Links for 9/11/18

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MGB:  Rich people like putting their names on things and dealing with people that agree with them, or seem to. The richer you are, the more loyalty replaces truth. He is right that more lay control is necessary, but wrong that it should be the donor class that provides the laity.

I will not bother to read about feuds between Robbie George and MSW. Take it outside, boys.

I suspect Hugh is the useful idiot for CNN. Garland was no danger to the Constitution. The equal protection and due process law under the 14th Amendment has become sacrosanct with large majorities, regardless of what each side of these issues say. If this were more widely known, fundraising would end and the hyper-partisan pelvic think tanks would go under. As for the rest, the administrative state and capitalism will go along as before under a nearly unanimous Court. Capital punsihment is more a theoretical issue, as no one is making drugs for the death machine any more.

Efforts to overturn the Blaine amendments are as cautious as those seeking marriage equality. Everyone spent so much time trying to read the tea leaves on Court composition to actually put forth a power and obvious case that these provisions are anti-papist trash, but if no one files suit, nothing will happen. As for religous facades and highway crosses, they are much ado about nothing. Unless the Court wants to make every billboard be licensed for content, the crosses are safe. History is history, although it is sad when Churches cannot raise money for their own renewal, probably due to payhing lawsuits against pedophile priests. Either way, the law is made and changed by cases, not judges. Trivial suits make trivial law.

Sadly, racist dog whistles still get votes in Florida and no one has a right to stop them or fortunately to stop us from finding out about them.

King Don the Moron is also probably loathe to mention his mother's irregular status when he was born. If not for his parents' marriage, he would be an anchor baby.

The Times is not covering new news on money laundering. It has always been an open secret. This is the last shoe to drop and I suspect that the current interviews are just corroborating what Mueller already knew.  Goodbye Moron. The only real question is if the GOP gets rid of him before the election in order to save itself from total annihilation on election day.