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Sat. July 29, 2017
DC Detective Rod Wheeler Suggests Connection Between Imran Awan And Seth Rich
Earlier this week Imran Awan, a top aide for former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was arrested while trying to flee the country after wiring nearly $300,000 to Pakistan from a House office building.
But D.C. detective Rod Wheeler has suggested that Awan might be guilty of more than just bank fraud.
The family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich hired Wheeler back in March to help solve the murder of their son. Unfortunately, Wheeler told Sean Hannity in May that a “high ranking official at the DNC” was blocking him from doing his job:
Rod Wheeler: “Here’s one other thing that is going to be startling…I’m just gonna say this right now. I reached out to the police department way back in March when the family first hired me right..to get involved. I didn’t hear anything from the police department for 2-3 days.
Guess what I learned yesterday from the family of Seth Rich? The police department did not call me back because someone, a high ranking official at the DNC–check this out–a high ranking official at the DNC–when I called the police department, they got that information and called the Rich family wanting to know, why was I snooping around?”
It’s unclear who exactly that high ranking DNC official was; but when Wheeler tweeted about Awan’s arrest on Wednesday a lot of people took notice:
Could Awan be the smoking gun that breaks the Rich case wide open? As Wheeler said, we’ll have to stay tuned.
Michelle Obama Says Toughest Part of Being First Lady Was Enduring the Racism
Wait, is Michelle Obama still proud of her country or not? It’s getting hard to keep track.
Speaking at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary Tuesday night, the former First Lady opened up about what she considers the hardest part of her husband’s eight years as president.
Obama said that after “working really hard for this country,” there would still be people “who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.”
WFCO President and CEO Lauren Casteel commented that Obama broke a glass ceiling by becoming the first black first lady. She then asked which of the falling glass shards cut the deepest.
“The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut,” she said, referencing being called an ape and people talking about her bottom. “Knowing that after eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.”
She said she can’t pretend like it doesn’t hurt because that lets those who do the hurting off the hook.
There are other women in politics who have been mocked for their looks or had disparaging remarks made about them in the past. Nobody has endured more scorn or ridicule on the political scene than former vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
Palin was called vile names repeatedly by supposed comedians, and was the subject of sexist media coverage. Anybody remember this photo, run by the Associated Press and Reuters?
It’s the perils of political life – not so much racism as it is ignorance from people who want to tear down their opponents.
Michelle Obama’s criticism of that opposition is very limited when it comes to her own side of the aisle, however.
Where were the cries of racism when Bill Clinton said Obama should have been fetching him and his colleague, Ted Kennedy, coffee? Or the time Hillary Clinton refused to ride in a plane with Michelle?
Actually, the Clintons have a litany of examples of racially charged remarks about the Obamas:
Michelle Obama had to endure racism after eight years of an Obama presidency that was supposed to cure America of it.
The morning after Election Day, 2008, The New York Times proclaimed that Barack Obama’s victory had swept “away the last racial barrier in American politics.”
Yet, by any measure, race relations in the country grew far worse after the election of the first black president. Was it the anti-police, pro-Black Lives Matter comments perpetually coming out of the White House? Was it wading into racially charged cases like that of Trayvon Martin and Henry Louis Gates? Was it the demonization of people trying to restore the integrity of elections through voter ID laws by labeling them “racists”?
It’s difficult to say, but after her husband brought down “the last racial barrier in politics,” it’s jarring to hear the former First Lady complain about racism nine years later.
Michelle Obama is a Disgrace.
Western Values Are Superior
By Walter E. Williams
By Walter E. Williams
Here's part of President Donald Trump's speech in Poland: "The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?"
After this speech, which was warmly received by Poles, the president encountered predictable criticism. Most of the criticism reflected gross ignorance and dishonesty.
One example of that ignorance was penned in the Atlantic magazine by Peter Beinart, a contributing editor and associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. Beinart said, "Donald Trump referred 10 times to 'the West' and five times to 'our civilization.' His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means." He added, "The West is a racial and religious term. To be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white."
Intellectual elites argue that different cultures and their values are morally equivalent. That's ludicrous. Western culture and values are superior to all others. I have a few questions for those who'd claim that such a statement is untrue or smacks of racism and Eurocentrism. Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan; is it morally equivalent? In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limitations placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning. Thieves face the punishment of having their hands severed. Homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in some countries. Are these cultural values morally equivalent, superior or inferior to Western values?
