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      "body": "In a few days, President Trump will be nominating someone to become an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.  The president has described such appointments as being, next to declarations of war, among the most important actions that he will take as president.\n\nHe is certainly right that SCOTUS appointments are way up there in importance.  Whether the Court \"stays its judicial hand\" or becomes a bit more legislative in its approach; whether it interprets law in a more conservative or expansive interpretation of its role and the law, well, that has dramatic impact on our daily life.  I paid $6,000 more in health insurance premiums in a single year because the Court found that Obamacare involved a \"tax\" and not a \"penalty\", and therefore let that disaster stand.  Darn right they affect you.\n\nNaturally, with the retirement of Justice Kennedy and the opportunity for President Trump to nominate another solid and brilliant conservative mind to the Court, the left is up in arms.  It is Armageddon, if you are to believe them. The end of the Republic.\n\nSince even the left has to admit that this president has the Constitutional right -- and duty -- to nominate whomever he chooses to submit to the Senate for confirmation, they have to find a way to get the populace to support their opposition to whomever that may be.  So naturally the left, fearmongers that they are, have gone straight to the target that they always default to, at least when they are not defaulting to race or Nazism or throwing innocent people out of restaurants.\n\nTheir target I refer to, of course, is women's bodies, and by that they mean *abortion*.  Yes, according to the left and the press (but I ...), whoever the new justice is would immediately form a cabal with four on the Court now and overturn *Roe v. Wade*, the notorious decision that effectively legalized abortion (it's more complex than that, but who cares about facts).  *Roe*, of course, is discussed in 99% of the news media's commentary on the new justice.\n\nPresident Trump, this weekend, noted that in his interviews that he would not ask candidates whether they would vote to overturn *Roe*, and that's probably a good thing that he won't.  First, of course, is that the Supreme Court does not make law, despite what Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks, and cannot even *debate* the abortion precedents until someone actually brings a case where *Roe* is the precedent.\n\nSince those under 30 have mostly never had enough U.S. History or Civics to have a clue, there are probably tens of millions of millennials who think the Court will overturn *Roe* the day after the new justice takes office.  Hint ... it doesn't work that way.\n\nNow I have to say that of the top 100 things I'd want to know about the new candidate justices and how they think, \"abortion\" is pretty much not on the list.  It is a moral issue, and moral issues are the province of the States.  So as long as the Federal government neither subsidizes it nor prevents it, I'm fine.\n\nBut I apparently don't have much company on the left.\n\nUnfortunately I cannot go to the future and see what will be in ten years, but I'm going to put on my forecasting contact lenses and tell you what I expect.\n\nThe new Roberts Court with Justices Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas and the new justice, will definitely have a dramatic impact for the better in many decisions that affect the nation, but I predict that *not one of them* will have the effect of overturning *Roe v. Wade*, and the current panic among the left -- and it is palpable -- will turn out to have been 100% accurate but 100% misdirected.\n\nEven before Justice Kennedy has left, the Court, in *Janus v. AFSCME*, has done an amazing service to the nation -- and by effectively defunding Democrats, an amazing service to the preservation of our republic.  That was the case making it illegal for government employee unions to force payment of union dues by non-members, a ruling which will drain many millions from use as donations to the Democrats.\n\nIt is *Janus*, not *Roe* (and, ironically, *Janus* was actually the overturning of a previous decision, *Abood v. Detroit Board of Education*), that we should be expecting more of, in the newly-comprised Court.  In fact, I could easily see the new Court declining to accept cases that require a consideration of overturning *Roe*, simply because after 45 years, it is sufficiently established, whereas *Abood* was based not on a moral issue but a completely Constitutional one.\n\nI'm looking forward to the new Court, but the press and the left are way off on this one.  I imagine that *Roe* is far from on being the minds of either the President, the existing Court or the new candidates.  I think that *Roe* is only out there because the left, like Bill Clinton, goes right for the women's bodies, or at least to the \"sanctity\" thereof.\n\nThis summer there will be a ratio of 26 questions from Democrats on abortion and *Roe v. Wade*, for every one about everything else combined -- watch the Senate hearings if you don't believe me.  But that's all a red herring, and the left is making a huge mistake, especially given that if the candidate is as clean as Neil Gorsuch was, confirmation is a certainty.\n\nThe Democrats have an opportunity to raise all manner of situations to try to get the nominee on record with something they can try to use, but mark my words, it will be all abortion, all the time.  The nation will get sick of it, and the Democrats will have lost an opportunity to raise issues that are important, at least to them, in a forum where they could speak to the people.\n\nDon't hold your breath.  The hearings may be all about *Roe*, but the new justice's tenure will be all about everything else.\n\nCopyright 2018 by Robert Sutton",
