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An obstetrician has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for killing a baby who "burst out crying" during abortion procedures. The Seoul Central District Court on Friday convicted the doctor, 65, surnamed Yun, of killing a 34-week-old baby and suspended Yun's medical license for three years. "Medical staff who participated in the operation have consistently said they heard the baby crying," a three-judge panel of the court said in a statement. "It is clear that the doctor killed the baby, who was born alive." Yun, who ran a maternity clinic in Seoul, received 28 million won...

I'm very sad to say that The Shrew passed away yesterday. I know there are some oldtimers here that would want to know and possibly share condolences and stories. He was one of the best.

After seeing several internet advertisements for The Epoch Times, a self-touted conservative alternative to the UrineStream media, I decided to go in for a trial subscription. Anyone else familiar with this paper and what are your thoughts? Anything as a truthful alternative to what we have now is something I’ll support.

Rep. Liz Cheney responded to a letter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to Democrats and accused her of blocking money from families suffering financially from the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi sent a letter to Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, urging the public to ignore President Trump's claims about the virus and to instead listen to scientists. "We will overcome this moment, but success requires one fundamental from which all actions will follow: we need the truth," the California Democrat wrote. "The truth is, from this moment on, Americans must ignore lies and start to listen to scientists and other respected professionals in...

Universal testing for COVID-19 would be the best way to get the U.S. economy back up and running, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said Tuesday. Bullard, speaking on a conference call organized by the St. Louis Regional Chamber, said closing nonessential businesses “is appropriate for now but it’s a crazy inefficient policy. You don’t really want to go back to this quarantine policy in the future if you don’t have to.” He said that after coronavirus infection numbers start to drop, but without a vaccine available, the nation’s goal should be to get healthy workers back on...

“Some legal temporary workers who became overstayers use the same Social Security number they got legally because Social Security does not cancel your Social Security number when your visa expires,” he said. “If you overstay, your Social Security number doesn’t turn into a pumpkin. You just keep using it.” Krikorian said there are a variety of ways certain undocumented immigrants would be able to receive checks if they use Social Security numbers to file taxes. “There’s no system in place that would enable Social Security or IRS to screen out people who shouldn’t be getting these checks,” he said. "You...

While nine members of the Texas House Freedom Caucus thanked Gov. Greg Abbott for “solid and steady leadership during this historic crisis,” the signers of a letter written Tuesday agree the time has come to let the economy breathe again during the coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. “The clear messages we are hearing [from constituents] lead us to this conclusion: Texas must immediately increase healthcare and business activity while maintaining protections for the most vulnerable Texans,” the letter said. “Accordingly, we respectfully ask that you loosen your state-wide executive order to the greatest extent possible while giving local jurisdictions the flexibility to respond...

In an interview with Elle Magazine, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams characterized herself as an “excellent VP candidate:" “I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities.” Abrams’s name has been floated within talks of Joe Biden’s vice presidential choices after she gained name recognition in the 2018 midterms. After losing to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) in 2018, Abrams famously refused to concede, claiming that “democracy had failed” and that voter suppression denied her the governorship: Full Speech: Stacey Abrams Ends Candidacy For Georgia GovernorAbrams acknowledged that her...

The coronavirus pandemic has resurrected national boundaries that had all but faded away, upending businesses and lives. Perhaps nowhere is the change more dramatic than in Europe, which has spent years erasing borders.On the German side of the border with Poland, a laundry that washes hospital bed sheets is struggling to cope without almost half its staff, who used to commute from Poland. Polish workers, including doctors and nurses, have to decide whether to stay on the eastern side of the border or rent private rooms in Germany to keep working. A Polish business consultant has been paying truck drivers...

Claims she was violently abused by authorities for calling for protest against quarantine.A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward, where she says she was violently abused by authorities.Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying the German lockdown laws as “flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of citizens.”“These measures are not justified by the Infection Prevention Act, hurriedly amended just a few days ago,” she asserted. “Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others, based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios, which fail...