During his speech, Trump asked several vital questions. "Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?" There's no question that the West has the military might to protect itself. The question is whether we have the intelligence to recognize the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation.
Much of the Muslim world is at war with Western civilization. Islamists' use multiculturalism as a foot in the door to attack Western and Christian values from the inside. Much of that attack has its roots on college campuses among the intellectual elite who indoctrinate our youth. Multiculturalism has not yet done the damage in the U.S. that it has in Western European countries -- such as England, France and Germany -- but it's on its way.
My colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell reveals some of the problem. He says, "Those in the Islamic world have for centuries been taught to regard themselves as far superior to the 'infidels' of the West, while everything they see with their own eyes now tells them otherwise." Sowell adds, "Nowhere have whole peoples seen their situation reversed more visibly or more painfully than the peoples of the Islamic world." Few people, such as Persians and Arabs, once at the top of civilization, accept their reversals of fortune gracefully. Moreover, they don't blame themselves and their culture. They blame the West.
By the way, one need not be a Westerner to hold Western values. One just has to accept the sanctity of the individual above all else.
The Six Senate Republicans Who Flip-flopped in Favor of Obamacare
by SEAN MORAN
Six establishment Senate Republicans flip-flopped on their pledge to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday.
Senate Republicans shot down Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) clean Obamacare repeal bill. Paul’s bill, the “Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017,” failed 45-55.
Seven moderate Republicans voted against the clean Obamacare repeal bill in the Senate.
Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John McCain (R-AZ), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against Sen. Paul’s clean Obamacare repeal bill. All of these senators except for Sen. Collins voted to rescind Obamacare in 2015.
Conservative activists previously branded Sens. Murkowski, Portman, and Capito “traitors” for betraying their promise to the American people to repeal Obamacare.
Conservative activist groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks urged Republican senators to vote for Sen. Paul’s clean Obamacare repeal bill. Ken Cuccinelli of the Senate Conservative Fund recently suggested that his group might primary faux-Republicans such as Capito, Portman, and Murkowski.
Senator Paul wrote in an exclusive op-ed for Breitbart News, “That’s a good question. I say yes, but I tell you this – it’s hard to say yes if we can’t do something as simple as keeping our word. As simple as voting today how we voted before when we were asking to be in charge. If you tell people you’re going to do something, do it. It’s just that simple. Let’s repeal Obamacare.”
After his bill failed, Sen. Paul argued, “It’s a victory for conservatives that we did get a vote for a clean repeal.”
Not only have these six senators voted to repeal Obamacare, they publicly pledged to do so on the campaign trail and in the halls of the Senate. Here are six times these senators promised to repeal Obamacare:
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Lamar Alexander, “The wisest course is to repeal Obamacare and replace it step by step with solutions that lower healthcare costs.”
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Shelley Moore Capito, “I have consistently voted to repeal and replace this disastrous healthcare law, and I am glad that a repeal bill will finally reach the president’s desk.”
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Dean Heller,“This DC bureaucrat-driven healthcare system will only result in limited health care choices and higher costs for Nevadans.”
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Lisa Murkowski, “This law is not affordable for anyone in Alaska. That is why I will support the bill that repeals the ACA and wipes out its harmful impacts. I can’t watch premiums for Alaskans shoot up by 30 percent or more each year, see businesses artificially constrained, or see the quality of public education decline.”
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John McCain, “It is clear that any serious attempt to improve our health care system must begin with a full repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and I will continue fighting on behalf of the people of Arizona to achieve it.”
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Rob Portman, “I’m for repealing this broken law and replacing it with something better that gives patients more choice, decreases costs and increases access to quality, affordable care.”
FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon called out the Senate’s six hypocrites. Brandon charged, “Our activists have fought for the better part of a decade, led on by campaign promises and actual votes to repeal Obamacare, to get Republican majorities in the House and Senate, as well as a Republican in the White House. Sens. Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, and Lamar Alexander each voted for the very same bill in 2015. We now know that these six senators are Obamacare repeal frauds. Even though we’re still wondering if Sen. Susan Collins is in the right party, at least she was consistent with her vote.”
