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Defund Planned Parenthood Bill Defeated in Senate


waving flagAuthored by Cortney O'Brien Cortney O’Brien | Aug 03, 2015

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Despite the grisly revelations of the past few weeks, which caught Planned Parenthood employees negotiating the sale of fetal body parts as if they were goods and services, the Senate today voted to keep Planned Parenthood funding “intact” (here’s some context behind that word.)

tw01The Democrats who voted against the measure are of course recycling an old argument:

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Yet, as Katie explained this morning, the defund bill would not just halt funding for Planned Parenthood – it would redirect the money to other community clinics that offer important health services and don’t provide abortions.

Today’s outcome was expected. Sixty votes is a challenging threshold, especially with only 54 Republican senators. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) received justified criticism from the pro-life movement when he rejected the opportunity to include the legislation on last week’s highway funding bill as an amendment, which had a better chance of passing.

Despite the failed bill, there’s no doubt that the outrage against Planned Parenthood is growing and the vote was an important symbol in the fight to expose the abortion giant’s agenda. Americans are becoming increasingly aware that Planned Parenthood is not exactly the “women’s health” organization it claims to be and their representatives’ strange and unconvincing defenses are only further damaging their reputation. how many body parts

Update: As least one brave Democrat voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

Update II: The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List has released a statement following the vote, noting the positive pro-life trend in the Senate, despite the legislation’s abrupt halt.

“When the Senate last voted to defund Planned Parenthood, only 42 voted for it. Since that 2011 effort, things have only gotten worse for the nation’s largest abortion provider. The Center for Medical Progress has released less than half of its damning evidence of brutality and callousness at Planned Parenthood and, as more videos are made public, outrage will surely grow,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.

Update III: The final tally was 53-46.burke

Updated IV: Make that two brave Democrats. Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana also voted pro-life.freedom combo 2

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Egyptian President: Obama, Hillary Clinton Failed Thus Far in Libya


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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/24/Egyptian-President-Obama-Hillary-Failed-Thus-Far-In-Libya

Egyptian President Abdel Fattahel-Sisi

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told the Associated Press—without naming them—that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not succeed in fixing Libya, even though they did depose dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

“We long ago pointed out the danger in Libya and we said the mission in Libya remains incomplete,” el-Sisi said in the interview, which was promoted by the Egyptian embassy to reporters throughout Washington, D.C. “Following the ouster of the regime (of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011), weapons should have been collected, the army and security agencies should have been rebuilt, and there should have been help in setting up a democratic system that satisfies all Libyans. That never happened.”

El-Sisi was asked by the Associated Press if he’d intervene militarily in Libya to protect Egypt from the chaos happening within that country.Imperial Islamic President Obama

“We have a border with Libya that is 1,200-kilometers long and through which smuggling takes place,” el-Sisi stated, adding:

“We are making an effort on our side in Egypt to stop that, whether it is the smuggling of weapons or fighters who could enter Egypt and carry out terrorist attacks as in the case of Farafrah (a western desert oasis where a deadly attack on Egyptian troops took place earlier this year). Our people died on two occasions in areas close to the Libyan border. So it is needed that we join forces to deal with what we are talking about here.”

For now, el-Sisi said, Egypt and other nations must trust the Libyan parliament to carry out the will of that nation’s people.

“We and Algeria are keen to see Libya stabilized,” el-Sisi said. Elaborating, he declared:

“The situation there poses a danger not just to us and Europeans, it requires a joint effort to restore stability in Libya. There is a parliament there which represents the will of the Libyan people. We support it, and every member of the international community must support the legitimate authority in Libya now.”

In the interview, el-Sisi said that Egypt is “fully committed to cooperate in counterterrorism in the region and not just when it comes to dealing with” ISIS.

“No, we are talking about full support by Egypt to a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy in the region and the entire world too,” el-Sisi said, continuing:

“We don’t want to limit the confrontation to only military and security measures. I imagine that the comprehensive strategy we’re talking about — part of it would be the security and military confrontation, correct, but it would also include fighting poverty. Economic support for countries in the region is also important. We are also talking about improving education, which is important, as well as changes in the Islamic religious discourse. When all this is done, we will achieve decisive results in counterterrorism.”

