Friday, April 8, 2016
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ecile Richards: Women Bragging About Their Abortions “Makes Me Hopeful for This Century”
People find hope and joy in any number of things — from God to their family and their career. But Planned Parenthood abortion business president Cecile Richards finds her hope elsewhere: in women who brag about killing their babies in abortions.
David Daleiden: Kamala Harris Stole Unreleased Video Footage Exposing Planned Parenthood
In a new interview with Fox News, the director of the Center for Medical Progress said officials working for pro-abortion California Attorney General Kamala Harris stole unreleased video footage concerning Planned Parenthood. CMP has exposed Planned Parenthood with multiple videos showing the abortion business selling the body parts of aborted babies.
Woman Writes: “I Had an Abortion Because I Love My Son”
Six months after giving birth to her first child, Raina J. Johnson got pregnant again. A recent college graduate, Johnson decided that a second child would be too expensive and take up too much of her time and energy. So, she aborted her child.
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Thousands of Abortion Activists to Rally to Support Killing Babies With Down Syndrome
Abortion activists are drumming up media attention in Indiana this weekend over a new law that protects unborn babies from discrimination.
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Pope Francis Condemns Abortion: Woman’s “Right to Choose” Can Never “Justify Terminating a Life”
In a much-anticipated apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s position on the sanctity of life for unborn babies.
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A Week After Not Answering, Trump Says None of His Partners Have Ever Had an 
Abortion
It took Donald Trump a week to answer the question but Trump finally confirmed that none of his previous partners that he has dated or been married to have had an abortion of a child he conceived.
Abortionist Says He Does Abortions Because He’s a “Christian,” Killing Babies is a “Ministry”
The mainstream media tends to stereotype pro-lifers as conservative Christians and the right to life as a religious issue. While the pro-life movement has many Christians, it is growing increasingly diverse as more agnostics and atheists identify with the cause.
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Abortion Survivor Slams Hillary Clinton for Saying Unborn Children Have No Constitutional Rights
Pro-life advocates were shocked when pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledged the humanity of unborn babies by saying “the unborn person doesn’t have Constitutional rights.” For Melissa Ohden, the comments were personal.
Pro-Abortion Feminist Camille Paglia Admits Pro-Life Perspective “Has the Moral High Ground”
Planned Parenthood CEO May be Held in Contempt for Ignoring Subpoena, Could Face Jail Time
Abortionist Complains About “The Hardest Abortion I’ve Ever Had to Perform”
School Guidance Counselor Helped 15-Year-Old Get Secret Abortion Without Her Parents Knowing
Baby Born Missing Parts of Her Brain Almost Died, Then a Miracle Happened
Denial of Abortion is Torture, UN Bureaucrat Says
Why Pennsylvania Needs to Ban Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Off Babies’ Limbs
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By Tim Brown 
Under this fallacy, the British government in 2001 introduced a series of restrictive speech codes that criminalized criticism of Islam, followed by a Racial and Religious Hatred Bill imposing fines and even imprisonment for speech that “incited hatred against a person for their religious or racial background.”
These laws have victimized a number of Britons. Hoteliers Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were prosecuted for “insulting” a Muslim guest. Liberty Great Britain party chairman Paul Weston was arrested on suspicion of racial harassment after publicly reading a passage critical of Muslims from Winston Churchill’s The River War. Dr. Vladislav Rogozov, a Czech-born, UK cardiac anesthesiologist, is being investigated by Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital for giving an online interview about his 2013 confrontation with a Muslim surgeon who refused to replace her blood-specked hijab with the proscribed, operating-theater headgear.
In this context and political climate, with racism conflated with religion – one specific religion – it is easy to see how government and public service employees would fear professional and legal repercussions (up to seven years in prison) merely for speaking up about criminal behavior by Muslims who justify their actions citing the Koran. In this way, teachers, police, child care workers, government officials and others have been silent about the growing menace of Muslim gangs who sexually groom and exploit children in the UK.
In his riveting book, Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal (World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press, 2016. 328 pp., $17.20) author Peter McLoughlin explains how multiculturalism-inspired political correctness along with its companion, willful blindness concerning Islamic doctrine, has jeopardized the safety and well-being of children. McLoughlin posits that, since 1988, this nationwide sexploitation has resulted in the shattering of lives of between 100,000 to 1 million girls. The author documents how the fear of being deemed racist and facing criminal charges, dismissal or even threats of violence, has led to suppression of information and a stunning lack of intervention on behalf of young victims. In essence, an extensive, insidious operation that targets children for sexual grooming and enslavement has been covered up because of political correctness and fear of Muslim retribution.
The book’s title comes from former UK Home Secretary, Jack Straw, who saw Muslim perpetrators viewing non-Muslim British victims as “easy meat.” Indeed, some Muslim sex-gang groomers actually blame the girls, some as young as 11 years old, for being purposely alluring and sexually advanced to corrupt Muslims.
News coverage of the crimes has been mostly obfuscated by a complicit media that characterizes the overwhelmingly Muslim perpetrators as generic “Asians.” According to McLoughlin’s research, limited press coverage by mainly self-censoring journalists and lenient, if any, criminal charges have enabled the gangs to act with relative impunity since 1988.
The author describes how Muslim flesh-peddlers operate as part of a well-organized extensive network of taxi drivers, shop and restaurant owners, and security guards. Girls, mainly between the ages of 11 and 14, the majority from state-run children’s homes, are ensnared while traveling from school to home, at shopping malls, restaurants, bus stations and similar public venues. They are enticed with flattery, feigned friendship, gifts, alcohol and drugs. Alarmingly, a footnote in the book references a quotation from a city outreach worker with the Children’s Society who states, “every girl living in a children’s home in the city of Birmingham is being sexually exploited.”
McLoughlin makes reference to the staggering profitability of the sex grooming enterprise for the Muslim community. He cites a 2007 expose, Mothers of Prevention by Julie Bindel, a feminist writer and founder of the legal reform group, Justice for Women.
McLoughlin does a good job of portraying the frustration and desperation of victim’s families who have sought help to no avail for well over a decade from local councils, law enforcement, child care professionals and journalists. Remarkably, for the most part, UK authorities have failed to warn parents that young girls are at risk or to recommend extra supervision and vigilance. No organized programs to educate girls and parents exist and authorities have largely refused interviews with the media on the topic. Teachers and school administrators have failed to secure the school perimeter to stop sex grooming gangs from lying in wait for girls outside of school premises.
The author reports that police routinely dismiss parents’ concerns and have failed to set up surveillance operations at strategically significant locations. Police have even arrested parents for trying to save their children. In one such case, fathers, who were able to track down their daughters and tried to rescue them were arrested by police. In fact, McLoughlin discloses that law enforcement officers have actually returned wayward girls to their pimps.
McLoughlin reveals that local authorities – social workers, teachers’ unions, educational organizations and childcare agencies – have made no effort to intervene or draw public attention to the pervasive threat. He submits that feared charges of racism preclude their mandated responsibility for the protection of children. In fact, the author reports how major teachers’ unions are behind an organization – Unite Against Fascism – that blocks the publicizing of the sex grooming gang phenomenon and its Muslim community participation.
In 2008, a taxpayer-funded national education film, My Dangerous Loverboy, commissioned by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre, was produced ostensibly to warn and educate girls about generic sex grooming gangs. But no mention was made of Muslim involvement or the victims’ young ages. According to McLoughlin, the film has been difficult to obtain and has not been shown to the intended audience: girls, parents, social workers, police officers, school nurses, doctors, teachers, youth workers, sexual health practitioners. My own extensive, month-long efforts to locate a copy were unproductive and met with denials of the crimes’ Muslim connection.
In Easy Meat, McLoughlin laments the very limited prosecution of Muslim sex grooming and pimping crimes. In the rare instances of successful criminal litigation, typical sentences are minimal and usually partially served, if at all, despite existing sentencing guidelines. Gang members have been known to assert Muslim supremacy, make accusations of Muslim victimhood and racism, and threaten retaliation against the girls and their families. Some have clearly cited religious motivations for their crimes in court.
Astonishingly, few victims receive any special protection during the trials. Protection of defendants’ rights supersedes that of victims, even with child victims. The 1989 Children’s Act, a statute requiring the child’s welfare be the court’s paramount consideration, doesn’t seem to make the slightest difference in the proceedings and outcome. More distressing is the fact that the greater the Muslim population density in an area, the lower the conviction rate.
The backdrop for sexual grooming and enslavement of children lies in Islamic doctrines outlined by McLoughlin. He reviews the pervasive slave-taking history of Islam from the 7th century, as well as Islamic doctrine from the Koran citing Islam’s view of non-Muslims, its treatment of women and sexual slaves, and the permissibility of sex with children by Mohammed’s example with his nine-year-old third wife, Aisha. McLoughlin explains how sex as rape has historically been used as a weapon of war to assert Islamic supremacy. Islamic doctrine encourages the rape and enslavement of non-Muslims, even with married infidel women as a legal and moral enterprise.
Further, the required first and foremost allegiance to the Umma, or Muslim community, and the inbred obligation of enmity toward non-Muslims facilitates the pimping of non-Muslim girls and hinders any attempts at exposing its criminality and eventual prosecution. Sexual slavery has historically been used as a religious weapon to advance the domination of Islam.
In Easy Meat, McLoughlin details how the sexploitation and enslavement of girls, once viewed as a great evil in Western society, has become a pervasive, routine, and almost pedestrian part of everyday life in the UK. On this issue, the courageous author effectively deals with the contention that Western civilization is fighting for its very existence in a clash between civilization and barbarism. His book serves as a grave warning for other countries as they consider increased levels of Muslim immigration.
Reported by Kevin Mooney / @KevinMooneyDC / April 06, 2016
Workers unload fracking fluids from a tank truck in 2011 at an injection well in Youngstown, Ohio, where the fluids will be pumped deep underground. (Photo: Jim West/Newscom)
Amy Townsend-Small, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Cincinnati who conducted the three-year study, did acknowledge that some financial backers “have declined to continue funding past the initial study period.”
However, Townsend-Small said in an email Monday to The Daily Signal, those decisions not to donate more might be because the study didn’t establish a relationship between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and water contamination in Carroll County and other areas that include the Utica Shale deposit.
Townsend-Small also said the results “show that fracking does not always lead to groundwater contamination, but that continuous monitoring is needed to ensure contamination has not occurred.”
“The left likes to continually talk about settled science, but often it’s settled on a predetermined outcome,” Nick Loris, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation who studies energy issues, told The Daily Signal. “Politicians use that predetermined outcome to justify policies that drive up the costs of affordable, reliable energy—even though those policies have little to no environmental benefit.”
The Daily Signal sought comment from the Deer Creek Foundation on why it decided to stop funding the fracking study in Ohio, but its executive director did not respond.
The major goal of the study by the University of Cincinnati’s geology department was to measure the presence of methane (CH4) in groundwater prior to the onset of fracking, and to compare the results to methane measured during and after the process.
In fracking, engineers inject water mixed with sand and chemicals into a well at high pressure, producing a fluid that fractures the rock and releases previously trapped oil and natural gas.
The energy industry has used the fracking technique for several decades. What’s new is the use of hydraulic fracturing together with precision directional drilling, enabling wells to be drilled horizontally right through the oil or natural gas rock itself.
The initial results of the university’s study were released Feb. 4 on the Carroll Concerned Citizens website during a regular meeting of the group, which seeks to inform residents about the long-term health and economic effects of mineral extraction.
Townsend-Small, the lead researcher, discussed key findings during this meeting. Her presentation may be seen on YouTube.
“I am really sad to say this, but some of our funders, the groups that had given us funding in the past, were a little disappointed in our results,” Townsend-Small was quoted as saying. “They feel that fracking is scary, and so they were hoping this data could be a reason to ban it.”
The geologic research team concentrated its groundwater measurements in a rural farming area of Carroll County because that county has the largest number of hydraulic fracturing permits in Ohio.
The team also measured groundwater in the state’s Belmont, Columbiana, Harrison, and Stark Counties, but less frequently than in Carroll. The study occurred in tandem with a sharp increase in the number of active gas wells in Carroll, from three in late 2011 to 354 in 2015.
“We measured dissolved salt, pH, methane concentration, and methane isotopic composition in groundwater over several years in the Utica Shale fracking region of Ohio,” Townsend-Small said in the email to The Daily Signal, adding:
These measurements can indicate whether fracking fluid or natural gas was introduced into groundwater over the study period. We did not find any changes in any of these measured constituents over the study period, in which the number of fracking sites in the region increased dramatically. This does not mean that contamination did not happen in other parts of the region or has occurred after our study ended, but it does indicate that fracking can take place without contaminating water resources, as has happened in other regions.
We measured about 25 groundwater wells[.] … We found no relationship between CH4 [methane] concentration in groundwater and proximity to active gas well sites, and no significant change in CH4 concentration or isotopic composition, pH, or conductivity in water wells during the study period. We also did not find evidence for natural gas in water wells, although we did have several study sites with CH4 concentrations in the dangerous range, but the CH4 in these wells was from coal beds, not natural gas.
Private donors to the three-year study included the Deer Creek Foundation and the David and Sara Weston Fund.
But taxpayers also covered some costs in the form of a $85,714 grant from the Ohio Board of Regents and federal funding from the National Science Foundation, which news reports said went toward an isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
State Rep. Andy Thompson, a Republican who represents a district that includes Carroll County, has called for the university’s study to be more widely circulated because it received taxpayer support.
On the question of continued funding, Townsend-Small sought to modify her reported remarks that some donors were “disappointed” in the results because they hoped the findings would support a ban of fracking, which they consider “scary.”
She told The Daily Signal in her email:
Just to clarify, none of our funders have expressed specific disappointment in our work, but some have declined to continue our funding past the initial study period. The study is not being suppressed, as has been published elsewhere. A preliminary version of our report is available through my website at UC and the website of our community partner, Carroll Concerned Citizens.
Our study was funded by the Deer Creek Foundation and the David and Sara Weston Fund. The Weston group is continuing to fund our project at a small level. The Deer Creek Foundation never expressed specific disappointment about our findings. They just declined to renew our funding and I assumed it was due to a lack of excitement about our results.
