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August 16, 2021
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Good morning! 

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Bible Verse of the Day - Romans 12:12
  • In Texas COVID fight, score one for personal freedom
  • Tweet Of The Day
  • Nine Years Later
  • Mean Republicans
  • America The Beautiful
  • Voters Weigh In On Higher Taxes
  • Tropical Storm Fred

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 12:12


In Texas COVID fight, score one for personal freedom

By Mike Huckabee

Last week, the Texas Supreme Court made news when it ruled that the nearly 60 Democrat state legislators who ran away to Washington, DC, to prevent the vote on a Texas election integrity bill could be civilly detained and returned to the Texas House chamber.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-supreme-court-allows-for-arrest-of-democrats-who-dont-show-up-to-legislature

They lifted a district judge’s temporary protection order that had blocked the threat of arrest for those legislators. Not only had they been lying shamelessly about the bill, calling it “the voter suppression bill” and, of course, “Jim Crow” when it is nothing of the kind, but they were staying away from the Capitol so the Republicans wouldn’t have the requisite 51 Democrats for a quorum. The Court made it clear, however, that in evading their responsibility, they were in the wrong. Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said, “We look forward to the Supreme Court upholding the rule of law and stopping another stall tactic by the Texas Democrats.”

The Democrats had said that while they were in DC, they would be busy lobbying for federal election legislation. As we’ve discussed here, the Constitution clearly intends state legislatures to run elections, not the federal government. But since when have Democrats cared what the Constitution intended when that was at odds with what THEY intended?

Anyway, now to the breaking news, which again involves the Texas Supreme Court. On Sunday, they issued another ruling, this time regarding the ongoing power struggle between Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been fighting for personal choice in the response to COVID-19, and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who has taken just the opposite tack with his reimposition of compulsory mask-wearing in schools, government offices and indoor business locations. To cut to the chase, Abbott won this round.

https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-texas-supreme-court-sides-with-gov-abbot-and-says-mask-mandates-illegal-knab/

I’ll walk you through the legal steps that led us here.

On July 29th, Gov. Abbott issued an executive order that “removed local authority over measures to lessen the severity of the pandemic,” effectively prohibiting local mask mandates throughout the state. Importantly, the ban didn’t prohibit anyone, anywhere in Texas, from wearing a mask if they preferred to; they just couldn’t be MADE to. Parents who wanted to mask-up their kids before sending them to school were perfectly free to do so.

Judge Jenkins, set on requiring masks for everyone, declared a “local emergency,” which he argued gave him the power to issue such a dictum. (You’d think everyone would see the problem with one person, a county judge, being able to hand himself the authority to exert that level of control on personal behavior.) He did this on the basis of a reported surge in covid cases and the threat of the new “Delta” variant, which, though apparently more contagious than the original covid, has not been shown to be more virulent.

On Friday, a decision by the 5th Court of Appeals allowed local officials such as Judge Jenkins to require masks in schools and indoor spaces, so Dallas businesses geared up to enforce mask-wearing with their customers, some of whom they knew would be angry about it. But what could they do? For your entertainment pleasure, here’s a portion of a message one exasperated Dallas business owner sent out to his clientele and posted on the door of his building...

“Dearest Clients:

"On Wednesday, August 11th 2021 at 2:11 PM, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued an executive order requiring all commercial businesses to develop and implement a health and safety policy. This policy must require at a minimum universal indoor masking for guests and employees alike. This notice will serve as [our] health and safety policy.

“In accordance with the above executive order, effective the moment we swing open our doors on Thursday, August 12th, all team members and clients will be required to wear a mask while inside the [building]. Don’t give us any sh** when you come in, don’t complain and don’t start trying to enlighten anyone about the risk/reward of wearing masks.

“We don’t care. We’re as sick of wearing and talking about them as you are. However, we have neither the time nor inclination to mount any kind of resistance.”

This message should give you some idea of how divided and on-edge the citizens of Dallas are about this issue. For many months, business owners bent over backwards to comply with lockdowns, “distancing” and mask-wearing. Many Americans lost their businesses, some for good. And after all that, after a year-and-a-half, when people seem to have pretty much come to terms with the risks and were starting to live their lives somewhat normally again, a local judge acts all by himself to slap them down once more.

There’s one big problem, though, with using covid infection rates to declare a state of “local emergency” in Dallas County. Judge Jenkins is also welcoming immigrants who cross illegally at the Texas-Mexico border, many infected with covid and not being tested, let alone vaccinated, before they arrive in Dallas. They are being bused here from the Rio Grande Valley, and Jenkins apparently has no problem with the threat posed to public health by this.

