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By Virginia Kruta Chief Justice  John Roberts  delivered a scathing response to the liberal justices in Thursday’s Affirmative Action decision, accusing them of burying a power grab in the dissents penned by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, with Justice Elena Kagan concurring. Roberts  addressed the dissent  on page 46 of his opinion, saying that the Justices had divorced the case from the context in a concerted effort to make the Court the arbiter of which race[s] were entitled to preferential treatment. “The principal dissent wrenches our case law from its context, going to lengths to ignore the parts of that law it does not like. The serious reservations that Bakke, Grutter, and Fisher had about racial preferences go unrecognized,” Roberts began. “The unambiguous requirements of the Equal Protection Clause — ‘the most rigid,’ ‘searching’ scrutiny it entails — go without note.” “And the repeated demands that race-based admiss...

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By Paula Bolyard Lawmakers in Ohio moved to put the brakes on special-interest groups bypassing the regular legislative process by putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot for a special August election. A “yes” vote on Issue 1 would amend the Ohio Constitution to require a 60% supermajority for future amendments instead of the current 50% threshold. The reason for the amendment is simple: It should not be an easy process to amend the Constitution. It should not be subject to the whims of temporary controversies or bucketloads of cash from out-of-state special-interest groups. The proposed amendment would elevate “the standards to qualify for an initiated constitutional amendment and to pass a constitutional amendment,” according to the  certified ballot language . Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a leading proponent of the amendment and likely candidate for the U.S. Senate, told PJ Media that the Ohio Constitution is “for sale to the highest bidder currently because it’...

By D. Diego Torres The occasion of Thomas Sowell’s 93 rd  birthday offers an opportunity to share with folks who are only recently becoming acquainted with him the best starting place for understanding the basic outlines that define Sowell’s analysis of social problems. Because it puts forward one of Sowell’s most important lessons in my opinion, namely his hypothesis that much of Western political debates are predicated on one of two predominant worldviews, what Sowell refers to as the  constrained  and  unconstrained  visions, reading his  A Conflict of Visions  as a good place for the new student to start. As he progresses through this and Sowell’s other works, it will be clear that the constrained vision informs Sowell’s analysis of a host of controversial issues, from economics to race and discrimination to history and cross-cultural comparisons.  If I had to point to just a handful of topics the dedicated student of Sowell is likely to p...

By Allan J. Feifer As frequent readers will affirm, I’ve been wondering what has happened to our country and what the future holds for us.  I am angry at what we’ve lost in recent years through incompetence, slothfulness, and the deliberate destruction of the world’s most successful example of capitalism and democracy.  The Washington elites and, for that matter, the people who eat, breathe, and discourse politics nonstop are not your average American…the everyday person wants a shallow, easy existence with minimal government intrusion (except when it might benefit them), and that’s part of our problem. Following is a list of ginned-up chaos that diverts the “average American” from understanding and then focusing on what is truly important, time-sensitive, and worth preserving — there will be pushback for calling out the cabal of Destroyers furiously rewriting the narrative of our lives. Godless countries  such as North Korea, China, and even some Western democracies ...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell In another 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in favor of the states in  Department of Education et al v. Brown et al . that the HEROES Act does not authorize President Joe Biden to implement his student loan debt relief plan. As seems to be the trend this SCOTUS cycle, Senior Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson have dissented. From the ruling: The issue presented in this case is whether the Secretary has authority under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act) to depart from the existing provisions of the Education Act and establish a student loan forgiveness program that will cancel about $430 billion in debt principal and affect nearly all borrowers. Under the HEROES Act, the Secretary “may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs under title IV of the [Education Act] as the S...

By David Harsanyi “Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard,” is the first claim in this Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat — and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature kills more people than other weather hazards is that deaths from weather have plummeted over the century — even as doomsday climate warnings about heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts have spiked. All extreme weather accounts for only about 0.1 death for every 100,000 people in the United States each year. That is a massive drop from the time of your grandparents. The Post and others should be celebrating the fact that humans have never been less threatened by the climate in history. The Post also warns that 62 million people in the U.S. may be “exposed” to dangerous heat “today.” That’s a lot of people, even ...

By Kevin Downey Jr. Nothing helps a leftist commie sleep better than climbing onto their moral gelding and pointing out supposed “racism,” no matter how insane their claim is. The Associated Press (AP) has spectacularly beclowned itself in a  brief video  — lasting only 1:35, a record for such stupidity — by suggesting the smoke blowing over from Canadian wildfires is racist. FACT-O-RAMA!  The jackpuddings at  Time  Magazine believe even  babies are racist . The video opens with a Hispanic man skateboarding in my hometown of Detroit, followed by the words, “Haze from Canada’s wildfires shrouds broad swath of U.S. Quentin Hernandez skateboarded for an hour in Detroit on Wednesday… The conditions were less than ideal… Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded the Motor City…” No racism yet, unless you consider that  Detrot’s population  is 77.9% black and only 7.8% Hispanic, yet AP decided to get footage of one of the city’s few Hispa...

By Bob Hoge The poll is closed, and the results are in: 50 percent of voters disapprove of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s job performance. Unfortunately, the poll here is not for an election; instead, it’s the findings of a  Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll  released Thursday. Only 39 percent of respondents approve of how Fetterman is handling his job, with 10 percent not offering an opinion. Not surprisingly, his ratings were much higher among Democrats than they were among Republicans and Independents. Seventy-nine percent of Dems approved of Fetterman’s job performance, while only eight percent of Republicans and 31 percent of independents viewed him favorably. Men were more likely to give him the thumbs down (58 percent disapproval), while women were less critical (43 percent). The other senator from the Keystone State, Democrat Bob Casey, did much better, earning a positive approval rating of 44 percent, with 32 percent disapproving and 24 percent offeri...