ITEM 1: The 4th Circuit Court said 18-year-olds have a constitutional right to buy a handgun, striking down part of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Writing for the two-man majority, Judge Julius N. Richardson (a Trump appointee) said, "When do constitutional rights vest? At 18 or 21? 16 or 25? Why not 13 or 33? In the law, a line must sometimes be drawn. But there must be a reason why constitutional rights cannot be enjoyed until a certain age. Our nation’s most cherished constitutional rights vest no later than 18. And the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms is no different."
Judge James A. Wynn, Jr. (an Obama appointee) said in dissent, "The majority breaks new ground and creates a circuit split by striking down a modest effort at gun control passed more than 50 years ago that does not prevent young adults from purchasing, possessing, or using handguns."
Hmm. So longstanding laws are immune from judicial review? Well, that dashes gay marriage, does it not? And why not make women wait until they are 21 to have an abortion?
Look for the government to appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court.
ITEM 2: Bloomberg reported, "A divided Seventh Circuit broadened a religious employer defense to encompass hostile work environment claims brought by employees who qualify as ministers, deepening a circuit split that eventually could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
"In a 7-3 ruling Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned a three-judge panel’s August 2020 decision that revived harassment claims brought by Sandor Demkovich, a gay music director who sued the Archdiocese of Chicago and the parish where he previously worked.
"That prior panel ruling said while religious employers could raise the ministerial exception as a defense in discrimination cases involving the hiring and firing of workers who have enough faith-based duties to be considered ministers, they still must maintain a workplace free from harassment.
"The full Seventh Circuit majority, however, said the ministerial exception also categorically bars hostile work environment claims, ordering the dismissal of Demkovich’s claims."
The court broadened nothing.
Judges merely upheld the First Amendment protection of religion.
ITEM 3: Politico reported, "As the Capitol Police inch closer to running out of money for salaries, leaders in both parties acknowledged the gravity of the problem but remain no closer to finding a solution.
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of withholding additional funding to the Capitol Police on Tuesday. 'We’re gonna fight hard' for more funding, he said, adding that Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told Democratic senators at their weekly lunch meeting he would sit down to negotiate with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the panel.
"The New York Democrat indicated he would not support a scaled-down $632.9 million proposal pitched by Republicans which would have mostly covered the immediate financial needs of the Capitol Police and National Guard. Leahy has introduced a $3.7 billion Democratic proposal to cover the Capitol Police and National Guard’s shortfalls, address a range of security issues around the Capitol and bolster assistance for Afghan refugees and Afghan nationals who assisted the U.S. war effort."
If only Democrats fought as hard to fund the police who protect the rest of us.
The 535 members of Congress are protected by 2,200 armed police officers.
I doubt the Politburo was as well protected.
ITEM 4: The New York Post reported, "Inflation continued to surge in June, with consumer prices accelerating at the fastest pace in almost 13 years as the economy emerges from the pandemic, the feds said Tuesday.
"The Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index, which measures a basket of goods and services as well as energy and food costs, jumped 5.4% in June from a year earlier.
"That’s higher than May’s 5% year-over-year rise in prices, and the biggest 12-month rise since August 2008, just before the financial crisis sent the US into the worst recession it had seen since the Great Depression."
I did a full post yesterday, "Bidenflation is so bad, even Wolf Blitzer noticed."
The Hill, however, reported, "Ice cream's back — thank you, Joe!"
Must be nice to be able to afford ice cream...
ITEM 5: Fox reported, "In a late-night announcement Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Budget Committee had reached an agreement to allot $3.5 trillion for a spending package that would complete President Biden’s infrastructure plan."
I doubt that 10% of the money will go to fix roads or bridges.
ITEM 6: Reuters reported, "Cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp, global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said on Tuesday, amid widespread anti-government protests.
"Thousands of Cubans joined demonstrations throughout the Communist-run country on Sunday to protest a deep economic crisis that has seen shortages of basic goods and power outages. They were also protesting the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and curbs on civil liberties.
