Year: 2022

In State v. Brimmer, decided today by the Iowa Supreme Court, the majority (Justices Dana Oxley, joined by Justices Christopher McDonald, Matthew McDermott, and David May) concluded that defendant’s public trial rights were violated by the complete closure of his trial, including the exclusion of his family (here, just his mother):

[T]he pandemic is an overriding interest that supports the court’s decision to limit the public’s access to Brimmer’s trial [in April 2021]. But identifying an overriding interest is only the first step to closing a trial to the public.

Robert F. Kennedy had been outspoken about the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency murdered his uncle and father.  However, in a recent interview, he said that it was nothing short of a coup d’état, from which the US has never recovered, as he discussed the government continuing to keep documents about JFK’s assassination classified, and I believe he is correct.
Take a look at the interview.

Robert Spencer has more:
After Tucker Carlson’s broadcast Thursday during which a CIA insider told him that he did think the agency was involved in the murder of President John F.

Yes, they passed it, and just about everyone on the right is angry and shrieking “Betrayal!”:

Despite the outcry, though, Republicans in the US Senate soldiered forward to stab their voters in the back, and now, we have their names.

The writer then links a tweet by Greg Price, giving the names of the eighteen GOP senators who voted for the bill. Some are the usual: Romney, Collins, Murkowski. Some are not, such as Cotton.
Am I angry? Yes, but not in exactly the same way as a lot of the people on the right who are outraged at it.

Let us begin this exercise with:
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is NOT a pollutant. The modern Zeitgeist’s stupidity notwithstanding.

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Don’t believe me?  Ask a tree.
God in His infinite wisdom set up on this planet a perfect symbiotic relationship between His flora and His fauna.
We animals inhale oxygen – and exhale carbon dioxide.
All things plant inhale carbon dioxide – and exhale oxygen.
It’s perfect.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) raged against the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill the Senate passed on Thursday with some Republican support. The bill would fund the government through September, and is expected to pass the House.
The legislation required 60 votes to advance, which is 10 more than the Democrats had at their disposal. However, eight Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for the package, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
The bill has enraged many GOP senators, as well as House Republicans, who will retake the lower chamber in January.

The well-documented woes that plague our government-run k-12 schools are now infecting our colleges. Students are arriving at universities woefully unprepared with the skills that are needed to tackle the rigors of upper-level education.
Of late, the downward k-12 spiral is a result of the lengthy and absolutely pointless Covid shutdowns, as well as many schools’ penchant for drifting away from the traditional 3 Rs and focusing instead on a heavily politicized curriculum. As a result, student learning has taken a big hit.
A recent survey informs us just how dire the situation is.