House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a statement Wednesday on the Supreme Court case Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where she said the Court has the responsibility to “honor the Constitution” and uphold abortion rights.
The Dobbs case, as I’ve been covering, surrounds the constitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi. Dobbs is the first case in decades with the potential to overturn landmark cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which gave women the right to an abortion.
In a statement shared via Twitter, Pelosi said that “any failure to fully strike down the Mississippi ban would seriously erode the legitimacy of the Court” and touted the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), legislation that would “codify” Roe into federal law.
“As the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it has the opportunity and responsibility to honor the Constitution, the law and this basic truth: every woman has the constitutional right to basic reproductive health care.
Mississippi’s radical abortion ban, part of a nationwide assault against women’s freedoms targeting in particular women of color and women from low-income communities, is brazenly unconstitutional and designed to destroy Roe v. Wade. Yet again, Republicans are trying to control a woman’s most personal decisions about her body and her family and are trying to criminalize health care professionals for providing reproductive care. The constitutional right to an abortion has been repeatedly affirmed, and any failure to fully strike down the Mississippi ban would seriously erode the legitimacy of the Court, as the Court itself warned in its ruling in Casey, and question its commitment to the rule of law itself.
The House is committed to defending women’s health freedoms and to enshrining into law our House-passed Women’s Health Protection Act, led by Congresswoman Judy Chu, to protect reproductive health care for all women across America.”
As I covered in July, Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban is far from “radical,” as most western European countries prohibit abortion after 12 weeks or 15 weeks gestation. America is one of only a handful of countries, along with China and North Korea, that permit any sort of third trimester elective abortion. As Katie reported, Chief Justice Roberts pointed this out during the Dobbs arguments on Wednesday.
Also in July, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn both Roe and Casey. In her brief, she noted how both rulings are “egregiously wrong” and the laws put in place by both cases are outdated.
“Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition,” Fitch said in the brief. “So the question becomes whether this Court should overrule those decisions. It should.”
“Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability,” Fitch continued in the brief. “States should be able to act on those developments. But Roe and Casey shackle States to a view of the facts that is decades out of date.”
During the arguments Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas questioned where the right to abortion is included in the Constitution.
“If we were talking about the 2nd Amendment, I know exactly what we’re talking about. If we’re talking about the 4th Amendment, I know what we’re talking about, because it’s written. It’s there,” Thomas said. “What specifically is the right here that we’re talking about?”
Chief Justice Roberts Makes a Key Observation About America’s Abortion Laws
During oral arguments at the Supreme Court Wednesday for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts pointed out U.S. abortion laws are more similar to those in China and North Korea than western European countries.
“I’d like to focus on the 15-week ban because that’s not a dramatic departure from viability. It is the standard that the vast majority of other countries have. When you get to the viability standard, we share that standard with the People’s Republic of China and North Korea. And I don’t think you have to be in favor of looking to international law to set our constitutional standards to be concerned if those are your…share that particular time period,” Roberts said during questioning.
Oh snap! Justice Roberts on sharing abortion law with North Korea and China not being a good thing. pic.twitter.com/hqY7XI8WP0— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) December 1, 2021
Rikelman is arguing against the 15-limit pre-viability line. Notably, the United States is only one of seven countries (of 198) that allows for abortions against the 20-week line. https://t.co/cKyAaYH2Cg— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 1, 2021
In terms of how the two-hour-long arguments appeared to go for each side, the pro-life side appears to have the upper hand.
If you believe that women should have the right choose abortion, today’s Supreme Court argument was a wall-to-wall disaster.— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) December 1, 2021
Former SCOTUS clerk texts me: “That went about as badly for the pro-abortion side as it could reasonably have been expected to go.” He’s right. No missteps on pro-life side; no worrying lines of questions from the conservative justices; Kagan surprisingly quiet.— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) December 1, 2021
‘Death 2 America’: Far-Left ASU Students Have Public Tantrum Over Rittenhouse Verdict
Far-left students at Arizona State University protested the idea of Kyle Rittenhouse attending online courses on Wednesday even though he is no longer enrolled in the non-degree-seeking program.
The protest was organized by a coalition of student groups that comprised of the Arizona State University Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine, Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, and MECHA de ASU.
Speakers at the protest said the only reason why Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murder is due to the fact he is white. The claim ignores the fact each time Rittenhouse shot someone, it was because the aggressors, who were white, were actively attacking him during the Kenosha riots.
The group chanted “Killer Kyle off our campus!” even though he was never on campus while taking the online courses. “Death 2 America,” was one sign at the rally.
ARIZONA: Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t get a guilty verdict because he was F*cking WHITE!”
“Kyle… killed black and brown people”
ASU socialists protest Kyle Rittenhouse attending online classes at the university even though he is no longer enrolled at the school pic.twitter.com/StRU30QMRo— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 1, 2021
ARIZONA: ASU socialists chant “KILLER KYLE OFF OUR CAMPUS” to protest Kyle Rittenhouse attending online classes at the university even though he is no longer enrolled at the school pic.twitter.com/SCBW8w4tcw— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 2, 2021
ARIZONA: ASU socialists proudly holding “DEATH 2 AMERICA” signs to protest Kyle Rittenhouse attending online classes at the university even though he is no longer enrolled at the school pic.twitter.com/hVaVtphHwz— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 1, 2021
The far-left protest was countered by supporters of Rittenhouse.
#NoPedos pic.twitter.com/O93AkZLLms— ??ollege ??epublicans ??nited (@ASU_CRU) December 1, 2021
ARIZONA: ASU socialists get drowned out by conservative counter protesters chanting “LET’S GO BRANDON!” at an ASU socialist organized gathering to protest Kyle Rittenhouse attending online classes at the university even though he is no longer enrolled at the school pic.twitter.com/aV4MGXkm12— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 2, 2021
“Our rally tonight was a complete success, ASU heard our demands and we showed those fascist counter protestors that we will not be intimidated!” Students for Socialism ASU tweeted after the event. “The people that came out tonight to support killer kyle rittenhouse prove our argument, that if rittenhouse is allowed on campus he will be followed by countless racist, homophobic bigots.”
Third Worldizing America
In a recent online exchange, YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.”
The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger.
Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to lose. He added that while living in West Hollywood he had his own car broken into 15 times, but thought little of it.
Online bloggers ridiculed Rogen. No wonder – the actor lives in multimillion-dollar homes in the Los Angeles area, guarded by sophisticated security systems and fencing.
Yet both Neistat and Rogen accurately defined Third Worldization: the utter breakdown of the law and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.
After traveling the last 45 years in the Middle East, southern Europe, Mexico, and Asia Minor, I observed some common characteristics of a so-called Third-World society. And all of them might feel increasingly familiar to contemporary Americans.
Whether in Cairo or Naples, theft was commonplace. Yet property crimes were almost never seriously prosecuted.
In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.
Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality.
One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest.
Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system. So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.
There were 120 days of continuous looting, arson, and lethal violence during the summer of 2020. Rioters burned courthouses, police precincts, and an iconic church.
And there was also a frightening riot on January 6, when a mob entered Washington D.C.’s Capitol and damaged federal property. Of those arrested during the violence, many have been held in solitary confinement or under harsh jail conditions. That one-day riot is currently the subject of a congressional investigation.
Some of those arrested are still – 10 months later – awaiting trial. The convicted are facing long prison sentences.
In contrast, some 14,000 were arrested in the longer and more violent rioting of 2020. Most were released without bail. The majority had their charges dropped. Very few are still being held awaiting capital charges.
A common denominator to recent controversies at the Justice Department, CIA, FBI, and Pentagon is that all these agencies under dubious pretexts have investigated American citizens with little or no justification – after demonizing their targets as “treasonous,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists,” or “racists.”
In the Third World, basic services like power, fuel, transportation, and water are characteristically unreliable: in other words, much like a frequent California brownout.
I’ve been on five flights in my life where it was announced there was not enough fuel to continue to the scheduled destination. The plane was required either to turn around or land somewhere on the way. One such aborted flight took off from Cairo, another from southern Mexico. The other three were this spring and summer inside the United States.
One of the most memorable scenes that I remember of Ankara, Old Cairo, or Algiers of the early 1970s were legions of beggars and the impoverished sleeping on sidewalks.
But such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.
In the old Third World, extreme wealth and poverty existed in close proximity. It was common to see peasants on horse-drawn wagons a few miles from coastal villas. But there is now far more contiguous wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley. In Redwood City and East Palo Alto, multiple families cram into tiny bungalows and garages, often a few blocks from tony Atherton.
On the main streets outside of Stanford University and the Google campus, the helot classes sleep in decrepit trailers and buses parked on the streets.
Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization.
But so was Rogen, though unknowingly so. The actor played the predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich who master ignoring – and navigating around – the misery of others in their midst.
Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Fraud
No president has ever proposed a more egregiously misnamed piece of legislation than President Joe Biden’s so-called Build Back Better plan. The label “Progressive-Democrats” chose for this European-style socialist legislation is an example of their favorite ploy: semantic subterfuge — assigning an appealing name to an appalling concept.
Recommended As Biden Goes Off-Script, White House Tech Team Cuts the Mic and Blasts Music Katie Pavlich Biden’s Build Back Better plan is a massive socialist fraud perpetrated by leftist ideologues who must believe Venezuela, where inflation is now more than 1,000% and people fight over scraps of food from garbage cans, is a Utopian paradise rather than a dystopian disaster.We warned this would happen in a Biden administration in our book, “We Didn’t Fight for Socialism — America’s Veterans Speak Up.” Biden accepted the socialists’ “green game plan” of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and added to it.If this bill passes the U.S. Senate, our grandchildren will be forced to endure a diminished quality of life unseen in America since the Great Depression. We The People must tell our U.S. Senators, “Vote No!”
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
The “experts” skipped the “Xi variant” because they didn’t want to offend the dictator of the country that unleashed a pandemic onto the world, so now we have the Omicron variant of COVID 19. What does it mean? No one knows. The woman who discovered it says its symptoms are significantly more mild than the original or even the Delta variant, but that hasn’t stopped the media and Democrats (sorry to repeat myself) from hyping this newly discovered strain as, perhaps, the bringing of Armageddon. Why? They want, no – need – to keep people afraid. They have too much they want to do that they can’t justify logically, so they need fear to motivate its advancement.
This reality has created a Bizarro World around Fauci and the left – if they could create a hero out of this nobody with a record of failure, what can’t they do? – and they’ve been exploiting it ever since. How many videos have you seen of Karens panicking that someone wasn’t wearing a mask in some public place, even outside? Those people filmed these encounters and, in many cases, posted them themselves thinking their hysterical freak out was something to be proud of, something the world needed to see. That’s the power of the media. You have to keep in mind that there is no longer a fight to convince as many people as possible to your side, Democrats now want to get the bare minimum votes necessary and ram through everything they want. They are no longer bothering to try to get that many votes through persuasion, it’s only fear.Fear of COVID provided a lot of cover for Democrats to push their agenda, but fear of it started to fade before they could get it all. Enter the “variants.” Delta helped them get their first COVID spending bill through, but it can’t be used again. Along comes Omicron…We don’t know anything about Omicron, but the “experts,” up to and including President Fauci and Joe Biden, see an opportunity to get their “human infrastructure” bill through the Senate, so let the fear begin again. But there’s a problem, if you’re at all interested in reality. The Chair of the South African Medical Association, Angelique Coetzee, the doctor who discovered Omicron, says the symptoms thus far have been mild. “Looking at the mildness of the symptoms that we are seeing, currently there is no reason for panicking as we don’t see severely ill patients,” she said. Recommended As Biden Goes Off-Script, White House Tech Team Cuts the Mic and Blasts Music Katie Pavlich Importantly, Coetzee continues, “The hype that’s been created, apparently out there in the media and worldwide, doesn’t correlate with the clinical picture.”Remember that as Democrats seek to impose new lockdowns, new mandates, and try to push through their legislative agenda. The public has no appetite for the “human infrastructure” bill they claim costs $1.7 trillion but really costs more than twice as much. Soon, it will be billed as “crucial” in the fight against COVID and our “struggle” to revitalize the economy. This argument will be in direct conflict with their claims that the economy is back, thanks to their previous spending, but we aren’t dealing with intellectually honest people here, we’re dealing with determined people. We have to be just as determined. Fear is all they have, as there’s no logical rationale for pushing the “Build Back Better” agenda through and zero public demand. Fear is a hell of a motivator that overrides logic and rational thought. That’s why Democrats work in it, when not working in another motivating force: hate. They want the public one or the other, and sometimes both, but what they never want is an informed public thinking clearly. That’s the one variant of reality they can’t deal with, and the only one Democrats are truly afraid of.
While Biden Continues His Smears, Trump Meets with Kyle Rittenhouse
As President Joe Biden continues his refusal to retract false allegations of white supremacy against Kyle Rittenhouse, President Donald Trump is stepping in to do the right thing.
1 2 | DOOCY: "Will the president ever apologize to Kyle Rittenhouse for suggesting...that he is a white supremacist?"@PressSec deflects, claiming that President Trump "refused to condemn white supremacists and militia groups." pic.twitter.com/JrldQZSiXf— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 23, 2021 |
Trump invited Rittenhouse to Mar-a-Lago this week after a jury found he acted in self-defense against a band of criminal adults in Kenosha last year.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | GOATs pic.twitter.com/Yjr72unlvE— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 24, 2021Thank you, President Trump. It was an honor to meet you.Thank you for supporting the rule of law and the God-given right of self-defense. #KyleRittenhouse pic.twitter.com/wPJ3b0ecqt— ???? Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund ???? (@freekyleusa) November 24, 2021 |
Trump discussed the visit with Fox News host Sean Hannity Tuesday night.
