NC AG Josh Stein Refuses To Enforce NC Law On 20 Week Abortion Ban

By William Teach July 22, 2022 – 7:00 am

If Stein doesn’t feel like enforcing a law passed by the duly elected General Assembly and signed into law by the duly elected governor, then he should resign. But, Democrat always seem to think they do not have to enforce laws they do not like

NC attorney general won’t move to enforce state’s 20-week abortion ban

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said Thursday that he won’t work to enforce the state’s 20-week abortion ban, defying Republican lawmakers who have pressed him to do so as part of a long-running court case.

The state has a decades-old law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for medical emergencies. But that hasn’t been enforced because of a federal court injunction barring the state from doing so.

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case, the 20-week law is widely expected to go into effect. But there’s a procedure to follow first, and it would normally include the attorney general asking the court to reconsider the injunction.

On Thursday, Stein said he wouldn’t do that. “The Department of Justice will not take action that would restrict women’s ability to make their own reproductive health care decisions,” Stein, a Democrat and expected candidate for governor in 2024, said in a news release. “Protecting that ability is more important than ever, as states across the nation are banning abortions in all instances, including rape and incest.”

Chapter 114 of NC law as passed by the General Assembly, which was given authority to create, among other things, the office of the Attorney General, requires the AG to enforce all NC laws. Huh. Might be looking at an impeachment proceeding the first time he blows off prosecution.

GOP lawmakers previously said that if Stein doesn’t act in the court case, they will. Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives  Tim Moore, in a statement Thursday, accused Stein of disregarding his oath to defend North Carolina laws and said Republican leaders are “exploring all options to defend the law and protect life in North Carolina.”

“Despite his faux outrage, Josh Stein knows full well that the 20-week ban on the books does not limit women’s freedom, but protects the unborn when they are capable of feeling pain in the womb,” Moore said.

Does the GA want to spend time impeaching Stein? That’s the question.

Although currently legal in North Carolina, abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy are rare. Nearly 70% of abortions performed on North Carolina residents in 2020 came before the eighth week, according to Department of Health and Human statistics. Roughly 48 abortions, or 0.2%, came after the 20-week mark that year, the statistics show.

Hmm, if most came by 8 weeks, why are the abortion on demand supporters so worked up by the 20 week ban?

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Brandon Unveils Climate (scam) Action

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 4:29 pm

This was after taking a fossil fueled helicopter flight to the airport, jumping on a jumbo jet, which was followed by a backup jumbo jet and several fighter jets, then an 18+ fossil fueled convoy, then doing it in reverse back to D.C.

And, if he didn’t contract Wuhan Flu, he would have done the fossil fueled travel bit to Wilkes-Barr, Pa, then to Philadelphia, then New Castle, Delaware.

Biden unveils new executive actions to combat climate change

In the wake of a setback from his legislative agenda to combat climate change, President Biden on Wednesday announced a set of new actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“Climate change poses an existential threat to the U.S. and the world,” Biden said at a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Mass. The Brayton Point plant is being renovated into a substation for the transmission of offshore wind power and a manufacturing plant for the underwater cables needed to bring offshore wind power to customers.

“Since Congress is not acting as it should,” Biden added, “in the coming days my administration will announce the executive actions we have developed.”

None of those actions include Joe cutting back on his own fossil fueled travel

To coincide with the speech, the White House released a fact sheet with two new measures to adapt to climate change. FEMA is announcing $2.3 billion in funding to “help communities increase resilience to heat waves, drought, wildfires, flood, hurricanes, and other hazards,” and the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing guidance to allow the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to be used by local governments for home air-conditioning equipment, community cooling centers and more.

In other words, free money for low income voters to vote Democrat

The Biden administration simultaneously unveiled an effort to boost clean energy, as the Department of the Interior is proposing a 700,000-acre area for the development of offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s it? What happens when a hurricane destroys them?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees which will soon grow in northern areas like Canada and Alaska, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the J6 committee persisting

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Federal Court Let’s Georgia’s Fetal Heartbeat Law Take Effect

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 10:30 am

This judge’s ruling surely won’t stop the abortion death merchants, especially those who are really enthused to make sure black women abort their babies at a percentage well above any other race. Hey, maybe the death merchants, such as Stacy Abrams, can explain what contraception does

Federal appeals court allows Georgia abortion law to take effect immediately

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling and allowed Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law to take effect immediately Wednesday. The decision was expected after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that there is no constitutional right to an abortion.