While the University of Cincinnati study did not find a connection between fracking and groundwater quality, Townsend-Small told The Daily Signal, this was not necessarily a hard and fast rule:
Other groups we have pursued funding from have expressed some confusion about why monitoring was needed if our initial results indicated a lack of contamination. It’s important to note that our results do not discredit previous studies that have linked fracking and groundwater contamination; rather, we show that fracking does not always lead to groundwater contamination, but that continuous monitoring is needed to ensure contamination has not occurred.
By Bethany Blankley URL of the original posting site: http://constitution.com/hundreds-islamic-terrorists-mess-texas-illegally-enter-via-mexican-border
“Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years.” — Congressman Ron DeSantis (FL) – R in a March 23rd, 2016 House Oversight Committee, National Security Subcommittee hearing.
According to The Houston Chronicle, the Texas Department of Public Safety stated it has shifted law enforcement resources to better protect the border, but this shift enabled crime to increase in other parts of the state. The Washington Post published a story shortly thereafter, stating that authorities had detained several people with ties to Islamist terrorist organizations. (Apparently, information was obtained from a report leaked to the Chronicle about which the public was not supposed to learn.)
According to the leaked report, authorities listed 143 “land border crossing encounters with watch-listed individuals in southwest border states between November 2013 and July 2014.”
One encounter, for example, was with an alleged member of al-Shabaab, the Islamic Somalia-based group responsible for the 2013 mall massacre in Nairobi, Kenya. Another related to the apprehension of another Somali named Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane, who was tied to terrorist groups al-Shabaab, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, and al-Barakat. Dhakane not only crossed into Texas, but also helped move an unknown number of suspected Somali terrorists. Still another, was with three Sri Lankans, one of whom claimed that he was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam “on his way to Canada.”
This report is only one of several.
To a name a few:
Despite this, and much more evidence, Obama has consistently claimed the border is more secure because of him. In 2014, he said, “Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s.”
Politifact found Obama’s claim to be “half-true” because the 1970 border and the 2014 border are incomparable. The economic and security conditions were entirely different in 1970 than 2014. And, it states that “it’s problematic for Obama to assume credit for the low numbers, as the trend started before he took office.”
But that has been his modus operandi since he took the White House– to take credit for successes for which he has little-to-no involvement and to blame others for consequences he created. Yet, the low numbers he cites don’t actually match with the data, or the experience of the American people, whose tax dollars continue to escalate to pay for these illegals.
Reported by Jack Davis April 6, 2016A new edict from the Obama administration has its roots in race-based thinking and a purpose that lurks below the surface, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued guidelines saying that because there is “widespread racial and ethnic disparities” in the U.S. criminal justice system, landlords who refuse to rent to convicted criminals could “lack a legally sufficient justification” in doing so. The current Fair Housing Act does not make it illegal to refuse to rent to criminals.
“The Regime has told landlords they cannot refuse to rent to criminals,” Limbaugh said. “Wait ’til you hear why.”
“The presumption is that a great percentage of African-American criminals are actually innocent. They’ve been railroaded. I mean, that’s what the Reverend Jackson wants you to believe … A central point of the civil rights coalition is that there’s a bunch of black men in jail who really shouldn’t be there because they’re not guilty.”
Failure to rent to criminals gives the government a new means of control, Limbaugh said.
“You know what this is really all about? You have a landlord that refuses to rent to a criminal, Obama says, ‘No, no, no, you have to because our racial justice system’s been so unbalanced, you’re guilty of racism when you refuse to rent,’ you know what that’s really all about is seizing your property,” Limbaugh claimed.
Limbaugh argued this new law is a hidden agenda against private property.
“What do you think the penalty’s going to be for landlords that fail to follow Obama’s dictates and rent rooms to criminals? You don’t think they’re going to be able to come in and make a play for your land, for your property?” he added.
“And one thing about authoritarian figures, private this, private that, they don’t like anything private. Private property, private guns, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The more they can take away from you, including your private this or your free speech or what have you. This is who these people are, folks. Don’t blame me. This is who they are,” Limbaugh said.
h/t: TheBlaze
Posted on April 8, 2016
Do you think this guy was an ISIS supporter or just a man really ticked off at the way Assad was running things?Syrian authorities have released an American prisoner, U.S. officials said Friday.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said he could “confirm and welcome the news that a U.S. citizen was released by Syrian authorities.” He did not provide further details, citing privacy concerns, but the Washington Post and Associated Press identified the American as Kevin Patrick Dawes, 33.
Dawes traveled to Syria in September 2012 via Turkey and was last heard from the next month, according to the FBI.His Twitter account from the time was filled with re-tweets of articles about rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and potential regime crimes. The last activity on the account was posted on Oct. 2, 2012 — a retweet of a message claiming Assad’s forces had abducted civilians.
Dawes ended up in one of Syria’s political prisons, according to a lengthy profile in Vanity Fair.
Posted on April 8, 2016Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has accepted an invitation from the Vatican to attend a conference on social, economic and environmental issues. The Sanders campaign made the announcement on Friday as the senator made the rounds of the morning television news programs. Mr. Sanders will take a break from campaigning in New York, just days ahead of the April 19 primary there, to attend the conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Sanders, clarifying what he said earlier of an actual sit-down with Pope Francis, said he had not confirmed yet whether the two men would actually meet.
“I am delighted to have been invited by the Vatican to a meeting on restoring social justice and environmental sustainability to the world economy,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement. “Pope Francis has made clear that we must overcome ‘the globalization of indifference’ in order to reduce economic inequalities, stop financial corruption and protect the natural environment. That is our challenge in the United States and in the world.”
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Mr. Sanders explained that while he disagrees with Pope Francis on issues relating to women’s rights and gay rights, he admires the pope for speaking about income inequality and the need for people to help one another.
“He has played an unbelievable role, an unbelievable role of injecting a moral consequence into the economy,” said Mr. Sanders, who would become the first Jewish president in the United States if elected. “He is talking about the idolatry of money, the worship of money, the greed that’s out there, how our whole culture is based on: ‘I need more and more and more. And, I don’t have to worry about veterans sleeping out on the street or elderly people who can’t afford their prescriptions.’”
Mr. Sanders also addressed the back and forth between him and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during interviews on morning television. He said he is “trying to stay away from personal attacks” and hopes to stop bickering about their credentials to be president.
By Tyler O’Neil April 6, 2016
Transgender Man Has Ears, Nose, Removed to Become Dragon Lady
A 55-year-old dragon lady, born “Richard Hernandez,” now identifies as “Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa,” a name taken from a video game character, and wishes to be referred to as an “it.” It says it believes it was born in the wrong sex, along with the wrong species, and it is willing to physically destroy its humanity to complete the transformation. It has already undergone tooth extraction, eye coloring, horn implants, ear removal, nose modification, and an undoubtedly painful procedure to have a forked tongue.
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This is what happens when a culture rejects the Christian (and generally rational, even scientific) understanding of sexuality and biology in favor of the mantra “if it feels good, do it.” Granted, the transformation from man into dragon is extreme, but can we really deny it, if we assume that some people are “transgender” and need to become the opposite sex in order to be happy?
Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa (or Tiamat for short) posted this self-description on her blog:
I am the Dragon Lady, A pre-op M2F transgender in the process of morphing into a human dragon, becoming a reptoid as I shed my human skin and my physical appearance and my life as a whole leaving my humanness behind and embracing my most natural self awareness as a mythical beast. As for pronouns I prefer to be called “it” and not be referred to as a she or a her. WELCOME TO OBLIVION!
“M2F” is transgender code for “male to female.” Tiamat is the name of a primordial Mesopotamian goddess, and she symbolizes the chaos of primordial creation. In the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, she gives birth to the very first gods and the first monsters, transforms into a massive sea dragon, and is slain by the hero god Marduk. With her body, Marduk forms the heavens and the earth. It is unclear how familiar this human-turned-dragon is with the mythology surrounding her name, but her reference to “OBLIVION” suggests serious emotional angst.
In an interview with Britain’s Daily Mail, she said she is dealing with some “serious gender dysphoria,” even after undergoing gender reassignment surgery, and “loves” her 36B chest.
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The great Christian authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about people who give up their humanity, and whether there is hope for them.
In Lewis’s classic The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a selfish, greedy boy named Eustace transforms into a dragon, and really wishes he hadn’t. Eustace struggles to return to humanity, but his wickedness shows on the surface and he is stuck, until the Christ figure Aslan finally frees him. Aslan tears the scales away from Eustace’s flesh, unveiling the true man beneath, and restoring his life.
In Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, a man named Smeagol falls into an obsessive love with the Ring of Power, and transforms into a less-than-human creature called Gollum. When the heroes of the tale take pity upon this creature, and trust him, he regains some of his humanity. Eventually, however, he slides back into his obsession, which ultimately destroys him.
Christians should fervently hope and pray that Tiamat is Eustace and not Smeagol. Let the story of this horribly troubled “mythical beast” be a warning about the kind of ideology which denies the reality of gender in favor of the desires of troubled minds. It is not too late to stop our children from becoming Tiamat, even if they do occasionally dream of flying like dragons.
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Northeast Record Cold / Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2016.
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Planned Parenthood Sues to Overturn Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome
Planned Parenthood is so predictable. This week, the abortion business sued the state of Indiana in its latest attempt to stop a protective pro-life law from taking effect.
Planned Parenthood Donated $81,000 to Kamala Harris, Who Ransacked David Daleiden’s Home
Since the California Department of Justice, under the leadership of Democratic State Attorney General Kamala Harris, searched the home of David Daleiden on Tuesday, there have been numerous news stories noting an apparent conflict of interest in Harris’ investigation of Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress that ignores obvious evidence of illegal conduct on the part of Planned Parenthood.
Obama Apparently Agrees With Hillary Clinton: Unborn Children Have No Constitutional Rights
The top spokesman for President Barack Obama appears to agree with pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that unborn children do not have Constitutional rights, including a right to life.
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Pro-Life Groups Demand Kamala Harris Resign After Raiding David Daleiden’s Home, Stealing Videos
Pro-life groups are calling on the California attorney general to resign as her ties to Planned Parenthood become increasingly apparent.
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Hot Mic Catches Hillary Clinton Admitting Campaign is 
Failing: “We’ve Got to Get the Energy Going”
After losing to pro-abortion Democrat Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin, a hot mic caught pro-abortion candidate Hillary Clinton admitting that her campaign is in the doldrums. After her speech following the primary, Clinton is hear saying “we’ve got to get the energy going.”
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Cardinal Burke Rebukes Notre Dame for Honoring Pro-Abortion Vice President Joe Biden
Cardinal Raymond Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and ecclesiastical advisor to The Cardinal Newman Society, rebuked the University of Notre Dame for the “great scandal” of awarding abortion and same-sex marriage advocate Vice President Joe Biden the University’s “oldest and most prestigious honor accorded to American Catholics.”
Actress Scarlett Johansson Blasts Pro-Lifers on Defunding Planned Parenthood: They’re “Nuts”
Once again, celebrity Scarlett Johansson is playing defense for Planned Parenthood. The May 2016 issue of women’s magazine Cosmopolitan features 31-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers) on its cover.
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Georgetown University Refuses to Cancel Speech From Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards
The Georgetown University student-run Lecture Fund announced new details this week about its plans to host Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on campus this month.
Democrats Fail to Block Pennsylvania Bill to B an Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Off Babies’ Limbs
More Than 100 Journalists in Poland Back Measure to Protect Unborn Babies by Banning All 
Abortions
Louisiana: House Passes Pro-Life Bill for 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period to Save Unborn Babies
Pro-Abortion Writer Admits She Thinks Life Begins at Birth
Women Sitting in Abortion Clinic Waiting Rooms are Lobbied to Sell Their Aborted Babiesn
Notre Dame Sends Mixed Signals Honoring Both Pro-Abortion Joe Biden and Little Sisters of the Poor
Minnesota Bill Would ban Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Unborn Babies Limb From Limb
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By Michael Ware 
their children to be brainwashed in the state-run schools. It should not be a hard connection to make between the loss of our children and the fact that they attended the same education system. But, one would think that they would at least wait until the second grade to begin the mush mind program. But this is not the case.Christian News reports
A four-year-old girl in Colorado has been booted from preschool after her mother expressed concern over diversity teaching in the classroom that included books on homosexuality and gender identity.
R.B. Sinclair told the Denver Post this week that her daughter’s preschool teacher at Montview Community Preschool and Kindergarten had been reading books to the children on same-sex “couples” and about worms questioning their gender.
There seems to be no limit to how early they will start the reprograming of the children. Why would a preschooler need to learn about homosexuality? Why are we talking with them about sexuality at all? The reason is simple; falsehood takes longer to sink in.
These children have to hear this filth over and over before it becomes second nature to them. But does this not prove that they instinctively know that it is not normal or right? Does this not show that this is a perversion?
But the “Uneducators” see things differently or at least that is what they would have us believe.
Christian News continues
“Biases start as kids get older and start to see differences as negative. At a young age, kids are exploring all different kinds of things,” Kim Bloemen, director of early childhood education for the Boulder Valley School District, told the Denver Post. “It’s about just providing them with all these experiences.”
The reality is we have left our moorings. We have nothing to keep us bound securely to truth. Without God’s word or Law, there are no bounds to our perversion. I discuss this in my book: An Everlasting Covenant. Buy at Amazon.
By Michael Ware 
Recently there have been posters popping up all over select university campuses. The posters call out a certain group of people. They target and degrade a single group of students on campus. And of course, since that group is Christians, there is no outrage.
Breitbart reports
A growing university poster campaign is asking
Christian students to check their privilege. Although the campaign originated out of the University of San Francisco, the message has now created backlash with students across the country after the posters went viral on social media networks like Tumblr and Facebook.
This is a scary trend, considering most of the people writing the posters come from rich, privileged homes. 
Most likely none of the producers of these posters are from poor or even lower class families. And almost without exception, none are paying their way through school.
But worse than that is the fact that the people behind these posters ignore the biggest problem with their message. The problem is that they completely ignore the struggle that a Christian faces on these campuses.
