Leckband Cornhusker State Blog

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

UFOs

"Obama says UFO sightings appear real." Drudge, 5/18

"Navy fighters shoot down hostile UFO after it refuses to give its pronouns." Babylon Bee

"Much like the sudden shift on the conventional wisdom around the lab leak, the conventional wisdom about UFOs — not necessarily space aliens, but the existence of flying objects that authorities cannot identify — is shifting rapidly; it’s like you can feel the ground moving beneath your feet. 60 Minutes did a lengthy and credulous report, featuring declassified videos of objects that don’t look like any conventional aircraft, and interviews with former Pentagon officials and retired Navy pilots who seemed convinced. No less a figure than former president Barack Obama is weighing in, indicating that he, as president, was kept in the loop about what U.S. military pilots were seeing the skies and unable to identify." Jim Geraghty, National Review Online, 5/19

COVID

"Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled a lottery system WED to entice people to get COVID-19 shots, offering a weekly $1 million prize & full-ride college scholarships in a creative bid to overcome the vaccine hesitancy that remains a stubborn problem across the nation." Norfolk Daily News, 5/13

ROE V. WADE

"The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Mississippi’s appeal in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to decide the fate of the state’s Gestational Age Act. That law, passed in 2018 and held in limbo ever since by the courts, bans abortions after 15 weeks except “in a medical emergency or in case of a severe fetal abnormality.” Nothing in the text or history of the Constitution bars such laws, and the Court should say so.

"Better still, it should put an end to the long charade of judge-invented abortion law. The Court should say that Roe v. Wade never had any legitimate basis in our Constitution, and return the issue to the people’s representatives. It should do so precisely because this issue is too important not to be decided by the people." The Editors, National Review Online 5/18

"Now Mississippi has said you cannot kill an unborn child after 15 weeks of gestation. Will Roberts and Kavanaugh say they have to stand by the wrongly decided Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey -- because they are precedents? Or will they stand on principle -- and the Constitution itself -- and let Mississippi and other states protect the right to life of the innocent unborn?" Terry Jeffrey, Townhall, 5/19

SCIENCE & DEMOCRATS

"Every time I hear Democrats sermonize about following "the science," I feel as though I'm listening to members of the Flat Earth Society. Science is what the left wants to believe to be true. It has become a way to shut off debate, not advance it. Remember: These were the fools who told us to shut down our schools for a year." Stephen Moore, Townhall 5/18