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Thursday, Mar. 15, 2018
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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
---George Washington
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Meghan McCain Gives ‘The View’ A BRUTAL Reality Check On Trump’s Popularity
Meghan McCain gave her fellow liberal panelists a brutal reality check about President Donald Trump’s popularity.
During a segment Monday on ABC’s “The View,” McCain told host Joy Behar that Trump’s supporters are not going anywhere and that they love what he’s doing.
“It didn’t impact them,” McCain said after another long winded discussion on why the liberals on the panel think he’s an awful president.
“I love that the president said that he would be boring if he didn’t talk this way. He said that to people,” Behar said.
She added: “He said I would be boring. What’s boring is the Constitution, foreign policy, understanding the economy. He should be a little more boring.
McCain fired back by saying Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday proves his base is still very much with him and loves his agenda.
“He was in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, which is a district he won by 20 points, so it’s truly his base,” McCain said.
“Listen, his polls are up. 50 percent voter approval rating with Rasmussen. Real Clear Politics has his approval at 40.9%, highest it’s been in his term so far,” she added.
McCain went on to say that while the media foments over everything Trump does and says, Americans across the country don’t care about the tabloid gossip stories from the media.
“I’m telling you, I have this new term that I coined,” McCain continued. “I call it inside-the-beltway porn. Where all of us inside the beltway and media are freaking out, going crazy. I don’t like what he’s done either, I don’t like it. His voters, for whatever reason again, I said it on the show before, I’m not a psychologist, I don’t completely understand it – it doesn’t impact them.”
After panelist Sonny Hostin suggested Trump was destroying the dignity of the office, McCain brought down the house with a brutal one-liner about former President Bill Clinton.
“So is getting oral sex in the White House,” McCain said.
McCain is correct that Trump’s approvals are soaring, with many polls confirming Americans are supporting the president and his agenda.
With the booming economy, tax cuts, historic job numbers, ISIS on the run, and a border wall on the way — Americans are getting exactly what they voted for.
During a segment Monday on ABC’s “The View,” McCain told host Joy Behar that Trump’s supporters are not going anywhere and that they love what he’s doing.
“It didn’t impact them,” McCain said after another long winded discussion on why the liberals on the panel think he’s an awful president.
“I love that the president said that he would be boring if he didn’t talk this way. He said that to people,” Behar said.
She added: “He said I would be boring. What’s boring is the Constitution, foreign policy, understanding the economy. He should be a little more boring.
McCain fired back by saying Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday proves his base is still very much with him and loves his agenda.
“He was in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, which is a district he won by 20 points, so it’s truly his base,” McCain said.
“Listen, his polls are up. 50 percent voter approval rating with Rasmussen. Real Clear Politics has his approval at 40.9%, highest it’s been in his term so far,” she added.
McCain went on to say that while the media foments over everything Trump does and says, Americans across the country don’t care about the tabloid gossip stories from the media.
“I’m telling you, I have this new term that I coined,” McCain continued. “I call it inside-the-beltway porn. Where all of us inside the beltway and media are freaking out, going crazy. I don’t like what he’s done either, I don’t like it. His voters, for whatever reason again, I said it on the show before, I’m not a psychologist, I don’t completely understand it – it doesn’t impact them.”
After panelist Sonny Hostin suggested Trump was destroying the dignity of the office, McCain brought down the house with a brutal one-liner about former President Bill Clinton.
“So is getting oral sex in the White House,” McCain said.
McCain is correct that Trump’s approvals are soaring, with many polls confirming Americans are supporting the president and his agenda.
With the booming economy, tax cuts, historic job numbers, ISIS on the run, and a border wall on the way — Americans are getting exactly what they voted for.
Warren’s ‘Native American’ problem is only going to get worse
If you had any doubt that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has her eye on the White House, it was dispelled this past weekend when she showed up on the Sunday morning talk shows to say she wasn’t running for president.
By issuing a deliberately non-Shermanesque denial, Warren signaled her strong interest in 2020. But while the former law professor has learned to speak Washington double talk like a native, her other tribal connections — or lack thereof — may yet trip her up.
