Iowa Bans All Abortions After Point of Detection of Fetal Heartbeat

Iowa Bans All Abortions After Point of Detection of Fetal Heartbeat



Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that bans all abortions after six weeks, from the time a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

“I believe that all innocent life is precious and sacred, and as governor, I pledged to do everything in my power to protect it,” the Republican governor said. “That is what I am doing today.”

The law becomes the most restrictive abortion measure in the country.

Extra security was called in at the Iowa Capitol as Reynolds invited supporters of the legislation into her office as she signed the bill into law, reports the Des Moines Register.

The law goes into effect July 1. It requires physicians to perform an ultrasound test for a fetal heartbeat on any woman seeking an abortion, and bars abortion if a heartbeat is detected.

Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) celebrated the new law on Twitter:

Reynolds said she anticipated that lawsuits would be filed to stop the law from going into effect.

“I understand and anticipate that this will likely be challenged in court, and that courts may even put a hold on the law until it reaches the Supreme Court,” she said. “However, this is bigger than just a law. This is about life. I am not going to back down from who I am or what I believe in.”

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday they would file a lawsuit to stop the law from becoming effective:

“It’s shameful that when Planned Parenthood heard lawmakers were introducing legislation to ban abortion, we were outraged — but we weren’t surprised,” said Suzanna de Baca, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, reports the Register. “But I think many of us still never expected that Governor Reynolds would so swiftly jump to sign a bill that is so clearly unconstitutional.”

Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life applauded Reynolds and said the law “will not only save lives,” but also “reminds us that abortion stops a beating heart.”

“We thank Iowa for recognizing that every life is a gift and that personhood has inherent dignity from the moment of conception,” Mancini added.

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House releases unredacted Russia report — and it catches James Comey square in a lie on Mike Flynn

Newly unredacted portions of the House Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russia were released on Friday and they contain a bombshell relating to what former FBI Director James Comey’s told lawmakers about the bureau’s investigation into Michael Flynn.

What are the details?

According to Fox News, the documents show Comey told lawmakers the FBI did not believe Flynn intentionally lied about his contacts with Russian diplomats.

“Director Comey testified to the Committee that ‘the agents…discerned no physical indications of deception. They didn’t see any change in posture, in tone, in inflection, in eye contact. They saw nothing that indicated to them that he knew he was lying to them,’” the report states.

However, as the report also states, then FBI-deputy director Andrew McCabe called the Flynn case a “conundrum” because even though they knew Flynn wasn’t deceptive, his statement contradicted what they knew from a wiretapped conversation Flynn had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in Dec. 2016.

“The two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case,” McCabe told the House Intel Committee.

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI last year, which reportedly caught many lawmakers off guard given Comey’s testimony.

The new unredacted portion of the report raises a number of questions about the Flynn investigation, including why the House Intel report originally redacted the portion detailing that McCabe told lawmakers the FBI basically had no case against Flynn.

Wait, didn’t Comey say something else publicly?

Following the release of his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey hit the media circuit where he was pressed on the Flynn investigation. During multiple interviews, he denied telling lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he lied.

“No. And I saw that in the media. I don’t know what — maybe someone misunderstood something I said. I didn’t believe that, and didn’t say that,” he told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.

“I don’t know where that’s coming from. That — unless I’m — I said something that people misunderstood, I don’t remember even intending to say that. So my recollection is I never said that to anybody,” Comey similarly told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the Washington Examiner noted.

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Mueller forced to delay court case alleging Russian interference after two lawyers call his bluff

FBI special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case alleging Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller has brought charges against three Russian companies and 13 Russians for the alleged interference.

The delay comes after two attorneys representing one of the Russian entities began challenging Mueller’s evidence in the case.

What are the details?

According to Politico, the 13 Russians and three companies — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering — were expected to ignore the indictments since they are outside U.S. jurisdiction.

However, that’s not what happened. Last month, two lawyers representing Concord Management — Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly — surfaced. Mueller told the court Friday the lawyers made a series of discovery requests demanding nonpublic information about Mueller’s case. As attorneys representing one of the defendants, they are allowed to make such requests.

Politico reported that “the move appeared to be a bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.”

More from Politico:

Prosecutors also asked a judge to postpone the formal arraignment of Concord Management set for next week.

