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In a 7-2 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a World War I memorial Peace Cross in Maryland could stand despite being on public land.

The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the cross does not violate the Constitution due to it being a historical symbol. Residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland and the American Humanist Association (AHA) argued otherwise and sued to have it removed as a result. Fortunately, they did not prevail.

“The court’s decision reverses the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the cross was unconstitutional,” reports the outlet. “The 7-2 majority on Thursday cited the structure’s historical nature in its narrowly drawn decision, saying the Latin cross design reflected the nationwide trend at the time it was erected to honor war dead with community monuments. The cross was associated with World War I, and the Court noted that the U.S. used it in military honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross in 1918 and Navy Cross in 1919.”

Writing the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito ruled that the Bladensburg Cross symbolized the community’s values regarding the men who perished in World War I.

“For nearly a century, the Bladensburg Cross has expressed the community’s grief at the loss of the young men who perished, its thanks for their sacrifice, and its dedication to the ideals for which they fought,” argued Alito.

From https://www.dailywire.com/news/48655/scotus-rules-war-memorial-cross-public-land-can-paul-bois

My comment: The party of Satan suffers another small but symbolically weighty loss.

Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor were the two dissenting votes.

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Analysis completed by Heritage determined that 64 percent of the policy prescriptions were included in Trump’s budget, implemented through regulatory guidance, or under consideration for action in accordance with The Heritage Foundation’s original proposals.

(This) includes …. approximately 334 unique policy recommendations.

See https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations

My comment: Dear Nevertrumpers. We do not need to hear any more from you.

None of your McCain, Romney, Bush sellouts, compromisers, collaborators or weak sisters has done jack for the cause of conservativism in all my lifetime, except, perhaps, to make it a cussword among the younger generation, something one calls a feckless coward and hypocrite.

So get out and stir up voting for this man. You do not need to admit aloud you were wrong. We all know.

Dear Democrats, the time for visiting psychiatrists is past. You are not insane. It is worse now. Visit exorcists.

This first topic is not due to Trump, and so does not belong in my Not Tired of Winning Yet category, but it gives me the same tingle of schadenfreude, so I add it as a collateral or secondary topic:

The National Parks Service has quietly removed signs warning visitors to Glacier National Park that they should take their selfies with the glacier now, since it would be gone by 2020 — a victim of climate change.

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The signs, installed during the Obama administration, warned tourists that the glaciers “will all be gone by the year 2020.” They’ve since been replaced by signs that claim climate change is still eroding the glaciers bit by bit, but that researchers can’t make an accurate prediction about when, precisely, the glaciers of Glacier National Park will disappear.

“When they completely disappear, however, will depend on how and when we act,” the sign now reads.

According to the United States Geological Survey, the Caller discovered, the size of the glaciers in any given year depend on the national park’s microclimate and not on the climate as a whole. The glaciers melt and freeze at different rates every year depending on weather and snowfall, and while computer models might have once predicted that they’d all but melt away by 2020, heavier snowfall has been a boon, increasing the glaciers’ overall size steadily since 2009.

In 2019, it seems, the glacier actually grew even more, thanks to a record-breaking Montana snowfall, stubbornly refusing to come into compliance with the Obama adminstration’s dire predictions.

So if Obama slowed the rise of the Oceans, we can assume Trump saved the Glaciers. Make the Ice Age Great Again!

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