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Pro-Life Leaders Map Out Path to Defund Planned Parenthood with Trump
By Dr. Susan Berry 
National pro-life organizations met with Trump administration officials at the White House Wednesday to clear a path to defund Planned Parenthood, even with pro-abortion Democrats poised to take the reins of the U.S. House in January.
Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins, Live Action president Lila Rose, and representatives from the March for Life and the Susan B. Anthony List met with Trump administration officials.
While the pro-life activists acknowledge the administration has fulfilled some of President Donald Trump’s promises to them, Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest provider of abortions – remains the recipient of more than $500 million in annual taxpayer funding.
“Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in the U.S. and, while receiving taxpayer funds, daily profits from the deaths of 900 preborn children killed in its facilities,” said Rose in a statement sent to Breitbart News.
She repeated the list of serious issues the pro-life base of the GOP has with Planned Parenthood, including that the DOJ is currently investigating the abortion vendor for alleged profiting from the sale of aborted baby body parts, and also that the corporation “regularly lobbies for taxpayer funding of abortions, as well as the repeal of all restrictions on abortions, including restrictions on elective late-term abortions.”
Live Action ✔@LiveAction
Every day, approximately 900 little boys and girls are stripped of their lives by Planned Parenthood. The depraved Abortion Corporation must be defunded. Our nation has a duty to protect our most vulnerable Americans in the womb.
7:34 PM - Nov 29, 2018
“The CDC reports abortion numbers are declining, but Planned Parenthood’s market share of abortions continues to expand,” Rose said.
In a letter to Trump on the eve of the meeting, Hawkins observed that Planned Parenthood “has infiltrated too many programs and funding streams designed to help women and their children, born and preborn.”
Students for Life@StudentsforLife
Have you contacted @realDonaldTrump yet to tell him to defund Planned Parenthood? Read the five things he can do right now and then contact the White House!
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2:30 PM - Nov 29, 2018
“The places receiving federal dollars should treat everyone as a patient deserving of life,” Hawkins wrote, putting forward five ways the Trump administration can defund the abortion industry giant:
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Refuse to sign any budget that doesn’t defund Planned Parenthood where possible.
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Formalize as quickly as possible the Protect Life rule for the Title X regulations as a starting point for separating abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from family planning dollars.
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Continue to appoint judges who respect life in law.
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End the funding of fetal tissue research through Health and Human Services monies, as abortion providers like Planned Parenthood earn additional monies by selling the broken bodies of aborted infants.
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Sever the connection between sex education and abortion providers through restrictions on federal grants where possible. Planned Parenthood should not be able to use sex education programs as their own person marketing slush fund, to instruct teens to buy their products and engage in behaviors they endorse, and then selling abortions to those same students when their advice and products fail.
“The vast majority of American women will never step into a Planned Parenthood facility in a given year,” Hawkins told Trump, adding:
The health services they try to claim a monopoly on are better performed by Federally Qualified Health Centers. Compared to these community health centers, Planned Parenthood serves millions fewer patients, provides dozens fewer services, and spends their money far more inefficiently.
“We ask the president to veto any funding bill that does not explicitly defund Planned Parenthood,” Rose asserted. “To save the lives of innocent children and to end this corrupt bargain between Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion politicians, the president must follow through on his campaign pledge.”
Pope Says He's Worried about Homosexuality in Priesthood
Pope Francis has been quoted as saying homosexuality in the clergy "is something that worries me."
In excerpts from an interview to be published soon in a book, he was also quoted as saying "in our societies it even seems homosexuality is fashionable."
Italian daily Corriere della Sera's website Saturday ran book excerpts.
Separately, the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Francis in the book as labeling as an "error" the argument that having gays in convents "isn't so grave." Francis says "there's no place for that kind of affection" among clergy.
In the interview, Francis says homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to become priests or join other religious orders, even while living in service to the church, the Christian community and the "people of God."
Kirstjen Nielsen Speaks On Migrant Crisisz
Ms. Nielsen recently stated on Fox News, “We will be prepared for any additional migrants.”