The prosecution team sought the delay on the grounds that it’s unclear whether Concord Management formally accepted the court summons related to the case. Mueller’s prosecutors also revealed that they tried to deliver the summonses for Concord and IRA through the Russian government, without success.

And despite the fact that Mueller’s team provided Dubelier with a copy of the summons, Dubelier told Mueller’s team this week it was “defective.”

The delay will allow the court to determine if Dubelier’s client was properly served a summons, but it will also allow Mueller’s team to provide Dubelier and Seikaly with the requested evidence.

According to Politico, Mueller’s team proposed both sides file briefs with the court to determine if Concord Management was properly summoned. Mueller’s team said they would file by May 25, while giving Concord’s attorneys until June 15.

How did the judge rule?

Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in December to serve in the District of Columbia, did not immediately issue a ruling or postpone the arraignment.

She instructed Concord’s attorneys to respond to prosecutor’s request to delay by Monday.

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British Schools Are Replacing Analog Clocks Because Students Can’t Read Them

We’re doomed.

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Most of us learned to tell time using an analog clock.

But some schools in the U.K. are removing the old school clocks from test rooms because students are having a hard time reading them.

According to the London Telegraph, students are being raised on digital clocks and can’t figure out what time it is on the analog clock, causing them to stress about the time running out during tests.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the U.K.’s Association of School and College Leaders, told The Telegraph.

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Trump Critic on MSNBC: ‘Partisan,’ ‘Illogical’ Not to Credit President for North Korea

Appearing on MSNBC Live With Velshi & Ruhle on Friday to promote his new book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, foreign policy expert and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, a frequent critic of President Trump, went out of his way to credit the President for the major diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea. He even admonished those refusing to give credit where credit was due.

“Ian, I want to start with North Korea. Because it was you last week who said we’ve got to give President Trump credit for making the progress we have thus far,” noted co-anchor Stephanie Ruhle at the top of the segment. Bremmer reiterated that sentiment: “There’s no question that if it wasn’t for Trump we don’t have this opening with the North Koreans.”

 

 

A week earlier, Bremmer took to social media to hail the President for the start of the historic Korean peace process, even proclaiming: “Trump, Xi, Moon and Kim together get my vote for the Nobel Peace Prize.”  

On MSNBC, he proceeded to explain how Trump got the North Koreans to the negotiating table:

A lot of people are saying, “Oh, is it about his tweets? Is it about ‘fire and fury’?” It’s not. It’s about him pressing the Chinese, it’s about him sitting down with Xi Jingping in Mar-a-Lago, doing that first summit, and saying if – “I got elected on the back of, you know, beating on the Chinese, and that’s what I’m prepared to do. Unless you help me on North Korea, I’m going to make it a priority.” And the Chinese, who are less happy with the North Koreans, actually started really ramping up sanctions. 90% of North Korea’s economy is China. If it wasn’t for that implementation, we don’t get this movement, period.  

Ruhle seemed frustrated that such progress could not have happened under the Obama administration: “Can I just ask why now? Because the sanctions existed during the Obama administration. Why didn’t the Obama – why was the Obama administration unsuccessful in pushing China to make these moves?” Bremmer bluntly replied: “It wasn’t a priority.”

Moments later, Bremmer again praised Trump, while acknowledging that he has been one of the President’s biggest critics:

But we have to give him credit. Look, as you know, I’ve been critical of President Trump probably 90% of the foreign policy decisions he’s made since he’s become president. Not the whole administration, but certainly stuff he said. But on this issue, on North Korea, the only way you say that Trump isn’t part of it is if you’re just a partisan, if you’re just being illogical. And that’s not – I mean, I understand that that’s good for eyeballs, but it’s not good for our country.

Surprisingly, even Ruhle agreed: “Good point.” Bremmer added: “It’s not useful.”

When someone like Bremmer can freely credit Trump for a foreign policy success and even get a liberal MSNBC host to agree, that’s pretty remarkable.

Here is a transcript of the May 4 exchange:

11:49 AM ET

STEPHANIE RUHLE: Ian Bremmer, president and founder of The Eurasia Group, his latest book, you’ve got to get it, titled, Us Vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism.

ALI VELSHI: It’s a great book, by the way. This is one of those must reads.

RUHLE: Ian, I want to start with North Korea. Because it was you last week who said we’ve got to give President Trump credit for making the progress we have thus far.

