Protecting Your Civil Rights

For John, BLUF:  Protecting my rights as an ordinary Citizen means protecting everyone's rights.  Once some person or sub-group is identified as not being in a position to enforce his or its civil right those civil rights are like smoke.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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As the Left Trashes Due Process, Black Men Speak Up in its Defense

Here is the sub-headline:

The defenders of Western Civ are much more diverse than its enemies.

From The Stream, by Mr Mark Judge, 15 April 2021.

Here is the lede plus one:

For the past year I’ve been writing a series for The Stream about my experience in 2018.  That’s when my high school friend Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court.  To sink his nomination, the left used oppo research, bad acting, witness tampering, lies, and lapdog media.  Liberals peddled the false charge that Brett sexually assaulted a girl then named Christine Blasey when we were all in high school.  Journalists and operatives tried to bully and extort me into testifying against my friend, who was innocent.  (The story is going to be a book.)

After it was all over in October 2018, liberal Atlantic writer Jemel Hill went to Ozy Media’s “Take On America” town hall series in Baltimore.  The gathering featured over 100 black men in the audience.  Coming on the heels of the Kavanaugh battle, Hill was positive she was going to hear a lot of anguish over the Republican victory.

Instead, she heard support for Kavanaugh.  Hill reported:

On Tuesday night, I was in an auditorium with 100 black men in the city of Baltimore, when the subject pivoted to Brett Kavanaugh.  I expected to hear frustration that the sexual-assault allegations against him had failed to derail his Supreme Court appointment.  Instead, I encountered sympathy.  One man stood up and asked, passionately, “What happened to due process?”  He was met with a smattering of applause, and an array of head nods.

Perhaps there is a Brotherhood of the falsely accused.

Perhaps there are Black Citizens who wish to have their Civil Rights protected.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Hurting The Poor

For John, BLUF:  Senator Rand Paul says a boost in the minimum will result in job losses.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Sen. Rand Paul says Biden's push for raising minimum wage shows he hates Black teenagers

From USA Today, by Louisville Courier Journal Reporter Emma Austin, 23 January 2021, 7:34 PM EST.

Here is the lede plus two:

Not for the first time this week, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took his criticisms of newly inaugurated President Joe Biden to Fox News.

Speaking with conservative personality Sean Hannity Friday night, the Republican congressman repeated his claim that Biden's goal of increasing the national minimum wage to $15 would cause 4 million people to lose their jobs.

"And the people who lose their jobs first when you hike up the minimum wage are Black teenagers," Paul said.  "So, you know, 'why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers' should be the question.  Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all these jobs?"

To be fair, the Reporter then goes on to challenge Senator Paul's assertions.

That said, if wages are going up, owners are asking if there are jobs to be eliminated, to keep prices from going up.  That extra pay has to come from somewhere.  There is profits, which has limits.  There is saving money on supplies like more buying from China.  The is staff elimination.  Then there are those with business plans who relook and say they can't turn a profit and don't start new businesses.

But, none of this impacts Middle Class college graduates of any race or ethnicity, except for thos teenagers looking for part times jobs.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Minority Tyranny

For John, BLUF:  We need to respect the rights of minorities, but to expect perfection from the individual members of the majority is to expect perfection in an imperfect world.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Court Rules Free Speech Must Yield to ‘Woke’ Speech

From Minding the Camnpus, by Mr George Leef, 23 March 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

Shawnee State University in southern Ohio (cross the bridge and you’re in Kentucky) is an open-admissions school that opened in 1986.  It’s very little known, but the school’s administrators are as politically attuned to progressive sensibilities as any across the nation.  A case that has arisen at Shawnee threatens to set a terrible precedent for the suppression of speech that any “woke” student claims to find harassing.

