Today’s featured image is of Chautauqua lake.
It didn’t take long for Joe to call a lid on press coverage. All of four days. It shouldn’t be surprising, he called a lid 5 out of 7 days each week for the last two months of his campaign.
The Chinese are testing their investment in Hunter Biden already. The PLAAF sent two separate flights of fighters and bombers into Taiwanese air space yesterday and today. Todays flight consisted of six J-10 fighters, four J-16s, two SU-30s, a Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft and two Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft.
The Biden administration issued a statement denouncing the flights.
“We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected representatives,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
“We will continue to assist Taiwan in maintaining a sufficient self-defence capability.”
Except I don’t believe that for a second. The NatSec/Diplomatic team surrounding Biden wants nothing to do with holding any country to account for their actions, never mind the Chinese. Oh well, I’m too old to be island hopping. . . .
Stu Crvk over at RedState has been covering the saga of a midshipman at the Naval Academy. Midshipman First Class Chase Standage tweeted some things the brass hats at Annapolis to exception to. So they decided to stick it to the Midshipman. The issues as I see them are that Standage was using an anonymous twitter account, one that did not identify him or his status as a midshipman in any way; the command staff failed to follow proper procedure and went outside of the normal route of punishment, the UCMJ, and decided to adminstratively punish Standage by expelling him and requiring he reimburse the government for the costs of his education; the authorities at Annapolis did not, and still do not, have an objective, even handed, concrete social media policy in place. The decision that the tweets in question rose to conduct unbecoming a midshipman,” an offense under Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice was made by a single officer, and was not reviewed due to the fact that the reviewing officer had to recuse himself. Anyway, go give Stu’s coverage a read. He does a much better job than I can.
The Lawfare has started already. Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed suit against Sleepy Joe’s immigration executive orders. A freeze on deportations was one of the first EOs Joe signed. According to Paxton, the freeze violates the Constitution and is a violation of federal immigration and administrative law as well as an agreement between the State of Texas and the Department of Homeland Security.
“In one of its first of dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law. Our state defends the largest section of the southern border in the nation. Failure to properly enforce the law will directly and immediately endanger our citizens and law enforcement personnel,” said Attorney General Paxton. “DHS itself has previously acknowledged that such a freeze on deportations will cause concrete injuries to Texas. I am confident that these unlawful and perilous actions cannot stand. The rule of law and security of our citizens must prevail.”
I knew it was only a matter of time, but this came quicker than I would have guessed.
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