Dear Friends,
I’m in the midst of a very difficult vehicle repair on our old Beemer (crankcase valve and hoses) and it is a bit of a time crunch because, well, I really need this vehicle for a long road trip coming up! The wonderful German engineers make exactly nothing easy so I’m pretty beat up and tired. But since I can’t seem to get the oil dipstick reattached—Herr Schmitt, von’t it be very fun to put ze bolt in ze very back facing avay from ze mechanic so he has to do it by pure feel?—I thought I’d take a break and write a quick Quarter Inch for you.
Here are a couple of things that caught my attention.
Some people didn’t understand why I was making a big point about the fact that the 303 Creative case was a free speech instead of religious liberty case. Just to clarify: I emphasize this because the narrative the Left wants to push is that this “religious” woman wants some kind of accommodation or exemption from the law in order to discriminate against LGBTQ couples. That’s a powerful framing in terms of winning in the court of public opinion, but it is manifestly false! It is a free speech case that applies to everyone everywhere without exception. Far from wanting some kind of “religious” accommodation from the law, Lorie Smith simply got the high court to clarify the actual law for everyone.
The best example of someone not understanding these basics is former comedian-turned-Senator Al Franken. He Tweeted this very dimwitted gem:
A CO woman asked me to write homophobic & anti-Semitic jokes to express her hostility to gay-marriage & Jews in general to promote her non-existent web-design business. Do I have to?
I am not completely sure what kind of clever point Franken was trying to make, but the answer is “No.” He doesn’t have to. Do you know who he has to thank for that? Lorie Smith and 303 Creative. You’re welcome, Al.
A memo has apparently gone out among all the mainstream media editorial conference rooms giving permission to start publicly worrying about Joe Biden. Maureen Dowd took to the pages of the New York Times to blast the President for not acknowledging his seventh grandchild, whom Hunter fathered with an Arkansas—um, exotic dancer. Axios ran a story about Biden’s awful and profane verbal abuse of his staff. Their spin was that being berated and cursed at by Biden is his sign of respect or something, but the fact remains that they ran the story. The Dems are getting nervous about their man.
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