Nicholas Meriwether has been on the Shawnee faculty since 1996, teaching political science.  He has risen to the rank of full professor with the equivalent of tenure.  In a course on political philosophy he was teaching in 2018, he called upon an obviously male student and after the student (registered in class under the name Alena Breuning, but referred to as “Doe” in the court documents) replied, Meriwether said, “Yes, sir.”  That’s all it took to set off a federal case.

Doe approached Meriwether after the class and told him that he was transgender and insisted upon being referred to with female titles and pronouns.  “Miss” would be proper, not “Mister.”  Meriwether was taken aback and replied that he didn’t think students could dictate to professors how to address them, at which point Doe became belligerent, declaring that Meriwether could either comply or be fired.

And it goes from there, with a Federal Court ruling that due to a previous decision (a 1989 Sixth Circuit case) the bureaucratic rules trump the Professor's Free Speech rights.  The good news is the it is on appeal.

I try to give every name, every time used, a title or pronoun.  Unless I know the person well enough to use a first name.  But, in a more formal setting, some prefix is in order, up until now.  Now I may just drop all that falderal and go with the last name, or a first and last name.  Sadly.  A coarsening of discourse.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

A Female President?

For John, BLUF:  This is an unnecessary kerfuffle.  Are policies not more important than gender?  Unless, of course, we hold the position that a woman or minority who doesn't hold Democratic Party positions isn't a real woman or minority.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Watch:  Liz Warren Tries to Console Rachel Maddow About Her Exit

From Town Hall, by Ms Cortney O'Brien, 6 March 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was one of the last women standing in the 2020 presidential race.  But on Thursday she followed the lead of former competitors Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Kamala Harris (CA), and Amy Klobuchar (MN), and bid farewell the contest.

She did her best to console MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a new sit down interview, but as you can see it was to no avail.  The melodramatic host predicted that with Warren's exit, there's no chance she'll ever see a woman president in her lifetime.

You can listen to part of the exchange at the website link above.

Ms Maddow dismisses Rep Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), by not mentioning her.  And no mention of future Republican options, such as Governor Nikki Haley.

Don't give up hope, Ms Maddow.♠

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  And don't buy into Senator Sanders' position that a woman can't be elected President.  Heck, Ms Golda Meir was leading Israel in 1969.

Discrimination in High Ed

For John, BLUF:  Back in the early 1970s, when the Air Force was sending all of us to "Social Actions" classes, some viewed them as teaching Air Force members how to discriminate.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Prof:  University diversity trainings not helpful to minorities, reinforce ‘white privilege’

From The College Fix, by the College Fix Staff, 12 JANUARY 2020.

Here is the lede plus three (Note that this is the UK, but I expect it transfers to the US):

A professor of education and social justice at the University of Birmingham says college trainings designed to help minorities advance are ineffective, and may even bolster “white privilege.”

Kalwant Bhopal examined 30 interviews of those who attended programs designed to support BMEs (Black Ethnic Minorities), and found that many believed “structural inequalities” were not sufficiently addressed.

According to Times Higher Education, at present only 80 of the United Kingdom’s 14,000-plus professors are black.

Bhopal, who published her findings in the British Educational Research Journal, said diversity/inclusion programs “benefit higher education institutions rather than contributing to a commitment to inclusion, equity and creating a diverse workforce.”  They also “perpetuate and reinforce white privilege.”

Frankly on this day after the Martin Luther King, Jr, Holiday, it might be time to reflect on if it is time to make generous assumptions about how most of us have a more mature view of race relations.  And to accept that some people just never grow up and thus are abusive of all the people they meet.  At the same time, too much banging of the kettle can become irritating.

Perhaps yesterday's Second Amendment demonstration in Virginia's Capitol, Richmond, can serve of an example of everyone pulling together for the same goal.  Notwithstanding some in the Press billing the demonstration as a "White Supremacist" meeting, it was people of all races and orientations advocating against what they see as proposed new laws that are not only self-defeating, but unconstitutional.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

SCOTUS on Wedding Cakes

For John, BLUF:  This could have gone so wrong....  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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BREAKING:  Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Colorado Baker in Gay Wedding Cake Case

From PJ Media, by Ms Paula Bolyard, 4 June 2018.

