Here are a few thoughts from one of our founding fathers, who stood among the most enlightened and intelligent people of the day.

It’s hard not to read this and wonder: where along the way did we Americans lose our capacity to think?

Jefferson’s thoughts also underscore how completely indefensible “originalism” is, more accurately referred to as :original intent” and “strict interpretation.”  When I used to read what Antonin Scalia wrote, it made me sick.  IMO, no bright mind honestly believes that the Constitution can only be interpreted according to the way we understood the world in the 18th Century.

 

 

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I will be surprised and deeply saddened if this ends poorly for her.

If this investigation stays on track and Trump goes down, she will deserve credit for having saved the United States from authoritarian rule.  That makes her arguably the greatest hero that our nation has ever known.

Charles Lindbergh flew an air plane.  Liz Cheney rescued our country.

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It’s hard to remember how Liz Cheney comes down on any other issue than justice for Trump.  As I recall, she is fairly conservative, meaning that most 2GreenEnergy readers don’t have too much in common with her politically.

Thank the Lord, however, that she’s taken the position she has here.  She’s a person of honor, as well as great tenacity.

What she said here, during the first televised presentation by the January 6th Committee, is an example of another great characteristic, i.e., that she is articulate but not bombastic.  She seems like she’s come by my place for a cup of morning coffee, and she’s telling me how it went in Congress the other day.  Impressive.

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The only change I would make here is to change the verb was to is.  This is happening “as we speak.”

Trump has a significant level of support, both in Congress and in the electorate.  When he says the election was stolen, most of the people who voted for him believe it, and most congressional Republicans pretend they do too. (more…)

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At this point, few of us remember Shai Agassi and his enterprise “Project Better Place.” He proposed to place EV battery-swapping stations strategically across the nation, a concept that would have virtually eliminated “range anxiety” and made charging one’s car as quick and innocuous as filling one’s car.

Yet it’s been at least 10 years since Agassi folded his tent.  He couldn’t even make Better Place work in his home country of Israel, one that has far better conditions than we have here in the U.S. (greater vehicle density per square mile, and more enmity towards oil).

What went wrong?

It’s a matter of speculation, but here are a couple of ideas:

Big Oil wants to delay the electrification of transportation as long as possible–preferably indefinitely.  Charging solutions that are user-friendly are bad news.

Uniform cooperation.  Each of the lower 48 states need to agree that this is the way to go, and, needless to say, each governor approaches things like this by asking “what’s in it for me?”

OEM buy-in.  This may have been the final nail in the coffin; it requires each automaker to standardize the size and location of its battery packs.  Certain car styles don’t lend themselves to any such standardization, which is why EV conversions (remember them?) are feasible only with certain makes/years of cars and trucks.

In any case, it wasn’t a horrible concept, but it was fatally flawed.

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It’s common for Americans to lament that things like penmanship (cursive) are no longer taught in our schools.  I’ve never been too sympathetic here, on the basis that there are only so many minutes in a school day, and everything we add in comes at the expense of losing something else.

And while we’re on that topic, the author of the meme here makes a good point: adding in training on dealing with active shooters means that our kids are receiving an even more lightweight education than they were before the proliferation of assault rifles into the hands of psychopaths.

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Herschel Walker is a pathological liar, but that’s only one reason that he’s no more qualified to be a U.S. senator than he is to be a board-certified cardiac surgeon.

On the other hand, none of this matters.

What counts is that he’s a Republican, running against a Democrat.  He’s a God-fearing Trump supporter, not a bleeding heart socialist.

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From this:

Newsmax made history Friday night, beating competitor CNN in key prime-time ratings.

According to Nielsen – and first reported by Mediaite – Newsmax’s live coverage of former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally pushed the network ahead of CNN in audience viewership. (more…)

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What would it be like to know that you could eliminate world hunger, or tackle climate change,  but decide to develop a hobby that requires tens of billions of dollars?

It’s hard for most of us to imagine.

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Here’s a response to a question that has the same relevance as “Hey! How ’bout those Dodgers?”

From his Wikipedia page:

A staunch ally of President Donald Trump, Johnson voted for Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, supported Trump’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), launched investigations into his political opponents and promoted false claims of fraud in relation to Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. He has rejected the scientific consensus on climate change. (Pushed) fringe theories about COVID-19, and spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations.

In other words, his supporters really don’t expect any coherent thinking from the guy.

My wife approves of the word I coined above (politibabble) and thinks it  might catch on.  I’m not so sure.

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