Breitbart continues
Not only have faculty been accused of treating Christians unfairly, but university administrators have allegedly engaged in discriminatory practices as well. In 2015, National Review columnist David French detailed his experience with the university practice of “ideological cleansing,” which he claimed almost cost a Christian applicant a spot on the faculty at Cornell Law School: “the committee almost rejected an extraordinarily qualified applicant because of his obvious Christian faith (he’d attended a Christian college, a conservative seminary, and worked for religious conservative causes). In writing, committee members questioned whether they wanted his “Bible-thumping” or “God-squadding” on campus.”
And all the while, we have the same problem with the Christian that we have with the LGBT community; none was born in this class. I am not a Christian from birth no more than a transgender is transgender from birth.
And if they do not like me having privilege that they wish they had, then I have a solution. Convert or move to a Muslim country. Then they can write a poster about Muslim privilege.
By: Jim Shempert | Posted: Thursday, April 7, 2016I wonder sometimes which Jesus people believe in. Even in the Bible belt where I live there is a 
marked lack of understanding of scripture. Many have created their own personal Jesus who is more like the Genie from Aladdin than the sovereign Son of God who died for all the sins of mankind. They love to point out that Jesus ate with prostitutes and tax collectors but fail to acknowledge the Bible says “He came not to bring peace but a sword.” They love, “Then neither do I condemn you,” but completely ignore the follow up: “Go and sin no more.”
I believe in the sovereignty of Christ. The deeper I go in my relationship with Him, the more I see my overwhelming need for Him. The Word was not made flesh for my slice of the American dream. He did not come to Earth so that you could have that three bedrooms/two baths split floor plan in a quiet cul-de-sac. He did not die on Cavalry so that one political party or another could stay in power.
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil. For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey (Isaiah 59:2-4, 12-15).
Though God hates sin, He loves us more. He made His Son be the perfect sacrifice for sin. Sin is not acceptable to God. Sin does not magically disappear. Sin is either atoned for through the blood of Jesus Christ or judgment awaits the sinner at the end. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil” (2nd Corinthians 5:10).
Sin is unacceptable to God. First, it separated us from God, and then, caused the death of His Son. God’s wrath was satisfied in Christ, and thus, anyone who has a true relationship with Jesus Christ will be spared His wrath because we are “clothed with Christ. (Galatians 3:27)”Then there comes the “but.” But, if you refuse the gift of salvation in Christ, you accept the wrath of God. 
Revelation describes it as “pouring out the bowls of God’s fury.” Reverend Paul Washer painted an even harsher picture:
If you die unreconciled to Christ, the last thing you will hear when you take your first step into hell will be all of creation standing to its feet and applauding God with joy because HE has rid the earth of you. We do not understand how vile sin is, and we do not understand how vile we are apart from Christ.
That is the Christ of the Bible. He willingly sacrificed Himself for all who would come to Him. He desires that no one should feel the wrath of God. He has done everything possible to make a way for you to come back to Him. But, He can’t be tricked or fooled. You can’t pull a fast one on Him. He knew down to the person who He was praying for in Gethsemane in John 19.
The next time you feel the need to draft a soliloquy to advance a social/political point, please realize the sovereignty of the One you reference when you say “My Jesus says.” Make sure that you have not created an idol in your mind of who Jesus is. If you are referencing the only Son of God who died at Calvary as the sin ransom for man, that’s one thing. If you are referencing a weak, westernized, no consequences for our sin Jesus, you may want to pause and rethink.
God’s warriors don’t look down at their feet while His enemies insult Him and seek to destroy that which He loves. People who will stand up and say, “Hey! What are you doing!?” Or, “Hey! Why are you just sitting there!?”
Most church people are familiar with the story of David and Goliath. An often overlooked part of the narrative is not the actual slaying of Goliath but David’s comments when he arrived in the camp of the army of Israel as Goliath was spouting forth his daily vitriol. All the trained “soldiers” were looking down at their feet while Goliath mocked them and their God. David, who had only come to bring some food for his brothers who were in the army, looked around after Goliath’s challenge went unanswered another day and said, “who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (1 Samuel 17:26).
Somebody needed to say what everyone was already thinking but too embarrassed to vocalize. In essence what David the shepherd boy was saying was, “All of you hear that slander against our God every day and no one does anything about it?” Shamed by David’s willingness to say what was obvious, his brothers told him to shut up and go home to the flocks.
It is really important to bear in mind that David was not a war hero yet when he looked around and said what he did to all the trained servicemen. As a matter of fact he wasn’t even in the army at that point! He was just an observer willing to state the obvious in a hostile environment. And look what happened (if you don’t know, pick up your Bible and read 1 Samuel chapter 17).
Like David’s brothers, many of them are looking at their shoes while the LGBT crowd is screaming at them in defiance. Many others are actually joining in with the Philistine army mocking and ostracizing those that oppose their champion. And, of course, David’s brothers are still among us telling the one who actually has the temerity to speak what is blatantly obvious to go back home and tend the sheep leaving the real work to them (which they know they are not doing nor will do).
Can you imagine how awkward it was for David to say what he said in the middle of an army of men who were ashamed of their own cowardice? “What are you doing?!” “Why isn’t anyone taking his challenge?!” “He doesn’t even know God!” “He’s cursing our God and everyone just stands there?”
That is really what the problem is isn’t it? Evil is rising up greeting the men and women of God at dawn every single day shouting insults, issuing challenges, and daring any of us step forward to do something about it. And we’ve become so narcissistic, so self-absorbed, and so ashamed of our cowardice we won’t even stand up to support the few voices out there that are actually confronting the enemies of God.
The LGBT voice is so evil and livid we have Christians who have joined in the chorus of catcalls over states that are trying to legally protect little girls from grown men who believe it is their right to relieve themselves in the presence of children. We have Christians standing outside state capitols protesting legislation designed to protect Christian businesses that do not want to be fined or punished for declining to participate in homosexual unions.
Atheists and secularists threaten the people of God every day with lawsuits and even arrests for nativity scenes, crosses in public venues, and prayers prayed on school grounds or city council meetings.
University professors call for “some muscle” to limit free speech and take pleasure in calling out and intimidating Christian students for their religious convictions.
Television shows routinely mock and ridicule Christianity. Hardly any of these shows ever make the networks any money. Yet season after season they roll them out for laughs. You can’t even watch a sports event or a newscast with your children anymore without being assaulted by commercials hawking pills to create a desire for sex or remedy a sexual dysfunction.
We have become King Saul’s army. Today’s American church gets up every morning listening to the profanity, threats, and crude humor directed at the Christ of God and His disciples…and does nothing.
Basically, the American church seems set on stubbornly refusing to acknowledge that anyone or anything is against her. The first sentence of 1 Samuel 17 states very simply: “Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle.” Hey churchgoer…have you looked around lately? We’re surrounded by venomous LGBT activists, antagonistic atheists, vitriolic academics, Christian bashers, God haters, Muslim sympathizers, BlackLivesMatter hate groups, and government officials who are hell bent on stripping away every last vestige of Christian heritage and religious freedom from us.
David did not wake up that morning with a strategy for becoming famous or killing Goliath. But he was a warrior. And God’s warriors don’t look down at their feet while His enemies insult Him and seek to destroy that which He loves.
You know how you can be a champion for God? Years later as David reflected on his life in the Psalms he told us. “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so” (Psalm 107:2). God’s champions often start off the same way. They simply say, without fear of the consequence, what everyone else already knows but is afraid to say. Are you a member of Saul’s army? Or the army of the Lord of hosts?
By The Clarion Project Thu, April 7, 2016URL of the original posting site: https://www.clarionproject.org/news/only-3-us-airports-screen-employees-daily-work
Airport security (Illustrative photo: Video Screenshot)
“Atlanta, Miami, Orlando. What about the other 297 airports nationwide?” asked committee co-chair Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida).
TSA (Transportation Security Administration) head Robert Neffenger answered that while the TSA has “increased the inspection of employees five-fold in the last five months,” more needs to be done.
Neffenger said that all airports were asked to provide a report by the end of the month assessing their vulnerabilies.
A 2015 TSA committee concluded most airports could not afford daily employee screening. In addition, they said the full screening would not “appreciably increase the overall system-wide protection.”
“No single measure can provide broad-spectrum protection against risks or adversaries,” the committee concluded. “Therefore, risk-based, multi-layered security offers the greatest ability to mitigate risks through the application of flexible and unpredictable measures to protect commercial aviation.”
The report argued daily screening “is incapable of determining a person’s motivations, attitudes and capabilities to cause harm, among other limitations.”
The Senate committee also heard from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who assured the Senators recent reports that 73 airport employees were suspected to have terrorist ties were misleading.
“It’s not that they’re suspected terrorists. It’s that they hadn’t been vetted through all available databases,” Johnson said. “We have since corrected that problem and the cases have been resolved.”
After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, CBS’ Washington bureau learned last month at which airports improperly-vetted staff worked. The airports included Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, Logan Airport in Boston and Orlando International, Orlando-Sanford and Memphis International.
Commentary by 
Ann Coulter | URL of the original posting site: http://humanevents.com/2016/04/06/moonies-for-ted-cruz/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Until now, the only primaries Cruz has won are in Texas (his home state), Oklahoma (basically the same state) and Idaho (where Trump never campaigned).
So now, Cruz has finally won an honest-to-goodness primary. This is great news for him, provided:
(1) the general election is a caucus, and
(2) the national media universally denounce Cruz’s Democratic opponent the same way the Wisconsin media denounced Trump.
In that case, Cruz should do fine.
The Cruz-bots don’t care. They don’t care that they’re being used as a cat’s-paw by the Never Trump crowd, and that a brokered Republican convention is more likely to end with Bernie as the nominee than Cruz.
The Cruz cultists don’t even care about plain honesty, which I always thought was a conservative value. Republicans used to be appalled by guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons. Now they are guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons.
It’s all hands on deck to stop the only presidential candidate who wants to save America from the cheap labor plutocrats.
Cruz has flipped to Trump’s side on every important political issue of this campaign — which only ARE issues because of Trump. These are:
— Quadrupling the number of foreign guest workers to help ranchers and farmers get cheap labor: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
— Legalizing illegal aliens: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
— The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
— Building a wall: Cruz was against it, and now is for it.
These are all positions Cruz has changed since being a senator — most of them he’s flipped on only in the last year. I’m supposed to believe that U.S. senators can sincerely change their minds about policies it was their job to know about, but a New York developer can never change his mind about pop-offs he made more than a decade ago.
Back in 1999 — 17 years ago — when Donald Trump was considering a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket, he said this when asked about abortion by Tim Russert on “Meet the Press”: “Well, look, I’m very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still — I just believe in choice.”
Russert then asked him specifically if he’d ban partial-birth abortion. Trump said, “No. I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it.”
A year later, Trump wrote in his book “The America We Deserve”: “When Tim Russert asked me on ‘Meet the Press’ if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. After the show, I consulted two doctors I respect and, upon learning more about this procedure, I have concluded that I would indeed support a ban.”
Sometime in the intervening 16 years, Trump became fully pro-life.
You can say you don’t believe him — just as you might say you don’t believe Cruz has truly changed his mind on amnesty, the wall, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership, etc. But to claim Trump is pro-choice today — present tense — is what’s known as a “lie.”
But that’s what Cruz says over and over again, including in a campaign ad — and not one of those “super PAC” ads that count even less than a retweet. A Cruz ad plays the clip from that 1999 interview where Trump says, “I am pro-choice in every respect,” repeats it three times, and then cuts to a narrator proclaiming: “For partial-birth abortion, not a conservative.”
These are the kinds of lies that used to drive conservatives crazy when the Clintons did it. Not anymore. All’s fair in smearing Trump.
Trump has said a million times that he’d scrap Obamacare and replace it with a free market system (which, by the way, he explains a lot more clearly than Washington policy wonks with their think-tank lingo). Merely for Trump saying that we’re “not going to let people die, sitting in the middle of a street in any city in this country,” Cruz accuses him of supporting “Bernie Sanders-style medicine.”
Yes, because Trump is against people dying in the streets, Cruz says that Trump thinks “Obamacare didn’t go far enough and we need to expand it to put the government in charge of our health care, in charge of our relationship with our doctors.” Over and over again, Cruz has repeated this insane lie, telling Fox’s Megyn Kelly: “If you want to see Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine, Donald Trump is your guy.”
Trump’s alleged support for the kind of national health care they have in Scotland and Canada is another big fat lie. Trump was issuing his usual effusive praise before he drops the hammer — “It actually works incredibly well in Scotland. Some people think it really works in Canada.” Then he continued, in the very same sentence: “I don’t think it would work as well here. What has to happen — I like the concept of private enterprise coming in. … You have to create competition.”
Cruz and his cult-like followers lie about Trump wanting a health care system akin to Canada’s and Scotland’s. They lie about his supporting Obamacare. They lie about his supporting partial-birth abortion. They lie about his ever having been a Democrat. They lie about his campaign manager assaulting a female reporter.
I tried being nice after Florida, when it became clear that Trump was the choice of a majority of Republican voters, nearly choking on a column praising Cruz for his admirable flip-flops to Trump’s positions on immigration and trade. I censored loads of anti-Cruz retweets. But — as with the Clintons — you offer these Cruz-bots an olive branch and they bite off your hand.
The next thing I knew, the Cruz cult was accusing Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of criminal battery for brushing past a female reporter. Anyone who claims this video shows a “battery” is as big a liar as the liberals who lined up to say Clinton did not commit perjury when he denied having “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky.
If James Carville and Paul Begala had a baby, it would be a Cruz supporter.
They lie about my own tweaking of Trump — I didn’t like the Heidi retweet! — amid a tidal wave of support. Trump is the only presidential candidate in my lifetime who will build a wall, deport illegals and pause the importation of Muslims. He’s the only one who cares more about ordinary Americans than he does about globalist plutocrats. Does anyone really think I’m “tiring” of him because of a retweet?
Apparently, for slavishly devoted Cruz-bots, a normal human making a small criticism of her preferred candidate is unfathomable! That fact alone proves how dishonest they are about their own candidate.
I was under the misimpression that I was dealing with adults and not swine like Carville and Begala, willing to twist someone’s words to win a momentary political advantage. Mostly, I was under the misimpression that honesty was still a conservative value.
