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Last Monday, a Catholic mother of four sons wrote a letter to The Observer, a student-run, daily print and online newspaper serving Notre Dame University, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross, asking for women to consider not wearing leggings because they cling to the body and leave little to the imagination.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) on Monday told attendees at the We the People Summit in Washington, D.C. that she would take on the pharmaceutical industry, despite the fact that she has taken hundreds of thousands from the industry during her career in politics.
"What I have said is on day one there’s some stuff you can do without even passing it, right. So on day one I’d sign us back into that climate change agreement. I can just do that, right," Klobuchar said, referring to the Paris Climate Accord. "In the first a hundred days, we have to put comprehensive immigration reform on the table. We’ve gotta get it done. We’ve gotta get it introduced. And the bill we have a great model from 2013 of a bill that had broad support of everything from the AFL-CIO to the migrant workers groups to the farm groups, and we have to bring back a strong immigration bill, and get that done."
Klobuchar then turned to the pharmaceutical industry.
"We have to take on big pharma. We just can’t wait, you gotta get it done now. People are literally dying from rationing their insulin," Klobuchar said.
Klobuchar has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry over the course of her career, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Earlier this month, the Washington Examiner reported that Klobuchar has taken money from Medtronic, which is the sole manufacturer of an expensive insulin delivery product:
Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, which runs most of its operations out of Fridley, Minn., became the biggest maker of insulin pumps after its 2011 purchase of MiniMed.
Currently, the MiniMed 670G Insulin Pump System contains the only FDA-approved sensor to control insulin dosing. Online medical stores priced the device at over $7,200.
Medtronic was Klobuchar’s third-largest contributor to her reelection bid from 2011 to 2016, donating nearly $45,000. Between 2005 and 2010, before its acquisition of MiniMed, Medtronic donated $46,300.
Klobuchar is currently in 8th place in the RealClearPolitics polling average, behind South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, but narrowly ahead of entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
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A federal judge struck down California’s ban on the possession of magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. On Friday Judge Roger T. Benitez of the District Court for the Southern District of California ruled the confiscation effort is unconstitutional.
"California Penal Code Section 32310, as amended by Proposition 63, burdens the core of the Second Amendment by criminalizing the acquisition and possession of these magazines that are commonly held by law-abiding citizens for defense of self, home, and state," he wrote. "The regulation is neither presumptively legal nor longstanding. The statute hits at the center of the Second Amendment and its burden is severe. When the simple test of Heller is applied, a test that persons of common intelligence can understand, the statute fails and is an unconstitutional abridgment. It criminalizes the otherwise lawful acquisition and possession of common magazines holding more than 10 rounds—magazines that law-abiding responsible citizens would choose for self-defense at home."
In his order, Judge Benitez argued the debate over whether Californians should trade freedom for security was settled at the time of the founding and through the protections afforded by the Constitution.
"This decision is a freedom calculus decided long ago by Colonists who cherished individual freedom more than the subservient security of a British ruler," he said. "The freedom they fought for was not free of cost then, and it is not free now."
Gun rights groups celebrated the decision on Monday.
The California Rifle & Pistol Association, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said it was happy the court recognized the importance of ammunition magazines in lawful self-defense.
"This comprehensive and detailed ruling recognizes that these magazines have great value as self-defense tools and confirms that the government bears a very high burden to justify a law that infringes on the right to keep and bear arms," the group said in a statement on its website.
The National Rifle Association, which filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs, called the ruling a "huge win for gun owners" and "landmark recognition of what courts have too often treated as a disfavored right."
"Judge Benitez took the Second Amendment seriously and came to the conclusion required by the Constitution," Chris W. Cox, executive director of the group’s Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement. "The same should be true of any court analyzing a ban on a class of arms law-abiding Americans commonly possess for self-defense or other lawful purposes."
The office of California attorney general Xavier Becerra (D.) did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After Judge Benitez issued a preliminary injunction against the confiscation law in 2017, however, the attorney general appealed that decision to the Ninth Circuit. It is likely Becerra will also appeal this decision to the Ninth Circuit.
