Nicholas J. Higgins
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@NickJHiggins
Husband, Father, Assoc. Prof. of Poli Sci @NGreenvilleUniv Irenic OPC member. Seeking to share what little knowledge I have in good faith.
Exclusive: President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments. on.wsj.com/4dBsSes
BREAKING WSJ: Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments. "I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting. wsj.com/politics/polic…
Credentialism by the way contributes greatly to the feminized character of modern society, its narrowness and lack of dynamism. Want to become a swimming instructor? Sorry sweetie: you need to attend (and pay for) months of licensing classes. Guilds strangle independence...
Generation Z is increasingly giving up on once-standard financial goals, especially home ownership, traditional saving patterns, and linear career models, and instead embracing immediate spending, riskier financial behavior, and lifestyle-first decisions, per FORTUNE
Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII. In exchange for more war he wants to: -Cut the EPA budget by half -Cut $10.7 billion for housing -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy -Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health -Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide on the question of birthright citizenship. But I know this, if the courts continue to enforce practices that increase chaos, destruction, and division within the United States, like allowing 1.5 million Chinese nationals to vote because they happened to be born in an American hospital, people will very soon stop respecting the courts. And then things will really get dangerous.
Judicial review is bad and should not exist. The Supreme Court made it up and it mostly lets them act as super legislators. Schoolhouse rock lied to you.
The way to solve the panic over birthright citizenship is just to assure the public that border and immigration controls are strict enough that tourists aren’t giving birth here and people who come in illegally are deported quickly.