"The protests, rare in a country where public dissent is tightly restricted, largely died down by Sunday evening, as security forces were deployed to the streets and President Miguel Diaz-Canel called on government supporters to go out and fight to defend their revolution."
Banning people from Twitter. Using the pandemic to curb civil liberties. Deploying thousands of security forces to stop protests in the capital.
Cuba sounds a lot like America under Biden.
ITEM 7: The New York Post reported, "‘6 p.m. is the new 8 p.m.’: Why early-bird dining is here to stay."
The story cited new habits developed during the lockdown.
I wonder if New Yorkers no longer feel safe after dark.
ITEM 8: The New York Times (which I never link) said, "Priscilla Johnson McMillan, believed to be the only person to have conversed extensively with both John F. Kennedy and his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died on July 7 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 92.
"Her niece Holly-Katharine Johnson confirmed the death. She said Ms. McMillan had been in hospice care since injuring her spine in a fall several months ago.
"Like nearly everyone, Ms. McMillan was shocked on Nov. 22, 1963, by reports that President Kennedy had been murdered. But walking through Harvard Square when she heard that the president — who was also her former boss — had been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, she was one of a very few who had another thought as well.
"'My God,' she told a friend. 'I know that boy.'
"Several other people had briefly encountered both men, but Ms. McMillan had conferred with both. She had dealt with Kennedy in Washington as an adviser on Indochina in 1953, when he was a senator. And as a journalist, she had interviewed Mr. Oswald, a 20-year-old disillusioned Marine veteran, in Moscow in 1959 about why he was defecting to the Soviet Union."
She published a book in 1977 on the Oswalds, "Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassination of John F. Kennedy," and shared the royalties with Mrs. Oswald, who was left destitute by the assassination.
ITEM 9: The Washington Examiner reported, "At least three New York Democrats signed a letter voicing opposition over plans to open Chick-fil-A restaurants at rest stops throughout the state, claiming the quick-service chain has donated to discriminatory and anti-LGBT groups in the past.
"The letter was signed by state Assemblyman Harry Bronson and co-signed by Deborah Glick and Daniel O’Donnell, calling on the New York Thruway Authority's Executive Director Matthew Driscoll to re-examine a list of approved concessions for a $450 million project to update areas across the Thruway."
Lefties have gone from boycotts to banning.
OK. Conservatives should ban Kellogg's from schools and prisons because it pushes LGBTism in its children's cereal.
Those are the new rules, folks.
ITEM 10: Summit reported, "Groups allied with the Biden administration are planning on working directly with cellphone network providers to ‘fact check’ private SMS messages if they contain 'misinformation about vaccines.'
"The revelation is made in a Politico article which explains how the White House is preparing to characterize 'conservative opponents of its Covid-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme.'
"The decision to ramp up the information war against vaccine skeptics was made after conservatives showed resistance to the Biden administration’s plan to go “door-to-door” to increase vaccination rates."
Tell me again how Twitter is not the phone company.
Oh yes, with the phone company, you need an actual warrant to snoop like this.
ITEM 11: Vaccination has always been a controversy. The job of the government in promoting vaccination is to get people to trust the system and get the shot.
Trusting the system went out with Obama saying you can keep your doctor.
Trusting the system went out with Obama spying on Donald Trump.
Trusting the system went out with Obama impeaching the president twice.
I got the shot. I will get the booster. My body, my choice. Whether someone else gets a shot does not affect me.
But I have no faith in any of these idiots with their tyrannical and insane demands to shutdown the economy, lock down people, arrest surfers, and to wear masks that are so porous the virus laughs at us.
They failed. Fire the whole lot of them.
ITEM 12: NBC reported, "Nicholas Thompson, the chief executive of The Atlantic, gave a presentation to employees last month in which he disclosed some uncomfortable truths about the state of the magazine.