Tea Party Patriots President Jenny Beth Martin said that the seven senators who voted against the clean Obamacare bill broke the biggest political promise in history. She said:
Today, seven Republican Senators betrayed their constituents and the American people by breaking what is arguably the biggest political promise in modern American politics, and refusing to vote to repeal Obamacare. For the last four election cycles, Republican candidates have promised to repeal Barack Obama’s signature legislation and as a result, have increasingly been granted more power in Washington by the American people. Now, Republicans are completely in charge and should find it easy to keep this critical promise that lifted them to power. However, Senators Capito, Heller, McCain, Portman, Alexander, and Murkowski should be ashamed for having flip-flopped and voting against repealing Obamacare, just 18 months after they voted to send virtually the same exact legislation to President Barack Obama’s desk. And the seventh, Susan Collins, seems more concerned with critiquing the looks of House members or the sanity of the president than providing relief to the American people from rising costs and deteriorating quality of care under Obamacare. This is precisely the reason President Trump was elected. It is precisely the reason Congress has an approval rating worse than cockroaches. And it is precisely why the American people voted to drain the swamp in 2016. Tea Party Patriots will never give up the fight to fully repeal Obamacare and restore health care freedom to the American people. We call on President Trump to take action to end the congressional exemption from Obamacare so that senators, their families, and theirs staffs are forced to experience the same hardships that they refuse to lift from the American people. Perhaps if they were forced to live under the law that was unfavorably imposed on the American people, they will finally have the motivation to repeal Obamacare once and for all.
Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued a statement condemning the six moderate senators who voted to repeal Obamacare in 2015 but have reneged on their promise to the American people. Manning declared:
It is sad to see six Republican Senators, John McCain, Shelley Moore Capito, Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman and Lamar Alexander who voted in 2015 to repeal most of Obamacare have now decided to change their votes when it actually mattered and there’s a president in the White House who wanted to sign the bill. This betrayal of their constituents’ trust threatens to leave the failed Obamacare system in place.
This is outright fraud. These senators have repeatedly lied to the American people about where they stood on one of the signature issues facing the nation.
Obamacare has failed. Premiums are higher than ever and the options on insurance marketplaces are dwindling. In the meantime, the employer mandates still create a disincentive against hiring full-time employees and Medicaid expansion is bankrupting state budgets.
Manning concluded, “The American people have become all too accustomed to politicians who say one thing and do another. The Senate Six have proven that the public’s cynicism about politicians is well-placed, for if they had just kept word, Obamacare would be history. The days ahead will prove whether the GOP majority in the Senate is able to keep their election promises. If they fail, fantasies of a 60-vote Republican Senate will be replaced by fears of a Democrat majority.”
Senate Republicans plan to defund Planned Parenthood in 'skinny' repeal
BY PETER SULLIVAN
Senate Republicans are planning to include a one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood in their scaled-down ObamaCare repeal bill, according to lobbyists and congressional aides.
The sources said the repeal of ObamaCare's individual and employer mandates, as expected, will also be included in the "skinny" repeal bill as a part of Senate GOP leaders' attempt to pass any legislation to keep the repeal process alive.
The contents of the scaled-down bill still need to be discussed at the Senate GOP lunch on Thursday before they are finalized, the sources said.
Many rank-and-file senators have been in the dark on the contents of the scaled-down bill, saying as recently as Wednesday that they did not know what would be included.
Senate GOP leaders are heading toward a vote late Thursday or early Friday with little time for lawmakers and the public to review the measure.
According to sources, it would cut ObamaCare's prevention and public health fund and add money for community health centers, which Republicans argue could be an alternative to Planned Parenthood. The bill would also include an expansion of ObamaCare waivers that allow states to waive certain rules.
Repeal of the medical device tax is not currently in the bill, but could be added later, one source said.
It is possible the measure could have to change based on its ability to fulfill deficit reduction goals.
It is also possible Democrats could challenge Planned Parenthood defunding by arguing it does not comply with Senate rules governing the fast-track procedure being used. A Democratic aide said they would have to see the text of the provision before deciding whether to challenge it.
“The so-called skinny repeal would have a devastating impact on health care in this country. Beyond blocking people from coming to Planned Parenthood, it would increase premiums by 20% and take away coverage for 16 million people,” Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.
