SnakeRiverLib

This one will be short, or that is my intent. Right now, having heard oral arguments for the case regarding the Citizenship question on the 2020 US Census.  If this case is anything other than 9-0, the House and Senate should start impeachment hearings on those Justices that voted against a question on Citizenship.  It very likely won't be, unfortunately.  What is all the commotion? In briefs before the Supremes, the arguments being made are laughable, and make a mockery of our judicial process.  They argue: That illegals (their argument was undocumented but they are here illegally) won't fill out the Census because they will be hunted down and deported.  This argument was made by the California AG, as well as some county in Texas, whose population of illegals merits a Congressional seat on its own (they actually argued that) The House's brief, filed by the Speaker's office actually insinuated that illegals will be breaking the law by not filling out the...

While there is no question that the 22nd Amendment was written so that we would never have another as near King as we had with FDR, it was not passed to prevent him from running for a 5th term.  By the time it was considered and sent to the states, FDR was dead.  Of course, that is old history, but it seemed to have been dredged up by AOC, who got it wrong.  Speaking of getting our Constitution wrong... Senator Gillibrand, D-NY, and candidate for the Democrat 2020 presidential nomination, said recently that we need to get back to our roots of "one person, one vote".  Of course she was referring to the Electoral College, and the need to get rid of it.  I mean, it seems to me that the Electoral College was created BY the Founders as part of the Constitution.  You see, the Founders understood that leaving the choice of the President to the majority would leave the government at risk of being hijacked by that majority, leaving the minority to be trampled upon...

I would be remiss without calling this one out. The bull in the china shop has done much to curtail regulations.  No one can question that.  Considering that he has to fight not only an entrenched bureaucracy, but also a Congress that never met a regulation it didn't like, he has done remarkably well.  This one is bipartisan.  And it has to stop.  Congress passes "frameworks", themselves hundreds or thousands of pages, and hands them off to the Deep State, or Swamp, where it takes those hundreds or thousands of pages and turns them into thousands or tens of thousands of pages. There is no accountability in the Deep State, they are permanent civil service, impervious to politics, or even job performance for that matter.  Guess where else there is no accountability?  Congress.  That is right, Congress can point their fingers at the Deep State and be aghast at what was spawned. In other words, there is no accountability, except at the Oval offic...

First, a word. I would not attack members of Congress, or any politician because of religion, race, or other individual personal characteristic, for two reasons.  One, I couldn't care less what their status is, so long as they understand they swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.  Second, people whose argument is so weak they have to hide behind their victimhood and imagined attacks on it, have no business in Congress.  But, as others throw the race, gender, or other card, I guess that is to be expected.  When the Democrats can't pass a resolution condemning Rep. Omar (D-MN) for her slurs of Israel, which is how it began, by the time it was modified, Rep. Omar (the person that was to be admonished with this resolution) ended up voting for some watered down version condemning hate, or something. But.  When one previously worked for Hamas, like Omar, (their US PR firm, CAIR and is still raising money for them), we need to be very careful about their m...

What is wrong with the producers owning the means of production?  What is wrong with providing a generous safety net for those "unwilling to work" as Occasional Cortex said?  What is wrong with any of this? So, we can have a debate about the welfare state, or social safety net or whatever you want to call it.  Countries that are falsely accused of being socialist, such as the Scandinavian nations, are not really socialist at all.  In fact, those nations frequently score higher on the Freedom Index than the US.  But aren't they socialist?  No.  They do have a very generous welfare state, which is being threatened by refugees that are partaking but not contributing.  But what are the differences?  What do those nations have that the US doesn't?  They have universal health care They have generous housing benefits They have free tuition at state universities.  Is there anything that they don't have that the US does? You betcha. ...

Just as a reminder on considering higher education, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Green New Dealer, (#OccasionalCortex) and general purveyor of unicorns has an economics degree.  She should sue to get her money back. She has managed to do something no one thought possible, to get the wacko socialist Bill deBlasio, Mayor of NY, to cry out for capitalism, (though it is the typical progressive crony capitalism)  Why? Because College Grad #AOC thought that the $3 Billion NYC was going to give Amazon could be better spent elsewhere, not understanding that that $3 Billion were tax credits for the estimated $27 Billion in Tax Revenue for NYC and New York State, along with the salaries of 25,000 people, and their contributions to the tax coffers.  I guess that would be a net gain for NY of $24 Billion.  But since I am on the topic of Amazon... What kind of tax reform did we do where the rate for corporations was reduced to 22% or something like that, and Amazon, under...

As a conservatarian (combined libertarian/conservative) I am frequently referred to as a science denier, by people who only think they know what I believe.  Whether it is climate change (where they have to adapt new numbers every year so that their theory works) Or gender, or whatever, I am always considered anti-science (along with deplorable, clinger, homophobic, sexist, racist, zenophobic, transphobic, and on and on.)  Look I am no scientist, (though I am about to graduate with a political SCIENCE degree lol) but some things should seem obvious. Just like the leader of this or that religious group proclaiming the end of the world, it becomes very awkward when the dire predictions are given an expiration date, and nothing happens. Of course, why we don't also compare this to people in regards to science is a good question in and of itself. First, I am referring to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and her ridiculous Green New Deal.  Scroll to the previous blog for more....