See No Evil
Spirit of Deal / Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2016
Wednesday, April 5, 2016
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Hillary Clinton: Abortion is “Critical to Who We are as Women, It’s About Women’s Autonomy”
Hillary Clinton is once again seizing on the comments Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made regarding punishing women and saying that his views reflect those of all pro-life people. She claims pro-life voters just want to punish women and put them in jail for having abortions — attempting to stoke the old phony war on women attacks abortion activists have previously leveled at pro-life advocates.
Pro-Abortion AG Raids David Daleiden’s Home, Ignores Planned Parenthood
Selling Baby Parts
The pro-abortion California attorney general’s office raided on Tuesday the home of the undercover investigator who exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted babies’ body parts, according to the Center for Medical Progress.
Attorney General Who Seized Undercover Videos From David Daleiden Paid by Planned Parenthood
As LifeNews has reported, the pro-abortion California attorney general’s office raided on Tuesday the home of the undercover investigator who exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted babies’ body parts, according to the Center for Medical Progress.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
Donald Trump Cancels Scheduled Phone Call With Pro-Life Leaders After Controversial Statements
After taking multiple positions on whether or not women who have illegal abortions ought to be “punished,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was scheduled today to talk with pro-life leaders representing multiple organizations across the country. That call did not take place.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
Ted Cruz on Abortion and Rape: “I Don’t Believe It Makes Sense to Blame the
Child”
Ted Cruz continues to stake out a pro-life position on the issue of abortion in cases of rape. In a new interview, the pro-life Texas senator said he doesn’t think it’s fair to “blame the child” who is conceived in rape.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
Hillary Clinton: Killing a Baby in an Abortion is a “Choice Rooted in Thoughtfulness”
Hillary Clinton appears to be realizing how distasteful her radical stance on abortion is to most Americans. The Democratic presidential candidate has not budged on her position, but she appears to be trying to win votes with less aggressive language on the issue.
Pro-Life Groups Back Ted Cruz for President: “He Will Protect Unborn Babies From Abortion”
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has already received the support of pro-life groups like National right to Life, CatholicVote, and Wisconsin right to Life and now additional pro-life organizations are coming on board saying they support him..
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
Television Networks Ignore Hillary Clinton Saying Unborn Have No Constitutional Rights
The networks have their favorites when it comes to abortion gaffes. During their morning and evening news shows, the three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) haven’t spent one second on Hillary Clinton’s abortion comments in which she declared Sunday that an “unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
Mother Thought She Was Having Just One Baby, But Then She Gave Birth to Quintuplets
Planned Parenthood Caught Illegally Using Taxpayer Funds to Pay for Abortions
Abortion Activists Caught Lying, Claimed Law Banning Abortions After 20 Weeks Caused Stillbirth
Idaho Governor Signs Pro-Life Law to Ban Harvesting Body Parts From Aborted Babies
Florida Defends 24-Hour Waiting Period Law That Helps Women and Saves Babies From Abortion
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By Bethany Blankley 
According to an online survey produced by LevelFunded Health, (LFH) a national health insurance agency “with a hyper-focus on Affordable Care Act ‘alternative’ employee benefit programs for the small employer market segment,” 87 percent of small businesses that offer “group health care” suffered from a 25 percent increase in health insurance premium costs since 2014. It reports that 12 percent of small businesses experienced increases of 50 percent or more to their premium costs.
Small businesses are at a significant disadvantage because they will unlikely be able to absorb higher health insurance costs, which is why many have canceled their health insurance benefits completely. Larger companies can more easily absorb increased costs. But they are not immune from the tragedy of Obamacare. UnitedHealth Group, for example, the nation’s largest health insurer, recently announced it’s expecting more than $500 million in losses on 2016 Obamacare plans alone.
These increased costs affect more than financial outcomes. They affect being able to employ workers, and more importantly, quality workers. The LFH survey reports that health insurance costs affect the quality and skill-level of employees who are drawn to particular businesses because of the benefits they offer. Small businesses are more likely to lose quality job applicants to large corporations that can offer better benefits.
The LFH survey found that 56 percent of the 2,500 small businesses it polled reported that they are losing quality employees and candidates because of how expensive employer-provided health care plans are under Obamacare, compared to significantly lower costs and more options prior to Obamacare.
Included as part of the ACA is the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) marketplace, allegedly designed to aid small businesses. Kaiser Health News reported in 2015 that, “Employers with fewer than 50 full-time workers are eligible to buy coverage on SHOP. The federal government even offers businesses an incentive, a tax credit worth up to half of an employer’s share of their workers’ premiums. Among the conditions: The firm must employ fewer than 25 workers and their average salary cannot exceed $50,000.”
But, in 2015, only 85,000 people out of 11,000 small businesses received coverage through SHOP– a number significantly less than the 1 million people Obama and the Congressional Budget Office expected.
And increased costs affect more than losing quality workers. The ACA and SHOP’s failure to aid small businesses has forced them to decide more than choosing between letting go their employees and providing health insurance to their employees, to now raising prices for their customers.
The real burden that few discussed regarding Obamacare was the hidden fines, fees, and taxes that the 2,000+ law created, which began to go into effect in 2016 and 2017.
Already, the small businesses that have 50 or more full-time employees and don’t provide health insurance must pay an “Employer Shared Responsibility” fine.
According to HealthCare.gov: “Some employers with 50 or more [full-time] employees who don’t offer insurance, or whose offer of coverage is not affordable or doesn’t meet certain minimum standards, are subject to Employer Shared Responsibility provisions. They may owe a payment if at least one of their full-time employees enrolls in a plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace and receives a premium tax credit.”
As a result, to avoid Obamacare penalties and fines associated with the 50-employee rule, small businesses are outsourcing jobs to online freelancers and not hiring more staff.
Six years of Obamacare has resulted in more regulations as well, which means increased audits, and more paperwork and headaches for small business owners. Many experts anticipate that Department of Labor audits will also increase, which piles on even more costs for small businesses.
What small business can continue to exist in the nightmare that Obama and every Democrat who voted for it, created? How will they survive more regulations, additional costs associated with fines, fees, and increased taxes, not to mention the likelihood of being audited for failing to comply with these increased number of regulations. But their ability to compete with larger companies for quality employees will be even more difficult than it already is. Finding and keeping quality employees is essential to small business owners. But Obamacare has made this necessity nearly impossible in 2016 and beyond, as more people continue to lose their jobs and their health insurance, both of which they had prior to Obamacare.
By DON THOMPSON | April 6, 2016
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who made undercover videos at Planned Parenthood clinics said in a social media posting that California Department of Justice agents raided his home Tuesday.Agents seized all video footage from his apartment, along with his personal information, David Daleiden said in a Facebook post. Daleiden, the founder of a group called the Center for Medical Progress, said agents left behind documents that he contends implicate Planned Parenthood in illegal behavior related to the handling of fetal tissue.
Center for Medical Progress spokesman Peter Robbio confirmed the social media posting is authentic, but he declined further comment. He said Daleiden lives in Orange County.
Rachele Huennekens, a spokeswoman for state Attorney General Kamala Harris, said in an email that she can’t comment on any ongoing investigation.
Harris said in July that she planned to review the undercover videos to see if center violated any state charity registration or reporting requirements. She said that could include whether Daleiden and a colleague impersonated representatives of a fake biomedical company or filmed the videos without Planned Parenthood’s consent.
Harris, a Democrat, is running for the U.S. Senate. Daleiden suggested in the social media posting that the raid was politically motivated because Harris has accepted campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood.
Daleiden faces related charges in Texas. One of his Texas attorneys, Terry Yates, did not return telephone and email messages Tuesday.
Texas authorities initially began a grand jury investigation of Planned Parenthood after the undercover videos were released in August. But the grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of misusing fetal tissue and indicted Daleiden and a colleague, Sandra Merritt, in January on charges including using fake driver’s licenses to get into a Houston clinic.
Daleiden previously said his group followed the law in making the videos. His post Tuesday called the raid an “attack on citizen journalism” and said he will “pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights.”
Posted on April 6, 2016
Just one reason why our borders need more work on them. Do you think if Trump had his wall up this Firefighter and his kids would still be alive?By Lana Shadwick
An illegal alien who hit a Texas firefighter head-on and killed him and his four-year-old stepdaughter and 22-month-old son will be charged with criminally negligent homicide if he recovers from his critical injuries.
The man did not have a drivers license and was in the country illegally, according to the CBS affiliate for Dallas/Fort Worth. He first came to the U.S. in 2006 but was deported in 2008.
L.P. Phillips of KRLD radio in Dallas spoke to ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials who verified that Margarito Quintero was an illegal alien.
CBS DFW reported that ICE officials had no contact with Quintero until the accident.
No Womb For Rights
No Rights For Unborn / Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2016.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
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Ted Cruz Defeats Donald Trump by 16-Point Margin in Wisconsin After Pro-Life Endorsements
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz handily defeated rival Donald Trump in Wisconsin — winning by 16 percentage points after multiple pro-life groups endorsed him. Media outlets called the race for Cruz within an hour of polls closing at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Hillary Clinton: An Unborn Child Just Hours Before Delivery Has No 
Constitutional Rights
During an interview on The View today, Hillary Clinton said an unborn child just hours before delivery should have no Constitutional rights. her comments come just days after Clinton said unborn children simply do not have any Constitutional rights, which would include the right to life.
National Right to Life Supports Ted Cruz Over Donald Trump: “He is 100% Pro-Life”
The National Right to Life Board of Directors on Saturday voted to support pro-life Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the remaining Republican presidential primaries, starting today in Wisconsin. The support for Cruz follows a decision by its state affiliate Wisconsin Right to Life to endorse Cruz as well.
Planned Parenthood Caught Lying: Falsely Said Aborted Baby Parts Cure Diseases
The Center for Medical Progress has released a new video exposing the Planned Parenthood abortion business. This new video exposes how planned Parenthood has been caught lying about the consent form it presents women to consider donating the body parts of their aborted babies for research. The consent form falsely claims body parts of aborted unborn children have been used to successfully cure diseases.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
Donald Trump Flip-Flops: Saying It’s Ok to “Punish” Women Who Have Abortions “Not 
a Wrong Answer”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has now flip-flopped on changing his position on whether or not women sho0ld be “punished” who potentially have illegal abortions when the day comes that unborn children are protected under law. Trump now says his initial answer supporting punishment was “not a wrong answer.”
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Mississippi Legislature Passes Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions Tearing Babies Limb From Limb
The Mississippi state legislature has given final approval to a bill to ban dismemberment abortions tearing babies limb from limb.
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New York Abortions Drop 21% in Last Seven Years to Reach Historic Low as More Babies Saved
New York Vital Statistics for 2014 published Monday (April 4) revealed yet another drop in abortion for New York State. The data reveals that the number of abortions statewide hit an all-time low since abortion was legalized in 1970. In the last seven years (2008 to 2014) the number of abortions dropped 21% including a one point drop in 2014.
Notre Dame Hosts Abortion Activist Wendy Davis, Calling Her a “Modern-Day Heroine”
Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation on Monday, when the Virgin Mary said “yes” to God and Christ was conceived in her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. But at the University of Notre Dame, a number of students spent Monday night on campus listening to former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis describe the benefits for women of choosing abortion or using contraception.
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57 Public Schools Allowing Planned Parenthood to Have Secret Consultations With Students
Planned Parenthood routinely targets college campuses and minority neighborhoods for its abortion business, but now it is turning its eye to an even younger generation of potential customers.
Leading Researcher: It’s Not Necessary to Use Aborted Baby Parts to Produce a Zika Virus Cure
Judge Tosses Pro-Life Lawsuit Against Law Squelching Free Speech at Abortion Clinics
Missouri Senator Wants Planned Parenthood CEO Held in Contempt for Ignoring Subpoena
Tennessee Planned Parenthood Takes Pro-Life Amendment 1 to Court
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Asks Appeals Court to Close Abortion Clinic Breaking State Law
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Charlie Daniels (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Daniels didn’t indicate what may have led him to post such a message — although just a minute prior he sent a tweet about free speech and dissenting opinions:
Regardless, folks jumped on his cotton-picking post and accused the famous fiddler of racism.
“Hey racist, picking cotton was typically not a paid position,” one reply read.
“[Y]our generation is the reason we are in trouble now,” another said. “Shut up & die already so we can actually have some quiet to fix this.”
“White people have NO history of manually picking cotton in the USA so I feel like he’s being racist,” another responder commented.
“Are you out of your cotton picking mind?” one person reacted. “I hope you can see how racist your tweet is.”
But not everyone took Daniels’ tweet that way.
“I think he’s sayin they need to learn what it’s like to have to actually do hard work that’s all,” one observer said.
“Johnny Cash never picked cotton, but his sister did & his mother did & his daddy died young…” one user noted.
“To all you who think this was a racist remark…SMH,” read another comment. “I did not take it like that. Spoiled rotten kids benefit rom HARD work!”
Whatever his intentions, Daniels isn’t shy about expressing his opinions. The man who set to music “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” posted a scathing open-letter to Congress last August about what he saw as the legislative body’s unwillingness to face down President Barack Obama over the Iran nuclear deal.
Less than a week ago, Daniels was announced as an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
(H/T: New York Daily News)
Written by Allen West on April 5, 2016
Well, there’s one public school system in America bending over backwards to accommodate a group that presents a very interesting irony in our country.
As reported by PBS.org, “The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal civil rights complaint against the St. Cloud school district in 2011, alleging a hostile environment for the district’s Somali students that included widespread and frequent harassment based in large measure, on religion. The majority of the Somali community is Muslim. Five years later, remnants of that tension remain.
“The St. Cloud school district is a long way away from really being a place where all students feel completely welcome,” said Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the council’s Minnesota chapter.
Somali student-athletes played key roles on Apollo High’s 2014 state championship soccer team, and track and field teams have drawn plenty of Somali participants. The district has partnered with the University of Minnesota to develop uniforms for female athletes who wear hijab, the headscarves worn by some Muslim girls and women.”
