Congress becoming less and less relevant
Well duh . . . It’s taken a long time for some of our conservative leaders to come to this realization. Read the following excerpts from the question and answer session yesterday on Capitol Hill when Congress Trey Gowdy (R – S.C.) asked Jonathan Turley of legal beagle talking head fame and professor at D.C.’s George Washington University Law School: If Obama Chooses Not to Enforce Immigration Laws, Can He Suspend Election Laws Too?
“Professor Turley, what are the limits of prosecutorial discretion, and if the president can suspend immigration laws, marijuana laws, why not election laws?”
“ . . . It can’t include categorical rejections of the application of the law to millions of people,” he said. “The president is outside the line, but it has to go in front of a court, and that court has to grant review, and that’s where we have the most serious constitutional crisis I view in my lifetime, and that is this body is becoming less and less relevant,” Turley said.
Read Turley’s entire testimony here.
More on Minimum Wage
Jason L. Riley writing at the Wall Street Journal has an item in his Political Diary column nicely setting forth the predictable omissions about the effects of minimum wages President Obama leaves out as he speaks in support of a bill sponsored in the Senate by Iowa’s own Tom Harkin. The bill would raise the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour.
. . . What you won’t hear him say is that the best anti-poverty program is a job and that minimum-wage hikes reduce job prospects.
Nor . . . that only about five percent of hourly workers in the U.S. earn the minimum wage, that most are 25 or younger and that 69 percent of them work part-time. You won’t hear him acknowledge that the typical minimum-wage earner is not the family’s sole or most important breadwinner. And you won’t hear him admit that the beneficiary of a minimum-wage increase is more likely to be a teenager in the suburbs than a single mom in Anacostia. Moreover, hiking the minimum wage will diminish the job prospects for that single mom, but Mr. Obama won’t say that, either.
Read the entire article which contains additional points here.
Stunningly huge cancer threat uncovered regarding abortion
The extent and the effects of the abortion regime in the United States (apart from the humanity of the unborn) are protected, covered up for, lied about by the abortion industry, academicians, influential newspapers and journals, pro-abortion politicians and even jurists . . . and of course people to themselves. That is nothing new. Gross evils have triumphed for longer periods in this country as a result of the same virtual conspirators . . . human slavery and the dehumanization of Black people being most notable. The genocides undertaken by Nazi German, Communist Russia and China . . . were all achievements of the same respected players, and they were certainly not the only systematic government sponsored death dealings in human history.
But the particular protections (denials ) afforded the connection between abortion and breast cancer is most egregious in this country for some reason. Other countries, seem to be more interested or at least honest about the public health aspect in support of women’s health. But here the usual suspects have been joined by medical societies, breast cancer charities, and government agencies to deny the undeniable. Read this very important development regarding the release of a meta study from China affirming what honest researches in the United States have been pointing out for years.
R Mall DLH with thanks to MVM for the forwards.