The law, which had been barred from taking effect, bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many pregnancies are detected.

The Georgia law includes exceptions for rape and incest, as long as a police report is filed. It also allows for later abortions when the mother’s life is at risk or a serious medical condition renders a fetus unviable.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade allows the law to take effect. Circuit Court Chief Judge William Pryor wrote that the ruling in that case “makes clear no right to abortion exists under the Constitution, so Georgia may prohibit them.”

The court further ruled that the law could take effect immediately. The ruling further enjoined that expanding the term “natural person” to an unborn baby was perfectly OK within Georgia law, which could have interesting applications for challenges to similar laws in other states

Andrea Young, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, which sued to challenge the law on behalf of Georgia abortion providers and an advocacy group, said the organization “will continue to fight for abortion rights for the women of Georgia with all of the tools at our disposal.”

Will they attempt to bring this to the Supreme Court? They’ll probably lose, if the Court even decides to take the case. Their only recourse is to attempt to win at the ballot box, both for the Senate and House of the Georgia general assembly and the governor’s mansion. This makes liberals very unhappy, because they expect things to be easy and everyone to simply comply.

The fight over abortion will be on the ballot this November in at least 5 states

(if trouble with paywall, try this)

The battle over the access to abortion will continue during this year’s midterm elections after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision last month. At least five states – California, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Vermont – will include ballot proposals on changing the state’s constitution over abortion rights.

And several other states are either gearing up to include an abortion initiative in 2023 or beyond.

In California and Vermont, voters will decide to enshrine access to abortion, while in Kentucky and Kansas, voters will decide against protecting access to abortion in the states’ charters.

In places like Arizona, a ballot measure to protect abortion access failed to meet the requirements for the November election. But activists in Michigan and Colorado are attempting to get an initiative included in the November election.

Obviously, California’s initiative has a darned good chance of succeeding. Vermont is a little closer in enshrining abortion. Kansas’ is also polling closely. In Montana

The Medical Care Requirements for Born-Alive Infants Measure will be on the ballot this November in Montana. The measure states that infants born alive at any stage are “legal persons” and are entitled to the protections of the law.

It also requires infants born after a cesarean section or an attempted abortion receive medical care.

While around 56% of those in Montana say they support abortion in theory, how will they vote in practice? If the Montana general assembly is smart, they’d pass a law similar to Mississippi, stopping abortions after 15 weeks.

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Who’s Up For Ford Laying Off 8K To Finance Their EV Initiative

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 7:15 am

I’m sure the workers are thrilled to sacrifice for the great good of getting everyone into an EV, right?

Ford Plans to Lay Off 8,000 Workers to Help Finance Electric-Vehicle Initiative

Electric vehicle

Ford Motor Company plans to lay off as many as 8,ooo employees in the coming weeks to help finance its electric-vehicle initiative.

The cuts will affect the newly established Ford Blue unit that produces engines for gas-powered vehicles, as well as other salaried, operational positions throughout the company, people familiar with the development told Bloomberg.

Under the auspices of Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley, in March Ford diversified its automotive manufacturing into two distinct business projects: the “Model e” unit for EV development and “Ford Blue” for internal-combustion engines.

Some staff are likely to be let go this summer, and the layoffs may happen in stages, the people said. They are expected to target the U.S. sector of Ford, where 31,000 salaried workers are employed, Bloomberg noted. Declining to comment on the potential job cuts, Ford emphasized that it is committed to revolutionizing EVs, where many automakers believe the future of the car market is headed.

“As part of this, we have laid out clear targets to lower our cost structure to ensure we are lean and fully competitive with the best in the industry,” Chief Communications Officer Mark Truby said in a statement.

The climate cult agenda is wonderful, eh?

My bad, had GM in headline. Fixed

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Democrats Are Seconding Guessing Their Decisions Or Something

By William Teach July 21, 2022 – 7:00 am

Oh, yes, they are having second guesses, but, of course, the exact wrong way

Dems second-guessing their strategic decisions

Exasperated Senate Democrats are questioning the strategy of President Biden and Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) after many months of negotiation with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) failed to achieve two of their biggest priorities.

In the midst of an intense heat wave in the American Midwest and Europe, Democratic senators are openly questioning if their leadership should have given more urgency to climate legislation by bringing a bill to the floor within the first six months of taking control of the White House and Senate.

“I think it was a mistake to wait when we did the American Rescue Plan and not do the climate provisions at the time,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), whose home state was ravaged by its largest recorded wildfire last month.

Heinrich on Tuesday expressed frustration that negotiations with Manchin on a budget reconciliation package dragged on for nearly a year and ended without producing a deal on tax reform or legislation to curb carbon emissions.

“Time is what we have here, and especially time in the majority. So it’s not fair to string people along for a year and not come to a conclusion. That’s just not an appropriate way to negotiate,” he said, expressing his frustration with Manchin specifically.

There’s also second-guessing of the fateful decision to split Biden’s hard infrastructure priorities — spending for roads, bridges, public transit, ports and airports — from his climate and social spending goals.

They’re internal polling for the mid-terms must be pretty darned bad in thinking they should have moved faster. Of course, how would that have happened since Manchin and Sinema weren’t going to cooperate, nor would any in the GOP? They just don’t seem to understand that citizens really do not want this garbage in practice. They’re living in a fantasy world, and want all that power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 20, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland area flood from Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on fewer veterans recommending service.

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With COVID Sort Of Raging Again, States Have No New Plans Or Something

By William Teach July 20, 2022 – 10:30 am

Because all their plans worked so well before, right?

Covid cases are skyrocketing again. States have no new plans.

State health officials are out of ideas.

They’ve told people to wear masks, socially distance and avoid crowds. They’ve reminded people about the availability of life-saving therapeutics. They’ve pleaded with people to get vaccinated and boosted.

As the latest and most transmissible Covid-19 variant has sent case numbers skyward, with hospitalizations and deaths also rising, the response from state officials has been largely muted, a concession to the reality that their messages rarely resonate and that most people — even, and sometimes especially, politicians — are ready to move on.

Most have moved on. We’re done with masking, which did not stop COVID. More people got it, and more people died, during the era of forced masking. My hypothesis is that all the yammering from the Powers That Be about masks protecting us caused people to get too close to each other, easily spreading Wuhan Flu. Telling people to wear masks, forcing them, blew up social distancing. Therapeutics? They told us they were no good while Trump was President. Vaccinated and boosted? More people died with the vaccines around, and, they do not even know if they work for the new variants. How many times do we see a message “I just got COVID. Thank goodness I’m vaxxed and boosted.” Not exactly a winning message

“When you’ve said the same thing over and over about being vaccinated, being boosted, that if you’re vulnerable and you’re indoors with people who are not part of your household and you can’t distance, you need to wear a mask — I mean, the message hasn’t changed since the very beginning,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, told POLITICO. “But the receptivity to the messaging, I mean, there’s only so much of that people are going to consume, and it becomes a diminishing return at some point, too.”

It doesn’t help because a) COVID exploded even with that strategy, and b) they shouldn’t have forced people to practice this strategy. Might have been more compliance, less resistance. Seriously, they forgot the best advice from early on: avoid physical contact, keep your distance, don’t touch your face, wash your hands a lot, and avoid crowds when possible. People are just tired of the current message, especially when we see celebs and politicians not practicing it.

There are no new plans or bold initiatives on the horizon, officials in 10 states told POLITICO, even as much of the South remains unvaccinated and vaccination uptake among children nationwide is well below what state and federal officials would like. Instead, state and federal strategies for managing 130,000 new daily Covid cases in the U.S. are largely the same as they were for managing 30,000 new daily cases four months ago.

What would Politico MEGAN MESSERLY, KRISTA MAHR and ADAM CANCRYN recommend? They don’t have any, and, if you’re complaining without ideas, you’re whining.

The White House Covid team is exploring whether to permit Americans under 50 to get a second booster shot to provide extra protection over the next few months, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

Permit? It wasn’t that long ago when they were saying everyone should get a booster to the booster after 6 months.

An Axios/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday and taken over the weekend found that only 13 percent of Americans believe the government should be increasing mask mandates and vaccine requirements, down from 21 percent in February.

“Policymakers, politicians are highly attuned to public opinion. And right now the public opinion is that we’re kind of done with this,” said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “It would take a pretty courageous politician or policymaker to go against that, and there’s not a whole lot of reason to do that right now.”

