Georgia’s Election Law: “The truth is: Georgia’s new election law has expanded opportunities to vote in that state. The law standardized the use of secure voting drop boxes (they were only allowed in emergencies under prior law). It expanded early voting (both in days and hours) — including mandatory weekend voting for people who work weekday hours (contrary to the lies Mr. Biden has been repeating).
Simply put: Georgia’s new election law has made it easier to vote – but harder to cheat. That fact explains why Democrats hate it so much.” Read the article below.
Court Packing: Partisan Expansion & Packing…both ironic & hypocritical.
There is only democracy from the progressive left’s perspective IF they control Congress and the courts. What happened to the will of the people? It’s only fair and “democratic” if the Republicans and conservatives are not in charge and don’t get to appoint judges. What a joke! The question is, will people buy this blatant political move???
This is a purely partisan act where the progressive left wants to pack the court in their favor and then (and only then) is it balanced and democratic. It’s a power grab.
How stupid do partisan progressive Democrats think the American people are?
This is nothing more than a blatant partisan attempt to highjack the Supreme Court. I watched their press conference and they just pulled claims and accusations out of thin air and said that they MUST pack the court in order to:
· Stop Trump’s policies
· Stop racism
· Implement climate change policy
How about winning legislative elections and passing laws?! Something like what the Founders and the Constitution envisioned!
Don’t buy the political, partisan B.S.
–Saul Anuzis
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60 Plus Weekly Video Rewind
In this week’s video rewind– Rashida Tlaib wants to abolish the police, Democrats prepare to pack the Supreme Court, and troops get ready to come home from Afghanistan after two decades of war!
Links to the articles discussed in the video:
https://news.yahoo.com/rashida-tlaib-calls-no-more-221355507.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/548295-democrats-to-offer-bill-to-expand-supreme-court
Democrats’ Court-Packing Two-Step
President Biden and the Democratic Party still cannot answer a simple question: “Will you, or will you not, blow up the judicial branch of the United States government?”
This should not be a tough one — especially for Joe Biden. Last time a Democratic president considered destroying the Supreme Court, his party described the proposal as “the most terrible threat to constitutional government that has arisen in the entire history of the country” and recommended that it “be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.” As a senator, Biden concurred with this assessment. “Roosevelt,” Biden said, “I remember this old adage about power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely — corrupted by power, in my view, unveiled his Court-packing plan.”
Evidently, the presidency does that to some men.
erhaps aware of the gravity of what they are attempting, the Democrats are running a two-track play. President Biden, through whom many of the party’s most radical ideas are laundered, is simply refusing to answer whether he supports the idea, and, in an attempt to extend the uncertainty, has unveiled a bipartisan commission to “study” the issue. Equally wishy-washy is Nancy Pelosi, who generated headlines yesterday by saying that the current proposal would not get a vote in the House, but did not rule out the idea so much as hide behind Biden’s commission and insist that it needed to be “considered” and is “not out of the question.” In the meantime, less protean Democrats are making the affirmative case. A bill introduced by no less than the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet would add four new justices to the Court — exactly the number needed to hand Democrat-approved judges a majority.
Biden is making the Trump presidency seem like a golden age of unity
Until Biden came along, every single covid-19 relief bill was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses. Congress passed three covid relief packages in March 2020 with margins of 96-1, 90-8, and 96-0 in the Senate, and with overwhelming bipartisan support in the House. This was followed in April by the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, which passed 388-5 in the House and by unanimous consent in the Senate. Indeed, the votes were so bipartisan that Democrats blocked another covid relief package until after Election Day — because they did not want to let President Donald Trump claim credit for another bipartisan victory before voters went to the polls. But after he lost and they finally allowed another covid bill to come up for a vote in December, it passed both houses of Congress with similar margins.
For Biden, who promised to put his “whole soul” into uniting Republicans and Democrats, passing a bipartisan covid bill should have been a layup. I mean, Trump did it five times. But instead, the president has turned unity into division by using covid relief as a pretext to pass all sorts of liberal spending projects that have nothing to do with the pandemic. He did so even after 10 Republican senators, led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), came to the White House and offered him a path to a filibuster-proof bipartisan majority. Not only did the president reject their offer, last week he actually tried to blame the senators, saying that “they didn’t move an inch” from their initial proposal of $619 billion. That’s a lie, the senators responded: Biden never gave negotiation a chance. “Fewer than 24 hours after our meeting in the Oval Office, the Senate Democratic Leader began the process of triggering reconciliation which precluded Republican participation,” all 10 Republicans explained in a statement, adding that the White House “roundly dismissed our effort . . . in order to justify its go-it-alone strategy.”
