IT’S ON: Justice Department to Probe Planned Parenthood Over Fetal Tissue Practices
Posted: December 8, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Center for Medical Progress, DOJ, Fetal Tissue, Justice Department, Planned Parenthood, Senate Judiciary Committee Leave a comment
John Bowden reports: The Justice Department is moving to investigate Planned Parenthood over the organization’s fetal tissue practices, according to a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
In the letter obtained by The Hill, the department requests unredacted documents from the panel’s 2016 probe into Planned Parenthood over claims that the organization profited off the transfer of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses to research firms.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee, referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI last December, saying at the time that his committee had uncovered enough evidence for the FBI to investigate the claims.
The Hill reported last month that the FBI had asked the Senate for documents it obtained from abortion providers, signaling that agents may be investigating the organization.
The letter sent Thursday states that the Justice Department intends to conduct a “thorough and comprehensive assessment” of Grassley’s report.
“At this point, these records are intended for investigative use only,” adds the letter sent by Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs.
News of the letter was first reported by The Daily Beast.
In 2015, videos released by the conservative activist group Center for Medical Progress showed Planned Parenthood staffers discussing procurement of “intact” and partial fetuses in exchange for compensation for expenses. Read the rest of this entry »
OH YES THEY DID: Courts Dismisses Bogus Charges Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood
Posted: June 21, 2017 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Attorney General of California, California, Iowa, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Sexually transmitted infection, Sioux City, State attorney general, Xavier Becerra 1 Comment
In a huge victory, a California court today dismissed almost all of the criminal charges abortion activists filed against the pro-life advocates who recorded undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood selling the body parts from aborted babies.
“We will now turn our attention to dismissing the final count. Sandra Merritt did nothing wrong. The complaint by the California Attorney General is unprecedented and frankly will threaten every journalist who provides valuable information to the public. This final count will also fall.”
— Attorney Mat Svaer of LibertyCounsel
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed 15 felony charges against both David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. Becerra is a longtime abortion advocate with financial connections to the Planned Parenthood abortion company that the two pro-life Advocates exposed in the videos for selling body parts such as fetal brains and livers.
At the time, pro-life advocates said Becerra’s 15 felony charges were bogus charges meant to belittle the expose’ campaign and to cast aspersions on Daleiden and the organization behind the videos. They said the attempt was about drawing attention away from Planned Parenthood’s sales of aborted baby parts.
The San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday dismissed 14 of 15 criminal counts but the pair are still charged with one count of conspiracy to invade privacy. However the court dismissed the charges with leave to amend — meaning Becerra could re-file the charges with additional supposed evidence against the pair.
The court ruled that counts 1-14 were legally insufficient. The state has the opportunity to amend if it can plead a more legally sufficient and specific complaint. The California’s Attorney General filed 15 criminal counts against Merritt, with counts 1-14 for each of the alleged interviews and count 15 for an alleged conspiracy. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Christopher Hite gave the state attorney general’s office until mid-July to file a revised complaint. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Sierra Club: ‘Abortion Helps the Environment by Controlling the Population’
Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Activism, Barack Obama, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Donald Trump, Illegal immigration, Left Wing, Los Angeles, Michael Brune, Planned Parenthood, Population Control, Radical Left, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Foundation, United States Environmental Protection Agency Leave a comment
Nick Kangadis reports:
…On Thursday evening’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, came on the show to talk about how his organization’s environmentally-focused message relates to other liberal talking points that the club has taken a stance on since Brune has been in charge.
“Well, it helps to address the number of people we have on this planet. We feel that one of the ways that we can get to a sustainable population is to empower women to make choices about their own families.”
— Michael Brune
Carlson asked Brune how the club taking positions on immigration, transgender bathrooms and abortion correlate to the organization’s mission of protecting the environment. Brune was particularly emphatic about the club’s decision to wholeheartedly support the baby-killing machine known as Planned Parenthood.
“Well, it helps to address the number of people we have on this planet,” Brune told Carlson.
Carlson’s shocked face after hearing that sentence come out of Brune’s ignorant word-hole was nothing short of priceless.
“We feel that one of the ways that we can get to a sustainable population is to empower women to make choices about their own families,” Brune continued.
“Why would the Sierra Club, if it’s concerned about population effect on the environment — and you should be, in my view — why would you be agitating for more immigration?”
— Tucker Carlson
Carlson was clearly confused about Brune’s stance, considering that just a minute before, Brune had talked about how deporting illegal aliens from the U.S. would be a human rights violation.
Carlson pointed out to Brune:
Given that, that that’s your position, which is a position, then the United States population has pretty much doubled in the last 50 years. It’s now at about 225ish million, so doubling in the last 50 years is a pretty quick rate of expansion. Most of that has come from immigration, as you know.
Then Carlson hit Brune with a question that called out the hypocrisy of the Sierra Club’s stance on the two separate topics. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] New Book Details Kermit Gosnell’s Grisly Crimes
Posted: January 24, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Abortion, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, Anti-abortion movements, David Daleiden, Delusion, Down syndrome, Heart transplantation, Kermit Gosnell, Mass murder, murder, Planned Parenthood, Psychopath, Serial killer, video Leave a comment
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When the Grand Jury indicted abortion doctor Dr. Kermit Gosnell in 2011, it wrote: “This case is about a doctor who killed babies… What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of 
pregnancy—and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors… Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.”
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Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer (FrackNation, Not Evil Just Wrong) have spent the last few years investigating the case and raising money for a feature documentary about the man they call “America’s biggest serial killer.” Now, in Gosnell, McElhinney and McAleer report their shocking findings, taking readers inside the grisly case the mainstream media hesitated to cover. What really happened in Gosnell’s Pennsylvania clinic? And perhaps more importantly, how did Gosnell get away with infanticide for decades?