That 13% are mostly the ones wearing masks everywhere, including their cars. Often with the mask uncovering their nose. The rest of us will not put up with the mandates again.

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Will Brandon Declare A Climate (scam) Emergency Wednesday?

By William Teach July 20, 2022 – 7:15 am

If he does, he’ll do it in the most climahypocrite manner possible

The Washington Post piece fails to ask Joe why he’s using so much in the way of fossil fuels for this. Nor do any other news outlets ask. No one asked Brandon’s press secretary. On one hand, the AP reported

Biden holds off — for now — on climate emergency declaration

electric vehiclePresident Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote new efforts to combat climate change, although he will not declare an emergency that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue despite increasing pressure from climate activists and Democratic lawmakers.

The White House said Tuesday it has not ruled out issuing such a declaration later, which would allow the president to reroute funds to climate efforts without congressional approval. On Wednesday, Biden will announce other new climate actions when he visits a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, which shuttered in 2017 but has since been reborn as an offshore wind power facility.

But since Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., hit pause on negotiations over climate spending and taxes last week, the public attention has shifted to a presidential emergency declaration and what the Biden administration could do with the newfound powers.

“It’s not on the table for this week,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of a climate emergency declaration. “We are still considering it. I don’t have the upsides or the downsides of it.”

On the other

White House Considers Emergency Declaration to Fight Climate Change

President Joe Biden will announce executive action to confront climate change after a key senator blocked legislation, but he’s holding off for now on an emergency decree that would allow him to marshal sweeping powers — and billions of federal dollars — against global warming.

Biden will outline his moves in a speech Wednesday at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts, vowing that he won’t allow a congressional impasse on climate legislation to prevent urgent work to slow rising global temperatures, according to people familiar with the matter.

Oh, wait, it’s the same type of piece saying the same thing, just with headline guaranteed to get the unhinged Dem base to think Joe’s going to declare a climate emergency Wednesday. Which would see immediate lawsuits, probably starting with Texas.

There are lots and lots of headlines out there which would make the climate cultists think there will be a declaration, with stories that say “nope, not this week.” Still, none ask why Biden will take such a huge bit of fossil fueled travel to complain about mythical anthropogenic climate change.

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Bummer: There’s A Brain Drain Of Abortion Lovers Leaving Red State

By William Teach July 20, 2022 – 7:00 am

Hey, if they want to go, well, bye now. Take your baby killing ways with you (behind the paywall LA Times piece here)

Column: As professionals flee antiabortion policies, red states face a brain drain

A few days ago, a university headhunter reached out to Elizabeth T. Jacobs, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Arizona, to gauge her interest in moving to a leading university in Texas.

Under normal circumstances and in professional terms, the opportunity would have seemed intriguing. “It was an attractive situation,” Jacobs told me. “It was at an institution I have a lot of respect for, and I would not have dismissed it out of hand.”

But the political environment in Texas is not normal, in Jacobs’ view. She informed the recruiter that “under the current state leadership I didn’t think my family would be safe in that state.” (snip)

Really, no state is going to prosecute for saving the life of a mother in a real medical emergency, and Texas’ law allows for such. Texas, though, differs in what they consider a medical emergency, which is when a life is truly in danger, from the abortion supporters, who see not being able to go to the club and party because of a pregnancy as a medical emergency

University faculty members in red states are publicly expressing concerns about the impact of exclusionary right-wing policies on their efforts to attract students and recruit qualified people to their institutions. Some have put out public feelers soliciting job offers from states with less-restrictive abortion laws.

“As of tomorrow, I am on the open market,” University of Utah neuroscientist Bryan William Jones tweeted June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. Jones said he would be willing to bring his 12 lab members, of whom eight are women, with him. “I will not endanger my team,” he wrote.

Well, see ya. Enjoy the high taxes, high cost of living, high crime, and high controls on your life in the Blue states. And never come back.

Quality of life is a major issue in recruitment discussions, says David Williamson Shaffer, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin who successfully hired a candidate last year who was also being wooed by Stanford and Harvard.

Being able to get an abortion because of irresponsible behavior is a quality of life issue? Have fun walking through the drug needles, pee, and poop while dodging homeless people to your tiny apartment you can barely afford.

At the end of the day, how many will really, truly leave? Probably not a lot, especially those who escaped the hellhole of Blue states. Unfortunately. Let them all go.

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