New favorite adjective of the Left

Feckless.

Stare decisis and Obergefell

Countless times in the coming weeks, we are going to hear our Democratic colleagues appeal to stare decisis, the legal principle that the Supreme Court should not overturn existing precedents, but should instead "stand by its previous decisions." Trump's Supreme Court nominee must be resisted, our liberal and Democratic brothers and sisters will tell us, because s/he may violate the principle of stare decisis by joining other members of the Court in voting to overturn previous decisions like Roe v. Wade, which invented a right to abortion in the Constitution, or Obergefell v. Hodges, which invented a right to gay marriage in the Constitution. These decisions, we will be told, are "established precedent" and "settled law," fixed guideposts in our legal system that simply must not be disturbed.

If our liberal, Democratic friends had been truly devoted to the principle of abiding by established tradition and precedent, perhaps they should never have sought to overturn a societal, cultural, religious, and legal precedent that had existed for millennia across the entire face of the earth, namely, the precedent that marriage is to be defined as an institution between a man and a woman.

If such hoary and universal precedents, which have stood the test of time, persisting unquestioned for thousands of years, can be cavalierly tossed aside in a spasm of abstract moral reasoning by the Left in their endless march forward into the Brave New World, then, surely there is nothing sacred about a two-year old opinion like Obergefell and it can be overturned, too.

As Democrats become more extreme, Trump's approval ratings tick up

I'm curious:

Democrats do not want illegally immigrating children separated from their illegally immigrating parents at the border. The Flores settlement requires that illegally immigrating children be released into the United States after 20 days. Does this mean that Democrats want the illegally immigrating parents to be released along with them? If so, doesn't this effectively make the border open for any illegally immigrating adult who crosses the border with a child? Are open borders what Democrats want?

Maxine Waters has encouraged people to hound and harass any member of the Trump administration that they find in a public place. Does Ms. Waters believe that opponents of the Republican administration ought to enter baseball fields with guns and shoot Congressmen playing in charity softball games?

Of course, neither the position that America should have open borders nor the position that Congressmen should be shot would be popular with a majority of the American voting public. But, one wonders exactly where Democratic sentiment falls short of these positions.

As Democrats adopt more and more extreme positions, Trump's approval ratings simply tick up.

Separating children from law-breaking illegal aliens

Below is a copy of a letter I sent to all my senators and congressman. I encourage everyone to express their thoughts on this matter.

Dear Representative,

I agree with President Trump that adult immigrants illegally entering the United States with children should be incarcerated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that the children traveling with these law-breaking adults should be separated from them, retained in HHS custody for the 20 days mandated by the Flores decree, and then entrusted by the HHS to the care of a sponsor. Otherwise, every adult immigrant who wants to enter the United States illegally has an incentive to cross the border with a child so that they both can be released together into the United States after the 20-day Flores holding period.

Furthermore, I think that comparisons between President Trump and Nazis, such as are being made by various Democratic politicians, are completely inappropriate. The separation of a child from a parent who is a law-breaking illegal immigrant is no different from the separation of a child from any other parent breaking the law in any other way, for example, by robbing a bank, so that, in my humble opinion, President Trump, the Justice Department, and the HHS are separating children from law-breakers in precisely the manner they should. Comparisons of President Trump to Hitler, on the other hand, strike me as hateful attempts by Democratic politicians to arouse hysteria among American citizens for crass political purposes. These hateful comparisons are ginning up a level of stasis, faction, and incivility in the American political environment that may never have been seen before in the history of the United States. As your constituent, I ask that you please refrain from making these false comparisons and instead support the President in his efforts to staunch the flood of illegal immigrants into our country.

New predictor for Trump's approval rating

The chattering classes do not seem to realize that there is a large group of voters for whom the use of language like "Fuck Trump!" or "Feckless cunt!" is simply unacceptable. Every time someone uses a phrase like this, Trump's approval rating ticks up.

Liberal prejudice against Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans finally being called out

Since 2011, I have expressed concerns about the attitudes of some liberal Americans towards Asian-American and Indian-American immigrants to the United States. Among the topics I have discussed are:

1. the prejudice harbored by many Democrats, liberals, and progressives against Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans;
2. Democratic support for affirmative action quotas in our schools, universities, and places of work that advantage blacks and Hispanics while disadvantaging Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans;
3. given items 1 and 2 above, the possibility that the Republican Party may be the more natural home for Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans than the Democratic Party.

