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The United Nations ruled that “climate refugees” cannot be returned back to their home countries. This ruling forces the United States to allow all Central Americans into our country.

Literally, anyone can claim the new refugee status.

This will essentially open US borders for good.

Now the left has combined open borders with junk science to create climate refugees.

Via The Central Tibetan Administration:

It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.

The judgment – which is the first of its kind – represents a legal “tipping point” and a moment that “opens the doorway” to future protection claims for people whose lives and wellbeing have been threatened due to global heating, experts say.

Tens of millions of people are expected to be displaced by global heating in the next decade.

The judgment relates to the case of Ioane Teitiota, a man from the Pacific nation of Kiribati, which is considered one of the countries most threatened by rising sea levels. He applied for protection in New Zealand in 2013, claiming his and his family’s lives were at risk.

The committee heard evidence of overcrowding on the island of South Tarawa, where Teitiota lived, saying that the population there had increased from 1,641 in 1947 to 50,000 in 2010 due to sea level rising leading to other islands becoming uninhabitable, which had led to violence and social tensions.

He also spoke of the lack of fresh water and difficulty growing crops due to salinity of the water table causing serious health issues for his family. He said that as Kiribati was predicted to be uninhabitable in 10 to 15 years, his life was endangered by remaining there.

The New Zealand courts rejected Teitiota’s claim for protection.

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“We can’t just drill our way out of the problem.”

That was the oft-repeated phrase of President Barack Obama,  who throughout his presidency argued that the key to beating higher gasoline prices was to subsidize alternative energies, such as solar and wind.

It was a common sentiment from those who fretted that the world had reached “peak oil,” and that America was simply doomed to become increasingly reliant on a few big international oil producers for a rapidly dwindling resource.

It also played well into the narrative that fossil fuels were inherently evil, destroying the planet by escalating climate change.

But the doomsayers were wrong.

Thanks in large part to American ingenuity and technological innovation, the script has been flipped—and the dividends have been enormous.

Recent events in the Middle East underscore the dramatic change that’s occurred.

It’s been remarkable that following the September attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities and the recent U.S. strike on Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani, oil prices have remained more or less stable.

This is a huge departure from what has transpired after major incidents in the Middle East in the past. As Foreign Policy’s C.K. Hickey noted:

The August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait led to a surge in the price of oil from $15 a barrel that month to $40 by October ($65.68 adjusted for inflation as of 2019). In February 2003, the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq once again led to a spike in prices to nearly $40 a barrel, or around $55 in today’s dollars, a level that hadn’t been seen since the Gulf War.

This time was different.

Why?

U.S. oil production has boomed in the past decade, thanks largely to innovation in the use of fracking, which has allowed the U.S. to tap into not only enormous amounts of shale oil, but also natural gas and other petroleum resources.

In fact, U.S. production has ramped up so much that in 2018, the U.S. became a net exporter of oil for the first time in nearly 75 years.

Perhaps even more incredibly, for a brief time at the end of 2019, the U.S. surpassed Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top oil exporter.

That, of course, produced jobs and a boon to the American economy, but it also created the conditions for a global oil market more resistant to supply and price shocks—which were sometimes created by OPEC nations. Many of the latter are in the Middle East or generally hostile to the U.S.

But now, a world suddenly deprived of, say, Iranian oil, can rely increasingly on U.S. oil.

As political scientist Walter Russell Mead wrote for The Wall Street Journal, the Middle East is now a region “being fundamentally reshaped by drillers in Texas, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, and elsewhere.” 

As my colleague Nick Loris, an expert on energy and environmental policy, has noted, the huge increase in domestic oil production doesn’t mean that the U.S. is truly energy independent. We are still very much affected by the global supply and the actions of countries abroad.

Nevertheless, the surge in production has transformed the American economy and given the U.S. an invaluable tool in foreign relations.

That has transpired in spite of efforts by the Obama administration and the left to strangle an industry they fundamentally dislike, an effort that would be stepped up massively if the so-called Green New Deal became law.

The Green New Deal, a badly disguised Trojan Horse for socialism and of dubious environmental benefit, would end and reverse the oil production advances that have been such a broad-based benefit for the U.S. economy.

Hopefully, the strong economy and stable oil markets amid turmoil in the Middle East will serve as a reminder that reversing the incredible advances in oil drilling of the past decade would be a huge mistake.

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This year
marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women
the right to vote and catapulted them out of the shadows of dependence into the
full sunlight of long-awaited civic freedoms. 

The right
to vote was only the beginning of a long list of goals achieved by the early
women’s right movement. It also gained for us the right to control our property, to
defend ourselves and our children from abusive husbands, to earn advanced
degrees, and join professions reserved for men. 

But one
right the early feminists did not fight for was the right to
abortion. On the contrary, they understood abortion not as a woman’s
right, but a wrong against our sex. It is today’s pro-life women that
fully preserve the suffragists’ ideals.