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Another airport has just banned Chick-Fil-A from setting up shop on account of the fast food chain’s financial ties with Christian groups. Buffalo, New York’s regional airport just followed a San Antonio airport’s lead in being delusional enough to trust the judgment of crazy lefty outlet ThinkProgress and banned Chick-Fil-A on account of their supposed anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
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By Wayne Allyn Root
How do you define evil?
Eric Holder, Obama’s former Attorney General, just days ago asked Trump voters (like me), “Exactly when did you think America was great?”
My definition of “great” is economic freedom. Allowing citizens to earn more money, enjoy a high quality of life, protect their families, without massive government interference, or confiscation of their hard-earned money. That’s what makes us the greatest nation in world history. Economic freedom.
We’ve tried it Holder’s way, without economic freedom. Obama tried to tax and regulate us to death. It didn’t work. The GDP (economic growth) for President Obama’s entire eight years was equal to the Great Depression decade of the 1930’s. Worse, Obama was the only president in history to never achieve even one year of GDP over 3%. Worse yet, welfare, food stamps and disability were all at the highest levels in history. Worst of all, Obama covered up all this economic misery with insane spending- he increased the national debt more than all the presidents in history COMBINED.
Compare all of that to President Trump’s economic record. For the second year in a row, Trump broke the record for the greatest increase in GDP in history! In Trump’s first year 2017, GDP increased by the all-time record of $853 billion. Then in Trump’s second year 2018, our GDP went up by $1 trillion- the first time that’s ever happened in world history.
Add in the lowest black unemployment and Latino unemployment in history. Female and youth unemployment are the lowest in over half a century. Manufacturing jobs are booming.
That could be why on Friday, Trump’s approval rating hit 49% at Rasmussen. That’s six points higher than Obama’s approval rating at the same time of his presidency. Yes, Trump crushed Obama- even while 92% of the mainstream media coverage was negative.
How is this even possible? It’s the economy, stupid. What people care about is green. Not green energy. Green in their pockets. Yes, THAT is what makes America great, Eric Holder. Mobility, opportunity and prosperity. Trump produced it, Obama didn’t.
The left wants to fundamentally change us. They want to tear us down. Make us “equal and fair” by bankrupting the middle class, taking away our jobs, assets, cars, planes, homes, even our steaks and cheeseburgers. Yes, they want to kill the cows! See “The Green New Deal,” if you don’t believe me.
But it’s not working. The American people aren’t buying it.
So, the left is turning to “Cloward-Piven,” the radical Socialist plan I was taught at Columbia University: Overwhelm the system to create massive crisis and collapse and foment a revolution.
But how do you overwhelm the system? The Democrat’s tool is clear: Open Borders. If your brainwashing is failing, if you can’t convince enough Americans to pick Obama’s miserable economy over Trump’s booming economy, then change the makeup of the electorate. Make America Foreign Again.
Leave the borders open and overwhelm the system with millions of foreigners and illegal aliens who are dependent on welfare and big government; who are comfortable with Socialism; who want “free everything” from cradle to grave.
Then, make it your number one priority to prevent Voter ID. Because you need all of those foreigners and illegals to vote for Democrat candidates. Soon, you are out-voting the American-born citizens. And then you turn America into Venezuela. But who cares? You’re in control.
That’s the Democrat plan folks. Cloward Piven and Open Borders. And yes, it is pure evil.
So, President Trump, here’s my advice. The whole ballgame is the border. Build the wall. Secure the border. Stop chain migration. End birthright citizenship. To get Mexico’s cooperation, close the border and bring their economy to a standstill. Do that and we win. We save America, capitalism and the GOP.
Fail and it’s the end of America.
