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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3541613-biden-was-right-expanding-the-supreme-court-is-a-boneheaded-idea/ Politics.

And why is that such a preferred situation? Do you have links explaining it? Educate yourself, educator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism#:~:text=October 2020),the time it was adopted". https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/white-papers/on-originalism-in-constitutional-interpretation https://ces.sdsu.edu/sites/default/files/cc04-constitutionaloriginalist.pdf https://time.com/5670400/justice-neil-gorsuch-why-originalism-is-the-best-approach-to-the-constitution/

Joe Biden Grovels to the Saudis: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/joe-biden-grovels-to-the-saudis/

Just uni-party politics. Why are you surprised? What is disappointing is that you really believe Democrats would have done it differently if the tables were turned and they were the ones holding the cards at that particular moment. And what good would expanding the supreme court actually do in the long run, Irishman? It would be just a long spiral into irrelevancy for the SCOTUS. Is that what you want? And as for me being one sided, if primarily being a constitutional originalist makes me so then I'm guilty as charged.

Yes, seriously. Are you saying that a democrat POTUS and his handlers would choose less partisan candidates for a justice? And there is no non-political justification for expanding the court beyond it's current size. This is just the democratic side of the Uni-Party coin crying and stamping their feet.

How exactly did the GOP pack the court? Was there some kind of nefarious GOP plot that resulted in justices resigning before they should have? And then when the GOP is back in power they will come up with a reason that "makes sense" to increase the number of justices to 16-17. And around and around we go. The complete and utter politicization of the SCOTUS will be complete. And regular Americans will suffer as a result.

https://reason.com/2022/07/20/house-democrats-revive-their-court-packing-push/ Agreed. Just more theater from the Democratic side of the uni-party coin.

Thanks, 2000 was the last year I really thought about WRC football.

Yep. It's just a game, played by children.

Disney fans outraged after ‘fairy godmother’ ditched for gender-neutral titles: https://nypost.com/2022/07/20/disney-ditches-fairy-godmothers-for-gender-neutral-titles/

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/07/20/indiana-football-coaches-anonymous-answers-on-seeding-ihsaa-tournament/65375858007/ (Note: story is behind a paywall)

How the mighty have fallen. Wasn't it just a few short years ago that these two programs were the class of the WRC?

Clinton Central School Corporation has just put up a billboard advertising its services on the northwest side of Frankfort. It has to do something, it is by far the smallest of all the government school corps in Clinton county. Pre-K through 12th grade enrollment has fallen to only 819 students according to the IDOE. Other Clinton county government school pre-K through 12th grade enrollments: Rossville: 932 Clinton Prairie: 1212 Frankfort: 3152

One Armed Man at an Indiana Mall Offered Better Protection Than 376 Cops in Uvalde https://reason.com/2022/07/20/one-armed-man-at-an-indiana-mall-offered-better-protection-than-376-cops-in-uvalde/

Yep. I recently visited Charlestown state part, located on the Ohio River. It's a nice pace to watch the coal barges go up and down the river:

So is Todd Rokita really in trouble here?: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/18/investigation-indiana-attorney-general-todd-rokita-requested-caitlin-bernard/65376436007/ https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/james-briggs/2022/07/17/todd-rokita-fox-news-attack-on-indiana-abortion-doctor-invites-lawsuit/65374809007/ https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/19/dr-caitlin-bernard-indiana-ag-todd-rokita-abortion-in-indiana/65377047007/

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2022/07/19/ncaa-basketball-nil-reshaping-college-sonny-vaccaro-march-madness-transfer-portal-nba-draft/65373592007/ The times they are a' changing. But for the better? That is the question.

people ask me why i only type dad jokes using lower case letters look, i stopped giving a shift a long time ago

They may, and I've seen a number of ICE's catching on fire during these demolition derby. But probably what you won't see in an EV demo derby is the smoke/vapor from a damaged cooling system, and the loud rumble from all those 8-cylinders engines. It just wouldn't be the same, and an inferior product.

Indiana asks Supreme Court to speed process so state can put its strict abortion law into effect: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/indiana-supreme-court-abortion/index.html

It's demolition derby season at numerous county fairs around the country. Been watching a bunch of them via YouTube. Great stuff like the figure-eight trailer races at Rockford Speedway: But watching these makes me wonder that the future holds for this great form of entertainment and sport once electric vehicles dominate the landscape. Sorry, but I don't think watching a bunch of old Tesla's smashing into each other would be fun to watch.

https://reason.com/2022/07/13/how-georgias-extreme-ballot-access-law-keeps-libertarians-and-everyone-else-off-the-ballot/ Such ballot access laws should be ruled unconstitutional . They are an affront to American Democracy.

California legislature opens up potential pay-to-play future: https://deadspin.com/california-legislature-opens-up-potential-pay-to-play-f-1849170950 Oh, what a time for D1 college football.

I met a woman who only had one leg. She called herself Eileen.

https://mises.org/wire/turns-out-elites-administrative-state-better-democracy The ruling did no such thing. Instead, the court said that federal regulatory agencies are not free to create and enforce rules outside of their statutory authority. The EPA had simply declared itself the official power plant CO2 emissions regulator under the Obama administration despite the fact that Democrats had a supermajority in the US Senate and a huge majority in the House and theoretically could have passed a law giving new regulatory powers to the EPA. That Congress did not do so is instructive. In other words, this was an extralegal power grab but one approved by elites because, well, elites know more than everyone else. The NYT editorial continued: The “administrative state,” of course, is anything but democratic; it is autocratic to the core. For all of their professed love for democracy, progressives have long demanded rule by experts, or at least rule by “experts” that meet progressive approval. As I pointed out last year, when actual scientists studied the effects of so-called acid rain and concluded that it was not causing lake and river acidification, progressives in the media, as well as EPA administrators, immediately tried to destroy the careers of scientists failing to echo the party line. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest antiscience voices in the acid rain affair was the New York Times. Furthermore, for all the “experts know best” rhetoric in the NYT editorial, there is no proof that the administrative state governs as effectively as democracy, which elites pretend to love. The “experts” at the Federal Reserve believed they could substitute trillions of printed dollars for actual production of goods without creating monetary chaos. In western forests, the “experts” at the US Forest Service have had fire suppression policies in place for more than a century, and the result has been that what were once mere forest fires have become destructive conflagrations that burn so hot that they often destroy the scorched soil’s ability to generate postfire growth. The ”experts” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed policies that precipitated massive job losses, caused unnecessary premature death from ailments other than covid-19, and still failed to promote adequate information about the virus and its origins. Education “experts” have created one educational crisis after another, and so on. Rule by experts—the administrative state—has caused destruction whenever it is invoked, yet the editors at the “newspaper of record” have failed to notice. Instead, they proclaim eternal fealty to what only can be called a failed experiment in governance, not to mention that it is antidemocratic. Yet, the NYT editors cannot keep from claiming loyalty to both forms of governance, even when they contradict one another: There is much to dissect in those words, but suffice it to say that to assume that EPA decision makers have the kind of knowledge and expertise implied in that editorial is to foolishly demonstrate faith in something that inevitably fails. Far from being near-omniscient sages of science, the bureaucrats making life-altering decisions at the EPA are people who bear no costs if they impose unnecessary burdens on the lives of ordinary people but who also find that the more draconian their edicts, the greater the praise from environmental interest groups and, of course, the New York Times. What possibly could go wrong? Of course the elites prefer the administrative state over real democracy. It helps perpetuate big government.