Decades of strident abortion activism have obscured this important piece of history, as today’s feminist activists have gone from demanding that abortion be “safe, legal, and rare” to the outright celebration of “shout your abortion.”

Yesterday’s
courageous suffragists would be shocked and saddened by today’s pro-abortion
feminists’ complete disregard for the nature of abortion and its effects on
women. 

The first
feminists felt keenly that abortion was not an act of liberation, but of
coercion—not a triumph, but a tragic defeat. Abortion did not empower women,
but degraded them, treating their fertility as a defect and their sons and
daughters as disposable. 

They also understood that abortion empowered unscrupulous men by absolving them from all responsibility in the sexual act. 

The very
basis of the equal rights movement was the inherent dignity of every human
person It makes perfect sense that such a movement should frown on abortion and
infanticide, acts that end the life of a defenseless child. 

The suffragists understood that young lives were being sacrificed due to crushing poverty, the irresponsible behavior of selfish men, and the callous indifference of the wider society. They also understood that women, in their powerlessness, resorted to the unnatural acts of abortion and infanticide to save themselves. 

Women’s enfranchisement, the suffragists felt, would give them the longed-for ability to receive and raise their children. 

“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own,” Susan B. Anthony said, “has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”

One
hundred years later, hundreds of thousands of “unborn little ones” are willed
away from American women each year. And not because of crushing poverty or
unjust laws, but because we have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked by the
false promise of “sexual liberation”—deceived into treating our fertility like
a disease and our “unwanted” children as consequences that can be flushed away.

Our sex
has come a long way, and we enjoy privileges and opportunities inconceivable in
the grand scope of human history. But the awful fact is that today, we are
sacrificing far more of our children to abortion than we did when the women’s
movement first began on pro-life terms.  

Pro-life women
are eager to complete the work our foremothers began. Many thousands of us will
gather at the 2020 March for Life in Washington, D.C., which this year proudly
and truly proclaims that “Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.” 

My sisters
and I will march this week for full liberation for ourselves, our daughters, and
our sons—a liberation that acknowledges our full rights as women and the
dignity of our unborn children.  

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA —The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a male federal prisoner’s motion to be addressed with female pronouns, finding that compelling the use of pronouns at the invitation of litigants could “raise delicate questions about judicial impartiality.”

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Judicial Watch is going to court to uncover details of the alleged monitoring of President Trump’s family, lawyer and journalists, as ordered by the since-recalled U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.

The two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the State Department for documents tied to the alleged monitoring of President Trump’s intimate circle and journalists covering him is an extension of our Judicial Watch investigation, which began in October 2019, into the alleged monitoring, via CrowdTangle and other means. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is alleged to have ordered State Department entities to conduct the monitoring. The list of the alleged targets includes:
     
Jack Posobiec
Donald Trump Jr.
Laura Ingraham
Sean Hannity
Michael McFaul (Obama’s ambassador to Russia)
Dan Bongino
Ryan Saavedra
Rudy Giuliani
Sebastian Gorka
John Solomon
Lou Dobbs
Pamella Geller
Sara Carter

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Oil and gas production on public lands has increased significantly since President Trump took office. President Trump has opened up millions of acres of land administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for resource development. Drilling permits have increased almost 40 percent under the Trump administration, according to BLM data. Several states (e.g., New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado) have benefited from the increased activity on federal lands. Forty-eight percent of the revenue from lease sales goes to the state where the oil and gas activity is occurring for their roads, schools, and public services; the rest goes to the U.S. Treasury. If the leases result in producing oil or natural gas wells, revenue from royalties are also shared with the state.

Despite the benefits of energy production on federal lands, many of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates oppose it and the Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed a bill to temporarily halt leases. Federal lands account for about a quarter of our nation’s oil, natural gas, and coal production. In 2018, oil production on federal lands was 815 million barrels, natural gas production was 4.2 trillion cubic feet, and coal production was 310 million tons.

U.S. Oil, Natural Gas and Coal Production on Federal Lands

Source: Department of Interior

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Three Christian teachers were killed when suspected Al-Shabab terrorists attacked the town of Kamuthe in eastern Kenya during the early morning of January 13th. The teachers of a residential school were asleep in their staff housing when their room was raided. According to a surviving teacher who fled out the window, the local Somali Muslim teachers were separated from the non-locals, whom they presumed were Christians. One of the attackers reportedly said, “We cannot allow infidels to teach our children,” and then the three Christian men were shot to death.

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Just how widespread is sex trafficking in America?

Why is it so incredibly difficult for the victims to ever truly recover and have healthy relationships?

How are sex trafficking and pornography connected?

And, what can we do to protect our children from sex trafficking?

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Just what is the significance of the recent Taiwan elections, with incumbent president Tsai Ing Wen winning by a landslide? Why is Taiwan critical to the power balance in Asia?

In what ways has the Chinese Communist Party engaged in information warfare against Taiwan? How is the Chinese regime using similar tactics across the globe?

And, why is the Chinese communist regime fixated on conquering Taiwan? And how has the People’s Liberation Army been gearing up for it?

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