Katie Hopkins’ Savage Takedown: ‘Lena Dunham Just Loves Being a Victim’
Posted: December 22, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Abortion-rights movements, Americans, Between the World and Me, Breitbart News, Donald Trump, Girls (TV series), Hillary Clinton, Instagram, Lena Dunham, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Planned Parenthood, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Rachel Dolezal, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Television program, Texas Leave a comment
‘You cannot be a credible young person these days without being a victim.’
Katie Hopkins writes: You cannot be a credible young person these days without being a victim. Or even better a persecuted minority. Or the gold standard – discriminated against.
Even if you blatantly have to misappropriate a cause because the most challenging thing you’ve fought is genital warts.
The Clinton campaign was a perfect example. She was one big ol’ bitch in a pant suit, barking to any American who felt like the underdog; female, gay or Hispanic. Preferably all three.
“No it is not you daft trout. Your life is devoted to trying to position yourself as chief cheerleader for every man-hating opportunity there is.”
She believed she could win on the victim ticket alone. Sod policy! If you were angry at the hand your were dealt at birth, she was the unlikely champion of your cause. A posh white woman who was the WAG in the White House now obliging her supporters to hold posters saying ‘I’m with her’ – when, as it turns out, she was never going anywhere. Except down.
“Posing for pictures. Then calling out the guy on photo-shop for trying to make the images a little less frightening. Being overweight and trying to celebrate it, like diabetes type II is the new feminist frontier.”
I discovered exactly the same types when I went to the Jungle at Calais to assess the migrant situation there.
“I expect she wakes up every day wishing she was black, so she could truly own that cause too.”
By far the most heavily represented group (after angry single men from Somalia) were rich white kids enjoying a bit of charity tourism so they could stick it on their CV. Kids without a struggle, misappropriating the migrant one, so they could pretend to be Bob Geldof.
Writing on Instagram, Lena Dunham apologized and said she had made a ‘sizeable’ donation to an abortion charity
Now Lena Dunham – one of Hillary’s biggest and (since the result) freaked-out celebrity fangirls has had her very own posh white woman moment. Wanting to be front and centre in the fight for abortion rights, she bemoaned, ‘I have never had one, but I wish I had’.
Perpetually outraged types took this vital opportunity to be outraged once more.
‘I can’t even imagine how offensive Lena Dunham’s comments are for women who have actually has to go through with an abortion’, tweeted one man, playing to the offended crowd.
Actually son, not that offensive because we are too busy trying to have sex with our husbands more than once a month, getting smear tests and trying not to pee when we sneeze to notice.
It’s why half of us only find out we are pregnant when we can’t fit into our jeans and our boobs start leaking unexpectedly.
But I don’t need Lena Dunham to see abortion as a cause. And I certainly don’t need her on womb patrol any day of the week.
‘My life is and always will be devoted to reproductive justice and freedom,’ said Lena.
(Comments start at 13:36 mark)
No it is not you daft trout. Your life is devoted to trying to position yourself as chief cheerleader for every man-hating opportunity there is.
Posing for pictures. Then calling out the guy on photo-shop for trying to make the images a little less frightening. Being overweight and trying to celebrate it, like diabetes type II is the new feminist frontier.
I expect she wakes up every day wishing she was black, so she could truly own that cause too. Read the rest of this entry »
How VR Has the Power To Make You Care
Posted: November 24, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Robotics, Science & Technology, Think Tank | Tags: Abraham Maslow, Academy Awards, Across the Line, Blade Runner, Carrie Fisher, Chris Milk, Clouds Over Sidra, Emblematic Group, Harrison Ford, Planned Parenthood, Radar Online, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Tribeca Film Festival, Virtual reality, VR Leave a comment
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‘Across The Line‘ is the latest example of VR attempting to evoke empathy.
Alice Bonasio
Alice Bonasio writes: There’s an iconic scene in Blade Runner where Harrison Ford’s character Deckard meets the replicant Rachel for the first time, but he doesn’t know she’s not human. He then uses a test called Voight-Kampff to determine whether or not she’s a real person. The test consists of a series of questions designed to elicit emotion. The idea – which is beautifully challenged later on in the film – is that machines are incapable of such empathetic responses.
Empathy, in other words, is what makes us human.
With an emerging consensus that the immersive nature of VR is particularly effective in triggering those empathetic responses, we’re seeing artists throughout the creative industries exploring new possibilities for storytelling – with a purpose. Chris Milk’s UN-Commissioned Clouds Over Sidra showed the plight of refugees through the eyes of a 12-year old Syrian girl, while the National Theatre’s Immersive Storytelling Studio production HOME/AAMIR transported viewers to the infamous Calais ‘Jungle’ camp.
VR can even make people feel more empathetic toward more abstract things like the environment, as was recently shown with the Crystal Reef project – showcased this year at the Tribeca Film Festival by researchers from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford. The simulation, where you watched the devastating effects of ocean acidification caused by man, served to connect people to the consequences of their own actions in a much more tangible way.
[Read the full story here, at uploadvr.com]
Journalist and Filmmaker Nonny de la Peña – Co-Founder of the Emblematic Group and affectionately known as the “Godmother of VR” – has long explored the power of Virtual Reality experiences to break through viewer apathy. Her pioneering work often transports viewers into uncomfortable situations – such as a line for food handouts outside a shelter in LA, where you see a man collapsing from hunger next to you – and makes them re-think their outlook on often controversial issues.
