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May 10, 2019
Happy Friday from Washington, where the Trump administration’s
disclosure that it seized a North Korean cargo ship signals unhappiness
with the communist regime’s behavior. Fred Lucas reports. A pediatrician
visits the podcast to talk about harms posed by
the Equality Act. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on the Times and Trump’s
taxes, Rachel del Guidice on one mother’s tribute to the son killed by
an illegal alien, and Katrina Trinko on surprising tolerance in
Tinseltown. Mother’s Day is Sunday. Enjoy your weekend.
Commentary
A Pediatrician
Explains How ‘Dangerous’ Equality Act Would Force Doctors to ‘Do Harm’
“This is very dangerous legislation in that it literally mandates
that health professionals do harm to people,” says Dr. Michelle
Cretella.
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Special Feature
An
Illegal Immigrant Killed Her Son, a Police Officer. Here’s How This Mom Fights to Save Others.
“The thing that really catapulted me into this fight was the
leniency that’s shown to illegal aliens in our court system, because my
son’s killer was a repeat illegal alien criminal,” says Mary Ann
Mendoza.
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US
Seizure of North Korean Vessel Seen as Unlikely to Affect Relationship
The Justice Department’s action “was a positive step in enforcing
U.N. resolutions and U.S. laws,” says Heritage Foundation expert Bruce
Klingner.
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Commentary
Problematic
Women: Leave Brett Kavanaugh Alone
Months after his confirmation, the left is still talking about Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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News
The
Green New Deal Is a ‘Guise’ to Usher in Socialism, Lawmaker Warns
Rep. Mike Johnson says the Green New Deal would force Americans to
make drastic adjustments to their lifestyles to pay for the legislation,
which he said “would do nothing” to improve the environment.
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Commentary
New
York Times May Have Broken Law by Publishing Trump’s Tax Returns
Confidentiality, as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held in 1991
in U.S. v. Richey, is essential to “maintaining a workable tax system.”
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A Sign
of Hope From Hollywood
In a surprise twist, the movie embarrasses a liberal journalist and advocates tolerance toward Republicans.
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Why Trump misses Bob Mueller
By JAKE SHERMAN, ANNA PALMER and DANIEL LIPPMAN
05/10/2019 05:53 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
SNEAK PEEK … SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CALIF.) has penned an essay for ELLE about being the stepmother to her husband’s two young daughters. Among other things, she wrote about missing a high school graduation for Senate work. The essay, which went live at 5 a.m.: “Sen. Kamala Harris on Being a Stepmom”
NEW … DEBATE DETAILS … The first Democratic primary debate — being aired by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo — will be at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27. It will air between 9 and 11 p.m. Zach Montellaro’s explainer on the 2020 Democratic debate qualifications
TARIFFS HAVE GONE UP! … NYT’S ANA SWANSON and ALAN RAPPEPORT: “President Trump escalated his trade war with China on Friday morning, raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods and taking steps to tax nearly all of China’s imports as punishment for what he said was Beijing’s attempt to ‘renegotiate’ a trade deal.
“Mr. Trump’s decision to proceed with the tariff increase came after a pivotal round of trade talks in Washington on Thursday night failed to produce an agreement to forestall the higher levies. The White House said talks would resume again on Friday but it remains uncertain whether the two sides can bridge the differences that have arisen over the past week. … In a statement on Friday, China’s Ministry of Commerce said that the government ‘deeply regrets that it will have to take necessary countermeasures.’ It didn’t specify what those countermeasures might be.” NYT
— N.B., via WaPo’s David Lynch and Damian Paletta: “Because the higher tariffs apply only to goods that leave China on Friday — not shipments already approaching American shores — officials still have time to work out a last-minute solution.” WaPo
— ASIAN MARKETS BOUNCE … FT: “Chinese stocks finished higher despite the impasse. China’s CSI 300 index of major stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed up 3.6 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was 1 per cent higher. China’s onshore renminbi, which is permitted to trade within 2 per cent on either side of a daily midpoint set by China’s central bank, strengthened by 0.3 per cent against the dollar.” FT
— NANCY COOK and BEN WHITE: “Trump gambles with economy on China showdown as 2020 looms”
JUST CAN’T QUIT HIM … 2020 DEMOCRATS are hardly talking about BOB MUELLER any more. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL has said the Mueller report is the last word in the investigation, and argued the case is closed.
THERE’S JUST ONE PERSON who can’t quit MUELLER: President DONALD TRUMP. In one news conference Thursday, he said the Mueller report was “the Bible,” and he called it “beautiful” and “perfect.” He regularly tweets about the special counsel and, when it’s convenient, seems to take his report as the last word on the 2016 election.
IT’S ALMOST AS IF Trump feels like the report represents a victory in his long-running war against elites. And it’s almost — almost — like he misses the “witch hunt” he railed against for 22 months.
Good Friday morning.
FOR YOUR RADAR — AP/DUBAI: “B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.” AP
BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE: “Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena”: “Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump’s eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe.
“But despite a day facing attacks from the highest rungs of party leadership, Burr is unmoved, according to colleagues in both parties. … Burr, known for his independent streak, appeared happy to ignore the political storm he had fueled. ‘I told you I’m not going to chat right now. I’m in the middle of something,’ Burr said as he made his way to lunch in the Senate dining room. Afterward, he posed for pictures with his lunch guests, then walked into the Capitol and kept his public silence.” POLITICO
THIS IS A FIRST — KYLE CHENEY and ANDREW DESIDERIO: “House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Schiff”
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THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT? … “Democrats weigh new impeachment rationale: Gathering evidence,” by Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein: “Democrats know that impeachment is a losing proposition against President Donald Trump right now. But there’s another rationale for launching impeachment that has some Democrats reconsidering the idea — getting access to the sensitive documents and testimony that Trump’s team is withholding.
“Judges have repeatedly ruled that Congress has a greater claim to sensitive government documents and personal information when it can point to an ongoing legal matter, instead of just a congressional investigation or legislative debate. And impeachment would give lawmakers that legal matter — the process is essentially a court procedure run by Congress where the House brings charges and the Senate holds the trial.” POLITICO
MEANWHILE … NYT’S KEN VOGEL: “Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump”: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Mr. Trump.
“Mr. Giuliani said he plans to travel to Kiev … in the coming days and wants to meet with the nation’s president-elect to urge him to pursue inquiries that allies of the White House contend could yield new information about two matters of intense interest to Mr. Trump.
