Posts on Tuesday, March 3, 2020
As former Vice President Joe Biden racked up win after win in Super Tuesday’s 14 Democratic primaries, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville popped up on MSNBC to call upon his nemesis Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to drop out, claiming the “most important constituencies in our party are just not for you.” (Snip) “You might see Democrats starting to ask Sanders, ‘Look, let’s don’t drag this thing out any more than we have to,’” the former Clinton advisor noted. “People want to get on to the general election. They want to get on to defeating Donald Trump.” Carville went on to
Washington—President Donald Trump told his attorney general and top GOP lawmakers he will not extend surveillance authorities that expire this month unless Congress sends him a bill that incorporates reforms, according to a senator present for the Tuesday night meeting at the White House. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has led efforts to curtail the federal government's ability to spy on Americans, said Trump "made it exceedingly clear" he will not accept a straight re-authorization of the surveillance provisions. Trump wants changes before he will sign the bill into law, Paul said.(Snip) Another person familiar with the meeting confirmed the account.
A Guatemalan national living in Fairview sexually abused a 13-year-old Cliffside Park student, authorities charged. Eualio L. Martinez, 35, who works as a car washer, was charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal sexual contact, sexual assault and child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Monday. An investigation by his Special Victims Unit in tandem with police in Cliffside Park and Fairview began after a school nurse contacted borough police this past Friday about the alleged assaults, he said. Martinez remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance this Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.
Brooklyn—Immigration and Customs Enforcement slammed New York's sanctuary city status Tuesday after ICE officers arrested a man accused of raping a teen in Brooklyn. Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam, 20, was originally arrested by the NYPD on Thursday, according to ICE. He was released from custody after his arraignment—though ICE had issued a detainer—and was then arrested again, this time by ICE, on Monday. Local Enforcement and Removal Operations Director Rhomas Decker called Ajqui-Ajtzalam's release "inconceivable."(Snip) The victim was 13, an NYPD spokesperson said. Ajqui-Ajtzalam, a Brooklyn resident, was 19 at the time the criminal report was filed.
President Trump has rightly won praise from medical professionals and public health officials for taking tough action, even against leftist criticism, for effectively protecting the U.S. from the ravages of the coronavirus.
Nations that didn't do that, such as China itself — which hid the crisis, enabling its spread; South Korea — which kowtowed to China; and possibly Japan and Italy, are now reaping severe consequences. Thomas Lifson wrote about the left's criticism here, and I wrote about Trump's sharp recognition of a threat when he sees one here.
As the left continues to heap criticism on Trump, with various claims of "chaos,"
Accused anti-Semitic slapper Tiffany Harris was arraigned on felony hate crimes charges Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court—but it still wasn’t enough to hold her. Harris, 30, who is charged with two unprovoked attacks against Jewish women in December following back-to-back busts, pleaded not guilty to the new raps and was then cut loose once again because even the elevated charges don’t qualify for bail under the state’s new laws.(Snip) She first made headlines when she was arrested Dec. 27 for allegedly slapping three Jewish women in Crown Heights and yelling, “F–k you, Jews.” She was released without bail
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the Democrats' current dilemma. The party of racial diversity has only white candidates. The party of youth has only old candidates. The party's top candidate is an angry, spit-flecked, wild-maned old man who has been a Marxist his entire life, has never held a real job in the private sector, is now hypocritically reveling in the life of a millionaire and can't stop himself from praising grotesque dictators.
And here's the biggest laugh of all: the Democrat party's only hope is a confused old man whose corruption is oozing into the open
Schadenfreude is not a very kind emotion, and it can veer dangerously into hubris (which, the Greeks tell us, the gods always punish). Nevertheless, schadenfreude has to be the dominant emotion when a black Democrat who is married to Los Angeles's first black district attorney brandishes a gun at Black Lives Matter activists who showed up early in the morning to protest the D.A.'s belief that her job requires her to prosecute criminals.
In addition to Jackie Lacey, the D.A., and her husband, David, the prime actor in this drama is Melina Abdullah, who identifies herself on Twitter as a "Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA,
Officer Martin McFadden was on a foot post in a commercial area of Cleveland, Ohio when he noticed two men standing on a street corner. From his concealed position, McFadden watched as one of the men walked to a retail store, stopped to look in the window, turned around, and walked back to join the other man. The other man walked over to the same store, looked in, and then rejoined his friend. Officer McFadden watched as the men repeated the action about a dozen times individually before both headed toward the store together. McFadden confronted the men and asked for identification.
New Jersey’s first Filipino-American Superior Court judge defended herself before the state’s top court Tuesday, arguing that she had not concealed her fugitive boyfriend from police years ago.
A judicial ethics panel previously recommended Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Carlia Brady be fired.
Barbra Streisand released a scathing op-ed slamming Donald Trump and his administration while bashing the president for taking swipes 'at the pillars of our democracy.'
A column by the legendary singer was published by Variety on Super Tuesday as millions took to the polls for the Democratic primary.
Streisand - a vocal critic of Trump - opens her op-ed by declaring that America 'was great before' he was elected president in 2016.
'Every morning I wake up, holding my breath while I turn on my phone to see the latest news,' the Funny Girl star writes. 'I think to myself, “It can’t be worse than yesterday.”
China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program. In addition to draconian quarantine procedures, which kept more than 150 million Chinese in place at the February peak of the coronavirus epidemic, China used sophisticated computational methods on a scale never attempted in the West.