The latest of those projects is Across The Line, an experience which tells the story of a young woman going to an abortion clinic. I viewed it recently at London’s Raindance Film Festival – where it was selected for this year’s VR showcase Arcade – and spoke to la Peña and their partners at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) to find out more about how the project developed and what the reaction to it has been like so far. Read the rest of this entry »
How David Brooks Created Donald Trump
Posted: June 1, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Tea Party movement, Winston Churchill 1 Comment
Political establishment denounced bourgeois Tea Party. Now, they must face raucous working-class Trumpsters.
“Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America.”
Glenn Harlan Reynold writes: Last week, in assessing the rise of Donald Trump, New York Times columnist David Brooks engaged in an uncharacteristic bit of self-reflection:
“Trump voters,” he wrote, “are a coalition of the dispossessed. They have suffered lost jobs, lost wages, lost dreams. The American system is not working for them, so naturally they are looking for something else. Moreover, many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country.” (Emphasis added.)
“When politeness and orderliness are met with contempt and betrayal, do not be surprised if the response is something less polite, and less orderly.”
Well, it’s a lesson for a lot of people in the punditocracy, of whom Brooks — who famously endorsed Barack Obama after viewing his sharply creased pants — is just one. And if Brooks et al. had paid attention, the roots of the Trump phenomenon wouldn’t have been so difficult to fathom.
Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America. It’s clear that he’d like a social/political revolution that was more 
refined, better-mannered, more focused on the Constitution and, well, more bourgeois as opposed to in-your-face and working class.
[Read the full text here, at USAToday]
The thing is, we had that movement. It was the Tea Party movement. Unlike Brooks, I actually ventured out to “intermingle” with Tea Partiers at various events that I covered for PJTV.com, contributing commentary to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner. As I reported from one event in Nashville, “Pundits claim the tea partiers are angry — and they are — but the most striking thing about the atmosphere in Nashville was how cheerful everyone seemed to be. I spoke with dozens of people, and the responses were surprisingly similar. Hardly any had ever been involved in politics before. Having gotten started, they were finding it to be not just worthwhile, but actually fun. Laughter rang out frequently, and when new-media mogul Andrew Breitbart held forth on a TV interview, a crowd gathered and broke into spontaneous applause. A year ago (2009), many told me, they were depressed about the future of America. Watching television pundits talk about President Obama’s transformative plans for big government, they felt alone, isolated and helpless. That changed when protests, organized by bloggers, met Mr. Obama a year ago in Denver, Colo., Mesa, Ariz., and Seattle, Wash. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli’s famous on-air rant on Feb. 19, 2009, which gave the tea-party movement its name. Tea partiers are still angry at federal deficits, at Washington’s habit of rewarding failure with handouts and punishing success with taxes and regulation, and the general incompetence that has marked the first year of the Obama presidency. But they’re no longer depressed.” Read the rest of this entry »
Obama’s Legacy? Executive Overreach
Posted: January 5, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense, White House | Tags: Abortion, Abortion clinic, Barack Obama, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gabrielle Giffords, Gun control, Gun politics, Gun violence, Gun violence in the United States, National Rifle Association, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Roe v. Wade, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 2 Comments
Obama can’t do much on guns, but he has mainstreamed a dangerous idea about governing.
David Harsanyi writes:
…The flow of donations to Second Amendment advocacy groups will almost certainly rise, and gun violence — which has fallen considerably over the past 20 years of gun ownership expansion — will not be addressed.
“Perhaps Obama’s most destructive legacy is the mainstreaming of the idea that if Congress ‘fails to act’ it’s okay for the president to make law himself.”
But more consequentially — and this may be the most destructive legacy of the Obama presidency — is the mainstreaming of the idea that if Congress “fails to act” it’s okay for the president to figure out a way to make law himself. Hillary’s already applauded Obama’s actions because, as she put it, “Congress won’t act; we have to do something.” This idea is repeated perpetually by the Left, in effect arguing that we live in direct democracy run by the president (until a Republican is in office, of course). On immigration, on global warming, on Iran, on whatever crusade liberals are on, the president has a moral obligation to act if Congress doesn’t do what he wants.
“If President Bush had instituted a series of restrictions on the abortion industry — since it has a loud, well-organized, and well-funded lobby that wants to make abortions ‘effortlessly’ available — without congressional input, would that have been procedurally okay with liberals? You know, for the children? I don’t imagine so.”
Perhaps Obama’s most destructive legacy is the mainstreaming of the idea that if Congress ‘fails to act’ it’s okay for the president to make law himself.
To believe this, you’d have to accept two things: 1) That Congress has a responsibility to pass laws on the issues that the president desires or else they would be abdicating their responsibility, and 2) That Congress has not already acted.
In 2013, the Senate rejected legislation to expand background checks for gun purchases and to ban certain weapons and ammunition, and they would almost certainly oppose nearly every idea Obama has to curb gun ownership today. Congress has acted, just not in the manner Obama desires.
“Is it really is the work of ‘citizenship’ to cheer on a president who single-handedly constrains Americans from practicing one of their constitutional rights?”
“Change, as always, is going to take all of us,” Obama theorized the other day. “The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone. The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defense of our kids. That’s the work of citizenship — to stand up and fight for the change that we seek.”
[Read the full text here, at TheFederalist]
Get it? You can be with the loud and reprehensible gun lobby who supports allowing criminals to obtain guns “effortlessly,” or you can stand with the kids. Your choice!
Well, not exactly your choice. As a reactionary, I wonder is it really the duty of “citizenship” to cheer on a president who single-handedly constrains Americans from practicing one of their constitutional rights? If President Bush had instituted a series of restrictions on the abortion industry — since it has a loud, well-organized, and well-funded lobby that wants to make abortions “effortlessly” available — without congressional input, would that have been procedurally okay with liberals? You know, for the children? I don’t imagine so.
