The Morning Report – Tuesday July 12, 2022

The incomparable J.J. Sefton is working on his cross-country move (I think today is just about when he realizes he needs a lot more boxes, but he also realizes there is no place to put any more boxes) so with me pinch-hitting you get another opportunity to appreciate just how amazing his morning link-foo is.

I wanted to post a link to an update on the Supreme Court leaker, but I can’t find one - that story seems to have died. Here is what I am starting to think, and it may sound a little tinfoil-hat-ish, but nothing would surprise me about the corruption of our government. I believe that all the Supreme Court justices know exactly who the leaker is, but they have been instructed to remain silent during “the investigation.” If the name of the leaker is leaked, that would suddenly be the scandal that interests the media, because a (presumably conservative) justice or his staff had “interfered with an investigation.” If the leak of the leaker’s name were tied to a conservative justice, there would be howls for impeachment, because our “our democracy is at stake.”

On to some links:

Governor Greg Abbot’s awful stewardship of Texas energy is starting to approach dereliction of duty.

Millions Of Texans Could Lose Power In Rolling Blackouts Amid Record Heat [Forbes – 7/11/2022]

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas asked residents and businesses to voluntarily turn up the thermostat and conserve energy from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday to help preserve the power grid. ERCOT said no system-wide outages are expected, but did warn of potential rolling blackouts for its more than 26 million customers.

I know it’s a coincidence, but I am going to pretend that the great Victor Davis Hanson (who is known to occasionally lurk here at Ace of Spades) might have been inspired to write the piece linked below after reading my piece, Is Europe Heading Toward A ‘Versailles 1789’ Moment? which was posted here at AOS on July 8.

Our New Antoinettes [American Greatness – 7/10/2022]

Marie Antoinette, the beheaded wife of the beheaded French Bourbon King Charles Louis XVI, did not really say “Let them cake.” But in the short time that the French Revolution became utterly unhinged, toxic, and nihilistic, she became nonetheless iconic as an out-of-touch elite who had lived in a make-believe world at Versailles, without a clue (or care?) about the ordeal of the masses.

This story is a couple weeks old, but with California’s ban on travel to “anti-LGBT states” in the news, I’m wondering if California restricts travel to Japan.

Japan court says ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional [NPR – 6/20/2022]

A Japanese court ruled Monday that the country's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the constitution, and rejected demands for compensation by three couples who said their right to free union and equality has been violated.

It’s safe to say that no polite Republican would ever dare to impeach a Democrat Attorney General, just because he refused to enforce the law against terrorists trying to murder a conservative Supreme Court Justice.

A.G. Merrick Garland May Face Impeachment over Abortion Protests at Justices’ Homes Should GOP Take House

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland could face impeachment proceedings over the Department of Justice’s failure to enforce a federal statute that prevents picketing or parading outside of Supreme Court Justices’ homes, should Republicans take the majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.

Our Navy seems a little distracted. Perhaps we should spend more time teaching the sailors how to keep planes from falling off carriers, and less time training them on the pain inflicted by misgendering.

Super Hornet jet blown off carrier Harry S. Truman during rough weather

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 07:15 AM

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