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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Democrats Protecting Illegal Sanctuary Cities

Last month, trying to strike while the iron was hot, some members of Congress – most notably Chuck Grassley – drafted legislation to reign in the so called “sanctuary cities” where illegal immigrants are regularly released back into the wild. This takes place in many cases unless there is some definitive indication that they are currently engaged in a murder spree. It will frequently happen even if federal immigration officials asked for them to be held for deportation. The Democrats have been calling this new legislation the Donald Trump Act, in an ironic attempt at an insult, even while Trump himself was happy to take credit for all the support such an initiative received in conservative circles.

It’s still unclear if any version of such a bill will make it into law, but liberal enclaves are bracing for the changes to come in case they do. The Daily Iowan reports some of the “concerns” that they are dealing with now.

Locally, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office policy of refusing to hold suspects requested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would put it at risk of losing certain federal grants under bills proposed by Grassley and Republican colleagues in the House.

While “sanctuary city” is a loose term, it has been used to apply to cities such as New York City and San Francisco, which have specific laws aimed at undocumented immigrants, and more broadly to other jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities…

Johnson County Sheriff Lt. John Good defended his department’s policy from criticism rooted in the San Francisco case. He said complying with federal immigration officials would mean potentially violating the civil liberties of a suspect.

“We don’t want to house them any longer than we need to,” he said.

Keeping people suspected of being undocumented, Good said, would put the department at risk of violating a suspect’s civil liberties, which could, in turn, put the county at risk of a lawsuit. Those concerns led the department to change its policy in May 2014.
This line of reasoning completely boggles my mind. If someone is a citizen or otherwise in the country legally, they should be able to prove that in fairly short order. And assuming they are and have not broken any laws, you don’t need to worry about “holding them” for an excessive period of time. If they are in the country illegally, why are you wringing your hands over threats of lawsuits and their “civil liberties” during detention?
They are criminals by virtue of being in the country. If there is probable cause to believe that they have been involved in some sort of violent crime you should be holding them whether they are a citizen or not. This isn’t long division.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Bill O’Reilly Goes Off on ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Liberals: Don’t Care About the Defenseless

Mediaite.com:

Bill O’Reilly was set off tonight by Democrats’ support of Planned Parenthood to rant against liberals for being “morally bankrupt.”

He told Charles Krauthammer tonight that the liberal philosophy has gone off the rails and, assuming Krauthammer agreed, said that liberals “don’t believe in helping the downtrodden” or protecting the defenseless, and are “cynical vote-counters who will do anything for power.”

Krauthammer slightly disagreed, saying Democrats do have a strong commitment to “underdogs” and they aren’t exactly morally bankrupt.

But O’Reilly said anyone who’s for “abortion on demand” doesn’t care about the “least defenseless in this world” and he even invoked the Nazis at one point. “They know,” he said, “this is not morally acceptable to people who really care about the defenseless.”

Friday, July 31, 2015

New Planned Parenthood Video: More Price Haggling, Admissions of Procedure Changes for Harvesting

HotAir.com:

The Center for Medical Progress released another in its ongoing series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s operations and trade in organ harvesting. Dr. Savita Ginde, the VP of PP’s Rocky Mountains group who appeared briefly in the previous video, echoes Deborah Nucatola in explaining how PP trains its technicians to adjust their procedures to maximize organ and tissue extraction — a violation of the federal law that allows such transfers in the first place. Ginde also discusses how to use language to obfuscate the obvious transaction taking place, the sale of specific organs for specific compensation.

“Putting it under ‘research’ gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing,” Ginde remarks. “If you have someone in a really anti state who’s going to be doing this for you, they’re probably going to get caught.”
Ginde also admits on video that some of the organ harvesting takes place on babies delivered intact and potentially alive first, which would violate the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which went into effect in 2002. Note well that this contains disturbing imagery, starting at 8:40 in the video, much of which was included in the previous video, but some of which is new. Among the latter is the technician chorting, “And another boy!” It’s stomach-turning on many levels:

New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) is a wealthy, multi-state Planned Parenthood affiliate that does over 10,000 abortions per year. PPRM has a contract to supply aborted fetal tissue to Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

In the video, actors posing as representatives from a human biologics company meet with Ginde at the abortion-clinic headquarters of PPRM in Denver to discuss a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs. When the actors request intact fetal specimens, Ginde reveals that in PPRM’s abortion practice, “Sometimes, if we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then we are intact.”

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Ted Cruz Responds to Mitt Romney: There’s a Reason He Got ‘Clobbered’ in 2012

Mediaite.com:

Earlier this week, Ted Cruz said that if the Iran deal went through, President Obama would be “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism.” Mitt Romney had some harsh words for that today:

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During a radio interview with KFYO’s Chad Hasty, Cruz continued to insist the Iran deal is a horrible one and addressed Romney’s tweet.

