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Busy Philipps defends the rights of 'women and their doctors' while addressing her own abortion at age 15 as she discussed new law She's never afraid to speak her truth. And Busy Philipps defended the rights of 'women and their doctors' during an episode of her late night talk show on Tuesday night. The 39-year-old actress decried the new controversial law in Georgia which prohibits doctors from performing abortions after they can detect 'fetal cardiac activity,' which occurs at about six weeks into a pregnancy. The statistic is that one in four women will have an abortion before age 45,'...

President Donald Trump is planning on using the Insurrection Act to remove illegal immigrants from the United States, The Daily Caller has learned. According to multiple senior administration officials, the president intends to invoke the “tremendous powers” of the act to remove illegal immigrants from the country. “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...

FULL TITLE: Milla Jovovich shares her own abortion story in wake of Alabama and Georgia's controversial ban: 'I still have nightmares about it' Actress Milla Jovovich is speaking out against the restrictive abortion ban in Georgia in a passionate post on Instagram. Just hours after she posted her statement on Instagram, Alabama passed their own law, considered the most restrictive abortion ban in the country. 'I don’t like to get political and I try to only do it if a really have to and this is one of those times. If someone doesn’t want to continue reading, you have been...

President suggests shutting the École Nationale d’Administration, a symbol of cronyism for many protesters Mr. Macron aims to placate yellow-vest protesters who have bedeviled his government for months, accusing him of paying too little heed to the economic pain of the working class and rural residents. ENA was designed as a meritocracy to open better opportunities to all students regardless of their background. But critics say the school has become a breeding ground for cronyism, perpetuating a social pecking order that allows énarques to monopolize top positions in society. They run the prime minister’s office, the finance ministry, the central...

Bernie Sanders continues with Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America The biggest mainstream/social media-ignored story of our day: The Socialists and Islamists have OFFICIALLY ganged up against America in the prelude to the 2020 presidential election. The not so long ago suspected nightmare of Socialists and Islamists working in tandem against the American people is now a reality unfolding before our very eyes that can no longer be written off as just another conspiracy theory. . “Socialists and Islamists are working together for the destruction of the Free Market in the West and Israel” Crickets followed Glenn Beck’s announcement on his...

FULL TITLE: Minka Kelly reveals she had an abortion at a young age and calls it her 'smartest decision'... as she blasts Alabama lawmakers in the wake of restrictive women's healthcare bill Minka Kelly has revealed she had abortion at a young age in a brave Instagram post shared Thursday morning. The 38-year-old actress revealed the procedure was 'the smartest decision' she could've made after becoming pregnant, and shared an image of the Alabama lawmakers who backed a bill to prevent nearly all abortions in the state. When I was younger I had an abortion. It was the smartest decision...

SPOTTED: SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-Calif.), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, walking around the Capitol with her iPhone screen facing outward in full view, and Javad Zarif’s contact page on the screen. Zarif is the name of Iran’s foreign minister. -- TOM MENTZER, Feinstein’s comms director, in response to us asking whether the senator has been talking with Iran’s foreign minister: “I can’t comment on who the senator does or doesn’t speak with.”

Even as Jim Comey and John Brennan lecture the American people on what is “normal,” they adopt an astonishingly abnormal role for former heads of the CIA and FBI — the role of coup leaders whose partisanship grows more reckless by the day. “This is not a tin-pot dictatorship,” says Comey. But aren’t Brennan and Comey acting like officials of a displaced one? They are trying to claw back to power by spreading unverified charges against a duly elected president. Brennan says without evidence that the Russians have “something” on Trump. Comey says without evidence that it is “possible” Trump...

FULL TITLE: Emily Ratajkowski poses naked to decry '25 old white men' who voted to ban abortion in Alabama... as Kylie Jenner and Rihanna share outrage Emily Ratajkowski let it be known that she is not pleased with the recent Alabama law prohibiting abortions. The 27-year-old actress posed naked for a photo shared on Instagram where she decried the '25 old white men' who approved HB 314, a comprehensive bill essentially banning abortions even in the event of rape and incest. Emily kept her arm over her chest and positioned a pink flower below for the daring photo posted on...

