why knowing the right thing to do doesn’t always translate into doing it,” says coauthor Xiaochu Zhang of the University of Science and Technology of China. They suspected the answer lay in a brain area called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is located deep in the lower frontal lobe of the brain. It acts as an information hub during decision making. It helps individuals evaluate risks, weigh potential rewards, and process social rules.
That is to be expected; the frontal lobe is the center of higher reasoning and it is what moves us beyond mere instinct (which resides in the older part of the brain, the stem and limbic system). Hypocrisy is essentially a battle between higher and lower brain functions. Our frontal lobe reasoning competes with our base urges, desires, fears and wants. It is the struggle between the two that drives all of us, and in fact we could not survive without both of them. The endless tug-of-war between our instincts and base urges and our higher reasoning is what makes us human - and what makes us fallible. If we didn't have the primitive cortex we would be like angels - and about as alive as angels in this realm of existence. The hindbrain (brainstem and limbic syste) is what keeps us alive and fighting. The frontal region is what directs HOW we fight and HOW we stay alive.
(Of course without the frontal region we would simply be animals, driven by instinct and stupid as, well, Democrats.)
The article goes on to tell us how they concluded this:
To test their ideas, the research team designed two different tasks for a group of fifty-eight participants. In the first task, participants acted as instructors who had to help a learner identify a hidden number on a digital card. The instructors could choose to report the number honestly or lie to the learner.
The game was structured so that lying would earn the instructor more money. This created a direct conflict between financial gain and honest behavior. While making these choices, the participants lay inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. This machine uses strong magnetic fields to track blood flow in the brain, revealing which areas are active at any given moment.
In the second task, the same participants watched another person play the exact same card game. They were asked to rate the other person’s decisions on a scale ranging from extremely immoral to extremely moral. They completed this judgment task while also having their brain activity monitored in the scanner.
Google News PreferencesAdd PsyPost to your preferred sourcesThe scientists used statistical models to calculate exactly how much each person valued profit compared to honesty. The results showed a distinct gap between the two tasks. When participants made their own choices, they were heavily influenced by the potential for financial profit. When they evaluated others, they based their judgments strictly on whether the observed person was honest.
Honesty is such a lonely word, as Billy Joel observed, and rightly so; everyone is so untrue. I know I am on occasion, despite my ambition to be completely honest. It's human nature, our fallen nature.
At any rate the researchers found:
The brain scans revealed physical differences between people who held consistent moral views and those who did not. The researchers looked at the specific patterns of brain activity rather than just the overall brightness of the brain scans. In morally consistent people, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex showed similar activity patterns during both the behavioral and the judgment tasks.
But the research didn't stop there:
Half of the participants received actual stimulation aimed at the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The other half received a fake version of the treatment, known as a sham stimulation. After the procedure, all participants completed the same card game and judgment exercises.
The people who received the real brain stimulation showed a wider gap between their behavior and their judgments. By disrupting the normal function of the brain region, the researchers successfully made people more hypocritical. This proved that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex directly controls moral consistency.
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The $64,000 question is which came first, the frontal lobe or the egg? Is this lack of communication a function of brain architecture, perhaps genetic, or is it how the brain developed as a result of neuroplasticity, of being dishonest leading to a loss of a largely unused neural connection?
Brain architecture changes with use or lack thereof, and we call that neuroplasticity. In fact it's been proven that you can change the shape of your brain by an act of will (see the work of Jeffrey Shwartz with OCD patients and mindful meditation). If you choose to exercise that particular neural muscle and seek to be consistent in your thinking you will be more capable of being consistent. If you ignore your nagging conscience (which is what we are talking about here) that neural pathway will wither and you will be an amoral jackass.
The Bible put it best "as a man thinketh so shall he be".
Naturally, the conclusion the researchers reached was that it was not a matter of free will but a neurological problem. Neuroscience has been attacking free will for decades now and so has the rest of science and increasingly they seek to make all human behavior explainable not by choices made but by a hard-wired neural paradigm in which free will is an illusion - and thus we should have a technocracy where experts rule and the public is "treated" for bad behavior medically. It has never worked when it's been tried but they keep going back to it anyway.