Here is the lede plus four:

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who was sanctioned for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.

Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, was told by a Colorado Civil Rights Commission that he cannot refuse to bake cakes for events that violate his conscience, even though he had a long history of selling items in his cakeshop to anyone who walked through the door.  Phillips, citing his Christian faith, said his conscience would not allow him to design cakes for events like divorce parties, lewd bachelor parties, or same-sex weddings.

Colorado ordered him to either make cakes for same-sex weddings or stop making cakes at all.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that "The laws and the Constitution can, and in some instances must, protect gay persons and gay couples in the exercise of their civil rights, but religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression."  Citing Obergefell v. Hodges, the justices wrote that the Commission's treatment of Phillips' case:

...showed elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection.  As the record shows, some of the commissioners at the Commission’s formal, public hearings endorsed the view that religious beliefs cannot legitimately be carried into the public sphere or commercial domain, disparaged Phillips’ faith as despicable and characterized it as merely rhetorical, and compared his invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust.  No commissioners objected to the comments.  Nor were they mentioned in the later state-court ruling or disavowed in the briefs filed here.  The comments thus cast doubt on the fairness and impartiality of the Commission’s adjudication of Phillips’ case.

But, it isn't clear to me that we have a definitive ruling.  What we have is a ruling that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission overstepped.

Here is what the legal blogger at Popehat had to say, in part:

I don't think 'just stop being so overtly hostile to religiously-based beliefs' is the easy fix some people think it is for Civil Rights Commissions.  It appears ingrained, rather self-righteously, into the subculture.

There is this, from the ACLU, via Popehat:

.@ACLU calls the Masterpiece case — they represented gay couple — a non-loss, saying SCOTUS ruled "based on concerns unique to the case but reaffirmed its longstanding rule that states can prevent the harms of discrimination in the marketplace, including against LGBT people.”

This is not over.

However, for now, the crazies have not been unleashed, on any side, to make ridiculous and extreme demands on people in the marketplace.  Like Nazis asking a Jewish or Black bakery to do a Birthday Cake on Hitler's Birthday.  (20 April, in case you were wondering.)

UPDATE:  Link to the Ruling.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Blacks Wandering Off the Reservation

For John, BLUF:  I blame Trump.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Kanye Has Them Shaking in Their Boots

From da tech guy blog, by Ms Juliette Akinyi Ochieng, blogging as baldilocks, on 1 May 2018.

Here are the first four paragraphs:

Back in 2003, when I started blogging, conservatives who are black were very popular.  They (we) are now also, because we still are so few in relative numbers.

And, for the most part, we were and are regular citizens.  Even the very popular Candace Owens, Diamond and Silk, and Terrance Williams – persons with eloquence and/or humor – began as everyday persons who used technology and their gifts to make their points and express their support for Donald Trump and for conservative ideas.

And this is what makes long-time Trump supporter Kanye West different from the rest of us who refuse to toe the Democrat line.  His hip-hop composed platform was already built.  All he had to do is climb up and begin to speak. In his case, mere agreement with Owens began an avalanche.

West is no conservative but doesn’t refute the ideology.  Refreshingly, he says that he doesn’t know enough about being a conservative to call himself one.  I’ve seen that he is getting an introduction to the mighty works of one Thomas F. Sowell. I’m going to suggest this as his starting point.

Then we have Representative Maxine Waters talking down to Mr West for being out of his lane.

I do see a new day coming.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Jimmy Who?

For John, BLUF:  Bakersfield, over three times the size of Lowell, seems a long way from LA.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Jimmy Kimmel:  A Moron Or Just A Bigot?

I don't watch Mr Jimmy Kimmel on TV, so I don't know.  But, if the author, Lawyer Trissell, is to be believed, Mr Kimmel is both. And an absolutist.

