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WALSH: How To Thoroughly Dismantle The ‘Bodily Autonomy’ Pro-Abortion Argument

The pro-abortion side has moved progressively away from the personhood debate, aware that the science is profoundly against them, and has now planted its flag firmly on the ground of "bodily autonomy." It is not uncommon these days to hear an abortion supporter basically concede that the "fetus" is a living person, but still defend abortion on the basis that "a woman can do what she wants with her body." This is supposed to be some kind of philosophically unassailable and logically bulletproo

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Jim Acosta’s Tweet Listing Obama Policies Trump Has Nuked Doesn’t Go As Planned

CNN’s Jim Acosta has done it again: given conservatives another opportunity for some Twitter trollery. Like his repeated attempts to heckle Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Acosta’s attempt to shame President Trump for pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday blew up in his face.

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Before and After Welfare Handouts

Before the massive growth of our welfare state, private charity was the sole option for an individual or family facing insurmountable financial difficulties or other challenges. How do we know that? There is no history of Americans dying on the streets because they could not find food or basic medical assistance. Respecting the biblical commandment to honor thy father and mother, children took care of their elderly or infirm parents. Family members and the local church also helped those who had fallen on hard times.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, charities started playing a major role. In 1887, religious leaders founded the Charity Organization Society, which became the first United Way organization. In 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America started helping at-risk youths reach their full potential. In 1913, the American Cancer Society, dedicated to curing and eliminating cancer, was formed. With their millions of dollars, industrial giants such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller created our nation’s first philanthropic organizations.

Generosity has always been a part of the American genome. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French civil servant, made a nine-month visit to our country in 1831 and 1832, ostensibly to study our prisons. Instead, his visit resulted in his writing “Democracy in America,” one of the most influential books about our nation. Tocqueville didn’t use the term “philanthropy,” but he wrote extensively about how Americans love to form all kinds of nongovernmental associations to help one another. These associations include professional, social, civic and other volunteer organizations seeking to serve the public good and improve the quality of human lives. The bottom line is that we Americans are the most generous people in the world, according to the new Almanac of American Philanthropy — something we should be proud of.

Before the welfare state, charity embodied both a sense of gratitude on the behalf of the recipient and magnanimity on the behalves of donors. There was a sense of civility by the recipients. They did not feel that they were owed, were entitled to or had a right to the largesse of the donor. Recipients probably felt that if they weren’t civil and didn’t express their gratitude, more assistance wouldn’t be forthcoming. In other words, they were reluctant to bite the hand that helped them. With churches and other private agencies helping, people were much likelier to help themselves and less likely to engage in self-destructive behavior. Part of the message of charitable groups was: “We’ll help you if you help yourself.”

Enter the federal government. Civility and gratitude toward one’s benefactors are no longer required in the welfare state. In fact, one can be arrogant and hostile toward the “donors” (taxpayers), as well as the civil servants who dish out the benefits. The handouts that recipients get are no longer called charity; they’re called entitlements — as if what is received were earned.

There is virtually no material poverty in the U.S. Eighty percent of households the Census Bureau labels as poor have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have at least one computer. Forty-two percent own their homes. What we have in our nation is not material poverty but dependency and poverty of the spirit, with people making unwise choices and leading pathological lives, aided and abetted by the welfare state. Part of this pathological lifestyle is reflected in family structure. According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, that year 11 percent of black children and 3 percent of white children were born to unwed mothers. Today it’s respectively 75 percent and 30 percent.

There are very little guts in the political arena to address the downside of the welfare state. To do so risks a politician’s being labeled as racist, sexist, uncaring and insensitive. That means today’s dependency is likely to become permanent.

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Mattis: Trump Admin. Already Working with Allies to Prevent Iran from Acquiring Nukes

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday the Trump administration is working with U.S. allies on a measure to prevent Iran from procuring a nuclear weapon, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump torpedoed the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.

Testifying before the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Mattis said Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord on Tuesday because he was unable to confirm Tehran’s compliance to its provisions, which exchanged sanctions relief for a pause on the regime’s nuclear program.

“We have walked away from the JCPOA because we feel that it was inadequate for the long-term effort and this is something that was probably noted by the Senate several years ago when the Senate did not endorse it as a treaty,” Mattis said, referring to the deal’s official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

“It was not a hasty decision. The administration has been in place for over a year, and for over a year we have attempted to work with allies on the shortcomings of it, so I think now we have an opportunity to move forward to address those shortcomings and make it more compelling. That effort is underway already, with the secretary of state, secretary of treasury, and others working the issue.”

Mattis said the administration will collaborate with U.S. allies and partners to stunt Iran’s destabilizing activities in the Middle East, including the ongoing developments to its ballistic missile program, its support of terrorism, and its threat to international commerce in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

Iranian leaders have threatened to retaliate against the United States in response to Trump’s decision to abandon the landmark deal and reimpose a series of sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the agreement. Iran has rejected Trump’s calls for a new deal, warning it is prepared to rapidly restart uranium enrichment—the process used to make nuclear weapons.

