[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Edwin Meese, former U.S. attorney general in the Reagan administration, told PJM that President Trump "clearly" has the constitutional authority to implement his executive order restricting travel from certain Muslim-majority countries.
Meese predicted that the order would be "upheld" in the appeals process if judges follow the Constitution.
Meese also told PJM he supports Trump’s executive order on blocking federal funding to sanctuary cities, which was blocked by a federal judge.
PJM asked Meese if he is satisfied with the Trump administration’s strategy of issuing executive orders on sanctuary cities and travel restrictions, rather than involving Congress.
"Yes, I think what the president is trying to do both in terms of deregulation, getting rid of unnecessary regulations that are only hurting the economy, I think what he’s done in terms of his appointments, certainly to the cabinet and the other appointments, are excellent, particularly the Supreme Court appointment of Justice Gorsuch, so I think they’ve done very well," he said during an interview after the recent Republican National Lawyers Association’s Annual National Policy Conference.
#1
It doesn't make any difference whether Trump is within his Constitutional rights and completely legal. Activist leftist judges are going to block him at every step. This will go to SCOTUS.
FTFA
But even to have to point that out is a defeat: As we agreed, the minute you have to state something so butt-numbingly obvious as that Shakespeare wasn't a Prince of Denmark or a Moor of Venice, you've lost. We've all lost. We're in a mad world, where it seems entirely normal for literary magazines to rule on what fictional characters a novelist is permitted to conceive.
Unlike the two Canadian editors, Lionel Shriver didn't go the perhaps-we-ought-to-have-a-debate route. She decided to throw the whole cultural-appropriation thing back in the appropriators' faces and appeared on stage wearing a sombrero. Naturally the organizers of the so-called "literary festival" stampeded to dissociate themselves, and most of the literary bigfeet could muster no more than tepid and equivocal support. Lionel is nobody's idea of a right-wing loon, but she recognizes, in a way that Kay and Niedzviecki did not, that you can't tiptoe up to this issue and meet the Appropriation mutaween halfway. "Screw off, you totalitarian tossers" is, in fact, the only reasonable response:
As I said, Lionel is nobody's idea of a hardcore right-winger like yours truly, but she's discovering that, when you need 'em, the respectable writers like, say, Francine Prose are never quite there for you. Jonathan Kay is likewise no right-winger, certainly not compared to his splendid mum Barbara. If memory serves, Jonathan has introduced me on stage in Toronto on two occasions, for both of which he volunteered his services. But more recently he has been on a bit of a political odyssey - to the point where he helped Justin Trudeau "write" his memoir. (It's not cultural appropriation if a francophone Liberal, or presumably a Pushtun warlord or a Bhutanese yakherd, pays an anonymous ghost-writer to pretend to be him.)
Over here on the far right, I'm always happy to have people meet me halfway. Indeed, at the moment, on everything that matters - trade, war, health care - there's very little agreement over anything on the American right. But on the left it's different. Increasingly, their view is that the great questions have been settled, there's only one correct answer, and you have to get all of them right - because an 80 per cent ally is, to the new mutaween, a 20 per cent enemy, as Niedzviecki and Kay have discovered.
As it happens, there's one almighty cultural appropriation going on right now. Indeed, it's a heist. The United Kingdom has become the acid-attack capital of the world. Female genital mutilation is practiced in "medical" clinics from Michigan to Melbourne. The taharrush has spread to Cologne and other Central European cities. Ritual beheading has come to French Catholic churches and upstate New York. And if you protest, "Look, I totally deplore all this cultural appropriation. I think it's outrageous that Britain and America and Australia and Europe are culturally appropriating acid attacks and FGM and beheading and honor killings", you're told, "No, no. That's diversity. It's vibrant. What's not to enjoy? It's a beautiful mélange - just like this new Homeland Security proposal to ban laptops from cabin baggage on translatlantic flights, because a western cultural artifact is being appropriated and weaponized in the cause of eastern jihadism. What a rich cultural co-mingling..." Much more at the link
#1
All fiction is alternate reality. Alternate reality is Science Fiction. Nobody currently lives in Science Fiction so there is nothing to appropriate. ... Think about it.
[Wash Times] President Trump made boosting manufacturing the centerpiece of his economic agenda, vowing to revitalize blue-collar America, but factories just aren’t what they used to be, and the notion of "good-paying" manufacturing jobs that connect high school graduates to the middle class is quickly becoming a myth.
Instead, rank-and-file production workers now lag behind much of the rest of the economy in terms of paychecks, forcing economists to wonder whether the push for more factories is desirable in the first place. Factory workers may indeed need factories. But what do I know ?
Even the service industry, long dismissed as second-tier employment, averages higher wages than factory laborers, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service that casts doubt on Mr. Trump’s promise of a Rust Belt renaissance.
"The strong middle-class entree that the manufacturing industry offered two generations ago is no longer really there," said Michael J. Hicks, an economics professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Blinding flash of the obvious Hicks, blinding flash.
"Manufacturing jobs are increasingly bifurcated," said Mr. Hicks, who wasn’t involved in the study. "For well-educated people, they are good-paying jobs, and for poorly educated people, they are fairly poor-paying jobs."
#2
Most factory jobs can be automated. On the other hand, does somebody who learned, say installation, as an apprentice has less education than an average college graduate?
#3
Depends on what 'education' you are referring to, g(r)om.
'Installation' typically requires process, technical skills, math, social skills (i.e. working with others) and critical thinking.
True Trade Apprenticeships last from 3-5 years in the US and Canada, depending on the trade. You work and attend required trade-specific classes for the duration. There are consequences (like losing your apprenticeship and your job) if you choose not to.
#5
Trump has only been in office 115 days. The MSM has ignored his accomplishments and they have created unrealistic expectations for him. If Trump walked on the water, the media would criticize Trump for not being able to swim.
Trump sent Tillerson to meet with Russian foreign minister Lavrov five days ago. WAPO in another posting at R-burg questioned whether Rex Tillerson was talking to the Russians "inappropriately" during the meeting. WAPO decided to spin-up their "unnamed sources" in a made-up story about "someone" who said "something" in the completely appropriate meeting. The MSM would criticize Trump for not doing his job if one thing or another was not discussed in the meeting. For crying-out-loud, WWII would never have been won in today's political climate if playing by the left's made up rules.
#6
You get paid what you're worth and in a global economy that might not be as much as you'd hoped. Do you want to give up and go back to being unemployed or do you want to roll up your sleeves and compete?
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Re #5, It was actually Trump who met with Russian officials in the WH. According to the NYTs (Oft-maligned and oft accurately maligned): The classified intelligence that President Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian officials at the White House was provided by Israel. However, there is still no story here and the left is still trying to avoid having the criminality of the Hilldabeest investigated.
#10
Per McMaster, Trump wasn't informed Israel gave us the intel, but whoever leaked it to the NYT did Posted by Frank
Klingons would have been immediately back-briefed on the RU meeting at the WH. They were obviously aware of the 'sources.' My money is on a Klingon leaker.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Edwin Meese, former U.S. attorney general in the Reagan administration, told PJM that President Trump "clearly" has the constitutional authority to implement his executive order restricting travel from certain Muslim-majority countries.