Wayne Allyn Root is the host of “The Wayne Allyn Root Show” on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV Ch #349, or Dish TV Ch #216, at https://ift.tt/2zOf79k He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show” found at https://ift.tt/2g4uzmV
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When does pain in an execution become “cruel and unusual punishment”? According to a 5-4 Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, only when the state deliberately “superadds … terror, pain, or disgrace.” The conservative wing carried the day in Bucklew v Precythe, freeing Missouri to put the defendant to death via lethal injection despite a medical condition that could make the process more painful:
The Supreme Court made it clear on Monday that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a prisoner sentenced to capital punishment “a painless death,” paving the way for the execution of a convicted murderer who sought to die by lethal gas rather than lethal injection because of a rare medical condition. …
In a decision written by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court ruled 5-4 that Bucklew had failed to present enough evidence for them to let him ask a lower court to allow him to be executed by lethal gas. The court’s five conservatives were in the majority and its four liberals dissented.
Referencing the history of capital punishment, Gorsuch wrote that “the Eighth Amendment does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death – something that, of course, isn’t guaranteed to many people, including most victims of capital crimes.”
Monday’s ruling was in line with a decision from 2015 in which the court rejected a challenge to Oklahoma’s method of execution by lethal injection on a 5-4 vote. In that case, the court held that inmates challenging a method of execution had to come up with an alternative option that was less painful.
Gorsuch and the court’s conservatives relied on two precedents to reach this conclusion, plus the historical record of acceptable execution methods. The precedents, Baze and Glossip, hold that pain alone does not create cruel and unusual conditions. Most forms of execution involve physical pain of some sort, and earlier methods which remain constitutionally viable sometimes involve considerable amounts of pain. Gorsuch mentions hanging in particular, which could be significantly painful depending on its effectiveness on snapping the neck.
In order to qualify as cruel and unusual, a defendant has to show that the state has “a feasible and readily implemented alternative method that would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe pain and that the State has refused to adopt without a legitimate penological reason,” Gorsuch writes in the summary. Russell Bucklew failed to demonstrate that his preferred method — nitrogen hypoxia — was either feasible or readily implemented, Gorsuch ruled, despite delaying his execution for five years through this challenge.
Besides, Gorsuch summarized, Bucklew never proved it would be less painful anyway:
Even if nitrogen hypoxia were a viable alternative, neither of Mr. Bucklew’s theories shows that nitrogen hypoxia would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe pain. First, his contention that the State may use painful procedures to administer the lethal injection, including forcing him to lie flat on his back (which he claims could impair his breathing even before the pentobarbital is administered), rests on speculation unsupported, if not affirmatively contradicted, by the record. And to the extent the record is unclear, he had ample opportunity to conduct discovery and develop a factual record concerning the State’s planned procedures. Second, Mr. Bucklew contends that while either method will cause him to experience feelings of suffocation for some period of time before he is rendered fully unconscious, the duration of that period will be shorter with nitrogen than with pentobarbital. But nothing in the record suggests that he will be capable of experiencing pain for significantly more time after receiving pentobarbital than he would after receiving nitrogen. His claim to the contrary rested on his expert’s testimony regarding a study of euthanasia in horses that everyone now agrees the expert misunderstood or misremembered.
Sound compelling? Don’t make up your mind just yet. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent for the liberal wing, objecting to every line of argument in Gorsuch’s governing opinion. Breyer takes special objection to the contention that Bucklew didn’t prove his pain would be unusual nor that he met the standard for finding a feasible and readily available alternative. The state of Missouri already allows nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative, Breyer argued:
Missouri law permits the use of this method of execution. See Mo. Rev. Stat. §546.720 (2002). Three other States—Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma—have specifically authorized nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. See ante, at 22, n. 1. And Bucklew introduced into the record reports from Oklahoma and Louisiana indicating that nitrogen hypoxia would be simple and painless. These reports summarized the scientific literature as indicating that there is “no reported physical discom[fort] associated with inhaling pure nitrogen,” App. 742, that the “onset of hypoxia is typically so subtle that it is unnoticeable to the subject,” id., at 745, and that nitrogen hypoxia would take an estimated “seventeen-to-twenty seconds” to render a subject unconscious, id., at 746–747. The Oklahoma study concluded that nitrogen hypoxia is “the most humane method” of execution available. Id., at 736. And the Louisiana study stated that the “[u]se of nitrogen as a method of execution can assure a quick and painless death of the offender.” Id., at 746.