IAN BREMMER: Yeah, I am hearing from the Trump administration that they have confirmation that we’re going to get those three hostages actually released, so that looks good. There’s no question that if it wasn’t for Trump we don’t have this opening with the North Koreans.

A lot of people are saying, “Oh, is it about his tweets? Is it about ‘fire and fury’?” It’s not. It’s about him pressing the Chinese, it’s about him sitting down with Xi Jingping in Mar-a-Lago, doing that first summit, and saying if – “I got elected on the back of, you know, beating on the Chinese, and that’s what I’m prepared to do. Unless you help me on North Korea, I’m going to make it a priority.” And the Chinese, who are less happy with the North Koreans, actually started really ramping up sanctions. 90% of North Korea’s economy is China. If it wasn’t for that implementation, we don’t get this movement, period.  

RUHLE: Can I just ask why now? Because the sanctions existed during the Obama administration. Why didn’t the Obama – why was the Obama administration unsuccessful in pushing China to make these moves?

BREMMER: It wasn’t a priority, right? I mean –  

RUHLE: Why?

BREMMER: Number one, because I think President Obama didn’t want – or President Bush –  didn’t want to open that box. They recognized that that’s a risk-acceptance strategy. You’re going to start pushing the Chinese, the Chinese can push you back. It’s like why didn’t Obama want to whack Syria after he said the red line on chemical weapons? Because, well, potentially you’ll kill some people and how much is it going to accomplish? None of them wanted the potential, even if it was a small percent, of starting confrontation with either the Chinese or with the North Koreans.

And President Trump has been un – he’s not as concerned about that. There was potential downside here, there was real risk. We could be sitting here and saying, “Dammit, he’s gotten us in this trouble and we’re at the brink of war. Instead, there’s a greater likelihood of a breakthrough.

But we have to give him credit. Look, as you know, I’ve been critical of President Trump probably 90% of the foreign policy decisions he’s made since he’s become president. Not the whole administration, but certainly stuff he said. But on this issue, on North Korea, the only way you say that Trump isn’t part of it is if you’re just a partisan, if you’re just being illogical. And that’s not – I mean, I understand that that’s good for eyeballs, but it’s not good for our country.

RUHLE: Good point.

BREMMER: It’s not useful.

(…)

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BREAKING: Judge in Manafort Case Orders Govt to Hand Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo Within 2 Weeks

BREAKING: Judge in Manafort Case Orders Govt to Hand Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo Within 2 Weeks

The Federal Judge in the Manafort case is not messing around.

Judge T.S. Ellis lost his temper Friday in a Manafort hearing and accused Mueller’s prosecutors of using the case against Trump’s former campaign chairman to oust the President from office.

Mueller’s wheels are falling off.

CNN reported:

“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud,” District Judge T.S. Ellis said to prosecutor Michael Dreeben, at times losing his temper. Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of his potential to provide material that would lead to Trump’s “prosecution or impeachment,” Ellis said.

“That’s what you’re really interested in,” said Ellis, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Judge Ellis also ordered the government to hand over the unredacted Rosenstein memo.

The Judge told Mueller’s prosecutors, “We don’t want anyone with unfettered power.”

Mueller’s prosecutors argued they have certain authorities given to them which were laid out in Rosenstein’s August 2017 memo.

Judge Ellis scoffed at Mueller’s prosecutors who argued the memo has to be kept a secret because of ongoing investigations and ordered the unredacted memo to be released within a two week time frame.

Fox News reported:

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.

Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.

He summed up the Special Counsel’s Office as, “We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying.”

He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: “C’mon man!”

The judge also gave the government two weeks to hand over the unredacted “scope memo” or provide an explanation why not — after prosecutors were reluctant to do so, claiming it has material that doesn’t pertain to Manafort.

“I’ll be the judge of that,” Ellis said.

On Monday, the Assistant Attorney General said in a letter that the DOJ would not be handing over the unredacted Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s scope.

In response, Freedom Caucus Chairman, Mark Meadows drafted “articles of impeachment” against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as a “last resort.”

On Tuesday, Rosenstein freaked and referred to the impeachment threat as “extortion.”

On Wednesday morning, in response to the stonewalling by the DOJ, Trump threatened to use his presidential powers in order to get the unredacted Rosenstein memo.

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Black and Hispanic Unemployment Hits All-Time Record Lows

These are the kinds of headlines that have Democrats terrified.