From The Daily Caller, by Attorney Jeffrey M Trissell, of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, 19 February 2018.

Here is the lede plus one:

On Thursday, February 8, 2018, Jimmy Kimmel performed a four minute sketch on his television show regarding my law firm’s defense of the religious and free speech rights of Cathy Miller, the owner and operator of Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, California.  Cathy Miller is a devout Christian.  She believes that God created marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman, and so she believes it is immoral for her to participate in a same-sex wedding.

In August of last year, a same-sex couple came to Tastries.  According to their sworn court statements, they were welcomed by a Tastries employee who “treated us kindly and was very warm.”  However, when it was discovered that they sought a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding, Cathy told them that they could purchase anything in her store, since Tastries welcomes and serves everyone who enters the store, but that she could not make their wedding cake.  Instead, Cathy told them that she would accommodate them by referring their order to a rival bakery with which she had a good relationship.  The same-sex couple then reported Cathy to the California government which brought a lawsuit against her.  The state then also immediately filed for a preliminary order forcing Cathy to either stop make wedding cakes or essentially stop being a Christian.

If Ms Joy Behar is the voice of the Progressives, they dislike Ms Cathy Miller just because she is a Christian.  Maybe it would have been OK if she was Muslim.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Good News, and Bad

For John, BLUF:  I wonder how the numbers break out for Lowell.  And who would we ask?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Black unemployment rate falls to record low

From CNBC and Reporter Liz Moyer, 5 January 2017.

The good news is that Black unemployment is at its lowest point since the Federal Government started keeping stats 45 years ago.

The bad news is that Black unemployment is at 6.8%, vice an overall rate of 4.1%.

We have to do better.  This represents real people looking for work and not finding it  Back in the Middle Ages, when I studied economics at the college level, 4 to 4.5 percent was considered full employment.  That number allows for folks changing jobs.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

The "Real" Source of Mass Shootings

For John, BLUF:  It is CNN, so there is the standard discount factor (divide by seven).   Nothing to see here; just move along.

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CNN Columnist: Vegas Shooting Because America ‘Silently Accepting the Rage of White Men’

This is from Breitbart And Reporter Ben Kew, on 4 October 2017.

In the column by Naaz Modan, editor of Muslim Girl magazine, Modan argues that recent mass shootings have been met with a “fatal passivity” and would generate far greater anger if they were committed by ethnic minorities:

So what is her explanation for happenings in Europe?

And let us be careful in the use of the term Caucasian [I am sure that is what she meant to say].  Aren't a large percentage of Muslims Caucasians?

Besides, there is the whole "Trump as Hitler" thing, which the Antifa says justifies violence.  My head hurts.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Crisis in Cameroon

For John, BLUF:  There is nations coming together and there is nations with the majority trying to change the minority, against the will of the minority.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Crisis in Cameroon

Lowell Resident Fru Nkimbeng has been on City Life talking about the problem in the nation of Cameroon.  The nation was originally an amalgam of Francophone and Anglophone areas, separate in language and legal approach.♠  However, the separation of the two portions has been eliminated by the majority Francophone controlled central government trying to impose its views on the minority Anglophone.

This will be discussed by a panel of experts on this Thursday, 11 May, at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) at 7:00 PM.

The location is 246 Market Street, here in Lowell.  Nearby is the Leo Roy Parking Garage.

It should be an interesting panel discussion and worth your attending.♥

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  The Anglophone portion uses Common Law and the Francophone uses "Civil Law".
♥  I would be there but I have to be at the meeting of the License Commission at the same time.

Going for the Black Vote

For John, BLUF:  If I were a President Trump chief of staff I would have him in a Black Inner City every 24 days.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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How Donald Trump Could Actually Win the Black Vote in 2020

It is Author Roger L Simon and PJ Media.

The solution is a secret, but you can read it at the link, above.♠

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Pretend it is on Mrs Clinton's private server and you are hacking it by clicking on the link.  Pretend you are a Russian cyber-spy, a Boris or Natasha.

