A video just released by the Center for Medical Progress taken undercover in Texas shows a Planned Parenthood research director discussing the sale of whole intact aborted babies to a company that resells them to medical researchers.
David Daleiden, head of Center for Medical Progress, claims this is clear evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood.
An idiot thug tried to rob a gas station early one morning and pushed aside a man who was in his way. Unfortunately for his dumb ass, the guy turned out to be a firefighter and a former marine. It did not go well for the robber.
A new report predicts that a mega-earthquake could kill an estimated 13,000 people and destroy a sizable portion of the Pacific Northwest.
Even more disturbing? It's overdue.
The New Yorker reported that FEMA calculations show these types of earthquakes happen at regular intervals in this specific part of the world, roughly every 240 years.
The last one was more than 300 years ago, in 1700, when a quake there sent a 600-foot wave of water all the way to Japan.
Michio Kaku, a physicist and professor at City College of New York, told Shepard Smith today that the troubling article does not overstate the danger.
"The Cascadia fault is an earthquake waiting to happen," Kaku stated. "We know it's going to happen with an energy 30 times the maximum energy of the San Andreas fault."
Kaku said Hollywood has "brainwashed" people into thinking that California is where the next massive earthquake will hit.
He added that before the mega-quake actually hits, there is a compression wave that is detected by animals.
"Animals start to act very strange. We've seen that happen before earthquakes," Kaku said. "And then, a minute, two minutes later, boom!"
The massive quake, with a magnitude of up to 9.2, would last about four minutes, according to seismologists, with a wall of water following about 15 minutes later.
Kaku said he's concerned that many of the 70,000 residents in the potential "inundation zone" have very little knowledge about this risk.
"It barely rates on the radar screen," he said.
Shep asked Kaku whether he would live in the Pacific Northwest if he had children.
"I'd think twice," he said, advising residents to educate their children on emergency preparedness and what to do in case of an earthquake.
Reacting to Hillary Clinton’s Monday address on the economy, “CNN Newsroom” anchor Carol Costello remarked that the preeminent proposals in the speech are all going to necessitate a tax increase.
While interviewing a guest for feedback on Clinton’s address, Costello pointed out Clinton’s proposals, such as raising the minimum wage and expanding paid family leave and medical leave, adding in finality that “all of these things sound like they need a tax increase.”
“So Hillary Clinton is laying out her economic plan and she’s going to talk about — let me see, I have a list here. She wants to increase investment in good paying jobs through tax incentives. She wants to support small business tax relief. She wants to establish clean energy products that would kind of like create jobs,” Costello said. “She wants to expand child care and paid family leave and sick days.”
“All of these things sound like they need a tax increase,” Costello told Monica Mehta, the managing principal for Seventh Capital investment. “Am I right?”
Mehta told the CNN host that “well, you gotta pay for it some how,” before adding, “I like what she has to say.”
Bill O’Reilly‘s roving reporter Jesse Watters dropped his usual shtick to get serious and confront San Francisco’s board of supervisors over Kate Steinle‘s death.
Since Monday, O’Reilly has made it clear he’s very outraged about Steinle being shot dead by an illegal immigrant who had already been deported. He said the Obama administration is “complicit”and her death is “collateral damage” of San Francisco’s “insane left-wing politics.”
Tonight he kept the focus on San Francisco, showing video of Watters there yesterday confronting the city board of supervisors over their “dangerous sanctuary city policies.”
He held up a picture of Steinle, said the city let her killer out, and called them out for their silence and for not looking at the photo.
Later on in the segment, Watters attempted to confront other city officials in their offices about her death, but did not exactly get direct responses.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is filibustering the Patriot Act on the Senate floor, and it doesn’t look like he’s going to stop anytime soon.
The Republican presidential candidate took control of the floor Wednesday afternoon at 1:18 p.m., simultaneously explaining on Twitter that he is filibustering the renewal of the Patriot Act because of the National Security Agency’s program that collects bulk phone record data of American citizens.
“The government shouldn’t have the ability to get that information unless they have suspicion,” Paul said on the floor Wednesday. “Unless they have probable cause you committed a crime.”
In an campaign email to supporters, posted online by a reporter from Time magazine, Paul said: “I will not rest. I will not back down. I will not yield one inch in this fight so long as my legs can stand.”
Here’s how a Paul campaign aide described the marathon speech: “Senator Rand Paul has taken the floor of the U.S. Senate to filibuster the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Senator Paul is a staunch defender of liberty and believes Americans have a right to privacy. The U.S. government has no place conducting these warrantless searches and should focus on gathering intelligence on suspected terrorists and foreign actors.”
One of the worst aspects of the illiberal left is its heinous sexism against women with whom they disagree.
Megyn Kelly, a former lawyer, is a serious and highly successful television journalist. When her contract was up for renewal in 2013, the New York Timesreported that both CNN and NBC wanted to hire her away from Fox, a strange thing to desire if Fox News is not a “legitimate” news outlet.
But to the illiberal left, Megyn Kelly is not a reporter or a commentator or a woman to be respected for her achievements. She is a Fox “babe” to be characterized by her looks.
