News of the Week (April 23rd, 2023)

Posted on April 23, 2023 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for April 23rd, 2023


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Right To Work In North Carolina

Posted on April 20, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Michigan reversed it’s Right to Work law recently. But North Carolina is poised to reverse this on a Constitutional level with H614.

Article I of the North Carolina Constitution is amended by adding a new section to read:

“Sec. 39. Right to work.

(1) The right to live includes the right to work. The exercise of the right to work must be protected and maintained free from undue restraints and coercion. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of North Carolina that the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership, or payment or non-payment, in a labor organization.

(2) No person shall be required by an employer to become or remain a member of a labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment with the employer.

(3) No person shall be required by an employer to abstain or refrain from membership in any labor organization as a condition of employment or continued employment.

(4) No employer shall require any person, as a condition of employment or continued employment, to pay to a labor organization any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind.

(5) This section does not apply to any lawful contract in force on the effective date but shall apply in all respects to contracts entered into thereafter and to any renewal or extension of any existing contract.

(6) The term “labor organization” as used in this section means any trade union, labor union, or other labor association.”

     As much as we can celebrate the expansion of the Right to Work, we must be vigilant against its contraction.

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Transgender “Gotcha” Question Long Since Answered

Posted on April 19, 2023 by The Political Hat

Death, Rx

     Matt Walsh, who has recently made the documentary “What is a Woman”, tried to ask a “gotcha” question, specifically how a transgender EMT would respond to a patient with a patient who claims he’s having a miscarriage.

     Sadly, this isn’t a “gotcha” question because the answer in many places is that they’d treat a transgener individual as the gender they identify with and tests/treatments associated with their identified gender.

“The NHS seems to think that someone without a cervix ought to be invited for a cervical exam while someone with a cervix ought not to be invited to have one, because not doing this would hurt a “trans person’s” human rights by not pretending that a female who calls herself a male is still a female or that a male who calls himself a female is still a male.”

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Electric Equity: …To Each According To Their Electricity Consumption

Posted on April 18, 2023 by The Political Hat

     California is implementing the Marxist idea of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”… when it comes to electricity. Specifically poor people will have their electricity subsidized directly from middle and upper class electricity users.

“Customers for California’s three major power companies — including PG&E ratepayers — can expect to see some big changes in their monthly electricity bills in the coming years as compliance with a new state law begins to unfold.

“PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, the three major California utilities whose services include electricity, have filed a joint proposal with the state Public Utilities Commission that sketches out proposed changes in monthly bills.

“At present, those bills are primarily based on how much electricity and gas customers consume.

“A new proposal would add a fixed monthly charge that would be based on the household income levels of the respective customers.

“The tradeoff: The three utilities are proposing a reduction of 33% in electricity rates, which means it’s possible that segment of the bill could be less expensive.”

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News of the Week (April 16th, 2023)

Posted on April 16, 2023 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for April 16th, 2023


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Quick Takes – Green Authoritarianism: Planetary “Right To Health”; Killing Diesel In California; The Nevada “Green Amendment”

Posted on April 13, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Watermelons—Green on the outside; red on the inside

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     According to some so-called ethicists you have the same rights as a rock.

“However, according to Hong Kong–based bioethicist and law professor Eric C. Ip, such rights do not go nearly far enough. He wants rights granted to nature, which would thereby reject human exceptionalism. From the piece, ‘From the Right to a Healthy Planet to the Planetary Right to Health,’ …

“‘Some interpretations of the right to a healthy planet could still be problematic. The planet’s ecosystems consist of communities of life forms, of which humanity is but one member, that interact with each other and their landscapes.

“‘The Rio Declaration’s reference to the positioning of humans ‘at the centre of concerns for sustainable development’ could no longer be defended. It is impossible to protect the well-being of the planet if humans persist in pursuing endless, albeit narrowly defined, growth with an aura of species superiority.’

I”n other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Lest you think I jest, at least six rivers and two glaciers have already been granted ‘rights’ as this antihuman movement spreads.”

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Designated Oppression

Posted on April 11, 2023 by The Political Hat

     One of the key critical features of Leftist thinking involves seeing the world almost exclusively through the lens of oppressors oppressing the oppressed. It is an axiomatic truth for them that “systems of oppression” exist and so predominate that individual actions and even intent is irrelevant for agency and choice are morally or dialectic ally impossible. Thus someone of an “oppressor” class is always the oppressor who benefits from “unearned privilege” even if they are a straight White homeless guy overdosing on heroin, while someone of an “oppressed class” is always the oppressed who has not privilege to check, even if they are a transgender Black millionaire who moves in influential social circles.

     We are now seeing this happen in real life with how the Gramscian trodden media and other institutions reacted to the school shooting of a Christian school that killed six people including three little kids that was perpetrated by a “trans-man”… specifically how they sounded the danger, not to Christian children, but to transgender individuals.

     An elementary schooler who happens to be Christian and thus an evil H8r and oppressor (and also likely White, to boot), is and must always be considered an oppressor, and thus could never, ever be a victim. A transgender murder of children, however, is oppressed and any violence is simply “justice” against the oppressors as a noble oppressed victim of the systems of oppression could never be the villain.

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Education In England: Stripping Naked In Front Of Kids

Posted on April 10, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Once upon a time, a person showing a kid their genitalia was a crime and the perpetrator considered a pervert. These days, in England at least, it is now a publicly broadcast educational show for kids!

“Brits have been left furious after a TV programme showed naked adult bodies to a group of children.

“…

“Many viewers were shocked to see a group of adults strip naked in front of children aged 14 to 16.”

Pictured: An educator in England ready to “proctor” the students.

     Yeah, they even admit they are doing it to be transgressive:

“Presenter Anna Richardson, 52, who also fronts Channel 4’s Naked Attraction dating show said the show was ‘educational, emotional [and] joyous’.

“…

“’I like to make shows that are controversial, that break taboos and that make a difference, and with every single show that I’ve done you can tick one of those boxes.’”

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News of the Week (April 9th, 2023)

Posted on April 9, 2023 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for April 9th, 2023


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Firing Line Friday: Was It Worth It?

Posted on April 7, 2023 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With the United States re-starting manned missions to the moon, some may ask “what is worth it?” just as it was asked half a century ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. and astronaut Alan B. Shepard.

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