With more than 80,000 cases registered, China reported only 126 new cases yesterday, compared to 851 in South Korea and 835 in Iran, out of a total of 1,969 new cases worldwide. Chinese sources emphasize that the artificial intelligence initiative supplemented basic public health measures, which centered on quarantines
Music icon, Dolly Parton, led celebrity tributes to the residents of Tennessee as Carrie Underwood revealed that her husband had to get their sons to safety when two tornadoes ripped through the state, killing 22 and hospitalizing more than 150 others.The Tennessee native voiced her support for her home state in a video shared on her Twitter page. 'We had a lot of damage out in our area. I know a lot of Nashville was just devastated with the storms,' she began.'I just wanted all of you to know that we are all with you and hope that your families are okay and your properties
When people ask Jeremy Chong about his Friday night plans, they don’t get the typical college sophomore response. He and his friends usually head to downtown Chicago. But the point isn’t to party—it’s to evangelize. And thanks to a federal judge, the group of Wheaton students can finally resume that without harassment. For months, students like Chong and Matthew Swart would pass out gospel tracts at Millennium Park. They were just simple threefold pamphlets telling people about faith in Jesus Christ.
Denver Communist Councilwoman Candi Cdebaca is back in the news again.
Back in April 2019 Candi promised to push communism “by any means necessary.” Candi CdeBaca: I don’t believe that our current economic system actually works. Capitalism by design is extractive and in order to generate profit in a capitalist system something has to be exploited. That’s land, labor or resources. And I think that we’re in late phase capitalism and we know it doesn’t work and we’ve got to move into something new. And I believe in community ownership of land, labor and resources and distribution of those resources. And so whatever that morphs into
Authorities in California found 20,000 rounds of ammunition and several tactical weapons in the home of a UPS driver who threatened to commit a mass shooting at work.
Police were notified on Sunday that Thomas Andrews, 32, of Sunnyvale, California, had sent threatening messages to his coworkers at a UPS facility in the city. Officers launched an investigation into Andrews and found that he had five registered firearms, including four handguns and one rifle.
When authorities found Andrews later that evening, he fled the scene in his vehicle and triggered a chase with police, who eventually stopped Andrews and brought him into jail uninjured.
President Trump is donating his quarterly salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the coronavirus. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the president’s $100,000 pay for the fourth quarter of last year will “support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain, and combat” the coronavirus outbreak. She said it’s part of Mr. Trump’s commitment “to further protect the American people.”
An unknown person etched a massive carving that reads “Trump 2020” on Wisconsin’s frozen Lake Winnebago.
A crew spotted the carving about two miles off of Garlic Island between the towns of Neenah and Oshkosh, NBC 26 Green Bay reported over the weekend. Don Herman, the owner of SUNK? Dive and Ice Rescue, shared photos of the carving, which he estimated contains letters about 250 feet each.
“Someone spent a lot of time plowing 250 ft letters,” the company’s Facebook page reads, along with several photos of the carving.
Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Virginia Primary Tuesday and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont.After claiming two wins in the first three states to vote, Sanders entered “Super Tuesday” with a slim lead over former Biden in the overall delegate count.14 states, American Somoa, and Democrats abroad voted Tuesday on their pick for the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.(Photo) Still, Biden took home victory Saturday in South Carolina, his first ever presidential primary or caucus win across three presidential campaigns,
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are giving their writing hands — and green thumbs — a workout, penning their first children's book together about gardening.The pair revealed details of their forthcoming book, "Grandma's Gardens," on Monday. The picture book is inspired by the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee's mother, Dorothy Rodham, and her love of gardening.
Rodham, the book's publisher says, taught the Clintons that gardens are "magical places to learn, exciting spaces for discovery, quiet spots to spend time with fa
'Exactly how coronavirus gets spread': Michael
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Michael Bloomberg's closing argument to Democrats before Super Tuesday highlighted his managerial record, pitching his crisis management experience amid fears about the coronavirus, but a last-minute food faux pas is proving to be a distraction.
“At times like this, it is the job of the president to reassure the public that he or she is taking all the steps necessary to protect the health and well-being of every citizen,” Bloomberg, 78, said during a three-minute public address his campaign paid to broadcast on CBS and NBC over the weekend.
“The public wants to know their leader is trained, informed, and respected. When a problem arises,
A Republican senator criticized a possible proposal tying Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization to multibillion-dollar emergency funding to combat the coronavirus.
Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the judiciary and commerce panels, cast such "rumors" as an indicator that Congress is on its way to renewing key parts of the surveillance law without sufficient consideration for reform, highlighting a split between the GOP and Attorney General William Barr, who has asked for a clean reauthorization.
“Hearing rumors that the swamp is trying to tie long-term FISA reauthorization to emergency funding to fight the #CoronaVirus,” the Texas Republican tweeted Monday night. “This should not happen. FISA process was abused to spy on @realDonaldTrump.
Earlier today the notoriously political and corrupt former FBI Director, James Comey, provided his endorsement for Joe Biden in the Democrat primary. esterday the notoriously political and corrupt former CIA Director, John Brennan, also gave his full-throated endorsement for Joe Biden…. …Which begs the question.
If Joe Biden were ever to win the office of the presidency, who exactly would be running it?
Former President Barack Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday urged whichever 2020 Democratic presidential candidate emerges as the leader after the conclusion of Super Tuesday to “break with conventional wisdom and announce a running mate that’s a woman of color,” especially if it is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden or former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Jarrett explained on CBS’s “This Morning” that “these are not normal times” and argued having a woman of color “would send an important signal” heading into the next round of primaries.“I think that whoever emerges tonight, particularly if it’s Bernie Sanders, if it’s Vice President Biden or
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to have forgotten Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was still in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Ahead of the Super Tuesday elections, the billionaire was questioned by a reporter who asked him he'd be satisfied with a third-place finish, dismissing the threat Warren posed to his campaign.
