This week Justice Brett Kavanagh demonstrated for all to see that he has no place on the Supreme Court. His opinion that Wisconsin cannot count votes arriving in the mail after 8:00pm on election day was based explicitly on “logic” that says such late arriving votes might “flip” the election. Justice Kagan, in her dissent from this partisan bullshit decision, had to straighten him out. There is nothing to “flip” until all votes are counted. Duh!

The Frat Boy Wonder added in his opinion that keeping the count open waiting for all legal ballots to arrive in the mail would prevent states from declaring a winner on election night. That is one of the lies that Trump is peddling but again, DUH! States do not declare winners or losers on election night. The media tries to do so but that is an entirely different matter. States frequently take days and sometimes weeks to finalize an election.

This anti-Democratic and anti-democratic and obviously partisan decision is a taste of things to come. It is what happens when hyper-partisans pack the courts with ideologues. Time for Democrats to play hardball the way Mitch McConnell and Trump have been doing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/27/supreme-court-kavanaugh-echoes-trump-argument-counting-late-absentee-ballots-could-flip-results-elec/3747059001/

Source: Frontpage Mag.

You can’t say the Bidens are fine people.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/without-a-platform-trump-falls-11603820690

Reminds me of the old business adage: “a failure to plan is a plan to fail”.

Continue reading “WSJ lays out the failure of Trumpian GOP: no platform” →

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This excellent three part documentary puts the pandemic in a recent historical perspective and presents “the first draft of history” of how we got to the state we are in. A little over an hour altogether but worth the time and effort.

Source: Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

James Taranto points out a significant, if subtle, consequence of ACB’s appointment to the Supreme Court:

Continue reading “We May Get a Conservative Chief Justice” →

Source: Frontpage Mag.

Given what we know — which isn’t much, without visiting the dark web to see for ourselves — it is hard to imagine the Bidens living in the White House. America wouldn’t willingly elect a First Addams Family, complete with itchy demons, basement-dwellers and sinister motivations. If it happens, it won’t be by willful choice.

.. a Covid relief deal happens this week?

With the markets plunging (as of 330) in the 2% range across the board, Trump is going to want to fix it. It has, and always will be, all about the stock market with this guy, Main St. be damned.

This is from Tim Miller at The Bulwark. I believe it deserves consideration by all of us. Especially if you TRULY believe that RIGHT does matter.

 Here Right Matters 

Alexander Vindman loves America with the zeal of a convert. He was born in Ukraine when it was part of the USSR and brought to America by his father as a child. He wanted to give back and serve the nation that had brought freedom and opportunity to his family. So in 1999 he entered the army, and after 9/11 he was deployed to Iraq, where he sustained an injury from a roadside bomb. He was awarded the Purple Heart, stayed in Iraq for another year, and to this day has shrapnel in his body from that IED. 

Two years ago he accepted his dream job working on the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in the place of his birth. 

Continue reading “Not that it matter on this forum, but here is something to consider before casting your vote for POTUS.” →

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This election may be our last chance to stop Trump from becoming President-for-life. As a reminder, these people were chosen by Trump for these very important roles but have failed to prove that their loyalty to him personally Trumps their loyalty to the country and to the Constitution.