Rather than retracting or apologizing for past assertions of Native American identity that have been refuted by genealogists and historians, the Massachusetts Democrat is doubling down on her story about being a Cherokee or a Delaware.
Last month, The Post dared her to take a DNA test to prove her story and now a Bay State paper (The Berkshire Eagle) has issued the same challenge. The test results would either compel critics like President Donald Trump to stop calling her “Pocahontas” or force her to admit it was all a lie.
But while Warren won’t take the test, she also won’t shut up about being a Native American. On the Sunday shows, she repeated the story she’s been telling for years about her parents’ epic romance in which her father’s family opposed the match because of her mother’s supposed Indian ancestry.
It’s a sweet tale — but, given that no member of her family has ever shown up on a list of tribe members or any other birth, marriage or death records dating back to the early 19th century — it’s hard to imagine why the blonde-haired, blue-eyed senator’s grandparents would have rejected her mother on those grounds.
At this point, she’s only a degree away from being another Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who passed as African-American while becoming a local NAACP official.
Yet Warren keeps telling America that she “knows who she is” and that “no one is going to take that part of me away.”
Why is she doing this?
Like most people and politicians, Warren is allergic to admitting fault even if just saying you’re sorry and moving on from this mess would be the smart thing to do.
Then, too: In a Democratic Party where identity politics and minority status is the political gold standard, having to give up her claim would be painful.
Despite her denials of profiting from her claims of Native American ties, she likely never would have been appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law without the distinction of being the first “Indian” there. It was a key point in her rise from an obscure academic to her current position as one of the leading lights of her party’s left wing.
Last month, she showed up at a convention of Native Americans and admitted that without a tribal identity — something that must be based on actual proof — you can’t call yourself an Indian. That’s particularly true nowadays when income from casinos has enabled some tribes to prosper.
Yet she still stuck to her myth while saying she would be working to defend Native American interests. It sounded as if what she was looking for was some sort of honorary status — a modern version of “honorary Sioux” Annie Oakley — as a mark of gratitude for her advocacy.
But as perhaps she’s starting to realize, the higher her ambitions, the rougher will be the treatment from the press and even popular culture outlets that liberals assume will always be on their side.
In November, Trevor Noah said on “The Daily Show” that Trump was being “woke” for calling out Warren for not telling the truth and never apologizing for her Indian lies. That should have been the wake-up call she needed. But, like taking a test that might produce the truth, that’s not something she seems able to do.
It’s only going to get worse for Warren. In 2020, she will likely be facing off in Democratic primaries against some real minorities, like Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Cory Booker (NJ). So she’s not going to get the same free pass for her Native American fairy tale that Democratic voters in deep blue Massachusetts have given her.
It’s long past time for Warren to back down. If she doesn’t, the cries of “Fauxcohantas” from Trump and other conservatives will be the least of her problems.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS-the Jewish News Syndicate and a contributor to National Review.
By issuing a deliberately non-Shermanesque denial, Warren signaled her strong interest in 2020. But while the former law professor has learned to speak Washington double talk like a native, her other tribal connections — or lack thereof — may yet trip her up.
Rather than retracting or apologizing for past assertions of Native American identity that have been refuted by genealogists and historians, the Massachusetts Democrat is doubling down on her story about being a Cherokee or a Delaware.
Last month, The Post dared her to take a DNA test to prove her story and now a Bay State paper (The Berkshire Eagle) has issued the same challenge. The test results would either compel critics like President Donald Trump to stop calling her “Pocahontas” or force her to admit it was all a lie.
But while Warren won’t take the test, she also won’t shut up about being a Native American. On the Sunday shows, she repeated the story she’s been telling for years about her parents’ epic romance in which her father’s family opposed the match because of her mother’s supposed Indian ancestry.
It’s a sweet tale — but, given that no member of her family has ever shown up on a list of tribe members or any other birth, marriage or death records dating back to the early 19th century — it’s hard to imagine why the blonde-haired, blue-eyed senator’s grandparents would have rejected her mother on those grounds.
At this point, she’s only a degree away from being another Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who passed as African-American while becoming a local NAACP official.
Yet Warren keeps telling America that she “knows who she is” and that “no one is going to take that part of me away.”
Why is she doing this?
