Oct. 5, 2022
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Supreme Court Returns to Rule of Law – Restores Legitimacy Stolen by the Left
By Rick Manning
You can always tell when the left has fully polled and focused group a talking point, you see it everywhere. So, to no one’s surprise, the media is full of blaring headlines attacking the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy.”
The Washington Post featured a headline, “The Supreme Court, dogged by questions of legitimacy, is ready to resume.”
A New York Times editorial huffed, “The Supreme Court Seems Awfully Nervous About its Own Legitimacy.”
This followed a previous Old and Grey Lady editorial pouting that the Supreme Court has squandered its legitimacy writing, “As a result, the court’s legitimacy has been squandered in the service of partisan victories. The Dobbs decision in June, which overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminated American women’s constitutional right to control their own bodies and was a priority of the Republican Party for decades, is only the most glaring example."
The very same left-wing blathering which poses as their intelligentsia demands absolute fealty to the results of the 2020 election, without evidence that the thousands of affidavits contending that fraud had been committed were falsely sworn, now worries about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
What a bunch of frauds.
Over the past six months, America has witnessed the GOP appointed Supreme Court Justices subjected to on-going and continuing intimidation through protestors at their personal residences. Threats stoked by a leaked draft decision on the abortion issue from inside the Court itself. Protests which are specifically illegal under federal law, which the Attorney General of the United States refuses to enforce.
Attempt to intimidate a Supreme Court decision through the threat of violence? You are A-Okay in Biden-Obama Media and Legal World, but stand up to that intimidation and follow the Constitution to overturn a court case which has divided the nation since it was first unleashed in 1973, and suddenly their legitimacy is at stake?
The irony is that conservatives have for decades suffered as enumerated individual rights were eroded by activist Courts seeking to make law from the bench which Congress and the Executive Branch would not. Witnessing the same Court using tortured logic to creatively write ‘rights’ into the Constitution with little fear about their legitimacy.
Now, as this Supreme Court continues to affirm individual religious liberties found in the First Amendment and the individual right to keep and BEAR arms found in the Second, the left is going increasingly nuts. After all, decisions that can actually find credence in the Constitution as amended by the Bill of Rights are dangerous aberrations which cannot be tolerated.
Horrors and Boo Hoo – crybaby whiners.
The truth is the Supreme Court has restored its legitimacy. On abortion, it is up to the states to decide how they handle the issue. Just as abortion was not found to be in the Constitution to enable it, it was also found to not be in the Constitution to judicially ban it.
Imagine the idea that those people elected to make laws to govern their respective states should be empowered with doing just that?
Isn’t that what this whole representative republic idea is supposed to be about – the consent of the governed?
The Supreme Court opened for business again this week. They face a slew of important issues that have landed at their feet because they have Constitutional significance and in many cases, lower courts disagree on the answer.
Let’s pray that they continue to restore the legitimacy of the Court as they return America to the rule of law.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
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Germany has cut traditional electricity generation by 38 percent since 2002, a cautionary tale for the West
By Robert Romano
Germany has reduced overall electricity production from traditional sources by 38 percent, or 198.1 million Megawatt Hours (MWh) since 2002, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany .
Coal and nuclear led the collapse of Germany’s electric grid, from 121 million MWh for coal and 164.8 million MWh for nuclear a year in 2002, to just 51.1 million MWh for coal and 69.1 million MWh for nuclear in 2021.
In other words, coal electricity production was cut by 57.7 percent and nuclear electricity production was cut by 58 percent in just 20 years.
This has been offset by massive increases in solar and wind, and also a substantial increase of natural gas dependency, from 41.7 million MWh in 2002 to 53.4 million MWh in 2021. Today, wind produces 63.7 million MWh a year and solar another 51 million MWh a year . The overall grid now stands at 41 percent renewable.
This is deindustrialization, plain and simple and a triumph of environmentalism for certain that has shifted German households to subsistence solar paneling to offset a dramatic decline of Europe’s industrial base, making Germany and Europe’s current energy crisis entirely self-inflicted as it became unprofitable for large utilities to function . Now, manufacturing is on the verge of collapse in Europe’s largest economy as the world prepares for another recession soon after Covid.
But the real problem for Germany is heat. In 2003, it needs another 50 million MWh worth of natural gas year to produce about half of its heat.
This is partially the context the war in Ukraine, and the removal of Russia as a supplier of natural gas to Germany with the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, must be understood.
Nord Stream 1 had supplied 1.9 trillion cubic feet a year to Europe, and 55 percent of Germany’s gas alone , and Nord Stream 2 would have doubled the current pipelines’ distribution of 1.9 trillion cubic feet a year to 3.9 trillion cubic feet a year. The pipelines are owned by Nord Stream AG, a subsidiary of Russia state-owned energy giant Gazprom.
In 2005, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder approved construction of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was finished and went online in 2012. Nord Stream 2 was built from 2018 and finished construction in Sept. 2021. After the war in Ukraine began, Nord Stream 2 was disapproved by Germany and Russia cut off supplies from Nord Stream 1.
This is a cautionary tale for the West, where green mania has led to massive cuts in terms of electricity generation, consumption and overall industrial output, which has been ceded to Asia. And now the shift to carbon-free economies is threatening the very security of Europe. What this invites, besides internal energy rationing by regulators, is external energy rationing imposed by adversaries who can inflict a global recession just by turning off the gas. Now, with winter fast approaching, it’s too late.
Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.
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