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Levin sets the media ‘knee-jerkers’ straight on Trump’s standoff with Iran

Wednesday night on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin lambasted media and political speculation and overreaction to recent increased tensions between the Trump administration and the Iranian regime.

Media pundits and politicians have been speculating that recent displays of strength against the regime are a repeat of what led to the invasion of Iraq 16 years ago, but Levin pointed out that those making the claims aren’t operating with all the facts.

“Something has happened, where this president, who’s no interventionist … has great concern,” Levin explained. “And as I’ve been reading the media and trying to figure out what’s going on, all I get is a lot of opinion and pablum, that this is Iraq under George W. Bush, that this is another phony issue like weapons of mass destruction, they argue, they write.”

During the segment, Levin reminded listeners what Iran is capable of, what the nation has done in the past, and that if it is legitimately threatening us, then all this media speculation about an Iraq war redux makes no sense.

“If Iran is indeed threatening our military personnel and our military assets, if Iran is indeed planning to cut off navigable international waters to prevent 20 percent of the world from receiving oil that comes out of the Middle East, if Iran is preparing a massive provocative action, both militarily and economically, why are these newspapers attacking Donald Trump?” Levin wondered. “Is it always politics at all times? Because it seems to be.”

“But we don’t have all the facts. So why are all the knee-jerkers out there going on and on about how this is, oh, weapons of mass destruction like Iraq? … This president isn’t dragged into anything. He has a mind of his own.”

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Virginia judge rescinds his radical abortion ruling just 8 days after issuing it

Who says we need to wait half a century to correct bad judicial opinions? Judge Henry Hudson of Virginia had the humility to admit his error just eight days later. Will other judges learn?

Last Monday, Judge Hudson issued a preliminary injunction against Virginia’s long-standing requirement that only licensed physicians may perform abortions. As I reported last week, that ruling was a straight-up violation of Supreme Court precedent not just on abortion, but on states’ powers to require that only licensed professionals perform an array of services, whether one agrees with their determinations or not. Instead, Hudson blithely dismissed any evidence of the need for a licensed physician to perform even the most dangerous surgical abortions, such as dilation and evacuation procedures.

Well, in an extraordinary reversal, Hudson issued an order on Tuesday admitting his error and vacating the original injunction. “On further review, the Court is of the opinion that summary judgment was improvidently awarded to the parties on Count IV based on the present record,” wrote Hudson in the order, reported by the Washington Post. “Rather, on further consideration, whether the ‘Physicians-Only Law’ presents an undue burden to Virginia women who seek an abortion is a material fact that is genuinely in dispute.”

Thank God Hudson doesn’t subscribe to the rules of the ancient Persian government described in the book of Esther (9:8), “For a writ that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be rescinded.”

This is welcoming news to those who are looking for some humility from the courts. We all understand that when legislatures pass bad laws or executives enact bad policies, there is robust public debate, and they are often forced to changes course in the face of widespread backlash. Yet we are told that somehow a single judge can flick his pen at any moment and nullify or legislate policies as even hundreds of legislators don’t have the power to do – and that somehow such an order is self-executing, universally binding, and irreversible.

Hudson should be applauded for recognizing that one man cannot substitute his judgement on a fundamentally political question for the democratically elected legislature. One can only hope he will come to the same conclusion when the trial begins next week on the underlying case.

What is so important about this turnaround is that it demonstrates that judicial opinions are just that: opinions. They frequently decide whether to convict a criminal or award judgement in civil cases, but they are not the sole and final arbiter of broadly consequential political questions when they intersect with powers of other branches of government. The public should actually investigate these opinions and examine them for truth rather than taking them as the word of God.

This was the point Abraham Lincoln kept making to Stephen Douglas during their famous Senate debates in 1858 over slavery in the territories and the Dred Scott ruling from the Supreme Court. Lincoln derided Douglas for hiding behind a court opinion, “which he adheres to it, not as being right upon the merits … but as being absolutely obligatory upon every one simply because of the source from whence it comes.”

“It marks it in this respect, that [Dred Scott] commits him to the next decision, whenever it comes, as being as obligatory as this one, since he does not investigate it, and won’t inquire whether this opinion is right or wrong,” said Lincoln of Douglas during their fifth debate at Galesburg, Illinois, on October 7, 1858. “So he takes the next one without inquiring whether it is right or wrong. He teaches men this doctrine, and in so doing prepares the public mind to take the next decision when it comes, without any inquiry.”

This is what is so important about states like Alabama reclaiming their legislative authority to regulate abortion. Roe v. Wade was a judgment – an erroneous judgment – to a specific plaintiff, not a law and not the word of God. The same holds true for courts’ crazy rulings on marriage, sexuality, election law, and immigration. It’s time we have robust policy debates over political matters and reclaim that power from the courts. It’s time we actually inquire and investigate the true meaning of our Constitution, our history, and our traditions against radical court rulings. We have known hundreds of legislatures to get policy issues wrong in the past quite often. That certainly holds true for single judges or panels of three or nine.

