Time to Throw Chevron Overboard: Loper
Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Posted By: DVC, 12/21/2023 2:13:42 PM
uppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now claimed you had to pay that observer’s salary. This is essentially what a group of commercial Atlantic herring fisheries are now facing and what led them to bring legal action asking the courts to rein in this regulatory overreach. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear their case and others that are related. Here are the facts: In 1976, Congress passed, and President Gerald Ford signed, the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA)
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Die Hard: Definitely a Christmas Movie
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There will be no political commentary from me this week. This week is going to be all about Christmas. Today, I need to dive into a debate that has been raging for 35 years without a satisfactory resolution. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
I’m an engineer. It’s impossible for me to give a simple answer if I can dream up a more complicated one. So bear with me.
I think determination of whether a movie fits the Christmas genre depends on more than its musical score and the timing of its release. The plot has to include certain critical elements common to all Christmas movies.
The Globalist ‘Final Solution’
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
—C.S. Lewis
From 1933 to 1945, Germany’s Nazis killed 17 million people, six million of them Jews. Adolf Eichmann organized the transportation of millions of those to die at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps in support of the Nazis’ Final Solution (i.e., elimination of Jews from Europe), and in 1961, he was finally brought to trial in Israel.
While most assume that Nazi leaders were twisted, psychopathic monsters, philosopher Hannah Arendt sparked controversy in her 1963 study “Eichmann in Jerusalem:
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary describes the word “phobia” as “an exaggerated, usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.” In the wake of recent events, is fear of Muslims, labeled “Islamophobia,” really exaggerated, inexplicable, and/or illogical?
I’ve concluded that not only is fear of Muslims logical and explicable, but it is by no means exaggerated and, most probably, understated. The deliberately misleading term “Islamophobia” itself amounts to a cudgel used to silence critics of what Dutch Parliamentarian (and possible new Dutch Prime Minister) Geert Wilders has at times characterized as a totalitarian political ideology masquerading as a religion.
Fire breaks out in GM’s EV plant and
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materials’ as the culprit 8 replies
executives go with the vague ‘battery
materials’ as the culprit 8 replies
In 2021, shortly after signing the $1.2 trillion “Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal” into law, Joe Biden set off on a public relations campaign to sell the agenda contained therein, making it all the way to Detroit for the grand opening of General Motors’ new E.V. assembly plant, known as Factory ZERO. From a slobbery Washington Post item at the time:
The car-aficionado-in-chief took a spin through a General Motors plant retooled to manufacture electric cars, proclaiming that Detroit has led the world in electric vehicles and that the new infrastructure law would further boost the use of non-gasoline-powered vehicles across the country.
uppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now claimed you had to pay that observer’s salary. This is essentially what a group of commercial Atlantic herring fisheries are now facing and what led them to bring legal action asking the courts to rein in this regulatory overreach. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear their case and others that are related.
Here are the facts: In 1976, Congress passed, and President Gerald Ford signed, the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA)
Dreaming of a White Christmas?
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Despite what the climate-scare-media tell us, the big danger facing life on Earth is not global warming, but a return of the deathly Pleistocene ice sheets which once covered the great grain belts of Eurasia and North America. Such global cooling would also trigger plant starvation as more carbon dioxide is dissolved from the atmosphere into the cooling oceans.
We have abundant evidence that alarmist computer modelers have no ability to forecast climate. Meteorologists are gaining the ability to forecast weather up to a week ahead and the trends in ocean temperatures can help forecast whether we have El Niño or La Niña conditions for the next year.
On November 18, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland purported to appoint private citizen Jack L. Smith to be a Special Counsel with the power of one of the 93 U.S. Attorneys but with nationwide jurisdiction. This makes Jack Smith more powerful than any of the 93 U.S. Attorneys even though they have been Senate-confirmed to their particular offices, and Jack Smith has not been Senate confirmed for the particular office, which he now claims to hold. [snip] Justice Department has not "in, the words of the Appointments Clause, been "by Law" *** vested" with the power to appoint inferior officers like Jack Smith
We are told that the science is settled, that the last 160 years of our using natural resources have led to record high temperatures on Earth and that the ocean is rising to unsustainable levels.
This article from USA Today says the Earth used to be much hotter, so why do they tell us constantly that the Earth has reached record high temperatures and that we don’t have much time to save the planet:
New climate record is a reminder: Earth used to be way hotter, the oceans way higher
To summarize: All the changes in the past were cyclical and natural but this minor 2-degree temperature rise
Polls reveal most Americans favor laws limiting the capacity of firearms magazines to 10 rounds, and the New York Times reports that several generally pro-gun federal legislators have expressed support for such legislation. Surely, they argue, no one needs more than 10 shots to kill a deer or stop an armed intruder. Other than in war, their main purpose, clearly, is to murder large numbers of innocent citizens. So, they should obviously be outlawed. So goes the mantra, but it is far from the truth.
In reality, such bans would have a minimal, if any, impact on criminal homicides, but they might well endanger the lives of law-abiding citizens
How The American Republic Was Lost
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” —Patrick Henry
Periodically, the world produces a demonic leader who challenges the legitimacy of established order with force or an ideologue who does the same with utopian ideas. Nevertheless, America’s Founders refused to prevent those people from pursuing political office within the bounds of legality. Instead, [snip]
When the Founders set out to keep tyranny from infecting the federal government, two of the most important and interrelated safeguards were the separation of powers and federalism.
Amid all the sludge of hate-tweets from ignorant people about Henry Kissinger, who died this week at the age of 100, there are a few gems here and there,[snip]
I found one that intrigued me from Chilean economist José Piñera, who created the great Chilean Model of private savings accounts that has done so much to make Chile a rich, prosperous country with a huge middle class.
Piñera put out three fascinating tweets, describing his experience as a young economist of the "Chicago Boys" school who was then creating an economic revolution in that country
Israel and Gun Control
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There are recent headlines and talk about Israel relaxing gun control laws and arming citizens since the Hamas terrorist attacks October 7th. But these narratives can be deceiving. One Israeli tactical expert, Yonatan Stern, has exposed some concerning actions on behalf of the Israeli government that tell a different story.
Yonatan Stern was born in Israel in 1984, and joined the Israeli police at age 16, after growing up in Hebron, where he witnessed constant terror attacks. At age 18, he joined the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), where he served for three years. He then attended college, where he studied government and counter-terrorism operations before moving to America
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First, the secular liberal media mocked House Speaker Mike Johnson for working with his son to avoid sinful sexual Internet sites. Now ABC News is piling on the Jesus-freak thing with an old video of Johnson and his daughter at a purity ball. Here's the headline online: (Snip) ABC reporter Will Steakin reported that they suddenly "unearthed" an old German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter.
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The Chevron case was a massive disaster, basically saying all future courts should defer to the bureaucrats. This terrible ruling was very wrong and must be jettisoned. As the authors say, the bureaucrats have been unleashed to run rampant over free enterprise, destroying everything.