Links for 6/18/19

Links for 6/18/19
Warren's lawyer needs to call Kurtz to get an expert witness. This song is also of comfort.

Neither moral arguments nor public opinion have anything to do with the constitution rights of the unborn against execution by the state (which are equal to everyone else's) or the power of state governments go grant them at the expense of their mothers (which is zero). Congress can, but it won't, since due process rights for mothers and their doctors require that all voluntary and therapeutic (miscarried) abortions be investigated in the same way. The Court is now rejecting petitions to hear an more abortion cases and overturning any attempt to overturn Roe or impose Trap Laws Per Curiam (without hearing). Stick a fork in repeal. It is done. Any Catholic politician should say as much, unless honesty has become a sin and fraud a virtue. That is the only sane answer.

The only option is massive per child subsidies. Don't vote Republican if you want them to protect the unborn that way (unless a moderate Republican runs). The last person that a moderate Republican wants to face is Elizabeth Warren. Biden would be a pleasure to debate, just like Trump. Note that she also wants to repeal Hyde. It should be.

In Right and Reason, THE Catholic ethics text, you cannot avoid taxes to avoid sending them to Vietnam because your taxes and war funding are indirect. If that applies to war, it certainly applies to abortion. If you have private insurance, you are more likely to fund abortion (although it may be free to you, because funding birth is more expensive to policy and stock holders than funding abortion. Buying a cheeseburger or movie ticket is much more likely to fund abortions for the working class and teenagers. Hyde is all about posture, not real policy. The Democratic Jesuit in Congress used voting for Hyde entirely for optics.

The Control Board did it's job. The government must now do his - not accepting the lack of a haircut but in demanding a congressional bail out, with a slow enough time table to give Pelosi or a primary challenger to get rid of Trump first. If I were a GOP candidate, I would promise PR just that, and not only to win Florida.

Someone needs to remind Joan that in the Old Testament the penalty for masturbation was a bath, not Hell.  I learned that at Loras College in Eastern Iowa when reading the Bible to test out of a class. Eastern Iowans vote differently than western Iowans and plenty of folks from there will volunteer to work for Democratic candidates. Trump will have to pay his in the east. Whether we would vote for a large settlement against a bakery for catching a kid shoplifting would not be based on Political Correctness, but in how the bakery confronted the shoplifter. It makes a huge difference. We know that PC is mostly simple politeness. We are Iowa Nice people. Note to MSW, don't be condescending to us about how we vote, volunteer or treat others.