"The cruel irony is that Republicans are selling the ‘skinny repeal’ as giving individuals more choice and freedom, while the Planned Parenthood provision would deny women the choice or freedom to go to the provider they trust," she added.
The scaled-down measure appears to have momentum, but it is not entirely clear that it has the votes to pass. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, said in a radio interview Thursday morning that he is "quite optimistic."
Most senators have said the bill would go to conference committee with the House after it passes the Senate, where a new deal could be worked out. But there are also rumblings that the House could just pass the Senate-passed measure.
A Congressional Budget Office score of what Democrats estimate the skinny repeal bill will be found that it would result in 16 million more uninsured people and increase premiums by around 20 percent.
Combat Vet Gives Powerful Testimony Against Trans Troops
"Serving in the military is a privilege not a right. And it is sure as hell not a social experiment."
Iraq combat vet and wounded warrior J.R. Salzman is certain "war is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil."
Reacting to President Donald Trump's announcement to rescind former President Barack Obama's last-minute order to accept openly transgender troops in the military, Salzman unleashed his own testimony via Twitter.
"I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert," said the veteran, before explaining the everyday hell of war.
"Everyday was Groundhog Day. Wake up and do the same patrols, the same shifts, every single day. It was so damn hot. 150° in the gun trucks," he wrote. "Tracer fire would go overhead occasionally at night. IED's on the road were a daily threat. We got resupplied food every 8 days."
"The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime," continued Salzman. "Any tiny little personal issue they had suddenly became a mountain. And that shit came out on that fire base. And they snapped mentally. ... Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective."
Salzman argued that the reality of such harsh circumstances of war make it no place for those confused about their gender.
"Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment," he said. "Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity."
"Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It's a f***ticking time bomb," Salzman pointedly added.
"You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a f***ing video game. It tests every ounce of your being," asserted the vet. "You can't teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a f***ing PowerPoint. You either have it or you don't. You can hack it or you can't."
Salzman argued that those who were mentally unstable on the battlefield were a "liability."
"War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your s*** together, or you don't," he stated. "And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military."
As previously reported by The Daily Wire, transgender veterans are found to be particularly plagued by mental health issues, with the "highest rates of mental health problems in the U.S. ... A 2016 study found 90% of military members who identify as transgender were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, and almost 50% were hospitalized after attempting or considering suicide."
The amputee, an apparent business owner, ended the powerful thread:
And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.
Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn't pay me millions.
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Image below of Salzman finishing 2nd in the 30K Bicycle Disability Race (May 12, 2013):
Sarah Palin to Subpoena Two Dozen NY Times Reporters in Defamation Suit
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is slated to subpoena up to two dozen New York Times staff members as part of her defamation suit against the outlet, reports the NY Post.
The Post, which on Wednesday obtained court documents related to Palin's lawsuit, notes:
In a motion arguing that the case be dismissed, lawyers for the New York Times complained that Palin’s legal team has served notice that she plans to subpoena “twenty-three non-party current and former Times reporters, editors and other employees — most of whom had nothing to do with the editorial at issue.”
The subpoenas are part of Palin’s effort to obtain “documents that might reveal, among other things, their ‘negative feelings’ toward her,” the Times told the judge.
Palin’s legal team also intends to ask the paper to produce “every internal communication it has had about her since 2011,” they said.
The Times complained about Palin’s discovery requests in a Manhattan federal court filing reiterating its request to have Palin’s defamation lawsuit tossed.
Palin is suing the Gray Lady over a June editorial linking one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded Arizona Democrat Gabby Giffords and killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl.
The Times has claimed that Palin has no case because she cannot prove malice, the legal standard for claiming defamation.
According to the Post, Palin's lawyers will maintain the Times knew its assertions about Palin were false yet chose to publish them anyway. One thing is for certain: whether Palin succeeds in her lawsuit or not, at least the Times is being forced to expend time, financial resources, and go to the trouble of defending itself in court.
The Post, which on Wednesday obtained court documents related to Palin's lawsuit, notes:
In a motion arguing that the case be dismissed, lawyers for the New York Times complained that Palin’s legal team has served notice that she plans to subpoena “twenty-three non-party current and former Times reporters, editors and other employees — most of whom had nothing to do with the editorial at issue.”
