How Moral Imbeciles Defend Abortion

Lee Duigon

Sorry for this horrible image–but if you have a problem with it, then you must be a forced-birth advocate.

The defense of abortion has been getting more and more inane. I won’t say it’s as offensive as abortion itself–you know: killing of a baby and selling off the body piece by piece–but it is certainly very offensive.

Even before it came out that Planned Parenthood was selling off chunks of aborted babies, pro-aborts had discovered a devastating new put-down, guaranteed to slay pro-lifers where they stood.

Ready? Here it is: anyone opposed to abortion is to be called a forced birth advocate.

Get it? These wicked evil people are forcing, forcing women to have babies. The way-out-there lefty Daily Kos has a sample rant, in which we get the whole package: forced birth advocates hate women, they think women should be nothing more than “walking incubators,” they indulge in “fetus worship,” and of course they don’t believe that “women’s lives matter.”

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Hillary Clinton May Go to Prison

by Joel B. Pollak

Hillary Clinton is going to prison–or would be, if she were an ordinary prison. The FBI has reportedly taken possession of the emails on her home computer server, according to U.S. officials cited by the Associated Press.

According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), at least two of the emails contained “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information.”

An ordinary person–or even a well-known leader like General David Petraeus–would be prosecuted for moving classified information onto a private system. And that is just the beginning of her legal problems.

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Obama administration warns US court: High cost of appealing terror verdict could topple PA

NEW YORK – The Obama administration urged a US judge to “carefully consider” the Palestinian Authority’s financial condition in determining the size of any bond it must post to appeal a jury’s finding that it supported terrorist attacks in Israel.

‘Top Secret’ emails found as Clinton probe expands to key aides

 

By Anita Kumar, Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon

As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as “Top Secret.”

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Obama Officially Just Made His Most Insane Statement YET on Iran and Israel

by Allen West

There are really weird statements, and then there are just plain bizarre statements. Just when you think you’ve heard it all emanating from President Obama and his administration, you get hit with something even more disconcerting.

As reported by CNN:

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Thousands of Iraqi Christians Flee as ISIS Massacres 2,000 Civilians, Blasts Baghdad With Car Bombs

By Hermoine Macura , CP Contributor

ERBIL, Iraq — Thousands of displaced Arab refugees, including a large number of Christians and Yazidis, are continuing to flee Iraq following the Islamic State’s mass execution of around 2,000 Iraqis in the city of Nineveh — followed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad on Monday — resulting in dozens of causalities, according to Reuters.

It’s been one year since the Islamic State began its reign of terror in the Sinjar and Tal Afar districts of northern Iraq’s Nineveh Province, which has included a hate-fueled campaign to wipe out Christians and Yazidis as well as other religious communities.

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Bandar Bin Sultan Obama Intentionally Made Bad Iran Deal, Saudi Official Charges

By: United with Israel

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan charges that Obama knowingly made a bad deal with Iran, which is now threatening the region and, possibly, global stability.

A former Saudi ambassador to the US charged that the nuclear deal with Iran is deemed to fail and is even more dangerous than that signed with North Korea in 2003, which was a complete blunder.

In a column written for the London-based Arabic news site Elaph and published in English by the Washington Post, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the US between 1981 and 2005, points to the numerous failures and dangers in the agreement with the Islamic Republic, which, Israel says, paves the way to a nuclear bomb.

Bandar suggests that US President Barack Obama knowingly and intentionally made a bad deal, while former American President Bill Clinton made a nuclear agreement with North Korea in 1994 with the best intentions and with what he considered to be reliable information.

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Hamas Admits Gazans Behind Water Crisis, Not Israel

Hamas paper finds excessive digging of wells and pumping in Gush Katif lands evacuated in 2005 causing resource collapse.

Two Issues To Watch

By ACLJ.org

There are two major free speech issues looming in the fight to ensure that the Internet remains a constitutionally protected sanctuary, free from government regulation, censorship, and control.

On July 30, 2015 the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported that the Chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ann M. Ravel, while speaking at a conference hosted by the nation’s loudest voices seeking to regulate political speech, the Brennan Center for Justice, the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and the Committee for Economic Development, still “wanted to regulate political speech, and even news sites like the Drudge Report.”

Chairwoman Ravel’s previous efforts along those lines had failed when she could not muster the needed majority vote among the six FEC Commissioners to open a formal rulemaking. Free speech advocates and the larger Internet community, which opposed the FEC’s earlier efforts to regulate speech on the Internet, will need to keep a watchful eye on any formal efforts to resurrect, in the words of Justice Scalia (but in a different context), this “ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad after being repeatedly killed and buried.”

