State Wants Sex Ed for Kindergarteners

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The Washington State Senate passed a proposal Wednesday that will require all grades, including kindergarten, to learn about sex. . .

“By September 1, 2020,” the proposal reads. “Every public school must provide comprehensive sexual health education as an integral part of the curriculum that is evidence-informed, medically and scientifically accurate, age-appropriate and inclusive for all students regardless of their protected class status.”

The proposal doesn’t define what is “age-appropriate” for each grade, but it states that the “superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the department of health, shall develop a list of comprehensive sexual health education curricula that are consistent with the 2005 guidelines for sexual health information and disease prevention, the Washington state health and physical education K–12 learning standards, and this section.” . . .

A sponsor of the proposal, Washington State Sen. Claire Wilson (D), said that the youngest students will learn lessons such as what constitutes as “good touch” and “bad touch.” The bill doesn’t mention this.

If parents wish to take their children out of the curriculum, the bill says that they can do so, “upon filing a written request with the school district board of directors or, or the principal of the school their child attends.” (Read more from “State Wants Sex Ed for Kindergarteners” HERE)

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Meat-Bashing AOC Lashes out at Man Who Took Pic of Burger-Eating Aide

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., lashed out at an anonymous shutterbug who “creepily” snapped a picture of her at a restaurant with an aide who was feasting on a juicy burger — an image that soon made the rounds on social media, as it was taken days after she questioned whether Americans needed to eat so much meat.

“Tonight a dude was creepily (and obviously) taking a picture of me while pretending he wasn’t and I had to break his imaginary fourth wall and say ‘Hi! I’m a person! This is weird!’” she tweeted.

The picture, posted by conservative social media strategist Caleb Hull, showed Ocasio-Cortez and Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti eating at an unidentified restaurant. Notably, Chakrabarti was munching on a burger, just days after Ocasio-Cortez had warned against eating too much of America’s favorite dish.

In talking up her Green New Deal, which had initially come with an FAQ that talked (presumably tongue-in-cheek) about “getting rid” of “farting cows” to help combat climate change, Ocasio-Cortez said on a TV appearance that Americans may need to eat fewer burgers.

“In the deal, what we talk about, and it’s true, is that we need to take a look at factory farming, you know? Period. It’s wild,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Showtime’s late-night “Desus & Mero” last week. “And so it’s not to say you get rid of agriculture, it’s not to say we’re gonna force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that. But it’s to say, ‘Listen, we gotta address factory farming. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.’ Like, let’s keep it real.” (Read more from “Meat-Bashing AOC Lashes out at Man Who Took Pic of Burger-Eating Aide” HERE)

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More Than 100 House Dems: Our Healthcare Bill Will Outlaw Private Coverage, Eliminate Up to Two Million Jobs, and Cover Abortion

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More than 100 House Democrats — nearly half of the new majority — have signed on to a new single-payer healthcare bill that supporters describe as “battle ready.” If by “battle ready,” they mean, “extremely controversial, deeply politically risky, and totally bereft of any acknowledgement of the proposal’s eye-poppingly exorbitant costs,” they’re undoubtedly correct. Politico’s story on the legislation is full of extraordinary tidbits and quotes. Here are some of the most important facts we’ve learned:

(1) The bill “doesn’t include a price tag or specific proposals for financing the new system, which analysts estimate would cost tens of trillions of dollars over a decade.” The lead sponsor of the bill says her crew will release a list of “suggested funding mechanisms” at some point in the future. One of these mechanisms, we’re told, is “a tax on high earners.” If you’ve been following this debate, you’re well aware that targeted taxes on ‘the rich’ would be woefully insufficient in raising even a fraction of the expected cost. Enormous tax hikes on all Americans would be necessary. This math is not seriously disputed.

And given the comprehensiveness of the proposed ‘benefits’ in this bill (it goes even farther than Bernie Sanders’ Senate version), some experts are already estimating that its price tag (which, again, is missing entirely from the legislation) could be on the order of $40 trillion over its first ten years. This would require roughly doubling the entire federal budget, which already runs a significant annual deficit. It’s possible that they believe this plan to be “battle ready” because it hides the ball on cost, allowing proponents to mumble about hazy “investments” instead of confronting real numbers.