Cartoon of the Day
Posted: December 4, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: Abortion, Gun Crimes, ISIS, Islam, Jihadism, murder, Planned Parenthood, San Bernardino Massacre, Violent Extremism 2 Comments
UPDATE: San Bernardino Shooting 0.3 Miles from First Presbyterian Church @business
Posted: December 2, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Religion, U.S. News | Tags: Bias, Bloomberg Business, Church, media, news, Planned Parenthood, Presbyterianism, propaganda, San Bernardino, Twitter Leave a comment
San Bernadino shooting happened less than 10 blocks from a First Presbyterian Church
Previous Update: Bloomberg Business tweets nonexistent connection between Inland Regional Center shooting and Planned Parenthood Health Center
(note San Bernardino is misspelled)
San Bernadino shooting happened less than two miles from a Planned Parenthood health clinic https://t.co/eNzSBzW6d7pic.twitter.com/B9vJ5zkhHj
— Bloomberg Business (@business) December 2, 2015
‘This Just Doesn’t Happen in Other Countries’
Posted: December 1, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, France, Religion, Terrorism, White House | Tags: 2015, Abortion, Barack Obama, Charlie Hebdo, Islamic extremism, Islamism, Jihadism, Mass Shooting, murder, November 13, Paris Shootings, Planned Parenthood, Terrorist Attack 1 Comment
“With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. I mean, Nancy, I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”
— President Obama in Paris, 19 days after the Bataclan shootings and 10 months after the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris
#ChaseBankShooting? #PlannedParenthoodShooting?
Posted: November 27, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere | Tags: Active shooter, Chase (bank), ChaseBankShooting #PlannedParenthoodShooting, Colorado, Colorado Shooting, Colorado Springs, Planned Parenthood, SWAT Leave a comment
BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy Drops Out of Race for House Speaker
Posted: October 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Democratic Party (United States), John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy (California politician), Leaders of the United States House of Representatives, Ohio, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), United States Congress Leave a comment
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled out of the race for House Speaker, NBC News confirmed Thursday.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled out of the race for House Speaker, throwing further doubt on congressional leadership ahead of crucial budget negotiations, NBC News confirmed Thursday.
House Republicans said that the party’s leadership election would be pushed to a later date. The California Republican had been considered the frontrunner to replace John Boehner after he surprisingly announced he would leave at the end of October….
Source: NBCNews
FAINTING COUCH: Dem Rep Carolyn Maloney Freaks Out, Accuses Jason Chaffetz of ‘Beating’ Female Planned Parenthood Executive by…Asking Salary Questions?
Posted: September 29, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Democratic Party (United States), Elijah Cummings, Jason Chaffetz, Medical research, National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), United States congressional committee, United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Leave a comment
Carolyn Maloney Sees ‘War on Women‘ Discrimination in GOP Daring to Question Half Million a Year Salary of Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) lashed out at House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) after he questioned the salary of Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.
“I find it totally inappropriate and discriminatory. I’ve never seen a witness beaten up and questioned about their salary.”
— Rep. Carolyn Maloney, suffering a full-blown Victorian case of the vapors
In a charged hearing filled with intense exchanges, Maloney accused Chaffetz of being out of line for questioning Richards’s rising salary.
“I find it totally inappropriate and discriminatory,” said Maloney, the top Democrat on the panel. “I’ve never seen a witness beaten up and questioned about their salary.”
Chaffetz questioned Planned Parenthood’s expenses on travel, its real estate holdings and Richards’s salary in suggesting it is not really putting its money behind women’s healthcare. He noted that Richards’s salary has gone up by more than $100,000 between 2009 and 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Barone: How Effective Was John Boehner As Speaker?
Posted: September 29, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Barack Obama, Booing, Democratic Party (United States), Gateway Pundit, Government shutdown, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States) Leave a comment
Michael Barone
writes: Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics provides more detail and argument in support of the proposition, advanced in my own initial reflections, that John Boehner was an effective speaker of the House — from a conservative 
point of view. First, Trende shows that federal spending has been held down more sharply during Boehner’s tenure as speaker than at just about any other time since World War II. That five-year tenure included five years of a Democratic president and four years of a Democratic-majority Senate.
Second, Trende shows that the October 2013 government shutdown, a model admired by many and perhaps all of Boehner’s critics, was electorally disastrous for Republicans.
I suspect many of Boehner’s critics are simply unfamiliar with these numbers, just like the great majority of citizens. The hold-down of federal spending was accomplished by the sequester procedure which has stayed in place now for four years. It’s not the optimal way to form a budget. But if your goal is holding down spending — and reducing spending from 25 percent of GDP to 20 percent — then the sequester has been very effective, and so has Boehner.
[Read the full text here, at the Washington Examiner]
In listening to Boehner critics, I have the sense they do not understand or appreciate this at all. Similarly, on the shutdown I hear from them a bland assurance that Republicans won a House majority in November 2014, so the shutdown in October 2013 was not a political liability. Take a look at the chart Trende presents, and see if you don’t conclude, as I do, that that’s political wishful thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
Help Wanted: Throw Condoms, Get Paid
Posted: September 28, 2015 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, CNN, Debate, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), The New York Times 1 Comment
Planned Parenthood Paid Condom-Throwers at Carly Fiorina
Planned Parenthood paid some of its supporters who threw condoms at GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and at her supporters during an Iowa Hawkeye tailgate on Saturday.