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen recently stated on Fox News, “We will be prepared for any additional migrants.” Adding that “illegal or violent entry” into the United States will be strictly prohibited.
Nielsen stated, “[T]his is a testament to the training and professionalism of the Border Patrol that no one was hurt. We had a thousand people rushing the border in a very violent and lawless way. We will not stand by as our Border Patrol are attacked. So, they defended themselves.”
“We were prepared this time. We will be prepared for any additional migrants. The president has made it quite clear, we will not tolerate illegal or violent entry into our country. … We will be prepared. We will not allow illegal entry into our country.”
Brutal Truths for ‘Beto’ Believers
By Christopher Gage
Only in the Current Year could an Irishman married to a billionaire pretend to be a Latino progressive fighting for the little guy. The title for biggest phony threatens to desert Rachel Dolezal.
Beto O’Rourke, who is about as Hispanic as a penchant for California rolls makes me Emperor Hirohito, is running for president.
Of course, Beto, whose real name Robert, is rather underwhelming and rather Irish-American, hasn’t confirmed this yet. He’s busy playing hard to get with a fawning, bordering-on-boiling-a-bunny media, and the armadas of bores festooning their latest crush with a participation ribbon for his recent good try.
Yeah. He gave Senator Ted Cruz a decent fight in Texas. But who sits in the Senate?
Beto is the new Barack Obama. Aesthetically pleasing. Sitcom smile. A groupie-like devotion to his own voice. He’s also achieved little of note. Like Obama.
Obama, of course, loves Beto. The “impressive young man” reminds him of himself. And nobody enthralls Obama quite like himself.
But we get what we reward. All this matters little in the Instagram age. Beto, sentient hashtag, is the new Great Democratic Hope.
“Win or lose,” tweeted Reuters, “Beto O’Rourke is set to emerge victorious.” That was right before he lost. And didn’t emerge victorious.
But he won anyway, according to desperate Democrats who’ve long disfigured reality to their liking.
Beto is a mantra. A silly affirmation self-help books implore the gullible to repeat before a mirror each morning. Beto is “The Secret.” Beto is Current Year.
Even his campaign signs aped something of more bite than the name they carried—those little packets of spicy ketchup they hand out for free at Whataburger.
Yet, the jeremiads border on the bizarre. The Washington Post claimed the burgeoning Democratic field will struggle to match the cryogenic Beto. Apparently, the sight of a middle-aged man skating around a car lot qualifies as “cool.” He also plays the air drums. Evidently, the times are still fast at Ridgemont High.
But it is Current Year. And Beto is the avatar of what Emina Melonic christened “hashtag politics.” It is a time where what one can do matters little, the lot one can feign matters most. Conceive, believe, achieve, runs the antidote to reality. But it’s not his fault.
Betomania is encouraged by my generation—Millennials. And we love a good phony. We’ve been suckling that teat for some time.
Back in the 1980s, a California state legislator set up a self-esteem task force to cure the state, and eventually America, of all social maladies. John Vasconcellos called self-esteem the “social vaccine,” a mithridate whose injection would cure criminality, violence, low educational achievement, unemployment, child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and gang warfare.
Even right-wingers succumbed. Self-esteem would save billions of tax dollars and usher in a 1950s harmony.
Bedridden with heart trouble, Vasco asked his flock to imagine themselves armed with brushes, clearing the gunk clogging his arteries, whilst singing to the tune of Row Row Row Your Boat:
Now let’s swim ourselves, up and down my streams. Touch and rub and warm and melt, the plaque that blocks my streams.
Miraculously, it didn’t work.
Soon, Vasco’s syrupy contagion crept like sugar-frosted gas into schools, families, and mass culture. Parents were implored to pepper their children with effulgent unconditional praise. No criticism.
Unsurprisingly, this raised a generation to pine for validation and reward regardless of achievement. Unable to cope with the rigors of life, my generation, you may have noticed, embodies this schlock.