At just a time when news about politics among black Americans is getting a new twist thanks to rapper/entrepreneur Kanye West and the discussions he’s sparking, the Labor Department just issued new numbers reflecting the strength of the economy under President Donald Trump.

And much as Democrats would like to deny it, the report is going to hurt them badly.

Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — under the pro-business, anti-regulation Trump administration — showed an overall American unemployment rate dropping below 4 percent for the first time since 2000, CNN reported (through gritted teeth, no doubt).

That’s good news for the country, of course, but there’s even better news for a part of the population that tends to lag the rest.

According to the Washington Examiner, unemployment for blacks “hit the lowest on record in April.”

And that’s very bad news for a Democrat Party that’s trying to paint the Trump administration as a disaster for black Americans.

This is the party, remember, whose representatives sat on their hands during Trump’s State of the Union address in January when the president touted then-record lows for unemployment among blacks and Hispanics.

Do these numbers prove Trump’s policies are working for all Americans?

But that stone-faced refusal to acknowledge good news could well be coming back to bite them.

With Friday’s numbers showing the black jobless rate lower than it was when Trump was speaking, black conservative commentators like Candace Owens will have even more ammunition to fight the black liberal power structure.

Freelancers like West — who has made a habit of upsetting the Democrat dogcart (and getting pilloried for it) — will have more room to speak.

And black Democrat politicians are finding themselves in the increasingly uncomfortable position of carrying water for a white liberal establishment made up of the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer while attacking an administration that is good for the actual constituents back home.

For Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat obsessed with impeaching Trump, and Democrats — whose biggest brag during the Obama administration was how many Americans were on food stamps — are not looking real good.

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And social media responses to Friday’s report showed it.

The Democrat spin is already starting — that the numbers were following a trend that started under Obama. Since they are some very smart people on the Democrat side (even if they’re wrong), it’s not stupid on its face. But even for the smartest Democrat out there, it’s tough to square good news coming from a guy you’re pretending is a modern Simon LeGree.

Besides, every American remembers the malaise of the Obama years, when manufacturing jobs “weren’t coming back,” and when the best Democrats were offering was some kind of spurious health insurance under a law that needed lies to get passed.

Truly great economic news, like record-setting unemployment in a population that has been left behind too often, isn’t something that can be shrugged off with political spin. And Democrats who have black constituents to answer to are going to be pushed to the wall explaining why black workers need to a better life for themselves to satisfy the whims of white liberals like Pelosi and Schumer.

Headlines like the ones coming out Friday aren’t going to make that easier at all.

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White Guys Freak as Black Man Dares to Speak His Mind

It seems like parody, but it’s happening in real life: A black American has voiced an unapproved opinion, and liberals are tripping over themselves to discredit and silence him.

We’re talking, of course, about Kanye West, the controversial rapper who has found himself under fire for supporting conservatives including Candace Owens and Donald Trump.

Whether Kanye’s recent statements are genuine or part of a publicity stunt is still up for debate, but he certainly seems to be doubling down on his stance.

During a recent appearance on TMZ, the world-famous musician caused a stir when he seemed to suggest — somewhat accurately — that Africans had some influence in perpetuating slavery.

Now, the entertainment world has deployed its best weapons to stop Kanye West from rocking the politically-correct boat: A brigade of pale white washed-up TV doctors.

On Thursday, TMZ pushed two stories aimed at disparaging Kanye and making him seem like a drug-addled mental case. “Dr. Oz: Kanye West’s Playing a Dangerous Game with Medications,” declared one of the channel’s headlines.

Do you believe the left is working to discredit Kanye West?

Another was equally ominous. “Dr. Phil Says Kanye’s Comments are Irresponsible, Ignorant and Empowering Hate Groups,” TMZ also tweeted.

Yes, a 67-year-old bald white man is now the authority on which opinions are “irresponsible” from black voices. “Empowering hate groups” implies, of course, that this same pasty television doctor is basically calling Kanye West racist.

It would be absolutely hilarious if it appeared in The Babylon Bee or The Onion. Imagine the faux headline: “Elderly White Men Tell Uppity Black Icon To Mind His Place.” But those outlets are satire and TMZ, though often close, is not.

