Undeniably Right

This week China announced they were about to bring online a nuclear reactor that used thorium to power the reaction rather than uranium. There is some skepticism about this claim given that China is making it, but it appears to be a significant event. There were many comments about how the United states is once again falling behind China. It was also a bit surprising because China doesn't really care about clean energy.

China claimed this was the first commercial thorium nuclear reactor. The United States had a quasi-commercial thorium nuclear reactor in the late '70s and early '80s. It was shut down and the industry essentially abandoned the pursuit of building thorium reactors because of the general distrust of nuclear reactors at the time. I had to do a little research to find out why this was a significant event.

There are so many things in our world today that make you go what the heck or on occasion laugh a little bit.

Too many people on both sides of the aisle have a closed mind. Just watch any man on the street interview or in interactions we might have with acquaintances with whom we disagree politically. Or even those with whom we agree. I have a social-media friend that generally can carry on a civil discourse but insists that women in America are dying because of back-alley abortions. Insists that more than 34 states have banned abortions. Not just to put limitations but ban them completely. When presented with documentation to the contrary obtained from pro-abortion websites such as Gutmacher, this person refuses to acknowledge that. When people are asked what rights some groups are losing, they cannot name one. Emotion guides their decision-making process.

Judicial activism is nothing new. But at least in the past the judges that were trying to achieve a certain outcome at least tried to tie their decision to the law. More and more judges today don't care about the law. They care about the outcome which too often is opposing A duly elected official.

Justice Amy Totenberg is the latest and maybe one of the worst haters of America and the rule of law. Her ruling in Curling v. Raffensberger should be taught in law school as an example of what not to do. The case involved election integrity issues in Georgia starting in 2018 and running through the 2020 election. Several cases were consolidated into this one. 14 months after the trial she finally issued a decision. I will be brief in summarizing the issues and evidence.

Wondering what this is about!

G. Michael Knopf wrote "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times." The quote was meant to demonstrate a cycle of life or society that had been demonstrated throughout time. Great civilizations were created out of hardship and after a period of becoming highly successful, they declined. Most often because the generations that came after the founders were softer and not able to deal with the obstacles of life. The quote is often dismissed by intellectuals as being oversimplified and not recognizing the complex nature of society. While there is a modicum of truth in that, I think it's very representative of where we are as a nation today.

I'm sure that Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic was certain that he had his Pulitzer Prize winning moment when he wrote the article about being added to a classified text message chain in which high level Trump administration, including Pete Hegseth discussed war plans. I can only imagine his smug countenance as he accepted the praises of his fellow journalists for proving that Donald Trump's administration was incompetent. He refused to release the text messages because of the highly sensitive and classified nature of the information. As it turns out, 90% of what he said was a lie.

Do politicians do that?

Several judges have issued injunctions against Donald Trump and his efforts to cut the size and scope of government. Other judges have issued injunctions to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants including members of terrorist groups. The left celebrates these activist judges, Chuck Schumer even admitting in a public interview that they were using activist judges to thwart Donald Trump's efforts. Clearly the Democrats, with some of their Republican friends, like to remind us that we are a nation ruled by laws but only the laws they like.