The subpoenas are part of Palin’s effort to obtain “documents that might reveal, among other things, their ‘negative feelings’ toward her,” the Times told the judge.
Palin’s legal team also intends to ask the paper to produce “every internal communication it has had about her since 2011,” they said.
The Times complained about Palin’s discovery requests in a Manhattan federal court filing reiterating its request to have Palin’s defamation lawsuit tossed.
Palin is suing the Gray Lady over a June editorial linking one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting that severely wounded Arizona Democrat Gabby Giffords and killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl.
The Times has claimed that Palin has no case because she cannot prove malice, the legal standard for claiming defamation.
According to the Post, Palin's lawyers will maintain the Times knew its assertions about Palin were false yet chose to publish them anyway. One thing is for certain: whether Palin succeeds in her lawsuit or not, at least the Times is being forced to expend time, financial resources, and go to the trouble of defending itself in court.
REPORT - Russian Hackers Tried To Get Information On by: Katie Pavlich
According to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and testimony given by a witness to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Russian government didn't isolate their election meddling efforts around taking down Hillary Clinton. In fact, they also dug up plenty of dirt on Donald Trump and were behind the infamous dossier containing salacious and false information about Trump.
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, whose Russia connected firm produced the dossier, was asked to testify in front of the Committee earlier this week but refused. He has since agreed to a transcribed interview.
.@LindseyGrahamSC: "What we learned today is that the Russians were behind the organization that tried to get dirt on Trump." http://pic.twitter.com/hXKskEs4bL
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2017
“Last week, we subpoenaed Mr. Simpson after he initially declined to voluntarily cooperate with the committee’s request for information and asserted that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights at a public hearing. However, since that time, Mr. Simpson, through his attorney, has agreed to provide a transcribed interview and requested that the subpoena compelling his attendance at Wednesday’s hearing be waived. We’ve reached an agreement on this request and have withdrawn the subpoena. As with other witnesses who have agreed to provide interviews, this agreement does not constitute a waiver of Mr. Simpson’s rights nor prejudice the committee’s right to compel his testimony in the future," Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein released in a statement earlier this week.
“Our goal remains obtaining substantive information from witnesses to advance our oversight work and get answers the American people deserve," the statement continues.
This Obama Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think
The media was furious when Donald Trump called out Barack Obama for spying on him.
But there was one thing Trump didn’t know.
Obama’s scandal was even worse than anyone thought.
The past few months have been dominated by illegal leaks of classified intercepts, unmasking of American citizens, and incidental collection of Americans’ conversations.
This scandal burst into the open when Deep State operatives illegally leaked classified communications between former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador.
Obama’s defenders in the so-called “mainstream” media tried to minimize these actions by claiming the intelligence community operated within the law and there were protections in place to guard Americans against such abuse of power.
But that turned out to be a lie.
NSA and FBI memos released through the Freedom of Information Act revealed Obama’s intelligence community operated with willful disregard for Americans civil liberties.
The Hill reports:
“The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.
The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union.
They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Justice Department’s national security division during President Obama’s tenure between 2009 and 2016. The intelligence community isn’t due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
The NSA says that the missteps amount to a small number — less than 1 percent — when compared to the hundreds of thousands of specific phone numbers and email addresses the agencies intercepted through the so-called Section 702 warrantless spying program created by Congress in late 2008.
“Quite simply, a compliance program that never finds an incident is not a robust compliance program,” said Michael T. Halbig, the NSA’s chief spokesman. “…The National Security Agency has in place a strong compliance program that identifies incidents, reports them to external overseers, and then develops appropriate solutions to remedy any incidents.”
But critics say the memos undercut the intelligence community’s claim that it has robust protections for Americans incidentally intercepted under the program.”
The abuses described in this memo were exactly what Trump and his defenders claimed happened to them during the campaign.
And while the media tried to claim Trump was lying, the Obama administration admitted it violated Americans Fourth Amendment rights by storing their illegally collected communications and spreading them around the government.
In fact, a January New York Times story confirmed this.
The Times reported that Obama officials spread raw intelligence about Russia and the 2016 election across the government so it could be leaked because they feared the Trump administration would destroy it.
Reports around that time also surfaced that the Obama administration put new rules in place that eased restrictions on the NSA’s ability to share intelligence across the governments.
