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  • 9th Shocking Video: Planned Parenthood Sells Intact Aborted Babies, One “Just Fell Out” of the Womb

    The Center for Medical Progress released a new video this morning — the 9th in its series of videos catching the Planned Parenthood abortion business selling aborted babies and their body parts. This latest video catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb. The ninth video in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal focuses on Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), the small and secretive company similar to StemExpress that has harvested and sold fetal body parts at Planned Parenthood clinics longer than...
  • Iran: Never Held Accountable

    09/01/2015 7:49:28 AM PDT · by LSUfan · 4 replies
    Center for Security Policy ^ | 30 Aug 15 | Christopher Holton
    The Obama administration has embarked upon a path to reward decades of bad behavior by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the futile hope that Iran will become benevolent and cease its warlike actions and intentions toward the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular. As futile as the idea of negotiating a nuclear deal with the Ayatollahs seems to sober Americans and our allies today, we must first set the record straight on those policies of the past that Obama and his supporters say that they are determined to change: America has never had a “tough”...
  • Federal judge: Moral objections are enough to override HHS contraception mandate

    09/01/2015 6:52:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/01/2015 | Ed Morrissey
    In a stunning decision, a federal judge permanently barred the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing the contraception mandate under ObamaCare against an employer for moral rather than explicitly religious grounds. Judge Richard Leon, the same DC district court judge that ruled the NSA phone collection program unconstitutional (and was reversed last week), rebuked the federal government for violating the Equal Protection clause by only allowing religious groups a waiver for objections to contraception and other products and services. Ruling in favor of March for Life, Leon said that the 14th Amendment demands equal protection for similarly...
  • Meet the Republican Who Launched the 'Ready for Kanye' PAC

    09/01/2015 6:32:55 AM PDT · by God'sgrrl · 30 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | August 31, 2015 | Nicole Perkins
    ...if Kanye is going to run in 2020, I would love to see him run in a Republican primary. He brings a lot to the discussion that's missing. Read more...
  • Jeb Bush On The Attack, Claims There’s A Big Problem With Trump’s Wall Idea

    08/31/2015 7:10:17 PM PDT · by Helicondelta · 94 replies
    bizpacreview.com ^ | August 31, 2015 | Tom Tillison
    A large part of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s stance on immigration involves building a wall along the southern U.S. border — a wall the real estate tycoon insists will be paid for by Mexico. But not so fast says GOP rival Jeb Bush. The former governor of Florida said over the weekend Trump is promising to build “a wall that can’t be built,” the Washington Examiner reported. It’s a determination Bush said he made after talking to mayors and law enforcement on the Texas-Mexico border, who he said told him a wall can’t be built because of the rugged...
  • Global Markets Are Melting Down

    09/01/2015 5:12:49 AM PDT · by blam · 69 replies
    BI ^ | 9-1-2015 | Sam Ro
    Sam Ro September 1, 2015 futures - Finviz Global markets are getting smoked again. Dow futures are down 315 points, S&P 500 futures are down 40 points, and Nasdaq futures are down 93 points. It's a bloodbath in Europe, with Britain's FTSE, Germany's DAX, France's CAC 40, and Spain's IBEX all down by more than 2%. Asian markets closed deep in the red, with Japan's Nikkei plunging 3.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng falling 2.2%, and China's Shanghai Composite tumbling 1.3%. Here's a quick roundup of the key headlines we've gotten since US markets closed on Monday. (snip)
  • Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities

    09/01/2015 12:11:47 AM PDT · by Brad from Tennessee · 41 replies
    New York Times ^ | August 31, 2015 | By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH
    MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014. More than 30 other cities have also reported increases in violence from a year ago. In New Orleans, 120 people had been killed by late August, compared with 98 during the same period a year earlier. In Baltimore, homicides had hit 215, up from 138 at the same point in...
  • CAIR Claims Scott Walker "Enables" ISIS by Calling Them Muslim Terrorists

    08/31/2015 11:58:28 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 24 replies
    Front Page ^ | August 31, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield
    This argument is so stupid that it really ought to come with its own frontal lobotomy. But that doesn't stop assorted Muslim Brotherhood front groups and their lefty useful idiots from making it anyway. "With this, Scott Walker is actually enabling ISIS by characterizing their acts as being Islamic terrorism," said Robert McCaw, government affairs manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "He is taking a peaceful religion of 1.6 billion people and misappropriating it to ISIS, allowing them to wrap themselves in the religion's name and stake a claim to it." McCaw was referring to Walker's first foreign policy...
  • Atlanta-area police officer shot, circumstances unclear

    08/31/2015 7:48:40 PM PDT · by matt04 · 35 replies
    ATLANTA – An Atlanta-area police officer has been shot and taken to a hospital. DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parrish said the officer was shot Monday night but she didn't immediately have any details about the circumstances of the shooting. ... Parris said the officer would undergo surgery at the hospital. The extent of the officer's injuries was not immediately known.
  • BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Kentucky gay marriage case

    08/31/2015 4:58:04 PM PDT · by GIdget2004 · 251 replies
    Twitter ^ | 08/31/2015 | AP
    The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Kentucky gay marriage case, clerk must issue licenses despite religion
  • Dow posts worst August decline in 17 years

    08/31/2015 5:02:31 PM PDT · by SkyPilot · 25 replies
    Market Watch ^ | 31 Aug 15 | Mark Decambre
    The month of August can be pretty rough for stock investors. But this August has earned its place in the record books, as stocks were unsettled by uncertainty over the state of affairs in the world’s second largest economy, China. As far as Augusts go, this has been the worst in nearly two decades for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.69% The Dow posted a roughly 6.4% decline in August, which marked the worst month in more than five years for the market gauge, which tracks the performance of 30 stocks. Comparing the month with other Augusts, the blue-chip...
  • New Video: Planned Parenthood Doc Caught Admitting She Can Hide Profit From Selling Aborted Babies

