LEAVWORLD: GRAFFITI POLITTI

   It's very hard not to side with Pres. Trump right now. For the life of me, I know that he is a blowhard jackass, who very well may have violated every check and balance that our Constitution places on a president. In that, he's not alone. I can cite multiple times that his predeccessors did the same. Pres. Obama was struck down by the SCOTUS 9-0 on at least one of his illegal policies, and we all know that GW Bush, "Slick" Bill Clinton, and even Pres. Reagan violated laws, and the Constitution, at various times. Sometimes they were thwarted, and other times they got away with it.   You see, what the founders of our nation set up was a system of "checks and balances," that kept any one branch from getting too much power. In the nations younger days, presidents ignored SCOTUS rulings , with Pres. Jackson saying that Chief Justice Marshall "has made his decision, now let him come enforce it." Today's politics are very different, but one thing r

      Harvard University, and a broad range of other academic institutions, ranging from private colleges to public high schools, are discriminating against Asian Americans, on the basis of racial preference for African Americans and Latin Americans who do not score as high on standardized tests. The premise for this discrimination is that African and Latino Americans have faced "historical discrimination." That may well be true, but it also applies to Asian Americans, who are still being discriminated against.     There are so many levels to address this on, the first being how Harvard, and other Ivy League universities discriminated against Jews, decades ago. They used a version of "social scoring" to say that these students did not meet the qualifications to be admitted. Guess what? That's exactly what they are doing to Asian American students today.    What is further aggravating is that if they are bending the standards to make up for past discrimination ag

   I just watched a montage of left wing network hosts saying "it was not a raid" on Pres. Trump's Mar a Lago home, on the Gutfeld show. That means it was a raid, which was obvious. The thing that amazes me is that why anyone feels outrage now. Sure, this was unprecedented, but so was everything that happened to the 45th president of the United States, from before he won the election. Many people frame his presidency in terms of him breaking norms, but I don't see it that way. He was a non-politician, who saw through the DC media game, and played it into being elected president. What happened to him, after that, broke all norms.   When AG Barr said that the DOJ had spied on the Trump campaign, the media treated it with derision. FBI attorney Kevin Klinesmith was found guilty of altering a FISA affadavit to say that Carter Paige was NOT an FBI informant, when he WAS. Mr. Klinesmith received a "slap on the wrist," as well as the sympathy of the judge. The pena

      There is so much going on during the traditionally "slow" Summer months, when nobody's paying attention to politics, I had to make this a multiple topics post. I definitely can't cover everything, but I hope to highlight a few important stories. Where I can, I will try to combine related stories into one narrative.    The "Inflation Reduction Act" is the biggest news out of Congress this week, and it comes on the heels of the huge semiconductor bill that has passed both the House and Senate, and is supposed to be signed by Pres. Biden next week. Sen. Joe Manchin announced that he found a compromise with Sen. Majority Leader Schumer on this new bill, which some are calling a light, rebranded version of "Build Back Better," which Sen. Manchin, and Sen. Sinema famously killed. Sen. Manchin's support hinges on a separate bill, which is supposed to remove the hurdles for a pipeline in his home state of West Virginia. However, it looks as if th