He said, “One of the reasons Republicans keep getting clobbered is that we have leaders like Mitt Romney or like Jeb Bush who are afraid.”

Cruz insisted that tone doesn’t matter when they have facts on their side, and the reason Romney lost in 2012 was his refusal to use any sort of harsh rhetoric.

Cruz is right. The Left uses harsh tones and tactics all the time in fighting for their agenda...it's about time conservatives who truly believe in conservationism, do the same.

RELATED: Congress Must Reject the Iran Deal

Study Finds Conservative Media ‘Impeding’ GOP Ability to Govern and Win

Mediaite.com:

A new paper from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy concludes that conservative media outlets like Fox News have a serious negative impact on Republicans’ ability to govern and win elections.

The paper, written by New York Times national correspondent Jackie Calmes, is titled “‘They Don’t Give a Damn About Governing’ Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party.”

The conservative media, she writes, is setting the agenda for the GOP, and this in turn is “impeding Republicans’ ability to govern and to win presidential elections.” Basically, they’re not offering real solutions and instead are fueled by anger.

One anonymous Republican said that basically every single legislative battle has been swayed by the conservative media because “the loudest voices drown out the sensible ones and there’s no real space to have serious discussions.”

There’s a lot about the history of the conservative media in America, with a particular focus on Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Deace, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, etc., and the conclusion brings up the long-running concern about conservative media being “untethered from reality.”

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Hannity responded in comments to The Washington Post, calling the suggestion he offers no solutions “bullshit” and accusing Calmes of having a “predetermined opinion” on the conservative media before she wrote it.

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Jon Stewart Was Basically A Stenographer for Barack Obama

Mediaite.com:

For Jon Stewart, this certainly isn’t the high note he wanted to go out on.

The guy who prides himself on speaking truth to power, as the anti-establishment, take-to-both-sides-hero for millennials everywhere… reduced to a stenographer for a sitting president so thin-skinned about any and all criticism that he needs to dictate his own comedy. As originally reported in Politico by Darren Samuelson, the outgoing Daily Show host met with President Barack Obama twice in the past four years but failed to let anyone know about it. It was only then that Stewart — who loves to play the “I’m just a comic. Don’t take me seriously!” card anytime he gets called out on something — decided to go the Stephanopolus route in trying to explain away his two meetings with the president.

“Well, I mean, I don’t know if they were secret,” the 52-year-old said last night while pointing out his name (which one?) was clearly on the visitor logs. It all sounds so much like Stephanopoulos explaining that his donations to the Clinton Foundation that were also there for all the public to see… buried on his tax forms. All I know is this: If I met with the president and hosted a program which primarily focuses on politics, pretty sure I’d let my audience know at the very least that what had happened. Unless, of course, I have to carry out my PR orders in a way no White House Press Secretary or Sunday talk show appearance ever could.

Before this appears to be an ideological thing, know this: It’s been stated in this space on numerous occasions that these kind of off-the-record meetings attended by an eager media hoping to take a selfie in the Oval Office like it’s a sophomore year field trip are truly pathetic. It happened throughout Bush 43’s term with conservative media and again with the current president (progressive hosts and the aforementioned face of the Daily Show primarily getting invites).

It really makes little sense from a journalism perspective to go down this road: Why attend a meeting with the most powerful person on the planet if you can’t report back what was said? In the end, these people are there not for an interview, but for instructions. And that’s exactly why Stewart took the Acela down to DC: To come back to New York and serve as the Baghdad Bob of arguably the most influential news program—forget that it’s billed as fake—on the dial right now.

But don’t take him seriously… he’s just a comedian that happens to have access to the president. All major comedians can say that, right? He’s also a director and has acted in the past.

Looks like it’s time to add stenographer to the list as well. No matter…Stewart will get the Letterman treatment next week when he leaves The Daily Show, and rightly so. He didn’t earn $25-$30M a year for hosting a show four days a week for nothing. His timing, delivery and intelligence is something you don’t teach or learn.

Caving To Liberal Pressure Boy Scouts Allow Homosexual Scout Leaders

WaPo.com:

The Boy Scouts of America, facing litigation, shrinking membership and sweeping acceptance of gay rights, voted Monday to lift its ban on openly gay troop leaders and employees.

The national organization will no longer allow discrimination against its paid workers or at BSA-owned facilities. But local troops and councils will be permitted to decide for themselves whether they will allow openly gay volunteer leaders.