The payments were briefly mentioned in a story by the New York Times. “On Saturday, women wearing pink, some of whom were paid by Planned Parenthood, protested Mrs. Fiorina at a campaign appearance in Iowa, throwing condoms and chanting, ‘Women are watching, and we vote,’” reported the New York Times….(read more)
Source: Breitbart.com
Carly Fiorina: ‘I Don’t Think The Washington Post Has a Lot of Credibility Here’
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Carly Fiorina, Debate, Donald Trump, Hewlett-Packard, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, The Daily Caller, The Washington Post, Tough Choices: A Memoir Leave a comment
Chuck Todd: A Washington Post editorial this morning is calling it a full-fledged falsehood, Miss Fiorina. They said that it doesn’t excuse your mistruths. They said that you they understand that you have a deeply held belief on abortion but that you’re exaggerating this specific claim.
Carly Fiorina: No. Well, first of all, The Washington Post also claims that I’m lying about being a secretary, so let’s get real. I mean, I don’t even know how to deal with that. I was a secretary. Part-time to put myself through college and full-time after I graduated. The Washington Post gave me three Pinocchio’s for claiming that I was a secretary. So honestly, I don’t think The Washington Post has a lot of credibility here. This is not about being pro-life or pro-choice. It is certainly not about birth control. it is not even about women’s health. It is about the character of our nation. No one can deny this is happening because it is happening.
Source: The Daily Caller
Ted Cruz Zings Outgoing John Boehner Over ‘Early Reports’ That He ‘Cut a Deal’ With Nancy Pelosi Before Resigning
Posted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Democratic Party (United States), Harry Reid, Joint session of the United States Congress, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Ted Cruz, White House Leave a comment
“I will say, the early reports are discouraging. If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal — and then, presumably, to land in a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama’s priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House.”
Cruz told reporters at the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington.
The unconfirmed report came from conservative news site Breitbart. The speaker’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from TheBlaze about Cruz’s charge….(read more)
Source: TheBlaze.com
White Flag: Boehner Resigning in October
Posted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Capitol Hill, Continuing resolution, Democratic Party (United States), Government shutdown, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Ted Cruz, United States Congress Leave a comment
Joel Gehrke reports: House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) announced today that he is resigning at the end of next month.
“Boehner resigning at end of October,” a Republican representative texted National Review from the House conference meeting. A second congressman confirmed the news.
Boehner has been under pressure from a group of rank-and-file conservatives for months, culminating in the House Freedom Caucus vowing not to vote for any continuing resolution to fund the government that contains money for Planned Parenthood. That pledge came after an HFC member, North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, filed a motion to vacate the chair — that is, depose the speaker — in August.
Boehner considered holding a vote on the motion, according to one House Republican familiar with his thinking, but did not do so out of concern that he would not have the support needed to defeat the motion outright.
Boehner intended to resign at the end of the last Congress, but changed plans after then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) lost his primary. Read the rest of this entry »
Fiorina’s Candidacy Should Scare Democrats
Posted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: American Broadcasting Company, Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, CNN, Democratic Party (United States), Hewlett-Packard, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Young Conservatives Leave a comment
Marc A. Thiessen
writes: In the wake of her stellar performance at the CNN debate, Carly Fiorina has shot to second place in the polls, and her ascent raises a possibility that should terrify Democrats: The GOP might just nominate a passionate, articulate pro-life woman as its standard-bearer in 2016.
If that happens, Democrats can say goodbye to their beloved “war on women” rhetoric.
Consider: Hillary Clinton recently compared pro-life Republican presidential candidates to terrorists. “I take it a little personal when they go after women,” Clinton smirked. “Extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups . . . But it’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be president of the United States.”
[Read the full text here, at AEI.org]
That line won’t work so well if the Republican running for president of the United States is a woman.
Neither will Clinton’s oft-repeated complaint that Republicans trying to defund Planned Parenthood want to eliminate access to breast cancer screening. “I would like these Republican candidates to look the mom in the eye who caught her breast cancer early because she was able to get a screening for cancer,” Clinton said.
Fiorina does not have to look that mom in the eye — because she is that mom. “I’m a breast cancer survivor,” she told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” this weekend. “Of course we should be funding those things. But I find it fascinating that Democrats will never support taxpayer funding, for example, for a women’s health center right next door to a Planned Parenthood [clinic] that would provide all those same services and also provide women an alternative to abortion.”
Boom.
Fiorina argues persuasively that it is Democrats, not Republicans, who are “extreme” when it comes to abortion. Speaking at the Susan B. Anthony List dinner this year, Fiorina described how “women come up to me and say, ‘I agree with Republicans on so many things, but I just can’t support this extreme pro-life platform of the Republican Party.’ And the way I answer that always is to say, ‘Well, I can respect that. Have you ever read the Democratic Party platform? Well, here’s what it says: Any abortion, at any time, at any point in a woman’s pregnancy, for any reason, to be paid for by taxpayers. . . . Do you agree with that?’ Nobody agrees with that! Even people who think they are pro-choice don’t agree with that.” Read the rest of this entry »
House Votes to Block Planned Parenthood Funding for One Year
Posted: September 18, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, CNN, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party (United States), Planned Parenthood, Republican National Committee, Republican Party (United States), White House 1 Comment
The funds would be divided among thousands of government-backed health centers.
(WASHINGTON) —Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor report: A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood’s federal funds for a year, as Republican leaders labored to keep GOP outrage over abortion from spiraling into an impasse with President Barack Obama that could shut down the government.
“In the face of these videos, with all the alternatives women have for health, why would you want to force your constituents to pay for something so evil?”
— House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
The House used a nearly party-line 241-187 vote to clear the legislation, which stands little chance of enactment. Senate Democrats have enough votes to block it, and for good measure the White House has promised a veto.
“Some of their members are willing to risk women’s lives just to score political points. Enough is enough.”
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Yet Republicans are forging ahead, sparked by secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they obtain tissue from aborted fetuses for medical research.
