It’s Wednesday, May 4th, 2022…but before we begin, here’s the Morning Jolt’s take on the utterly unprecedented but hardly unforeseen leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion overturning the indefensible SCOTUS decision in Roe v. Wade:
“…As for the decision itself, the decision illustrates why the leak is so abhorrent. In our government, the role of the Supreme Court is to determine if a given law violates the U.S. Constitution. We, as citizens, are going to see Supreme Court decisions we agree with and decisions we disagree with — sometimes strongly. But we all agree to abide by those decisions. A person’s perspective on “judicial supremacy” — the notion that the Supreme Court gets the final say, and cannot be altered without a constitutional amendment or a subsequent decision overruling them — often depends uponhow they feel about the Court’s decisions lately. But our acceptance of the Court’s authority isn’t supposed to flip on and off like a light switch, based on how we feel about the justices or the president who appointed them.
…You may see abortion as an abominable crime. You may see it as a vital means of ending an unwanted pregnancy. Or, like many Americans, you may come down somewhere in the middle, believing human life begins before birth but perhaps not at conception; wanting exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother; or finding sex-selective and partial-birth abortions barbaric without wanting to outlaw all abortions.
Whatever you believe, you should recognize that since 1973, pro-lifers have lived with a Court decision that, in their minds, legalizes murder. In the two generations since 1973, the U.S. has elected pro-life presidents and pro-life Congresses, as well as pro-choice presidents and pro-choice Congresses, and they have enacted a legislative tug-of-war about when, where, and why an abortionist may terminate a pregnancy.
But pro-lifers were told that electing pro-life presidents, governors, members of Congress, and state legislators wasn’t enough — that the practice that they saw as morally indistinguishable from murder must be allowed to continue, until a Supreme Court decision overruledRoe v. Wade. So over decades of effort, pro-lifers went out and did that — with a lot of setbacks. Under our Constitution, pro-lifers did what they were supposed to do — they supported judges who they believed would deem Roe v. Wade wrongly decided. Overturning Roe v. Wade does not ban abortion; it returns the decision of abortion’s legality back to the state legislatures. If this decision comes to pass, it is likely that many red states will ban abortion or strictly limit it, and many blue states will keep it legal. And some Americans may well vote with their feet.
But now someone on the losing side of this decision wants to reverse it before it’s official by generating so much public outrage that one of the five justices changes their mind.“
…will have changed as regards abortion in America. Women will remain free to slaughter their unborn babies upon demand. And when the dust from the decision settles, four, maybe five blue states will have banned abortion completely, eleven or twelve red states will allow it upon demand at anytime, and the rest, with what the vast majority of Americans will consider reasonable restrictions, will permit it.
And those who find freedom to practice infanticide of prime importance can vote with their feet. Including the women purportedly interviewed by NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor, who was witless enough to miss the mortifying irony in this tweet:
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York considers…
“One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue?It’s settled.
The Biden administration is doing that now on what officials call “gender-affirming care” for young people who believe they are transgender. “There is no argument among medical professionals, pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc., about the value and the importance of ‘gender-affirming care,'” Dr. Rachel Levine, who as assistant secretary for health is the highest-ranking transgender person in the administration, told NPR on Friday. The next day, Levine made the case in a speech at the “Out for Health” conference at Texas Christian University.
A month earlier, to observe “International Transgender Day of Visibility,” Levine’s agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, released an information sheet on “gender-affirming care” for youth. “For transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender-affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system,” the department said.
The information sheet included a chart detailing “gender-affirming care.” It listed four specific types of care, with a definition and comment on whether or not it was “reversible.” The first type of care was “social affirmation,” which it defined as “adopting gender-affirming hairstyles, clothing, name, gender pronouns, and restrooms and other facilities.” That can be done “at any age or state,” HHS said, and is “reversible.” Indeed, while there is debate about the wisdom of such efforts, they are, in fact, reversible.
But the department listed three other approved treatments that are not reversible — puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and “gender-affirming surgeries.”
…Levine said there is “no argument” about the value and importance of these treatments. But in fact, all three of them, puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and “gender-affirming” surgeries, are quite controversial. Just look at some of the commentary from an organization called the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, which is made up of the type of “medical professionals” to whom Levine referred. In the group’s own words, “We are an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers concerned about the lack of quality evidence for the use of hormonal and surgical interventions as first-line treatment for young people with gender dysphoria.” To get a feel for its approach, see this fact check it published on the HHS “gender-affirming” document cited above.
You might have seen more about the group, except members’ views are sometimes censored by major medical organizations. For example, last year the Wall Street Journal reported that the American Academy of Pediatrics barred the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine from setting up a booth at the AAP’s annual conference. The AAP is “working very hard to give an appearance that everything’s been decided and there’s no debate,” Dr. Julia Mason, a Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine member, told the Wall Street Journal.
And now, that is what the Biden administration is trying to do, too. Levine has declared the argument among medical professionals over.The new consensus, amazingly enough, agrees with Levine. And now, the administration will move to the next step. Since the debate is over, since there is a scientific consensus in favor of “gender-affirming” treatment, those who are still criticizing are not debating the facts. They are attacking their fellow human beings.