(2) Via NBC News, “The legislation’s most contentious provision would end private health insurance and replace it with a government system.” Yes, virtually all private coverage would be outlawed, forcing every single American into an innovation-crushing, government-run system. Approximately 177 million Americans currently receive private health insurance, either through their employers, or directly from insurers. The vast majority of these people are satisfied with their coverage, according to Gallup. All of these people would be uprooted from their existing plans and funneled into the federal bureaucracy. On the matter of ripping people away from their existing status quo, this proposal gets worse — both practically and politically:

(3) Given the party’s grim march toward abortion extremism, it should come as little surprise that this single-payer regime would require taxpayer funding of abortion. One of the few bipartisan truces on this divisive issue at the federal level has been the Hyde Amendment, under which public dollars do not flow to abortions. This would upend that precedent, mandating (unpopular) public funding of abortion. (Read more from “More Than 100 House Dems: Our Healthcare Bill Will Outlaw Private Coverage, Eliminate up to Two Million Jobs, and Cover Abortion” HERE)

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The Democrats Just Wrote Trump’s 2020 Ads for Him

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Earlier this week, 44 Senate Democrats, including all six leftist senators running for president in 2020, voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act introduced by Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb.

Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., all voted against requiring doctors to save and care for a new baby born after an attempted abortion. Trump should hang this heinous vote around their necks at every campaign stop from now till Election Day.

Abortion was already a key election issue during the 2016 election, but after the third and final debate between then-candidates Trump and Hillary Clinton, Clinton’s extreme stance on late-term abortion put the subject at the top of the list. In fact, it was the top candidate-related Google search on Election Day.

A majority of Americans disagree with the position that all but three Senate Democrats took in this vote. In fact, most Americans think that abortion should be limited to the first trimester of pregnancy, and that includes a majority of folks who consider themselves “pro-choice.”

Given that Donald Trump’s pro-life positions drove a substantial portion of his voters to the polls back in 2016, when the controversy about his opponent’s position was only about late-term abortion, imagine what his numbers could look like if he’s up against a Democrat who voted against banning outright infanticide.

Sure, they could make the claim – as Planned Parenthood has – that this would somehow have restricted abortion access, which is nonsensical since the bill’s text places no limits on when a an abortion may be performed or what kind of procedure could be used.

They could claim – as Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., did before the vote – that the bill would have criminalized doctors who do not go to extraordinary lengths to save babies who were “non-viable” to begin with or that mothers would be put in danger. But the bill simply and unequivocally states that doctors should give the same reasonable standard of care to babies born alive as they would to any infant needing care.

They could claim – alongside their colleague Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. – that this was a vote to criminalize something that was already illegal. But, as Alexandra DeSanctis points out over at National Review, no law specifically requires care for infants born in the context of abortion. But even if it there were one already, how much sense does it make to signal that you are against further protections for living human babies?

With a Democratic House certain to keep any pro-life legislation from making it to the president’s desk, the best hope for this week’s Senate vote was to find out where everyone in the upper chamber stands on the issue of infanticide.

Now that these 2020 candidates have made it clear that they have no intention of banning infanticide in America, the Trump campaign must never let voters forget it from here till November 2020. Then it will be up to voters. (For more from the author of “The Democrats Just Wrote Trump’s 2020 Ads for Him” please click HERE)

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Conservatives Outraged After Facebook Deletes Former Breitbart Editor’s Account

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By The Hill. The deletion and subsequent restoration of the Facebook account of a former Breitbart editor sparked outrage from conservatives on Tuesday.

Raheem Kassam‏ tweeted early Tuesday that his account had been deleted. . .

Facebook said it had removed a page that violated its community standards for praise, and then accidentally removed the profiles of that page’s administrators.

It was not clear what page administered by Kassam was removed for violating Facebook’s community standards, or why it specifically was removed. . .

“How come it is only right wing/conservative accounts that get “removed in error” pending “investigations”?” Kassam tweeted after Facebook’s statement on his account was released. “And who watchers the watchers in this regard?” (Read more from “Conservatives Outraged After Facebook Deletes Former Breitbart Editor’s Account” HERE)

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James O’Keefe Claims Proof Facebook Censored Conservatives

By Newsmax. James O’Keefe of Project Veritas says a former Facebook employee has proof the social media giant’s practices for limiting harassment and hate speech is designed to censor conservative accounts.