How then can the majority conclude that Bucklew has failed to identify an alternative method of execution? The majority finds Bucklew’s evidence inadequate in part because, in the majority’s view, it does not show that nitrogen hypoxia will “significantly reduce” Bucklew’s risk of pain as compared with lethal injection. Ante, at 23. But the majority does not dispute the evidence suggesting that nitrogen hypoxia would be “quick and painless” and would take effect in 20 to 30 seconds. The majority instead believes that “nothing in the record” suggests that lethal injection would take longer than nitrogen gas to take effect. Ante, at 26. As I have already explained, the majority reaches this conclusion by overlooking considerable evidence to the contrary—such as Dr. Zivot’s testimony that Bucklew’s pain would likely prove “prolonged,” App. 234, that lethal injection would not “result in ‘rapid unconsciousness,’” id., at 233, and that from the time of injection to “Mr. Bucklew’s death several minutes to as long as many minutes later, Mr. Bucklew would be highly likely to experience . . . the excruciating pain of prolonged suffocation,” id., at 222. In discounting this evidence, the majority simply fails “to adhere to the axiom that in ruling on a motion for summary judgment, the evidence of the nonmovant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor.” Tolan, 572 U. S., at 651 (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted).
Breyer also argues that Glossip didn’t require Bucklew to explain all of this to the court in the first place. The burden should have been on the state to prove it had no other feasible and readily available option:
Perhaps Bucklew did not provide these details. But Glossip did not refer to any of these requirements; today’s majority invents them. And to insist upon them is to create what, in a case like this one, would amount to an insurmountable hurdle for prisoners like Bucklew. That hurdle, I fear, could permit States to execute even those who will endure the most serious pain and suffering, irrespective of how exceptional their case and irrespective of how thoroughly they prove it. I cannot reconcile the majority’s decision with a constitutional Amendment that forbids all “cruel and unusual punishments.”
If Missouri already allows for nitrogen hypoxia, why not allow the defendant to choose it? Surely over the course of this five-year challenge, Missouri could have spent less time and fewer resources by making the nitrogen-hypoxia option available to Bucklew. Their decision to defend lethal injection of pentobarbitol as the method may not be unconstitutional … but insisting on that method for Bucklew and fighting it to the Supreme Court is a mystifying decision nonetheless. Perhaps Bucklew would have objected to both methods had he been given the option, but once he’d made his legal play, Missouri could have easily short-circuited the challenge by giving Bucklew what he said he wanted. Wouldn’t that have provided justice to the families of Bucklew’s victims more promptly?
That’s a question for Missouri, though, not the Supreme Court. The basic premise of Gorsuch’s opinion is well grounded, even if Missouri’s judgment could be called into question. This decision will likely act as a disincentive to other such challenges as Breyer predicts, but only to the extent that those challenges would have failed anyway.
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Sometimes a story begins picking up speed like a snowball turning into an avalanche. That may be what’s happening with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and her “Healthy Holly” book sales scandal. Only this morning we learned that the state legislature was scrambling to make much of what she was doing illegal (since apparently nobody had thought to do that before) and it was barely lunchtime when another questionable book sales deal was revealed. As the Baltimore Sun reports, health insurance provider Kaiser Permanente shoveled more than $100,000 the mayor’s way during the same period when they were competing to renew a major contract they had providing health coverage to the city government.
The fallout from this? The recently ill Mayor has taken a leave of absence from her job. (Associated Press)
Baltimore’s mayor is taking an indefinite leave of absence as a political scandal about “self-dealing” book sales intensifies.
In a Monday statement, Pugh’s office says she has been “advised by her physicians that she needs to take time to recover and focus on her health.” It says she feels as though she is unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor due to deteriorating health.
Her announcement comes shortly after Maryland’s governor called on the state prosecutor to investigate allegations against Pugh and Maryland’s comptroller called on her to resign.
The City Council president will take over Pugh’s day-to-day responsibilities.
Here are the details on the Kaiser deal that also line Pugh’s pockets very nicely.