Critics argued these actions were taken so more people would have access to classified intelligence in order to facilitate leaks that would damage or emb.
6 Inspiring Ways Pro-Lifers Uphold Human Rights
Anyone who’s ever voiced pro-life views has heard the taunt: ‘You’re not pro-life, you’re pro-birth!’ But how true is this claim?
Josh Shepherd By Josh Shepherd
JULY 28, 2017
The case of 11-month-old Charlie Gard, where a British hospital delayed his parents from pursuing an experimental treatment until it was too late, has fueled public debate on how far parents’ rights should extend regarding their children’s medical care. But the outpouring of support for Gard also speaks to a larger societal question.
Coming as no surprise to those who follow ongoing policy battles, it has been the pro-life movement raising a global outcry to defend Charlie Gard and his parents. Popular media struggles to understand this movement, expressed in hundreds of different ways but coalescing around the conviction that violently taking lives in the womb is immoral and unethical, and that millions dying every year from this practice is a great injustice.
Anyone who’s ever voiced pro-life views has heard the taunt: “You’re not pro-life, you’re pro-birth!” But how true is this claim? A fair examination of the movement’s leaders and driving issues reveals diverse people united to defend the dignity of life at every stage.
1. Charlie’s Fight for Life Against Malign Forces
Pro-life advocates realized from the start that they might mourn the outcome of Charlie’s fight for life, expected to end this week. Medical doctors, whose expertise all had praised, have had a range of perspectives on the case. The larger question at stake: in spite of a negative prognosis, do a baby’s parents have the right to seek care for their child and hold on to hope?
The drama ended Monday with a stark statement from his parents. “We are about to do the hardest thing that we’ll ever have to do, to let our beautiful little Charlie go,” read Chris Gard in the courtroom. “Tragically, having had Charlie’s medical notes reviewed by independent experts, we now know had Charlie been given the treatment sooner, he would have had potential to be a normal little boy.”
The leading voices who spoke out on behalf of Charlie and his parents represent a cross-section of the pro-life movement, which includes lawyers (Catherine Glenn Foster), prayerful activists (Rev. Pat Mahoney), commentators (Obianuju Ekeocha), public officials (Rep. Trent Franks), policy experts (Jeanne Mancini), and people from all walks of life.
2. Urban Ministries Freely Serving Women in Crisis
On June 28, as a Planned Parenthood activist march circled the U.S. Capitol, Robbi Harvell—a trained counselor at Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center in Washington DC—watched and prayed from the sidelines only blocks from the care center where she serves. The few hundred people were protesting the inclusion of pro-life provisions in the Senate health care bill.
“Our heart is to love people, never to shout at them,” Harvell said later. “We stay busy counseling women in crisis, re-stocking diapers, and a hundred other ways we volunteer to save lives—women and children.” She is one of thousands who volunteer at and support approximately 2,500 pregnancy help centers active across America, primarily serving low-income families. Two major networks provide the centers training and resources: CareNet and Heartbeat International.
Many centers are equipped with ultrasound machines and expert technicians. Some are connected to ministries that rescue women from sex trafficking. All these pregnancy help centers offer their core services without cost, standing on the front lines against an abortion industry that preys upon families in crisis.
3. The Adopted Boy Who Became an Adoption Advocate
“I was once considered black and unwanted,” shares Ryan Bomberger, an African-American man who today leads The Radiance Foundation. “It was very hard, at the time I was born, to place black children for adoption; so few families were available, because they used same-race criteria.”
He continues: “My parents shattered the myth of the unwanted child. I was conceived in rape. Many of my siblings came from desperately, but not hopelessly, broken situations. Each of us were loved like crazy—no matter our stories, no matter the world’s expectations of our lives.”
Ryan his wife Bethany, who’ve adopted two children, are hardly alone in becoming vocal pro-life advocates and examples of adoption. They are joined by the Bohlenders of Kansas City, Missouri, who adopted six children and founded an adoption agency; the Brumfields of Birmingham, Alabama, who’ve adopted multiple foster kids; the Gomes living in the Dallas area; and many, many others.
4. Yale Lawyer Rescues Girls from the Two-Child Policy
America’s pro-life leaders are not blind to the injustice of innocent lives lost globally. Forced abortions continue unabated under China’s two-child policy, called “the greatest form of violence against women and girls in the world” by human rights lawyer Reggie Littlejohn, a graduate of Yale Law School. Currently, more than 23 million abortions are performed annually in China.
