Just One Thing
I believe the thumbnail picture today is Joe Biden showing the reporters in the room what grade he got in civics in high school, although he must have cheated to get it given the lunacy and illegality of his announcement yesterday of waiving $300 BILLION of college and graduate student debt. And the picture below shows Biden talking about the grade he got on his economics final exam in college. We'll talk about it quite a lot on the show...more below.
Oh, here's Nancy Pelosi 13 months ago: "People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress."
Transcript of Pelosi Weekly Press Conference Today | Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Photo: Getty Images
Today's Guests
Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. We'll take a deep dive into the many things wrong with Joe Biden's effort to cancel $300 billion of student debt, essentially a giant reverse-welfare program, transferring money from blue-collar folks to people who are already or likely soon will be in the "upper-middle class."
Neal McCluskey | Cato Institute
Top Five Reasons Federal Student Debt Cancellation Is a Bad Idea | Cato at Liberty Blog
Big student loan forgiveness plan announced by Biden | | coloradopolitics.com
Is it legal? I don't think so: Legality of student loan plan relies on pandemic, 2003 law | AP News (And as noted above, neither does Nancy Pelosi.)
A few comments from happy people...happy to be getting other people's money...here: Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan: Who is eligible? - Chalkbeat: Essential education reporting across America
People who went to grad school owe around half of all student debt: Graduate students owe around 50% of all student debt (cnbc.com)
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Don Elliott is Professor of Law at Yale University and Distinguished Adjunct faculty at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. His bio, including being first in his class at Yale Law School, is beyond impressive. We're going to talk about the "administrative state", which I suspect is at least nearly synonymous with the "regulatory state" and take on one major question in particular: How much of what the federal government, especially executive branch agencies, do to regulate your business, your job, your home, your life, is actually constitutional?
Here's a great note by Don to get you thinking more about the issue:
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Michael Fields is senior advisor to Advance Colorado Action. He's a leading force behind the just-announced effort to recall State Senator Kevin Priola who just switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
Other Stuff
How abortion law may soon return to the Supreme Court: U.S. judge blocks Idaho abortion ban in emergencies; Texas restrictions allowed | Reuters
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Sometimes I don't understand how California even functions: California banning new gas-powered cars, trucks, SUVs beginning in 2035 (axios.com)
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Please give this back: Iconic Churchill portrait reported as stolen after a decoy hung in its place for months (msn.com)
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What's the right punishment for this? Child protective worker investigated for false claims about parents who had kids taken away | | coloradopolitics.com
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One thing I wonder is whether the county is responsible for the payment or whether the individuals are, in which case Vanessa Bryant won't get much of anything. I also wonder if the amount is reasonable, given that there is no report of the images having reached the Internet, so not widely disseminated: Vanessa Bryant awarded $16 million in Kobe Bryant crash photos trial (nbcnews.com)
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I love this pushback against the reprehensible ESG movement: Texas bans financial companies from doing business with state agencies | The Texas Tribune
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Gotta love the metal detector (and I mean the person as much as the device): Metal-detecting stranger retrieves woman's ring lost in sea | AP News
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The power of four words: "Do You Need Help?" Florida man Timothy Lee Wilson sentenced to life for abusing stepson (nypost.com)
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This is a really crazy story from the world of music: FN Meka Dropped by Capitol Records After Instagram Backlash (vulture.com)
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Don't come to this nightclub if you're coming for the reason that most, or at least many, people go to nightclubs: Sydney nightclub ‘Club 77’ bans staring without ‘verbal consent’ (nypost.com) Or is this a generational thing, so that nightclubs don't serve the purpose that they served when I was in my 20s?
Today's Video
Sting sings to Ukraine on her Independence Day
A truly insane billiards trick shot
This is why you should NEVER use an electric hand dryer in a public bathroom.