"Would a third-place finish be good?" the reporter asked. "If there's only three candidates, you can't do worse than that," Bloomberg responded. "Well, there is Elizabeth Warren also," the reporter corrected him. He responded, "I didn't realize she's still in. Is she?"
The billionaire ex-mayor was campaigning in Florida ahead of its March 17 primary,
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation Monday to punish doctors who do not aid a baby born after an attempted abortion.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act easily passed both bodies of West Virginia’s Republican-dominated legislature this month. The bill was largely a symbolic gesture since existing laws already prohibit doctors from withholding medical help in such cases of failed abortions.
"I stand for life — in all cases, at all times," Justice said at the Monday signing ceremony. It is "unbelievable, to tell you the truth, that we have to do such a thing."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) danced to the music at a Bernie Sanders rally, as she prepared to introduce the candidate who will lead the "revolution."Hello, Minnesota!" Omar said: Are you all ready for this revolution? Are you ready to fight for someone you don't know? I want each one of you in the audience to take a quick moment with me. Hold the hand of the person to your right. It's going to be all right. And then, I want you to turn to them and look them in the eye. Don't be shy. Look at the person to your right.
Fired FBI Director James Comey endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and said he voted for him in Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary on Super Tuesday. “Voted in first Dem primary to support party dedicated to restoring values in WH. I agree with @amyklobuchar: We need candidate who cares about all Americans and will restore decency, dignity to the office,” Comey wrote on Twitter. “There is a reason Trump fears @joebiden and roots for Bernie. #Biden2020.” (Tweet) Andrew Bates, the Biden campaign’s rapid response director, seemingly rejected Comey’s endorsement, tweeting: “Yes, customer service?
Brokered conventions are the fan fiction of political junkies. They’re rich in dramatic possibilities, and can fill a mundane process with intrigue. In every presidential election, the prospect of a brokered convention is raised not because it is likely but because it is fun to discuss the what-ifs and to imagine the convention as something other than the choreographed boredom it has become.
But now that a convention beginning without a clear nominee is more plausible, the amusing hypothetical has given way to a nightmarish reality. A contested convention would be an opportunity for a political party to tear itself to pieces on live television.
The Sixty Trillion Dollar Man
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Bernie Sanders faced more pointed attacks last night over his potential vulnerabilities than he ever has at a debate. But the blustery and disorderly session once again failed to fully explore what could be the Vermont senator’s greatest general-election weakness: the massive size and scope of his spending and tax proposals, which, depending on the estimate, would cost $50 trillion to $60 trillion over the next 10 years. That would roughly double the size of the federal government, an unprecedented increase outside of wartime.
More so than in any previous session, Sanders at times seemed rattled and tentative as his rivals subjected him to a crossfire of criticism—
Jeffrey Epstein was in a relationship with a woman from Belarus when he died and she was the last person he phoned before he hanged himself. The pedophile rang Karyna Shuliak on August 10 last year from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. The next day, the 66-year-old financier was found dead in his cell. Shuliak's identity was revealed by a report in the New York Daily News which said they had been together for four or five years.(Snip) Public records indicate that Shuliak was registered as living at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion between 2015 and 2018.
Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca was hit with calls to resign Tuesday after she showed support for a tweet floating the idea of attending Make America Great Again rallies to infect Trump supporters with the coronavirus.
Ms. CdeBaca tweeted “#solidarity Yaaas!!” in her Feb. 28 response to a Feb. 26 post from Susan Daniel, who tweeted, “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.” The councilwoman’s office issued a statement saying her reply was “sarcastic” after she drew thousands of outraged responses on social media, as well as a call from the Colorado Republican Party to resign.
A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that illegal immigrants who use someone else's information when filling out tax forms for employment can face criminal charges, despite federal laws that liberal justices claim should prohibit such cases.
The Immigration Control and Reform Act (IRCA) makes it a federal crime to lie on the I-9 work authorization form, while limiting how the false information can be used. Federal law also says information "contained in" the I-9 cannot be used for law enforcement other than specified exceptions -- but the Supreme Court ruled that if workers use the same information in tax documents, they can face charges.
An annual trade show that brings close to 60,000 visitors to McCormick Place each year has canceled its event there this month, citing concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
The International Housewares Association today announced it will not hold its four-day Inspired Home Show, (Snip) The Rosemont-based trade group becomes the first to cancel an event at McCormick Place amid the recent outbreak of the virus, which has set off unrest among many companies unsure of how its spread will impact their operations. The cancelation deals a blow to the convention center and especially downtown hotels, which lose more than 47,000 room nights tied to the event.
Sondheim at 90
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Fifty years ago, the Broadway musical was marking time. The songwriters of the pre-rock era were all past their prime, and except for Burt Bacharach and Hal David in Promises, Promises and James Rado and Gerome Ragni in Hair, none of their successors was writing scores that made idiomatic use of contemporary pop music, much less producing shows whose subject matter reflected the fast-growing social complexities of modern American culture.
Then, in the spring of 1970, Stephen Sondheim, a 40-year-old lyricist best known for writing the words to Leonard Bernstein’s music in West Side Story (1957) and Jule Styne’s in Gypsy (1959), teamed up with George Furth on a plotless show
Pelosi: ‘We have the most dangerous person
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No other American has been as dangerous to the country as President Trump, according to the speaker of the House.Nancy Pelosi blasted the president in an interview with Variety published Tuesday and urged Democrats to come together for the 2020 election to ensure that Trump becomes a single-term president.“We have the most dangerous person in the history of our country sitting in the White House,” she said. “That’s different from what happened in 2016. People thought Hillary would win, so they didn’t all turn out. Nobody could possibly think that somebody like Donald Trump could be elected president of the United States.