As Lincoln said of Douglas during their first debate, “A decision of the court is to him a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ Lincoln expressed his frustration: “I cannot shake Judge Douglas’s teeth loose from the Dred Scott decision. Like some obstinate animal (I mean no disrespect), that will hang on when he has once got his teeth fixed; you may cut off a leg, or you may tear away an arm, still he will not relax his hold.”

Hopefully, Judge Hudson has taught the public that a federal judicial ruling is indeed not a “thus saith the Lord.” And in fact, as it relates to abortion, it’s against the word of the Lord and our Constitution and has no shred of legitimacy binding the states or other branches of the federal government to its errors.

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Video: ‘Lifelong Democrat and proud feminist’ joins conservatives to oppose House Dems’ transgender bill

A Democratic effort to codify transgenderism into federal civil rights law has drawn the criticism of yet another prominent feminist activist.

At a Thursday Capitol Hill press conference put together by Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., Women’s Liberation Front board member Kara Dansky introduced herself as a “lifelong Democrat and a proud feminist” and said the socially conservative politicians alongside her at the event probably “profoundly disagree” with her on several issues.

“But we are here together to take a strong stand for the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls,” Dansky continued, “all of which are threatened by the so-called ‘Equality Act.’”

H.R. 5, the so-called, “Equality Act,” is expected to go to a floor vote in House of Representatives this week. Basically, it would add sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected classes to federal civil rights law.

Dansky went on to list multiple reasons why the legislation would be bad news for women, if it were enacted, because it would “reconfigure” sex based on the “ill-defined and nebulous” idea of gender identity. She explained that “there is no way both do that and also protect women’s rights” and provided three reasons why:

“One: The word woman means ‘adult human female.’ Women have been fighting for our rights as women for thousands of years,” Dansky said. “As the men who excluded us from the franchise at the dawning of the republic knew, the word ‘sex’ has meaning.”

“Two: Women and girls fought hard for sex-segregated spaces, and we’re not giving them up,” she continued. “Not so long ago, there were no such things as women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms. … As long as the epidemic of male violence against women continues, women have the right to demand separate spaces from males, regardless of how they identify.

“Three: The notion of defining sex to include gender identity has material consequences for women and girls,” Dansky concluded. “Over the centuries, our society has created schools, scholarships, dormitories, business loans and other concrete benefits for women and girls precisely because we had been excluded from the public sphere for so long.”

But under the provisions of the “Equality Act,” those spaces and opportunities would have to be open to biological males as well.

Dansky is not the first left-leaning feminist to voice opposition to the bill’s provisions redefining sex and gender. At a hearing on the legislation back in April, lesbian activist Julia Beck called the bill a “human rights violation.”

“If the act passes in its current form as H.R. 5, then every right that women have fought for will cease to exist,” Beck told the House Judiciary Committee. “Every person in this country will lose their right to single-sex sports, grants, shelters, and loans. The law will forbid ever distinguishing between women and men.”

At Thursday’s press conference, Republican House members also warned about the “Equality Act’s” potential affects on unborn life and conscience rights.

“It would require a universal right to abortion, up until birth,” House Freedom Caucus member Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., warned of the bill.

Lesko has introduced an amendment that seeks to create pro-life protections within the framework of the legislation by stating that nothing in the act “may be construed to grant or secure any right relating to abortion or the provision or funding thereof.”

Another House Freedom Caucus member, Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., warned that the bill’s adversarial provisions against religious liberty would have far-reaching and harmful implications for traditional believers all over the country:

Faith-based adoption agencies would have to violate their convictions of finding a mother and a father for a child or shut down. Small business owners of faith would have to violate their convictions on morality and marriage, and sexuality or close the doors. Churches and faith institutions would have to abandon the teachings of their church in order to participate in federally funded programs, so that things like Catholic schools could lose the national school lunch program. Jewish synagogues could lose grants for protection from terrorist threats. Churches could lose FEMA disaster aid. And faith-based colleges and universities could lose federal student aid.

“This is a horrifying bill,” Hice continued. “The Democrats are exposing themselves as the party willing to use the strong arm of government to oppress Americans, to demonize religion and religious liberties, and to circumvent our constitution.”

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NYC Police union chief: Bill de Blasio would be ‘unmitigated disaster’ as POTUS

Think New York City Mayor “Red Bill” De Blasio would at least have the support of New York’s finest? Think again.

De Blasio announced Thursday that he is joining the already crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. The leftist mayor is running on the campaign slogan “Working people first.”

But the New York City Police Benevolent Association (NYCPBA), which represents about two-thirds of the 36,000 officers in the city, was ready to set the record straight on de Blasio’s supposed advocacy for blue-collar Americans.

“While the mayor of our nation’s largest city is busy running around Iowa and getting upstaged by the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, there are real problems here at home,” NYCPBA leader Patrick Lynch said in a statement shortly after de Blasio’s announcement.

“As commander-in-chief, he would be an unmitigated disaster,” the statement added.

New York City police officers have regularly spoken out about the New York City mayor, who ran an anti-police mayoral campaign. During his tenure as mayor, de Blasio been openly hostile to law enforcement. During NYPD funerals, police officers have regularly turned their backs on the mayor to express their disdain for his leadership.

The de Blasio campaign is already off to a bumpy start. During his first live interview, the NYC mayor was swarmed by protesters chanting “Liar,” “Can’t run the city!” and “Can’t run the country!” the New York Post reports.

President Trump also weighed in via Twitter on the latest entry into the Democratic presidential race:

 

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San Francisco’s Homeless Are Running Out Of Room, So They’re Moving On To Makeshift Boats

San Francisco’s homeless are running out of room in the city, so they’re gradually moving out on to the bay, constructing makeshift boats and barges and forming floating tent cities, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The city has always had a small population of people living on self-constructed houseboats, WSJ says, but recently, the cost of housing, and San Francisco’s ensuing homelessness boom, has driven more of the city’s transient population to consider living on the city’s famous bay.

Between 100 and 200 “barges, sailboats, and other mostly decrepit vessels” now litter the landscape.

In many cities that border a body of water, houseboats are common. In fact, San Francisco, like Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, London, and Amsterdam, has a significant houseboat community, though most of the Bay Area’s floating residences are moored across the Bay Bridge in Sausalito.

These makeshift barges, however, aren’t technically houseboats. They don’t pay to moor at a dock or sit anchored in a marina, and they aren’t specially constructed for year-round living (most have no heat, electricity, or sanitary facilities). They do, however, exist in a gray area in San Francisco’s laws; technically, boats anchored off-shore in areas of the bay restricted for recreational boating are legal, they just aren’t supposed to stay anchored for more than a few hours.

For San Francisco, the dinghies and barges pose a special problem: San Francisco Bay is a major port, and shipping lanes criss-cross the bay. Boats that moor off the San Francisco coast run the risk of disturbing shipping routes or worse, getting caught in a battle for space with a much larger boat.

There’s also the concern of pollution. Most of the makeshift vessels aren’t equipped with toilets, showers, or laundry facilities, so human waste is being dumped directly into the water, just off-shore of (arguably) the nation’s most eco-friendly city. San Francisco already has a problem with poop on its sidewalks, and the city fears it may, someday soon, have issues with poop in its water.

San Francisco’s homeless problem, on land and now at sea, is out of control. At last count, they city’s homeless population hovers somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 people, with around 3,000 of those being “chronically homeless” — that is, either uninterested or unable to find reliable, long-term housing. Up to 20,000 transients are thought to make San Francisco’s streets their home for at least part of the year.

The number of homeless in San Francisco hasn’t necessarily grown, but the city has become more tolerant of the transient population in recent years, as prices for housing have skyrocketed. Instead of aggressively policing the city’s sidewalk-dwellers, San Francisco has taken to trying to accommodate them, spending hundreds of millions on supportive housing, cleanup programs, and emergency services each year to help the homeless population on land.

The city seems ready to apply the same principles to the homeless now living on the bay. Administrators have proposed, instead of forcibly removing the unwanted seafarers, creating subsidized docks, marinas, and moorings for their makeshift vessels.

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Terrorist Iranian Regime Saber-Rattles, Vows To ‘Defeat The American-Zionist Front’

As The Daily Wire has reported, tensions between the United States and the jihadist mullocracy that governs the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran have rapidly escalated, of late:

The Trump administration is sending a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a “clear and unmistakable message” in response to “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.” …

“In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force,” [National Security Advisor John] Bolton said. “The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.”

The United States has not just militarily escalated its tensions with Iran, but has also economically escalated its efforts to isolate the world’s number one state sponsor of Islamist terrorism. As The Daily Wire noted last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced that the U.S. would phase out and end all oil sanctions waivers doled out to countries that had been importing Iranian oil.

“Almost one year ago, after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump implemented the strongest pressure campaign in history against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Pompeo explained. “The goal remains simple: to deprive the outlaw regime of the funds it has used to destabilize the Middle East for four decades and incentivize Iran to behave like a normal country.”

