Jun 20, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where some in a House hearing boo a fellow Democrat who dares oppose reparations for slavery. Joshua Nelson has the story. Trump pulls the plug on Obama’s “clean power” regime, Fred Lucas reports. Sen. Mike Lee proposes to rein in bureaucrats, Carmel Kookogey reports. On the podcast, a high school girl tells why she won’t roll over for transgender athletes. Plus: Adam Michel on a swampy tax bill, Lindsey Burke on saving school choice for poor D.C. kids, and Michelle Malkin on comeuppance for her alma mater.
High School Track Star Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Explains Why She’s Fighting Back
“I'm having kids from other schools in other states at track meets coming up to me and thanking me,” says Selina Soule.
Young Democrat Booed for Opposing Slavery Reparations at House Hearing
Coleman Hughes, 23, testifies that reparations would further divide the country and make him and other descendants of slaves “victims without their consent.”
Trump EPA Replaces Obama’s Anti-Coal Clean Power Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency announces a new rule to grant more flexibility for states in regulating coal-fired power plants, replacing an Obama-era regulation halted by the Supreme Court.
With Crony Tax Bill, Democrats Are Doing Their Level Best to Revive the Swamp
Congressional Democrats take the lead to renew a list of long-dead tax subsidies at the behest of powerful corporate lobbyists.
Mike Lee’s New Bill Would Enforce ‘No Regulation Without Representation’
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, says that regulatory rules written and enforced by unelected administrators violate Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution.
Regulatory Red Tape Risks Strangling DC Opportunity Scholarship Program
Each time the program is reauthorized, new regulations are added requiring participating private schools to conform more and more to the public school system.
I’m an Oberlin Graduate. They Had It Coming.
For decades, grievance-mongering Oberlin elites have bullied and defamed innocent white people without consequences in their multicultural Ohio enclave.
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Impeach Trump
by Mel Gurtov
530 words
A year ago I referred to Donald Trump’s cozy relationship with Russia and the possibility that he has been compromised by his financial and commercial ties to Moscow. As a matter of fact, at that time some well-informed people did call it treason. He’s acting like “a Russian mole,” wrote conservative columnist Max Boot. “America is under attack and its president absolutely refuses to defend it. Simply put, Trump is a traitor and may well be treasonous,” argued New York Times op-ed writer Charles M. Blow. The former CIA director, John Brennan, tweeted that “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” And John McLaughlin, former acting director of the CIA, called Trump an “agent of influence” for Russia in an interview with MSNBC.
But Trump survived these charges, and many others that, over the course of his campaign and presidency, many of us thought would prove his undoing: the Hollywood video on groping women, the racist comments on Mexican-Americans and Muslims, the payoffs to cover up affairs, the unwillingness to outright condemn neo-Nazis, the invitation to the Russians to get Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 emails, the mass incarcerations of migrants, the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, and the constant deference to Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian leaders. Still Trump stands, damaged but capable of inflicting great damage and even getting reelected.
But Trump is a man who never stops giving—giving, that is, evidence of treasonous and other impeachable behavior. In an interviewwith George Stephanopoulos last week, Trump added to the list with two spectacular comments. First, he said that of course he would accept damaging information on an election opponent from a foreign country. “I think I’d want to hear it,” said Trump; after all, he had gratefully accepted information from the Russians before and was “exonerated." Second, Trump maintained that Article II of the Constitution, which describes the powers of the president, “allows me to do whatever I want.” If he had wanted to fire Robert Mueller, Trump said, “Article II would have allowed me to fire him." Tsk, tsk, a few Republicans murmured—and that was that.
So American democracy has come down to this: We have a president who is convinced he can, with impunity, undermine other institutions of government, use powers the Constitution does not grant, engage in criminal acts and flagrant corruption that would put any ordinary person in jail, and assert the right to bypass the law in order to obtain information from a foreign power to promote his election. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, this man will not do to ensure his hold on power, including going to war.
An autocrat rules America, and the only responsible recourse of Congress is to impeach the autocrat. Donald Trump stands opposed to everything that is noble about America; he has betrayed the nation. He is in fact the principal threat to real national security, just as previous top officials in charge of national security have been telling us. Keep investigating him, of course; but start drawing up articles of impeachment now.
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Mel Gurtov, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University.
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Press Release
USDA Announces Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today it is offering $75 million in funding for the eradication and control of feral swine through the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program (FSCP) in a joint effort between USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The 2018 Farm Bill included this new pilot program to help address the threat that feral swine pose to agriculture, ecosystems and human and animal health.
NRCS will direct up to $33.75 million of the allocated FSCP funds toward partnership efforts to work with landowners in identified pilot projects in targeted areas. Applications are being accepted through Aug. 19, 2019, for partners to carry out activities as part of these pilot projects in select areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. APHIS has determined that these states have among the highest feral swine population densities and associated damages in the country.
“NRCS state conservationists and APHIS state directors, in coordination with state technical committees, have identified pilot projects that can be carried out within these target states,” NRCS Chief Matthew Lohr said. “Our agencies stand ready to work with partners at the state and local level to respond to the threat of feral swine.”
Pilot projects will consist broadly of three coordinated components: 1) feral swine removal by APHIS; 2) restoration efforts supported by NRCS; and 3) assistance to producers for feral swine control provided through partnership agreements with non-federal partners. Projects can be one to three years in duration.
“The projects selected for funding will allow APHIS and NRCS to collectively reduce the damage and disease caused by one of the most destructive and formidable invasive species in the United States,” said APHIS Administrator Kevin Shea. “Overall, this pilot program builds upon and expands work already underway by APHIS’ National Feral Swine Damage Management Program to both manage feral swine and eliminate populations in partnership with local government, the private sector, industry and academia.”
NRCS is now accepting proposals from non-federal partners to provide landowner assistance for on-farm trapping and related services as part of the pilot projects described above. NRCS will provide funding for these services through partnership agreements. The funding limit for a single award is $1.5 million. Awardees will be required to provide at least 25 percent of the partnership agreement budget as a match to NRCS funding.
Additional information on the complete funding announcement and about specific pilot projects, including target areas and the roles for which partner assistance is being requested, can be found on the FSCP webpage.
Applications must be submitted through Grants.gov by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 19, 2019.
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