El-Sisi’s comments on Libya are particularly interesting—especially the suggestion that deposing Qaddafi destabilized the nation—heading into the U.S.’s 2016 election cycle. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), currently the GOP frontrunner for the nomination, according to most battleground state polling data, has hammered Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee if she runs, for doing just that.

In a recent interview with Breitbart News, Paul argued that Clinton and Obama’s actions led to the destabilization of Libya—and, thus, the Benghazi terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2012—and the rise of ISIS.

“I would say the objective evidence shows that Libya is a less safe place and less secure place, a more chaotic place with more jihadist groups—and really, we’ve had two really bad things happen because of Hillary’s push for this war,” Paul said in the late-August interview:

“One is that our ambassador was killed as a consequence of not having adequate security and really as a consequence of having a really unstable situation there because of the Libyan war, and then most recently our embassy having to flee by land because they couldn’t leave via the airport because of such a disaster in Libya. So I think it’s hard to argue that the Libyan war was a success in any way. From my perspective, the first mistake they made was not asking the American people and Congress for authority to go to war.”Heart

Paul has also now criticized President Obama for not seeking congressional authorization for the airstrikes the President just launched against ISIS bases in Syria, saying that while he would support such airstrikes, Obama should have gone to Congress first.

“I support military action against ISIS but continue to believe the Constitution requires the President to receive congressional authorization,” Paul said in a statement provided to Breitbart News on Tuesday morning.

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Iranian leader celebrates: U.S. has ‘given up’


Iranian leader celebrates: U.S. has ‘given up’

Mocks Obama with banner, ‘America cannot do a d— thing’

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Drew Zahn is a WND news editor who cut his journalist teeth as a member of the award-winning staff of Leadership, Christianity Today’s professional journal for church leaders. A former pastor, he is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching, which sparked his ongoing love affair with film and his weeklyWND column, “Popcorn and a (world)view.”

 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to the stage last week to proclaim the U.S. has “given up” on using military force to stop its ambitions and to boast that a worldwide “Islamic Awakening” cannot be stopped.

Speaking on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic who died in 1989, Khamenei issued his first public reaction since U.S. President Barack Obama asserted in a foreign policy speech at West Point that his diplomatic relations with Iran were proving more effective than the threat of military action.

Sorry YetObama had said that a U.S.-led international coalition has afforded “an opportunity to resolve our differences peacefully” with Iran and, “For the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement – one that is more effective and durable than what would be achieved through the use of force.”

Khamenei, however, took away a very different conclusion from the negotiation table.

Speaking from a stage decorated with a banner proclaiming “America cannot do a d— thing,” according to a New York Times Report, Khamenei proclaimed on June 4 the U.S. has “given up” on military action.

“They have renounced the idea of any military actions,” the leader said. “They have understood that in Afghanistan and Iraq, after a military invasion, they were harmed. Therefore, it can be said that they have given up on the military attack.

“They realized that military attacks are as dangerous or even more dangerous for the assaulting country as they are for the country attacked,” he continued.

Khamenei also used the occasion to predict the global spread of Islam.

“Perhaps Western intelligence organizations give reports that they were able to suppress the Islamic Awakening in our region,” he said, according to an Al-Monitor report. “This will be another one of our enemy’s strategic mistakes and incorrect analyses. It’s possible that in some parts of the world the Islamic Awakening will be suppressed, but undoubtedly, it will not be uprooted – and it will spread.”

Al-Monitor reports that when protests began in the Middle East and North Africa, they were widely dubbed the “Arab Spring.” Many Iranian officials however, viewed them as a continuation of the 1979 Iranian revolution, thus giving them the name “Islamic Awakening.”

In his West Point speech at the end of May, Obama declared the U.S. still reserves “all options to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” but he also talked repeatedly about America’s “costly wars” and warned, “Not every problem has a military solution.”

“Some of our costly mistakes came … from our willingness to rush into military adventures,” he declared. “U.S. military action cannot be the only or even primary component of our leadership.”

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