Amid the escalating tensions, The Daily Wire reported how Iran über-hawk Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) boasted how the U.S. could defeat Iran in war with precisely “two strikes”:

Now, Iran is returning the saber-rattling. As The Times of Israel reports, the fanatical terrorist regime has now triumphantly vowed to “defeat the American-Zionist front”:

Iran’s defense minister said Wednesday his country would defeat the US-Israel alliance in the region, amid rising tensions and fears of potential war between Iran and the US.

“We will defeat the American-Zionist front,” Amir Hatami told a gathering of military intelligence officials on Wednesday, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Iran’s military preparedness, Hatami said, was “at its highest point,” despite “the most difficult conditions” imposed by US sanctions. “We will be the final victors” in the standoff, he insisted, and “will defeat the United States.”

Top Iranian officials routinely vow to “annihilate” both Israel and the U.S. The Iranian regime foments, exports, funds, and sponsors all manners of jihadist chaos across the broader Islamic world, included but hardly limited to its Lebanon-based Hezbollah proxy and its Gaza Strip-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad proxy. Most recently, the Trump administration vowed to formally designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization.

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IT’S HAPPENING: President Trump Plans to Invoke Insurrection Act to Remove Illegal Aliens From United States

President Trump is planning on invoking the Insurrection Act to remove illegal aliens from the Unites States.

The Daily Caller’s Amber Athey reported that multiple senior Trump administration officials said President Trump will soon invoke the “tremendous powers” of the act to get rid of illegal aliens leeching off the fat of the land.

“We’re doing the Insurrection Act,” one official said.

Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders. The act was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush to quell the Los Angeles riots, and was also used by Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.

An official expressed concerns that Trump’s use of the act’s powers would face legal challenges, pointing to the lawsuits against the president’s travel ban from majority-Muslim countries. However, as the official noted, the travel ban ultimately prevailed in the Supreme Court.

In addition to the Insurrection Act, the president is also considering declaring the country full and insisting that the U.S. can no longer handle the massive influx of illegal immigrants. 2019 is currently on pace to reach the highest levels of illegal immigration in a decade.

A record amount of illegal aliens have poured over the US border in 2019.

Approximately 100,000 illegal aliens a month are being apprehended by US Border Patrol.

We need a wall and we need real immigration reform to put an end to insane ‘catch and release’ asylum policies.

There are an estimated 30 million illegal aliens currently living in the Unites States — it’s time to deport them and put America first.

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GOD HELP US: Facebook Fact-checkers PERVERT Gateway Pundit Headline – Then Call it Fake News and Eliminate Traffic to Our Website

Tech Giants Google, Twitter and Facebook are currently purging conservative content from their platforms — Google is hiding conservative stories from their search results — Tech giants are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media.

In February of 2018 Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on their social media platform.

The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.

In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.

Top conservative Facebook pages with daily traffic in the millions have seen 75% to 95% drop in traffic since the 2016 election.

Young Cons, Western Journalism, SarahPalin.com, Chicks on the Right, Independent Journal Review, Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Infowars (banned completely), Breitbart, Pamela Geller, Laura Loomer (banned), 100% Fed Up, The Drudge Report and several others have seen dramatic loss in traffic and influence.

Facebook uses Soros-funded Poynter and other far left fact-checkers to target websites on their platform — Poynter is the same group that recently listed EVERY prominent conservative publisher last week as fake news.

In 2016 The Gateway Pundit was one of the top four conservative pro-Trump websites in America so Facebook targeted and eliminated most traffic to our website.

And you won’t believe the nasty tactics they use to ban conservative content.

In March Facebook flagged a Gateway Pundit article as false and misleading. They then blocked traffic to our website from this post.

The article was titled, “John Solomon: Top Prosecutor Has Proof Ukraine Colluded with Hillary Campaign in 2016 Election.”

Facebook fact-checkers rated the article as “false rating.”

Anyone who clicked on the Facebook link would see that this was “false” news.

Of course, our information was 100% correct.

This is what Facebook does to screw conservatives.
The fact-checkers distorted our headline.

This is what the “hoax alert” fact-checkers claimed we said: “Top Prosecutor Has Evidence Hillary Colluded with Ukraine”

Here again is our title: “John Solomon: Top Prosecutor Has Proof Ukraine Colluded with Hillary Campaign in 2016 Election.”

They lied about the title of our article.

We did not say Hillary Clinton, we said Hillary Campaign.

They call it a “hoax alert.”

This is how the far left tech giants work —-  They distort a title to an article we wrote then block traffic to The Gateway Pundit.
It is so sinister and unethical if not criminal.

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George Papadopolous: Italy Is Giving Up John Brennan’s Involvement

Sounds like it’s heating up. The Italian prime minister has suddenly requested resignations from 6 deputy directors of Italian intelligence agencies: DIS, AISI and AISE. This was all after I outed Mifsud in Rome and the president called the Italian prime minister. Italy has flipped and are giving up Brennan. — George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) May […]

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