Justice In This Country Is Not Dispensed Impartially Between Democrats And Republicans

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  • Back in February 2020 I had a post asking the question whether justice in this country is “dispensed impartially” as between Democrats and Republicans, at least in cases involving significant political issues.

  • The post was inspired by a letter that had been written on February 11 by then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on the occasion of the sentencing of Roger Stone. Line Justice Department prosecutors had recommended a (wildly excessive) sentence of 7 to 9 years for Stone (for process crimes related to the Congressional investigation of the Russia collusion hoax), but top (political) Justice officials had just withdrawn that recommendation and urged a much lighter sentence (in accordance with normal guidelines).

  • That prompted Schumer to claim “improper political interference” in the prosecution and to assert that “[t]he American people must have confidence that justice in this country is dispensed impartially..” (As it turned out, shortly after my post Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison; his sentence was then commuted by President Trump in December 2020.)

  • But my post used the occasion of the Stone controversy to compile a list of significant flimsy politicized prosecutions of Republicans by Democratic prosecutors, each in situations with the potential to swing control of some public office or legislative body to the Democrats. . . .

  • Which brings me to the events of the past few days in the arena of politicization of the criminal prosecution system and the courts to the advantage of Democrats. I’ll discuss three:

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If a Person Can Be Trans-Gender, Why Not Trans-Race?

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  • On June 28, Not the Bee shared this article about Oli London. London is a white British person who announced coming out as gender non-binary (using the pronoun: “they”) and also as “trans-Korean.”

  • London made this announcement after undergoing 18 plastic surgeries to physically alter their face to look Korean. The physical appearance, with the aid of modern medicine, had been altered to reflect their true underlying identity.

  • The reckoning has arrived: For years we’ve been saying that if you feel like you were “born in the wrong body” then there are medical and surgical solutions to help you “become” who you are supposed to be.

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Attempting To Silence Your Opponents Is A Sign You Are Losing The Debate

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  • Over the past few months I have had several posts on the subject of audacious big tech deplatformings of mainstream conservative opinions, for example here on February 22 and here on March 4.

  • But the big tech social media enterprises like Twitter, Facebook and Google are only one front of the progressive program to suppress any speech that does not toe the official orthodox line.

  • I thought it might be time for a small roundup of recent instances.

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New York Has No Idea Whatsoever How To "Decarbonize" Its Electric Grid

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New York Has No Idea Whatsoever How To "Decarbonize" Its Electric Grid

  • Earlier this month, I had a post discussing New York’s so-called Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019, and the various steps taken so far to implement the Act’s stated goals. The main goals are 40% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in New York by 2030, and 85% by 2050. These goals apply not just to the electricity sector (which only accounts for about 25% of energy usage in the U.S.), but to the entire energy economy.

  • My post relied substantially on the work of Roger Caiazza, who has written extensively at his website Practical Environmentalist of New York about the implementation plans for the Act currently under formulation by various state bodies.

  • The current status is that a series of Advisory Panels have been convened, each covering a particular sector of the energy economy, and tasked to provide advice and guidance as to how to “decarbonize” that particular sector. My prior post covered some of Mr. Caiazza’s comments on the work of Advisory Panels for sectors including Transportation, Industry, Agriculture and Residential. However, at the time of that post (June 3) Mr. Caiazza had not yet commented on the work of the most important Advisory Panel, which is the one dealing with the sector of Power Generation.

  • The so-called recommendations evidence a truly astounding level of amateurism and cluelessness on the part of this Panel.

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The Overt Racism Of Our Left-Wing Universities, NCAA Edition

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  • The competition for the greatest demonstration of “antiracist” wokism in our society is intense, what with media outlets, Hollywood, tech monopolies, teachers unions and plenty of others all vying to show the purest forms of virtue.

  • But really, nobody can top the universities. These are the places where the ideas of “systemic racism” and Critical Race Theory were hatched, and from which come the demands that all the rest of us get in line with the official “antiracist” orthodoxy.

  • Which is all you need to know to deduce that these institutions must themselves be the very worst and most overt practitioners of racism. In a post back in February titled “The Worst Racists Are The Left-Wing Academics” I quoted one elite university spokesperson after another falling all over themselves to confess their racism. (E.g., Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, September 2020: “Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton. . . . Racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the University itself.”; the President and Trustees of Dartmouth, July 2020: “We know there are no easy solutions to eradicate the oppression and racism Black and other students, faculty, and staff of color experience on our campus. . . .”).

  • And then there is the NCAA. . . .

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Texas Starts Waking Up To The Issue Of The Full Costs Of "Renewables"

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  • The promoters of the climate scam have a variety of deceptions to get the gullible to accede to their socialist plans. Those deceptions range from the quite sophisticated to the completely preposterous.

  • At the sophisticated end of the scale we have what I have called The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — the deception by which 50 and 100 year old temperature records are altered (reduced) by impenetrable computer algorithms to make it seem like global warming has been much greater than the reality.

  • At the preposterous end of the scale we have the claim that the fashionable “renewable” sources of electric power, wind and solar, are actually cheaper than fossil fuels to generate electricity.

  • I call this claim preposterous because the fundamental deception is so obvious that you would think that no one of any intelligence could possibly fall for it.

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