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton told reporters Tuesday the United States has already kicked off discussions with allies on a strengthened accord. European allies France, Germany, and the United Kingdom had forcefully lobbied the Trump administration to remain in the agreement and have signaled they may attempt to salvage it without the United States.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) called Trump’s decision to scrap the deal “reckless,” saying the international inspections regime required under the accord to probe Iran’s nuclear facilities is now at risk.

“We are in a situation where we have had under this agreement inspectors on the ground who have reported to us directly and personally in the United States Senate the success of their inspection regime to make certain that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon,” Durbin said to Mattis. “By walking away from this agreement, we are forsaking the opportunity to continue to monitor in detail the work done by Iran to make certain that they live up to its terms.”

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WATCH: Senator Cotton Reminds Democrats About Their Connection To Torture Program

On Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) gave a friendly reminder to Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, reminding them that they voted in favor of confirming President Barack Obama’s CIA Director nominee John Brennan, who held a senior-level position in the agency during its use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

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Fugitive sex offender Roman Polanski blasts #MeToo movement: ‘You can’t help laughing’

Disgraced filmmaker and convicted rapist Roman Polanski, 84, is making waves with recent negative comments he made about the #MeToo movement.

Law enforcement arrested Polanski in 1977 for rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, and lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14 years of age. He ultimately pled guilty to a charge of “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor,” which would have resulted in his conviction on that count, but he fled the country before his sentencing hearing. He has remained a fugitive from U.S. law enforcement since, living abroad in Europe.

What did he say?

In this week’s edition of Newsweek Polska, Polanski dismissed the #MeToo movement as “collective hysteria” and “total hypocrisy.”

“I think this is the kind of mass hysteria that occurs in society from time to time,” he said of the #MeToo movement, noting that “sometimes it’s very dramatic, like the French Revolution or the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France, or sometimes it’s less bloody, like 1968 in Poland or McCarthyism in the US.”

“Everyone is trying to sign up, chiefly out of fear,” he said, and according to the interview, compared it to “North Korea’s public mourning for its leaders” when everyone “cries so much that ‘you can’t help laughing.’”

“I think it’s total hypocrisy,” he added.

Anything else?

Polanski reportedly gave the interview prior to being thrown out of the Academy along with convicted sex offender Bill Cosby.

On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voted to remove him and Cosby from its ranks amid the hypercharged #MeToo environment plaguing Hollywood and popular culture.

“The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity,” a statement from the Academy on the matter read.

CNN reported that this is the first time Academy members have voted to “rescind an induction or award” in its 69-year history.

Polanski also called the Academy’s move to expel him the “height of hypocrisy,” and said that comparing him to Cosby “was a total misunderstanding and harassment.”

Also, Polanski threatened to sue the Academy over their “illegal” expulsion.

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Sessions’ answer on “separating families” is both brutal and true

One of the toughest situations for our Customs and Border Patrol officers is when they are forced to deal with two categories of illegal aliens: unaccompanied minors and what immigration officials refer to as Family Units (FUs). The Family Unit designation applies to multiple, related illegal aliens including minor children. Contrary to the monstrous picture of our immigration enforcement officials painted by Democrats, nobody wants to see innocent children displaced or split up from their families. Unfortunately, in order to comply with our own laws and ensure the safety of minors, that’s what winds up happening all too often on the Mexican border.

But who is really to blame for that? The law enforcement officials who are following the rules or the parents who choose to knowingly break the law by bringing or sending their children across the border illegally? When Attorney General Jeff Sessions had the question put to him recently he delivered a stiff dose of harsh reality. (LA Times, emphasis added)

All immigrants who cross the border illegally will be charged with a crime under a new “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions said Monday, launching a crackdown that could overwhelm already-clogged detention facilities and immigration courts with hundreds of thousands of new cases.

Sessions also said that families who illegally cross the border may be separated after their arrest, with children sent to juvenile shelters while their parents are sent to adult detention facilities. Until now, border agents tried to keep parents and their children at the same detention site…

“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law,” Sessions said earlier Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. “If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”

As the kids like to say these days… Boom!

I’ll confess that I’ve been waiting a while to hear some common sense like this coming from the executive branch of our government. Crossing the border illegally is a crime. When people commit other crimes such as robbery, assault or murder, the perpetrators who are sent to prison sometimes have families, including children. You don’t hear anyone demanding they get a pass so they won’t be separated from their kids. To borrow a line from the Baretta theme song, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. (Some of you younger readers may have to go Google that one.)

Sessions went on to remind any potential visitors that our border is not open and if you desire entry, “Make your claim. Wait your turn.” He finished up with another bit of cold, hard truth, telling the audience that we cannot take everyone on this planet who is in a difficult situation.

I continue to hear media talking heads suggesting that Sessions is on the way out or moaning about why President Trump hasn’t fired his Attorney General yet. There’s your reason in a nutshell. That’s precisely the language Trump was using on the campaign trail and Sessions is turning those words into actions. The President clearly likes results and good headlines, and Sessions continues to deliver both.

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