Those videos have helped mushroom the longtime political fight over abortion into a prominent issue for next year’s elections. They’ve also refueled Congress’ always-emotional clashes on the subject, with Friday’s debate featuring a poster-sized photo of a scarred, aborted fetus and accusations from each side that the other was simply trying to drum up campaign donations.
“In the face of these videos, with all the alternatives women have for health, why would you want to force your constituents to pay for something so evil?” said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
The bill by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., would shift Planned Parenthood’s federal payments to the thousands of government-backed community health centers, which Republicans said would treat the group’s displaced patients.
Democrats said those clinics are already overburdened and often distant from women who need them. They said the true GOP goal was to whip up conservative voters with bills that would result in diminished health care for women.
“Some of their members are willing to risk women’s lives just to score political points,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. “Enough is enough.” Read the rest of this entry »
‘Fact-Checker’ Challenge: Publish Planned Parenthood Videos that Prove Fiorina ‘Lied’
Posted: September 17, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, CNN, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz, The New York Times, The Washington Post Leave a comment
John Nolte 
writes:
…As an example, the prominent fact checkers at the left-wing Washington Post, Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, attacked Fiorina with this word salad of misinformation:
“As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
— business executive Carly Fiorina
Fiorina might have trouble finding this video to show to Clinton. No video has surfaced showing the scene Fiorina describes taking place inside a Planned Parenthood facility.
But the third episode of secretly taped videos by the Center for Medical Progress includes a disturbing interview with a technician at a biotechnology company that had partnered with Planned Parenthood affiliates in California to purchase aborted fetus parts.
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway has done the yeoman’s work of dismantling these dishonest and dissembling attacks. Here’s the rub:
As for Fiorina’s quote, she is likely referring to the entirety of the 10 videos, including the seventh video released by the Center for Medical Progress. Watch the full video for yourself. It does, in fact, show a fully formed fetus, heart beating and legs kicking. And it shows this while Holly O’Donnell, a former organ harvester who worked for StemExpress at a Planned Parenthood affiliate, graphically discuss the harvesting of a brain from a baby whose heart was beating.
Like the rest of the lying media (CNN, Politico, Vox, PolitiFact, etc.), rather than back up their claim that Fiorina lied with the documentation of the segments of actual videos in question, the Washington Post refuse to. Read the rest of this entry »
Carly Fiorina’s Planned Parenthood Debate Comments Spark Predictable Backlash from Media’s Loyal Abortion Defenders
Posted: September 17, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Abortion, Americans, Barack Obama, Democratic Party (United States), Fetus, Mammography, Mitch McConnell, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), United States, United States Congress, United States House Committee on the Judiciary Leave a comment
Abortion defenders attack Fiorina for her comments about Center for Medical Progress videos.
Ian Tuttle writes:
…according to Politico, Hillary Clinton is likely to make Republicans’ opposition to Planned Parenthood a staple of her campaign: “What will matter for the Republicans a year from now is that each candidate stood on the stage and said they would defund Planned Parenthood,” Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told the outlet, “[and] would even favor shutting down the government in order to defund Planned Parenthood. That is what’s going to stand out from this debate, and that’s what is going to matter a year from now.”
Today was the day we learned that some number approaching zero of reporters have actually watched the @ppact videos.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 17, 2015
Good. It should stand out. Fiorina delivered a powerful statement that highlighted — perhaps for people who had never given it a thought — the spirit of barbarism that animates an organization that receives taxpayer dollars. Perhaps that is something unwitting Americans ought to think about.
[Read the full text here, at National Review Online]
Let’s have this fight. It’s long past time that Planned Parenthood’s unchallenged status as the sine qua non of women’s health care be challenged. Why not talk about how Planned Parenthood, despite its vague “women’s health” rhetoric, does not provide services such as mammograms?
Weird how everyone calling Fiorina a liar aren’t posting the PP video to prove it. https://t.co/DfxQnxWUPw
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) September 17, 2015
Why not give Planned Parenthood’s $528 million subsidy to the 9,000 local Community Health Centers that provide women with a wider range of services (such as mammograms), that are more responsive to local health needs, and that don’t provide abortions? Secretary Clinton: Why not? Read the rest of this entry »
Katie Pavlich: Destroy vs. Protect
Posted: August 22, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: breitbart, Katie Pavlich, NRA, Planned Parenthood, Self-defense, Women's Health Leave a comment
[VIDEO] This is the Mia Love that Republicans Have Been Waiting For
Posted: August 20, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Bill Clinton, Carly Fiorina, CNN, Don Lemon, Donald Trump, Fox Business Network, Hewlett-Packard, Jeb Bush, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Mia Love, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, White House Leave a commentAmber Phillips writes: “It’s absolutely horrific,” Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) told Lou Dobbs on his Fox Business show Wednesday night when asked for her reaction to leaked Planned Parenthood videos showing officials talking about selling fetal tissue. “I get a little emotional.”
And she did, right then and there.
“We’ve got to do everything we can … to make sure that we don’t allow this to happen.”
Early on in the six-minute interview, Love wiped a tear from her eye as she said: “This is not about a right or left issues; this is about right or wrong.” And she choked up when Dobbs went into detail on how many abortions are conducted.
“We’ve got to do everything we can … to make sure that we don’t allow this to happen,” Love said, tears rolling down her cheek.