Like most people and politicians, Warren is allergic to admitting fault even if just saying you’re sorry and moving on from this mess would be the smart thing to do.
Then, too: In a Democratic Party where identity politics and minority status is the political gold standard, having to give up her claim would be painful.
Despite her denials of profiting from her claims of Native American ties, she likely never would have been appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law without the distinction of being the first “Indian” there. It was a key point in her rise from an obscure academic to her current position as one of the leading lights of her party’s left wing.
Last month, she showed up at a convention of Native Americans and admitted that without a tribal identity — something that must be based on actual proof — you can’t call yourself an Indian. That’s particularly true nowadays when income from casinos has enabled some tribes to prosper.
Yet she still stuck to her myth while saying she would be working to defend Native American interests. It sounded as if what she was looking for was some sort of honorary status — a modern version of “honorary Sioux” Annie Oakley — as a mark of gratitude for her advocacy.
But as perhaps she’s starting to realize, the higher her ambitions, the rougher will be the treatment from the press and even popular culture outlets that liberals assume will always be on their side.
In November, Trevor Noah said on “The Daily Show” that Trump was being “woke” for calling out Warren for not telling the truth and never apologizing for her Indian lies. That should have been the wake-up call she needed. But, like taking a test that might produce the truth, that’s not something she seems able to do.
It’s only going to get worse for Warren. In 2020, she will likely be facing off in Democratic primaries against some real minorities, like Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Cory Booker (NJ). So she’s not going to get the same free pass for her Native American fairy tale that Democratic voters in deep blue Massachusetts have given her.
It’s long past time for Warren to back down. If she doesn’t, the cries of “Fauxcohantas” from Trump and other conservatives will be the least of her problems.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS-the Jewish News Syndicate and a contributor to National Review.
Jimmy Carter says it is good that Trump is meeting with Kim Jong-Un
Image via Nir Levy / Shutterstock.comPresident Donald Trump got an endorsement from an unlikely ally on Sunday.
Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter said he supports the idea of President Trump meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Avoiding A Nuclear Confrontation.
At Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia the former president said that the meeting could prevent a nuclear war.
“While I don’t agree with everything that President Trump has done, I think it’s good that he’s decided to go,” he said, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter said he supports the idea of President Trump meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Avoiding A Nuclear Confrontation.
At Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia the former president said that the meeting could prevent a nuclear war.
“While I don’t agree with everything that President Trump has done, I think it’s good that he’s decided to go,” he said, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
“If we could avoid a nuclear confrontation with North Korea, that would be a wonderful achievement,” the 93-year-old former president told his Sunday school class.
“It’s good we’re going to be talking to them,” he said.
The former president said that the news of the meeting came at an opportune time for him.
“I had made arrangements last week with the White House to have some experts come down and give me an up-to-date briefing on what’s going on concerning North Korea,” President Carter said. “They came down the day that Kim Jong Un invited Trump to come over. So we had a lot to talk about.”
The Meeting.
The meeting was announced by a South Korean official on Thursday at the White House and it was met with incredulity from many pundits.
It will be the first meeting between an American president and a North Korean president in history, and many liberals and Never Trumpers expressed concern that it could be a precursor to a nuclear war.
But the fact is we were on a collision course headed toward nuclear war now, and have been for decades.
Every other strategy against the North Koreans, including appeasement and deals that they cheated on, did not solve the issue.
Now that there is a president in office who talks tough and backs what he says the North Koreans are prepared to negotiate.
National Geographic Acknowledges Past Racist Coverage
National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent.
"We had to own our story to move beyond it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine's April issue, which is devoted to race.
National Geographic first published its magazine in 1888. An investigation conducted last fall by University of Virginia photography historian John Edwin Mason showed that until the 1970s, it virtually ignored people of color in the United States who were not domestics or laborers, and it reinforced repeatedly the idea that people of color from foreign lands were "exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages_every type of cliché."
For example, in a 1916 article about Australia, the caption on a photo of two Aboriginal people read: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings."
In addition, National Geographic perpetuated the cliche of native people fascinated by technology and overloaded the magazine with pictures of beautiful Pacific island women.