A pioneer of the self-esteem movement later deplored the mongrelization of his work. Nathaniel Branden, author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem, found his thesis absent in Vasco’s super movement. Branden didn’t advocate unconditional praise. He said it could be harmful.
Branden taught that self-esteem derived from achievements. Real ones. Not undulating praise for all and any effort. Vasco and his team didn’t mention that part.
The task force taught that validation came from the approval of others. It’s of no surprise that a generation marinated in such bunkum now clots like fire ants around anyone telling them what they want to hear.
And those yearning for validation will vote for anyone willing to dish out the feel-goods.
Indeed, a study of young Americans found they’d prefer a boost to self-esteem over sex, alcohol, or money.
Perhaps that’s why they detest President Trump. Consider the slogan: Make America Great Again. This obviously implies that America is no longer great. That America doesn’t deserve a gold star just for being America. To rebuild her self-esteem, America must put in a shift.
But the Beto believers would rather not digest such a brutal truth. That sounds like work.
A year after Hurricane Irma, private groups take the lead in rebuilding St. John
Rebuilding St. John after Irma
(Photo: Rick Jervis)
CRUZ BAY, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands – Streams of visitors pull suitcases on and off the ferry as tour guides in Jeep Wranglers wait by the curb to whisk them away. The nearby Dog House Pub is clamorous with a midday crowd, and, up the street, work crews bolt the finishing touches on a patch of new homes.
Everywhere you turn, there are signs of recovery from the destruction of Hurricane Irma, the Category 5 storm that raked across St. John and St. Thomas a year ago Thursday, essentially paralyzing the islands. Hurricane Maria, also Category 5, followed two weeks later, dumping torrential rains.
A key part of the recovery has come from a rare private-public partnership that, in some ways, has outpaced federal recovery efforts and could be replicated in future disasters, residents and leaders here said.
Groups such as Love City Strong (“Love City” is St. John’s nickname), Love for Love City Foundation, All Hands and Hearts/Smart Response and Bloomberg Philanthropies have poured millions of dollars and hours of sweat equity here and shared resources among themselves with the mutual goal of restoring the island’s homes and businesses.
The effort began with locals – business owners, chefs, out-of-work boat captains – who took the island’s recovery into their own hands in the chaotic days after Irma and has surged with the backing of some well-heeled part-time residents of the island, such as country music star Kenny Chesney and Thomas Secunda, Bloomberg co-founder and billionaire.
“The private sector has shown up on St. John and, in my opinion, really rewrote the playbook on disaster relief,” said Jeff Quinlan, a former bar owner and charter boat captain here who today leads Love for Love City.
Bloomberg mobilized experts on power restoration and other disaster consultants to work alongside island officials to expedite recovery. Flush with expertise, the U.S. Virgin Islands had 90% of its power restored by last Christmas.
Chesney has brought a national spotlight to St. John’s recovery and is donating the proceeds of his latest album, “Song for the Saints,” to its rebuilding.
Last month, Bill Clinton visited the island to praise the efforts of the groups and announce a donation of solar panels from the Clinton Foundation. The former president was hosted by Secunda and Bloomberg.
"We’re a facilitator," Secunda said. "We're using our ability to convene and fund and bring in experts and tools from the States, but we’re empowering the local people that live there to do this."
The twin punches of Irma and Maria left much of the U.S. Virgin Islands – St. John, St. Thomas and St. Croix – essentially cut off from the rest of the U.S. Hospitals on St. Thomas and St. Croix were severely damaged, and St. John’s sole clinic was condemned and later closed. The storms damaged or destroyed 85% of the islands’ 56,000 homes and caused three deaths.

Connor Masterson, left, Meaghan Enright, and Jeff Quinlan, who run non-profit foundations for St. John recovery, plan upcoming projects at a bar in Cruz Bay. (Photo: Rick Jervis)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved more than $1.8 billion in disaster assistance for the three islands combined, including $82.6 million in individual and household assistance grants to more than 20,000 households, said Eric Adams, a FEMA spokesman based in St. Thomas.