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      "body": "I will confess.  Even after writing an unflattering piece on Chrissy Teigen's uninformed tweet about Sarah Sanders and the Colorado baker case last week (*http://uberthoughtsusa.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-we-so-love-to-listen-to-celebrities.html*), I still haven't looked up to see what she actually does.  I'll just go with \"celebrity\" and leave it at that.  Oh, yeah, and she models -- I heard that from a reader.\n\nAs you recall, I criticized her for writing a tweet that completely misrepresented the facts of the Colorado baker case, trying to say that the baker had refused to bake a wedding cake for a couple *because they were gay*.\n\nThe facts, had she bothered to read them, were that the baker was willing to bake a wedding cake for the couple.  However, as an artist, he declined to *create a specific design for the cake* that celebrated their, um, gayness, since he was religiously opposed to gay marriage.  As a baker, he would bake for them; as an artist; he would (and, as the Court decided, *could*) decline a specific artistic request.\n\nNow, I don't know if Chrissy Teigen does any acting.  As a model, I suppose she does, but it really doesn't matter for the point of this piece -- let's assume she does.\n\nLet's also say that she is under contract to a studio, and that it is possible that she is assigned some roles according to the studio's wishes.  Let's also shed any mistakes I may have made in the way studios work, and just stipulate that they can ask an actor to play a part within their contract terms.\n\nAnd let's say that the studio has a film to make in which President Trump is portrayed in a flattering, or even neutral way.  And they ask Chrissy Teigen to play Melania.  There is no artistic option, the first lady, in this notional film, is portrayed in a positive light, and a positive portrayal is what is wanted.\n\nDoes Miss Teigen \"get her panties in a wad\" about any possible positive portrayal of the current occupants of the White House and refuse to do the part?  I somehow think she might not take the money and do the job she's under contract to do.\n\nSo the studio would have to sue her under her contract.\n\nWhat would her defense be?  That on some form of personal conviction grounds, she would refuse to use her \"artistic talents\" to do a positive portrayal of Mrs. Trump?  Do you kind of see where I'm going with this?\n\nI know it is a hypothetical, but I would like to ask Miss Teigen if she would accept the assignment in accordance with a binding contract, or try to use some kind of grounds of artistic freedom to decline, despite a contractual obligation, to do the role.\n\n\"*What then*\", I would like to ask, \"*is the difference between you and the baker in Colorado?  Are your principles better than his because what -- you're a better person?  Who decided that?  Is the baker's right to his artistic freedom somehow different from yours?*\"\n\nYes, I know no one will ever ask that, and it's a hypothetical anyway.  She might not even be an actress.  And I'm sure Chrissy Teigen still thinks the baker \"refused to bake a cake because the couple was gay.\"  So she wouldn't even understand the question in the first place.\n\nBut dang, I'd like someone to ask.\n\nCopyright 2018 by Robert Sutton",
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      "body": "Thanks -- please do read me a lot, hundreds of my essays are here.\n\n- Bob",
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      "body": "President Trump, a prolific tweeter, has long been accused of not thinking before he tweets.  I don't know if that's fair; for the most part it appears that he thinks about the *issue* before he tweets; he may just not contemplate the consequences of his tweetage, or may not use an editor, too much in advance of hitting \"Send.\"  I do not mind; as I wrote yesterday, I think it gives the American citizen good and valuable insight into his thinking.\n\nNow, when celebrities tweet it is a whole 'nother thing.\n\nYou see, celebrities, most of whom in Hollywood and New York being absurdly leftist, don't have to worry about the consequences of anything they tweet or say, ever.  Madonna can threaten to explode the White House and she is still walking the streets and maybe still performing (I wouldn't know, or care).  Peter Fonda can encourage the kidnapping and assault of the First Lady and a young boy, and he has a movie opening with him in it; Sony Pictures appears not to care, although the Secret Service supposedly did.  And on it goes.