Government doings

Let’s open Thursday with the White House.  The White House announced its office to combat “gun violence” Friday, and besides Kamala “never seen a job I can’t blow” Harris at its head, we have a neutral disinterested expert hired.

But the deputy directors of the new office include Robert Wilcox, who will also serve as special assistant to the president. Wilcox previously worked as the senior director of federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety. There, his salary was underwritten by billionaire anti-gunner Michael Bloomberg. In his new role, however, it will be paid with YOUR federal taxes. Wilcox as an anti-gun lobbyist pushed such radical policies as banning America’s most popular rifle, the AR-15; banning private firearm transfers; holding law-abiding firearm dealers accountable for the acts of criminals; and limiting the capacity of magazines used in self-defense firearms. Wilcox is not just another policy wonk or expert bureaucrat whose job is to serve the public at large. He is an activist dedicated to the destruction of Americans’ Second Amendment rights.  BFA

Bad enough the CDC caved to the anti-2A zealots – now we are PAYING  their shock troops from our taxes.

Out in Californee, meanwhile, Gov. Newsom has been busy. He vetoed a bill requiring a driver in commercial autonomous-driven commercial vehicles (wouldn’t want some human actually DRIVING a Tesla semi – after all, nothing can go wrong (tic) go wrong (tic) go wrong (tic), and is busy guaranteeing LGBTQRSTUV rights. One bill he signed is a low-key doozy.

California Gov. signed a bill Monday to ban school boards from rejecting textbooks based on their teachings about the contributions of people from different racial backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities.

The new legislation bars school boards from banning instructional materials or library books because they provide “ inclusive and diverse perspectives in compliance with state law,” according to a press release from Newsom’s office. AP

An example cited was a board which tried to ban elementary school textbooks from having an added section all about Harvey Milk,.  (Sideline – remember when Milk was killed? Probably not, the Mayor of SanFran (Moscone, I recall?) was shot and Milk was an “also killed in the attack” figure. At the time, he was almost a footnote. You probably remember his assailant’s “twinkie defense” better.) Either way…if you don’t fall in line with the educational Cultural Revolution – bad news for ya.

Sure sounds like an Office of Righthink to me.

Now let’s try some better news for a change. The Department of Justice says it is appealing the recent Bowe Bergdahl decision by Judge Reggie Walton that the trial judge should have disclosed he was seeking Federal Employment after he retired from the military. In doing so, Walton overturned all the trial judge’s decisions, ignoring the fact that Bergdahl had entered a guilty plea.

Bergdahl’s attorneys are arguing that the unlawful command influence issue be reconsidered, because Nance misled him by claiming he was unaffected by any comments by senior officials, including Trump, raising the question as to whether he could have been counted on to rule impartially as a result of his pending job application.

The Justice Department also has asked that if Walton decides to uphold his decision to vacate Bergdahl’s conviction, that he clarify that the case be allowed to be sent back to the military court system for another court-martial.

Bergdahl’s attorneys argued against the request, noting Bergdahl has been a civilian for more than two years, endured 14 years of his legal case and five years of brutality in captivity of the Taliban.

“At the moment, he stands convicted in the court of public opinion, out of the mouth of the President of the United States, as a traitor — the uniquely infamous category that includes Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, and a handful of other turncoats over the course of American history. This is tremendously unfair,” his attorneys wrote in court documents.  Military.com

Details matter. Trump wasn’t President when he said that, Bergdahl pled guilty, and they are conflating the numbers to make Bergdahl’s “ordeal” look longer. Need to make note of that.

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