“One is the origin of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The other is the involvement of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son in a gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.” NYT
ONE WAY TO HANDLE TRUMP … ROY BLUNT’S TRUMP STRATEGY: “Bluntly speaking, senator says he long ago determined it was futile to try to change Trump,” by St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Chuck Raasch: “From ‘day one,’ Roy Blunt says, he determined it was futile to try to alter the way President Donald Trump operates. So Blunt decided that ‘you can get a whole lot done if you minimize wasting time on things you can’t do anything about.’ …
“‘I have been less concerned by that than many of my colleagues have,’ Blunt said. ‘One, I have never thought from day one that you are going to dramatically change him as a person or the way he communicated through the entire campaign. And I believe there haven’t been very many instances where I have given him advice on this topic — publicly, or any other way. And in spite of all of the complaints he has heard from all kinds of people … about how we wish he’d quit doing that, I think that is a waste of time.’” STL Post-Dispatch
TRACKING TRADE … THE PRESIDENT’S TOP LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY … VP MIKE PENCE was in Minnesota on Thursday — the most visible surrogate so far selling the USMCA. Pence argued that Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson (D) should exert pressure to get the trade deal to the floor. The story
THE LATEST ON DISASTER FUNDING — “Senate Republicans propose more Puerto Rico aid in latest offer to Democrats,” by Sarah Ferris and John Bresnahan: “Senate Republicans on Thursday floated a new disaster aid proposal to Democrats to break the logjam over Puerto Rico, but it is unlikely to end the bitter, monthslong stalemate that has frustrated both parties, according to multiple aides.
“The Republicans’ latest funding offer would add billions of dollars to the Senate’s existing disaster bill, which would dole out badly needed cash to states ravaged by wildfires, hurricanes and severe flooding. It includes hundreds of millions more for Puerto Rico, but falls short of resolving the key sticking point, which has pitted Democrats against President Donald Trump since last year.
“‘It is a more realistic offer than last time, but that’s not saying much,’ one Democratic aide said.” POLITICO
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2020 WATCH — “Stacey Abrams: 2020 presidential run possible,” by Jordyn Hermani: “Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who lost the contentious race for governor race last year, has not ruled out the possibility of running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In an excerpt from a new interview for ‘Pod Save America,’ Abrams simply replied ‘yes’ when asked whether she would ever consider joining the already-crowded pool of candidates.” POLITICO
— BOSTON GLOBE’S TODD WALLACK, JESS BIDGOOD and LIZ GOODWIN: “Dazzled by a big field, home-state donors are slow to support Elizabeth Warren and others”
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president and first lady Melania Trump will participate in a celebration of military mothers at 4:15 p.m. in the East Room.
PLAYBOOK READS
POLITICO MAGAZINE’S FRIDAY COVER: “Beto’s Long History of Failing Upward,” by Michael Kruse: “Celebrating defeat is unusual for a politician, and doing so makes O’Rourke notably different from the rest of the unwieldy field of Democrats running for president. … O’Rourke instead presents his loss to [Texas Sen. Ted] Cruz as a prominent selling point. … For O’Rourke, the phenomenon on display in that race—failure without negative effects, and with perhaps even some kind of personal boost—is a feature of his life and career. That biography is marked as much by meandering, missteps and moments of melancholic searching as by résumé-boosting victories and honors.” POLITICO Magazine
NORTH KOREA LATEST — “Trump and Kim battled subordinates ahead of spike in tensions,” by WaPo’s John Hudson and Josh Dawsey: “Trump has grown frustrated with public criticism of his administration’s tactics and complained privately that [North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] makes for a tough and mercurial negotiating partner.
“‘It’s not like [I’m] dealing with the president of France,’ Trump said at a recent private gathering of supporters … The president told the group a graphically detailed story in which he said Kim had killed his uncle Jang Song Thaek and displayed his head for others to see, the person present said.
“The claim about Kim displaying Jang’s head is a curiosity. Though North Korean state-run media announced in 2013 that Jang had been executed, there are no public reports of a corpse exhibition and he is believed to have been killed by firing squad.” WaPo
— OH, OK … ABC’S TARA PALMERI: “Kim Jong Un wanted ‘famous’ U.S. basketball players as part of denuclearization deal: Sources”: “The request was made in writing, officials said, as part of the cultural exchange between the two countries, and at one point the North Koreans insisted that it be included in the joint statement on denuclearization. The North Koreans also made a request for the exchange of orchestras between the two countries.” ABC
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IRAN LATEST … NBC: “Trump’s top intelligence and military advisers held unusual meeting at CIA on Iran, officials say”
SHOT: “Trump to Iran: Call me, maybe”: POLITICO… CHASER: “Deputy Guards chief says Iran will not hold talks with U.S.”: Reuters
BACKSTORY … “Trump taps Shanahan to be next Pentagon chief,” by Connor O’Brien, David Brown and Eliana Johnson: “[Pat] Shanahan’s nomination did not come immediately — or easily … In fact, Shanahan traveled to the White House twice during the past two weeks thinking the president would nominate him, only to return to the Pentagon empty-handed, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. On one of those occasions, Trump instead reamed out Shanahan over the Pentagon’s progress in building barriers on the Southern border.” POLITICO … More on Shanahan’s confirmation fight
TOP-ED … ANITA HILL in the NYT: “Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence”
MARIIA BUTINA SPEAKS OUT — She told NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly:“I love both countries, and I was building peace. This is the worst thing of my situation now and they’ve mentioned this in my last word in the court was that I am embarrassed that instead of creating peace, by not registering I created discord — that is what I’m going to carry for the whole my life. …
“‘I should have registered [as a foreign agent], which I didn’t. And this is why the whole this thing got started. But that wouldn’t be appropriate to say that this was all one grand giant plan. And I’m a part of some grand giant plan. There is no proof of that.” NPR
MEDIAWATCH … VANITY FAIR’S JOE POMPEO: “Leaked Drone-Wars Documents Lead to a Third Indictment of Apparent Intercept Source: Insiders say the arrest highlights the risks of publishing full documents. But ‘the whole leak-investigation process has been politicized under Trump.’” Vanity Fair
— SHOWTIME HAS RELEASED the trailer for “The Loudest Voice” — a seven-part series about Fox News and Roger Ailes. Russell Crowe stars as Ailes in the series, which is based on Gabe Sherman’s book. The series debuts June 30. The two-minute trailer
— Chelsea Manning has been released from jail:Gizmodo
— JACK SHAFER: “Trump’s Fake Fight Against Real News”
— NEW WSJ HIRES: John McCormick will be a national political reporter for The Wall Street Journal, based in the paper’s Chicago bureau. He previously was at Bloomberg. Tarini Parti is joining their national political team; she previously covered the White House for BuzzFeed and is a POLITICO alum. Catherine Lucey will now be a White House reporter for the paper. She previously was at the AP.
— Chuck Todd is receiving the Milwaukee Press Club Sacred Cat Award at tonight’s Gridiron Dinner in Milwaukee.