Much of that money has either not reached residents or, in many cases, was not enough to fix homes ravaged by the storm, residents and volunteers said.
Money from the Community Disaster Loan program, a FEMA-distributed fund that island officials hoped to use to rebuild hospitals and schools, has been slow to reach the island because the Trump administration has placed unexpected stipulations on the money, said Stacey Plaskett, the Virgin Islands’ representative in Congress.
The U.S. territory has received more than $240 million of the $306 million fund, according to a FEMA spokesperson.
“That’s where the real struggle is right now,” Plaskett said.
As federal disaster dollars make their way through Washington's bureacracy, the locals have stepped in. Shortly after the storm, Quinlan and other residents used personal chainsaws to clear roads, set up distribution centers and tapped contacts on the mainland to fly in medical supplies and generators.
As more private money rolled in, they organized into groups and created teams: roofers, electricians, government liaisons. Bloomberg’s disaster advisers teamed up with government officials, prioritizing recovery efforts. The teams were so effective that they’ve essentially been given the reins to recovery on St. John, said Kurt Marsh, community liaison to Gov. Kenneth Mapp’s Hurricane Recovery and Resilience Task Force.
Problems still plague St. John: The only clinic operates out of a mobile trailer, the main public school hasn't been rebuilt, and the island's two biggest employers – The Westin St. John Resort and Caneel Bay Resort – remain closed.
But the island is in better shape today than many expected, thanks in no small part to the private sector, Marsh said.
“We’ve had assistance that the government hadn’t provided and otherwise would have been very slow to provide,” he said.
The islanders-turned-recovery-specialists all know one another from years of living on the small island and meet frequently to coordinate recovery – often at one of St. John’s many watering holes.
On a recent afternoon, members of Love for Love City and Love City Strong squeezed into a table at the Dog House Pub to discuss upcoming projects. After a round of shots of vodka mixed with grapefruit soda, Quinlan brought up an 80-year-old man in Coral Bay in dire need of a new roof. The teams discussed where the supplies would come from and what roofers were available. A date was set and agreed to: The man would have his new roof by the end of the week, they said.
The group had achieved in about 20 minutes what would have taken the federal or state government several weeks, if not months. Another round of vodka shots followed.
That ability to make quick decisions and act on them is key in speeding up St. John’s recovery, said Meaghan Enright, who sidelined her boutique marketing firm to help lead Love City Strong. She realizes that St. John’s size – the smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands with only 4,500 residents – allows the group to be more effective than it would be on some of the bigger islands. But the template it's creating could be replicated across the USA, she said.
“Truth is, storms are getting too big, damage is too much for one government alone to handle,” Enright said. “We’re looking at a new era of response. This is the new model.”
After the meeting, Quinlan climbed into his Jeep Wrangler and navigated up mountain roads to check on Evelyne Stephen. Last year, the 61-year-old former hotel clerk huddled in the bathtub of her bathroom with her son, Kevin, 29, as Irma demolished their home.
FEMA awarded her $11,000, but it wasn’t enough to replace a home that was gone. She stayed with a friend for 10 months until Quinlan and his group built her a home. The two-bedroom house is built with a stronger frame, hurricane straps on the roof and sweeping views of Cruz Bay below.
All homes constructed by Quinlan's crews are made with building specifications from Miami-Dade County to be able to survive future storms, he said.
For Stephen, it was nothing short of a miracle. “I thought it would take at least a year before I had my own house again,” said Stephen, who is originally from French Guiana but has lived in St. John for more than three decades.
Evelyne Stephen, 61, lost her home to Hurricane Irma and didn't get enough FEMA money to build a new one. The non-profit group Love for Love City helped her build a new home stronger and more storm-resistant than her previous one. “If it wasn’t for them, a lot of local people wouldn’t be where they are today," she says. (Photo: Rick Jervis)
She said, “If it wasn’t for them, a lot of local people wouldn’t be where they are today.”