Mr Trump and the LGBT Community

For John, BLUF:  It is profitless to make enemies when you don't have to.♠  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Memo to the LGBT community: Donald Trump is not your enemy

From The Hill and written by Mr Joseph R. Murray II, administrator for LGBTrump,

Here is the lede plus one:

Donald Trump had no sooner delivered his victory speech and my Facebook page — LGBTrump (the largest gays for Trump Facebook page) — was inundated with messages from LGBT Americans fearful that the president-elect would take away their rights.

Why were so many messages pouring in?  The LGBT Left was off the rails telling the LGBT community that its rights — especially marriage — were on the chopping block under President-elect Trump.

The author then proceeds to show that Mr Trump has shown himself to be supportive of Gay Rights, and has done so for some time.

If the Pro-Clinton/Anti-Trump folks want to discuss the election we need to not wander too far afield from the facts.  On the other hand, if they just want to rant, I hope they are not offended if those of us who voted for Mr Trump ignore them.  And if they are offended I hope they eventually get over it.  Otherwise they will lead miserable lives from now until judgment day.

To paraphrase John Wayne as Sargeant Stryker in "The Sands of Iwo Jima".

Life is tough. It is tougher if you lack a sense of proportion

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  There is the Law of Conservation of Enemies.  "Never have at any one time more enemies than you need."

Exercising Your Privilege

For John, BLUF:  So, on some of this we disagree.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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China Consumer Inflation Picks Up, Driven by Higher Food Prices

And here is the sub-headline:

Factory-gate prices also rose last month fueled by higher commodity prices, especially steel and coal

This article is from The Wall Street Journal and the author is Reporter Mark Magnier.  It is from 8 November, which is fitting.

Fitting because Question 3 here in Massachusetts got an Up Vote and thus we can expect food prices to go up around here.♠ And we can expect those on the border to consider shopping in New Hampshire.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  As I have said elsewhere, this is just the exercise of White Privilege.  I used to think of this as a bogus Democratic Party phrase for heaping shame on Republicans for being alive.  However, with the votes on Massachusetts Questions 2, 3 and 4, I think it is a case of Massachusetts Democrats exercising their "White Privilege" without realizing the impact of their vote on minorities in our Commonwealth.  It isn't a case of blatant discrimination.  It is a case of ignorance leading to disregard.

Mr Trump Asks for the Black Vote

For John, BLUF:  Asking won't turn everyone around, but it Mr Trump were to get even 20% of the Black Vote it would be a signal that the time for change had come.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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DONALD TRUMP’S LINCOLNESQUE MOMENT

On Tuesday Mr Trump made an appeal to Black voters, based upon their own self interest.

Here is Mr David Horowitz, of Front Page, summing it up.

Time to hold the Democrats responsible for what they have done.  For twenty years I and many others on the right have waited for Republican leaders to do just this.  Until now we have despaired of seeing this happen in our lifetimes.  But here is Trump articulating the very message we have been waiting for — support for America’s inner city poor — a message that should have been front and center of every Republican campaign for the last fifty years.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Hillary Support Collapsing?

For John, BLUF:  Maybe it is revulsion at "White Folks" getting away with stuff.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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This is from The Huffington Post, and the pen of Mr Seth Abramson.  It may just be Progressive propaganda (it was reposted in the web site Common Dreams.  But, if true, it could be significant.

"Hillary Clinton’s Support Among Nonwhite Voters Has Collapsed"

Here is the lede plus three:

On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points.

By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points.

And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, released a poll showing that Sanders leads Clinton among African-American voters in Wisconsin by 11 points.

It’s all part of a dramatic national trend that has seen Clinton’s support among nonwhite voters dwindle to well under a third of what it was just a month ago — not nearly enough support to carry her, as it did throughout the Deep South, to future electoral victories in the Midwest and Northeast.