“It’s clear that Facebook is targeting the language of the right,” O’Keefe says in a video published to his site Wednesday. . .

“We fired this person a year ago for breaking multiple employment policies and using her contractor role at Facebook to perform a stunt for Project Veritas,” a [Facebook] spokesperson told The Verge. “Unsurprisingly, the claims she is making validate her agenda and ignore the processes we have in place to ensure Facebook remains a platform to give people a voice, regardless of their political ideology.” (Read more from “James O’Keefe Claims Proof Facebook Censored Conservatives” HERE)

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Virginia Governor’s Wife Handed Cotton to Black Students, Made This CRAZY Comment

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Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam’s wife allegedly handed raw cotton to black students during a tour of the governor’s mansion last week and told them to imagine being slaves and being forced to pick the cotton.

The Washington Post reported that the allegation came from a Virginia state employee who said that “her eighth-grade daughter was upset during a tour of the historic governor’s residence when first lady Pam Northam handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.”

“The Governor and Mrs. Northam have asked the residents of the Commonwealth to forgive them for their racially insensitive past actions,” said Leah Dozier Walker, the Director of Equity and Engagement at Virginia’s Education Department, in a letter to lawmakers on Monday. “But the actions of Mrs. Northam, just last week, do not lead me to believe that this Governor’s office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness.”

The tour, which took place last Thursday, involved a “traditional gathering of about 100 young people who had served as pages during the state Senate session.” . . .

“Mrs. Northam then asked these three pages [the only black pages in attendance] if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day,” Walker said in her letter. “I can not for the life of me understand why the first lady would single out the African American pages for this — or — why she would ask them such an insensitive question.” (Read more from “Virginia Governor’s Wife Handed Cotton to Black Students, Made This CRAZY Comment” HERE)

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WATCH: Rashida Tlaib Suggests Mark Meadows Is Racist. He Flattens Her.

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Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) slammed Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday for suggesting that he was a racist during the House Oversight Committee hearing of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Tlaib’s accusation came after Meadows invited Lynne Patton, a top Trump housing official who is black, to attend the hearing in order to push back on any accusations that Trump was racist.

“Just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they aren’t racist and … the fact someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself,” Tlaib said as she took aim at Meadows.

“Meadows, a Trump ally and head of the conservative Freedom Caucus, immediately demanded a retraction,” The New York Post reported. “Getting emotional, Meadows said his nieces and nephews are people of color and he rejected any notion he’s a racist.”

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Illegal Alien Arrested for Beating Baby to Potential Death

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By Breitbart. An illegal alien has been arrested and charged after allegedly beating his newborn baby boy to potential death, Texas prosecutors say.

Illegal alien Luis Pacheco, 27, has been accused of beating his two-week-old son in the head, stomach, and groin region, leaving permanent brain damage that is likely to lead to the child’s death, officials said in court.

Initially, Pacheco allegedly told police he called 911 hours after the child could barely breathe from him dropping the newborn baby on his head during a diaper change.

When the baby was rushed to the hospital following the 911 call, Harris County Sheriff’s officers spoke with doctors, who revealed that the child’s head, stomach, and groin injuries were not consistent with the fall that Pacheco had described. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Arrested for Beating Baby to Potential Death” HERE)

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Blunt Force Injuries Found on Baby’s Skull, Stomach and Groin

By ABC 13. A 2-week-old boy “will die of his injuries,” a prosecutor told the court during the father’s first appearance on charges he caused horrific blunt force injuries to his son’s skull, stomach and groin area.

Luis Pacheco, 27, is facing child abuse charges after he allegedly told sheriff’s deputies the newborn was injured when he accidentally dropped the baby on a concrete floor during a diaper change. . .

The baby was rushed to the hospital in grave condition. The doctor told investigators Pacheco’s story was not consistent with the injuries. . .