PLAYBOOKERS
SUNDAY SO FAR …
- CBS “Face The Nation”: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) … Robert Gates … Hank Paulson
- ABC “This Week”: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Panel: Chris Christie, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Maggie Haberman and Seung Min Kim
- FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Panel: Josh Holmes, Jonathan Swan, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Juan Williams. Power Player: Howard Buffett
- CNN “State of the Union”: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). Panel: Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Jennifer Granholm, Rick Santorum and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
- CNN “Inside Politics”: Julie Pace, Michael Bender, Laura Barrón-López and Phil Mattingly
SPOTTED: John Kerry having lunch Thursday in Boston with the real boss — Bruce Springsteen — at the same time Trump was speaking about Kerry and the Logan Act. … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) eating a snack in the American Admirals Club at DCA. …
… Danny O’Connor, who lost the special election for OH-12, meeting with former Ohio gubernatorial candidate Rich Cordray over coffee at Stauf’s in Columbus, Ohio. Pic… Sarah Huckabee Sanders having dinner at Bourbon at the Four Seasons.
SPOTTED Thursday night at the Navy Memorial theater for an MPAA reception and screening of “Trial by Fire,” starring Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern (trailer): Charles Rivkin, Allyn Stewart, Edward Zwick, Merrick Garland, Eric Fanning, Teresa Heinz Kerry, James Blanchard, Jonathan Capehart and Nick Schmit, Eleanor Clift, Adam Liptak, David Leiter, Tamera Luzzatto, Dan Glickman, Tom Quinn, Gary Knell, Lyndon Boozer, Elizabeth Drew, Eric Schmitt and Suzanne Kianpour.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Gabe Debenedetti, NY Mag national correspondent. A trend he thinks deserves more attention: “The global surge of climate activism among young people is getting more attention these days, but I still don’t think its scope is widely enough appreciated. The looming global coffee shortage is actually a serious (and obviously related) one, too.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: POLITICO’s Andrew Desiderio and Nick Collins … Craig Gordon, Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News (hat tip: Tammy) … Rick Santorum is 61 … Stan Greenberg, CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, is 74 … Mel Sembler, former RNC finance chairman and U.S. ambassador to Italy under Bush 43, is 89 (h/t Scott Kamins) … Finch Fulton, DOT’s deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy … Fara Klein, manager of government affairs at the American Forest & Paper Association, is 31 (h/t Samantha Dravis) … Douglas Farrar, public affairs director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is 36 (h/t Jen Psaki) … CNN’s Jeremy Herb … Chris Tuttle … former Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) is 59 … Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is 6-0 … Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) is 71 … Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) is 53 … Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) is 59 … Elise Italiano … Chris Berman is 64 … former Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.) is 68 (h/t Gary Achterberg) …
… Andrew Card, chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, is 72 … Christine McDonough … Clarence Tong … Instagram’s Divya Kunapuli … Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center … Hannah Mooney … Ilona Viczian … Brad Bannon … Michael Turk … Mike Joyce … John Meroney (h/t Tim Burger) … Will Serio … Maggie Thomas, associate at Wiley Rein … Rachel Weisel … Lucy Jackson … BPC’s Abbey Brandon, who recently got engaged to Alec Richards — pics … WSJ’s Adam Janofsky … Carter Foxgrover … Mark Keam … Terry Holt … Kathleen O’Neill … Dave Kluesner … NY1’s Grace Rauh … Emily Dillard … Corbin Casteel … Lance Gould … Andrew Binns … Bryant Avondoglio … Jocelyn Austin Cholewinski … Chris Policano … David Bethel is 72 … Hernan Rozemberg … Erik Curren … Gannet Tseggai … Christopher Berg … Lisa Boyce … Amy Simon … Jackson Salovaara (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
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Friday, May 10, 2019 Georgia Signs ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Ban Into Law “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, a measure that bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks.” AP News From the Left The left opposes the law, which it sees as directly conflicting with the right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. “‘Heartbeat’ is a bit is a bit of a misnomer, since the cardiac activity that is first detected in an embryo is not a heartbeat by any stretch of the imagination; what is first observed is the pulsing of cells that are specializing and will eventually become a heart. At this point in the pregnancy, the fetus has no brain and no face.” Moira Donegan, The Guardian Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) “attempted to justify the law’s scientifically questionable reliance on the detectable heartbeat standard based on the notion that dead people no longer have a pulse… |
[but]
under Georgia law and the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act,
the determination of whether a person is alive is not, in fact, dependent on whether they have a pulse
but whether they have sustained ‘irreversible cessation of circulatory
and respiratory functions, or irreversible cessation of all functions of
the entire brain, including the brain stem.’”
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
“It is not clear whether the bill’s drafters contemplated the more dramatic consequences of granting legal personhood to fetuses.
For instance, as Georgia appellate attorney Andrew Fleischman has
pointed out, the moment this bill takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, the
state will be illegally holding thousands of citizens in jail without
bond. That’s because, under HB 481, pregnant inmates’ fetuses have
independent rights—including the right to due process. Can a juvenile
attorney represent an inmate’s fetus and demand its release? If not,
why? It is an egregious due process violation to punish one human for
the crimes of another. If an inmate’s fetus is a human, how can Georgia
lawfully detain it for a crime it did not commit?”
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
“Some medical experts worry that Georgia’s law could cause harm to women who have nonviable pregnancies
that aren’t identified by the six-week mark. They cite the example of
an ectopic pregnancy, in which the embryo is developing outside the
uterus and will never develop into a viable fetus. An ectopic pregnancy
may not be detectable at six weeks, and as it progresses, it can cause
severe bleeding in the woman. Some reproductive health experts… are
concerned that the law would force a doctor to allow a nonviable
pregnancy to proceed until it is actually causing dire harm to a woman’s
health.”
Pam Belluck, New York Times
“Many abortion-rights opponents believe all fetal life deserves absolute
protection. But that view is not shared by everyone. About 1 in 4
American women have had or will have an abortion, according to the
Guttmacher Institute. The rational option when there are such stark differences of opinion is to let individuals make their own decisions.
For the government to force women to have babies they don’t want is no
more legitimate than it would be to force expectant mothers to have
abortions they don’t want. To use the power of government to deprive
women of control over such a profound and intimate matter should give
anyone pause. But those pushing these prohibitions would do it in a
heartbeat.”
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
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From the Right
The right supports the law, and hopes it will result in the Supreme Court revisiting Roe v. Wade.