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Three fake “Islamophobic hate crimes” the media ran with

By Robert Spencer

We covered all these extensively at Jihad Watch when they happened; it is good, however, to see others beginning to take notice. Islamic supremacist groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims. Hamas-linked CAIR, designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques.

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The Christian purge has begun: Chaplains banned from preaching that homosexuality is a sin

By Todd Starnes

It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand.

Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials.

“We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me in a telephone call from his home in Kentucky. “It broke my heart.”

 

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minister – ending 13 years of ministry to underage inmates at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

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Barack Obama on the Jews: “You’d Think They’d be Nicer to Me on My Birthday”

Jim Hoft

Barack Obama is very upset with the pushback he’s received from Jewish leaders over his foolish Iranian nuclear deal.
obama mad

The far left president whined recently, “You’d think they’d be nicer to me on my birthday.”

Daniel Greenfield at FrontpageMag reported:

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The Political Nature of Today’s Middle East Studies

by Andrew C. McCarthy

It would be a mistake to say Middle East Studies has been corrupted. For the program’s very purpose has been to serve as a corrupting agent. Specifically, it puts the essence of study — the objective pursuit of knowledge — in disrepute.

Here, of course, I am referring to the modern incarnation of Middle East Studies: an amalgam of leftist and Islamist political dogma that masquerades as an academic discipline. By contrast, the actual study of Middle Eastern history, like the intimately related study of Islamic civilization, is a venerable and vital pursuit — and is still pursued as such by, to take the best example, ASMEA, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. Alas, in our hyper-politicized society, the traditional notion of study seems quaint: a vestige of a bygone time when the designations “Orientalist” and “Islamist” referred to subject-matter expertise, not political activism, much less radicalism.

Yet, for Edward Said, the seminal figure in modern Middle East Studies, the object of the game was to slander knowledge itself. Joshua Muravchik nailed it in a 2013 profile of the renowned academic. Said’s animating theory held that “knowledge” was the key that enabled the West to dominate Orientals: The point of pursuing knowledge about “the languages, culture, history, and sociology of societies of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent,” Said elaborated, was to gain more control over the “subject races” by making “their management easy and profitable.” With real study caricatured as the engine of colonial exploitation, the way was paved for a competing construction of “study” — political agitation to empower the have-nots in the struggle against the haves.

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Archbishop Condemns Political World for Silence on Christian Slaughter; Former White House Chief of Staff Blames Obama’s ‘Indifference’

By Stoyan Zaimov

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement with Vice President Joe Biden at his side about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers during an early morning address to the nation from the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 14, 2015.

As the plight of Christians across the Middle East worsens, a Jerusalem archbishop has condemned the entire political world for its silence and lack of action on the issue. Former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu has meanwhile pointed the finger at President Barack Obama, accusing the latter of “indifference” in the face of the suffering Christian communities.

Archbishop Maroun Lahham, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem’s vicar for Jordan, said in an interview that “the international community is absolutely inert, absent, or rather a silent accomplice” in the persecution of Christians, Catholic World News reported.

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NBC Skips Brutal Murder By Illegal Immigrant With Prior Arrests

By Scott Whitlock

NBC on Sunday and Monday ignored the news that another illegal immigrant with past arrests has been charged for murder. In contrast, CBS and ABC both highlighted Victor Martinez Ramirez allegedly raping and killing Marilyn Pharis, a 64-year-old woman. On CBS This Morning, Christine Johnson explained, “Martinez Ramirez was arrested six times in the last 15 months, but he was never convicted of a felony and had never been deported.”

On Sunday’s CBS Evening News, reporter Chris Martinez explained the anger coming from Santa Maria, California’s chief of police:

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Canada’s euthanasia debate implies a double standard for people with disabilities: From the perspective of a Canadian with a disability

By Taylor Hyatt:

Does giving doctors the right in law to intentionally cause death negatively affect people with disabilities?

Yes. What concerns me most is the potential shift in the way our society views disability. Right now, I’m a capable and independent young woman of 23. The mobility gear I use fits into the typical understanding of disability. Even though we have a long way to go to ensure a truly accessible society, seeing a walker or wheelchair user is not a rare event. Yet there still seems to be a feeling of unease. There is a subtle difference between being grateful for your physical abilities and assuming that life with a disability is unbearable. I’ve never encountered anyone who has explicitly said, “Boy, I’m glad I’m not in your position” but attitudes imply it. By the time I am 43, 63, or even 83, I wonder if that will have changed. Especially for progressive conditions that can affect mobility, I can see a doctor advising someone, like me, that it would be better not to live than to experience some of what I have.

Is the Supreme Court decision which states that laws prohibiting assisted death discriminate against people with disabilities a false idea?