And just so you know, the district provides prayer rugs. Now, can you imagine the same happening for Christians? Where is the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) on this one? The silence is deafening because if you were a Christian and tried to have prayer in the school, well, y’all know what would happen. How many times have we seen Christian coaches attacked for praying with their team? We brought you the story back in 2014 about what happened at the Madison County High School football stadium in Georgia where a monument — privately funded — displaying two Bible verses was ordered modified or removed.Here is what the FFRF posted on its website after the decision: “The Freedom From Religion Foundation, has scored another victory for secularism in a public high school. The Madison, Wis.-based group has 21,500 members nationally, including over 400 members in Ga. Madison County School District in Danielsville, Ga., will either modify or remove an overtly religious monument at the Madison High School Football Stadium. FFRF became aware of the monument after a complaint was reported by a local resident who is affiliated with the athletic program. The monument was unveiled on Aug. 22, and currently sits at the team entrance to the field. The monument features the school’s logo alongside two prominent New Testament bible verses carved on the stone: Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” and Romans 8:31 “If God be for us who can be against us?” “Courts have continually held that school districts may not display religious messages or iconography in public schools.” Seidel also noted religious monuments divide teams: “This divisiveness is heightened by the particular
You see, for the radical secular humanist left, the existence of Christianity is divisive. It cannot be openly displayed. To the demented minds of these individuals there is no freedom of religion, unless it’s a religion they accept. You may have a freedom to worship but they’ll designate exactly where that worship can take place.
But Muslims get a free pass from the secular humanist left. Why? Why is it that the progressive socialists are so damned ready to attack Christians but will align themselves with the Islamists at every turn? Tell me how many Christian schools openly operate in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan where they can bring lawsuits forcing acceptance of their religious practices?
Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, “A 2011 settlement ending a federal civil rights investigation of the treatment of Somali students in St. Cloud requires the school district to report all allegations of harassment. Under the agreement, the district must make its schools more welcoming to Somalis. But the agreement didn’t signal an end to the resentment and clashes in the district. Last spring, racial and religious tensions at Technical High School erupted when students and parents, most of them Somali, alleged that school officials did not adequately respond to bullying incidents and anti-Islamic discrimination. A social media post that implied a Technical High student had ties to the Islamic State terrorist group whose adherents have been responsible for deadly attacks, sparked the protest.”
Interesting, the Somali community in Minnesota didn’t like the truth being told — there individuals within their community who support the Islamic State. We’ve reported here about the five Somalis who’ve been charged with supporting ISIS while others have gone off to fight. Yet, they get to use our legal system and force acquiescence to their demands. But a simple monument in Madison County Georgia at a high school football stadium is considered “divisive” because it has Christian biblical verses? Am I the only one perplexed and angered by this?
Reported by Ginni Thomas Contributor 04/02/2016
Members of the group Black Lives Matter march to city hall during a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Craig Lassig
A formerly hate-filled, Berkeley Black Panther liberal, Weaver is a black conservative who now holds strong views on Black Lives Matter, the first black president and how America can heal its racial divide.
From humble beginnings, Weaver served his country in Vietnam working as a pipe fitter in the Navy. It was an incident on August 11, 1971 that changed his life forever: A white racist tried to kill him just because of his skin color.
Retelling a riveting transformational story, Weaver explains how even in the midst of running with radical U.S. haters, he realized “he loved America” and only wanted a chance to compete fairly in the country.
Today, when asked what he thinks of the emergence of Black Lives Matter, he passionately says “it really means black lies matter.” He explains that this group believes in white superiority since they demand white society give them concessions out of guilt. Mason says, “What happened to you white folks? Where are the Vikings? You guys are cowards!”
As to his views on the first black president, Weaver continues his bold, unique tirade with “Barack Obama hates America.”
“His job is to divide by differences and manage our differences,” he says. “He has done nothing but drive us apart. [He] hates America.” Weaver then adds, “It doesn’t matter what color the pimp, the drug dealer, the con artist is.”
In this 31-minute video interview, Weaver explains that God helped him realize that “anger was much heavier than a ton and a half of steel,” which altered his physical and emotional life in 1971.
“What would happen in black America if we forgave, real or imagined, the wrongs that we have?” he asks. “As a Swahili-speaking, black history-studying, militant, Black Panther-hanging out man. As a black man, wearing my dashiki and my black beret,” he notes. “What would happen is healing, progress and success with family reunification.”
Since he left liberalism and became so vocal, Weaver has been called all the epithets that black conservatives incur. Weaver explains why black conservatives are so maligned and hated by those he says are “running today’s plantations” with destructive liberal policies. Liberalism, he says, “destroys people, like a drug dealer, a pimp who manages you and wants to keep you down. Liberalism is slavery, always has been and always will be.”
For more on Clarence Mason Weaver check out his books, website and video commentaries. Follow him on Twitter @masonweaver.
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By Joe Newby – April 5, 2016
On Monday, Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) warned that authorities in countries around the world are preparing to enforce sharia law on social media sites like Twitter, in an effort to stifle free speech — specifically, speech in opposition to Islamic jihad.The following tweet, for example, was recently posted by police in Glasgow:
It didn’t go over too well, however:
Geller added:
In June 2013, we reported at Examiner:
Hundreds gathered at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center in Manchester, Tenn., Tuesday night, for an event sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee on free speech and social media. But the gathering turned into a protest of what many believe is a threatened crackdown on free speech on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, Twitchy said.
Earlier, U.S. attorney Bill Killian said the meeting would serve as “an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion” and to “inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
The meeting was the result of a controversial Facebook post by Coffee County Commissioner Barry West, who posted a picture of a man holding a shotgun with the caption, “How to wink at a Muslim.” West apologized for the photo in early May.
Now, it seems that speech critical of jihad and migrants committing crimes are attracting more attention from authorities than the individuals actually committing the crimes.
Geller wonders: “It is unclear as to whether or not sharing this article would constitute an ‘unnecessary’ post. But it may be worth finding out.”
Reported by Daniel Greenfield April 5, 2016
However if you use the words “Islamic terrorism” or even milder derivatives such as “radical Islamic terrorism,” you are playing into the hands of ISIS. If you call for closer law enforcement scrutiny of Muslim areas before they turn into Molenbeek style no-go zones or suggest ending the stream of new immigrant recruits to ISIS in San Bernardino, Paris, or Brussels, you are also playing into the hands of ISIS.
And if you carpet bomb ISIS, destroy its headquarters and training camps, you’re just playing into its hands. According to Obama and his experts, who have wrecked the Middle East, what ISIS fears most is that we’ll ignore it and let it go about its business. And what it wants most is for us to utterly destroy it. Or as Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said, “If you kill your enemies, they win.” But maybe if you surrender to them, then you win. 
Tens of thousands of Muslim refugees make us safer. But using the words “Muslim terrorism” endangers us. The more Muslims we bring to America, the faster we’ll beat ISIS. As long as we don’t call it the Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL, but follow Secretary of State John Kerry’s lead in calling it Daesh. Because terrorism has no religion. Even when it’s shouting, “Allah Akbar.”
Obama initially tried to defeat ISIS by ignoring it. This cunning approach allowed ISIS to seize large chunks of Iraq and Syria. He tried calling ISIS a J.V. team in line with his claim that, “We defeat them in part by saying you are not strong, you are weak.” Unimpressed, ISIS seized Mosul. It was still attached to the old-fashioned way of proving it was strong by actually winning land and wars.
Europe and the United States decided to prove that we were not at war with Islam by taking in as many Muslims as we could. Instead of leading to less terrorism, taking in more Muslims led to more terrorism.
Islamic terrorism has followed an intuitive pattern of cause and effect. There’s a reason that the counterintuitive strategies for fighting Islamic terrorism by not fighting Islamic terrorism don’t work. They make no sense. Instead they all depend on convincing Muslims, from the local Imam to Jihadist organizations, to aid us instead of attack us by showing what nice people we are. Meanwhile they also insist that we can’t use the words “Islamic terrorism” because Muslims are ticking time bombs who will join Al Qaeda and ISIS the moment we associate terrorism with the I-word. There are contradictions there that you can drive a tank through.
The counterintuitive strategy assumes that Islamic terrorism will only exist if we use the I-word, that totalitarian Jihadist movements want democracy and that our best allies for fighting Islamic terrorism are people from the same places where Islamic terrorism is a runaway success. And that we should duplicate the demographics of the countries where Islamic terrorism thrives in order to defeat it.
If you believe the experts, then Islamic terrorists want us to stop them from entering Europe, America, Canada and Australia. They crave having their terrorists profiled by law enforcement on the way to their latest attack. And they wish we would just carpet bomb them as hard as we can right now.
When ISIS shoots up Paris or Brussels, it’s not really trying to kill infidels for Allah. Instead it’s setting a cunning trap for us. If we react by ending the flow of migrants and preventing the next attack, ISIS wins. If we police Muslim no-go zones, then ISIS also wins. If we deport potential terrorists, ISIS still wins. But if we let ISIS carry out another successful attack, then ISIS loses. And we win. What do we win?
It depends. A concert hall full of corpses. Marathon runners with severed limbs. Families fleeing the airport through a haze of smoke. Only by letting ISIS kill us, do we have any hope of beating ISIS.
Politicians and experts claim that ISIS is insane. It’s not insane. It’s evil. Its goals are clear and comprehensible. The objectives of the Islamic State are easy to intuitively grasp. Our leaders and experts are the ones who are out of their minds. They may or may not be evil, but they are utterly insane. And they have projected their madness on Islamic terrorists who are downright rational compared to them.
After the San Bernardino shootings, Obama insisted that, “Our success won’t depend on tough talk or abandoning our values… That’s what groups like ISIL are hoping for.” But ISIS does not care whether Obama talks tough, even if it’s only his version of tough talk in which he puffs out his chest and says things like, ”You are not strong, you are weak.” It is not interested in Obama’s “right side of history” distortion of American values either.
Article reposted with permission from Sultan Knish
by Alex Swoyer 5 Apr 2016, Washington, DC
“In the memo, Trump said he would threaten to change a rule under the USA Patriot Act antiterrorism law to cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers, commonly known as remittances,” the Post reports. “The threat would be withdrawn if Mexico made ‘a one-time payment of $5-10 billion’ to pay for the border wall, he wrote.”
“It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” Trump states in the memo.
Economists told the Post that this flow of cash is vital for the Mexican economy.
The memo also suggests increased trade tariffs, visa cancelations and increasing border-crossing card fees could help aid in the plan to make Mexico pay for the wall. Trump has predicted the border wall would cost roughly $8 billion.
Published time: 5 Apr, 2016 01:10Edited time: 5 Apr, 2016 12:46
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Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) militants have reportedly used poisonous gas in an attack on a Syrian military airbase located in Deir Ez-zor, the largest city in the eastern part of the country, RIA Novosti cited a military source as saying.“The Daesh [derogatory Arabic name for IS] militants attacked the military airfield in Deir Ez-zor with shells containing a poisonous chemical substance. The defenders of the airbase have reported that a number of soldiers were choking,” the source said.
This latest report adds weight to previous evidence implicating IS in using various forms of poisonous gas to attack targets. Kurdish deputies in the Turkish parliament have previously accused Turkey of supplying Islamic State and other jihadist groups inside Syria with chemical weapons to fight the Syrian government. In an interview with RT, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said that Turkey had provided a clear transit route for the chemical weapons that were deployed against them near the city of Aleppo in early March.
Anti-government militants “took advantage of the ceasefire” to launch attacks against a Kurdish-controlled area near Aleppo in northern Syria, Redur Xelil told RT. “Our sources inside the rebel groups have confirmed that toxic substances were used.”
In early March, Reuters cited local Iraqi governor Najmuddin Kareem as saying that Islamic State fighters had used “poisonous substances” during the shelling of the village of Taza, which is located in northern Iraq.
More than 40 people suffered from partial chocking and skin irritation after mortar shells and Katyusha rockets filled with “poisonous substances” exploded in the mainly Shia Turkmen village.
Moreover, back in February, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed reports that IS had been using chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq throughout 2015.
The OPCW also concluded in October that mustard gas had been deployed in neighboring Syria in 2015. The summary of the report asserts “with the utmost confidence that at least two people were exposed to sulfur mustard [on August 21]” in the town of Marea, located north of Aleppo. “It is very likely that the effects of sulfur mustard resulted in the death of a baby,” the report added.
Moreover, a more recent publication compiled by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) states that 161 attacks involving poisonous or asphyxiating agents, such as sarin, chlorine, and mustard gas, have been committed since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, killing at least 1,491 people.
READ MORE: ISIS militants used mustard gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq – chemical weapon watchdog
Under the 1949 Geneva Convention, such attacks constitute war crimes against humanity. Yet, despite a 2013 resolution passed by the UN mandating the destruction of poisonous gas stockpiles, they have continued.
The Syrian government gave up its own supply of chemical weapons under international supervision after hundreds of civilians were killed by sarin nerve gas in a Damascus suburb in 2013. Western countries pointed the finger at President Bashar Assad for that atrocity, though his government has steadfastly denied the allegations.
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Hillary Clinton on Abortion: “The Unborn Person Doesn’t Have Constitutional Rights”
In a new interview today, pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton couldn’t have made her radical abortion views more clear. Clinton said unborn children simply do not have any Constitutional rights, which would include the right to life.
Ted Cruz on Abortion in Cases of Rape: Punish the Rapist Don’t Kill the Baby
Campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of Tuesday’s primary election, Ted Cruz was asked a question about aborti9on in cases of rape or incest and he his the pro-life position perfectly — indicating his understand of the horror of rape but also highlighting the humanity of the baby.
Donald Trump: Don’t Change Abortion Laws, “The Laws are Set, We Have to Leave it That Way”
Donald Trump has commented on the issue of abortion again with a statement that is ure to upset pro-life voters further after repeatedly applauding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. In new remarks on Friday, Trump said the nation’s abortion laws — which allow virtually unlimited abortions and have resulted in the destruction of 58 million unborn children, should not be changed.
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Ted Cruz on Abortion: Unborn Children Have a Constitutional Right to Life
With Hillary Clinton saying yesterday that unborn children have no right to life — or any rights for that matter- under the Constitution, a December interview that pro-life Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz did in November is making the round again on social media as a response.
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Bernie Sanders Agrees With Hillary Clinton: No Constitutional Rights for Unborn Children
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are two peas in a pod when it comes to abortion. They both believe unborn children should have no Constitutional rights, inducing the right to life.