Local FFA (Future Farmers of America) members at Coldwater High School in Ohio were told they couldn’t fly Trump flags on their tractors.So the students held a pro-Trump tractor parade to Coldwater High School. (Photo) Via Jack Posobiec. (Tweet/Video) More video– ‘Go kids, go!”
The state of Georgia confirmed Monday that two people have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus on returning from Italy.
The pair live together in Fulton County, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“I want to reassure you that they’re at home, in home isolation with other household members, with minimal symptoms so they’re not hospitalized,” said Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Health, told reporters at a press conference.
“Georgians should remain calm,” Gov. Brian Kemp (pictured) said. “We were ready for today.”
The Democrat Party is in worse shape than we thought. Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile went on FOX News this morning and COMPLETELY lost it. Brazile pointed at the camera and told RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel “So, Ronna, go to hell!”. This was an epic meltdown, on Super Tuesday morning, from a former Democrat leader whose party is going straight to the sewer. Donna Brazile: First of all, I want to talk to my Republicans. Stay the hell out of our race! Stay the hell out of our race! I get sick and tired of Republicans telling me
LOS ANGELES, California — Many California Democrats who already cast their votes for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) or former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg are reportedly feeling frustrated by those candidates’ decisions to drop out of the presidential race on Monday — the day before Super Tuesday.
The vast majority of Californians vote by mail during the month before the actual primary date. The first ballots were sent out Feb. 3.
Those voters who chose candidates who have since dropped out of the race might have liked to vote for someone else — especially as the clash between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the party establishment heats up — but they
President Trump said Tuesday that he would visit Tennessee on Friday following a deadly string of tornadoes that authorities said killed at least 19 people in the state.“Before I begin, I want to send my warm wishes to the great people of Tennessee in the wake of the horrible and very vicious tornado that killed at least 19 people and injured many more,” Trump said in the outset of remarks at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on Tuesday.Trump said that his administration is working with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) and other state officials
The Federal Reserve announced an emergency interest rate cut Tuesday, saying it was slashing its benchmark target by half a percentage point to combat the risks by the global outbreak of the coronavirus.This was the largest move in interest rates since the Fed cut rates during the financial crisis and the first emergency cut since late 2008. Typically, the rate target only moves its rate target at scheduled meetings. The next meeting is set to begin in two weeks.“The fundamentals of the U.S. economy remain strong. However, the coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity.
Democrat legislators want President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with pro-transgender rules set by President Barack Obama in 2015.
The legislators are pushing the pro-transgender policies despite Trump’s policy of reestablishing the legal recognition of fundamental biological differences between men and women Obama sought to abolish.
For example, Obama’s pro-transgender policy sought to place migrant men who say they are “transgender women” in detention facilities with women. Obama’s rules would also have provided foreign migrants with expensive hormones that help them change their sexual appearance, (Snip)
Trump’s deputies have kept roughly 100 people who say they are transgender in separate facilities,
A woman given gender reassignment therapy as a teen is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for having “rushed” her into the treatment.
“I wanted to go onto the medical pathway as soon as possible, I was very eager and I was very reluctant about speaking to anyone who would possibly get in the way of that,” (Snip)
But after being “rushed” into gender reassignment after “roughly three” short sessions with “no real investigation” into any other underlying mental health problems, she came to realise she was not a boy “born in the wrong body” after all, and that her gender identity crisis had only been a “coping mechanism” for deeper
Heading out of the Nevada primary last week, the Democratic Party establishment was in a bit of a panic. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had gotten the most votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. The establishment’s initial pick for the nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden, had been struggling for months on the campaign trail, sometimes seeming to be confused about who and where he was.(Snip)If the establishment really wanted to defeat Sanders, they had to figure out something big and figure it out quickly.
Good for you, you got out of the house and went to vote. You even voted early. Maybe you got a sticker. As you cast that ballot for Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar you knew you were doing your civic duty. And now it doesn’t matter at all. Your vote might as well be a scratch off ticket that almost won discarded on the sidewalk.
This of course is the problem with early voting. The justification for early voting is that it encourages participation in our electoral process, (Snip) what good does it do for anyone to cast a vote for a candidate who is no longer in the race.
President Trump and Coronavirus
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The attempt to hang coronavirus around the neck of the president is a movement that has gone from a standing start to neck-snapping speed, as opportunities to discredit Donald Trump in the American media generally do.
He was criticized for acting early in restricting access from potentially vulnerable countries, and after for having short-changing the relevant government agencies, even though that didn’t happen. Even the brickbat-wielding Washington Post has had to make the point that, in fact, Trump increased the allocations to public health and disease control authorities.
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We are already seeing the beginning of a process reminiscent of the media treatment of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1981.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point on Tuesday, a bold attempt to give the US economy a jolt in the face of concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. It was the first unscheduled, emergency rate cut since 2008, and it also marks the biggest one-time cut since then. The new benchmark interest rate is 1% to 1.25%. Although the fundamentals of the US economy remain strong, "the coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity," the central bank said in a statement. Just last week, several Fed officials said it was too early to cut rates in the face of the global virus outbreak.
Colombia's Constitutional Court rules
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BOGOTA - Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled on Monday against legalizing abortions in up to the first 16 weeks of pregnancy and said the procedure would continue to be allowed in just three specific cases. The decision dashed the hopes of those who had looked to see abortion legalized in Colombia. The Andean country is part of a region that has some of the world’s strictest reproductive rights laws.
The court rejected a case that looked to return the country to a ban on the practice in all circumstances, but also said it would not make abortion legal during the first four months of pregnancy.