It should come as no surprise the Chinese conducted this study; it comports perfectly with the authoritarian impulses of the Chinese Communist government.
As the article points out, the study was only involving money and involving Chinese people (Chinese culture has long put a high value on financial matters.)
I would like to try this on Christians v. non-Christians. I suspect the Christians would fare far better than did the Chinese test subjects here.
Another point to ponder; this is not a truly blind study insofar as the participants knew full well they were being tested for SOMETHING. And since they were getting paid why not fudge your thinking on it? It's not like it had real-world importance anyway. I wouldn't fudge on something if it hurt someone or took something away from someone else but they just might fudge a bit to get more money from researchers. No harm, no foul! What should have happened was the participants should have been told that if they got the money the other test subjects would be penalized. That would make all the difference in the world.
In the end this study doesn't tell us anything we basically already knew, and it certainly doesn't release anyone from any moral judgment that hypocrisy imposes. If you are a hypocrite you are a hypocrite. Just because your brain is numb to the fact does not change the underlying situation. Instead of using this to excuse bad behavior we should use this to promote strengthening our moral fiber through better moral education, through a more dynamic practice of religious moral teaching, and frankly through a greater judgmentalism, something that the modern Western World at least has eschewed in favor of relativism and "acceptance". That is what this study will be used to promote, I have no doubt, but it is the exact wrong takeaway from this.
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The Counter-Revolution has Begun
Timothy Birdnow
How the liberal media dominance is cracking and the Left is losing what is left of their minds over that fact.
David Ellison's purchase of CBS and his plans to expand with a purchase of Warner Brothers and with it the moribund CNN has the left's head swiveling around like Regan's in the movie The Exorcist.
For fifty years, and actually more like a hundred, the Democrats and the Left have owned the media completely and only now are they starting to lose their grip. They have twisted and distorted the American landscape for decades by their control of the dissemination of information and what they choose to report - and how - and what they choose to not report at all. Lose that and the American People will quickly return to being American.
I've long analogized it to a river under flood control; the Left has built a series of dams and levees to control the river, and often even change it's course into a more agreeable direction. But it's artificial and one good storm can often bust the levee, overrun the dams, and return the river to it's natural course.
The land itself has a course for that river; we force it through labor to artificially flow where it would not. Crack a few levees and the river just goes back to where it belonged in the first place.
That is what the Left does; creates narratives, reinforces those narratives with simple slogans and tireless repetition, and the public goes along because it's the easiest course of action for them. But break those informational levees and the American mind will flow back to it's original course, because it was Nature and Nature's God that set that course in the first place.
Liberalism is a denial of reality and a denial of Truth. Without control of what people see and hear they lose control of what they think, and what they think will inevitably return to reality and not the artificial construct made by the Left.
So this is a most welcome development. First we had the internet and cable news, which, like water, got under the pavement and cracks began to form. The Left took control of the internet by controlling search engines and social media but they couldn't fully repress the information put out here (not for lack of trying; The Aviary had a very respectable ranking as websites go but is now somewhere around four millionth, making it lilliputian. That was a function of Google making changes to their algorithms to crowd out the smaller but influential sites online. Another victim was the Gateway Pundit, which was a monster until they pulled this on them and blocked TGP from Google searches.)
At any rate the cracks are appearing in the vast leftist media empire and they are running scared. What is needed now is for more conservative billionaires to buy more media, and to put strings on grants to universities and otherwise manipulate them, to force them to just offer some balance.
The counter-revolution has begun. We can win it but we have to be aggressive and we have to be careful. More often than not counter-revolutions fail for the same reason that the original revolution succeeded; the original leadership was weak and vacillating and did not know how to fight back.
Trump has shown the way to fight back. Now it's up to us.