This examination comes as other media organizations are also casting a critical eye on their past. The New York Times recently admitted that most of its obituaries chronicled the lives of white men, and began publishing obituaries of famous women in its "Overlooked" section.
In National Geographic's April issue, Goldberg, who identified herself as National Geographic's first woman and first Jewish editor, wrote a letter titled "For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It."
"I knew when we looked back there would be some storytelling that we obviously would never do today, that we don't do and we're not proud of," she told AP. "But it seemed to me if we want to credibly talk about race, we better look and see how we talked about race."
Mason said he found an intentional pattern in his review.
"People of color were often scantily clothed, people of color were usually not seen in cities, people of color were not often surrounded by technologies of automobiles, airplanes or trains or factories," he said. "People of color were often pictured as living as if their ancestors might have lived several hundreds of years ago and that's in contrast to westerners who are always fully clothed and often carrying technology."
White teenage boys "could count on every issue or two of National Geographic having some brown skin bare breasts for them to look at, and I think editors at National Geographic knew that was one of the appeals of their magazine, because women, especially Asian women from the pacific islands, were photographed in ways that were almost glamour shots."
National Geographic, which now reaches 30 million people around the world, was the way that many Americans first learned about the rest of the world, said professor Samir Husni, who heads the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi's journalism school.
Making sure that kind of coverage never happens again should be paramount, Husni said. "Trying to integrate the magazine media with more hiring of diverse writers and minorities in the magazine field is how we apologize for the past," Husni said.
Goldberg said she is doing just that, adding that in the past, the magazine has done a better job at gender diversity than racial and ethnic diversity.
"The coverage wasn't right before because it was told from an elite, white American point of view, and I think it speaks to exactly why we needed a diversity of storytellers," Goldberg said. "So we need photographers who are African-American and Native American because they are going to capture a different truth and maybe a more accurate story."
National Geographic was one of the first advocates of using color photography in its pages, and is well known for its coverage of history, science, environmentalism and the far corners of the world. It currently can be found in 172 countries and in 43 languages every month.
YES: Women Just Broke ANOTHER “Glass Ceiling” — Thanks To Trump’s Latest Hire!
The “progressive” media completely ignored it, but Trump just announced the new CIA director…Gina Haspel!
In fact she is the first ever FEMALE CIA director, but the media doesn’t seem to give a damn.
Here is Trump’s Twitter announcement:
In fact she is the first ever FEMALE CIA director, but the media doesn’t seem to give a damn.
Here is Trump’s Twitter announcement:
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrumpMike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!
“Mike Pompeo , Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!”, Trump tweeted
“I am grateful to President Trump for the opportunity, and humbled by his confidence in me, to be nominated to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Haspel announced in a statement.
Earlier today, we reported that Rex Tillerson would no longer serve as Secretary of State, and is to be replaced by Mike Pompeo. Mike’s promotion leaves a very important job vacancy — CIA director.
“I am grateful to President Trump for the opportunity, and humbled by his confidence in me, to be nominated to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Haspel announced in a statement.
Earlier today, we reported that Rex Tillerson would no longer serve as Secretary of State, and is to be replaced by Mike Pompeo. Mike’s promotion leaves a very important job vacancy — CIA director.
Gina Haspel
President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA must still be confirmed by the Senate before she accepts command of the spy agency. Gina Haspel, 61, is an experienced spy who has managed to dodge the spotlight during a 32-year career (until now).
President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA must still be confirmed by the Senate before she accepts command of the spy agency. Gina Haspel, 61, is an experienced spy who has managed to dodge the spotlight during a 32-year career (until now).
While her past remains somewhat veiled, we have learned that her previous roles have included running “black sites,” where the government held terrorists for questioning. In fact, this isn’t the first time she’s charted new territories. She ran the CIA’s very first overseas detention site!
Gina is HIGHLY respected in the intelligence community, who has held many top positions in Washington and has won many prestigious awards.
The President’s decision to choose the best man — and in this case, a woman — for the job, once again disproves the media’s false narrative that the President is somehow “a sexist.”
This is not the first, nor the last time President Trump has devoured that narrative whole. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was the first female presidential campaign manager to succeed in winning an election. Again, the allegedly “progressive” media ignored it.