Love wears many firsts. The first black female Republican elected to Congress. The first African American to be elected to Congress from Utah. And on Wednesday night, she potentially added another: The first time since her 2014 election she has shown why Republicans should legitimately be excited about her star rising. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Critical Race and Legal Theory’ Duke Law Professor Renee Cramer’s Shameless Propaganda Defense of #PlannedParenthood
Posted: August 14, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Abortion, Color and Colonialism, Critical Race & Legal Theory, Critical Theory, Democratic Party, Eugenics, Global Panic, KKK, Malpractice, Margaret Sanger, Media bias, Media malpractice, Planned Parenthood, Political action committee, Racism, Renee Cramer, The Conversation, The New York Times, Time, Time Magazine Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Electric: The Carly Florina Interview that Attached a Car Battery to Chris Matthews’ Balls and Delivered a Heart-Stopping Payload
Posted: August 7, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Benghazi, Bill Clinton, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Chris Matthews, CNN, Debate, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Facebook, Fox News Channel, Hewlett-Packard, Hillary Clinton, MSNBC, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Twitter Leave a commentNorvell Rose writes: In the early Republican presidential debate on Thursday — the one dubbed by some as the “happy hour” debate or the pre-game show at the “kids’ table” — there was one candidate of the seven on the Fox News stage who was singled out by many observers and analysts as the clear winner. That contender was the lone woman in the GOP group — the presidential hopeful who’s said to be very impressive in person on the campaign trail, but who hasn’t yet managed to show well in national polling — the former head of HP, Carly Fiorina.
[Read the full text here, at WesternJournalism.com]
While all seven of the so-called “lower tier” candidates handled themselves well and could be credited with respectable showings, it was Fiorina who dazzled the pundits and the people with her clear-eyed confidence and quick command of the issues. Analysts praised her performance after the 5 p.m. debate and social media was abuzz — some might say ablaze — with kudos for Carly. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Fifth Planned Parenthood Video: Negotiating ‘Intact’ Fetuses
Posted: August 4, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues | Tags: Abortion, Biological specimen, Fetus, Gulf Coast of the United States, Health And Human Services, Houston, Melissa Farrell, National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, Texas, Texas Attorney General, Tissue (biology) Leave a commentMelissa Farrell discusses contributing to the organization’s ‘diversification of the revenue stream’ and the potential to ‘get creative’ with conditions for procurement needs.
Jesse Byrnes reports:
…In the fifth video from the Center for Medical Progress, a woman identified as Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, discusses contributing to the organization’s “diversification of the revenue stream” and the potential to “get creative” with conditions for procurement needs. The video was reportedly filmed this past April at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas.
“Just depending on the patient’s anatomy, how many weeks, where it’s placed in the uterus…we’re going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact, and then some that will not be.”
— — Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
“Just depending on the patient’s anatomy, how many weeks, where it’s placed in the uterus … we’re going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact, and then some that will not be,” she said.
“If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. I mean, it’s all just a matter of line items.”
— Melissa Farrell
“But it’s something that we can look at exploring how we can make that happen so we have a higher chance,” she adds.
“And we’ve had studies in which the company, or in the case of the investigator, has a specific need for a certain portion of the products of conception and we bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this. So we deviate from our standard in order to do that.”
— Melissa Farrell
“And we’ve had studies in which the company, or in the case of the investigator, has a specific need for a certain portion of the products of conception and we bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this. So we deviate from our standard in order to do that,” the Planned Parenthood official says in the latest video.
[Read the full text here, at TheHill]
“If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. I mean, it’s all just a matter of line items,” she adds later. Read the rest of this entry »
Women’s Health: An Important Message From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
Posted: August 3, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Abortion, Breeding, child care, KKK, Margaret Sanger, Medicine, Planned Parenthood, Progressivism, Purity, Racism, Selective Breeding, Women's Health 2 Comments
When a Hack is Not a Hack
Posted: July 30, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Abortion, corruption, fraud, Planned Parenthood, The Federalist 1 Comment
Editorial Meeting: How to Write a Headline
Posted: July 29, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Abortion, Abortion debate, Cecil the Lion, Framing device, journalism, Lion, Mainstream media, media, Media bias, Network News, news, Newsroom, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Life, The Hill Leave a comment
‘Ignore the Story, Cover the Pounce’
Noah Rothman on the Media’s Favorite Framing Device: ‘Republican Reaction’ Stories
#Texas Attorney General: Office Has Received More #PlannedParenthood Videos
Posted: July 29, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Cecile Richards, Health And Human Services, Ken Paxton, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party (United States), Texas, Texas Attorney General, United States Senate Leave a comment
Melaney Linton, president of that clinic, said in written testimony that one individual was shown an area where tissue is processed after an abortion. She said the video ‘will be difficult for many people to see.‘
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Paul J. Weber reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday that his office has received video taken in a Planned Parenthood clinic he says is consistent with other stealthily recorded footage that has Republicans again taking on the biggest abortion provider in the U.S.
While testifying before a committee of Texas lawmakers, Paxton would not divulge details or discuss how his office got the footage, which has not been publicly released.
“The unveiling of other covertly recorded videos released this month by an anti-abortion group, showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing procedures for obtaining tissue from aborted fetuses for research, has put the organization on the defensive.”
He also didn’t specify where the video was filmed, but Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast says actors pretending to be from a health research company toured its Houston clinic in April and talked to staff members. Melaney Linton, president of that clinic, said in written testimony that one individual was shown an area where tissue is processed after an abortion. She said the video “will be difficult for many people to see.”
“Texas is among a handful of Republican-controlled states that have launched investigations, while GOP leaders in the U.S. Senate say they will vote to bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood.”
But Linton said the clinic did not break any laws and defended skipping the hearing by the Texas Health and Human Services Committee.