    08/31/2015 2:07:57 PM PDT · by Morgana · 20 replies
    life news ^ | Steven Ertelt Aug 31, 2015
    The Center for Medical Progress released a supplemental video today that sheds more light on the profit Planned Parenthood makes associated with the ale of aborted babies and their body parts. Earlier this month, the pro-life organization released a video catching a Planned Parenthood official discussing how the abortion business sells “fully intact” aborted babies. The video provides evidence showing the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die. Today’s 28-minute supplemental video provides additional proof of that and also shows how Planned Parenthood is making and...
  • Latest Clinton Email Server Dump Reveals 150 More Documents Flagged For Classified Information

    08/31/2015 12:00:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 67 replies
    Townhall ^ | 08/31/2015 | Katie Pavlich
    Things are rapidly getting worse in the legal department for former Secretary of State and democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The State Department is set to release a batch of 6,000 personal emails belonging to Clinton tonight, but we're already getting a sneak peak of what they contain. That's right, 150 more documents flagged for classified information. This news comes on top of revelations earlier this month Clinton had at least 300 classified documents passing through her private email server, which intelligence officials are almost certain was hacked by foreign governments. Also keep in mind that out of hundreds of...
  • China explosion: City of Shandong rocked as huge blast rips through chemical factory

    08/31/2015 11:49:43 AM PDT · by rdl6989 · 63 replies
    mirror.co.uk ^ | August 31, 2015 | Alex Wellman
    A massive explosion has ripped through a region in China. (snip) The explosion was seen and heard in the industrial zone of Lijin, Dongying City of Shandong, just before 11.30pm local time.
  • Ben Carson: ‘We Don’t Need a Department of Veterans Affairs’

    08/31/2015 8:25:07 AM PDT · by xzins · 180 replies
    CNS ^ | August 28, 2015 | Melanie Hunter
    Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson told the Dave Ramsey show on Wednesday that the Department of Veterans Affairs should be folded into the Department of Defense and VA facilities should only be used for specialized care like traumatic brain injuries and limb replacement procedures. “The size of government has to be reduced significantly. There’s a lot of stuff that we’re doing that doesn’t make any sense. We have a Department of Veterans Affairs. We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Affairs should be in under the Department of Defense, and it should be smooth transition,” said Carson. The...
  • LIVE VIDEO: Ted Cruz talks veterans issues at New Hampshire town hall (now)

    08/31/2015 7:16:32 AM PDT · by Isara · 50 replies
    MSNBC ^ | August 31, 2015
    Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Senator Ted Cruz holds a town hall event on military and veterans issues in Milford, New Hampshire.
  • Obama administration pays $400,000 for harassing ICE attorney trying to enforce immigration law.

    08/31/2015 6:32:12 AM PDT · by Elderberry · 8 replies
    Newsworks ^ | 8/30/2015 | Julia Preston
    Patricia M. Vroom is the top attorney for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in Arizona. When the Obama administration initiated its unilateral policy of “prosecutorial discretion”, allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. as long they have not yet been convicted of a serious felony crime, they found attorney Vroom too slow in authorizing the release of illegal aliens who had committed crimes in the U.S. but did not yet meet the administration’s high threshold for seeking deportation of such undocumented aliens. U.S. immigration law, as enacted by Congress pursuant to the Constitution, provides that any...
  • Hundreds arrested as Beijing launches stock market crackdown

    08/31/2015 3:04:01 AM PDT · by SkyPilot · 15 replies
    CNN Money ^ | 31 Aug 15 | CNN staff
    Chinese authorities have arrested nearly 200 people for alleged online rumor-mongering about China's stock market turmoil and a recent, deadly chemical factory explosion in Tianjin. Among the arrested is Wang Xiaolu, a journalist for financial publication Caijing Magazine, "who has been placed under 'criminal compulsory measures' for suspected violations of colluding with others and fabricating and spreading fake information on securities and futures market," according to Chinese state media. Government officials have also been placed under arrest, including Liu Shufan, an official with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, who has been accused of bribery, fraud and completing under-the-table deals. At...
  • Hillary Squirms as Trump Calls Huma’s Husband Weiner a ‘Perv’ and ‘Sleazebag’

    08/30/2015 9:02:21 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 106 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 29 Aug 2015 | Jordan Schachte
    Hillary Furious After Trump Calls Weiner A 'Perv' Trump also suggested that Abedin, the daughter of Islamic supremacists — is a security risk. But Hillary’s defense consisted mostly of an effort to change the subject. “Donald Trump has spent the summer saying offensive things about women, but there is no place for patently false, personal attacks towards a staff member,” said Hillary’s press secretary Nick Merrill. Clinton’s statement also tried to stigmatize public debate about Abedin’s actions. Trump “should be ashamed of himself, and others in his own party should take a moment to stand up to him and draw...
  • Scott Walker: Building a US-Canada border wall is ‘a legitimate issue’

    08/30/2015 7:28:55 PM PDT · by z taxman · 63 replies
    Boston.com ^ | 8/30/15 | Nik DeCosta-Klipa
    For all the talk about a southern border wall (ahem, Mr. Trump), Scott Walker has an additional concern: Canada. Given his support for building a U.S.-Mexico border wall to protect against terrorist threats, the Wisconsin governor was asked on NBC’s Meet the Press by host Chuck Todd if he wanted to build a northern border wall. Walker, a Republican candidate for president, said a U.S.-Canadian border “is a legitimate issue for us to look at.” “Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire,” Walker said. “They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought...