A Good Week for Parents but Split Decisions for Patriots

While California’s governor, Gabby Newsom, was working on his podcast and wasting more of their borrowed money fruitlessly attacking President Trump, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, was using some of Florida’s surplus funds to bring Florida residents back to the state after they became trapped in Israel.

The liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held that President Trump was within his presidential authority to use the California National Guard to quell the riots in California over the objection of California’s anti-American governor. Apparently, it doesn’t matter how liberal those judges are. They live in California and they can see for themselves how Newsom and the Democrats have destroyed their state.

The only result of Newsom’s moronic attack is to add the cost of his frivolous case to California’s suffocating debt. When the spoiled, trust-fund liberal came into office California had a surplus budget. During his tenure, he has added more than $100 billion to the debt future California governments are going to have to repay with a declining population, a population with the highest illiteracy rate in the country.

Oh, that $100 billion is in addition to the $200 billion in bonds issued by California during Newsom’s tenure to pay for their “$50-billion,” high-speed rail project. Yes, their high-speed rail project is somewhere around 100 years from being completed.

Newsom, What a great guy!

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Speaking of stupid communists wasting money on litigation, the Harris-Biden administration’s push to allow immoral doctors to mutilate children has come to an end. In United States v. Skrmetti the United States Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s decision to ban such doctors from performing transgender surgeries on (and prescribing puberty blockers for) minors. I expect at least 45 states to enact similar legislation within a year.

The real way to stop those immoral surgeries is to allow the children and parents to sue the doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies when they realize they made a mistake. A good basis for these cases is the lack of informed consent. No sane parent would allow doctors to mutilate their child if they knew that after the mutilation, the child would have a 3,000% more likelihood of committing suicide.

We have learned that most of the parents consented to the procedures because doctors, without any evidence, convinced them that it would reduce the odds of their child committing suicide. That is the opposite of the truth. I wonder what those doctors are going to do when their life on earth comes to an end and they are punished for creating a situation that caused thousands of children to kill themselves.

I feel the same way about people who are going to completely rearrange their whole life because they are unhappy with their gender. What they are really saying is that they disagree with God’s decision. By changing gender, one is certainly not doing God‘s will.

Don’t get me wrong. When I see those Winter Park housewives get out of their brand new Mercedes to have a couple bites of lunch on Park Avenue with their friends so they can decide how to spend the rest of their day before their ATM disguised as a husband comes home, there are times when I wish I was one of the other gender.

Yet, I am not without the foresight to understand that undermining God’s will to get 20-40 years on easy street is not really a good long-term plan. Eternity is a very long time.

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided two cases that concern the right of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA) to demand that certain cases be heard only by in the United States Courts within the District of Columbia Circuit. In EPA v. Columet Shreveport Refining. LLC, the Court sided with the EPA. In Oklahoma v. EPA, the Court sided with Oklahoma, against the EPA. These cases are important because during the Obama administration, when the Democrats held both houses of Congress and the presidency, they doubled the number of judges in the DC District and on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals so they could pack those courts with liberal judges. During the past 10 years decisions from those courts have come down about 95% in favor of the Derp State.

The Supreme Court decided these two cases to provide some guidance as to what constitutes the “local issue” exception to the requirement that cases be filed in the District of Columbia. What is going to happen in practice, however, is the EPA is going to use the cases to tailor the language of its decisions so that all of the appeals from its administrative decisions must be filed in the District of Columbia. Until the Obama judges are replaced with unbiased judges, the EPA will have little restraint from doing whatever it wants.

Today, the Supremes gave the fossil fuel industry a giant victory over unfounded liberal attacks. In Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, the Court found that liquid fuel producers have standing to attack EPA and state laws and regulations that affect the amount of fossil fuels used in automobiles. The oil industry has the financial ability to take on the EPA and states like California, when they enact arbitrary rules to help their buddies in the electric vehicle industry.

To avoid the oil industry’s deep pockets, the commies have drafted rules and laws that on their face do not affect the oil industry. California has been especially good at doing this so that they can claim in court that the oil industry lacks standing to complain about laws affecting other industries. In a seven-two decision, the Supreme Court said if the law or regulation would cause a decline in the purchase of liquid fuels, the oil industry has standing to jump in and fight against the law or regulation.

Nothing like a fair fight to send the lefties crying to the news media.

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I have fielded many questions about the deregulation of suppressors (silencers) supposedly contained within the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). Let me explain the truth and the detrimental effect of the actual provision in the BBB.

Suppressors are currently highly regulated “firearms,” subject to regulation by and registration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). In order to obtain a suppressor an applicant has to undergo and pass a substantial background check and pay a $200 registration fee for each suppressor they possess.

If approved, the owner must allow the government to search their listed location for storing the suppressor at any time without a warrant. The owner must always maintain the certificate of authority with the suppressor. If the government finds the suppressor without the certificate, or finds anything else against the owner during one of its warrantless searches, the owner goes to jail.

The background check takes about one year to 18 months and costs the federal government far more than the $200 fee.

On page 1,040 of the BBB is a provision to remove the $200 registration fee. That is it. Nothing else. Because the BBB is a reconciliation bill, it cannot contain a repeal of any of the other requirements concerning possession of a suppressor.

Now, with every Democrat voting exactly as the communist party leaders tell them, there is no way a bill removing all of the restrictions and requirements of ownership will ever come to the floor of the United States Senate. To prevent the Republicans from ending debate (the filibuster) on a bill to stop the oppressive regulation of suppressors, they only need 40 votes. There are 45 Democrats in the United States Senate.

As a result, in passing this provision of the BBB the Republicans will be doing nothing more than taking away part of the government’s income. Doing something like that is stupid when the government is running a $2 trillion deficit and facing an expensive war.

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New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander decided to get arrested for attacking Homeland Security officers. It is unclear whether he was motivated to do it to try to get people to find out who he is or to try to prove to the Democrats that he is stupid enough to be one of their nominees.

If New York had any decent news media they would be able to explain to people a much better reason why Lander should not be involved in their government. As the comptroller of the city, he has been the person primarily responsible for keeping track of the city’s money. He has had four years to try to find the more than $800 million that went missing after former mayor Billy DeBlasio appointed his wife to head the city’s mental health department. He has located not a single penny. Therefore, he is either corrupt or incompetent. For those of you who are Democrats, those are two reasons why you should NOT vote for somebody.

It makes me wonder how much of that $800 million went into Lander’s pocket.

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