Gina has been with the CIA for more than 30 years, and she is excited to join Washington leadership under the Trump administration!
Gina is HIGHLY respected in the intelligence community, who has held many top positions in Washington and has won many prestigious awards.
The President’s decision to choose the best man — and in this case, a woman — for the job, once again disproves the media’s false narrative that the President is somehow “a sexist.”
This is not the first, nor the last time President Trump has devoured that narrative whole. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was the first female presidential campaign manager to succeed in winning an election. Again, the allegedly “progressive” media ignored it.
Gina has been with the CIA for more than 30 years, and she is excited to join Washington leadership under the Trump administration!
EXPOSED: Obama Secretly Used Fusion GPS To Investigate Mitt Romney In 2012
According to a new report from the Daily Caller, Former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign secretly used Fusion GPS in 2012 to investigate Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Fusion GPS is the same firm that worked with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to compile the discredited Steele dossier.
In a new book titled, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” the authors wrote that Obama’s 2016 presidential campaign hired the firm to dig into Romney for political dirt.
The former president attempted to hide the payments to Fusion GPS by funneling the money through its law firm, Perkins Coie, according to the Daily Caller.
Both Clinton and Obama’s campaigns used Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against Republican presidential candidates — indicating a clear political motivation to help the Democratic Party.
“As had become standard practice in the shadowy world of ‘oppo’ research, the Obama campaign’s payments to Fusion GPS were never publicly disclosed; the money paid to the investigative firm was reported on campaign disclosure reports as legal bills to the campaign’s law firm, Perkins Coie,” the book reads.
The Obama for America committee paid Perkins Coie roughly $3 million during the 2012 presidential election, and a majority of the payments were labeled as “Legal Services.”
They tried to conceal the payments, raising serious questions about the legality of the operation.
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign also used the law firm and Fusion GPS — but her scheme triggered the entire Russia investigation against President Donald Trump.
Clinton’s campaign paid Fusion GPS — through Perkins Coie — more than $12 million to conduct research against Trump.
Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, which was full of numerous salacious claims that the FBI admitted it couldn’t verify.
Steele’s dossier served as a major component of the FBI’s application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.
In the FISA application, the FBI failed to notify the court that Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid Fusion GPS millions to fund the dossier against Trump.
So a Clinton-funded hit piece was used to lay the foundation for the Russia investigation into Trump.
Democrats have argued Fusion GPS was nonpartisan, but being paid millions by Obama and Clinton proves the group is politically motivated to attack Republicans.
As Congress continues to probe Fusion GPS, Steele, and the dossier — it’s important to ask why this left-leaning firm has so much power in Washington.
And more importantly, shouldn’t that be very concerning?
Fusion GPS is the same firm that worked with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to compile the discredited Steele dossier.
In a new book titled, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” the authors wrote that Obama’s 2016 presidential campaign hired the firm to dig into Romney for political dirt.
The former president attempted to hide the payments to Fusion GPS by funneling the money through its law firm, Perkins Coie, according to the Daily Caller.
Both Clinton and Obama’s campaigns used Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against Republican presidential candidates — indicating a clear political motivation to help the Democratic Party.
“As had become standard practice in the shadowy world of ‘oppo’ research, the Obama campaign’s payments to Fusion GPS were never publicly disclosed; the money paid to the investigative firm was reported on campaign disclosure reports as legal bills to the campaign’s law firm, Perkins Coie,” the book reads.
The Obama for America committee paid Perkins Coie roughly $3 million during the 2012 presidential election, and a majority of the payments were labeled as “Legal Services.”
They tried to conceal the payments, raising serious questions about the legality of the operation.
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign also used the law firm and Fusion GPS — but her scheme triggered the entire Russia investigation against President Donald Trump.
Clinton’s campaign paid Fusion GPS — through Perkins Coie — more than $12 million to conduct research against Trump.
Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, which was full of numerous salacious claims that the FBI admitted it couldn’t verify.
Steele’s dossier served as a major component of the FBI’s application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.
In the FISA application, the FBI failed to notify the court that Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid Fusion GPS millions to fund the dossier against Trump.
So a Clinton-funded hit piece was used to lay the foundation for the Russia investigation into Trump.
