Whistleblower

From Powerline blog

He who cannot be named ... sayeth Chief Justice John Roberts ...

Headlines

Inside [Gov.] Ralph Northam’s plot for survival

The US and China don’t even have a trade deal draft yet as deadline approaches

DEMs GO ECO WILD! Phase out air travel in next 10 years ...

Warren hints at more documents claiming Native American heritage

The impossible green dream of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Trump is reportedly expected to ban Chinese telecom equipment from US networks

John Roberts joins liberal justices as Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law ...

‘The View’ host Joy Behar under fire for use of blackface

Amazon’s Bezos accuses National Enquirer of ‘extortion and blackmail’

Woody Allen is suing Amazon for killing his movie deal

Netflix paid $0 in taxes ... Record $845 million profits ...

Lindsey Graham: ‘Trump can be a handful’

2019 Predictions

- Trump is impeached ... not convicted n Senate ...  but McConnell votes guilty

- China will not cave in trade war ... 25% tariffs happen  ... Apple and Nike declare bankruptcy

- US to pull out of Afghanistan, entire Pentagon resigns

- "Hard" Brexit ... Theresa May becomes Angela Merkel's sex slave

- Russia puts missiles in Venezuela which then sells them to North Korea

- Paul Ryan leaves his family, returns to DC as very high priced lobbyist

- Michelle O announces she is transgender and will run in 2020

- Trump reveals that his presidency is just a Reality TV gig

- Facebook transitions into a porn website, Zuckerberg and Sandberg star

- Mueller indicts Jared Kushner for eating bacon

- John Roberts becomes swing vote on Supreme Court ... somehow upholds ACA without the Individual Mandate

Boing!

Ilya Shapiro has penned an interesting, if somewhat strained article in The Federalist pinning the rise of Donald Trump on the deciding Obamacare decisions by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. (Tip of the hat to my wife for this reference.) Yes, there is some logic behind this supposition, but it seems to this observer that it was Obummer himself who was the primary culprit behind Obamacare. Justice John Roberts was but a secondary audience member in this sad legislative kabuki play.

So Trump's candidacy is a rebound reaction to Obummer's fumbled attempt to remake our health care system (among many other snotty actions) in the same way that Obummer's election was a rebound reaction to George W. Bush's war in Iraq ... and Bush '43's election  was a rebound reaction to President "Slick Willie" Clinton's slimy personal behavior. This has become a predictable presidential precedent ... like the bumptious bouncing of these two previous presidential jack-in-the-boxes.

Boing!

Political Loyalty

The untimely passing of Antonin Scalia has got me to thinking about political loyalty ... primarily because this is a key element in the picking of Supreme Court justices. There seems to be a very strange divergence between liberals and conservatives insofar as their loyalty to their party's causes. Has there ever been a lefty Supreme Court justice who has suddenly ruled for the right in an important case? Whereas the opposite has frequently happened ... most recently David Souter, Earl Warren, William Brennan and some would even include John Roberts.

This can't be accidental ... only because it so consistent a divergence. The question then is why do these turncoats (from the right to the left) so often happen? It must be peer pressure. Our social scene and media bias is consistently left-leaning ... and, one must assume that turncoat justices feel and then fail to resist this force.

There is one other, less-likely possibility ... perhaps conservatives are more suseptible to blackmail than liberals?