\n\nDon't do that, of course, if you are a Trump supporter.  As Roseanne Barr can attest, an indiscreet tweet can get you fired promptly if you happen to support the, you know, president of the United States.\n\nThis acute double standard has manifested itself not only in tweets from leftist celebrities being more vicious than before (because of lack of consequence), but also in their lack of a need for a factual basis for pretty much anything they type.\n\nExhibit A today is Chrissy Teigen, who is a performer of some kind, married to John Legend, who is also a performer and well-known musician.  Both are devout leftists and haters of the president, which means that they are in the Hollywood bubble, nice and firm, and no one they know is around to tell them when they're being stupid in the eyes of the other 99.9% of the nation.\n\nSo as you know, after the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, because she worked for President Trump, she politely got up and left, along with her six companions (family, I believe), and went to a different place to eat dinner.\n\nThat would have been about it, except that other people started notifying the press and posting online accounts of the incident.  Mrs. Sanders, *who was not planning to comment immediately on the incident*, decided after others had, that she needed to put out an account quickly, and did so the next morning after hearing that it had become news.\n\n\"*Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left*.\", she tweeted.  \"*Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so*.\"\n\nMrs. Sanders had not planned to say anything, but just let it go, until the news got out and she had to provide her summary of what happened.  I think we all can agree that it was necessary for her to have said something after it became known.  We can also agree that she acted with complete class from the time of the incident right through and including the issuance of her tweet.\n\nNaturally, that was not good enough for Miss Teigen, who felt the need to say something, whether or not it were related to anything that she knew as factual.  So she decided to tweet out her ignorance of the news to the world:\n\n“*Didn’t you morons get your panties in a wad defending the baker that didn’t want to make cakes for gay couples?\", she wrote*.\n\nNow, her being a leftist and anti-Trumper and all, no one will take pains to dissect her tweet and point out what was wrong.  But I will.  I like doing that, you see.\n\nI'll even get past the whole \"morons\" thing, even though we know Mrs. Sanders to be a perfectly reasonably intelligent person, serving in a position that requires quick absorption of facts and policies to be able to answer daily questions, and command of language that Miss Teigen probably wishes she had.\n\nMore than that, I'll let go the \"panties in a wad\" thing, because if there's anyone who clearly does not lose her cool when people behave like cretins to her, and who behaves calmly and with class, it is Sarah Sanders.  After all, she deals with a White House press corps that mostly hates her boss and asks vicious questions that somehow never seem to touch on the economy, the post-summit softening of tensions with North Korea, or the president's rising popularity as people can afford more in their lives.\n\nBut I will not let pass the notion either that \"the baker didn't want to make cakes for gay couples\", or *that the actual case was even about that*.  That is fake news of the worst kind, prejudicially fake, and used to make a point predicated on a non-fact.\n\nMiss Teigen may actually believe that is what happened, not that she should be excused for it.  I mean, I do try to source material, when I'm not sure of the facts of an article on this site.  If I make a point based on something that turns out not to be true, I correct it and, if needed, run a retraction.\n\n*But the baker did not \"refuse to make a cake for a gay couple.\"*\n\nHad he done so, actually refused to bake a cake for the couple, I'd have been on *their* side.  I mean, I owned a bridal shop, and we would have sold a wedding gown to a guy, if he wanted to buy it.  And I'm just as much of a Christian as the baker.\n\nBut he was *willing to bake them a cake*, and that's the fact the left doesn't want to hear, especially since they can say it incorrectly and no one corrects them.  He is a cake artist, and he has a history of not using his talent to decorate a cake with a message he does not agree with on religious grounds.  He previously, for example, had refused to put a design celebrating divorce on one of his cakes, although he was willing to bake the cake.\n\nDid Sarah Sanders \"defend the baker\"?  Well, after the decision came down in the baker's favor, she pointed out that the White House was happy about it, on religious freedom grounds, so I suppose you could say she \"defended\" him, although the \"panties\" reference was not just over the top but wrongly assigned, given Mrs. Sanders's even temperament.\n\nBut if Chrissy Teigen is not informed enough even to know the facts of the case, not even to know that it was *not* a baker refusing to serve a couple because they were gay, well, she ought to confine herself to topics she does know, whatever those may be.