“The officer spoke with the doctor, who stated that the complainant is alive at this time, as he’s being kept alive on life support,” the prosecutor said. “However, he has decreased brain activity. His intestines are not functional and he will die of his injuries.” (Read more from “Blunt Force Injuries Found on Baby’s Skull, Stomach and Groin” HERE)

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Trump Travel Ban Ends Almost All Immigration From Terrorist-Sanctioned Countries

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By Breibart. President Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order is proving to be one of his most effective pro-American immigration policy initiatives, stopping nearly all legal immigration from countries designated as sponsors of terrorism.

Newly released data from the State Department reveals that Trump’s constitutional travel ban on eight foreign countries, designated as either dangerous or sponsors of terrorism, has warranted big results.

The travel ban, State Department data finds, has reduced legal immigration from the eight foreign countries by about 80 percent, compared to 2016 when the ban had not been implemented yet. Six of the eight countries included in Trump’s travel ban have either sponsored Islamic terrorism in the past or have major issues with terrorism.

In total, more than 37,000 visas were denied in 2018 thanks to the travel ban — including about 15,400 foreign nationals seeking to permanently resettle in the U.S. and 21,645 foreign nationals wanting non-immigrant visas.

Between October 2017 and September 2018 — known as Fiscal Year 2018 — only about 14,600 foreign nationals from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen were allowed entry into the U.S. This represents an 80 percent drop in immigration from these five countries, compared to Fiscal Year 2016 when the Obama administration admitted about 72,000 of these nationals in the country. (Read more from “Trump Travel Ban Ends Almost All Immigration From Terrorist-Sanctioned Countries” HERE)

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U.S. Denied Tens of Thousands More Visas in 2018 Due to Travel Ban: Data

By Reuters. The U.S. State Department refused more than 37,000 visa applications in 2018 due to the Trump administration’s travel ban, up from less than 1,000 the previous year when the ban had not fully taken effect, according to agency data released on Tuesday.

The United States denies nearly 4 million visa applications a year for a variety of reasons, including for practicing polygamy, abducting children or simply not qualifying for the visa in question. The data released Tuesday was the first comprehensive look at the human impact of Republican President Donald Trump’s ban, imposed shortly after he took office and initially blocked by federal courts.

The ban has especially affected people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, countries where the number of visas issued slid 80 percent in 2018 from 2016, the last year without a travel ban.

Trump’s initial January 2017 executive order banning entry to the United States by citizens of several Muslim-majority countries launched a fierce fight in federal courts over whether the policy amounts to an unlawful “Muslim ban” or is a legal exercise of presidential power. (Read more from “U.S. Denied Tens of Thousands More Visas in 2018 Due to Travel Ban: Data” HERE)

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Abortion Survivor: I’m Living Proof Born-Alive Act Is Necessary

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By Life Site News. Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden was not surprised that Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, saying the Dems are willing to sacrifice the lives of people such as her to protect abortion on-demand. . .

“I think the Democrats who voted last night against this bill really showed us that they’re willing to sacrifice lives like mine to keep abortion-on-demand right there,” Ohden stated.

The legislation said that “any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.” . . .

Further highlighting the need for the bill was Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s casual defense in comments last month of leaving a newborn child to die after the child survived a failed abortion should that be the decision established between parents and doctors.

The big abortion industry had lied constantly about the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, the bill’s author Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) told Fox News Monday, showing how desperate abortion activists are about preserving abortion. (Read more from “Abortion Survivor: I’m Living Proof Born-Alive Act Is Necessary” HERE)

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Senate Rejects “Born-Alive” Bill

By CBS News. The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” a piece of legislation that echoed existing laws and medical practices, had little chance of passing in the Senate on Monday evening. And as predicted, it ultimately failed. . .

In their comments leading up to Monday’s decision on the legislation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers painted starkly different pictures the bill. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell called it a “straightforward” piece of legislation, while Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, called the bill a “political stunt.”

The legislation — which fell seven votes short of the 60 it needed to move forward — would have required doctors to provide care to infants who “survive an abortion or attempted abortion.” A similar bill passed in 2002, but the most recent one was different in a key way: It would have imposed fines and potential jail time for doctors who didn’t provide care. (Read more from “Senate Rejects “Born-Alive” Bill” HERE)

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