The COVID-19 virus pandemic is unprecedented. It has brought new challenges to the federal government, governors of states, local-level politicians, and us as individuals. Democrat governors were expecting President Trump to take care of the problem. Instead, he rightfully put the onus back on the governors, as he should have since they are directly responsible for their citizens. However, some politicians have seized the opportunity of added control then topped the newfound capability with a little extra tyranny. Gretchen Whitmer is the governor for the state of Michigan – she is a Democrat. Michigan has been hit with the COVID-19...

We need this to go viral. This will happen TODAY unless we get some Help here in Virginia. Northam is only giving briefings to media outlets beforehand and not to legislature!!! Our state legislatures are being left in the dark only to find out last minute what this governor intends to do. He will extend this until August and with his powerful executive orders he will issue, we won’t be able to protest. Please go to her video on her Facebook with the link I provided as she details what has just happened. State Senator Amanda Chase needs our help...

The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a statement of interest supporting a Greenville, Mississippi, church where some people recently received $500 tickets at a drive-in style service at which they listened to the sermon on their car radios with their windows rolled up amid the coronavirus pandemic. Attorney General William Barr emphasized in the statement that social distancing practices are important during the health crisis and that while some temporary restrictions on liberties are constitutional when applied even-handedly, but religious institutions cannot be singled-out. "The City of Greenville fined congregants $500 per person for attending these parking lot services –...

... In Debunking Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar has performed the absolutely necessary task that her title promises, and has done so with admirable energy, persistence, and relentless attention to detail, leaving Zinn’s already shaky credibility in utter ruins. She brings the intensive scrutiny of a jeweler’s eye to Zinn’s work, topic by topic, and shows in no uncertain terms how flawed and unreliable it is. But that is not all. She also shows us Zinn the man: An utter charlatan and naked partisan, an admirer of Stalin and Mao, a relentless self-promoter and self-mythologizer, and a media-savvy celebrity of the...

I logged on to this IRS portal this morning. https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment After entering all my info it said you are eligible to receive the stimulus check, but we don't have your bank information! How is that possible when I get my social security via direct deposit to my bank account every month? So I entered my bank information and then the portal said we will deposit the stimulus check to that account! (which is the same account as my SS deposit account).

Podcast host Joe Rogan and comedian Brendan Schaub, who used to be an MMA fighter, went off on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden late last week, saying that President Donald Trump is going to steamroll Biden in the election. “It shows you how crazy the system is that they wanted him,” Rogan said. “That they wanted Biden to be their guy, that they don’t, they can’t admit that he’s in cognitive decline. I mean it’s very strange.” “Look if someone wants to ask me questions about things that I understand like MMA or like comedy like if you want to...

Here’s something I think you’ll find quite interesting… These crazy images were created by French artist Jean-Marc Cote, and a few others back in 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1910. The point being.. Well, basically they were asked to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. According to Collective-Evolution, these artworks were originally in the form of postcards or paper cards enclosed in cigarette and cigar boxes

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President Trump's name will appear on millions of economic stimulus checks sent to Americans as part of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package passed by Congress and signed by the president last month in an effort to stem the economic effects of the coronavirus. Sources confirmed to Fox News that Trump's name will appear on paper checks -- in the memo section -- though his signature is not expected to be included. The Washington Post first reported the change Tuesday night. Citing unnamed senior IRS officials, the Post reported that the Treasury Department is ordering the president's name be printed on...

Facemasks made of leftover fabric from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt are being donated to the homeless and those suffering from substance abuse, according to People Magazine. The quilt was the brainchild of activist Cleve Jones who saw it as a way to honor the lives of those taken too soon during the AIDS crisis. The National AIDS Memorial had planned on displaying the quilt in San Francisco this April after spending 20 years in Atlanta. The introduction of social restrictions in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic cancelled those plans, though. Immediately recognizing the dangers inherent in the...