Each year tens of thousands of Irish-Americans proudly celebrate their heritage on St Patrick Day, yet few are aware of the fate of the Irish in the St Patrick’s Battalion (el Batallón de San Patricio) who chose to fight under their green flag for Mexico against the aggression of the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48 .
Essentially, SB145 allows a 24-year old to have sex with a 14-year old and escape a felony conviction and the requirement to be a registered sex offender. Critics are concerned about children being groomed for sex abuse and they question whether 14-year old minors have the capacity to consent to sexual activity.
Audrey Denney is running for Congress in the northeast corner of California (CA-01), where the state meets Oregon and Nevada. It's a largely rural district with the most exposure to Climate Change-induced wildfires anywhere in the state. She told me yesterday that the Trumpist incumbent, Doug LaMalfa "does not believe in human induced climate change. He has recently called climate change policies 'radical.' He either has been bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry (as his FEC reports show)-- or he doesn’t have the capacity to wrap his mind around science.
As wildfires rage across the western states of California, Oregon and Washington, the mainstream media have been quick to blame the fires on ‘climate change’, as well as laying blame for wildfires at the feet of President Donald Trump.
IMAGE: California Governor Gavin Newsom, wearing his signature black mask in public, has brushed off warnings that his state is nearing financial collapse due to extreme lockdown policies.
Another non-partisan Patagonia adTrump won support from just 31.6% of Californians, but that still came to 4,483,810 votes-- more than anywhere else but Texas (4,685,047) and Florida (4,617,886). Almost four and a half million Californians voted for him and, disproportionately, they're in parts of the state that are on fire. Also 1,221,747 Washingtonians and 782,403 Oregonians voted for him.
The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is as far right as the typical Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham show. Not the news coverage, the editorial page. Yesterday, the editors asked about a Trump comeback and noted that Biden wants to make the campaign a referendum on Trump.