Democrats have argued Fusion GPS was nonpartisan, but being paid millions by Obama and Clinton proves the group is politically motivated to attack Republicans.
As Congress continues to probe Fusion GPS, Steele, and the dossier — it’s important to ask why this left-leaning firm has so much power in Washington.
And more importantly, shouldn’t that be very concerning?
The GOP Wants Terminal Patients To Have A Chance To Try
I realize everyone is in a tizzy over the Secretary of State shuffle, but Congress is back to work and there’s a vote today on a rather important bill. It involves actual improvements to healthcare rather than the usual political battles. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent out an announcement about it yesterday, and if passed, it will allow easier access to experimental drugs for terminally ill patients who have run out of conventional options.
“We are a resilient and resourceful nation, and when faced with long odds, Americans should be given the opportunity to harness our country’s vast medical innovation by accessing experimental treatments. As President Trump said in his State of the Union, and as Vice President Pence has long advocated, no one should have to look beyond the United States and our world-class health providers for hope. This bill was subject to months of negotiations and I thank Chairman Walden (OR-02), Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-08) and Andy Biggs (AZ-05), and Senator Ron Johnson (PA) for their commitment to getting it ready for floor action. The House will consider Right to Try on Tuesday, March 13th. Following its passage, I look forward to swift Senate action so more Americans facing dire circumstances can find some light in their darkest moments.”
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released some details of the bill which you can read here. A few of the key provisions, recently modified to address the concerns of some members from both sides of the aisle, include:
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Establish a robust informed consent to access unapproved drugs
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Specify that any unapproved drug used in the new alternative pathway must have an active application and is not the subject of a clinical hold
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Include a sponsor and manufacturer notification to the FDA after they make an unapproved drug available to an eligible patient
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Guard patients from manufacturers purposefully misbranding or mislabeling drugs
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Provide liability protections for manufacturers, sponsors, physicians, clinical investigators, and hospitals that participate in the existing expanded access program and the new alternative pathway; unless there is reckless or willful misconduct, gross negligence, or an intentional tort
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Obligate sponsors and manufacturers to report adverse events in real time, through notification to the FDA – both within the existing expanded access program and through the new alternative pathway
To be clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with euthanasia, a topic which upsets many conservatives for obvious reasons. There are always experimental drugs in the pipeline which may eventually offer hope for the otherwise terminally ill, but it takes years to get approval to bring them to market. Promising ones which are undergoing trials can be made available to such patients as a course of last resort but approval is required. It’s a touchy subject because you don’t want to build up false hope in the patients or their families. At the same time, pharmaceutical companies don’t want to risk exposure to lawsuits if the drug fails to work or produces a negative, unintended side effect.
But as long as both the manufacturer and the patient are going into the experiment with clear eyes, why wouldn’t you give the patient the right to try, as the bill’s name implies? It could also speed the approval of successful drugs if they wind up being beneficial on real subjects facing those specific diseases. Yes, it’s a program which must be implemented carefully to avoid abuse, but it’s a risk worth taking if the use of such drugs is entirely voluntary on the part of the patient and their family.
SOLAR STORM COULD HIT EARTH THIS WEEK
Sun unleashed powerful flare that may increase brightness, visibility of aurora
The charged magnetic particles headed toward Earth were caused by solar flares on March 6 (in this photo) and 7 (Photo: NASA)A minor solar storm is traveling toward Earth and is expected to hit as early as Wednesday.
If a solar storm is powerful enough, it can damage satellites and cut power. But the incoming storm is said to be minor, even though it may create an impressive display of the Northern Lights.
A major explosion in the sun’s atmosphere known as a flare, which took place on March 6 and 7, triggered the solar storm. Charged particles from the burst are now headed straight for Earth.
Meanwhile, scientists believed the Earth’s magnetic field forms “equinox cracks” around March 20 and Sept. 23 each year. The cracks, which are said to stay open for hours, create weaknesses in Earth’s natural defenses and could leave GPS systems and commercial flights more exposed to the damaging effects of a solar storm.
But the cracks could also create amazing opportunities for stargazers to catch a better view of the Northern lights.