Health provider Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh more than $100,000 to buy about 20,000 copies of her “Healthy Holly” children’s books during a period when the company was seeking a lucrative contract to provide health benefits to city employees.
Kaiser confirmed Monday to The Baltimore Sun that it paid approximately $114,000 for the books in multiple orders from 2015 to 2018.
Pugh became mayor in December 2016. In September 2017, the city’s spending board, which Pugh sits on and controls, awarded the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. a $48 million contract to provide health insurance to city employees from 2018 through 2020, with options to renew.
So far, all that Kaiser is confirming is the fact that they purchased the books for distribution in a three-state region and the amount they paid for them. But what sort of documentation do they have and will they provide it for public inspection? Was this a formal sales agreement that exists on their books or was it a “handshake deal” like the one we learned the Mayor had with UMMS? And do they have records of physically receiving the books and where and when they were distributed?
Let’s just assume for the moment that Kaiser can provide all of that documentation. That would at least make this smell considerably better than the UMMS deal where we don’t even know if tens of thousands of the books were ever even printed. And if the Mayor can show that she not only received the payment through her LLC but also paid taxes on the income and provided that information on her disclosure forms, this transaction won’t look quite as bad. (That’s a lot of “ifs” to work through, however.)
But even if that’s all true… c’mon, man. Kaiser was in the middle of negotiations to land a very profitable account with the City of Baltimore. Catherine Pugh isn’t only the Mayor, but she also runs the spending board that makes decisions about such contracts. Out of the literally tens of thousands of children’s books published every single year around the country, that Healthy Holly book was the only one they needed to grab 20,000 copies of? Surely somebody at Kaiser realized that they were shoveling more than $100K straight into the pocket of the person who would decide the fate of their contract.
How has the Mayor not resigned in disgrace yet? She’s taking a “leave of absence” but still seemingly pretending that this is all some big misunderstanding. It’s amazing that anyone could stand before the cameras multiple times and keep claiming that they didn’t technically do anything wrong and walk away with that “who, me?” look on their faces.
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Click on for video: So after complaining, the report was she claimed asylum and was let go into Texas. Where she and her sister are now being detained. From Daily Mail: A Honduran mother who was dubbed ‘Lady Frijoles’ after she blasted a migrant shelter in Mexico for feeding her ‘pig food’, has been arrested […]
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On Friday, Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ruled against the constitutionality of California’s law that bans "high-capacity" gun magazines designed to hold more than 10 bullets.
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The Twitter account for the docudrama was briefly suspended on Twitter on opening weekend — which sparked a wave of backlash against the platform.
The movie is based on the real story of Abby Johnson, a former clinic director at Planned Parenthood who had a change of heart after learning more about abortion.
When the account was suspended, it had a mere 6,000 followers. It now has nearly 300,000 followers on the social media platform, while Planned Parenthood has 256,000.
“In mere seconds, that fetus’ life ended and the screen only showed a black, empty uterus. The life that was there just a couple minutes ago was gone. In that moment, I saw for myself what I was supporting for the last eight years and it broke me,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for Fox News.
Just like with Gosnell, television networks have been refusing to air ads for the film. Lifetime, a network known for making movies about famous murders and kidnappings, said their refusal was based on “sensitive nature of the film.”
“The Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, HGTV and Food Network, each of which are owned by Discovery, also refused to sell ad time for ‘Unplanned’ due to the ‘sensitive nature’ of the movie, say those who tried buying air time,” the producers have announced. “Other networks that refused to advertise the movie include the Hallmark Channel and USA Network, the latter of which is owned by NBCUniversal.”
"The pro-life film “Unplanned” has now surpassed Planned Parenthood in followers on Twitter despite the platform censoring and restricting them" – Mindy
America has spoken, and they chose life! & no one wants to see #BidenAMovie the forgotten#AprilNoFools@UnplannedMovie https://t.co/NmuegMVovq
— UnplannedMovie (@UnplannedMovie) April 1, 2019
Despite the bias and censorship, Forbes reports that “the $6 million-budgeted flick, about a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned anti-abortion activist, earned $2.72 million on Friday, setting the stage for a likely $7.25 million debut weekend.”
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