In the United States, we don’t have kings or queens of any variety.
Still, some judges apparently think they are philosopher-kings, and an order released Tuesday by a federal district court judge in Texas shows he may be in that group.
Judge Fred Biery’s order that state officials allow mail-in voting for all eligible voters in upcoming elections seems totally disconnected from the law and reads like a manifesto from a wannabe philosopher-king, complete with rhetorical flourishes, endnotes, and appendices. Full Article - Daily Signal
Federal Judge Legalizes Vote-by-Mail
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery allows universal vote by mail
Citing the Declaration of Independence and Attorney General Ken Paxton's own opinions, Judge Biery ruled that all Texas voters are currently "disabled" under state election law, and therefore eligible to vote by mail ballot. Austin Chronicle
Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley
You are being gaslit You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.
No, you’re not crazy. They just want you to feel that way.
There is a special flavor of cognitive dissonance experienced by those confronted with the dawning of a collectivist utopia. It’s found in the twilight between luminescent NuThink, and the benighted remainders of objective reality to which we plebs still cling so bitterly. Read More
Time to Cut Off Saudi Arabia
Maybe Moneybags bin Salman will learn some financial lessons from the coronavirus crisis.
The Kingdom is a true totalitarian tyranny. There are no elections; Crown Prince bin Salman seems as sure as China’s Xi Jinping to rule forever. Just like Xi, MbS, as the Saudi heir is known, uses anti-corruption campaigns to mulct, cow, and destroy his enemies. Nor is there freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. Like Xi, MbS has tightened internet and media controls, tossed more people into prison, cracked down on activists calling for reform, and kidnapped his critics from abroad. Read More
The Firehose of Falsehood Hits Flynn, Gorka, and King
The firehose of falsehood campaigns against Flynn, Gorka, and King have a number of things in common.
First they came for General Mike Flynn, and I did not speak out— - Because I was not a truth-telling military officer who contradicted the worldview of Max Boot and Jennifer Rubin and David Ignatius and others on the Washington Post payroll. Read More
The Unspoken Reason for Lockdowns
Governments cannot openly admit that the "controlled easing” of COVID-19 lockdowns in fact means controlled progress
. . . Progress toward so-called herd immunity to the virus. Much better, then, to pursue this objective silently, under a cloud of obfuscation, and hope that a vaccine will arrive before most of the population gets infected.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the first major global crisis in human history to be treated as a mathematical problem, with governments regarding policy as the solution to a set of differential equations. Excluding a few outliers – including, of course, US President Donald Trump – most political leaders have slavishly deferred to “the science” in tackling the virus. The clearest example of this was the UK government’s sudden shift on March 23 to an aggressive lockdown policy, following a nightmarish forecast by Imperial College London researchers of up to 550,000 deaths if nothing was done to combat the pandemic. Read More
