Trump Issues Major Decision on Transgender Members in the Military

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By The Blaze. In a late Friday evening announcement, the White House announced that transgender persons would be banned from the military, with a few exceptions . . .

“Today the President rescinded his previous memorandum on transgender service in the military in order to allow Secretary Mattis new policy developed through extensive study by senior uniformed and civilian leaders including combat veterans,” the statement read.

“The experts’ study set forth a policy to enhance our military’s readiness, lethality, and and effectiveness,” it continued. “On the advice of these experts the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security have concluded that the accession or retention of individuals with a history of diagnosis of gender dysphoria – those who may require substantial medical treatment, including through medical drugs or surgery – presents considerable risk to military effectiveness and lethality.”

“This new policy will enable the military to apply well-established mental and physical health standards – including those regarding the use of medical drugs – equally to all individuals who want to join and five for the best military force the world has ever seen,” the statement concluded. “The Secretary of Defense’s memorandum and accompanying report have been made public today.” . . .

Gender dysphoria is the technical term for transgender persons, those who don’t consider themselves to have a gender that fits into traditional, normal categories. Previously the condition was considered to be an abnormal psychiatric condition, but it is now gaining acceptance as merely another “state” of gender existence, especially among the left. (Read more from “Trump Issues Major Decision on Transgender Members in the Military” HERE)

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White House Announces Ban on Most Transgender Service Members

By CBS News. President Trump announced Friday a new transgender policy for the military that would ban most transgendered people from military service. He revoked the blanket ban announced last summer and said in a memorandum that he would defer to the recommendations of Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Mattis, according to a court filing Friday, stated that transgendered people with gender dysphoria — that is, who feel their emotional and psychological identity to be the opposite of their biological sex — will be disqualified from military service, except in specific circumstances.

The White House said retaining troops with a history or diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” — those who may require substantial medical treatment — “presents considerable risk to military effectiveness and lethality.”

The announcement was expected, since it was part of President Trump’s executive memo in August 2017 reinstating a pre-2016 ban on transgender military service. . .

The ban does not go into effect immediately because the ban is the subject of several ongoing lawsuits. (Read more from “White House Announces Ban on Most Transgender Service Members” HERE)

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Cecile Richards: Planned Parenthood Provides Testing ‘at Your Favorite Local Gay Bar’ – This Is Where Our Tax Money Goes?

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By CNS News. Americans can get tested by the nation’s largest abortion provider “at your favorite gay bar” – even after midnight on weekends – Planned Parenthood Pres. Cecile Richards said Friday . . .

“You can come to Planned Parenthood to get testing, treatment, and the support you need in the privacy of our health centers. Or even at your favorite local gay bar, where our staff has been known to be doing testing on Saturday night at 1 A.M.”

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Taxpayers Still Funding Planned Parenthood

By Free Beacon. American taxpayers will continue to pay Planned Parenthood hundreds of millions of dollars each year despite Republican pledges to defund the nation’s largest abortion organization, sparking criticism from pro-life activists.

Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million each year from American taxpayers, while performing more than 300,000 abortions. Congressional Republicans pushed legislation steering that money away from the organization in order to fund local female health clinics during the Obama administration—an effort that surged in the wake of revelations about its organ harvesting operations—only to be met with opposition from the Democratic White House. Many Republicans campaigned on the issue in 2016, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan pledged to defund Planned Parenthood in January 2017, but nothing has come of those promises despite GOP control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill was seen as the prime opportunity to strike at Planned Parenthood, which received $543.7 million from taxpayers last year, about 40 percent of its $1.46 billion revenue stream. Republicans, however, did not include the defunding measure in the final bill, as negotiations over a proposed border wall and federal funding for a New York City tunnel took center stage. The negotiations over the massive spending package amounted to a failure, according to pro-life activists.

“It’s hard for the pro-life base to look at a bill like the omnibus that fully funds Planned Parenthood and is chock full of other broken promises and not come away completely disgusted with the Republican Party,” said Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principles Project. (Read more from “Taxpayers Still Funding Planned Parenthood” HERE)

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President Trump Signs the $1.3 Trillion Omnibus That NO ONE READ

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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed the 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress less than 48 hours after it was introduced.

The president held a press conference, declaring that although he was unhappy with several provisions of the bill, he would sign it.

“There are a lot of things I’m unhappy about, but we were forced to sign,” the president said, making a new promise: “I will never sign a bill like this again.”

The president touted the importance of military funding in the omnibus, citing national security concerns as one of the reasons he signed the bill.

“My highest duty is to keep America safe, nothing more important,” Trump said.

Criticizing several spending measures shoehorned into the bill, Trump called on Congress to grant the president a line-item veto power for spending bills. He also demanded that the Senate repeal the filibuster rule, which Democrats have abused to require a 60-vote threshold on nearly every piece of legislation considered by Congress during the Trump presidency.