The Huffington Post linked to a New York Timesstory about Kelly adding the headline, “Megyn Kelly, ‘Attractive-Looking Blond’ Anchorwoman, Leads the Pack at Fox News,” twisting a flattering quote from the story to make it seem as if the only positive attribute she possessed were her looks.
I’m surprised Mark Pryor isn’t holding a rifle in one hand and his Bible in the other because clearly he’s trying to pull one over on the good people of Arkansas, trying to appeal to those who cling to their bible and their guns. Allahpundit paraphrases this ad as saying “If God can forgive me for voting for ObamaCare, why can’t you?” I think that’s true but it seems to me he’s also justifying his Obamacare vote by saying that his compass is the Bible…that you know, he means to do well. But bad policy of this magnitude can’t be forgiven lightly.
In fact, if he was really sorry he’d work to repeal Obamacare and then resign. Then we could have a conversation about forgiveness. But he’s not sorry in the least. He just wants your vote and is trying his darnedest to act sincere and genuine about something many in Arkansas can identify with…the Bible and Christian faith.
Nancy Clark was originally a booster of ObamaCare — so much so that the White House featured her in an April 2012 ad that still remains on the White House website today. “My personal philosophy is that health care is a right and that it should always be affordable,” Clark tells viewers in this campaign spot. “[A]s a very small business owner,” Clark continues in her enthusiastic endorsement of ObamaCare, “I will always offer the mechanism by which people can have access to health care.”
That was then … and this is now. CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson caught up with the New Hampshire business owner, who decided this year to dump her employees out of group insurance and into the ObamaCare exchange.
Your fourth-grader may be getting a little instruction in racism and white privilege along with his lessons in reading and writing.
A series of teaching guides, published recently by Zaner- Bloser Inc. and designed to be compliant with Common Core national standards in math and English, appear to do exactly that, according to EAG News.
The suggested fourth-grade lesson plan dedicates two weeks to the book, “The Jacket,” and mixes a little literature with a heavy dose of “white privilege,” according to EAG, which reported:
The story centers around a young white boy named Phil who wrongly accuses an African-American student of stealing his brother’s jacket.
It’s a fun little book about racism and white privilege – a left-wing concept that teaches African Americans the values of American society are designed to benefit white people.
Maybe it’s time we went back to the “Dick and Jane” series, when kids actually learned how to read and comprehend, free of ideology.
Reading Erika’s post this morning got me thinking. Democrats still haven’t gotten their story straight about the untimely demise of “if you like your plan, you can keep it” — President Obama’s most memorable presidential promise. For his part, Obama delivered the pledge ad nauseamfor years, before misleadingly minimizing the scope of its victims as it unraveled. Then, after a feeble shot at revisionism cratered, he was forced to muster a half-assed apology. When that didn’t staunch the bleeding either, he rolled out a desperation “fix” that hits a rare trifecta: It is logistically infeasible — and quite possibly illegal — according to various experts, it has been roundly criticized by lefty wonks who see it as a counter-productive affront to the viability of the law, and it has been dismissed by elected Democrats as insufficient weak sauce. No one’s happy. Quite a feat. As the White House flails and fumbles, Congressional Democrats have been left to their own devices to engage in freelance damage control. The yarn they’re spinning is a tangled web, indeed. To hear people like House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tell it, of coursethey knew that ‘keep your plan’ wasn’t exactly accurate. The president employed “imprecise” language, Hoyer allowed last month. Hey, “we all knew” Obama’s categorical pledge wasn’t quite right, Gillibrand added over the weekend, lamenting that Democrats hadn’t adequately explained all the details:
Two quick points: (1) A fuller explanation would have rendered Obama’s vow inoperative, and likely would have sunk the bill. That’s the whole reason they lied in the first place. (2) Gillibrand needs to have a chat with Kirsten Powers, the Hammacks, Edie Sundby, Bob Laszewski, David Frum, Matthew Fleischer, and countless others who’ve been dumped from their decidedly non “terrible” plans into inferior and/or more expensive coverage. The Left’s persistent “junk coverage” talking point is garbage, and is especially rich coming from folks who believe with religious fervor that Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion is the height of human compassion. (Also, has she heard about Obamacare’s effects on deductibles?) In any case, a number of Democrats want Americans to know that yes, they did know ‘keep your plan’ was inaccurate — and therefore their primary shortcoming was fouling up the expectations management game. Which brings us to a separate class of Democrats, to whom we’ll refer as the “we had no idea!” crowd. This nervous bunch is hoping to persuade voters that they were bamboozled by Obama’s promise just like everyone else, and that they’re working tirelessly to rectify the unforeseen breach of trust. This group is led by vulnerable Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon:
“It was a significant failure to understand that the grandfathering had this flaw in it,” said Merkley, “and now that it’s recognized, we’ve got to fix it.” The senator added that “we just didn’t fully understand” that during the three years before the new law went completely into effect, many people would migrate to other coverage or be forced off these grandfathered plans.
Students at Bowie State University assailed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday after administrators cancelled a low cost school-wide health care plan due to new regulations in the law.
Many students told Campus Reform that the now cancelled plans, which provided coverage for just $50 per semester, were the only insurance they could afford.
"I can't afford anything right now," one said. "I can't even afford my loans."
"We don't have that money," said another. "We can barely afford books."