Love City Strong began last year by making sure families had clean water to drink and removing mold from damaged homes. Today, it’s leading a new program to help rebuild 200 low- to middle-income homes on the island, Enright said.
“We’re making sure we’re not just building villas but affordable housing, as well,” she said.
Water damage from Irma caused mold to spread in the home of Kenisha Small, 31, who lives in Bellevue Village, an affordable-housing community high on a hill on the western part of the island. FEMA rejected her claim because her home was still livable, she said, despite her asthma that flared up because of the mold.
Crews from Love City Strong replaced her tainted sheetrock with mold-resistant sheetrock, removed all the mold from the ceiling and replaced her furniture. Her lungs are doing better, she said.
If not for groups like Love City Strong, “we’d still be under a lot of debris, still lacking medical services, still lacking a lot of things,” said Small, a St. John native. “We didn’t have the manpower do this on our own.”
A shared goal among the groups is not just to rebuild St. John to what it was before Irma but to make it more resilient and better prepared for future storms. Up the mountain from Cruz Bay, a once-empty warehouse holds rows of chainsaws, 4,000-watt generators, circular saws, first-aid kits, flashlights, bolt cutters, masks, boots, bottled water and enough military meals to feed all of St. John for a week.
It's one of two "supply bunkers" positioned on different sides of the island that the groups will tap into should another storm hit. Volunteer teams are trained on emergency first-aid techniques, and an internet provider, Love City Community Network, built a mobile network of antennas and generators that could have connectivity across the island within hours of a major storm.
Another Irma-sized storm may batter the island, but it won’t cripple it the way it did last year, Quinlan said.
“We’ve taken some very extreme steps to make sure the population of St. John is protected,” he said. “We’re not going to go through the same things we did last time.”
Former Hillary aide caught at Fox News with pants down, reportedly screams about wiping ‘pubic hair’ off Trump campaign spokesperson
By Joe Newby
Talk about a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. On Thursday, BizPac Review and others reported that Philippe Reines, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton, went on a trouser-less rant after a segment with Harlan Hill, a member of the Trump 2020 advisory board.
Hill tweeted about the incident, noting that Reines had taken his trousers off and ranted about pubic hair: “1) Afterwards he came at me screaming like a maniac (I thought he was going cry) 2) He told me to ‘clean the pubic hair off my face.’ Whatever that means? 3) Best part, he had no pants on”
Harlan Z. Hill ✔@Harlan
Debated @HillaryClinton’s former senior advisor @PhilippeReines tonight…
1) Afterwards he came at me screaming like a maniac (I thought he was going cry)
2) He told me to “clean the pubic hair off my face.” Whatever that means?
3) Best part, he had no pants on
#Unhinged
8:45 PM - Nov 27, 2018
According to Samantha Chang, Hill posted photos of Reines without pants, but the former Hillary aide blocked him.
The Daily Caller’s Amber Athey reported:
Hill told The Daily Caller that Reines said, “You’re just as much of a jackass on TV as you are online” and that Hill needs to “stop hiding behind [FBN anchor Trish Regan’s] skirt.”
“We chirped back and forth, and he said, ‘You’re not half the debater you think you are.’ To which I said, ‘That’s probably the lamest, most D.C. diss I’ve ever heard,’” Hill told TheDC.
Reines allegedly followed Hill through the newsroom screaming, and Hill started snapping photos of Reines’ pants-less suit.
Athey added:
“Yeah, I know how I look. How about you wipe the pubic hair off your face?” Reines allegedly told Hill in response to his photo being taken.
Reines blocked several Daily Caller reporters on Twitter after they retweeted Hill’s account of the incident. According to an anonymous eyewitness, Reines did not wear pants during a recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program either.
Reines, Chang reminds us, is a “rabid Trump-hater” who frequently slams the president and those who work for him. Reines even referred to the entire Trump family as a “diseased clan,” Chang said.
None of the Clinton’s have clothes on and this surprised u why?
Remember, elections have consequences…
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