Republicans need to stop Joe Biden’s progressive assault on America. President Biden has gone too far
His executive order creating a commission to study packing the Supreme Court is an outrage. Even if it is just another sop to the left, opening the door to such an attack on our system of government is unforgivable.
Not everyone seemed outraged by Biden’s proposal. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tweeted: “Gun restrictions. Court packing. Each executive order gets more regrettable than the last.”
“Regrettable”? That’s the best Issa can do? That’s an insufficient response to a proposal that should have people lying in the streets and blocking traffic.
It is time for Republicans to turn up the heat on President Biden, and stop being so polite.
Historically it has been Democrats who march in protest, Hollywood elites who gleefully call for boycotts and leftist social media warriors who terrorize businesses online. In response, Republicans tsk-tsk and tweet scathing criticisms using words like “regrettable.”
There’s a reason the word “activist” is most often used to describe Democrats.
The GOP is changing; maybe it’s time for Republicans’ behavior to change, too.
Mainstream media murders the truth in rush to destroy new Georgia election law
The only thing more infuriating than Major League Baseball’s unprecedented decision to punish Georgians over their state’s recent election law has been the national media’s dedication to lying about what the law says and does.
Since the bill was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25, we have heard from media how the bill would supposedly outlaw providing food and water to people standing in line to vote. As Democratic Strategist James Carville told “11th Hour” host Brian Williams (with no pushback), “It is going to be illegal to give somebody that’s standing in line to vote. I have never heard of water being an illegal substance in the United States.”
This particular lie has been spread by the president of the United States himself (again with no scrutiny from media). On March 26, President Biden told media before boarding Marine One:
… The truth is: Georgia’s new election law has expanded opportunities to vote in that state. The law standardized the use of secure voting drop boxes (they were only allowed in emergencies under prior law). It expanded early voting (both in days and hours) — including mandatory weekend voting for people who work weekday hours (contrary to the lies Mr. Biden has been repeating).
Simply put: Georgia’s new election law has made it easier to vote – but harder to cheat. That fact explains why Democrats hate it so much.
Woke CEOs’ foolhardy bid to shape voting laws
More than 120 CEOs and other corporate leaders met on Zoom over the weekend to discuss how to exert pressure to influence legislation around the country. The media would be reporting it as a vast scandal if the agenda were right wing but these are woke executives.
Yale School of Management prof Jeffrey Sonnenfeld organized the gabfest along with the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism and the Leadership Now Project, to plot ways to foil some of the 350-plus voting bills before lawmakers in dozens of states. The attendees reportedly included Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman and the chief execs of American, Delta and United airlines.
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault urged the group to make a public denunciation of legislation that supposedly discriminates and restricts voting access, with some calling laws like the one Georgia just passed “racist.” Several attendees even called their posturing “critical to democracy.”
Afterward, organizers announced: “CEOs who participated . . . indicated they will re-evaluate donations to candidates supporting bills that restrict voting rights and many would reconsider investments in states which act upon such proposals.”
How did it become normal for every police shooting to bring ruinous rioting?
By now, it’s a ritual of contemporary American life — a police-involved shooting followed by a riot.
Police in Brooklyn Center, Minn., shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last weekend, leading to a violent siege of the police headquarters and looting of local businesses.
This dynamic is now widely accepted as the norm. Any officer-involved shooting — no matter how justified or illicit, whether we know everything about the circumstances or nothing at all — is simply assumed to be the occasion for mayhem.
This reflex toward disorder has contributed to a nightmarish spiral in much of urban America, which is experiencing a historic surge in murders.
Brooklyn Center is especially fraught, because it is a suburb just outside Minneapolis, the city devastated by riots in the wake of the death of George Floyd last year — and on edge during the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop charged with killing him.
Videos of controversial shootings can be misleading, but the body-camera footage from Brooklyn Center seems clear enough. The cops are hand-cuffing Daunte Wright outside the driver-side door, when he begins to struggle and gets back into the car. As he is starting to drive away, an officer yells, “Taser!” before shooting him with her pistol — and expressing disbelief that she had just shot him instead of tasing him.
The Employees Who Gave Most to Trump and Biden
With campaign spending in the 2020 presidential election coming to a record-breaking conclusion, the political donations of American workers provide a snapshot of political leanings among employers and occupations.