But, it won't be real until the Progressive News outlets begin talking about it.♠ 

Mr Abramson closes with:

In other words, hold onto your hats, folks.

He is so right.♥

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Except at the voting booths.  There it could be a preference cascade.  People do exchange information in small, intimate, groups, like families or working buddies.
♥  If folks will reject Hillary, might they reject other Democrats for Republicans?  No, it would never happen.  Well, except for the last time there was a shift.

More on Cultural Appropriation

For John, BLUF:  It is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Way back on Wednesday Law Professor Ann Althouse wrote a column on cultural appropriation.  It is "When is it appropriate to appropriate?"

Here is the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on cultural appropriation:

Cultural appropriation, or cultural misappropriation is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon.  Generally, an assumption that the culture being borrowed from is also being oppressed by the culture doing the borrowing is prerequisite to the concept.  This view of cultural borrowing is controversial, both in academic circles, and in general society.  According to proponents of the concept of cultural appropriation, such cultural borrowings are problematic for a variety of reasons, ranging from group identity, and questions of cultural oppression, to claims of intellectual property rights.

It seemed like a lot of silliness, except when Ms Althouse described the artists Picasso and Matisse, quoting from the culturally insensitive Old Gray Lady as the "Gold Dust Twins".  OK, it is meant as an accolade,♥ but still, go to the link above for the printing on the packaging for the washing powder.

The thing is, this is a game.  It is a game in which the self-identified minority argues that it is being exploited.  However, the issue is not allowed to go the other way, because the majority is the oppressor, even when the majority is a minority.  It is all about power and getting some for yourself.

I did address this a couple of days ago, here.

Before you dismiss this too quickly, there are people who feel strong on both sides of the question of if a major NFL Team can call itself the Red Skins.  When you go to Wikipedia and enter in Search the term "the Red Skins" you get a long list of items for the Sheboygan Red Skins, a basketball team.  Now I realize it is a long time since Coach Joe Gibbs and Quarterback Joe Thiesman electrified the crowds in DC, but sill, the Sheboygan Red Skins?  Is this political correctness run amok?♦  When I change the search to "the Washington Red Skins" the eighth item down is for the Washington footpad team.  And, there is a separate page for the cultural appropriation issue, here.

Remember, there is no limit to people who are offended.  About a decade ago the Syracuse Teams had to change their names due to real Irish descendants (vs descendants of Irish Protestants, or "Orangemen") objecting.  I was one.  But, I only cared because it was a case of whose ox was being gored.  On this issue the University crumpled, thus setting a bad example for everyone else.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Note how Wikipedia is a "cultural appropriation", from the Hawaiian word Wiki, which talks to speed.
♥  I can remember, back around 1968, my F-4 Front Seater, the late Carl Altman, and I being called the Gold Dust Twins by some colonel up at the Wing level.  We at the time being lowly Squadron Captains.  I remember we were on the first floor of the Wing Headquarters building, and I remember nothing.
♦  Wait, maybe "run amok" is a term that I, as a Caucasian of Western European extraction, may not use.  It came to these shores from the time the US Army battled the Moros, after defeating Spain in the Spanish American War.

No Republican Minorities

For John, BLUF:  There are Dems who hate the idea of Minority Republicans.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Ms Amy Goodman, on Democracy Now, just now, has been doing a hatchet job of Dr Ben Carson and now moving on to Sen Ten Cruz and Sen Marco Rubio.

Pitiful.

Regards  —  Cliff

Gun Control Laws Discriminate

For John, BLUF:  Doing bad trying to do good.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Writing in USA Today, Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds gives us "How gun laws put the innocent on trial" The lede is:

Police are horrible, racist monsters who want to lock up minorities over even trivial violations of the law!  And police are also the only ones who should have guns!

The is the progressive thesis as interpreted by Georgetown Law School Professor Robert J. Cottrol at a recent conference on 5 November.

Of course police are not and of course police are also not the only ones who should have guns.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff