02/09/2021 at 9:47 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing, February 9, 2021
In the British comic Review in the 1960s, Beyond the Fringe, a commanding officer in the Royal Air Force sought to persuade a pilot to go on a kamikaze mission. “Smedley,” he said, “we need someone at this moment to make a [Grand] Futile Gesture.”
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska has made his career with Grand Futile Gestures, not because his policies have been wanting in merit, but because he has shown little interest in doing the grinding work of a legislator in working out bills in committee and persuading his colleagues.
Republican-controlled Senate in Mississippi votes to ban transgender athletes on female teams
By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press
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SEATTLE, WA - JANUARY 31: Adidas basketballs sit during a PAC12 womens basketball game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Washington Huskies on January 31, 2021 at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Transgender athletes would be banned from competing in girls or women s sports in Mississippi schools and universities, under a bill that comes at a time of renewed focus on transgender rights.
Mississippi is one of a dozen states with lawmakers proposing restrictions on athletics or gender-confirming health care for transgender minors this year. Democratic President Joe Biden signed an executive order Jan. 20 the day he took office that bans discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere.
Graham while criticising Trump s impeachment trial: I don t know how Kamala Harris doesn t get impeached if the Republicans take over the House John L. Dorman Then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) speak before then-President Donald Trump s State of the Union address on February 5, 2019. Lindsey Graham suggested that Kamala Harris could be impeached by a future GOP-controlled House. We ve opened Pandora s box to future presidents, he said. Graham voted to acquit the former president in his second impeachment trial.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris could be impeached in a future Republican-controlled House after former President Donald Trump s Senate impeachment trial for incitement of insurrection.