“Though it is unlikely that courts will uphold this type of legislation in the near future… heartbeat bills are still a valuable tool in a broader pro-life legislative strategy…
Heartbeat bills force us to consider the reality of abortion rather
than the meaningless jargon concocted to disguise it… What ‘clump of
cells’ has its own heartbeat? Because of bills like the one signed today
in Georgia, more people are considering the scientific reality of fetal
heartbeats and the biological reality that every fetus is a distinct,
living human being.” Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review “Such bills are, indeed, unconstitutional given the Court’s Roe ukase that abortion cannot be restricted before a fetus is viable outside the womb — which means, presumably, before the fetus is a child. But why should ‘viability’ be the dispositive criterion? Viable means capable of surviving outside the womb, which no infant can do without constant help that others must give… No infants are ‘viable’ in that all are helpless, and the law requires that help be given by those responsible for the infant.” George Will, Washington Post Dated but Relevant: “For a long time, the pro-life movement has been committed to incrementalism because incrementalism was all it had. There were no prospects of Roe’s reversal, and the only way to respond politically to abortion-on-demand was to chip away at the right rather than to swing with a sledgehammer… But there’s a change in the cultural winds. We’re on the cusp of a cultural moment… “Heartbeat bills are different in kind from the abortion restrictions that have thus far dominated red-state lawmaking. Rather than merely regulate the practice, they would ‘make it all but impossible for nearly all women to get the procedure.’ The only way to uphold a heartbeat bill is to overturn Roe and Casey. And that’s entirely the point… “If a movement is truly pro-life, and a majority of the state’s voters want to protect and foster a culture of life, then it’s time — it’s time to throw down the gauntlet, declare to the world (and to the Court) that the era of incrementalism is over, and show that the people are ready to embrace life. It’s time for more GOP legislatures to pass heartbeat bills, bring them to the Supreme Court, look the justices in the eye, and ask them to correct one of the Court’s most dreadful and consequential mistakes.” David French, National Review “Only 13% of independents and 18% of Democrats support legalizing third-trimester abortion, and the majority of Democrats still oppose legalizing second-trimester abortion. While the country is split 48-48 between being pro-life and pro-choice, the majority of the country opposes both the morality of and the legality of first-trimester abortion for no reason other than the woman’s preference. This implies a few opinions among pro-choice Americans. Some probably view life as beginning at some post-conception stage of fetal development, such as sentience or the beginning of a heartbeat. Some may view fetuses as lives, but not morally equivalent to someone already born. Others may view abortion as a mere necessary evil and a societal trade-off.” Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. Forget the Patriarchy, “Trans Rights” is the Greatest Threat to Women’s Rights Fascinating. That’s the only word I can use to describe the detailed evolution that Dr. Alicia Hendley authors about her own journey from transgender activist to visceral opponent of the movement. Writing at the Feminist Current, Hendley’s piece reads as part confession, part warning for those who believe in the autonomy, independence, and empowerment of […] The post Forget the Patriarchy, “Trans Rights” is the Greatest Threat to Women’s Rights appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Men Just Don’t Care? Well, Maybe You Should I just finished reading my friend and colleague’s opinion that “men just don’t care,” and while I normally agree with him, I feel compelled to point out the extreme wrongness of his opinion. Because men would never know they were wrong if women weren’t here to tell them. The number one complaint for married women […] The post Men Just Don’t Care? Well, Maybe You Should appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » 9th Circuit Does It Again! The 9th Circuit tends to embitter the right, but every so often they issue a surprisingly reasonable ruling. The Trump Administration developed a policy that required some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims are processed. A judge in federal district court ruled that this policy was likely impermissible. According to Politico, “A […] The post 9th Circuit Does It Again! appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Pain in the Buttigieg: Mayor Pete Stiffs Staffers on Health Insurance Good ol’ Pete Buttigieg. Remember him? He was the Democrats’ flavor of the month until Joe Biden jumped in. Now he’s making headlines for less than savory reasons, and it doesn’t have anything to do with his weird obsession with Mike Pence. Nowadays, Mayor Pete – as his fans and those who can’t pronounce his […] The post Pain in the Buttigieg: Mayor Pete Stiffs Staffers on Health Insurance appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Florida State Bar Takes Aim at Rep. Matt Gaetz Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has proven himself to be a loyal and ardent mouthpiece for the Trump administration. He’s a regular on the Trumpcentric opinion shows that litter Fox News, routinely spouting the kind of over the top partisan rhetoric that has become the norm from the Trump loyalists, at this point in our history. […] The post Florida State Bar Takes Aim at Rep. Matt Gaetz appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Kill the Human Babies; Save the Baby Eels This is by far the dumbest thing you will read today. Two leftwing academics ranked cookbooks by how many animals are killed. Paula Dean turns out to be a hero because recipes would cause the deaths of fewer animals than Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsey, or Mario Batali. But, as progressives are outraged at conservatives for […] The post Kill the Human Babies; Save the Baby Eels appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Breaking Up Facebook is a Stupid Idea The idea that breaking up Facebook will do anything actually useful is a stupid idea. But it is an idea that the political elite have thoroughly embraced.. Unlike some portions of the web, Facebook is entirely optional in your life and you do not have to use it. It is not like a public utility […] The post Breaking Up Facebook is a Stupid Idea appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Men Just Don’t Care Go scream at the sky, lady, because it’s not going to change. The post Men Just Don’t Care appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: You Don’t Have to Work There Equ”ALL”ity Hypocrisy Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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Review: The Illusionists – Live from Broadway
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different times too. Although they …
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Read on » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Friday, May 10, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will participate in the Celebration of Military Mothers event being held in the East Room of the White House. Keep up with Trump on CDN’s Presidential Schedule Page. President Trump’s schedule for 5/10/19 All Times EDT: 4:15 PM The president and first … President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Friday, May 10, 2019 is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump Campaign Uses Ilhan Omar’s Own Words Against Her After She Criticizes His Rally Response By Molly Prince – President Donald Trump’s official campaign used Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s own words against her after the freshman congresswoman criticized the president for his response to a supporter who suggested shooting illegal immigrants. “This was hard to watch and listen to but unsurprising that Trump would laugh about shooting people … Trump Campaign Uses Ilhan Omar’s Own Words Against Her After She Criticizes His Rally Response is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Will the food of the future be genetically engineered or organic? How about both? By By Rachel Ehrenberg – By Rachel Ehrenberg, Knowable Magazine Plant biologist Pamela Ronald is concerned with the pressing problem of feeding the world without destroying it. The question of how to grow enough food for an expanding global population has grown more urgent in the face of climate change. And it’s only made harder, … Will the food of the future be genetically engineered or organic? How about both? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump Is On The Verge Of Flipping The New York Appeals Court To Conservative Control By Kevin Daley – The Senate confirmed Judge Joseph Bianco and Michael Park to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on separate votes Wednesday and Thursday, putting President Donald Trump on the verge of flipping the panel to conservative control. The 2nd Circuit is the federal appeals court that covers Connecticut, New York, … Trump Is On The Verge Of Flipping The New York Appeals Court To Conservative Control is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump To Nominate Patrick Shanahan For Defense Secretary | By Henry Rodgers – President Donald Trump plans on nominate acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to officially take over the top spot at the Department of Defense, The White House confirmed Thursday. “Based upon his outstanding service to the Country and his demonstrated ability, President Trump intends to nominated Patrick M. Shanahan to … Trump To Nominate Patrick Shanahan For Defense Secretary | is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Facebook Is Actively Promoting ISIS Propaganda, Whistleblower Says By Chris White – ISIS terrorists are likely using Facebook’s auto-generated video features to spread propaganda, a new complaint alleges Facebook’s AI tools failed to ding a large number of easily identifiable ISIS-related content, a new complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission notes. The complaint comes as the company is focused on eliminating … Facebook Is Actively Promoting ISIS Propaganda, Whistleblower Says is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » ICE Forced To Release 160,000 Illegal Migrants Families Since December By Sydney Shea – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), unable to maintain its overcrowded detention centers, has released over 160,000 migrant families into the interior of the U.S. in the past five months. “ICE faces resource challenges with regard to the adult population, and it faces additional legal and policy challenges when it comes … ICE Forced To Release 160,000 Illegal Migrants Families Since December is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Justice Department: Vermont’s Exclusion of Religious School Students from Tuition Program not Justified By R. Mitchell – The Department of Justice today filed a Statement of Interest in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont supporting parents and parochial high school students who claim that the State discriminated against them in violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the U.S. Constitution by barring them from … Justice Department: Vermont’s Exclusion of Religious School Students from Tuition Program not Justified is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump ‘Very Surprised’ By Senate Subpoena For Don Jr By Chuck Ross – President Trump said Thursday he was “very surprised” that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had subpoenaed his son, Donald Trump Jr., to testify before the panel. “I saw Richard Burr saying there was no collusion two or three weeks ago,” Trump said at a White House event, referring to … Trump ‘Very Surprised’ By Senate Subpoena For Don Jr is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Facebook’s Co-Founder Calls For Government To Break Up Zuckerberg’s Empire By Chris White – Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes thrashed CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday and called on the federal government to break up enormous sections of the massive social media company. “The most problematic aspect of Facebook’s power is Mark’s unilateral control over speech,” Hughes wrote in a New York Times editorial. The company is … Facebook’s Co-Founder Calls For Government To Break Up Zuckerberg’s Empire is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Georgia business owner, an illegal alien, charged with exploiting illegal workers and firearms violations By R. Mitchell – ROME, Ga. – Illegal alien and Mexican national Juan Antonio Perez, 46, was indicted on federal felony charges May 7 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia pursuant to a years-long investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that culminated in the … Georgia business owner, an illegal alien, charged with exploiting illegal workers and firearms violations is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Defense Secretary Says 256 Miles Of New Border Wall Coming Soon By Jason Hopkins – The Pentagon announced that well over 200 miles of physical barrier is slated to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming months. “We now have on contract sufficient funds to build about 256 miles of barrier,” acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan said Wednesday while testing before the Senate Defense … Defense Secretary Says 256 Miles Of New Border Wall Coming Soon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Voters… Are You Tired and Disgusted, Yet? By Amanda Alverez – If you were a Napa State Hospital – a mental health facility – employee off from work observing the media and Democrats on TV, would you think you were still at work? Is it even possible to distinguish the sane from the insane between work and the media and Democrats? … Voters… Are You Tired and Disgusted, Yet? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Israeli Trump Card – A.F. Branco Cartoon By A.F. Branco – Obama and Kerry seemed to be more on the side of Hamas and the terrorists than they were for Isreal, but it’s the exact opposite with Trump. Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Israeli Trump Card – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Colorado Students Walk Out of Colorado Vigil After Liberals Politicize It By Neetu Chandak – Several students walked out of a vigil meant for a classmate killed in a Colorado school shooting, saying the event became about politics. Kendrick Castillo, 18, died after lunging toward one of the shooters at STEM School Highlands Ranch Tuesday. Eight other students were also hurt. WATCH: Students from the … Colorado Students Walk Out of Colorado Vigil After Liberals Politicize It is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Self-Deportations Rising Dramatically Under Trump Administration By Jason Hopkins – The number of illegal aliens who are choosing to voluntarily deport themselves has spiked since President Donald Trump entered the White House. Illegal immigrants who were granted voluntary departure — also known as “self deportation” — increased by 50 percent in 2017, according to information compiled by The Marshall Project. … Self-Deportations Rising Dramatically Under Trump Administration is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information By R. Mitchell – An indictment was unsealed today charging a former intelligence analyst with illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested this morning and will make his initial appearance today at the federal courthouse in Nashville. According to the … Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Watch: President Trump Delivers Remarks on Ending Surprise Medical Billing By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump speaks about surprise medical billing in an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday. The event is scheduled to begin at 11:45 a.m. EDT. Watch: Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under … Watch: President Trump Delivers Remarks on Ending Surprise Medical Billing is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Sen. Mike Braun’s Backwards Healthcare Reform By Michael R Shannon – Two years too late a senator has finally taken a tentative step toward increasing competition in the healthcare market, lowering insurance costs and removing the dead hand of Obamacare from the nation’s throat. It’s partial implementation of a plan I’ve advocated, but it repeats my mistake and unfortunately adds a … Sen. Mike Braun’s Backwards Healthcare Reform is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » See all breaking news, conservative commentary, political cartoons and more posted to CDN at our Home Page. Follow on Twitter Friend on Facebook Add on Google Plus Copyright © 2019 Conservative Daily News, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list |
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Shanahan’s confirmation as Defense secretary seems likely, if bumpy
The Senate appears likely to confirm Patrick Shanahan as secretary of Defense, barring an unforeseen and damaging disclosure — but not before senators pose some pointed questions of the nominee. Read More…
It’s not too late to keep Huawei’s 5G tech out of the U.K., Sen. Warner says
The U.K. may still be persuaded to bar China’s Huawei Technologies from building the country’s 5G network, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters Thursday. Read More…
Trump calls for end to surprise out-of-network medical bills
President Donald Trump on Thursday called on Congress to pass legislation intended to curb surprise medical bills, an issue with bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill but one that has stalled under intense industry lobbying. Read More…
Bipartisan swipes from McCarthy at House Judiciary and Senate Intelligence chairmen
As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday continued his calls for Congress to “move on” from the special counsel investigation, he swiped at House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr. Read More…
House spending panel advances measure boosting congressional funding
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $3.97 billion fiscal 2020 Legislative Branch spending measure Thursday, following tension over total funding levels and the absence of a final budget agreement. Read More…
Trump aide sees room for talks on Democrats’ opioid bill
Democrats got a surprising compliment from the Trump administration’s top drug control official at a Thursday hearing as they discussed boosting opioid addiction treatment funding, while Republicans promoted efforts to stem illegal drugs through securing the southern border. Read More…
Valerie Plame, famed ex-CIA operative, running for House seat in New Mexico
Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, who was famously outed by a State Department official in the George W. Bush administration, is running for the open seat in New Mexico’s 3rd District, she announced Thursday. Read More…
What is carrot pudding? And other burning questions from Congress’ high-calorie cook-off
Now that I’ve awoken from my food coma, I’m able to share how I (over)indulged at the 37th Annual March of Dimes Gourmet Gala on Wednesday night. Forty-six members of Congress competed in this year’s cook-off, but only six lucky members won trophies, plus coveted bragging rights. Read More…
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Protestors Inside Venezuelan Embassy are In the Dark Back on April 10th, in the wake of chaos over the disputed presidency in Venezuela, government officials associated with Nicolás Maduro invited far left American activist group “Code Pink” and several other far left organizations to stay at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. In the month since they moved in, the protestors have caused severe disruption, property damage, and injury. Venezuelan, Venezuelan-American, and many other supporters of Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president have also become a mainstay in front of the embassy as they oppose the occupying supporters of the socialist dictator, human rights-violating Maduro. Chaos has become the norm on the usually serene Georgetown street. On Wednesday evening, the power to the embassy was cut out by Pepco and the building’s owners in an attempt to temper the unrest and evict the protestors. From the Washington Post: “Waves of cheers rolled up and down the ordinarily quiet street in the elite Georgetown neighborhood at the center of an intensifying standoff between backers of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and left-wing activists who oppose U.S. intervention and support President Nicolás Maduro. With no electricity, the activists who have been living inside the building are adjusting to the latest challenge in their month-long occupation of the embassy. Organizers with Code Pink, a left-leaning organization known for its theatrical and provocative protests, said the utility bills had been paid in full by the building’s owners: the Maduro-led Venezuelan government. The group has been inside the embassy since April 10 at the invitation of Maduro government officials. About two weeks into Code Pink’s residency, Venezuelan and Venezuelan-American protesters began to gather outside. They have not left since.” Pompeo Condemns U.S. and U.K. Support of Maduro Though he declined to name specific names, from a Wednesday news conference in London, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned support of Maduro: From Fox News: “It is disgusting to see leaders, in not only the United Kingdom but the United States as well, who continue to support the murderous dictator Maduro,” Pompeo said during a joint news conference alongside his U.K. counterpart Jeremy Hunt. “It is not in either of our country’s best interests for those leaders to continue to advocate on their behalf.” “The Venezuelan people have spoken through their constitutional mechanism. They have put Juan Guaidó as their interim president. He is the duly elected leader there. Maduro is on borrowed time,” Pompeo said. “To see American leaders, or leaders from this country, to continue to provide support and comfort to a regime that has created so much devastation, so much destruction … no leader in a country with Western democratic values ought to stand behind them.” From the United States, Representative Ilhan Omar has blamed her own country for causing the strife in Venezuela, while fellow freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has refused to denounce Maduro as the rightful president. In the U.K. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the leftwing Labour party, has condemned any outside interference in the Venezuela crisis. Raheem Williams wrote in The Federalist about the alarming similarities between the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela and the political agenda of Democratic socialists in the United States. Meanwhile, in Venezuela Things are not improving. From the Washington Post: “The arrest of a top opposition leader in Venezuela unleashed fears of a wider crackdown on Thursday, even as members of the opposition issued renewed calls for weekend protests in a months-long campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro. The Wednesday arrest of Edgar Zambrano, vice president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly in Venezuela, was the latest move in a protracted, increasingly murky struggle between two camps vying for support of the military, which has seen some defections but whose loyalty to Maduro has preserved his grip on power.” Friday Entertainment Center Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up the social media giant. (CBS News) Yesterday, “It: Chapter 2” released its first teaser trailer. Chilling. (YouTube) Conan O’Brien penned an Op-Ed for explain his decision to settle a frivolous court battle over five bad jokes. Well worth the read. (Variety) Dave Chappelle to receive Mark Twain Prize for humor at the Kennedy Center in October.(People) Fake heiress ‘Anna Delvey’ sentenced to 4-12 years in prison and to pay $200,000 in restitution. She has been housed at Riker’s Island since October of 2017 after a whirlwind tour of tricking New York’s most elite millennials and businesses out of money and services. I can’t get enough of this story. Reportedly, she wants either Jennifer Lawrence or Margot Robbie to play her in the upcoming Shondra Rhimes produced series.(The Wrap) Three production companies are refusing to film in the state of Georgia after Governor Brian Kemp signed the Heartbeat Bill, which makes abortion illegal if the unborn child has a detectable heartbeat. David Simon, Mark Duplass, and Christine Vachon have all vowed not to work in Georgia as long as the law is in place. (The Hollywood Reporter) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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Good morning,Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters believe Social Security is a retirement program that workers pay into during their working years
and receive promised payments back during retirement. A
ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that just 22% see it as a
government program that provides income to senior citizens.That perception is one of the reasons Social Security is viewed favorably by 75% of American voters.The
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able to collect their Social Security benefits.Sixty-three
percent (63%) think workers should be allowed to pay more money into
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age. Just 13% oppose that idea which was first suggested by President
Franklin Roosevelt in 1935. As a practical matter, tens of millions of
Americans are doing something very similar today by investing in 401(k)
plans and other private retirement programs.It’s Small Business Week. Twenty-two percent (22%) of American adults are either small business owners