Even in modern times we are fascinated by crystals – from the diamonds we use as a sacred symbol of partnership, to the plethora of ‘healing’ gems that can be found in a New Age gift shop. So we can only imagine how ancient people viewed these transparent rocks with hidden structure. Evidence of the esteem in which crystals were held can be found in a “remarkable set” of ‘crystal weapons’ found in the megalithic tombs of southwestern Spain. At the site of Valencina de la Concepci
on, archaeologists have uncovered crystal arrowheads, an exquisite dagger blade, and cores used for...

President Donald Trump has become irritated at an emerging impression his hawkish national security advisers are marching him closer to war with Iran despite his isolationist tendencies, according to people familiar with the matter. Instead, Trump is signaling his intent to speak with the Iranians as tensions rise in the Persian Gulf, and his national security team has taken steps they hope could facilitate a new diplomatic opening. The likelihood of such an opening appears slim. But Trump has raised concern with the heightened rhetoric, believing a large-scale military intervention with Iran would be devastating to him politically, people familiar...

A small-town fundraiser was ruined due to a wild conspiracy theory involving former FBI director James Comey. Each year on May 11th, parent volunteers at the Grass Valley Charter School in California throw a music-and-art festival called the Blue Marble Jubilee to raise money for environmental causes and student resources such as upgraded technology and recreation equipment.

All Roads Lead to John Brennan ... HOW DEEP WILL THE INVESTIGATION GO? by Sharon Rondeau (May 15, 2019) — In the early-morning hours Wednesday, New York State resident Robert Laity completed a “Citizen’s Complaint” form located on the website of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut headed by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was announced on Monday as having been selected to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia “collusion” investigation which ended in a paucity of evidence supporting the FBI’s original allegation. According to Fox News on Tuesday night, Durham commenced the assignment weeks or even “months”...

What is Iran afraid the most in amid various issues? Considering the social-political status of Iran and its rulers' fearing on a very explosive-like situation inside and outside the nations makes this fact visible that ending days of the ruling mullahs are numbered. This is the fact that forces this barbaric regime to make bad and confusing decisions for every issue since it's in whirlpools of different crises. The student protests come just days after the regime announced that it would launch a new police force to tackle political dissent and expression. A fierce fight broke out on Monday, May...

It's Official!

Thursday afternoon, the president plans to roll out his master plan for immigration and border security reform. Administration officials have briefing on the plan for weeks so the news won’t be what’s in the plan. Still, this could be a historic day. For over a decade, Washington has utterly failed to address these issues. Thursday could be the start of a turnaround. It won’t be easy. Every combination of Democratic and Republican leadership so far has fallen flat on its face trying to fix the problem. The question is, why? There’s no reason for it. Americans are in about 80...

Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey might be in some real legal jeopardy now that Attorney General William Barr has assigned a prosecutor to investigate the Russia Hoax investigators, of whom Comey was the ringleader. Comey’s emerging sins appear to range from possibly illegal to outright unethical to obviously partisan. In no particular order, here is a handy rundown of all the controversial issues [updated to nine] surrounding Comey that have yet to be settled, properly investigated, or explained.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attempted to make a case for universal health care on Thursday after a tense confrontation over the HIV prevention drug known as PrEP. During a congressional hearing, Ocasio-Cortez pressed Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel O'Day on why his company's drug -- Truvada for PrEP -- cost so much more in the United States than in Australia. She later answered her own question on Twitter, saying that the U.S. health care system was to blame. "Spoiler: Because Australia has universal health care," she tweeted. During the hearing, O'Day responded to Ocasio-Cortez by noting how the drug was under...

A Special Jewish Woman, the Pharisees, and a Good Opportunity Missed By Pope Francis In spite of the progress in the historical work on the Pharisees, preaching all over the Christian world continues to depict these Jewish teachers as xenophobes, elitists, legalists, lovers of money and moral hypocrites. Moreover, in general the term ‘Pharisee’ implies ‘Jew,’ since many Jews and Christians consider the Pharisees the precursors of rabbinic Judaism. Therefore, even when Christians use the term ‘Pharisee’ to denounce clericalism in ecclesial contexts, they do nothing but reinforce prejudice toward Jews.”That’s how Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish American from Vanderbilt University,...

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