In a video shared on the celebrity news site, Dr. Oz gave his “diagnosis” of Kanye West — despite not being his physician and presumably knowing almost nothing about his personal life or medical records. Professionalism!

“I think that a lot of what Kanye’s been dealing with is anger, frustration, and he didn’t grieve over his mother’s death the right way,” the doctor rambled while literally standing on a New York City sidewalk.

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What was the basis of this oh-so-expert “diagnosis?” Dr. Oz supposedly talked to a person who interviewed Kanye the other day. Medical guesswork based on hearsay? Sign me up!

The television doctor then opined about other issues, including the musician’s supposed use of prescription painkillers following a procedure back in 2016.

It needs to be pointed out just how unprofessional this is. Love him or hate him, Kanye West is a private citizen. Suppose for a moment that a medical doctor was giving street-side television interviews and making wild guesses about your medical history, while essential claiming that you were unstable.

The fact that the left — and the entire entertainment complex, it seems — has no problem with this is very revealing. It appears to be a targeted effort to make Kanye look unreliable. Instead of taking the musician’s comments head-on and debating them, they are going after his entire credibility as a human being.

To be clear, Kanye West is a wildcard who speaks freely and often goes on tangents. But that’s the point: Diverse thoughts, opinions, and views are supposed to be something that we celebrate, not attack.

That is the real problem with liberals at the moment. Despite parroting their support for “diversity,” they refuse to allow true diversity of thought and instead focus on meaningless differences like skin color.

For too long, they have presumed that all black Americans have the same views. Kanye has disproved this assumption with spectacular style, and that is exactly why liberals will do anything to silence or destroy him.

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After Great Unemployment Report, Trump Gets Even Bigger Good News

The news cycle might seem to change by the hour, but for President Donald Trump, Friday looks like a slam dunk win.

On the same day the Labor Department released a sterling jobs report that shows overall unemployment at the lowest its been in 17 years, and black and Hispanic unemployment at record lows, a new poll shows more than half of Americans approve of the president’s job performance.

And growing numbers are seeing a better chance for a Trump second term come 2020.

According to the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll from Rasmussen on Friday, Trump had the approval of 51 percent of Americans surveyed.

That’s not only the highest percentage Trump has gotten since the first month of his stormy presidency, it’s higher than President Barack Obama’s was — 48 percent — at the same point in his first term.

Meanwhile, another Rasmussen poll found that 41 percent of those surveyed think Trump will win re-election. Granted, 41 percent is not what he’s going to need to stay in the White House, but it’s a considerable jump from the 34 percent who felt that way in December.

And since the effects of the Trump tax cuts passed and signed in the last month of 2017 are only starting to show, the chances are very good that more Americans are going to be backing the president as the benefits take hold.

Trump supporters on social media were celebrating the news — and suggesting it might be even better than the poll indicates:

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Sixty-one percent might seem like pie-in-the-sky thinking, but if the 2016 election proved anything, it’s that polls consistently underestimated Trump’s support. At the very least, Trump performed on the high end of the margin of error in the presidential polls that showed Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in a landslide (even the snarky anti-Trump Washington Post reported that).

On Friday, Rasmussen reported a margin of error for the re-election expectation poll at 3 percent, which means that, realistically, Trump is expected to win by 54 percent of the electorate at this point. And that’s not too shabby for a guy who’s been universally villainized by the news and entertainment media since before he was even sworn into office.

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But the 2020 vote is years away. Even more important to November’s

midterm elections

 — and the strategy of Democrat candidates trying to win the House and Senate – the poll showed a scant 15 percent of voters think the prospect of a presidential impeachment is a winner for the left.

All in all, the numbers so far in 2018 are not heading in Democrats’ favor. As Rasmussen reported:

“The most noticeable change over the past four months is among voters not affiliated with either major political party. Just 28% said Trump would be re-elected in December, but now 38% feel that way. Twenty-one percent (21%) of unaffiliateds believe he will be impeached, but that compares to 31% in the earlier survey.

“Even among voters who see impeachment as the better strategy for this year’s Democratic congressional candidates, just 37% think Trump is likely to be impeached before serving his first full term in office.”

The fevered far left doesn’t want to hear that, of course. But the fevered far left doesn’t want to hear about the performance of the economy under Trump either.

Reality has a way of intruding on political obsessions, though.

And the reality is that on Friday, May 4, 2018, Donald Trump is slamming Democrats down.

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