\n\nObviously no one cares what celebrities say or think outside their artistic purview, although that does not keep them from spouting off.  Chrissy Teigen would have added herself to the list of people whose performances I will now not spend a penny on, except I don't know or care what she does, so it's no real loss for her.\n\nI hesitate to give her the Michael Jordan lesson, but since there's absolutely no chance she reads this far, I'm probably OK doing so.  The greatest basketball player we'll ever see was asked to make an endorsement of a Democrat in a North Carolina governor's race.  He politely declined and, when challenged, pointed out that \"Republicans buy sneakers, too.\"\n\nChrissy Teigen gained exactly zero by shooting off her mouth, or her Twitter finger, with an impolite remark that was based on an incorrect notion of an actual event.  She did, however, succeed in ticking off people who might have actually bought whatever it is she sells.  She added exactly nothing productive to the discourse (many, even before her, tried to relate the restaurant incident to the SCOTUS bakery decision, mostly getting the facts wrong and therefore sinking the analogy).\n\nWhat it costs her, well, I don't know, but it didn't have to cost her anything at all.\n\nDo I hope she reads this?  Sure, I do, because she might actually get the actual point, which is that if you are commenting on something you're passionate about, *at least get your facts straight*.  Basing a snarky tweet on incorrect information just makes you look stupid.\n\nAnd she really doesn't need any more of *that*.\n\nCopyright 2018 by Robert Sutton",
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      "body": "In a two-hour period yesterday morning, President Trump sent no fewer than *seven* tweets, covering trade (most of them), the South Carolina gubernatorial primary, and wrapping up the list with one declaring Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi the faces of the Democrats.  Seven tweets.\n\nBarack Obama had a fair number of news conferences, close to two per month according to a site purporting to compare that number.  But an Obama news conference was time-constrained, with few actual questions (none challenging), because of his long, drawn-out answers, not always addressing the question asked, meant to turn the press conference into a speech, effectively controlling the time period until the bell rang.  Ever the basketball fan, Obama would try to run out the clock without taking a shot.\n\nDonald Trump is not Barack Obama.  He is not Obama in so many ways it's really hard to count, but we're going to focus on one of them.\n\nObama claimed he was going to have \"the most transparent administration in history.\"  He really, actually said that, and it's amazing that it wasn't projected onto the White House roof, he was going to be so transparent.\n\nThen he went and lied about Obamacare, keeping your doctor, keeping your insurance company, that Benghazi was about a video, that he found out about Hillary's private email server when the rest of us did, lie, lie, lie.  And secretly sent his FBI to go spy on the Trump campaign and let his secretary of state sell our uranium to the Russians, none of which we would have known if Hillary had gotten elected.  Really transparent.  Surrrrrre.\n\nWell, I mentioned the press conference thing because Donald Trump is really nothing like that.  First off, he talks to the press a lot.  *A real lot*.  Every trip he goes on, when he walks out to Marine One to helicopter over to Andrews, he stops and engages the press.  Every time he does, it is question after question, answer after answer.\n\nThen he'll say \"*Just two more questions*\" and answer two more, and then maybe three or four after that.  This is of course, is the biggest difference.  Obama did not want to answer actual questions, he wanted to make a speech.  *Donald Trump likes to engage the media*.\n\nNot only does he like to engage the media, but particularly now -- a year-plus into his presidency when he has a much better familiarity with all the issues -- he has something to say and points he wants to make.  Then after engaging with the press, he will take to Twitter and restate those points, in slightly better-thought-out words.\n\n\n*What is my point?*  Well,  you see, *that* is actual \"transparency.\"  We want to know what the president is thinking, what he wants to do, what he believes, how he reacts to things -- *what he is doing*.  The president sets the tone for what he wants, and hopes that Congress will then fund his initiatives and legislate his goals.  If we don't know the platform, we don't know if we agree, right?\n\nWe know whether we agree with President Trump on pretty much every issue, because *we hear from President Trump on pretty much every issue*.  He tweets his views, and he makes lots of speeches espousing his views.  When he *doesn't* like something, like high foreign tariffs, we hear about *that*, too.  Donald Trump is an open book, if you simply choose to open it.\n\nFor all the complaints, valid or not, there is nothing secretive here.  Cabinet and other meetings at the White House often begin with a period open to the press.  The press execute their usual boorish behavior, but they're there.\n\nI'm going to try to remember, when ultimately there is a successor, to look for the first media member who describes the 46th president, whoever that will be, and yearns for the Trump Administration and the ability to see what was going on and what the president thinks.  Because it is doubtful we will ever have a president like this one again, one whose thinking we know *because he tells us*.  Successors can't possibly be more transparent.\n\nThat's not, sadly, a good thing.\n\nCopyright 2018 by Robert Sutton",
