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President Trump is taking heat for comments he made at a Wisconsin rally where he described what happens to a child after she is born alive following a failed abortion, saying, “The baby is born. The mother meets with the doctor, they take care of the baby, they wrap the baby beautifully, and then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby. I don't think so. It's incredible.” The mainstream media are “fact-checking” Trump’s statement as if it is incorrect.But the abortion industry and the media have tiptoed around the basic question. So, I simply...

In this audio Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden for the aborting mother when he is arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act at the Illinois state legislature April 2002

Few characteristics of political discourse are more infuriating than the ease with which language is manipulated. Depending on who´s talking, a tax is not a tax. It´s "an investment". If a political operative is intent on frightening the electorate into the voting booths, an increase in federal funding that is still above the rate of inflation can be "a cut". And governmentally instituted racism that favors a targeted group of beneficiaries is not really racism; it´s "affirmative action". Such bastardizations certainly help to foster the impression that "all politicians are liars", perhaps, rightly so. But if done often enough...