In 2011, Littlejohn founded Women’s Rights Without Frontiers to expose and oppose forced abortion, gendercide, and sexual slavery. The group has seen significant success, educating lawmakers, sharing Reggie’s story via CNN, and recently backing the Trump administration’s move to halt abortion-related funding for foreign aid. She and her husband Robert are also raising a girl whose biological father has been imprisoned in China.
The story of Lisa Smiley, whose Chinese parents covertly violated the one-child policy, puts another human face on these grave issues. When government officials searched for violators, their three young girls had to be separated and hidden among family and friends. Eventually the Chinese couple escaped with their children to New Zealand, where today they are proud grandparents.
5. Navigating End-of-Life Issues Ethically
End-of-life issues are among the most complex any family will face. As cultural pressure to legalize and even celebrate assisted suicide grows, many pro-life voices have spoken out against a practice now legal in six U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Disability advocate Melissa Ortiz sums up key issues at stake, noting, “The laws being enacted do not have proper safeguards to prevent coercion of people who are elderly, sick or who have a disability. There are little or no conscience provisions for medical personnel who believe their Hippocratic Oath still matters.” These issues played out tragically in the case of Terri Schiavo.
Daily overcoming her own physical limitations with her service dog and wheelchair, Ortiz writes: “The legislation emboldens insurance companies to deny palliative and even life-saving treatment, since the cost of suicide prescription is much lower.” She was recently hired as commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities by the Department of Health and Human Services.
6. Declaring the Infinite Worth of Children With Special Needs
Celebrating the joy and overcoming spirit of children born with Down Syndrome (among other birth challenges) has become a popular theme even with left-leaning Upworthy. They won’t say, however, that an estimated 92 percent of parents choose to abort their children after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome.
Although these babies have been targeted for extinction, families like Gabe and Rebekah Lyons reveal the tangible love and ability to connect they see daily in their son Cade, who was born with Down Syndrome. Others, like Aaron Welty, born with cerebral palsy, have discovered that their weaknesses help people see what heroism really means.
The pro-life movement has engaged deeply on these issues. In 2015, the March for Life themed its entire event and year-long campaign as “Every Life Is a Gift.” Articles and videos told story after story of those who have overcome birth challenges, along with lives either short or difficult—for one’s accomplishments do not determine value.
These examples could continue for several thousand more words, extoling families involved in foster care, the impact of little-known safe haven policies, efficacy of state pro-life laws, and many other facets of life-saving work. When one sees the depth and breadth of the pro-life movement, it becomes difficult to dismiss. Who knows what possibilities will birth next?
Josh M. Shepherd has served on staff at The Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, Bound4LIFE International, and two congressional offices. His articles have appeared in media outlets including The Daily Signal, Boundless, Charisma Magazine, and Christian Headlines, where he serves as a contributor. Josh and his wife live in the Washington DC area. Follow Josh on Twitter Photo March for Life Colorado / Flickrarrass Trump.
Although these babies have been targeted for extinction, families like Gabe and Rebekah Lyons reveal the tangible love and ability to connect they see daily in their son Cade, who was born with Down Syndrome. Others, like Aaron Welty, born with cerebral palsy, have discovered that their weaknesses help people see what heroism really means.
The pro-life movement has engaged deeply on these issues. In 2015, the March for Life themed its entire event and year-long campaign as “Every Life Is a Gift.” Articles and videos told story after story of those who have overcome birth challenges, along with lives either short or difficult—for one’s accomplishments do not determine value.
These examples could continue for several thousand more words, extoling families involved in foster care, the impact of little-known safe haven policies, efficacy of state pro-life laws, and many other facets of life-saving work. When one sees the depth and breadth of the pro-life movement, it becomes difficult to dismiss. Who knows what possibilities will birth next?
Josh M. Shepherd has served on staff at The Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, Bound4LIFE International, and two congressional offices. His articles have appeared in media outlets including The Daily Signal, Boundless, Charisma Magazine, and Christian Headlines, where he serves as a contributor. Josh and his wife live in the Washington DC area. Follow Josh on Twitter Photo March for Life Colorado / Flickrarrass Trump.
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