Earlier, the president fueled speculation that he would veto the bill, issuing a tweet expressing frustration that Congress did not come to a deal on DACA, codifying amnesty for so-called “Dreamer” illegal aliens, and lamenting that a wall on the southern border was not funded.

But ultimately, the president surrendered his constitutional check on Congress and buckled to the swamp. The federal budget deficit was just increased by $1 trillion under a Republican president and with Republican control of Congress. (For more from the author of “President Trump Signs the $1.3 Trillion Omnibus That NO ONE READ” please click HERE)

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U.N. Council Adopts Five More Anti-Israel Resolutions

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The United Nations, through its much-criticized Human Rights Council, has moved further out on the anti-Israel limb, adopting five more anti-Israel resolutions to finish up its current meeting in Geneva.

The resolutions drew a response from U.S. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley that may not bode well for the international organization.

She pointed out, according to the Jerusalem Post, that the same national representatives passed only one resolution against North Korea, one against Iran and one against Syria, arguably among the world’s worst human rights violators.

“When the Human Rights Council treats Israel worse than North Korea, Iran, and Syria, it is the council itself that is foolish and unworthy of its name,” Haley said in the statement. “It is time for the countries who know better to demand changes. Many countries agree that the council’s agenda is grossly biased against Israel, but too few are willing to fight it.”

She explained that results such as these show the council failing “to fulfill its duty to uphold human rights around the world.” (Read more from “U.N. Council Adopts Five More Anti-Israel Resolutions” HERE)

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WATCH: Powerful Testimony of Luby’s Shooting Survivor Is Just as Relevant Today as It Was Decades Ago

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On October 16, 1991, a man drove his truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. After crashing into the building, he opened fire on the restaurant patrons with a Ruger P89 and a Glock 17 — both handguns.

The shooter killed 23 people that day before taking his own life. Until 2007, the Luby’s Cafeteria attack stood as the deadliest mass-shooting in United States history.

Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, a survivor of the attack, later testified before Congress regarding the incident. Many years later, Gratia-Hupp’s testimony only seems to gain relevance as an indictment against ineffective, virtue-signaling gun control legislation: . . .

… I didn’t grow up in a house with guns. I don’t hunt; I personally abhor hunting. But I was given a gun by a friend when I was 21 to carry in my purse for self-defense. And I was taught how to use it. A couple of years ago, my parents and I went to a cafeteria in Texas on a bright, sunny day. We weren’t in a dark alley where we weren’t supposed to be, and as you all know the story, this madman drove his truck through the window, and he began shooting.

Well immediately, my father and I got down on the floor and put the table up in front of us. And this guy kept shooting. And you’re thinking, you know, what could it be? Is it a robbery? That’s the first thing that generally comes to mind. And he keeps shooting. It took me a good 45 seconds to realize that this man wasn’t there to commit a robbery; he wasn’t there for a hit; he was there to simply shoot as many people as he possibly could.

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Female Rapper Just Made the Best Argument for Fiscal Conservatism of the Modern Era

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On Friday, star rapper Cardi B dropped a track worth listening to . . . on tax reform. Cardi B isn’t famous for her economic analysis — her employment strategies are questionable, if the lyrics to “Bodak Yellow” are any indicator (“I’m a boss, you a worker bitch, I make bloody moves”), although she does ensure that she is paid for her work (“I’m there, I get paid a fee, I be in and out them banks so much I know they’re tired of me”). But after signing an enormous check to the government for taxes, she’s had enough of the IRS:

She stated:

Aight, so you know the government is taking 40 percent of my taxes, and Uncle Sam, I want to know what you’re doing with my f****** tax money, because you know what I’m sayin’, like, when you donate, like, when you donate to a kid from a foreign country, they give you updates of what they doing with your donation.

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Cardi B is eminently correct. And this is the reason why it is such a mistake for Republicans to give up the mantle of fiscal conservatism in favor of big-spending payouts to various interest groups. Everybody’s paying taxes. And those taxes are being wasted. If Congress truly wants to do something important, they should end the process of tax withholding and instead force everyone to sign a check personally to the government. Then we might be ready for some real conversations about serious spending. (Read more from “Female Rapper Just Made the Best Argument for Fiscal Conservatism of the Modern Era” HERE)

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Craigslist Pulls Personal Ads Section After Congress Passes New Sex-Trafficking Law

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By The Blaze. Craigslist removed its personal ads section in the wake of a bill to stop online sex-trafficking was passed in Congress this week, the New York Post reported . . .

The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act holds website owners criminally liable for content users post, according to the report. That includes prostitution ads and sex-trafficking content.

Visitors to the personal ads section on Craigslist now receive a message that states:

US Congress just passed HR 1865, “FOSTA”, seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully.

Any tool or service can be misused. We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.

To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!

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Craigslist Drops Personal Ads Due to Bill

By The New York Post. Craigslist has yanked its personal ads section in the wake of an anti-online sex trafficking bill that passed in Congress this week . . .

Reddit also banned sex-worker subreddits, including Escorts, Male Escorts, Hookers and SugarDaddy, shortly after the bill was passed.