"Subscription growth, which had skyrocketed in 2020 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic and the presidential election, had come back down to earth. For the first time, the number of subscribers had plateaued and started to slightly decline. And even with last year’s substantial surge, the magazine had lost more than $20 million and was on track to lose another $10 million this year, according to slides of the presentation shared with NBC News."
Revenues rose and deficits did too.
Sounds like new management is needed.
Now for the Trumpenfreude.
The story said, "The Atlantic needs to make $50 million in annual subscription revenue in order to break even, according to Thompson. Hitting that target has become more complicated since Trump left the White House and the pandemic let up."
The media should have backed the recount because not only did they lose their main attraction, they triggered economic ruin by putting a lifer senator behind the Resolute Desk.
ITEM 13: National File reported, "A mural of deceased fentanyl user and Black Lives Matter icon George Floyd was destroyed earlier today in Toledo, Ohio after it was inexplicably struck by lightning, collapsing the wall entirely and likely offering a devastating blow to the morale of the local Black Lives Matter movement.
"Local media reports that the 'north Toledo mural has been reduced to rubble” after reportedly being struck by lightning. Fire and rescue responded to the previous site of the mural, but were unable to render aid to the collapsed wall featuring Floyd’s face.'"
It was an act of God.
Prudent people would take that as a hint.
ITEM 14: Breitbart reported, "A state-backed Communist Chinese firm has conducted a hostile takeover of the UK’s largest microchip factory, raising concerns about Beijing’s growing control of the market during a global chip shortage.
"On Monday, Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia, which is controlled by the China-owned electronics firm Wingtech, took 100% control of the Newport Wafer Fab’s factory in South Wales after using a contractual clause to seize the company.
"In 2019, Nexperia signed a contract to support the factory in exchange for Newport Wafer Fab putting up its factory as collateral. After the British company was unable to fulfil the manufacturing quota obligations in the deal, the Chinese owned enterprise was able to take full control of the factory, The Telegraph reported."
We are in a war our elected leaders refuse to admit exists.
Isolate Red China.
Now!
ITEM 15: German news agency DPA reported, "The European Court of Human Rights criticized Russia on Tuesday for failing to officially recognize same-sex couples."
The court has absolutely zero say in Russian affairs.
ITEM 16: The Blaze reported, "Biden is tapping former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Turkey."
That's it?
He sold out his party and his state for a stinking ambassadorship to a D-list country?
Turkey usually goes to a foreign service bureaucrat.
He aimed pretty low.
ITEM 17: Reuters reported, "Global interest in the Tokyo Olympics is muted, an Ipsos poll of 28 countries showed, amid concerns over covid 19 in Japan and withdrawals of high-profile athletes, with the host country among the most disinterested.
"The poll released on Tuesday found a global average of 46% interest in the Games, but excitement varied across markets, with less than 35% in Japan."
My only interest is in seeing the NBA All-Stars -- excuse me, men's basketball team -- and the women's soccer team pancake. I want them to lose every match because they are anti-American apologists for Red China.
ITEM 18: Josef Biden on Tuesday made a big push for the federalization of all elections.
New Republic responded by reporting, "The Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Is Dead.
"President Biden's plan to protect the right to vote is to hope that someone else will come up with a plan to protect the right to vote."
I caution readers.
Obamacare was declared dead 9 times before Democrats passed it.
ITEM 19: Vice reported, "Newborn Died from Being Hooked Up to Laughing Gas Instead of Oxygen, Inquest Hears."
That report was from Australia, where they have universal health care.
It happened 5 years ago.
FINALLY, a reader did a fact-check and reported, "Christopher Wray, as well as the Head of the Capitol Police and Russel 'Buck Turgensen' Honore' are NOT going to Cuba to show them how its done. Mind you they would like to, but the 'optics' won't allow it.
"Just thought I'd put that to rest."
Thanks for the clarification. Maybe they can facetime with the Cuban police.
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