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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray May 10, 2019 Skyrocketing Attacks On NYC Jews Ignored Because Of Race By David Marcus An epidemic of anti-Jewish violence in Brooklyn is being virtually ignored because many of the assailants are black and Hispanic. Full article Gaslighting On Abortion Intensifies As Georgia Passes Fetal Heartbeat Bill By Georgi Boorman Defenders of the abortion regime don’t rely on science, but on philosophical contortionism that disintegrates upon exposure to actual scientific evidence. Full article ‘Tolkien’ Distorts And Flattens J.R.R. Tolkien’s Incredible Life Story By Titus Techera Why bother with people from another time if we have to always reduce them to boring, conventional people of our own times? Full article It’s Been 15 Years Since ‘Friends’ Ended. So Why Does It Dominate On Netflix? By Emily Jashinsky ‘Friends’ is so valuable to Netflix that it reportedly cost the company $100 million to renew its rights to the show this year. That’s more than three times the previous price of $30 million. Full article AOC’s Insistence Americans Care About Climate Change Heavily Distorts The Polling By Warren Henry Last month’s Gallup poll found climate change was the ninth most important issue, coming in at a mere 3 percent. That result also combines climate change with the environment and pollution. Full article How Charles De Gaulle Made France Great Again By Nathan Pinkoski Julian Jackson’s new biography of French general and statesman Charles de Gaulle illustrates how many lessons from revitalizing France after World War II can help fix present-day America. Full article Government Surveillance Of Political Activists Is Scary, Illegal, And Common By Luke Wachob When powerful government agencies don’t like what you have to say, they have many tools to shut you down. One of the most effective is putting you under a microscope. Full article Democrats Are All About Restricting Ballot Access If It Helps Stop Trump By Kyle Sammin In their zeal to remove Trump from office, Democratic state legislators are making a farce of the Constitution itself, threatening to fully destroy it. Full article Why The Philippines Needs President Duterte’s Harsh Treatment Of Drug Cartels By Seaborn Hall For Western media, Duterte is worse than President Trump. However, media views on the Philippine president reflect deep bias and questionable sourcing. Full article Why Bonnie Hunt Is The Greatest Movie Mom Of All Time By Barry Lenser This Mother’s Day, let’s acknowledge that Bonnie Hunt is more than simply a wonderful actress. She’s nothing less than the greatest ‘movie mom’ of all time. Full article Say Happy Birthday To America’s First Transcontinental Railroad By Christopher Jacobs One hundred fifty years ago today, on May 10, 1869, events in a remote section of Utah helped quite literally bring the country together. Full article How Fishing Can Make Us Into Better People By Casey Chalk It’s not just about the fish, but about the entire ecosystem that surrounds you, that has graciously welcomed you in. Full article No One Likes You, Eric Swalwell By Madeline Osburn Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell, who has branded himself as the ‘Guns and Russia’ candidate, is polling at 0 percent among all 2020 Democratic hopefuls. Full article Impeach Trump Or Go Home, Democrats By David Harsanyi An impeachment proceeding would be far preferable to Democrats’ endless series of manufactured ‘constitutional crises.’ Let’s do it already. Full article Did Robert Mueller Tap Fusion GPS And Christopher Steele To Assist His Anti-Trump Investigation? By Paul Sperry Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. Full article FREE SPEECH AND CONTROL Warren Henry. http://vlt.tc/3mqy “Last week, Facebook banned Alex Jones, InfoWars, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, and Louis Farrakhan, setting off further discussion about the scope of free speech on the internet. Yet the debate over de-platforming is much more about control than freedom of speech.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today. follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences |
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05/10/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Senate Standoff; Ride-Sharing Dems; Quote of the Week By Carl M. Cannon on May 10, 2019 08:05 am Good morning, it’s May 10, 2019, a Friday, which is the day of the week when I unearth a quotation intended to provide inspiration for the weekend. Today’s comes from the mother of a popular U.S. president. It was on this date in 1914 that Woodrow Wilson signed a joint resolution of Congress encouraging Americans “to display the flag…on the second Sunday in May as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.” Motherhood and the flag, eh? It seems that the only thing Congress forgot to include was apple pie. But if venerating motherhood predates Western civilization, the idea of doing it formally in this fashion originated during the Civil War, courtesy of a dauntless woman named Ann Jarvis. All presidents since Woodrow Wilson’s time have weighed in on this holiday, some more evocatively than others. Actions, however, are often more powerful than words, as we’ll explore in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Senate GOP, Dems Headed for Clash Over Russia Endgame. Susan Crabtree sorts out the conflicts emerging following Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr’s decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. Dem Candidates Fault Uber and Lyft — But Are Loyal Customers. Phil Wegmann compares campaign spending on ride-share services with rhetoric critical of the companies. A Don Corleone Offer to China on Trade. Charles Lipson hails the president’s imposition of new tariffs as risky but necessary. Dems Have No Answer on Great Economy, Damaging Tariffs. A.B. Stoddard warns the presidential candidates they shouldn’t count on the Trump boom faltering despite the trade war with China. The Government Spied on Me. You Could Be Next. Sharyl Attkisson updates her legal case against the Department of Justice. Uber’s IPO Rates More of Our Attention. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny writes that the firm’s emergence is a sterling example of intrepid capital being matched by investment bankers with remarkable talent. What Explains Violent Crime Uptick? In RealClearPolicy, Robert Cherry examines various models that dissect the variation in state-level violent crime rates. Five Facts: The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Also in RCPolicy, No Labels offers this overview. * * * Nearly seven decades after Woodrow Wilson called on Americans to fly their country’s flag in honor of motherhood, Ronald Reagan delivered a radio address on the same subject. Near the end of his May 7, 1983 speech, the president invoked his own mother. “Now and then I find guidance and direction in the worn brown Bible I used to take the oath of office,” he said that day. “It’s been the Reagan family Bible and, like many of yours, has its flyleaf filled with important events, its margins are scrawled with insights, and passages underlined for emphasis. My mother, Nelle, made all those marks in that book. She used it to instruct her two young sons, and I look to it still.” Reagan’s mother would have been pleased with her son for that. “Nellie” Reagan, who died in 1962, four years before he became governor of California, was proud of her younger son every step of the way — and for his personal faith and generosity as much as his professional accomplishments. In 1937, she wrote a letter to the family of her former pastor. In it, she mentions that some friends have expressed misgivings to her about Ronald “going to such a wicked place as Hollywood.” In the letter, unearthed recently by Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty, Nelle Reagan assured her friends that her boy is up to the challenge of resisting temptation. “Friends, he does love God,” she wrote, “and he never forgets to thank Him for all his many blessings, and when we visited him, he told me of all the nice things he would be able to do now for Eureka College if he won the seven year contract with Warner Brothers.” This is the height of the Great Depression, remember, and Ronald Reagan came from the hard-pressed American working class. The Reagans, like millions of other families, were on the edge economically. Hollywood, despite its “wicked” ways, could change all that — and Mrs. Reagan was grateful for her boy’s success. “You know he has been a wonderful son to us, his father hasn’t had any work since the 15th of June, last year,” she wrote. “[A]nd during all that time I have rec’d a $60.00 check the first of each month, and another one of the same amt the 15th of each month, and if he signs the seven year contract then he is going to send for us that is the thing that makes me so happy, to think I can live my last days, making a home for him, it’s almost more happiness than I ever expected in this life.” And that is today’s quote of the week. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences Copyright © 2019 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. 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and approved of the gun running scheme that killed Special Agent Brian
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the op-ed, and not in regard to the Palestinians. (There was a lot wrong