Previously, websites like Craigslist and Backpage faced broad protections from legal liability for user-posted content.

FOSTA has been criticized by some lawmakers and sex workers for making it harder to combat sex trafficking. (Read more from “Craigslist Drops Personal Ads Due to Bill” HERE)

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Trump Announces His Plan for Bump Stocks

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By The Blaze. . .President Trump tweeted about the ban of bump stocks, for which he appeared to blame former President Obama.

“Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA,” the president tweeted. “As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period.”

“We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns,” he concluded . . .

Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a statement in support of the president’s announcement about the controversial gun accessory.

The statement read, “today the Department of Justice is publishing for public comment a proposed rulemaking that would define ‘machinegun’ to include bump stock-type devices under federal law—effectively banning them.” (Read more from “Trump Announces His Plan for Bump Stocks” HERE)

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Trump Moves Closer to Banning Bump Fire Stocks

By CNN. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that his administration will issue a new rule banning bump fire stocks, a gun accessory that makes it easier to fire rounds quickly from a semi-automatic weapon, mimicking automatic fire.

The announcement comes a day before large numbers of protesters are expected to descend on Washington, DC for “March for Our Lives,” a rally organized to push for stricter gun laws in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month.

“Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period,” Trump wrote. “We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”

Shortly after Trump’s tweet, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would clarify rules that define bump stocks within the definition of “machine gun” under federal law, a move that would ban the sale of such accessories. (Read more from “Trump Moves Closer to Banning Bump Fire Stocks” HERE)

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Starbucks Newest Gimmick Involves a Sugary Cold Beverage, Candy Sprinkles… and Your Future!

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By The Daily Caller. Starbucks unveiled a new limited edition coffee drink, the Crystal Ball Frappuccino, which became available Thursday.

The fortune-telling Crystal Ball Frappuccino features a sugary cold beverage with candy sparkles available at U.S., Canada and Mexico chains until March 26, the New York Post reported. The Seattle-based chain hopes their drink will become a social media sensation, attracting new customers. The cream-based cooler is peach flavored and has three different colors of candy, which give you your fortune: blue for adventure, purple for magic, and green for luck, according to Starbucks frappucino’s official Facebook page.

“All signs point to yum,” the Starbucks Frappuccino’s official Facebook page said.

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Gaze Deeply Into Starbucks New Crystal Ball Frappuccino

By Starbucks. What do the mystical sparkles mean? Your fortune shall be revealed (for a limited time) with Starbucks new Crystal Ball Frappuccino® blended beverage.

Gaze into the Crystal Ball Frappuccino and you’ll see a vision of whirling color. It starts with a crème-based Frappuccino infused with peach flavor and turquoise sparkles that create an enchanting marbling effect.

The magic happens when the peach-flavored whipped cream is sprinkled with one of three colored candy gems, each color signifying a different fortune in vivid blue, green and purple. Only the fates can decide which color is revealed – the customer will not know which color of candy gem will top the beverage. (Read more from “Gaze Deeply Into Starbucks New Crystal Ball Frappuccino” HERE)

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Virginia Man Threatens to Murder GOP Congressman – Here’s Why

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By The Daily Caller. A Virginia man was arrested Friday and charged with threatening to murder U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor and two of his staffers.

Wallace Grove Godwin, a 69-year-old Virginia Beach resident, made the threats during a visit to Taylor’s office on Thursday.

According to court documents filed in federal court on Friday, Godwin became upset during a discussion about marijuana policy. Taylor, a 39-year-old Republican, supports legalizing marijuana. He co-sponsored a 2017 bill that would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act.

“Scott is having an event this Saturday. I am going to get my shotgun and do something about this. I will just handle this myself,” Godwin said, before pointing to two staffers and saying: “You two are next.”

Taylor was not at the office at the time, according to court documents. (Read more from “Virginia Man Threatens to Murder GOP Congressman – Here’s Why” HERE)

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Man Arrested for Threatening to Murder Virginia Congressman

By Politico. A Virginia Beach man was charged Friday with threatening to murder his local congressman, Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.), the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Friday.

According to court documents, Wallace Grove Godwin, 69, visited Taylor’s office on Thursday and threatened to shoot him and two staffers at a Saturday event. The dispute arose, according to the District Attorney’s office, over a discussion about marijuana policy.

“Scott is having an event this Saturday. I am going to get my shotgun and do something about this. I will just handle this myself,” Godwin allegedly said to a Taylor staffer. He then pointed to two staffers in the room and said, “You two are next,” authorities said.

Gowdin is expected to appear in a federal courthouse in Norfolk, Va. on Friday afternoon. The maximum penalty for threatening a member of Congress is 10 years in prison.

Lawmakers have clamored for more funding for personal security over the last year amid increased hostility at local events — and especially after last year’s baseball practice shooting that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) gravely wounded. (Read more from “Man Arrested for Threatening to Murder Virginia Congressman” HERE)

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