It’s happening because the border city of Laredo, Texas, sued President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security in July in the Laredo Division of the Southern District Court of Texas for making them accommodate thousands of people crossing illegally in the Rio Grande Valley. Their city just wasn’t equipped to do this, they argued. So they reached a settlement with the DHS --- which I assume pleased Laredo but which involved busing the immigrants to Austin, Dallas and Houston instead! Buses reportedly arrive throughout the day now in Dallas, with no word on when this might ever stop.

https://myrgv.com/local-news/immigration/2021/08/10/laredo-dhs-reach-compromise-on-migrant-lawsuit/

If Jenkins wants to argue that rising COVID rates are causing a “local emergency” in Dallas County, doesn’t he also have to do something about the busloads arriving there every day filled with untested, unvaccinated migrants, many of whom are surely infected and highly contagious with the “Delta” variant? Mexico’s infection rates are very high.

https://www.infobae.com/new-resizer/dP_PAg_9vWWCtE7YBXtiwoViURM=/1200x628/filters:format(jpg):quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/KYYQAVEXL5CS7HX4XUQGI5PYXQ.jpeg

And yet the buses keep rolling into Dallas. Austin and Houston, too.

Either we are fighting a pandemic, or we’re not. Either COVID is an emergency, or it’s not. I hope that in making their final ruling in this case, which could take weeks or months, the Texas Supreme Court will think about that.

Tweet Of The Day

By Mike Huckabee

Want Some Salt Rubbed On That? Our Tweet of the Day is from talk show host Austen Petersen, who referenced Biden’s scoffing at gun owners who think they could resist a tyrannical government that has F15s and nukes:

“From the looks of Afghanistan, I guess you don't really need the F15s or nukes to take on the US govt after all.”

https://twitter.com/AP4Liberty/status/1427089164495904768


Nine Years Later

By Mike Huckabee

Sunday marked the ninth anniversary of a deranged leftist launching a shooting attack on the DC offices of the Family Research Council because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) labeled the Christian non-profit as an anti-gay hate group on its so-called “hate map.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/southern-poverty-law-center-christian-group-hate-map-attempted-terrorist-attack

Nine years later, and the SPLC not only still hasn’t removed the group from its hit list, it’s expanded the practice of falsely branding benign conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups.” This is also a source that social media giants use to decide who to ban. I can’t help wondering how quickly Facebook or Twitter would ban any conservative organization that refused to show any contrition whatsoever for inspiring a terrorist to try to kill a lot of innocent people and instead doubled-down.


Mean Republicans 

By Mike Huckabee

The media’s attempts to blame Republicans for the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan aren’t going too well, so they’re falling back on the old “Republicans pounce” meme. That’s where the story isn’t the way the Democrats horribly botched something, but that Republicans are mean for pointing it out. In this case, it’s supposed to be unfair that “Republicans pounced” in comparing the fall of Kabul to the fall of Saigon. Take a look at these photos and tell me if that “pounce” was really much of a leap.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-specifically-promised-kabul-not-turn-fall-saigon-pictures-disasters-look/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=huckabee


America The Beautiful

God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Everglades National Park, visit its website here.


Voters Weigh In On Higher Taxes

By Mike Huckabee

A new Issues & Insights/TIPP survey of suburban voters, one of the key groups responsible for President Biden’s election, found that only 39% of them back Biden’s big spending plans if it means raising taxes. But 61% of urban voters back them. This tells me that urban voters assume suburban voters will pick up the tab for their free stuff while suburban voters are suddenly realizing that the sucker who will get the bill is them.

Overall, only 45% of Americans would back Biden’s spending if it means higher taxes. Which tells me that they assume the other 55% will pay those higher taxes. Of course, the question itself is flawed. The phrase “if it means higher taxes” should read “when it absolutely will result in much higher taxes.”