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      "body": "Maxine Waters (D, of course, CA) is the geriatric woman representing a congressional district in California, the land of fruits and nuts and obscene numbers of liberals.  Those who whine that Hillary Clinton got more of the popular vote in 2016 never mention that you could remove the votes from just *five counties* in California, both Democrat and Republican, and Donald Trump wins the popular vote in the USA as well has his already-large electoral majority.\n\n*That's* how leftist California is, to give you an idea how someone like Maxine Waters can even get on the ballot, let alone elected.\n\nMaxine has been out there chanting \"Impeach 45\" over and over to a handful of sycophants and toadies ever since Inauguration Day, not even waiting for President Trump actually to do something meriting impeachment.  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They say and do anything they want, knowing that the lapdog press is equally leftist and will simply excuse them.  Or, as in this case, they will ignore them as much as possible.\n\nBut this is hard to ignore, either for the press or the FBI.  The press can try, but the FBI must not ignore it.\n\nWaters was going on about President Trump and making up nonsense about the current border situation.  But she went on to encourage people to make a scene anytime they see a Cabinet member or other leading Administration employee.  She told people -- and this was in the middle of a circle of approving sycophants and toadies in Los Angeles -- to get in the faces of Administration officials and scream at them, harass them and make life miserable for them.\n\n\"*They're not going to be able to eat at a restaurant ... they're not going to be able to go to a gas station, they're not going to be able to go to a department store ...*\", she went on, to a curiously approving circle of people from no known source.\n\nIn other words, she was telling other people to assault innocent members of our government (assault does not require contact under the law) and threaten their well-being until they ... well, she wasn't specific about when it would be OK for the target to be able to return to their homes and families in peace.\n\nThere has been no indication that the FBI or Secret Service is pursuing this, but both should be with even more vigor than was taken after Peter Fonda tweeted some particularly threatening words toward the First Family recently and got a visit from a uniform or two.\n\nBut Maxine Waters *incited to riot*, and that is quite illegal; and she asked in public to have others (not her, of course) assault members of the Administration.  That is a Federal crime, it seems, and is thus equally illegal.\n\n*What she failed to include was when enough was enough, and that is a problem*.  It is a serious problem because the morons who would pay attention to anything Maxine Waters would say, are sufficiently intellect-challenged that they would not understand what the limits are, as defined by law.\n\nThat was an issue last summer, when a similarly amoral leftist type, inspired by leftist hate and rhetoric like this, came treacherously close to murdering a bunch of Congressmen at a softball field in Virginia.\n\nAlready, Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi, was repeatedly accosted by screaming people at a movie theater over the weekend, with three very large men in the group getting nose to nose with her and her boyfriend, trying to start a fight with their \"*What are you going to do about it*\" false bravado that goes over well in the Bronx and other bastions of civility.  Miss Bondi is a pretty tough lady, though, and smart enough to know they were trying to get a fight going that the press would undoubtedly spin to the view of the assailants rather than the victim.\n\nMaxine must be so proud; they did to Miss Bondi exactly what she said to do.\n\nSo is it not precisely the time when the FBI and Secret Service need to charge her with incitement to riot, threatening the President and other officials, that sort of thing?  Are they even *talking* to Waters?  Is not anyone from DoJ or the FBI or Secret Service looking at this from a criminal perspective?\n\nThe loud left will keep doing more and more ridiculous things and saying more and more ridiculous things until someone speaks up or acts.  Which is better -- the rhetoric stopping because the FBI charges Maxine Waters with some form of threat and incitement, or the rhetoric stopping because someone hears her and takes it too far ... as with a weapon?\n\nIt is time for law enforcement to act.  Now.\n\nCopyright 2018 by Robert Sutton",
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