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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Here's a point about Obama's moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf I hadn't thought of:

"The Gulf drill moratorium was not done so much to assure people of the Gulf Coast, but rather to please the “Progressives” who support Obama. Furthermore, the economic damage from the moratorium is concentrated in states that did not give Obama its electoral votes, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama."

Punishment for states that didn't vote for him. That fit's Obama's profile to a 'T'.

Plankton affects hurricane patterns. You know the frauds are going to twist this against us somehow.

WAR:

Germany to end compulsory military service. Good for the Germans.

MISC:

Free statins with your fast food order? Better to say no to both.

Praise for Codevilla's essay.

"Problem: the Constitution rests on the assumption of the Enlightenment's worldview of Newtonian mechanics. This outlook has been replaced by Darwinism. No one saw this more clearly than Woodrow Wilson. He wrote in The Constitutional Government of the United States (1908),

The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other as checks, and live. On the contrary, its life is dependent upon their quick cooperation, their ready response to the commands of instinct or intelligence, their amicable community of purpose. Government is not a body of blind forces; it is a body of men, with highly differentiated functions, no doubt, in our modern day of specialization, but with a common task and purpose. Their cooperation is indispensable, their warfare fatal. There can be no successful government without leadership or without the intimate, almost instinctive, coordination of the organs of life and action. This is not theory, but fact, and displays its force as fact, whatever theories may be thrown across its track. Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice (pp. 56–57).

That statement is the underlying premise of Progressives everywhere. It is why the Constitution has been undermined, exactly as Codevilla describes."

Wilson is exactly right that government is a living thing, and like all living things, it wants to grow and become more powerful. But he's wrong about the Founder's view of government. They knew perfectly well that was the nature of government. That's why they set up branches of government with checks and balances. But at the same time, they knew from the beginning that the Constitution wouldn't limit government in long run. They knew the branches would end up in collusion that expanded the power of all. They started disobeying the Constitution and claiming unconstitutional power to the government the day the Constitution was ratified. Even Jefferson waged war without a declaration. He purchased the Louisiana Purchase without constitutional authority.

As with everything government tells us, the Scopes trial was not what you've read. Here's the politically incorrect account. I'm not surprised that there was powerful eugenics movement in America, but makes my skin crawl.