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Cecile Richards on Hillary Clinton: She’s “The Pinnacle of Everything We’ve Fought For”
The Planned Parenthood-Hillary Clinton love-fest on the campaign trail continues. Campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of the Midwestern state’s Tuesday primary, the head of the abortion business talked about how important it is for abortion backers to put Hillary in the White House.
Poland: Prime Minister Backs Measure to Protect Unborn Babies by Banning All Abortions
Two top Polish officials announced last week that they are backing a citizen-lead measure to ban abortions completely in the European nation.
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21-Year-Old Student Hangs Herself After Terrible Grief Following Her Abortion
Three weeks after her abortion, 21-year-old Jade Rees played a popular song about an unborn baby on her phone, then took a rope and hung herself at her home in England.
Abortion Activists Tweet Details of Their Periods to Governor Who Signed New Pro-Life Law
College Students Demand Abortion Clinic on Campus: “It’s Important to Do Well Academically”
Donald Trump: I “Clarified” on Punishing Women for Abortions Since “People Didn’t Understand It”
Notre Dame Faculty Call on University to Rescind Award to Pro-Abortion Joe Biden
Bioethicist Predicts Parents Will Someday Discard Unborn Children Deemed of Lesser Genetic Value
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Pamela Geller April 3, 2016“Integration Is Not the Answer to Muslim Terrorism,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, April 1, 2016:
There is a famous photo of Anjem Choudary, the head of multiple banned organizations calling for imposing Sharia law on the UK whose follower was responsible for the Lee Rigby beheading, getting drunk as a young law student. Friends recall “Andy” smoking pot and taking LSD, sleeping around and partying all the time. Andy was really well integrated, but he still turned back into Anjem.
While the proliferation of segregated Muslim areas, no-go zones in which English, French or Dutch is the foreign language, is a major problem, it is a mistake to think that “integration” solves Islamic terrorism.
It doesn’t.
The Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings seemed integrated. Nobody noticed anything wrong with Syed Rizwan Farook, the San Bernardino shooter, or Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber. They weren’t lurking in a no-go zone. They had American friends, an education and career options if they wanted them. They didn’t want them. And that’s the point.
Bilal Abdullah was a British-born doctor who tried to carry out a terrorist attack at Glasgow International Airport. He wasn’t marginalized, jobless or desperate. He had a cause.
Quite a few converts have become Muslim terrorists. If integration were the issue, white converts to Islam wouldn’t be running off to join ISIS or plotting terrorist attacks like Don Stewart-Whyte, who converted to Islam and planned to blow up planes headed from the UK to the US. Along with his friend Oliver Savant, the son of a secular Iranian father and British mother, they are the reason why you can’t carry liquids onto a plane.Muslim terrorism is not caused by failed integration, but by a conscious disintegration. What is often described as “radicalization” is really a choice by “integrated” Muslims to become religious and to act on their beliefs. Muslim men who formerly dressed casually begin growing beards and wearing Salafist garb. They consciously reject what Western society has to offer because they have chosen Islam instead.
Islamic terrorists have not been alienated by our rejection. They champion an alien creed that rejects us.
The debate over Islamic terrorism is bogged down by a refusal to name it and understand what it is. ISIS is not a form of “nihilism” that European Muslims resort to after being alienated by racism and driven to despair by joblessness. It’s an alternative system that draws on over a thousand years of Islamic religion and culture. It’s not a negative choice, but a positive one. It’s not an act of despair, but of hope.
Social, linguistic and cultural integration won’t stop Islamic terrorism. They may prevent it in some cases and accelerate it in others. But it’s not the primary factor. Religion is. Cultural integration won’t make much of a difference in the face of religious disintegration.
This is the type of integration that is the real problem. Some of the worst Jihadists are culturally integrated and religiously disintegrated. They speak the native language fluently. They are intimately familiar with popular culture. They move easily among the native population. It’s their belief system that is fundamentally disintegrated and whose demands cannot be integrated without a civil war.
Their choices are not a referendum on our society. What we do in response to their terrorism is.
The issue is not economic. It is not linguistic. It is not about alienation or racism. It is about religion. And Europe is not comfortable with religion. It assumes that the religious is political, but in Islam, the political is instead religious. Europe has given no thought to how Islam can be integrated as a religion. Instead it has relied on the assumption that all religions are basically alike and that the aims and ideas of Islam are therefore interchangeable with those of Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and anyone else.
Every Islamic terrorist attack sends the message that its ideas and aims are not interchangeable.
Europe does face challenges of cultural integration. But cultural disintegration isn’t blowing up airports or subways. Religious disintegration is. Cultural disintegration accounts for crime, riots and unemployment. It occasionally feeds into Islamic terrorism, but ideological violence is aspirational. It’s generally practiced by members of the middle class with money, leisure time and lots of self-esteem.
Like left-wing terror, Islamic terrorism is based on realizing a set of ideas about what the world should be like. These ideas are already embedded in the worldview of every Muslim to some degree. This is not a clash of civilizations or even cultures. It is a collision between the political and the religious.
The EU’s Federica Mogherini states, “Islam belongs in Europe…. I am not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture.” Mogherini thinks of political Islam as a social welfare organization with a steeple, like the rest of the political religions of Europe. But political Islam is theocracy. And Europe was never able to integrate theocracy. Instead it overshadowed it with nationalism and then Socialism.
Secular Europe has forgotten what religion is. Religion is passion, conviction and redemption. It is not something that you occasionally live on the weekends. It transforms your life and your worldview.
How do you integrate that? Do you do it with language lessons, job training and a pat on the back?
Islamic terrorism is what happens when Muslims “get” religion. Not of the occasional casual variety, but of the fundamentally transformative kind. Integration assumes that once Mohammed is at university and drinking beer that he won’t suddenly decide to Jihad his way across Europe. But there are plenty of examples that show what a poor and fitful defense this is against the rebirth of a religious conviction.
Cultural integration is an issue, but the real issue is philosophical integration. The real challenge is not in linguistic integration, but in the integration of ideas. And it is impossible to do that without addressing what Islam actually is and what it believes. Islam is not Lutheranism with more Arabic. Political Islam is not a soup kitchen and a used clothes bin. It is a conviction that the world is locked in a titanic struggle between Islam and the infidels, the forces of light and darkness, which must be won at any cost.
How do you integrate an ideology that is convinced that non-Muslim political systems are evil into Europe? What explanatory videos will you use to admonish Ahmed from Syria that he shouldn’t set off bombs at the railway station even though his religion commands him to fight the infidels? Which job will you use to induce Abdul to abandon his fervent belief that everyone must live under Islamic law?
Sanctimony and denial won’t untangle this Gordian knot. No amount of NGOs will turn Islam into something else. Cultural integration won’t transform Muslims into non-Muslims. All it does is make them conflicted and insecure. And that is why it is those second-generation culturally integrated Muslims who go to bars, call themselves Andy or Mo, sell drugs, go to university, who take a detour into Syria and come back with bomb plans and big plans for transforming Europe into an Islamic state.
Cultural integration builds up a conflict with Islam. Some Muslims respond to it by abandoning Islam, others by embracing it. If we fail to recognize this, then integration becomes a ticking time bomb.
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Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 6:30pm | 4/3/2016 – 6:30pm
I never really knew her story, though. But that story is in the news in Britain as part of the British coming to terms with their role in supporting terrorism against Jews in Israel through financial aid to charities and the Palestinian Authority.
Several of our recent posts have addressed this British soul-searching:
Kay Wilson is in the news because The Daily Mail has an extenstive write-up on her story, and how the terrorists who butchered her are being paid by the Palestinian Authority while in prison, a common benefit bestowed on those who murder or maim Jews.
The Daily Mail story is titled You pay two Palestinian terrorists who left this British woman for dead and killed her friend £9,000 each every year – as a ‘REWARD’ :
Two Palestinian terrorists who repeatedly stabbed a British woman in a brutal attack and killed her friend are now each receiving at least £9,000 in ‘blood money’ every year with the help of UK aid.
Kay Wilson was left for dead in an orgy of violence in Jerusalem in which Kristine Luken, an American, was killed.
The attackers were eventually caught and, after admitting their crimes, were sent to prison.
But Ms Wilson was horrified to learn from news reports that her assailants were being paid a monthly stipend equivalent to £750 each effectively from the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Last week The Mail on Sunday exposed how ‘reward’ payments are going via the PA to thousands of terrorists and to hundreds of other prisoners in Israeli jails.
Ms Wilson, 51, and her friend were hiking in the Judean Hills in 2010 when the two men pounced on them, believing both women to be Jewish, although Miss Luken was Christian. After tying the women up the terrorists launched a savage attack.
Miss Luken died from her stab wounds. Miss Wilson still bears a seven-inch scar on her stomach and, more than five years on, breathing still causes her pain.
Ms Wilson said: ‘We were held for 30 minutes at knife point then gagged and bound before being butchered with machetes.
‘I watched my friend chopped up before my eyes, and only survived because I played dead, despite being stabbed 13 times and having over 30 bones broken by the sheer force of the blows.
‘Each time he plunged his machete into me I could hear my bones crunch, and also my flesh ripping from the serrated blade.
Three is a petition that has garnered almost 200,000 signatures (as of this writing) calling for a cut in foreign aid.
Wilson was interviewed two weeks after the attack, and the interview was run in The Jerusalem Post on January 27, 2011, in ‘What a waste, I’m 46 years old and I’m being murdered’
As Wilson recounts the attack minute by minute, her voice stays stoic and calm. She wants the world to know what happened to her in the forest; she wants to share what has happened so she can begin the process of healing.
The two women got out of the car with Wilson’s dog, Peanut, and walked a bit on the Israel Trail. They had wandered off the path to an overlook when suddenly two Arab men appeared and asked in Hebrew if they had any water.
“I was startled… so I answered in Hebrew, which was a mistake,” Wilson said. “I know what they were trying to do, they were trying to figure out if we were Jewish.”
The men gave her an uneasy feeling, so Wilson suggested they head back to the path. She walked in front of Luken and opened the blade of her pen knife.
“Suddenly, she screams, and as I turn around one of them pounces on me, the other one has already pounced on her,” Wilson recounted. “This is the moment I was so terrified.
This was the overwhelming moment of fear for me, this first part.”
She struggled with her attacker, who had pulled out a very long, serrated knife, and managing to stab him in the thigh with her pen knife.
It was this stab that later allowed forensics experts to collect DNA at the site and positively identify the attacker, the Shin Bet said….
Meanwhile, the attackers were on their cellphones, saying over and over in Arabic, “Where are you?!” coordinating with at least one other member of the terrorist cell who was in the getaway vehicle….
As one of the men used pieces of Luken’s jacket to gag the women, it dawned on Wilson that they were going to be kidnapped.
“I’m standing there and I have the most terrible thought: that if we’re going to go sit with Gilad Schalit [in captivity], it’s better to be dead. It’s the most horrendous decision,” she said.
Then the women were separated and Wilson was forced to get on her knees with her head bowed. Suddenly the fear of murder became real.
“I see he gets out his knife and he pushes my head forward and I’m just waiting to be beheaded. I think psychologically at that point I lost all sense of fear. I completely blacked out, all I could think about was that he’d make a clean cut that he wouldn’t be messy.
“I’m waiting for ‘Allahu akbar!’ but it doesn’t come.
Instead, I hear ‘Oh no, oh God,’ and I can hear them starting to stab [Kristine] a few times. The next thing I know…he’s just stabbing me.
“It was so terrifying that there wasn’t a capacity for fear.
I’m just thinking, ‘I’m being murdered, what a waste, I’m 46 years old and I’m actually being murdered.’ I say ‘Shema Yisrael’ and the next thing I know I can hear Kristine really, really crying. And I’m thinking, ‘Stop it Kristine, stop it, you’ll have a chance if you just stop it.’” The first five or six stabs were into her muscles, but when one punctured her diaphragm, Wilson thought it was the end….
Finally the two men left, though they returned a moment later when Luken let out a cry, stabbing her several more times until she stopped making noise altogether. One of the men came over to Wilson, flipped her on her back, and drove his knife into her sternum, where her Star of David had been. Wilson managed not to cry out, and continuing to play dead.
As I mentioned near the start, when I see Kay Wilson on social media, it’s not to spread hate, it’s to spread healing. With the release of The Daily Mail story, she made sure to point out that she was saved by an Arab Israeli surgeon:
Wilson recently told her story outside the United Nations, as hideous anti-Israel propaganda and resolutions were debated and passed by the ill-named U.N. Human Rights Council.
Posted on April 4, 2016
However you want to spin it, facts are facts. The DOJ needs to categorize each and every crime so that they can find the best possible solution to reduce it.According to Portland Community College’s Rut Martinez-Alicea, talking about black crime statistics is racist.
Martinez-Alicea, who is a “SAFE Coordinator” at the college, was one of the first speakers to take part in “Whiteness History Month,” an education project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins and heritage”.
In the video clip, a female member of the class explains how a social media meme based on the claim that “zero black women were raped or sexually assaulted by white men” makes her “want to throw up”.
“That’s physically impossible… everything about this is a lie,” she claims, before going on to talk about the high number of white women who are raped by black men, asserting that “it doesn’t matter what color you are”.
Martinez-Alicea responds by claiming that the meme contains “hidden messages” to communicate the notion that only white women deserve to be protected and that “blacks are being villainized”.
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Here are some more ‘racist’ facts that the politically correct media will never talk about.
– FACT: Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks commit around half of homicides in the United States. DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, blacks committed 52% of homicides, compared to 45% of homicides committed by whites.
More up to date FBI statistics tell a similar story. In 2013, black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compared to 31.1% for whites, again despite the fact that there are five times more white people in the U.S.
– FACT: From 2011 to 2013, 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black. This figure is three times higher than the 13% black population figure. When you account for the fact that black males aged 15-34, who account for around 3% of the population, are responsible for the vast majority of these crimes, the figures are even more staggering.
I have been highly criticized for exclaiming that the United States of America is head for multiple civil wars, all directed by, and deliberately manipulated by, The Left. We are on a collision course with;
As more communities like North Hollywood are successful in taking away Free Speech Rights of those that oppose them, then their quest for conversion to OLIGARKY is realized. All out Socialism is close behind that.
We are witnessing the tragedy Thomas Jefferson warned about at the birth of our Constitutional Representative Republic. His warning was that the government they gave us could only survive by a moral people. Since the Wilson administration our moral character has been on a constant decline as the religion of Liberalism has grown to become the State Sanctioned Religion. As war breaks out, death will be brutal, and eventually our once great nation will be split apart as Conservative Southern States break away from the Liberal States forming three new nations.
Yes, I said THREE NEW NATIONS. The Left is so delusional thinking Islam will side with them and play nice. They will turn all their efforts to take as much of what’s left of Liberal Socialist America for themselves and their Caliphate.
I know many of you don’t like this. I know I maybe losing you as readers. I hope you will just accept my perspective and hang around. I hope I’m wrong.
Jerry Broussard of WhatDidYouSay.org
The Final Cut
Contested Convention / Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2016.
Commentary The Democratic Party has two candidates who are falling all over themselves trying to outdo the other in making people “easy” or comfortable in their poverty. Candidates Sen. Bernard Sanders and Hillary Clinton both want to prove that they are the one willing to give away more free stuff:
You don’t need to work or even try to become successful. The government will take care of you. The only thing that neither wants free is the American people or their speech.
That being said, the GOP race evidences another aspect of Franklin’s quote. Americans are not just comfortable in their monetary poverty, they are also equally comfortable in their spiritual poverty. On Good Friday, the National Enquire ran a story ‘claiming’ candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) – R allegedly had affairs with five women. Anyone bothering to read the article realized it was written as a defense lawyer’s dream. It was filled with “allegedly”, “claimed”, “supposedly” and other such words that mean, “You can’t sue us because we didn’t actually accuse anybody of anything.” It is essentially a page out of CBS News’ National Guard story against George W. Bush that was completely based on fake documents, but that didn’t matter. The story itself was too important.
However, it’s not the fact that a hit piece was used. Such things are expected in elections. What’s troubling is the public’s reaction to it. The best example is Michelle Collins of “The View,” who giddily admitted she hoped this scandal was true, because Cruz lives by a “crazy moral code.” She wants to see a man like that fall.
Another co-host, Candace Cameron Bure, a devout, unapologetic Christian, called Collins out on her statement, rightfully pointing out that Ted Cruz (TX) – R’s so-called “crazy moral code” is actually a biblical lifestyle. Though Collins relented to that fact, she continued to ramble on about wanting to see him fail because “he’s not a good guy.”
Why does she think he’s not a good guy? Because he believes life begins at conception and that he doesn’t think taxpayer money should fund the abortion clinics known as Planned Parenthood? Or is it because he believes in traditional marriage and Christian business owners shouldn’t be forced to participate in a same-sex wedding? Maybe it’s just because he believes in the Constitution and that States have more rights than the federal government. Trump has said many times he would stop such attacks on Christians. If that is the case, this attack on Christian values should offend his supporters even if they dislike Cruz. In a similar fashion, the Black Lives Matters protesters at Trump rallies who intentionally attempt to paint him and his supporters in a bad light should equally offend non-Trump supporters.
Since the time of Woodrow Wilson and the progressive war on America started discrediting Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin, we have crushed our moral compass and discarded our national role models. Resulting is our comfort in our ethical poverty including coveting, greed, pre-marital sex, abortion, divorce, open affairs, lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, gossiping, and bearing false witness. In our enlightened world, we can openly violate the Ten Commandments as long as it gets us ahead. We have become so comfortable and lazy in our spiritual poverty we jump on Twitter to call people “bitch”, “whore”, “slut”, “stupid”, threaten and delight in the thought of a gang rape. We are becoming morally bankrupt towards others simply because they hold a difference of opinion or support another candidate.
2016 Americans name-calling and election-time mudslinging is nothing new in American politics. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had just as nasty of a campaign as we are seeing today. But there was one big difference. The insults of the 1800 election were hurled through articles written by Adams and Jefferson themselves with a few willing newspaper participants. Today we are barraged with a 24-7 news cycle, talk radio, “The View,” podcasts and Twitter. Rather than watching the back and forth of two candidates trying to out maneuver the other, we as a population are throwing verbal assaults at each other and refusing to find common ground.
For a population that has felt crushed under the foot of Obama and political correctness, Trump has given people the feeling of freedom to say whatever they want. At the same time, the anonymity of the Internet has given us the protection to attack anyone with a differing opinion. It is liberating. But in a civil society we need to function under our own personal moral compass or we fall under the weight of our own depravity. As it says in 1 Corinthians 10:23: “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
Adams supporters and Jefferson supporters were able to come together after the election because the insults lobbed were between the two candidates, not the common man. How are we as a people going to unite after a year of personal insults, personal attacks, and personal threats against each other? Some hurling those insults openly profess they don’t want to unite, often saying, “We don’t need you anyway,” and “Get out of the way or get run over.” America, we are in real trouble and unless we enrich ourselves spiritually, or at least morally, it doesn’t matter who becomes president, Clinton, Cruz, Sanders or Trump, we are done as a free republic. We will require a dictator because we will become so uncivilized that society will demand someone come in and put a boot on the neck of those who can’t control themselves.
As Franklin warned, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Is it possible for Trump and Cruz supporters to be civil with each other when we both claim we want to disrupt the establishment, stop ISIS, end illegal immigration, stop refugees, strengthen the economy, and limit the reach of the government? We share common wants and beliefs. Why can’t we share common civility? If we can’t, we will share a common poverty, both in spirit and in the wallet, under Commandant Clinton or Bernard Sanders.
Posted on April 2, 2016
Five men have been arrested on ‘suspicion’ of rape in this case. Do you think the woman who was attacked will ever get the justice she deserves?
Five men, including two believed to be accessories to murder, have been arrested on suspicion of gang raping a girl on-board a special, high school kids-only pleasure cruise in Sweden.
Four men aged between 18 and 19 were arrested when the luxury MS Galaxy landed after its cruise to Finland on Wednesday, with a fifth arrested yesterday. They are all accused of gang-raping an unidentified woman, and face charges of aggravated rape.
The prosecutor has given no more detail about the crime or the victim, and was initially even reluctant to disclose that it was a woman who had been raped.
Although the politically-correct Swedish police have gone to their usual lengths to obscure the identities and nationalities of the suspected perpetrators, a mistake by Sweden’s largest newspaper has revealed the men to be migrants.
Bush’s Legacy vs. Obama’s Legacy
By Philip Hodges 
It all started at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Catholic university in 2014 when a student recorded his encounter with his philosophy professor Cheryl Abbate regarding the issue of same-sex marriage. Abbate had told her class that the issue of “gay rights” was not up for debate, that “everybody agrees on this, and there is no need to discuss it.”
After class, the student discussed the issue with Abbate, but the professor eventually suggested to the student that he drop the course, adding that “some opinions are not appropriate, such as racist opinions, sexist opinions…You don’t have a right in this class to make homophobic comments.” She stated, “In this class, homophobic comments, racist comments, will not be tolerated.”
The conservative university professor John McAdams wrote a post on his blog Marquette Warrior in 2014 exposing the student-professor encounter and criticizing Abbate for her intolerance. He concluded, “Like the rest of academia, Marquette is less and less a real university. And when gay marriage cannot be discussed, certainly not a Catholic university.”
When university administrators found out about McAdams’s critical blog post, it was recommended that he be fired. But their policy required that he given due process and a hearing before a committee. Breitbart reported:
It was announced this week that a “diverse” faculty committee recommended to the university president that McAdams be suspended without pay from April 1 through the fall of 2016 and that he lose his job unless he admits “guilt” and apologized “within the next two weeks.” Specifically, the demand is “Your acknowledgement that your November 9, 2014, blog post was reckless and incompatible with the mission and values of Marquette University and you express deep regret for the harm suffered by our former graduate student and instructor, Ms. Abbate.”
The conservative university professor said their demands are similar to the “Inquisition, in which victims who ‘confessed’ they had been consorting with Satan and spreading heresy would be spared execution.”
By: Ian Bayne on March 30, 2016URL of the original posting site: http://conservativetribune.com/photo-mom-breaks
Tucker, who is 15 years old, is autistic. When he was in fifth grade he attended a study of high-functioning autistic children where he pointed out that he doesn’t have friends his own age.
In an essay posted on The Mighty, a website geared toward those with disabilities and their families, Zumbach Harken wrote about how this photo helped her learn about the way her son’s mind works, and how she found comfort in that. He might have been standing alone, but she knew he didn’t feel lonely.
“Oh, I have friends. Lots of them. My mom’s friends. The people that she works with really like me. Then I have my dad’s friends; I have all kinds of grownup friends,” Tucker said during the study.
He went on to tell the researcher how children his age didn’t seem interested in being his friend, and that he can better relate to adults. Adults just treated him as a kid. Kids treated him like someone who has been diagnosed with autism.
“The kids make fun of me behind my back when they think I can’t really hear them. I can tell they don’t really want to be my friend. They don’t choose to sit by me. They don’t include me in their parties. They don’t take the time to try to understand,” Tucker told his mother.
Children with autism and the parents who raise them face many challenges in this world. Tucker’s next words to the researcher proved he’s up to handling it.
“So, I decided to just be friends with grownups. Really it’s a lot easier. I know they will take the time to try to understand me. They will be kind to me. They will not make me feel sad. So, I just choose to be friends with grownups,” he said, according to Zumbach Harken’s essay.
The validation of Tucker’s words sank in at that moment when his mother gazed at the pictures of her son, completely happy and aware of who he was. Although she teared up, she eventually confessed that the picture no longer bothers her.
And it was because of what she heard while Tucker was being interviewed.
As she concluded in her essay:
“What a phenomenal experience — to hear your child accurately describe his difficulty with peer relationships is amazing and heartbreaking,” she wrote.
“He understands his experience. He was (and is) mature beyond his years – making the conscious choice to be with those who want to be with him and not worry about those who don’t.
“So, that picture above? It used to bother me – but it doesn’t anymore.
“I’ve realized that if it doesn’t bother Tucker, then it cannot bother me.
“Tucker has taught me so much about what it is important in life.
“Being with those who want to be with us… not worrying about those that don’t.
“It took me 38 years to learn that; it took him 10.”
It’s a lesson many, many people never learn — no matter how far into adulthood they get.
H/T Mad World News
Posted on April 1, 2016URL of the original posting site: http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/kid-wearing-trump-shirt-gets-his-tooth-knocked-out-at-school-by-nevertrump-supporters
Yes, beating people over their political views isn’t a Nazi or communist tactic at all.
So a kid named Emanuel got jumped this week for wearing a Trump T-shirt at school. He posted photos of the bloody bathroom.
An April Fool Everyday
ISIS Keeps on Killing / Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2016.
Friday, April 1, 2016
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Donald Trump: “I Misspoke” Saying “Punish” Women for Abortions, Blames “Convoluted” Question
In a new interview with Fox News, Donald Trump says he “misspoke” the other day when he initially said women who would get an abortion after abortion becomes illegal again should be “punished.” Trump blames a question from pro-abortion MSNBC host Chris Matthews on a “convoluted” issue for his misspeaking.
Cecile Richards: Pro-Life People Want Police to Investigate Women After Their Miscarriages
In a new interview about the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s initial comments that he would favor punishing women who have potentially illegal abortions, Cecile Richards used an interview with MSNBC to trash pro-life people and pro-life presidential candidates John Kasich and Ted Cruz.
Arizona Governor Signs Three Major Pro-Life Bills, Including Ban on Sales of Aborted Baby Parts
In a strong victory for unborn babies and moms, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed three pro-life measures into law on Thursday.
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Top Ally of Hillary Clinton Can’t Name a Single Accomplishment
It may be time for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to retire. She is making her fellow pro-abortion legislators look bad.
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New Planned Parenthood Ad Attacks Donald Trump for “Punishing” Women Having Abortions
Planned Parenthood is spending big bucks to attack Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after his misstatement about punishing women who have abortions.
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Feminists Call Actor Jeremy Irons “Stupid” for Saying Abortion Should be Called “a Sin”
Jeremy Irons is under fire from feminists for daring to be both pro-life and an actor.
Woman Who Doesn’t Want to be a Parent Aborted Her Baby: “It Was the Kindest Thing I Could Do”
Rose Miller gives one simple reason for having an abortion: She does not want to be a parent.
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Abortion Activist to Donald Trump: How Dare You Say I Should be Punished, I’m Glad I Aborted My Baby
The pro-abortion backlash against Donald Trump has stretched beyond the borders of the U.S. On Thursday, the British news outlet The Telegraph published an open letter to Trump with the headline, “Dear Donald Trump, how dare you tell me I should be punished for my abortion.”
March for Life President: Pro-Life People Don’t Believe Women Should be “Punished” for Abortions
Abortion “Rights” for Men? Should Men Have the Right to Opt Out of Parenting?
Premature Baby Was So Small She Was Just the Length of a Pen, Now She’s a Healthy 5-Year-Old
Late-Term Abortionist Rushes Woman to Hospital After Injuring Her on 4th Day of 27-Week Abortion
Hospice Owners Ordered Nurses to Overdose Patients to Speed Up Their Deaths
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Trump Spokeswoman: Comment on Punishing Women for Abortions Was “Simple Misspeak”
Trump surrogates are doing damage control for the Republican presidential candidate after he told MSNBC in an interview that women should be punished for having abortions if abortions are someday banned again.
Hillary Slams Pro-Lifers as Women Haters After Trump Says Punish Women for Abortions
Hillary Clinton wasted no time in attacking the entire pro-life movement after Donald Trump made a comment that he later revoked about punishing women who have abortions..
11 Years After They Starved My Sister to Death, We Must Never Forget Terri Schiavo
March 31st will mark the eleven year anniversary of my sister Terri Schiavo’s mandated court ordered death by starvation and dehydration. Her death took nearly two weeks. The inhumanity of what happened to her will never be forgotten.
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Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood Aborting Babies: We Need to “Really Humanize It”
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards has become a favorite for liberal news outlet interviews lately.
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Hillary Clinton Claims Abortion is a “Right Guaranteed Under the Constitution”
In a new interview responding to Donald Trump’s controversial comments about punishing women who have abortions, Hillary Clinton claims there is an abortion right that is guaranteed under the Constitution.
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Abortion Clinic in California Closes Down Because They Were “Not Getting Enough Clients”
A California abortion clinic with a reputation for injuring women recently shut its doors for good.
Why Donald Trump Saying Women Should be “Punished” for Abortions Hurts the Pro-Life Cause
The issue of whether women who have abortions should be punished has been a favorite gotcha question posed to pro-life candidates for years.
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When Abortion Was Illegal, Women Were Not Jailed for Having Abortions. Here’s Why
The political claim—that women were or will be prosecuted or jailed under abortion laws—has been made so frequently by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW over the past 40 years that it has become an urban legend. It shows the astonishing power of contemporary media to make a complete falsehood into a truism.
11 Years Ago Today, Terri Schiavo Died After 13 Days Without Food and Water
Watch as Pro-Life Advocate Ben Shapiro Schools an Abortion Supporter During a Debate
John Kasich: Women Should Not be Punished for Having an Abortion
Pregnancy Centers Win Battle After New York City Attempts to Force Them to Promote Abortion
Tennessee Committee Approves Bill to Stop Profiting From Selling Aborted Baby Parts
Canada: Prince Edwards Island Will Begin Taxpayer-Financed Abortions on the Island
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By Ryan Mauro Thu, March 31, 2016
The entrance to Islamberg in New York state
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 “Islamic villages” in the U.S. Its “Islamberg” headquarters in New York is the most well-known. The Clarion Projectidentified one village in Texas in 2014 and the group mentioned others, including one in Alaska during a frivolous lawsuit it filed against a prominent critic.
Fuqra’s 1994 book, Target Islam: Exposing the Malicious Conspiracy of the Zionists Against the World of Islam and Prominent Muslim Leaders, explains that its establishment of “villages” in the U.S. since 1980 is part of a jihadagainst a Satanic-Jewish-Communist conspiracy that puppeteers the U.S. government.
They have a cultish devotion to their extremist leader in Pakistan, Sheikh Gilani, who they believe is in constant contact with Allahand the Prophet Mohammed and a miracle worker chosen by Allah to lead Islam to victory.
Of course, they state they are against criminality and terrorism (despite being extensively engaged in it) and tout a twisted version of patriotism. Part of the plan is ensuring the spiritual purity of the Fuqra/MOA members by enforcing sharia law in their villages.
“The majority of the Sheikh’s [American] followers purchased land in areas away from urban metropolis and developed small villages, where they could raise their children in a wholesome environment and live a life of pure Islam, free from the decadence of a godless society,” their book states.
Small picture to the left of the print shows a whipping being prepared.
That sounds innocent enough until you look at the picture above. The caption reads, “American Muslims have established their own villages where Islamic Law has been enforced. Here a wrongdoer is voluntarily accepting punishment.” The unclear picture shows a man sitting on a chair, with his back facing a group of Muslims in prayer as a man stands over him. The image is identical to what a former Fuqra member described to the Clarion Project as the procedure for brutal whippings.
An issue of the group’s newspaper, the Islamic Chronicle, from the 1980s has an article about its purchases of land in America and explains: “Sheikh Jilani explained that this will be a territory to set-up a model for Jammah for the practice in its simple and austere manner under the Shariat (Law)…”
Taazarat being administered
Another issue, this one from 1983, (above) has a picture of a man bent over as a man stands over him apparently about to strike him. The caption reads, “Ta’azerat being administered.” The article next to the picture explains that enforcement of sharia law in the villages in America is necessary to protect Muslims from falling into legal sins like gambling, adultery and alcohol consumption.
“The Jammatul Fuqra has been able to establish justice according to Islamic Law, not only in the United States, but wherever Muslims are living under un-Islamic laws. According to the Holy Q’uran, a Muslim is not allowed to follow laws other than the law of the Holy Qu’ran…This so-called ‘freedom’ is actually enslavement by the kufaar [non-Muslims] and Shaitan [Satan]…”
It continues:
“On these sites where Islamic Law is enforced as much as possible, anyone who commits a crime against the Law of Allah is punished according to Ta’azerat….Here you see one person receiving twenty lashes in one [Sharia] court in South America. He was found guilty of violating the honor of a Muslim lady, a crime for which he received a hard punishment with patience and faith.”
The article says that the hudud punishments, such as execution and severing of hands and feet, cannot be enforced in kuffar (infidel) lands like the U.S. Notice that this isn’t a stand against sharia‘s brutal hudud punishments; just that they aren’t implementable at this time.
One of Fuqra’s newspaper articles announces the formation of America’s first Islamic court, arguing that it is in compliance with the country’s religious freedom. Judges have been trained and appointed by Sheikh Gilani.
The Clarion Project has obtained a copy of the Islamic Court’s letterhead (above), which was originally found by law enforcement personnel during a raid on a Colorado “village” in 1992 where tunnels filled with weapons were found, as well as proof of criminal fundraising and terror plots.
But one document (see below) found by law enforcement is harrowing in its disclosure about the enforcement of sharia in these villages.
It is difficult to read but its words can be mostly understood with a close look. It is a note written in July 1992 to a Fuqra member that reads, “Stop taking your frustrations out on the children! Some whippings you give ARE UNNECESSARY!” [emphasis original].
Complaint about unnecessary whipping of children
Heartbreaking stories from former Fuqra members told to the Clarion Project include child abuse, desperate poverty, domestic violence and severe beatings of young boys for minor infractions of sharia law, such as watching an American children’s show without approval.
Polygamy is commonplace. One story is about a mother who ferociously protested the forced homeschooling of her child. She was punished so harshly that it can accurately be described as torture.
ALthough these stories are from the early 1990s, but the organization and its villages are still around. The leadership is the same. The membership is mostly the same. The cultish, radical ideology is the same, albeit cleaned up a bit to cope with the negative attention. More recent testimony has come forth that shows that the abuses under sharia continue.
A former high-level member of Fuqra spied for the NYPD and came forward in a book titled Twilight in America by Martin Mawyer. His biggest concern was the treatment of the women and kids. He spoke of illiterate, unhealthy and indoctrinated children who he saw being beaten.
“If somebody breaks a command you could be tied to a tree and hit with sticks,” he explained, including one case of a 50-year old woman which he witnessed. The punishments were for watching unapproved material, cursing, fornication, lying to the MOA officials and other perceived sins against Allah.
“You have to understand this—these kids, all they have been living for their whole lives is they want to fight a holy war. These are kids,” he emphasized.
“You got all these young kids there, you walk up to them, ask them, ‘what do you want to do?’ ‘I want to fight for Gilani.’ That’s what they want. It’s not good.”
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The spin from Fuqra now is that their version of sharia law is not to be feared, for it is not much different than the U.S. Constitution. Its current newspaper (above), the Islamic Post, tries to defend its interpretation of sharia law but, in so doing, delegitimizes the existence of the United States and states the group’s desire to punish its opponents:
“Sharia governs Muslims in how they must deal with each other, as well as non-Muslims. So why are some Americans worried about Sharia? Perhaps the “anti-sharia” hate-mongers are afraid of the fact that it would give those cheated and abused in the past the right to prosecute those who had wronged them — whether by destruction of their properties, physical harm that was rendered, and/or wealth that was usurped. Under Sharia, a person’s lands, if taken unjustly, would have to be given back to them. Following Sharia, the U.S. would owe its very existence to Native American tribes.’
“Americans have no reason to fear Sharia. Muslims are quite content with the current state of American Sharia Law. Establishing Sharia in America is not a concern for Muslims. Especially since it’s already here.”
The documents published here by Clarion Project show that—at least in saying sharia is “already here”–Fuqra/MOA is telling the truth. But it isn’t rosy and non-threatening like they’d have you believe.
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Reported by Randy DeSoto March 30, 2016
“Until yesterday, I had not once removed my hajib in my life while outside. I tried to do it once when I was 10 years old, and my parents grounded me for a week,” she writes.
“Let me tell you something right now, there are no ‘moderate Muslims.’ There are no ‘assimilated Muslims,’” not even her own parents, the young woman continues. “Throughout my life, I have been to three different mosques regularly. Everyone there had some kind of animosity to America. Either they support jihadist actions outright or they refuse to condemn them, or they victim blame Christians and the west.”
“This religion is f–king garbage. You want to know what people at my mosque say to me when I ask them about Trump or about terrorists crossing the border? ‘Don’t speak woman,’” according to ExMuslimMaga.
She relates, “I had joined a feminist group on campus where there were a surprising number of Trump supporters, who have helped me through this [choice]. While they didn’t push me to take off my hajib and renounce Islam, I’ve decided to do it myself.”
The student takes to task liberals on campus for apologizing for Muslims “especially the Bernie girls going around wearing hajibs ‘in solidarity.’ Well congratulations, you are officially a conquered people of the caliphate.”
“When liberals do this and encourage more Muslims to enter the country, people at the mosques are not sighing in relief that whites aren’t racist, they are giddy that they are accepting the new Islamic state so easily,” she recounts.
ExMuslimMaga concludes, “Only Trump is standing up to these animals. We don’t want a single one in our country. If Trump doesn’t win, I will happily die the last woman not covering her head. Liberals have no idea what Islam really is.”
Many people responded to the woman’s post with praise, with some encouraging her to be safe.
“Teflon_Don” wrote, “Hey, listen to me now, stay safe. I wouldn’t parade around the fact that you’ve left Islam or that you used to be Muslim. I’m sure it’s a safer climate for you in America than it is here in Britain, but there are now a lot of people that would want to see you dead for the decision you’ve made…Stand up for what you believe in but keep in mind that the people who disagree with you are very irrational and often violent.”
“Thank you for having the guts and the courage to post this and to stand up for what you know is right,” added “GAforTrump.”
“Moderators on the subreddit claim to have independently verified the post’s authenticity,” the Daily Caller reported.
By: V Saxena on March 30, 2016The paper explained that Palm Beach Count State Attorney Dave Aronberg happens to be a long-time Democrat and former state senator who now works as a campaign operative in Clinton’s “Florida Leadership Council.”
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Lewandowski was arrested after turning himself in to police on Tuesday. The incident between the campaign manager and Fields occurred after a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter on March 8.
Fields alleged that Trump’s campaign manager grabbed her arm in such a rough manner that it left a bruise and almost made her fall:
Moreover, Fields’ claim that she almost fell during the encounter has already been disproved by the following video evidence:
Plus, the man officials in Florida have chosen to go after has a track record for performing his job quite well.
Earlier this month, for instance, Lewandowski’s quick thinking helped stop an anti-Trump protester from attacking a Trump supporter. Yet even then, he faced backlash, as many in the liberal media tried to paint him as some sort of goon.
Because frankly, judging by the evidence from the Fields case, as well as what happened with the anti-Trump protester, it seems like the only thing Lewandowski is guilty of is doing his job.
Woman Prosecuted for Illegally Buying Abortion Pills Left Her Fully-Formed Baby in a Trash Bin
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HB 1523, “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” is based on the principle of protecting minority rights after major social change. In other states where marriage had been redefined, citizens and religious organizations who continued believing that marriage was a union of husband and wife have been penalized by the government. Bakers and florists have been fined, adoption agencies shuttered. So the citizens of Mississippi have acted to make sure it never happens in their state. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage, they’re working to protect their civil liberties.
It’s what Americans did after Roe v. Wade, too. Congress and the states have passed a variety of laws that protect pro-life conscience. In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court invented a right to an abortion. But after Roe legislatures made clear that government cannot require a pro-life doctor or nurse to perform an abortion—that they, too, had rights that required specific protections from hostile judges and bureaucrats.
Likewise, in the Obergefell decision, the Supreme Court redefined marriage throughout America by mandating that governmental entities treat same-sex relationships as marriages. The Supreme Court did not say that private schools, charities, businesses, or individuals must abandon their beliefs if they disagree, but some governments are acting as if it did.
That’s what HB 1523 would prevent. It protects the freedom of conscience for people who believe any of the following three things: 1) that marriage is the union of husband and wife, 2) that sexual relations are reserved for marriage, and 3) that our gender identity is based on our biology. It doesn’t say anyone has to believe these things, it just says that if someone does believe them, the government can’t discriminate against them. So the bill takes nothing away from anyone, it simply protects pluralism.
HB 1523 specifies types of people and types of organizations for particular protections—including religious organizations, medical professionals and professionals working in the wedding industry, and government employees. It crafts careful protections for each type of entity.
For example, HB 1523 says that the government can never discriminate against a religious organization because it declines to solemnize or celebrate a same-sex wedding, or because it makes employment decisions in keeping with their religious beliefs about marriage. It prevents the government from discriminating against religious organizations that do adoption or foster care work in keeping with their religious beliefs about marriage as the union of husband and wife.
When it comes to professionals, HB 1523 says that the government can never discriminate against a surgeon, psychiatrist or counselor because they decline to do sex-reassignment surgery or decline to do marriage counseling for a same-sex marriage. The bill makes clear, however, that it cannot be used to deny visitation or proxy decision making to a same-sex spouse, nor to deny any emergency medical treatment required by law. Likewise, under HB 1523 the government could never penalize a photographer, baker or florist who declined to help celebrate a same-sex wedding.
As for government employees, HB 1523 strikes a reasonable balance. It says that the government cannot discriminate against employees for speech or conduct they engage in in their personal capacity outside of their job responsibilities when it comes to these three beliefs.
Inside of work, it says the government can’t signal out these viewpoints for particular sanction—that employees must abide by common “time, place, and manner” regulations, but no content restrictions on speech at work. It also says that a government employee may seek a recusal from issuing marriage licenses, provided they do it ahead of time and in writing, and provided they “take all necessary steps to ensure that the authorization and licensing of any legally valid marriage is not impeded or delayed.” A commonsense win-win outcome.
Finally, the bill makes clear that the government cannot take any adverse action against any organization that makes access to sex-specific facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex.
Hopefully we will not see a repeat of Indiana and Georgia in Mississippi. Big business and special interests should not attack the state or this bill.
When the bill reaches his desk, the governor should sign it into law, and other states should follow Mississippi’s lead.