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| From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann FIRST READ: Team Trump wants another foreign government’s help for 2020 In 2016, the Trump campaign gladly accepted Russia’s help to defeat Hillary Clinton. And heading into the 2020 race, Rudy Giuliani is headed to Ukraine to push the country’s president to pursue an investigation into Joe Biden’s son, the New York Times writes. “We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do,” Giuliani told the Times about his upcoming visit to Ukraine. “There’s nothing illegal about it,” he added. “Somebody could say it’s improper. And this isn’t foreign policy — I’m asking them to do an investigation that they’re doing already and that other people are telling them to stop. And I’m going to give them reasons why they shouldn’t stop it because that information will be very, very helpful to my client, and may turn out to be helpful to my government.” How isn’t this the biggest political story in America right now – Team Trump wants the help from another foreign government to dig up dirt on an opponent? If you don’t think this is a five-alarm scandal – and instead you’re shrugging your shoulders at this story – then we’ve truly gone down the power-hungry rabbit hole, where anything and everything is fair game. Also: Just because it’s in plain sight doesn’t make it less problematic. And Democrats, if you believe this activity is wrong, why aren’t you passing legislation RIGHT NOW to stop it? Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Trump’s foreign policy tests look even more precarious On Thursday, we noted how Trump is being tested in international affairs on four different fronts — all after big risks the administration has taken. 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Kim Jong-Un calls for “full combat posture” “The leader of North Korea ordered its military to boost its strike capability as he directed another missile firing, state media said on Friday, as tensions grew over tests that appeared to show preparations for a new advanced missile system,” another Reuters report says. 4. Lawmakers urge Trump administration not to further intervene in Venezuela “Talk of possible U.S. military action in Venezuela is prompting bipartisan concern in Congress, where Democrats and Republicans alike cautioned against a rush toward intervention amid escalating rhetoric from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton,” USA Today writes. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 2020 VISION: Hitting the reset button Two months ago, if you asked political pundits to predict who might ultimately win the Democratic nomination, quite a few would have said Kamala Harris or Beto O’Rourke. 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- Georgia LIFE Act: GOP faux-life bill does nothing to end abortion
- Hillsong’s Brian Houston condemns Christian athlete Israel Folau for quoting scripture
- Iranian defector Ali Nasiri is the key to ending Iran’s nuclear program once and for all
- FBI lied: Contrary to testimony, they knew the Steele dossier was fake BEFORE using it to get FISA warrants
- Petition calls for Brie Larson to step down as Captain Marvel so a gay woman of color can take over
| Romans 5:8 – ‘while we were yet sinners’ Posted: 10 May 2019 04:37 AM PDT But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8 (KJV) Is it harder to die for a cause or to allow someone you love to die for a cause? It’s a question that few of us ever ask. It’s a question for which […] The post Romans 5:8 – ‘while we were yet sinners’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| ‘New Palestine’ established in leaked overview of Kushner’s ‘deal of the century’ Middle East peace plan Posted: 10 May 2019 03:49 AM PDT A document circulated by the Israeli Foreign Minister and published by Israel Hayom, the Jewish State’s most popular newspaper, calls for the creation of “New Palestine.” Moreover, it would make Jerusalem an Israeli municipality shared by both nations with areas designated as Israeli and Palestinian. The newspaper circulating the report is owned by GOP mega-donor Sheldon […] The post ‘New Palestine’ established in leaked overview of Kushner’s ‘deal of the century’ Middle East peace plan appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The rise of citizen journalists Posted: 10 May 2019 03:05 AM PDT Citizen journalists like those on this site are fighting back against Leftist domination of the media. Venturing outside one’s ideological bubble is very important in maintaining a proper perspective on what is happening in the nation and the world. Thus, we begin the day looking over the ‘mainstream’ media sites to learn what events have […] The post The rise of citizen journalists appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Georgia LIFE Act: GOP faux-life bill does nothing to end abortion Posted: 10 May 2019 03:00 AM PDT There are several sad realities in today’s Republican Party, but one of the saddest is how they manipulate conservatives by pretending to champion our values every election season in an attempt to get our money and our votes. One of those values is life, or more specifically, ending the holocaust we know as abortion. Like […] The post Georgia LIFE Act: GOP faux-life bill does nothing to end abortion appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Hillsong’s Brian Houston condemns Christian athlete Israel Folau for quoting scripture Posted: 09 May 2019 08:36 PM PDT Yes you read that headline right. This story comes from Australia where the county’s largest megachurch, Hillsong, condemned rugby star Israel Folau for quoting scripture that condemned homosexuality, among other sins, and warned of hell. The two biblical passages paraphrased by Folau are 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21. Now, this, predictably, earned a Fatwa […] The post Hillsong’s Brian Houston condemns Christian athlete Israel Folau for quoting scripture appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Iranian defector Ali Nasiri is the key to ending Iran’s nuclear program once and for all Posted: 09 May 2019 06:49 PM PDT The massive increase in the United States military presence in the Persian Gulf has been reported as preparation for imminent strikes against the United States and/or Israel by Iran or their proxies. As we reported last week, this move was almost certainly prompted by the defection of former Iranian Brigadier General Ali Nasiri who allegedly fled […] The post Iranian defector Ali Nasiri is the key to ending Iran’s nuclear program once and for all appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| FBI lied: Contrary to testimony, they knew the Steele dossier was fake BEFORE using it to get FISA warrants Posted: 09 May 2019 04:45 PM PDT The “evidence” used by the FBI to secure FISA warrants on Trump adviser Carter Page was known to be suspiciously inaccurate 10 days before procuring the warrants, but the FBI used them anyway. In fact, the FBI swore before the FISA judge that the information had been corroborated when it clearly had not. Information had […] The post FBI lied: Contrary to testimony, they knew the Steele dossier was fake BEFORE using it to get FISA warrants appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Petition calls for Brie Larson to step down as Captain Marvel so a gay woman of color can take over Posted: 09 May 2019 02:02 PM PDT I don’t recall being so torn on a petition. On one hand, the constant attempts to intersectionalize Hollywood is silly. On the other hand, Brie Larson is silly. What do we do? A petition on Care2 has garnered over 13,000 signatures of people calling for Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson to step down from the role […] The post Petition calls for Brie Larson to step down as Captain Marvel so a gay woman of color can take over appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| ‘POSTAL BANKING’? AOC, Bernie Call for the Creation of Government-Owned Banks Run by the US Post Office Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled their latest proposal Thursday calling for the creation of non-profit, government banks to be administered through the United States Postal Service.“Credit card interest rates are outrageously high. With @RepAOC, we are introducing legislation to challenge the greed of Wall Street and protect consumers across… |
| ANOTHER NEW DEAL? Ocasio-Cortez Teases New ‘Radical’ Policy Proposal for Thursday Controversial Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teased another new massive federal policy proposal Wednesday night; saying the plan is “radical, which I always love.”“New policy proposal dropping tomorrow with a special Senate co-lead… It’s radical, which I always love, and we’re keeping more coins in your pocket, which I also love,” posted the Congresswoman on… |
| DEEP STATE DEPT. President Trump Says John Kerry ‘Should be Prosecuted’ for Iran Involvement President Trump slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday for his continued ties to Tehran; accusing the top Obama aide of violating the Logan Act that prohibits non-officials from interfering with foreign governments.“You know John Kerry speaks to them a lot, and John Kerry tells them not to call. That’s a violation… |
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