“This committee has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to hold a responsible, fair, fact-driven hearing. It is clear that this committee cares more about political gamesmanship than the truth,” Linton said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
HQ: Paglia on ‘Snark Atheism’ and How Jon Stewart Has Debased Political Discourse
Posted: July 29, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, Think Tank | Tags: Abortion, Authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders, Camille Paglia, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Jon Stewart, Liberalism, media, New Atheism, news, Planned Parenthood, Reactionary Left, Richard Dawkins, Salon, The Daily Show, United States 2 Comments
“Suppressing information based upon what politics the information might help or hurt — is of course as illiberal and authoritarian an idea as you can have.”
— Ace
[Segments of the Camille Paglia Salon interview via @rdbrewer4, Ace of Spades. Go here for additional commentary at the HQ]
‘All the great world religions contain a complex system of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe and human life that is far more profound than anything that liberalism has produced.’
SALON: You’re an atheist, and yet I don’t ever see you sneer at religion in the way that the very aggressive atheist class right now often will. What do you make of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and the religion critics who seem not to have respect for religions for faith?
PAGLIA: I regard them as adolescents. I say in the introduction to my last book, “Glittering Images”, that “Sneering at religion is juvenile, symptomatic of a stunted imagination.” It exposes a state of perpetual adolescence that has something to do with their parents– they’re still sneering at dad in some way….
“I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone. I hated the fact that young people were getting their news through that filter of sophomoric snark.“
I’m speaking here as an atheist. I don’t believe there is a God, but I respect every religion deeply. All the great world religions contain a complex system of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe and human life that is far more profound than anything that liberalism has produced.
“Now let me give you a recent example of the persisting insularity of liberal thought in the media…”
We have a whole generation of young people who are clinging to politics and to politicized visions of sexuality for their belief system.
“When the first secret Planned Parenthood video was released in mid-July, anyone who looks only at liberal media was kept totally in the dark about it, even after the second video was released…”
They see nothing but politics, but politics is tiny….But this sneering thing! I despise snark. Snark is a disease that started with David Letterman and jumped to Jon Stewart and has proliferated since.
“It was a huge and disturbing story, but there was total silence in the liberal media. That kind of censorship was shockingly unprofessional.”
I think it’s horrible for young people! And this kind of snark atheism–let’s just invent that term right now–is stupid, and people who act like that are stupid….
“The resistance of liberals in the media to new ideas was enormous. Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!”
I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone. I hated the fact that young people were getting their news through that filter of sophomoric snark….
“Liberalism has sadly become a knee-jerk ideology, with people barricaded in their comfortable little cells. They think that their views are the only rational ones, and everyone else is not only evil but financed by the Koch brothers.”
As for his influence, if he helped produce the hackneyed polarization of moral liberals versus evil conservatives, then he’s partly at fault for the political stalemate in the United States….
[Read more at Ace of Spades HQ]
The resistance of liberals in the media to new ideas was enormous. Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true! Liberalism has sadly become a knee-jerk ideology, with people barricaded in their comfortable little cells. They think that their views are the only rational ones, and everyone else is not only evil but financed by the Koch brothers. It’s so simplistic! Read the rest of this entry »
PANTSUIT REPORT: Hillary Calls Planned Parenthood Scandal ‘Disturbing’, Cautiously Avoids Criticizing Planned Parenthood
Posted: July 29, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Politics | Tags: Abortion, Abortion-rights movements, Anti-abortion movements, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Intact dilation and extraction, Los Angeles, Medical practice, Planned Parenthood, The Pantsuit Report Leave a comment
Planned Parenthood ‘a victim of circumstance’.
Chris Stirewalt writes: Hillary Clinton was asked by a New Hampshire newspaper about the scandal surrounding her 
longtime political benefactor, Planned Parenthood. Clinton allowed that she had “seen pictures” from the videos that depict officials from America’s leading abortion provider talking in ghoulish terms about harvesting the organs of aborted babies. Clinton said what she saw was “disturbing” and touted her own efforts in her prior White House stint to reduce the number of elective abortions conducted each year. But Clinton, who is under pressure to return donations from Planned Parenthood, stopped short of criticizing the group. Read the rest of this entry »
Planned Parenthood Plagued by Abundant Resources, Controversial Public Statements
Posted: July 26, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Cecile Richards, Fetal Organs, Fetus, Human, Medical research, Money, Organ (anatomy), Organ donation, Partial Birth Abortion, Planned Parenthood, profit, propaganda, satire, Spin, Tissue (biology), United States pro-life movement 1 Comment
(WASHINGTON) — The president of Planned Parenthood said her organization’s clinics never adjust the abortion procedure to better preserve fetal organs for medical research and that the organization’s charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers.
Planned Parenthood has come under congressional scrutiny after the release of two stealthily recorded videos that showed officials discussing how they provide aborted fetal organs for research. Read the rest of this entry »
Oddly, Planned Parenthood Videos Attract Attention from the Department of Justice
Posted: July 22, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Abortion, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, CNN, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fetus, Louisiana, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party presidential candidates, United States 1 Comment
“I’m aware of those matters generally from the media, and from some inquiries that have been made to the Department of Justice, and again at this point we’re going to review all the information and determine what steps, if any, to take at the appropriate time.”
— Attorney General Loretta Lynch
Peter Sullivan reports: Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday her department is going to review all information surrounding the controversial videos of Planned Parenthood officials taken by an anti-abortion group.
“I’m aware of those matters generally from the media, and from some inquiries that have been made to the Department of Justice, and again at this point we’re going to review all the information and determine what steps, if any, to take at the appropriate time,” Lynch said when asked about the videos at a press conference.
Republican members of Congress have been calling on the DOJ to investigate whether Planned Parenthood is in violation of the law after the first video, showing members of the group discussing fetal tissue, surfaced.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and ten other Republican senators sent a letter to the DOJ on Wednesday requesting an investigation. They say that Planned Parenthood could have violated laws that ban profiting off the sale of fetal organs. Read the rest of this entry »
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