Saturday, June 7, 2025
LA anti-ICE protests reaches Day 2
Founders Quotes, 3-4 June 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Happy Sabbath, 6 June 2025
DoJ Sues Texas Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens....
...and wins. Per Patriot Post, On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department finally did what every prior administration (including Trump 1.0) for the past three decades refused to do — enforced the federal immigration law that bans states from providing in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they provide the same benefit to citizen-students from any state.
That same day, Texas cried uncle, agreed with the government, settled the case, and entered into a consent decree.
TL/DR: In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Alien Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act which prohibited states like Texas from giving in-state tuition benefits to those here in the country illegally. Until this week, seventeen states and D.C. had laws (in DC's case, a DC City Counsel ordinance that was later approved by Congress) allowing this. This not allows gave an unlawful benefit to illegals already here, it encouraged more illegal immigration and whenever parents of citizen/legal resident alien students tried to sue, the courts rebuffed them stating there was no private right of action in the statute (thus putting it on DoJ's shoulders to you know, actually enforce the law as written).
In the consent decree, Texas acknowledged that the law-in-question violated the Federal Supremacy Clause and were unconstitutional.....now, let us hope that either (a) DoJ goes after the other states and D.C. on this and.or (b) Congress gets off their schnides' and passes an amendments law putting this prohibition into statutory law.
On This Day in 1944...
....Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy eighty-one years ago, marking the beginning of the end in Western Europe. It was a defense of freedom and liberty vs. the forces of evil and freedom/liberty won the day. (Makes you wonder if today's generation could do likewise.)
Anyway, here's a bit of music, per Patriot Post, to honor the day...
Founders Quote, 2 June 2025
Okay, I gotta catch on these....
Commerce: The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares. - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 12, 1787
Hamilton's right there; the best way for a country to prosper is to unleash the economic commerce engine to full blast and then, after making sure there's a fair system of laws/regulations, getting well the hell outta' the way.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
JD Vance Bitcoin 2025 Keynote Speech
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
RIC FLAIR is an A**HOLE - Jim Ross & "Consent" Tweets
Monday, June 2, 2025
USDoT to Offer $5.4bn in Transportation Contracts, Strikes Diversity Provisions in Contract Language
Sooner they can end diversity provisions in federal contracts, the better....
The U.S. government will make available $5.4 billion in grant funding for building, replacing or repairing bridges across the country under a 2021 infrastructure law, but is striking diversity requirements, the U.S. Department of Transportation said on Monday.
USDOT said it was removing climate change, environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion from grant application requirements for bridges from the funding approved in 2021 under a $1-trillion infrastructure law signed by former President Joe Biden.
Last week, USDOT said separately it would end consideration of race or gender when awarding billions of dollars in federal highway and transit project funding set aside for disadvantaged small businesses. (Salem News Channel)
The problem with diversity provisions aren't that not everyone will benefit but that, to borrow John Roberts' famous dictum, the way to prevent discrimination on the basis of race (or ethnicity or gender, etc.) is very simple: stop discriminating by those bases. Pick the best offer that is cost-effective and let the chips fall where they will.
Might not mean you get the absolute best company/individual (although that should be an ideal) but anything would be better than what currently exists nowadays.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Founders Quotes, 31 May-1 June 2025
A pair of quotes from America's first president, George Washington, on the topics of character and citizenship...
Character: Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness. - letter to the residents of Boston, Mass., 1789
Citizenship: The citizens of the United States of America have the right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were by the indulgence of one class of citizens that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. - letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island — 1790
Two of the hallmarks of America are the ideas of character and citizenship - the American character (love of liberty/freedom, respect for the law, a strong work ethic) and citizenship (just as Romans took pride in being citizens of Rome, "Civis Romanus sum", Americans still take pride in being a citizen of the United States - "Civis Americanus sum."