“Kyle I got to know him a little bit…really a nice young man and what
he went through, that was prosecutorial misconduct. He should not have
had to suffer through a trial for that. He was going to be dead. If he
didn’t pull that trigger, that guy that put that gun to his head in one
quarter of a second, he was going to pull the trigger. Kyle would have
been dead. He’s a really good young guy. He’s 18-years-old,” Trump said.
“He should have never been put through that. That was prosecutorial
misconduct.”
1 2 3 4 5 6 | President Trump On Meeting Kyle Rittenhouse“Really a nice young man.”pic.twitter.com/c1b7tdOCRz— The Columbia Bugle ???? (@ColumbiaBugle) November 24, 2021 |
A Conservative Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, a time to count our blessings and give thank.
Despite the Biden presidency and all its onerous permutations, conservatives do have things to be thankful for. In addition to the perennial acknowledgment and thankfulness extended to members of the armed services, law enforcement, and fire and rescue first responders, here are some right-wing thank-yous I’d like to offer as we head into the heart of the holiday season.
I am thankful for Glenn Youngkin and Virginia. The win there was an earthshattering rebuke of an off-the-rails Democrat agenda. May it presage a cleansing 2022 Red Wave. The cranberry sauce on this blessing is the pleasant void created by the absence of Terry McAuliffe.
Ancillary thanks go to former General Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli for making it close in the blue bastion of New Jersey. And while we’re in the Garden State, thank you to truck driver and concerned citizen Edward Durr, who took on the Democrat machine and ousted one of its main drivers, State Senate President Steve Sweeney.
I am thankful this year for Senator Rand Paul, and his exposure of Anthony “gain-of-function” Fauci. When dogs—the stately beagle, no less—were reportedly harmed in Fauci-funded experimental research, whatever shreds of sympathetic credibility left in the doctor’s aura dissipated like supporters at an election night rally for Hillary Clinton.
The only thing that could have made it worse for Fauci is if Golden Retrievers had been the experimental subjects.
I am thankful for the full exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse. As Sean Hannity said on his radio show, it was among the biggest “no-brainers” in the history of the universe. Rittenhouse was lawfully defending himself. He might have ended up dead, like Portland Trump supporter Aaron Danielson, slain in the street in cold blood by a far-left radical. There was tension while the jury was out; you never know how the verdict will come down. They got it right.
I am personally thankful for Newsmax TV. It was hard leaving Fox News after twenty-four years, but as a day-one Trump supporter who believes the election was stolen in several key swing states, I had no choice. IMO Newsmax looks and sounds like a Trump-era, America First conservative channel should look and sound.
I am cautiously optimistic, and thankful, that the US Court of Appeals in the Fifth Circuit issued a stay on Biden’s attempt to implement a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees. COVID-19, while very real, has been coopted by the left and used as a blunt instrument to force the kind of compliance that they hope will set the stage for future tyrannical control. The stay offers hope that the partisan hegemonic coronavirus campaign has peaked, and that a big recalibration is coming. The Biden Regime’s patience may be wearing thin, but the Supreme Court will likely have the final say.
I am thankful that the far-left Marxist Democrats who now control the party will ignore topical comedian Bill Maher when he warns that their insane “woke” agenda is steering them over a cliff.
I give thanks to the growing number of America First Republican candidates who are stepping up to primary the GOP rinos who aided and abetted Joe Biden’s trillion-plus dollar infrastructure bill. The bill would have, and should have, passed on Democrat votes alone, but for the yay-sayers who handed the Democrats a bipartisan talking point.
Godspeed to the challengers.
I am especially thankful that Kamala Harris has not gone anywhere, done anything, or even said anything that positively addresses the real problems facing the nation. Because if she had, it might have ameliorated the solidified perception of her vice presidency as an unequivocal train wreck.
Finally, I am thankful that Joe Biden did not die in office this year, sparing us, at least temporarily, the frightening prospect of Harris afflicting the Oval Office with her callow incompetency. Biden is obviously not running the show, but if he passes, it will be a case of Katie-bar-the-door.
As you grow older, the years seem to flash by evermore quickly. It seems as if I only just recently put away the 2020 Christmas ornaments. Now it’s time to unbox them again.
There are political developments for conservatives to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, but, pausing to reflect upon 2021, the hastening of time might be a good thing.
