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Via NY Post: Allow me a moment of pride: The hot new criticism of my fellow Jews is that we don’t complain enough. Really. A host of pundits, concerned about President Trump’s baffling unwillingness to single out neo-Nazis for criticism, are turning to the American Jewish community and pleading: Would it kill you to maybe […]
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) signed an executive order cutting off all public funds for abortion clinics in the state, the governor’s office said in a Friday statement.
The executive order directs state agencies to stop granting funds to any medical practice affiliated or operating with an abortion clinic.
McMaster also directed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to seek waivers from the federal government allowing the agency to exclude abortion clinics from the South Carolina’s Medicaid provider network.
The governor also directed the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate with the Department of Health and Environmental Control to make a publicly available a list “of all qualified non-abortion women’s health and family planning providers” that operate within a 25-mile radius of abortion clinics excluded from the state’s Medicaid provider network.
McMaster said in a statement that “there are a variety of agencies, clinics, and medical entities in South Carolina that receive taxpayer funding to offer important women’s health and family planning services without performing abortions.
“Taxpayer dollars must not directly or indirectly subsidize abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” he said.
Vicki Ringer, South Carolina director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said in a written statement that the affiliate “has provided annual exams, birth control, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and lifesaving cancer screenings — such as clinical breast exams and Pap tests — to women, men and young people in South Carolina for over 50 years.”
Ringer added:
Planned Parenthood does not receive Title X funding or any other grants through the state of South Carolina. We do serve patients who rely on Medicaid for their insurance, and provide basic health care to men and women who participate in the state health insurance plan.
Given this clear-cut information, today’s executive order issued by Governor McMaster is simply a political stunt. While he spends taxpayers’ time and money on scoring political points, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic will continue to focus on providing the wide-range of accessible, affordable health care services that our patients, and his constituents, rely on.
According to Charleston’s newspaper The Post and Courier, there are currently three clinics in the state that perform elective abortion procedures, including one Planned Parenthood clinic.
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NBA analyst Charles Barkley drew heavy criticism from the black community this week, simply for refusing to condemn Confederate statues and calling for an end to black-on-black crime.
Michael Harriot, a writer for The Root, blasted the former NBA basketball star in a piece titled, “Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist” after Barkley infuriated the black community last week with his stance on Confederate monuments and flags.
Barkley told a Birmingham, Alabama, news station that he felt time and energy spent debating the viability and necessity of Confederate monuments was a “waste.”
In the same interview, Barkley also attacked black-on-black crime and noted that blacks should get their acts together by uniting instead of dividing.
Harriot’s analysis of Barkley was scathing — in addition to calling the basketball player a “white supremacist,” he begged the question of “Why won’t Charles Barkley shut the f*** up?”
“Is there anyone who thinks that Barkley’s statements about race reveal anything other than his repeated willingness to throw black people under the bus for our stupid unwillingness to assimilate into whiteness?” Harriot wrote.
Harriot said that Barkley’s comments on race serve only to “coincide with those of the oppressors of Black America.” Harriot even went so far as to say that, if a black person begins a sentence with “What we as black people need to do is …,” then people should “stop listening immediately.”
Further, the writer said that too many people believe that the only solutions to black issues are “white-people solutions,” and that only “black white supremacists” find nothing wrong with a “white man’s methodology.”
The end result, according to Harriot, is ending up “on the Caucasian side of the argument.”
Harriot concluded:
Barkley answered a question about monuments to white supremacy by going into a rant about black-on-black crime and insinuating that it somehow had something to do with black people being dumb and poor. Because Barkley doesn’t want to hear logic. He is a true believer in the infallibility and superiority of whiteness.
Because Charles Barkley is a white supremacist.
About the Confederate memorabilia, Barkley previously said, “I’m not gonna waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues.”
As for how to solve the controversy surrounding the Civil War-era monuments, Barkley had an idea.
“You know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna keep doing great things,” Barkley said. “I’m gonna keep trying to make a difference — No. 1, in the black community, ’cause I’m black — but I’m also gonna try to do good things in the world.”
Barkley added that the prospect of “screaming at a neo-Nazi who’s gonna hate me no matter what” is wasted energy just like the effort one expends “worrying about these statues that they’ve got all over the country.”
The problem with Harriot’s accusations are not necessarily whether he’s right or wrong — the issue lies in the fact that he perceives Barkley to be a “black white supremacist” because he begs to differ with the writer of the piece.
Not only is it time to politically reach across the aisle, it’s time to apply the same bipartisanship to our fellow brothers and sisters by listening to what they have to say and applying critical analysis to their comments.
If, after that fellow brother or sister’s analysis is received and understood, a disagreement is to be had, perhaps it’s a good idea to fight intellect with intellect, and not with allegations of racism.