According to a Bloomberg News analysis of contribution data from online donation platforms ActBlue and WinRed, the employers with the most workers donating to Biden ranged from universities to the federal government to tech companies, whereas Trump’s biggest donor bases came from mail delivery companies, Walmart and the military.
Of the employers included in this analysis, those whose employees tilted the most to Trump were the New York Police Department and the U.S. Marines, with almost 70% of employees who made contributions to one of the two presidential campaigns favoring the incumbent. The employers with the greatest share of Biden donors were Facebook and the University of Washington, with over 97% of their donors giving to Biden.
There’s a reason America can’t end its “forever wars”
A peace agreement with the Taliban and a May 1 deadline for American withdrawal of troops. A new pledge by President Biden to end the war. A Congressional step toward revoking the 20-year-old consent to use military force in Iraq. Talk, even, of rescinding the post-9/11 authorization to pursue Al-Qaeda. You might think America’s forever wars are finally coming to an end. They’re not—because everything we’ve learned from the past two decades at war has made it more difficult to actually end the wars.
Though the new administration seems intent on ending America’s oldest war and there is growing fatigue over endless wars in the Middle East, and though the Pentagon is scrambling to refocus resources and attention away from counterterrorism to big war pursuits against the likes of Russia and China, war isn’t going to actually end. That’s because there is something about the way the United States fights—about how it has learned to fight in Afghanistan and on other 21st-century battlefields—that facilitates endless war.
This transformation of the American military happened gradually as the armed forces shifted the preponderance of tasks away from boots on the ground, away even from dependence on regular soldiers. The new American way of war moved even the means of bombing and killing—mostly through aircraft and drones, but also virtually in cyberspace—out of the actual war zones…
… In our topsy-turvy world, the United States today is killing or bombing in perhaps 10 different countries. Some we know for sure: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen. Some occasionally are acknowledged—Libya, Niger, Mali and Uganda. Others are more obscure—Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Lebanon, Nigeria. And still others—the Philippines, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Thailand—are alluded to in fleeting news reports or hinted at in military deployments and supposed war games with host nation forces.
Beyond these 21 countries, American special operations forces are routinely present in some 70 additional countries, sometimes with partners and sometimes operating unilaterally, sometimes fighting against terror, and sometimes “fighting” against the endless forces of transnational organized crime, and sometimes even just collecting intelligence information and “preparing the battlefield” for future operations.
Number of Children Living Only With Their Mothers Has Doubled in Past 50 Years
The number of children living with two parents has dropped since 1968, while the percentage living with their mother only has doubled.
In 1968, 85% of children under 18 lived with two parents (regardless of marital status); by 2020, 70% did, according to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS).
Monitoring these trends is important because children’s living arrangements can have implications for children’s outcomes, such as academic achievements, internalizing problems (e.g., depression and anxiety), and externalizing problems (e.g., anger and aggression).
Since 2007, the CPS has specifically asked respondents to identify two parents for the child if both live in the household.
If one parent is deployed overseas at the time of interview, for example, children are shown as living with one parent. The same goes for separated or divorced parents sharing custody: The parent the child is living with during the interview would be the identified parent.
Prior to 2007, respondents could report the presence of one parent only and children were only shown as living with two parents when the parent was married. If the parent was not married, children were not identified as living with two parents.
China warplanes simulated attack on U.S. aircraft carrier, defense analysts say
A fleet of Chinese warplanes likely simulated an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier group when a record 25 fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers triggered Taiwan’s air defense radars this week, analysts said on Tuesday.
The military operation coincided with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group’s (CSG) presence north of the Philippines, and came in the hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington’s “serious commitment” to Taiwan and its self-defense.
Beijing’s use of its People’s Liberation Army to intimidate democratic Taiwan became a matter of public record last September when the island’s defense ministry began logging aircraft intrusions into its self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ).
The near-daily flights concentrated around the southwest of the ADIZ—near the Bashi Channel and the entrance to the South China Sea—escalated further on Monday when 14 J-16 fighters and four H-6K heavy bombers were among 25 PLA aircraft to breach the zone between Taiwan proper and its outlying Pratas Island, also called Dongsha.
The operation, which was the largest single-day incursion since records began, marked the 10th consecutive day of Chinese aircraft forays into the ADIZ, and brought the April total to 76 aircraft at the time of publication. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported PLA warplane sorties numbering 81, 40 and 54 for full months between January and March.
