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Evening folks! It's March 14th. March 14th is a fantastic day in history!

They've Been After This For Years

The Biden Administration May Have Delivered the Coup de Grâce to the 'Gig Economy'

The unions hate independent contractors because they can't strongarm them to join a union. And the left hates independent contractors because they can't be controlled like companies and corporations.
With so many big guns targeting independent contractors, the Biden administration had no trouble finding ways to try to destroy them.
The ostensible reason Biden wants to destroy the gig economy is that the poor gig workers are "exploited" because they don't get health insurance, unemployment, paid holidays, or any of the other goodies regular employees receive. If gig workers could get all those things and maintain their independent contractor status and work flexibility, and all the other benefits of gig work, I'm sure most would jump at the chance.
But the rule change that's going into effect substantially narrows the definition of independent contractor.

The Court Is Not King

What too many Republicans get wrong about the Constitution

As part of a growing movement to push back against federal overreach, Tennessee lawmakers earlier this month introduced SB 2775, the Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act. The bill would empower all state and local government stakeholders to pursue a process barring the enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws within the Volunteer State.

While similar bills empower only the state attorney general or legislature to interpret the Constitution, SB 2775 would leave that power in the hands of the whole people — as it was always meant to be.
Here’s how it would work. The law would permit the governor to issue an executive order declaring a federal policy null and void. Or any member of the legislature could trigger a floor debate and vote to nullify the policy. Or any state court may find the policy unconstitutional if the question arises during a legitimate case or controversy. Or any combination of 10 local governing authorities — either through their respective executives or legislative branches — may submit a petition for nullification that would trigger a vote in the legislature. Or, last but not least, any group of 2,000 registered voters could submit a similar petition triggering an automatic legislative vote on nullification.
In other words, the bill underscores how we are all responsible for safeguarding the Constitution. When everyone understands the federal government frequently oversteps its boundaries, we have an obligation to push back.

Crash Into Me

Passengers Boycott Boeing "Death Traps" With Use Of Kayak Plane Filter

We penned a note on Saturday, recapping last week's surge in aviation incidents across the US. The spike in mishaps appears concentrated on Boeing jets, from a midair engine fire to a tire separating from the landing gear to another landing gear issue. We asked if this was sabotage or just shoddy maintenance. 
Consumers quickly realize, especially after January's midair door plug blowout incident on an Alaska Airlines flight involving a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet, that Boeing planes are flying "death traps." 
In recent weeks, the online travel booking website Kayak has seen a noticeable uptick in users who are filtering out Boeing planes for Airbus when searching for flights, according to ABC News. 

I used to feel better if the plane I was on was a Boeing. Mostly American pride I suppose. Not sure I won't be filtering for Airbus in the future. Can anyone think of a company that, if you'll please forgive the term, crashed and burned from self-made wounds faster than Boeing seems to be doing?

Give Me 4 Years To Teach The Children And The Seed I Have Sown Will Never Be Uprooted

No, Joe, Teachers Don’t Deserve a Raise

After bragging about his defiance of the Supreme Court over student loans, and the need to provide relief, he added, "And while we’re at it, I want to give public school teachers a raise."

Democrats have been pushing for higher pay for teachers forever. It's the least they can do for the teachers' unions that help fund their campaigns and work on the ground for them when elections come around. And that's really what this line was about. Biden was sending a message to public school teachers that if they help get him reelected, they will be rewarded with higher pay.

There's no other logical explanation. He can't argue that teachers deserve a pay raise. He even made the case that they don't deserve higher pay on merit and accidentally pointed out how low our education standards are.

It's depressing to ponder exactly how many of our institutions function primarily as a mechanism to siphon money from the productive class and funnel it to the parasite class.

Horrific

Teen suffers life-changing injury trying to imitate porn

It's really hard to find a pull quote in this article that's not inappropriate for the main page. Y'know, back in my yonderling days, I had a pretty active and varied sex life (I thought so anyway, these days it might be judged “vanilla” ), but I could never even have imagined something like “triple anal”. Apparently that's what kids are seeing and trying to imitate.

White Liberal Women Are Insane

We are not your weapons – we are women

Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.

It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.

Not once did I envision myself becoming a receptacle for a Black man’s rage at the white world, but that is what I became. While I take issue with my brother’s behavior, I’m grateful for the experience.

Haiti is 99.9% black, yet she sees this as the fault of the “white world”. Good thing this was a decade ago, if it happened today her rapist might have enjoyed a nice post-rape snack.

Russell Brand...Evangelist?

It's very weird when I see something from someone that I had considered crazy, or fringe, or politically wrong (Looking at you Fetterman. My apologies) that's spot on. Brand has been right about a surprising number of things lately.

Half Devil And Half Child

The posh man’s burden

The irony is that the liberal-left today, as embodied in the Guardian and the Labour Party, is in thrall to its own saviour complex. Let’s call it an ‘upper-middle-class saviour complex’ or ‘posh saviour complex’. Back in the 1980s, Labour stopped being the voice of the working class and instead started to speak on behalf of the lower orders. Since then, the gentrified left has seen it as its mission to look after, cosset and rescue the great unwashed. In the eyes of the left, the masses are incapable of looking after themselves, of raising themselves by their own graft.

As Neil Davenport wrote on spiked earlier this week, at worst, modern middle-class leftists are hostile to the working class. They love to upbraid those with unfashionable, traditional values and to try to correct their thinking. At best, they perceive the lower orders as did the well-meaning Liberals of the 19th century – through lordly condescension.
Modern leftists patronise the poor, keeping them in a state of vassalage, beggary and penury. They regard state benefits as a long-term right rather than a necessary evil or temporary safeguard. In this sense, today’s conspicuously compassionate are surely little different or little better than those white, male rock stars of yore declaring their devotion to saving Africa.

Exactly the same way American leftists treat blacks.

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