The dancing lights of the aurora may become visible in parts of Scotland and northern England and in northern regions of the U.S., including in Michigan and Maine.
A solar storm’s magnetic particles could also interfere with satellites orbiting the planet and radio signals.
If a solar flare is large enough, it is capable of cutting energy supplies if massive currents are created within electricity grids.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released a statement that read: “A minor geomagnetic storm watch is now in effect for the 14 and 15 March, 2018. Aurora may be visible at high latitudes.”
The charged particles from a solar flare can create “weak power grid fluctuations” and have a “minor impact on satellite operations,” the NOAA said.
One of the solar flares that was created last week is said to be the largest in a cycle known as the solar minimum, which dates back to early 2007.
NOAA says the incoming solar storm is expected to be a G-1 “minor” storm. If the charged particles have a stronger effect on Earth, it could be considered a G-2 “moderate storm.”
Nikki Haley Sets UN on Fire: If You Don’t Move, Our Military Will
BY BEN MARQUIS
One of the pleasantly surprising bright spots of President Donald Trump’s administration has been the appointment of Nikki Haley as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who has taken a decidedly blunt and no-nonsense, call-it-like-we-see-it American attitude to the international organization.Haley delivered yet another fiery speech to the U.N. Security Council on Monday, in which she placed the council on notice for its utter failure to maintain a temporary cease-fire agreement in Syria. She explicitly called out Russia and Syria, as well as Iran, for their roles in the continued fighting in violation of a recent Security Council resolution, according to TheBlaze.
Her eight-minute speech boiled down to one pointed message: If the U.N. doesn’t do anything to address the contempt with which the Security Council resolution was treated by Russia and Syria, the U.S. military will.
As Haley began, she noted all of the promises made by Russia in regard to enforcing the resolution which imposed a 30-day cease-fire in the area of Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, and pointed out how fighting and bombing was still ongoing in spite of the agreement that Russia claimed to support.
She further noted that Russia and Syria had taken advantage of a “loophole” in the agreement that allowed for military action against terrorist organizations like al-Qaida and the Islamic State group by essentially declaring all opposition groups and civilians in Ghouta to be “terrorists” and open to attack.
“This is no ceasefire,” Haley asserted. “This is the Assad regime, Iran and Russia continuing to wage war against their political opponents.”
“If we can’t save families that haven’t seen the sun for weeks because they have been hiding underground to escape barrel bombs,” she continued, “then the Security Council is as impotent as its worst critics say it is.”
“When the international community consistently fails to act, there are times when states are compelled to take their own action,” Haley said, as she reminded the council of the U.S. missile strikes in April 2017 in response to Syrian chemical attacks on civilians.
“We warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and inhuman suffering, most especially the outlaw Syrian regime, the United States remains prepared to act if we must,” she added. “It is not the path we prefer, but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take, and we are prepared to take again.”
You can watch Haley’s tough speech right here. Take note of the tone and occasional sharp side-eye toward the Russian and Syrian representatives as she calls them out for their duplicity in front of the spineless council.
According to The Hill, Haley’s warning to the U.N. Security Council came amid reports heavy fighting and bombings in and around Ghouta — which were preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid and evacuation of sick and wounded civilians from the besieged city — as well as allegations of chemical attacks using chlorine gas in the area.
It is worth noting that Haley was not entirely alone in her threat to the U.N. that the U.S. would take military action to enforce the cease-fire if necessary. Defense Secretary James Mattis informed the Syrian government that “it would be unwise for them to use weaponized gas” in response to the alleged chemical attacks, and added that Trump had “full political maneuver room” to take any sort of action he deemed necessary to bring peace to the war-torn region.
Haley was also backed up by none other than French President Emmanuel Macron, who stated recently at a news conference in India in response to the alleged chemical attacks in Ghouta that France was prepared to carry out airstrikes and other military action to halt the travesty and enforce the cease-fire.
Haley, on behalf of Trump, has made it crystal clear to the U.N. that the era of “strategic patience” and leading from behind are over and done with, and if the international community doesn’t see fit to do what must be done to obtain peace and stability, America has no problem rolling up her sleeves to do what is necessary.
G’ day…Ciao…Helen and Moe Lauzier
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