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And then there’s this little gem: (emphasis mine) A "transgender man" entered a hospital with severe abdominal pains. Because she was identified as a man, the doctors naturally did not think to treat her for labor and delivery, so she tragically lost the baby. Rather than emphasizing the danger of placing gender identity over biological sex, both the journal and The Washington Post made the absurd claim that the hospital should not have ruled out pregnancy for a man. Of course they shouldn’t have ruled out pregnancy for a man – because that would just be crazy! "He was rightly...

Growing up is a weird notion to wrap your mind around. As you go through life, your perspectives on almost everything will change. How you define success will change as well. Things that you thought were important at the age of 35 will be useless when you're 65. You may not realize it now, but everything will shift... At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is having friends. At age 16 success is having a driver’s license. At age 20 success is having sex. At age 35 success is having money. At age...

This month marks the centenary of Pete Seeger. Singer and "activist", he kept going almost to the end, wafted down by delirious admirers to Manhattan's financial district a decade back to serenade the Occupy Wall Street protestors. I believe he sang them "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?", although "Where Have All The Showers Gone?" might have been more appropriate with that crowd. We shall explore the history of "his" most successful song a little later today. But here's what I wrote about him upon the occasion of his 90th birthday: This week marks not only the first hundred days...

The Mechanics of Deception - Unlocking the People and Events Behind the Steel Russian Dossier Glenn Simpson is the public face of Fusion GPS. He was the main contact for Perkins-Coie, the law firm that paid for the dossier on behalf of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, & several other financiers. He controlled & managed dossier contractors like Nellie Ohr & Chris Steele.It's clear From Fusion GPS’s own materials that in 2011 and onwards that the company was already producing “products” in the form of commercial, financial, and political reports that were reaching the Oval Office and were being read...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Someone needs to tell her the definition of the word “punish”. – Emily Ratajkowski, who is I guess a model, posted nude photos of herself on social media yesterday. Which apparently is not an uncommon thing for this particular individual. But this time, she says she has a reason. That reason is…wait for it…oh, you gotta wait for this one…TO PUNISH OLD WHITE MEN in Alabama who passed the anti-abortion bill that was signed into law this week. I swear I do not make this stuff up. What is it about being...

The most rational response to the news that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to be president is to ask, "Of what?" When informed that he wants to be president of the United States and not of, say, the local organic hemp co-op, perhaps the next best response would be to take a page from the South and say, "Bless his heart." One of the more charming things about de Blasio is his amiable lack of self-awareness. He seems to have no idea that he doesn't impress anybody. The obliviousness is somewhat understandable. He did get elected --...

Listen to various abortion activists and Hollywood-faded stars and you might be under the impression that Georgia, Alabama and other states have just passed laws that could give women the death penalty for having abortions. In fact, some news outlets have run stories that these states would arrest women for having abortions. Sadly, at a time when the news media and progressive activists lament the President's dubious relationship with the truth, these are not just misstatements but outright lies. Last week, Alabama passed a law that would prohibit abortion except for situations where the mother's own life is at risk....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairmen of three congressional committees on national security on Thursday pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain whether a Trump administration arms control report was politicized and slanted assessments about Iran. The chairmen of Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence committees in the U.S. House of Representatives - all Democrats - asked Pompeo in a letter to provide a State Department briefing and documents no later than May 23. The letter cited a Reuters story from April 17 that reported how the administration’s annual report to Congress assessing compliance with arms control agreements provoked...

My Campaign for President was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!

The overwhelming surge of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border is drawing agents away from the northern border, where apprehensions are also increasing significantly. Sault Ste. Marie Border Patrol Agent in Charge Henry Laxdal told WJFW apprehensions in the Detroit sector increased 42 percent between 2017 and 2018, though the numbers pale in comparison to the southern border crisis. (Please see link for full article)

CNN & MSNBC Caught Meddling in US Democracy Both Channels put out fraudulent claims about Presidential polls. ---snip--- CNN rigged a poll to censor out nearly everyone under 45 years of age. Based on this nonsensical false sampling they claim Biden is now in the lead.