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From the “you just had to know THIS was coming” department, the CEO of the recreational vehicle and equipment chain Camping World is already backing down from statements that he made suggesting that some supporters of President Trump should shop elsewhere.
The remarks of Marcus Lemonis have come back to bite him in the ass big time as he seems to be finding out just how many millions of dollars that his loose tongue and arrogance could cost him if Trump supporters took his advice and spent their hard-earned dollars at businesses owned by competitors.
Now he is claiming that it was all a big misunderstanding and that he ONLY meant the neo-Nazis and white supremacists which according to CNN – there are 63 million of them.
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When I came to this country as an infant I had no idea what would be in store for me. A… https://t.co/IEW9p3hYqL
— Marcus Lemonis (@marcuslemonis) August 24, 2017
Mr. Lemonis issued a long statement via Facebook and Vimeo on Thursday in which he tried to climb out of the hole that he had dug for himself.
Miami’s @MarcusLemonis clarifies his comments about the @realDonaldTrump administration https://t.co/p8761EEZ10
— Miami.com (@Miamicom) August 24, 2017
Via Miami.com “The Profit star Marcus Lemonis releases statement after Trump comments”:
Miami’s Marcus Lemonis is under fire, and he’s fighting back.
In a recent interview with CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” The Profit star said that consumers who “are in favor of what [Trump] said” about the Charlottesville, Va., protests should not take his money.
The Camping World CEO added: “It’s scary right now.”
The host asked whether businesses should be worried about how they look dealing with the current administration.
“There’s no doubt that there is probably not many consumers in this country today that are in favor of what has been said in the last couple of days and if they are, quite frankly don’t shop at my business. And I think the reality of it is is that there is a fear, there is a fear of association.”
Of course, Lemonis is now getting trolled like crazy.
The part time Wellington resident was forced to post a lengthy open letter on Facebook. He talked about being born in Lebanon and brought to Miami by his adopted parents, and then his childhood, when he was often bullied, then he apologized, sort of.
Here is his semi-apology via Vimeo but it sounds more like weasel words than a sincere statement of contrition.
Here is the link to his FACEBOOK post on the matter from which I excerpt the following:
Last week I gave my opinion on what had happened. I made the mistake of letting my fear and emotion talk about subjects that I shouldn’t have. As the CEO of a business, I am responsible to take care of the people that work there. I opened my mouth and put them in harms way. While I know, that the headline published was taken out of context and I have to live with that. there should have never been a headline and I gave a chance to live.
My apology is sincere. It is to my employees who have been forced to deal with this. I am nothing without you. I am here to serve, guide and protect you. I will work harder. Please forgive me. Please don’t punish them.
I apologize to anyone who has supported their cause , their political preference, their candidate, their beliefs. I was Not raised this way and have always been taught to respect everyone. This is a free county and my fears shouldn’t be projected on anyone. I am asking for your forgiveness. I should have not disrespected that and will not again.
I apologize to the people who have followed my show for years and have said they have learned so much and are inspired, who now say that have been let down and will never trust me again.
I DO NOT apologize to anyone who is in favor or hate, violence, bigotry or racism. And I will do my part to help eliminate it from both sides. One way I do that is by being an example. You are the reason I made this mistake. You took my common sense away and purpose. I will not let you beat me or beat me down.
His comments that were made on CNBC can be heard HERE. Make up your own mind as to what he meant.
While Lemonis may be a renowned business genius he probably just wishes that he would have kept his mouth shut which is often the best thing to do when it comes to controversial issues, the shareholders can’t be very happy with this guy right now.
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One of the ways the media manifests its bias is with the language it uses to talk about certain things. There’s a style we’ll call the “language of scandal,” and reporters using this language will tell you, for instance, that they have “obtained internal memos,” or that that certain things have been “learned” from sources who wish not to be named.
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I’m to the point where I can’t watch Chuck Todd without getting pissed off. Smug people tend to have that effect on me and lots of others, but Todd is particularly hard to take because he is clearly so convinced of his own superiority, and hardly even bothers anymore with the pretext of being honest.
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And yet unlike Paul Manafort, a special counsel isn’t having the FBI bust through his door with a dozen agents nor has he been subject to the months of investigation Mike Flynn was. Via Washington Examiner: The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the […]
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Breitbart News reports:
McConnell’s score is worse than President Donald Trump’s or House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI), according to The Hill.
“Forty-nine percent of voters polled have a negative view of the Senate leader,” The Hill, which was given the poll results, reported.
On the other hand, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have high approval ratings — 79 percent of Republicans have a positive view of the president, with 41 percent favorable and 55 percent unfavorable from the broader survey.
Pence polls at 44 percent positive and 42 percent negative, The Hill reported.
McConnell, who will not have to face reelection until 2020, only has an 18 percent job approval rating in his home state of Kentucky, according to another poll released this week by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling.