Absolutely. I see a double standard here. Mental health campaigns have become more visible than ever, and rightly so. I would argue that the court decision, rather than the law it struck down, is discriminatory.

Why is assisted suicide — “death with dignity,” some say — called a positive development for people with disabilities when there is no effort to help us live with dignity? I wish the law prohibiting assisted suicide had remained untouched. Now, I suppose the best I can hope for is a strong and diverse group of people to speak out against euthanasia, along with more time to clear up these misconceptions.

My city and country are far from being perfectly accessible, but I need to acknowledge the progress we’ve made. The Supreme Court decision only takes us backwards.

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How Obama Misled Us about the Concessions He Was Making to Iran

By Andrew C. McCarthy

If what senior Iranian officials are saying is true, the Obama administration’s duplicity in explaining its nuclear negotiations with Iran is even more staggering than we realized.

In a new report, MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) reveals that, according to Iranian officials, the Obama administration initiated secret negotiations with Iran not after the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, but rather in 2011 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was still Iran’s president.

That means the administration did not wait to reach out until Iran was governed by Rouhani, the purportedly “pragmatic” moderate the Obama administration contrasts with Iranian “hardliners” who supposedly oppose the Iran deal. It reached out when Ahmadinejad, an unapologetic “Death to America, death to Israel” hardliner, was running Iran’s government.

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White House Blocks Pentagon Report on Russian Treaty Breach

BY: Bill Gertz

The White House is blocking the release of a Pentagon risk assessment of Russia’s violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, according to a senior House leader.

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, disclosed the existence of the Pentagon assessment last month and said the report is needed for Congress’ efforts to address the problem in legislation.

“As we look to the near-term future, we need to consider how we’re going to respond to Russia’s INF violations,” Rogers said in an Air Force Association breakfast July 8. “Congress will not continue to tolerate the administration dithering on this issue.”

Rogers said the assessment was conducted by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, and noted that it outlines potential responses to the treaty breach.

However, Rogers noted that the assessment “seems to stay tied up in the White House.”

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Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.

Amy Maxmen

Spiny grass and scraggly pines creep amid the arts-and-crafts buildings of the Asilomar Conference Grounds, 100 acres of dune where California’s Monterey Peninsula hammerheads into the Pacific. It’s a rugged landscape, designed to inspire people to contemplate their evolving place on Earth. So it was natural that 140 scientists gathered here in 1975 for an unprecedented conference.

They were worried about what people called “recombinant DNA,” the manipulation of the source code of life. It had been just 22 years since James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin described what DNA was—deoxyribonucleic acid, four different structures called bases stuck to a backbone of sugar and phosphate, in sequences thousands of bases long. DNA is what genes are made of, and genes are the basis of heredity.

Preeminent genetic researchers like David Baltimore, then at MIT, went to Asilomar to grapple with the implications of being able to decrypt and reorder genes. It was a God-like power—to plug genes from one living thing into another. Used wisely, it had the potential to save millions of lives. But the scientists also knew their creations might slip out of their control. They wanted to consider what ought to be off-limits.

By 1975, other fields of science—like physics—were subject to broad restrictions. Hardly anyone was allowed to work on atomic bombs, say. But biology was different. Biologists still let the winding road of research guide their steps. On occasion, regulatory bodies had acted retrospectively—after Nuremberg, Tuskegee, and the human radiation experiments, external enforcement entities had told biologists they weren’t allowed to do that bad thing again. Asilomar, though, was about establishing prospective guidelines, a remarkably open and forward-thinking move.

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At the end of the meeting, Baltimore and four other molecular biologists stayed up all night writing a consensus statement. They laid out ways to isolate potentially dangerous experiments and determined that cloning or otherwise messing with dangerous pathogens should be off-limits. A few attendees fretted about the idea of modifications of the human “germ line”—changes that would be passed on from one generation to the next—but most thought that was so far off as to be unrealistic. Engineering microbes was hard enough. The rules the Asilomar scientists hoped biology would follow didn’t look much further ahead than ideas and proposals already on their desks.

Earlier this year, Baltimore joined 17 other researchers for another California conference, this one at the Carneros Inn in Napa Valley. “It was a feeling of déjà vu,” Baltimore says. There he was again, gathered with some of the smartest scientists on earth to talk about the implications of genome engineering.

The stakes, however, have changed. Everyone at the Napa meeting had access to a gene-editing technique called Crispr-Cas9. The first term is an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” a description of the genetic basis of the method; Cas9 is the name of a protein that makes it work. Technical details aside, Crispr-Cas9 makes it easy, cheap, and fast to move genes around—any genes, in any living thing, from bacteria to people. “These are monumental moments in the history of biomedical research,” Baltimore says. “They don’t happen every day.”

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