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Gas Blues in the Blue States
Timothy Birdnow
Almost all of the states with the highest oil and gas prices are Democrat.
So this war in Iran disproportionately impacts the Donkeys, who have raised taxes ridiculously high on fuel and now are paying the price.
Voters generally don't care who is to blame so much as who is in power and they will blame the Democrats in the upcoming election cycle, or enough of them will anyway.
The West Coast, Illinois, New York, Nevada, top the list of blue or purple. Only Arizona, which itself is purple and not red, and Florida are seeing high gas prices (along with Alaska and Hawaii but they are both special cases).
Of course everyone is seeing higher prices and that is a problem politically. But the other states will likely recover (and so too will Florida) well before the midterms, while the People's Republics will see a big lag as they continue to abuse the oil and gas producers.
A point to ponder about all this too is that we have yet to ramp up production to meet the need. Saudi Arabia barely increased production despite the crisis, and if they do ramp up their production there will be a noticeable drop in prices (right now they are skimming off the top, profiting from the high prices, but when it becomes obvious the crisis is about to pass they will want to grab what they can at higher rates and so ramp up production by a considerable amount.) And of course the U.S. is working to increase production, something very hard for us as our drilling requires a much more complex process and needs infrastructure for that - and it was basically halted under the Biden Administration. It will still be some time before we can cover the loss.
This spike is temporary, much like the oil price spike under George H.W. Bush during the first Gulf War. It came down and it will again.
High oil and gas prices are invariably a coefficient of bad policy or conditions outside of our control. Historically bad policy has caused it and that's what we are seeing play out in the Blue States now.
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Vance Suspends Hundreds of Medical Facilities for Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
J.D. Vance and his task force have suspended 221 hospices and other providers in California for fraud, with many more on the way.
Previously 70 providers had been suspended in the Las Angelas area. The rest of these are also in the city of the angels.
This sort of thig is exactly why we put the Trump Administration in office.
Meanwhile Pam Bondi was sacked as AG. I suspect there is a link between these two events.
Bondi reminds me of Tom Hagen in The Godfather "you're not a wartime consigliere". She's a good lawyer and faithful but not up for this sordid business. We need a pirate now, a Blackbeard, and not a William Bligh (who was actually too soft despite what they movies portray).
Stopping all the graft and corruption is also the way to right the ship of state, which has been mired in all this corruption. I have little doubt the Democrats get a taste of every penny that is stolen in California, in Minnesota, in Ohio, in Virginia etc.
This more than anything is why the Democrats so hate Donald Trump; he's doing what no previous Administration had ever done, which is go directly after the funding of the Democrat machine.
The last guy to do something like this was Grover Cleveland and they despised him too.
So getting Bondi out and bringing charges against these corruptocrats will defund the enemy just when they need money most.
People need to go to jail. Party of why Trump's numbers aren't where we would like (he should be beloved right now) is because of this failure to go after criminal behavior by the Democrats (and some Republicans too). People look at that and think "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and so lump Mr. Trump in with all the rest, who protected the Establishment and set rules that were fundamentally different than the rules Americans lived under.
A big part of Trump's appeal was that he was an outsider, and he kept his promises. He has to do this or be seen as reneging on what he assured the American People. Oh, and it's good politics too.
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April 02, 2026
Carville Threatens Trump's Family
Timothy Birdnow
James Carville wants to go after Donald Trump's family if the Democrats take power in November.
Donald Trump had better take this seriously ands go after people like James Carville and his stupid Jack-faced kids.
I wonder if that's not why he sacked Biondi as AG; she wasn't going aggressively enough after the Democrats who plan another round of attacks on the President and his family.
Most of the more thoughtful Republicans excuse Biondi because "she couldn't get a conviction in court". But what would Democrats do? They would keep filing cases and forcing the enemy to respond, to waste resources, to waste time. "The prosecution is the punishment" they say. We need to go after them in an identical way, even if we lose the case. Drag their names through the mud and make them waste millions on attorneys and the like.
