The dissenters said they would decide the case in the plaintiffs’ favor on the merits because the plain meaning of the statutes, historical practice, and uniform interpretations of all three branches “demonstrate that aliens without lawful status cannot be excluded from the decennial census solely on account of that status.”

What’s so odd about these arguments by the three liberal justices is that illegal aliens are legally prohibited from voting, making donations to federal candidates (including individuals running for the House of Representatives), or running for Congress.

Yet, the dissenters think that illegal aliens must be included in apportionment, distorting the political power of the states in the House of Representatives, giving states that obstruct federal immigration law and attract illegal aliens through sanctuary policies more representation in the House than they are otherwise entitled to.

That is, of course, the real reason that states such as New York are trying to prevent this from happening. A study by the Congressional Research Service in 2015 analyzed what the representation would have been in the House of Representatives after the 2010 census using only the estimated 2013 citizen population, while excluding noncitizens.

California would have lost four congressional seats and New York, Texas, and Florida each would have lost one seat. On the other hand, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia would have gained one seat each.

So, what this case is about is pure political power and whether U.S. citizens will be disenfranchised and have their votes and representation in the House of Representatives diluted by aliens who are in this country illegally. That’s the bottom line.

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As Americans peruse store aisles and websites in search of Christmas gifts this year, many may not be aware of a sinister and growing problem with the products they are buying: If it was made in China, there’s a good chance that it was produced through slave labor.

Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined “Washington Watch” Wednesday to discuss how China is using slave labor as part of a system that is monetizing some of the most egregious human rights violations in the modern world.

“Seven-eighths of [Chinese-made products are] made in this Xinjiang province in northwestern China and overwhelmingly with forced labor—slave labor—by entities run and managed by the Communist Party of China,” Cuccinelli said, adding:

And they, frankly, make a profit off of it. This is 1 to 3 million people. This is not small potatoes. So that’s what they’re doing to oppress the minority up there, to try to force them to adopt Han Chinese culture and abandon their own faith and abandon their own culture by force.

There is no issue more important to the future and soul of our nation right now than the leftist bigotry threatening the very concept of what it means to be an American. //

On the medical side, Dr. Harald Schmidt, a supposed expert on ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times that essential workers, not the elderly, should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines. His reason? “Older populations are whiter,” he told the publication. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”

To be clear, the term “level the playing field” here means allowing people to die because of the color of their skin. //

All three of these examples of dangerous racism occurred in one week. One week. All stem from the pernicious concept of critical race theory, a demonstrably racist set of ideas Democrats want to drill into the heads of all-white government employees except, apparently, Joe Biden, who to my knowledge has never undergone this vital training (strange, given that his own Vice President-elect has openly called him a racist).

There is no more important fight for conservatives today than battling the racism of the American left. And as is often the case with effective battle plans this one is quite simple. We must call for people not to be judged or treated differently solely on the basis of the color of their skin. That shouldn’t be a controversial concept, but it is.

Every day that goes by SolarWinds proprietary software Orion network monitoring product supply chain security failure gets bigger and bigger. //

Ironically, SolarWinds claimed open source software as being untrustworthy because anyone can infect it with malicious code. A SolarWind writer claimed: security “risk is far less when it comes to proprietary software. Due to the nature of open source software allowing anyone to update the code, the risk of downloading malicious code is much higher. One source referred to using open-source software as “eating from a dirty fork.” When you reach in the drawer for a clean fork, you could be pulling out a dirty utensil. That analogy is right on the money.”

Right. Sure.

SolarWinds followed this up by remarking in another blog that the whole foundation of cloud native computing — containers and container orchestration aren’t trustworthy either. //

But, open source is not the one that’s inherently insecure here. Proprietary software — a black box where you can never know what’s really going on — is now, always has been, and always will be more of a security problem.

I would no more trust anything mission critical to proprietary software than I would drive a car at night without lights or a fastened seat belt. That’s why I’m writing this on Linux Mint with LibreOffice rather than Windows and Microsoft Word. That’s why the internet, cloud native computing, and the cloud — yes even Microsoft Azure — use Linux and open source. //

In short, proprietary software companies, like SolarWinds, are still making huge security blunders, which are hidden from users until the damage is done. At the time, open source programmers and their allies are continuing to make their programs ever more secure and in the open so that everyone benefits