College officials are trumpeting their new core mission of protecting female students from male student sexual aggressors. But academe is strangely silent in the face of professors or administrators themselves allegedly crossing the line by leering, making lewd comments, groping students or worse.
Buried within an influential campus sexual assault survey last year by the Association of American Universities is evidence of hundreds of incidents of inappropriate and potentially criminal behavior by faculty and staff against female students.
“The information buried in the report raises more questions than it answers and requires further investigation and explanation,” said Subodh Chandra, a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who represents college plaintiffs in sexual misconduct lawsuits.
With their famous reputation for "tolerance" all out there, leftists, including the presumably vote-seeking Bernie Sanders, are mocking Vice President Mike Pence for beginning his coronavirus task force, a serious group of working government leaders tasked with keeping the infectious disease from spreading through the U.S., with a prayer.
Here's an excellent description of just how this picture looks: (snip for tweet) The Williams referred to lists himself on Twitter as a Harper's magazine columnist and New York Times magazine contributing writer. Mister Establishment.
A federal judge has ruled that Hillary Clinton and her former chief of staff Cheryl Mills must sit for a deposition within 75 days (full ruling pdf below).(Snip)From the Ruling – “The Court has considered the numerous times in which Secretary Clinton said she could not recall or remember certain details(Snip)In a deposition, it is more likely that plaintiff’s counsel could use documents and other testimony to attempt to refresh her recollection. And so, to avoid the unsatisfying and inefficient outcome of multiple rounds of fruitless interrogatories(Snip), Judicial Watch will be permitted to clarify and further explore Secretary Clinton’s answers in person and immediately after she gives them.
SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley venture capitalist Keith Rabois, onstage in January at a tech conference, said his first choice for president was a Democrat, Pete Buttigieg. And, sure, it would be a close call for Joe Biden over President Donald Trump. But Bernie Sanders? At that, Rabois, who has been a top executive at or invested in LinkedIn, Square, Yelp and PayPal, balked. Speaking to the crowd, he drew the line at democratic socialism. (Buttigieg ended his campaign Sunday night.) “I would certainly vote for Trump over Sanders,” Rabois declared. When it comes to the 2020 Democratic primaries, with
New England Journal of Medicine:
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No cases of coronavirus in humans
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A new report from The New England Journal of Medicine shared the assessment of experts on the lack of cases of Covid-19, or the coronavirus, in those under the age of 15 years old. The report, published Friday and authored by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., H. Clifford Lane, M.D., and Robert R. Redfield, M.D., notes that there are no known cases of children younger than 15 being infected with the respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus.
Democratic party and state officials in Colorado and Utah say early voters have inundated them with requests to recast their ballots because they voted before two major Democratic presidential candidates withdrew from the race, according to a report.
“When Pete Buttigieg dropped out we had a lot of voters who wanted to know if they could vote over, and later on Amy Klobuchar dropped out,” Salt Late County Clerk Sherrie Swensen told Fox News, “But we were already answering phone calls, emails from voters who wanted to know because they had submitted their vote by mail ballot or voted early if they could have a chance to vote over.”
FLASHBACK: Arquette Called for ‘Economic
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So how did that March 2, “economic shutdown” work out for actress Patricia Arquette?Just recently, the lefty star took to Instagram to call on her 146,000 followers to cause an “economic shut down” on March 2, by not purchasing “anything” that day. After coronavirus fears had already caused drastic drops in the market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked 1,294.3 points, for its “biggest point gain ever,” according to CNBC. But that wasn’t all. The S&P 500 also had its “biggest point gain ever,” roaring 136.01 points on Monday.
Declaring Monday’s election “the biggest win of my life,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party live to fight another day.Voters in Israel went to the polls for an unprecedented third election in less than a year and with final numbers expected Tuesday, Netanyahu is closing in on securing the needed seats to form the next government, according to exit polls.“This was a great victory for the right-wing camp, and first and foremost a victory for us Likudnikim,” Netanyahu said in his victory speech.The tweet below translates to: “A huge victory for Israel.”
The crew of a U.S. gunship have been awarded bravery medals at a ceremony in Florida after they rained fire down on Islamic State militants for hours, as allied soldiers on the ground were whisked to safety. Forces on the ground came under heavy fire from ISIS militants in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on April 3, 2019, in a ferocious fight which one Major on the ground likened to infamous WW2 battle Iwo Jima. They called for backup from 'Spooky 41' - a AC-13OU gunship, and the Hercules-variant plane arrived within minutes to provide covering fire and ensure medical helicopters could safely evacuate the injured.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address contained a phrase, remembered to this day. In the wake of the Great Depression, he told Americans,So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Flash forward nearly a hundred years and the American Left is pushing fear as hard as they have ever pushed anything. We have had plenty of scares since the days of FDR, including the overpopulation, acid rain, and Y2K. Some scares have changed names, from global cooling in the 1970s, only to be replaced by
China has slaughtered thousands of its citizens to harvest organs such as hearts, lungs, kidneys, eyes and even skin for sale and to transplant into sick patients in hundreds of hospitals across the country.
A landmark international investigation, published in full today, will accuse the Beijing government of covering up ‘crimes against humanity’ that have been routinely carried out against religious minorities.
The inquiry says the organised butchery of living people to sell body parts can be compared ‘to the worst atrocities committed in conflicts of the 20th Century’ such as the Nazi gassing of Jews and Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia.
Solution X vs Disease X
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While it's tempting to think of every epidemic as a unique event, a disruption of 'normal' life which will eventually return to the old routine, professionals know that it part of an endless struggle between humanity and disease, a struggle that has lasted -- and will last -- for as long as the species exists. "Every outbreak provides an opportunity to gain important information, some of which is associated with a limited window of opportunity ... Critical to moving the field forward, even in the context of an outbreak, is ensuring that investigational products are evaluated in scientifically and ethically sound studies."