“McConnell is the only Republican elected official polled that is not viewed favorably by a majority of his own party,” according to The Hill.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s approval rating has sunk to 18% in HIS HOME STATE Kentucky.
President Trump’s approval rating in the Bluegrass State is at 60%.
This comes after McConnell failed to repeal and replace Obamacare seven months into President Trump’s first term.
Breitbart.com reported:
The approval rating of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has plummeted to just 18 percent, a survey from Public Policy Polling has found.
The poll, which surveyed 645 Kentucky voters, found that just 18 percent of respondents approved of McConnell’s current performance, compared to 74 percent who disapproved. Seven percent of people said they were not sure.
McConnell, who is the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Kentucky history, having represented the state since 1984, was recently criticized by President Trump for failing to pass the healthcare reform bill through the Senate.
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A Democrat state representative used social media to share a hate letter she claimed to have received from a Trump supporter, but internet sleuths are pointing out how it could be just another liberal hoax.
Hawaii state Rep. Beth Fukumoto posted a copy of the alleged letter last Wednesday.
“Got this in the mail today,” she wrote on Aug. 16. “You need to understand your words have consequences @realDonaldTrump #racism #WhiteNationalism”
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Liberal news outlet The Huffington Post gleefully ran with the story, as it provided HuffPo with another opportunity to expose the supposed hatred President Donald Trump allegedly spreads with his rhetoric.
“Dear B****,” the letter began, “Your poor grand parents got put into a camp in the USA? Boo hoo hoo ― you Japs murdered thousands of servicemen at Pearl Harbor – did you forget that detail?”
The note when on to say that “we Trump supporters hate illegals, black thugs, Muslims and bombs, and gays who do nothing but b**** 24 hours a day — and bleeding heart traitor morons like you who ‘condone’ it.”
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Take a look (but be warned, the language is pretty filthy):
Got this in the mail today. You need to understand your words have consequences @realDonaldTrump #racism #WhiteNationalism http://pic.twitter.com/Oyklm30yLK
— Beth Fukumoto (@bethfukumoto) August 16, 2017
Fukumoto also provided The Huffington Post with a photo of the envelope the alleged hate mail arrived in, but that only raised more questions about the authenticity of the letter.
Internet sleuths quickly pointed out several problems with the hate mail.
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A Twitter user who calls himself Thomas Wictor pointed out several things wrong with what he saw.
He claimed that the the post office did not cancel the stamps and the barcode at the bottom of the envelop was an “intelligent mail barcode” used by commercial mailers — which would only make sense if the letter came from the representative’s office. (However, The Huffington Post reports that the code was printed by the post office’s sorting machines.)
The stamps are 10-cent commemorative stamps, which were printed in 1975. Makes one wonder — who would use collector’s stamps on hate mail?
And as 70News points out, the scanned ZIP code on the envelope, 96813-2477, is from Honolulu, not Los Angeles, where the letter supposedly originated.
We do not know if this letter is fake, but some of the things that were pointed out seem to indicate that it could be.
And considering the left’s problem with false reports these days, just about anything’s possible.
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, who has often been described as the greatest pro football player ever, ripped NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for his protests during the playing of the national anthem, stating bluntly, “I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem.”
Speaking to The Post Game, Brown said:
Colin has to make up his mind whether he’s truly an activist or whether he’s a football player. Football is commercial. You have owners. You have fans. And you want to honor that if you’re making that kind of money … I’m going to give you the real deal: I’m an American. I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and the national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.
Brown, who has been politically active regarding race relations for fifty years, added, “If you have a cause, I think you should organize it, present it in a manner where it’s not only you standing or sitting on one knee, but a lot of people that is gonna get behind each other and do something about it. If I ask you one question: Who is Colin calling on to follow what he’s talking about?”
Brown also offered a realistic assessment of the relationship between owners and players, stating, “You have to understand there’s intelligence that’s involved, OK? I can’t be two things at once that contradict each other. If I sign for money, then the people I sign with, they have rules and regulations.”
In an era that featured legendary players of the caliber of Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas, arguably the greatest quarterback who ever lived and the only player iconic Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi ever said he feared, the nimble and fleet-footed Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers, tough-man supreme Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, Packers running backs Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor, Los Angeles Rams Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen, and Detroit Lions fearsome pass-rusher Alex Karras, TIME wrote, “There is only one player in the game today whose ability on field commands almost universal admiration, and that is Jimmy Brown.”
Brown’s off-the-field political activism, after he retired at the peak of his career, at age 29, also became renowned, as he moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. He helped found the Negro Industrial Economic Union, later renamed the Black Economic Union, to help blacks become competitive in the business world; he developed the Amer-I-Can program in 1988 to help former gang members and ex-convicts clean up their lives and become productive citizens.
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