Tropical Storm Fred

By Mike Huckabee

I hope my friends in the Florida Panhandle will take precautions today with Tropical Storm Fred. Heavy rain and dangerous storm surges are in the forecast, so please keep close tabs on the weather news and keep yourselves and your pets safe.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fred-tropical-storm-warning-florida-heavy-rainfall-dangerous-storm-surge

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  • Jerry

    08/17/2021 10:24 AM

    If any doubts are remaining about the president’s administration competentcy they are on display. This administration has proved with out doubt the is the most Incompetent administration of all time in reference to the safety, overall constitution enforcement this administration is a complete failure as I expected it eould

  • Judy Radley

    08/16/2021 11:26 PM

    Watching the NY Mets and San Francisco Giants baseball game tonight, the commentators show the photo of Alcatraz Island, I got a great thought, why don't they re-open that max security prison and put Pelosi, Biden, Harris, et al in there right now? Or better yet, put the illegals there that are infecting our country with their viruses and let them stay there and have Pelosi and et al be there too to rule over them? Then the rest of America can get back to the good ole days of Trump years.

    Can not anything be done to STOP THE MADNESS AND INSANITY of Biden et al? America cannot survive even another day let alone 3 more years of this BS that the American haters are doing to ruin our Great Country of the United States of America! It seems more and more likely that a rebellion of militia against Biden and anti-American terrorist like him and et al, MUST RISE UP NOW and stop any more damages! I would be for another Civil War, but it would be between American Patriots and anti-American Terrorists! Lock em up to Pelosi, Biden, Harris, Schumer, Soros, Big Tech, CCP, et al! Americans are only going to take so much, and then they rebel Big Time! That time is coming sooner than later, it has already started with the stupid mask up thing, and the racism being taught to our children, parents are starting to push back, and that's what starts to light the fuse.... If parents aren't happy, nobody will be happy! Especially moms and dads that love their children more than politics, which there are a lot more of them than there are politicians who are caring parents! Politics is NOT REAL LIFE, and those who think life is all about politics are terribly wrong and crazy! Cutting off money to the American hating corps. and 'woke' crappies, will stop them fast! I already cancelled my Facebook account and I don't use Goggle for a search engine... I also look to buy non-China stuff, whenever I can... Plus, the best thing I do is pray daily, even hourly to God to have His Will be done NOW, that God's time and Man's time will be the same, NOW!

  • Joseph Orsini

    08/16/2021 06:44 PM

    THANK GOD that the fall of Kabul occurred just before the $ 4+ trillion legislation passed. Now the incompetence of Biden is clear for all to see [even CNN}.

  • Neal Adam

    08/16/2021 06:02 PM

    what are the chances that Biden was so determined to remove the troops from Afghanistan because he wants them available for a greater perceived threat, i.e. conservatives?

  • Sharon Faulkner

    08/16/2021 04:57 PM

    Mike
    Biden saying he's going to send thousands of troops to evacuate Americans and afghan allies stranded in Kabul might not be a good idea.
    He could be simply sending them there to end up as hostages. Another Iranian hostage crisis oh joy...

  • Paul Kern

    08/16/2021 04:48 PM

    What a mess the "progressive" women and soyboys votedm
    We now have to watch as our country is burned down city by city from the high priest/ess ruling in a city of devil's
    While Rome us burning the emperor's bosses are working like the termites they are.
    Now it's an attempted federal takedown of Florida and Texas!
    Is Harpo Marx orchestrating this
    The soyboys fail to realize that they will be the "useful" fools who will be the first to go when the UN and the CCP declare an "invasion" for humanitarian reason. The military soyboys will go back to their CRT and learn how to "protect" CCP and UN stolen territory

  • Craig Monsen

    08/16/2021 04:03 PM

    I’m having trouble with my .mac account. Please change my email to [email protected].
    Thanks very much.
    Keep up the good work!
    ?? (volunteer ambulance driver)

  • stirling cairns

    08/16/2021 03:39 PM

    One Thing the promoters of Vaccine Passports ignore IS: Unless you get EVERY "shot" in FUTURE you will lose Passport Status. ......................Therefor you will be on a VACCINE TREADMILL
    Big Pharma will prosper

  • CHUCK HILDEBRAND

    08/16/2021 03:06 PM

    Here's thing rub with Biden's 'If you're gonna take on the Government you'd better have F-15's and nukes'...We DO HAVE F-15's and nukes!We BOUGHT AND PAID FOR THEM.They BELONG TO US,not to Joe Biden and his gang of commie loons.May God help the USA.

  • CHUCK HILDEBRAND

    08/16/2021 03:06 PM

    Here's thing rub with Biden's 'If you're gonna take on the Government you'd better have F-15's and nukes'...We DO HAVE F-15's and nukes!We BOUGHT AND PAID FOR THEM.They BELONG TO US,not to Joe Biden and his gang of commie loons.May God help the USA.