In a hypersexualized world, where reality dating shows revolve around sex appeal and dating drama, Netflix’s new show, Love is Blind, has refreshingly changed the focus of relationships to the importance of emotional connection before physical. In doing so, an uncomfortable truth was shown: men are using abortion as a means to escape responsibility, and abortion is hurting women in the process.
Tearfully, one of the contestants named Amber shared her personal experience with abortion.
The prevailing wisdom of the past few months is that this hot mess of a Democratic primary would finally start to clear up a lot after Super Tuesday. With Bernie Sanders stealing almost all of the thunder for weeks as votes finally began to be cast, it looks like the higher-ups in the party decided to get some contingency plans rolling a bit early.
Hot on the heels of Mayor Pete exiting the race, Amy Klobuchar bailed as well, and immediately threw her endorsement to der Bidengaffer.
Both candidates saw the writing on the wall after Biden’s overwhelmingly decisive victory in South Carolina last Saturday.
Hillary’s Reckoning Isn’t Over
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The increasingly desperate Democratic Party and its allies in the media weep tears of joy at the thought of Hillary Clinton riding in to save the party, perhaps after a deadlocked Democratic National Convention. No such luck. After a judge’s decision Monday, Clinton would be wise to lay presidential dreams aside and lawyer up.
It’s been a long time since Clinton’s unquestionably illegal private email and homebrew server have even been mentioned in the media. But legal activist group Judicial Watch didn’t forget.
It was Judicial Watch’s request five years ago about the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi terrorist attack that
A massive tornado swept through Nashville early this morning leaving two people dead, multiple injured and thousands without power as high winds wreaked a trail of destruction.
At least two tornadoes struck central Tennessee as heavy 'supercells' caused damage near downtown Nashville, knocking out power and tearing through buildings.
Thousands were left without power as nearly 16,000 Nashville Electric Service customers suffered outages.
Terrifying footage showed lightening flashing across the sky and debris strewn across roads as the storm struck.
A reported gas leak forced an evacuation of the IMT building in the Germantown community, according to WSMV-TV.
Police said the emergency services have launched searches for people still trapped
Bodycam footage reveals the moment a mom is confronted by a law enforcement officer at a Florida Walmart after allegedly trying to light a bomb she was observed making out of materials she had pulled off the store's shelves.
Emily Rae Stallard, 37, is seen in the footage taken in January at a Tampa Walmart store holding a lighter and later denies the materials in her cart were hers.
The cart contained a candle wick, mason jars, nails and denatured alcohol, said authorities.
Stallard, who was with her son at the time of the incident on January 11, was charged with attempted arson, fire bombing, child abuse,
A third major U.S. bank has announced it will not support financing for oil and gas projects in the Arctic.
Wells Fargo & Co. called out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska’s North Slope as an area it will avoid, joining Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase in disclosing that it will not support investments for Arctic oil projects.
“Wells Fargo does not directly finance oil and gas projects in the Arctic region, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) – part of a larger 2018 risk-based decision to forego participation in any project-specific transaction in the region,” the bank’s updated policy language says.
For someone as loquacious as Barack Obama, the current Democratic primary race must be almost painful to endure. The ex-president has said he would refrain from sticking his nose into likely the largest intramural party competition in recent memory, featuring two dozen candidates at one point. His former vice presidential partner, Joe Biden, was the longtime front-runner who faded and then
After a third-election over the past two years in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally locked down a resounding victory that will successfully lead to the establishment of a coalition government.
From the Jerusalem Post:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in winning 60 seats for his bloc of right-wing and religious parties in Monday’s election, one less than he needed for a majority in the Knesset, according to exit polls on the three television networks.
The exit polls indicated that Netanyahu’s Likud won 36-37 seats. Its allies in Shas, UTJ and Yamina won 9, 7-8 and 6-7 respectively.
DENVER — Trying to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list has been like prying a pack of the predators off a fat elk carcass: messy, more than a little risky and with no guarantee of success.
With gray wolves thriving since their 1995 reintroduction, a dogfight is looming as the Fish and Wildlife Service and House lawmakers ramp up their efforts to delist the animals, setting up another battle over the Endangered Species Act with environmentalists.
Reps. Collin C. Peterson, Minnesota Democrat, and Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, jumped back into the fray last week with legislation to end the gray wolf’s endangered species status in the Lower 48.
Elizabeth Warren may not even win her own state tomorrow. Though a recent Boston Globe/WBZ TV/Suffolk University poll shows Warren neck-and-neck with Bernie Sanders in Massachusetts, FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows Bernie Sanders with a five-point lead overall, and Warren’s lack of an obvious lead does not portend great things for her candidacy. Second place would be an ignominious result for Warren, and yet it would be her highest finish of the primary. Massachusetts remains the only Super Tuesday state that Warren could feasibly win. There is one way for the senator to preserve her dignity while advancing the progressive cause she espouses,
Last month, the delayed results of the Iowa caucuses caused a crisis within the political world. Fundraising boosts were lost. Momentum was not enjoyed. It did not seem like democracy’s best week.
If the measure of a successful election were only how quickly the results are released, then California would be a disaster. But that’s not how election officials in the state see it as they prepare for the primary election on Tuesday, or Super Tuesday, when California and 13 other states vote. They’re focused on accuracy over speed.
