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Thursday’s Final Word – HotAir

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Thursday's Final Word – HotAir

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In Christian theology, original sin begins with Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. But Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin” chronicles a different fall from grace. The cover image is a black-and-white portrait of Joe Biden with a pair of hands clamped over his eyes. The biblical story is about the danger of innocent curiosity; the story in this new book is about the danger of willful ignorance.





Ed: This is nonsense on stilts in every way. The story of “original sin” is not innocent curiosity; it’s about rebellion against God and its consequences. The story of “Original Sin” is not “willful ignorance,” but deliberate propagation of propaganda for political purposes. The book even gets the sin wrong. It suggests that the sin was the decision to run for a second term, when the true sin was running for the first term and then covering up Biden’s cognitive collapse into incompetence. 

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Ed: Hakeem Jeffries never answers the question because he can’t offer an answer — at least not an honest one. The question answered itself on June 27, 2024, and then every day thereafter in which Democrats kept defending Biden.

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Jake Tapper and co-author Alex Thompson have hired a crisis PR expert as they drop revelations of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from their new book.

The CNN anchor and Axios reporter are the co-authors of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. To promote the book, which is out May 20, the two have signed up crisis communications expert Risa Heller and her firm Heller Co. to help navigate the rollout, according to Breaker Media, co-written by former Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Cartwright.





Ed: This has generated some laughter and derision, but it’s probably a smart move — even if it will prove insufficient. I don’t think either man nor their publisher really considered how angry and distrustful the public has become with the Protection Racket Media. The conceit behind the self-cleansing Now It Can Be Told spin is akin to poking an angry hornets’ nest with a sharp stick. A VERY sharp stick. 

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Ed: Good insight here. I hope that Trump will stick with these demands. I addressed the insufficiency of the Iranian offer earlier here. 

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Israel has been holding secret talks with Syrian officials in recent days, including on the possibility of the new regime joining the Abraham Accords, Channel 12 reports tonight, a day after US President Trump invited new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to join the accords and normalize ties with Israel.

The talks are being mediated by the United Arab Emirates, Channel 12 says, also referring to unspecified wider regional moves being advanced by the UAE. …

Today, claims Channel 12, Israel does see the possibility of Syria exiting the so-called “axis of evil” overseen by Iran, and even of it coming under the US aegis. And it even views such potential progress as possibly enabling a positive shift in Israel-Turkey ties, the report claims.





Ed: That’s an interesting development, and it cuts back against the idea that Trump has sidelined Israel in an attempt to get credit for deals that may not be in Israel’s interest. This effort may not succeed, of course, but the important point is that it’s taking place. And that has some dire portents for Tehran too. 

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Judicial review, ultimately by the Supreme Court, is a vital part of our American system of checks and balances, but the Framers of the Constitution quite deliberately chose not to give the Article III federal courts the power to issue advisory opinions rather than the power to slowly and deliberately decide “cases” or “controversies” of “a judiciary nature.” The idea that any one of 667 federal district judges should act as a king on some particular issue is itself a threat to our system of checks and balances because it concentrates too much power, in too few judges, acting far too quickly. And it bears noting that federal district judges are often in practice selected by their home state senators and do not have the same stamp of national approval as has the Supreme Court.





The American people will not have, and should not have, confidence in the impartiality and soundness of judicial decision-making that occurs in the frenzied fashion in which it occurred in Trump v. CASA. It is time for the Supreme Court to set some limits on the inferior federal courts with respect to the issuance of nationwide injunctions.

Ed: I agree, but I’m not sure from oral arguments whether five justices will agree — at least in this case. Even if this results in “guidelines” for lower courts, those guidelines will be interpreted by the same judges who are issuing nationwide injunctions now. 

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Now the president is reportedly planning to accept a 747-8 jumbo jet that would be retrofitted for use as Air Force One and then transferred to Trump’s presidential library. If it happens, would this be a breach of the Emoluments Clause?

As bad a move as it might be, the Air Force One part of this proposal is probably lawful. But the presidential library part? Probably unlawful.

Ed: I’m with Jed Rubenfeld on this one. It’s a bad idea regardless of the legality. If the plane remains as a government asset after the delivery of the new AF1, though, it would be legal. It’s the presidential library piece that makes the gift likely personal and therefore not legal. But it’s just a bad idea to do this regardless, given the nature of Qatar and their massive influence campaign in Academia and media. 





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Ed: A better answer does not exist for Democrats on this question. 

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Lionsgate will be the home for Mel Gibson’s The Resurrection of the Christ, the follow-up to their landmark 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.

The company announced Thursday that it was teaming up with Gibson and his Icon Productions banner partner Bruce Davey on the production and will distribute the completed movie worldwide. …

Resurrection has been in the works for close to a decade and Gibson has stated in interviews that the aim is to have Caviezel reprise his role. Production will likely begin in late summer in European locations.

Ed: Hey, this new Pope gets results! It’s another miracle! All kidding aside, Gibson is fortunate that Caviezel barely seems to age, even 21 years after the first film. One has to wonder whether the rest of the cast can be found. And will this still be entirely in Aramaic?

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Ed: Awesome! When John finishes the current leg of his tour at the end of the month, he’ll come on my podcast to discuss all of the developments in Ukraine, Israel, and more.





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