The Pentagon is working with its Defense Intelligence Agency to declassify and release images including two traditional sailing vessels carrying land-attack missiles to back up the Trump administration's claims of a growing threat from Iran, according to four defense officials. The evidence may be released within a day, according to one of the officials, because the White House recognizes it needs to disclose more documentation to skeptical allies, U.S. lawmakers and the public. These include images of the two dhows, slow-moving vessels that U.S. analysts believe were carrying cruise missiles … As always, though, there's concern about revealing U.S. intelligence-gathering...

Government Experiment Brainwashes Children to Manipulate Conservative Parents They’re not your children anymore. They’re a “treatment group.” May 17, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 10 FrontPage comments Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. #C02Kult. That’s the hashtag for it in Germany, where they know a bit about mass hysteria and brainwashing. It shows up every time students are manipulated into another school strike for the “environment”. The Joan of Arc of C02Kult is Greta Thunberg, the daughter of two Swedish celebrities, and a 15-year-old...

Postmaster General Megan Brennan told reporters last Friday things are getting worse for the U.S. Postal Service and she sees no end in sight to the red ink.When asked how long it would take for the Postal Service to return to profitability if Congress passed legislation that included her proposals for stabilizing its financing, Brennan responded, “Well, it’s a sizable gap – a $125 billion net loss over 10 years. We can aggressively manage it and try to control costs where we can, but we cannot return to financial stability absent regulatory reform.”Brennan said the Postal Service is working to...

USS Stark FFG-31 is struck by two Exocet missiles fired by an Iraqi aircraft. The first missile does not explode, but it's fuel causes extensive fires aboard the ship. The second missiles strikes the Stark on the port side just above the waterline. the 360 lb. warhead blows a 10 x 15 foot hole in the ships hull. Heroic efforts by the damage control parties and ship/s crew save the ship from sinking. Stark will be repaired and serve the fleet until decommissioned in 1999. As a result of the attack 37 Stark crewmen were killed and another 21 injured.

After listening to Seth Meyers run interference for Rep. Ilhan Omar last week, an exasperated Meghan McCain asked him: "Are you her publicist? Are you her press person?" Perhaps the more pertinent question is, "Who else do you represent?" Because on the same day Rep. Rashida Tlaib was complaining (via her 500,000-follower Twitter account) that powerful forces were "trying to silence" her, the freshman representative also appeared on NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers." Tlaib's presence on "Late Night" is unsurprising, as the show has become something of a safe haven for unaccomplished freshman reps with very specific opinions about...

I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. His death was confirmed by his son Li Chung Pei, who is also an architect and known as Sandi. He said his father had recently celebrated his birthday with a family dinner.

The Indian Navy announced on Friday that it had achieved a “significant milestone” in its anti-air warfare capabilities by having one of its warships control missiles fired from two ships. The Indian Navy announced that, with the test of this cooperative engagement system, “it has become a part of a select group of navies that have this niche capability. This capability significantly enhances the combat effectiveness of the Indian Navy, thereby providing an operational edge over potential adversaries.” A press release by the Indian Navy described the test as its “maiden cooperative engagement”, for which the Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM),...

RUSH: We had a call, I don’t know, about an hour ago. It was from a gentleman who wanted to know if there is — and if there is, who — a singular person or organization that gives the Democrat Party its orders. Its marching orders, its talking points, its agenda on legislative items and that kind of thing. Is there one person? The reason he asked is because they’re all saying the same thing all the time, and he’s curious how that happens, and particularly in the media. You know, we have shared with you… We started it. We...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill on May 14 protecting unborn babies from the slaughter of abortion. The vote wasn't close in the state legislature: 74-3 in the House, 25-6 in the Senate. One more state has come to its senses. There's a wave of pro-life bills being passed in the Southern states. First came the "heartbeat" bills stopping abortions after a baby's heartbeat can be detected (around six weeks). Then came Alabama. Its bill stops all abortions except for cases where the life of the mother is in danger or the unborn baby has a "lethal anomaly," and...