“We prioritize the right to vote and election security over rushing the vote count,”
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Washington - About a third of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination are up for grabs in the voting bonanza known as Super Tuesday. To put it in perspective, there were 155 pledged delegates available in the race's first four contests, which were the obsession of the candidates, voters, pundits and political prognosticators for the month of February. On Super Tuesday, 1,344 delegates are for the taking – as well as 13 delegates representing Americans abroad, who have a week to vote beginning Tuesday. If a candidate can secure 1,991 or more of the 3,979 candidates available in all the primary contests
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear another constitutional challenge to Obamacare. The court’s latest rendezvous with the “Affordable Care Act” became all but inevitable in late 2018 when U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled, in Texas v. United States, that the individual mandate was unconstitutional and inseverable from the rest of the statute. The latter defect, he held, required him to strike down the entire law. The case inevitably landed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld O’Connor’s ruling on the mandate, but remanded the severability question back to him for further “analysis.” This satisfied neither the Republicans who filed the original lawsuit nor Obamacare’s Democratic defenders.
Coronavirus Has a Silver Lining
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Disease is bad, but coronavirus has some positive aspects. It has exposed the frailty of the Communist Chinese regime, which reportedly is now sending some of the one million Uyghurs they have been holding in concentration camps to factories that have been vacated on account of the virus. No doubt Tom Friedman and other Democratic advocates for the Communist regime will hail this as one more sign of the superiority of autocratic states.
Most Americans, happily, don’t see it that way. Gallup finds that for the first time in 13 years, most Americans think the U.S., not China, is the world’s leading economic power. They are right, of course, and someday
Despite a deluge of debate-night gaffes and sagging poll numbers, Joe Biden is poised to take on Bernie Sanders virtually head to head on Super Tuesday — thanks in large part to a Democratic Party establishment that fears having the socialist Sanders atop its 2020 ticket, insiders said Monday.
Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar suspended their campaigns on Sunday and Monday, respectively, and said they would endorse fellow moderate Biden, in a last-ditch effort to stop the Vermont senator, who appeared to be steam-rolling toward big wins in delegate-rich states like California and Texas.
A couple of weeks ago, when I wrote about the upcoming Cesar Awards in Paris, I noted with dismay that the academy running the “French Oscars” had rewarded notorious, fugitive child rapist and pedophile Roman Polanski with a dozen nominations for his most recent film. This led to some admirable pushback from members of the European film community, particularly among women. Chief among those was Adèle Haenel, a woman who has found success in the film industry there as an actress but who has been quite vocal about the fact that she, as a child actress, had been raped by a different director when she was barely past puberty.
Good luck deposing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She’s as slippery as an eel and twice as devious. She’ll figure out a way to circumvent the truth. It’s her greatest skill set.
Clinton and her lawyers have spent months inventing one excuse after another for why she shouldn’t have to answer questions in a deposition about her unauthorized and unsecured computer system. She used a clandestine server to handle all of her electronic communications as secretary of state, including the transfer and dissemination of thousands of classified and top-secret documents.
There is no doubt that Clinton’s unprotected email apparatus jeopardized America’s national security.
Chris Matthews’ abrupt resignation at the beginning of MSNBC’s "Hardball" Monday night came after several weeks of blunders that prompted the network to take action, say people familiar with the matter.
Mathews spoke to part of the controversy in an on-air apology, saying that "compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have thought were okay were never okay...and for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry."
MSNBC had no comment, but people familiar with the matter say the timetable for a planned retirement was suddenly accelerated after a series of mistakes and missteps by the onetime Jimmy Carter speechwriter and Tip O’Neill aide.
Laura Ingraham sent Raymond Arroyo to interview Biden supporters at his rally at Gilly’s in North Texas on Monday night.
Former candidates Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke endorsed Joe Biden from the stage on Monday night before the Super Tuesday primaries.
Outside the venue Raymond Arroyo interviewed several Biden supporters about his numerous mental lapses.
Joe Biden clearly has issues with dementia and it is more obvious as the election season continues.
The Biden supporters all admitted they are concerned about the mental lapses but will support him anyway. One supporter said, “I wish he was younger but he’s the best we got.”
President Trump was reportedly furious after a State Department doctor ignored the President’s orders and allowed Americans, sick with the coronavirus, to return to the US from Japan.
Dr. William Walters, Executive Director and Managing Director for Operational Medicine for the Bureau of Medical Services at the U.S. Department of State, made the decision to bring the patients back to the US.
Dr. William Walters is a holdover from the Obama administration.
The good doctor made the call despite the president’s wishes and then went out and bragged about it.
Wall Street surged on Monday as investors hunted for bargains following reassurances by central banks that they stood ready to counter the economic impact from the coronavirus following last week’s steep sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,296.81 points, or 5.1 per cent, to 26,706.17. The S&P 500 gained 136.3 points, or 4.61 per cent, to 3,090.52 and the Nasdaq Composite added 384.80 points, or 4.49 per cent, to 8,952.17. The huge gains clawed back some of the ground lost in a massive sell-off last week. It was the biggest-ever point gain for the Dow and the biggest percentage gain since March 2009.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden embraced far-left anti-gun extremist Robert Francis O’Rourke during a rally on Monday night in Texas, declaring that the failed Senate and presidential candidate was going to lead Biden’s anti-Second Amendment efforts.“I wanna make something clear, I’m going to guarantee you this is not the last you’ve seen of [O’Rourke],” Biden told the audience. “You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me. You’re going to be the one who leads this effort.”“I’m counting on you. I’m counting on you,” Biden continued. “We need you badly, the state needs you, the country needs you. You’re the best.”
As concerns man-made climate change:
"The temperature of the Earth" is an ambiguous term that cannot mean anything. At any given time it is possible to measure the temperature of some very small part of the Earth, such as, perhaps, a shot glass of water. At that same moment, other temperatures of the Earth that could be measured will show a variation from the temperature of molten rock (1,300 to 2,200°F) to polar ice (32 to -76°F). Daily variation of the same place on Earth can be 50 to 60°F. Seasonal variation can be well over 100°F in high latitudes.
Director and actor Rob Reiner warned Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that if the Democratic presidential nominee does not beat President Donald Trump in 2020, America will lose our Democracy to Trump’s authoritarianism.
Reiner also said the earth would become uninhabitable due to inaction on global warming.
On his support for former Vice President Joe Biden, Reiner said, “I was a Joe Biden supporter for a year. And my position always was if Joe Biden I knew there was going to be a lot of candidates. I knew who all, you know, Elizabeth Warren, I knew Bernie was coming back, Cory Booker and all that. I said,
More than 100 people attended a funeral for an unclaimed veteran in Dandridge, Tennessee, on Saturday.
When 81-year-old United States Air Force veteran Charlotte “CJ” Birch passed away from pancreatic cancer in Pennsylvania in 2018, no family members claimed her remains for over a year and a half, according to WBIR.
However, once Birch’s friend Genie Wachter heard what happened, she decided to travel from her home in Illinois to Pennsylvania and transport her friend’s ashes to Dandridge, where she was born.
Farrar Funeral Home posted the veteran’s obituary on its Facebook page where community members shared it and encouraged others to attend the memorial service at Hills Union Cemetery.
So God Sent Us a Salesman
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Charlie Hurt over at the Washington Times likes to say Donald Trump has the best enemies. Before Hillary and Comey, he had Rosie and Cher. Before Nancy Pelosi and Fake News CNN, he had Russell Brand and Mark Cuban. Before "Fat Jerry" Nadler was creating fake impeachment charges in Congress against President Trump, an even fatter Assemblyman Nadler was preventing 1980s Donald Trump from turning an abandoned rail yard on the West Side into Trump City. There has never been a moment in the public spotlight when Donald Trump was not brawling with somebody, and almost all of his enemies, like deer in the headlights,
Sen. Tom Cotton is headed to New Hampshire, the nation's first primary state, to cultivate support for a potential 2024 president bid, planning to campaign for a Republican Senate candidate and raise money for the party.
Cotton in May will headline a major fundraising dinner for the Hillsborough County Republican Committee that typically draws rising GOP stars and White House hopefuls. On the same trip, the Arkansas Republican will deliver a keynote speech to the New Hampshire GOP convention. This month, the Cotton campaign will air a television advertisement in New Hampshire, narrated by the senator, promoting GOP 2020 Senate contender Don Bolduc.
Biden says he would ask Buttigieg to join his
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Joe Biden said he would like former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be part of his administration should he win the presidency.
Speaking to a reporter in Texas on Monday, the former vice president praised both Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar after their exits from the race. Buttigieg dropped out on Sunday, and Klobuchar followed suit Monday, the eve of Super Tuesday, which is the biggest night of the Democratic primary contest. Both are expected to endorse Biden in an effort to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination.
“I did speak to Pete Buttigieg a couple days ago to encourage him to stay engaged because he has enormous talent,
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Former Bill Clinton strategist Paul Begala thinks President Trump is going to swap running mates in 2020.
The CNN political analyst made the prediction during a Monday panel event at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference. Begala, who was a chief strategist during Clinton’s 1992 campaign, said he thinks Pence will be replaced as vice president on Trump's ticket with Nikki Haley, his former U.N. ambassador.
“This is not a prediction. It’s a certainty,” Begala said. “On Thursday, July 16 — that’s the date the Democrat gives her or his acceptance address — on that day, to interrupt that narrative, Donald Trump will call a press conference at Mar-a-Lago."
In a surprise moment at the end of his Dallas rally on the eve of Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden called former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke up to the stage -- and vowed to put O'Rourke, who has said the government should forcibly seize assault rifles from Americans, in charge of gun-control efforts. Also at the rally, Biden accepted the endorsements of onetime rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, as the Democratic party's moderate wing rallied behind Biden to challenge anti-establishment frontrunner and self-described "democratic socialist" Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. "Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, March 3, 2020, I will be casting my ballot for Joe Biden,"
As if Bernie Sanders's extremist positions alone weren't enough to give one pause, a look at how he intends to enact them is even more disturbing.
According to the Washington Examiner:
LOS ANGELES, California — Addressing a crowd of thousands, Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a glimpse of what his first days as president would look like.
The Vermont senator pledged executive orders effectively legalizing marijuana in all fifty states as well as expunging the records of many of those who have been arrested for possession of the substance.
"We are going to end the destructive war on drugs.
With the rise of coronavirus, the Democrats are so desperate to destroy Trump that they’re lying about everything possible, celebrating damage to the American economy, and working hard to drive ordinary Americans into a blind panic. This is an unusually sordid display of partisanship over country, although none of them have the grace to be ashamed. A look at Obama’s presidency reveals that the Democrats’ standards were quite different back then.
To set the stage, here are a few indisputable facts:
On January 31, 2020, as China confirmed that 259 people had died and there were about 100 cases reported outside of China,
For those who think Bernie Sanders is a well-meaning, if misguided, old man, he's not. First, anyone who can still promote hardcore socialism (AKA communism) despite the 100,000,000 dead bodies it left behind in the 20th century is not well-meaning; he's flat-out evil. The fact that Bernie honestly believes in the system (even as he survives the cognitive dissonance living life as a millionaire) is no excuse.
Second, the people and organizations Bernie has gathered around him point to a dark new age in America, one of race-hatred, anti-Semitism, and the breakdown of all law and order. This post focuses on that last point,