It wasn’t clear if the compromise would satisfy religious traditionalists. The Mormon Church put out a statement Monday night saying its “century-long association with Scouting would need to be examined.”

The executive board’s vote was taken at the suggestion of the group’s president, former defense secretary Robert Gates, who noted that the Scouts are facing potential lawsuits by gay adults who were shut out of positions. But church-state legal experts said the decision will likely just shift the controversy and legal battles from the national group to local troops and councils as volunteers barred from participating file suit.

Welcome to Barack Obama's Godless BSA.

RELATED: Boy Scouts of America ends national policy excluding gays as leaders, to no one’s satisfaction

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Bruce Jenner’s ‘I Am Cait’ Draws Only 2.7 Million Viewers

AdAge.com:

It seems the buildup over Caitlyn Jenner's transformation dissipated a bit too soon for E! to make a major splash with the debut of the docu-series "I Am Cait."

The show, which chronicles Ms. Jenner's journey as a transgender woman, premiered to 2.73 million total viewers on Sunday night and pulled a 1.2 rating among the all-important 18-to-49 demographic.

That's a meaningful audience for the NBC Universal cable network, and cable TV in recent months has struggled to provide premieres on this level.

It does, however, fall short of some robust expectations. Nearly 17 million people tuned in to ABC's "20/20" in April to watch Bruce Jenner's interview with Diane Swayer, and more than 7 million people watched Ms. Jenner accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs earlier in the month, also on ABC.

That's an utter fail by any other name.

RELATED: Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Courage Award win is SLAMMED by victim in fatal car crash as she claims former Olympian ' still refuses to accept responsibility for taking a life'

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton Will Testify Before Benghazi Panel in October

Mediaite.com:

Despite having already testified before Congress on the Benghazi attack, former Secretary of State and current 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton will testify before the Republican-led House committee sometime in October.

According to NBC News, the apparent date of the testimony is October 22, although neither the committee nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed this. All that’s known at this time is that the testimony, which will be public, will take place in October.

Despite her previous testimony, Clinton has come under scrutiny yet again, this time due to her use of a private email account. The Benghazi committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina), subpoenaed these emails back in March and subsequently called upon Clinton to testify again.

Unsurprisingly, the whole thing has devolved into a political fight — especially since Clinton’s spotlight has recently grown due to her formal decision to enter the 2016 presidential race:

Republicans have seized upon revelations that Clinton chose to use a private email server, instead of a government one, and later deleted thousands of emails she said were not related to her work.

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Whether or not Clinton’s testimony will negatively affect her campaign remains to be seen, though you probably already have a pretty good guess about the matter. (The answer is “yes.”)

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Barack Obama Lectures Kenya President Over "Gay Rights"

Politico.com:

President Barack Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sparred over support for gay rights here Saturday, with Obama urging fast changes and Kenyatta saying it was not something Kenyan culture or society would “accept.”

Linking LGBT discrimination in Africa to the history of Jim Crow laws in America, Obama said ensuring gay rights must be a priority on a continent — and in a country — where bias against gays is accepted, and violence against gays is common.

Standing by Obama’s side at a joint press conference here in front of the Kenyan state house, Kenyatta repeated what he has said before about gay rights: it’s “a non-issue.”

Kenyatta’s remarks were the ones that drew applause among the Kenyan audience.

Obama, though, delivered a firm message: People may have their own personal biases, he said, but the government has a responsibility to make sure those are not part of the law.

“As an African-American in the United States, I am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law,” Obama said. “There were all sorts of rationalizations that were provided by the power structure for decades in the United States for segregation and Jim Crow and slavery, and they were wrong.”

Kenyatta went on to offer that kind of rationalization, arguing that he and his people are more concerned with economic growth, among other things.

“For Kenyans today, the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue. We want to focus on other issues that really are day-to-day issues for our people,” Kenyatta said.

Throughout Obama’s supportive response, Kenyatta’s body language was clearly uncomfortable, fidgeting at the podium. When pressed by a reporter if he’d answer after he initially seemed as if he’d duck the question posed to both leaders about gay rights, Kenyatta sighed, “yeah, I’ll address them.”

In a common refrain among African leaders, Kenyatta rattled off what he’d put on his agenda ahead of gay rights: public health, inclusivity of women, infrastructure, education and entrepreneurship, implying that he felt patronized by Americans who want him to care about an issue they only themselves began grappling with recently.

Equating racist Jim Crow laws which got thousands killed and lynched with "gay rights"--just what the Godless white, liberal crowd wants their favorite puppet to do. Good thing the Kenyans can smell bullshit a mile away.

RELATED: Why Gay Marriage Isn’t the ’60s Civil Rights Fight