Two events in the news lately have made it all too clear that my concerns were well-founded:

• New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio's introduction of racial quotas into New York's elite public schools to boost the enrollment of blacks and Hispanics while suppressing the enrollment of Asians and whites
• the lawsuit brought against Harvard’s admissions policy, charging that it seeks to limit the number of Asian students.

In this post, I have decided simply to provide interested readers with a list of the links to my relevant blog posts in roughly chronological order so they can read the posts for themselves to see how I have expressed concern about these issues for many years now. Don't say I didn't tell you so! Here they are:

• To CNN, "Asian diversity" isn't real diversity
• Court Asian and Eastern European immigrants, not Latinos
• I have to wonder about Rebecca Solnit (see towards end of post; San Francisco liberal sees influx of Asian and Indian hi-tech workers into San Francisco not as a blessing, but as a blight)
• Opposition to affirmative action shows, once again, that Chinese and Indians are natural constituents of the Republican Party
• Jesse has landed (How Jesse Jackson attempted to strong arm Silicon Valley high-tech companies into establishing racial quotas that advantage blacks and Hispanics while disadvantaging Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans)
• John Ying: Asian American core values align with GOP (Prominent international investment banker encourages Republican Party to reach out to Asian-Americans)
• Techno-coolies or brilliant competitors (Joel Kotkin expressing ugly stereotypes about Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans)
• Silicon Valley must say no to Democrats who pushed for SCA-5 and are now pushing for racial quotas in high-tech companies (Democrats' support for racial quotas in California universities and Silicon Valley high-tech companies; California constitutional amendment SCA-5 was predecessor to DeBlasio's quotas for New York elite public schools)
• Open letter to my friend Victor Hanson (Letter to my friend Victor Hanson about real racial diversity in Silicon Valley)
• Once again, naked discrimination by liberals against Asians and Indians (The early stages of DeBlasio's efforts to institute racial quotas in New York elite public schools)
• Prominent Hindu Indian-American declares support for Republican Party
• It is liberals, not conservatives, who use Asian Americans as "tools"

It is gratifying to me to see Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans stand up against the prejudice that Democrats, liberals, and progressives harbor against Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans and against racial quotas that disadvantage them unfairly.

Dwight Clark RIP

Dwight Clark passed away today at 61 from ALS.

Dwight was a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers when, in the 1981 NFC Championship Game, he made "The Catch," the football play that defeated the Dallas Cowboys and put the 49ers into their first Super Bowl. You can watch the final Niner drive starting at 2:00:00 here.

It is pure football ballet: undersized, but agile guards John Ayers and Randy Cross (typical products of O-line coach Bobb McKittrick) lead the journeyman running back Lenvil Elliott (the antithesis of the Cowboys' star Tony Dorsett) through traps up the middle and on devastating sweeps to the left and right; Joe Montana hits receivers Freddie Solomon and Earl Cooper with passes downfield and threads the needle to Dwight on the sideline, who toe-taps to stay in bounds; Freddie dashes around the end on the reverse; Bill Walsh calmly orchestrates the whole drive on one side of the field as Tom Landry in his trademark fedora, his team totally discombobulated by the variety, flow, rhythm, and force of the 49er offensive attack, stalks back and forth on the other, not realizing that the Cowboy dynasty (the first one, at any rate) is over; the lyrical Vin Scully (along with the meathead Hank Stram) calls the whole drive.

And then, finally, Montana rolls to his right, back-pedals and double clutches to avoid the unimaginably tall Ed "Too-Tall" Jones leaping right in front of him, and releases a dying quail into the twilight; for what seems like an eternity, the football flutters through the air, looking like it is going to fall, futilely, as so often before, out of the back of the end-zone; but suddenly, as if out of nowhere, Dwight Clark launches himself to a height never achieved before or since in 49er football lore and, with the very tips of his fingers, plucks the ball from the air. The Catch!

Listen to the roar that goes up from the old school, blue-collar, Candlestick Park fans (who drove Chevies to the game instead of Teslas) when Clark comes down with the ball. It is the sound of decades of futility against the Cowboys being washed away from the Bay Area in a single play. It was the football equivalent of the Giants and Warriors finally breaking through after decades of baseball and basketball mediocrity.

(Be sure to watch Dallas' last drive afterward; if not for Eric Wright's horse collar of Drew Pearson and Lawrence Pillar's sack and Jim Stuckey's fumble recovery, San Francisco football history might have been very different.)

Dwight, you lifted us all up that day. The memory of you is undying. RIP.