“Those who now attack our LGBTQI+ community are driven by an agenda that has nothing to do with medicine, nothing to do with science, and nothing to do with warmth, empathy, compassion, or understanding,” Levine said in the speech at Texas Christian University. “They’re rejecting the value of supportive medicine, rejecting well-established science, and rejecting basic human compassion. They prefer slander, bigotry, and gender-baiting hate speech.”
Who would want to do that? Who would want to risk being accused of slander, bigotry, and gender-baiting, risk reputation and livelihood, for questioning the wisdom of “gender-affirming” care for minors?Better just to be quiet. After all, Levine said the argument is over, at least as long as Levine and the Biden administration are in power.“
In a related item from American Greatness, the truly great VDH exposes the purposeful prevarication behind…
“The Biden Administration feels that it must now use federal resources to attack “disinformation.” So the Department of Homeland Security recently announced the creation of a “disinformation governance board.”
The board’s executive director, Nina Jankowicz, at least has clear qualifications for the post. She previously had spread false rumors on social media that Donald Trump voters would show up at the polls in 2020 armed, and joined the mob’s chorus that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” Perhaps the idea behind her hiring was “it takes one to know one.”
…Projection is a left-wing trademark. What it accuses in others reveals what it seeks to hide within itself. So when we hear Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announcing this war on disinformation, we suspect he is our master disinformationist. Is it not his agency that is airlifting illegal aliens in the dead of night to regional airports rather than transparently, in the light of day? Is that “disinformation dies in darkness”?
What happened to the Biden Administration’s furious charges that the mounted border patrol was “whipping” innocent illegal aliens? When a federal investigation cleared the accused, did Mayorkas correct his own administration’s disinformation and apologize?
Who should we expect next to lecture the nation on the dangers of “disinformation”? A paroled and once-leftist heartthrob Michael Avanetti? Joe Biden himself on his own supposed ignorance of Hunter’s cronies? CNN and MSNBC on Hunter Biden’s “Russian disinformation” laptop?
Will Anthony Fauci weigh in on the nonexistence of federal funding for gain-of-function research at Wuhan? Will Robert Mueller reemerge to restate yet again that he never knew anything of the Steele dossier? Will James Comey go back under oath to claim another 245 times he cannot remember? Will John Brennan lie a third time under oath before Congress, James Clapper a second time, or Andrew McCabe mislead a fourth federal investigator?
What about those 51 former intelligence officials who convinced voters before the election that Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”? Would Nina Jankowicz rule their letter of expertise “information,” “misinformation,” or “disinformation”?
Or perhaps we could hear warnings of organized misinformation from those blue-chip “17 Nobel Prize-winning economists” who vouched in a letter that Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” plan would not contribute to inflation that was indeed already ignited and beginning to blow up the economy?…”
This meme forwarded by Speed recalled a famous lyric from The Who: Meet the new disinformationists, same as the…
…old disinformationists!
Speaking of disinformation, its the very subject of the first of a septet of items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Best of the Web reports Stanford Professor Brian Conrad is refuting the “science” behind California’s new K-12 math curriculum,shocking no one with the conclusion, after delving into the details, in its effort to mix social justice with math, the California Department of Education’s California Math Framework (CMF) had, “in essentiallyall cases” “seriously misrepresented” the findings of papers cited therein, with some having reached conclusions which were totally the opposite to what was contained in the CMF.
(2). In the second item of the same installment of Best of the Web, during another bloody weekend in the Windy City in which 35 people were shot, 9 fatally, 2 of the wounded were struck outside the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago’s Loop, causing the show, a production of Moulin Rouge, not to go on, leading us to observe, it’s always better to go with one’s gut…
“Broadway in Chicago officers and employees have been saying for months that police protection in the theater district is inadequate and many audience members told reporters Sunday night that they had been reluctant to come to the Loop in the first place.“
…than to get shot in it. Which is why we avoid downtown Baltimore and Washington, D.C. like the plague.
“It is a little bit surreal to hear China’s rulers and their servants talk about Taiwan. It is a little like a little kid who is very, very committed to his imaginary friend. “
… to violate American sovereignty and law. The vaccine requirement was viewed as a response to criticism his administration acted hypocritically when it implemented employer-based vaccine mandates without similar conditions for criminal trespassers.
(6). Though we’re sorry to say it, were we a betting man, we’d have to wager Kathy Boudin is now…
“…The cosmetics mega company sent out an email for a Kate Spade perfume on Sunday that unintentionally alluded to the designer’s suicide. Ulta’s message to customers read “Come hang with Kate Spade” alongside a sale for its beauty products.
Spade died by suicide when she hanged herself in 2018...”
Hey, at least they offered free shipping.
This reminds us of that classic scene from Seinfeld in which George is desperate to one-up a rival with a untoppable comeback:
Oops!
Magoo
Video of the Day
This is why we don’t believe, at least for now, the SCOTUS leak will change the outcome in November. Inflation is going to get a LOT worse before it gets better, which will only be when this demented deviant is out of office, be he above or below ground.
Tales of The Darkside
Sorry, but you can’t make the scam the EnviroNazis are running than John Stossel does here. BTW, the EnviroNazis LIARS, and liars ARE evil, the very PERSONIFICATION of their master, the father of lies!
On the Lighter Side
Courtesy of Ed Hickey, what we’re going to request TLJ make for every one our birthdays hence forth!
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