I know most of these cases wind up having to be filed in D.C. but try to find a way, any way, to file them in friendly courts outside of the power base of the Democrats. (Now we know why it's important to win the judgeships and to get a President who picks good ones.)
At any rate the Democrats are going to get very, very nasty if they regain power this fall. We need to make it clear that if they do this they will face the wrath of the Lord.
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GOP Surrenders Again
Timothy Birdnow
So Mike Johnson earns my nickname for him "tiny" as he surrenders and promotes a bill identical to the crap sandwich that John Thune negotiated in a backroom deal just a short while ago.]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-passes-bill-fund-most-dhs-after-house-gop-caves
What is the point of electing Republicans if they don't have the stones to go the distance? Why were they worried about this when the Democrats weren't?
The GOP is nothing but a bunch of ball-less wonders.
Saul Alinsky said that if you push a negative long and hard enough it will break through and become a positive. That's what the Democrats did here. And on the flip side of this Sun Tzu said that opportunities multiply as they are seized and the corollary is they dry up when you let them slide by. The GOP has never understood that standing firm opens many doors for you but surrendering leaves you with few options.
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The Chosen (for Such a Time as These)
Jack Kemp (not the politician):
This is a short video posted below.. The speaker is obviously from India and he speaks of saving the Jews, but as Pres. Trump said this evening that he is saving all of us in the United States and around the world from the barbarity of the Iranian Mullas' plans and actions..
The Islamists have a saying, "First the Saturday People" (Jews with a Sabbath on Saturday). "Then the Sunday People" (Christians). That's who the Iranian regime wants to kill.
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April 01, 2026
Starmer Wants Back in E.U.
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting post that touches on something important. British Prime Minister Keir Stammer, er, Starmer is talking about de-Brexiting because he's ruined the British relationship with the U.S. over the Iran war and now wants to cozy up to Europe.
In other words he's going to use this crisis to get what he has wanted all along.
The British upper class loved the E.U. and was angry about having to leave that corrupt and useless body. They schemed to keep Britain in the Great Harlot before Brexit and are still scheming to get Britain back in. This despite the fact a majority of British citizens do not want to rejoin the oppressive and bureaucratic nightmare on the continent.
I say if Starmer wants to rejoin the E.U. let him; it will only finish what he and his cronies on the Left started in Lesser Britain.
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A Mossy Little Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
A federal judge has ruled Trump's defunding NPR/PBS is unconstitutional in a largely symbolic win for the Demo-Left.
It is largely a symbolic victory because Congress has defunded those leftist rags and there is no way the judiciary can compel Congress to fund them.
But it sets a precedent, a bad one. For one thing, the reasoning is terrible; they are saying government cannot violate the First Amendment rights of these "news" organizations, but how is this violating their first amendment rights? These outfits - and they aren't news agencies but rather propaganda outlets - are not being told what they can or cannot say, but rather that they have no right to stick their grubby paws in the pockets of taxpayers. Trump just told them they couldn't get any more free money. That is in no way a First Amendment issue. If One America News were getting federal subsidies and Joe Biden had cut them off none of us would dream of suing on that basis.
Oh,, the black robed jackass who made this ruling is Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee. Bet you didn't see that coming, did you?
This will probably be overturned on appeal, if the Trump Administration chooses to bother with it. They should; this strikes at the heart of the Executive Branch's authority to utilize funds wisely.
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Dem Mayor wants to Remove Mural of Murdered Ukrainian Immigrant
Timothy Birdnow
An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record stabbed an Ukrainian immigrant to death on a Charlotte light rail car and this sparked an artist in Providence, Rhode Island to make a big mural to honor Iryna Zarutska. Only problem is the mayor of Providence - the "honorable" Brett Smiley - wants it taken down as "divisive".
That's how little the Democrats care about victims of crime and victims of illegal aliens.
The mural is right outside a gay nightclub and is perhaps offensive to the patrons there.
At any rate the mayor is trying to take this thing down, which is an appeal for stricter laws and is backed by Elon Musk.
Smiley had this to say about it:
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence,”
How so? It is merely a picture of Iryna. How is this "isolating"? Being murdered was pretty isolating for her, and no doubt her poor mother, both of whom immigrated from Ukraine to be safe from the war there.
So all the professed love of the Democrats is a farce; immigrants are only there for the benefits that can be derived by the Democrats. Oh, and since they were WHITE immigrants that automatically makes them bad.
This Smiley face fellow should be ashamed of himself.
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Italy Denies U.S. Permission to Land in Sicily
Timothy Birdnow
So Italy just dissed us, refusing their NATO ally and friend and benefactor permission to land bombers in Sicily. This is a pretty stunning, brazen betrayal by a nation that was liberated with American blood and which to the present day relies on American military power to keep it safe.
We sought permission to land our bombers at the "Hub of the Med" Sigonella airbase and were refused permission by Italian authorities.
Considering we pay the lion's share of NATO it sure doesn't seem we're getting our money's worth. President Trump has made suggestions we may want to rethink our whole participation in NATO, an organization that was created to contain the Soviet Union, a nation that no longer exists.
Spain has also pulled this on us, denying us use of their airspace. And Britain was thinking about it but Trump made it clear our number one ally wouldn't be permitted to screw us in that fashion.
With friends like these...
Although we built this base we lease it from the Italians. And the contract stipulates we get permission from Rome for any actual warfare activities (as opposed to routine stuff). European countries all want American military bases because they bring a lot of American dollars into their economies. But when we need to actually USE the bases we get pushback like this. Maybe it's time to simply pull out of many of these European countries? Frankly, I think we should probably think about pulling out of NATO; it will collapse if we were to leave. We can make a new coalition "of the willing" to service our needs without carrying the deabeats. Deadbeats like Italy.
Italy is now saying that any request to use Italian airspace should be debated in Parliament first.
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Trump's Plan to Attend SCOTUS Triggers Van Jones
Timothy Birdnow
"First of all, Donald Trump is doing the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reason, as usual. The President of the United States has no business being in the Supreme Court. We have a separation of powers for a reason. It’s not just unprecedented, it’s unwise, it’s unbecoming, and it’s unfair for someone who appointed people to the bench to be sitting there mad dogging them, trying to get his way. This is a terrible idea. It’s a terrible argument.”
Van Jones, who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama, the man who showed up at SCOTUS to bully the justices into approving Obamacare:
@CharlesleeTX1911@Charles07788205Really now???"Presidents who have attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court:
John Quincy Adams (6th President)He attended oral arguments multiple times while he was President (1825–1829).He continued attending even after leaving office, as he served in the House of Representatives.
Abraham Lincoln (16th President)Lincoln attended oral arguments at least once as President (in 1860, before his inauguration, and again during his presidency).
Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President)FDR attended oral arguments on at least one occasion.
William Howard Taft (27th President)Taft attended several times — both as President and later as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (the only person to hold both offices).
Modern Presidents:
No modern President (from Truman onward) has attended a Supreme Court oral argument while in office, with one notable exception:Barack Obama attended oral arguments once as President on March 26, 2012, for the landmark case NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare case). He sat in the VIP section with his Solicitor General."
There is a special designated seating area for the President in the SCOTUS hearing chamber.
I don't recall hearing Van Jones complain about that at the time.
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Judge Spanks California
Timothy Birdnow
It's high time the legal games be punished.
The judge - Roger Benitez - multiplied the fine because the defendants who happen to be the State of California played all sorts of games, refiling a request for dismissal just one day after the judge denied their motion and otherwise making jackasses of themselves to stretch this out in the hopes of exhausting the Thomas Moore Society, the plaintiffs.
If courts would do this more often we'd waste a lot less time and money. Courts are already backed up because of frivolous lawsuits and legalistic maneuvers designed to pump up billable hours and deny justice by financially exhausting one party. It's time that sort of nonsense ended.
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Kagan Spanks Brown Jackson
Timothy Birdnow
Elena Kagan, no Conservative, slammed Katanji Brown Jackson for her insane opinion over the Colorado conversion-therapy ban.
From Fox News:
Kagan joined the eight justices in finding that the Colorado government erred in regulating Chiles' practice because the state used a 2019 law that only banned therapists from counseling minors if the therapy entailed advising them on how to resist becoming transgender or gay. That amounted to restricting one viewpoint, in violation of the First Amendment, the majority said.
Kagan said that if the law were "content-based" rather than "viewpoint-based," it would present less of a free speech problem.
"Because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward," Kagan said. "It would, however, be less so if the law under review was content-based but viewpoint neutral."
That pretty much sums it up; the state cannot suppress counseling on a controversial issue as opposed to "content based" aka if the medical professional was advocating some novel treatment that has no basis in science. But that's not what talk therapy is doing, and so people have the right to express a viewpoint when engaging in what is essentially a conversation.
This couldn't be clearer - except to Brown Jackson who is about as sharp as a feather. Even a low wattage bulb like Kagan can see that.
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March 31, 2026
SCOTUS Overturns Colorado Law Prohibiting Conversion Therapy
Timothy Birdnow
Well this is certainly good news!
Government has no right to stop parents or the kids themselves from seeking counseling to change what they themselves do not want. Would the state of Colorado ban alcoholism treatment? Basically "conversion therapy" is alcoholism treatment for sexual disorders.
Maybe we should have a celebration of alcoholism then? Make it a legal right, an identity that is celebrated? Maybe we should force drunks into women's locker rooms? Maybe we should exempt them from DWI laws because "they were born that way"?
Actually Federal law makes it a crime to discriminate against drunks; you can't refuse to rent to an alcoholic, for instance. So the Left has actually sought to implement that, although that was a tough sell.
Liberals be crazy.
At any rate this thing was shot down by a whopping 8 to 1 vote, with only the insane idiot Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voting to allow Colorado to infringe the right to freedom of speech (which is what this law did). Brown argued it was Colorado's right to "regulate healthcare" and that justified suspending the First Amendment. (That woman should never have been on ANY court, not just SCOTUS.)
Conversion therapy is talk therapy and not negative reinforcemet. There is no punishment for "slipping" as some alcohol treatment programs employ. (These programs often use a drug that makes the alcoholic deathly ill if he even smells alcohol to condition him to fear and loath booze.)
No therapist would risk the punishments for violating this law if it stood, meaning they could not discuss body issues unless advocating for gender reassignment aka transing the kids.
Naturally LGBTQ groups were horrified; it means fewer perverts to swell their ranks.
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12 Time More Cold Deaths than Heat Deaths
Timothy Birdnow
The Gang Green is on record saying the planet is getting hotter and that this will lead to more heat deaths.
I guess it's "cold because it's hot" as Judah Cohen and the rest of the nitwits claim.
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Climate Change isn't Raising Chicago Insurance Premiums - Liberalism is
Timothy Birdnow
And don't forget ever rising taxes and the increasingly dangerous criminal climate in the Windy City.
It's more expensive to insure properties in the Land of Lincoln, Winkin' and Nod.
FromWattsupwiththat:
A recent article at the Chicago Sun Times (CST) claims that "Climate change is fueling a surge in Illinois home insurance premiums,” via increases in severe weather. This is false. Severe weather is not getting worse in Illinois, so it cannot be the driver for insurance costs. Other factors, like increasing home values and inflation, are driving insurance rates higher.
The article is sponsored by the environment focused media group Grist, so there is already an incentive to inflate the climate angle and downplay the more important reasons why insurance costs are rising in already-expensive Illinois. Those other reasons are mentioned briefly in the post, "the value of a home, the cost of the materials needed to rebuild it, and even the credit scores of the homeowner,” all impact insurance costs, but the CST insists that really climate change is the main problem.
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