This State Has a Much Higher Autism Rate Compared to Others, According to CDC

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New Jersey has seen an increased rate of autism in preschool-age children over the past four years compared to children in other states, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday.

The percentage of four-year-olds in New Jersey with autism spectrum disorder increased by 40 percent between 2010 and 2014, the report said. The study concluded that New Jersey had the highest percentage of children with the developmental disability, which causes significant social, communication and behavioral challenges.

The Early Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, which has analyzed rates of autism diagnoses for 19 years, partnered with researchers at Rutgers University to conduct a seven-state analysis of the rates of autism spectrum disorders in children across Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin.

The percentage of 4-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders in New Jersey increased dramatically between 2010 and 2014. 19.7 per 1,000 children in 2010 had a form of the disability compared to 28.4 per 1,000 in 2014, the study said.

New Jersey saw the highest prevalence of African American and Hispanic children with the disorder. In a pool of 4-year-old children, 29.4 per 1,000 white children were on the autism spectrum in New Jersey in 2014, compared to 33.1 per 1,000 African American children and 28.2 per 1,000 Hispanic children, the study concluded. New Jersey boys were also more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders than girls. (Read more from “This State Has a Much Higher Autism Rate Compared to Others, According to CDC” HERE)

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There’s Something on These Secret Police Tapes That a 2020 Candidate Doesn’t Want Released

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By Townhall. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is officially a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination. You wouldn’t think that a mayor of a small city would be in contention, but he’s at the top. His star has been rising since rumblings of his campaign moves were reported. He raised more money than better-known progressives, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). He’s in the top five in terms of those filling their war chests. He’s apparently been well received in Iowa. So, with the 2020 Democratic clown car getting bigger, how do you thin the heard? Well, you attack and it seems the opposition research firms are doing their best in trying to create a race problem for Buttigieg. It deals with the demotion of the city’s first black police chief (via The Hill):

An Indiana judge will rule soon on whether to release five cassette tapes of secretly recorded conversations between South Bend police officers that led to the 2012 demotion of Police Chief Darryl Boykins, the city’s first ever black police chief.

The South Bend City Council subpoenaed Buttigieg to win release of the tapes, which were at the center of a police department shake-up and a series of lawsuits.

Buttigieg’s critics say he’s gone to great lengths to conceal the contents of the tapes, which some believe could include racist language by white police officers.

There is roiling anger in South Bend over the allegations of racism. Black leaders in the city say that if there is evidence of racism, it could call into question scores of convictions that stemmed from white police officers investigating black suspects in a city that is 25 percent black.

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Secret Tapes? “Mayor Pete” Jumps Into The Race — And So Does Oppo Research

By Hot Air. Like so many others who run for president, Pete Buttigieg’s official announcement yesterday came as an anti-climax after having telegraphed the move for weeks if not months. “They call me Mayor Pete,” the Democrat told a home-town crowd, highlighting his “audacity” at running an outsider campaign for the nomination at his young age. . .

CNN was pretty impressed with the “electric” atmosphere. Vanessa Yurkevich notes that the only really surprising development was that Buttigieg avoided talking about Pence in his launch speech. Alex Burns calls him a “generational change agent” that threatens the ambitions of Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders:

Or maybe he’s causing someone a sleepless night or two. It’s hardly a coincidence that this bomb dropped within hours of Buttigieg’s official entry into the race:

Pete Buttigieg’s meteoric rise as a presidential candidate is putting a spotlight on his years as mayor of South Bend, Ind., including his demotion of an African American police chief.

An Indiana judge will rule soon on whether to release five cassette tapes of secretly recorded conversations between South Bend police officers that led to the 2012 demotion of Police Chief Darryl Boykins, the city’s first ever black police chief.

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Constitutional Crisis in the Making in Alaska?

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Article 1, Section 22: The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed. The legislature shall implement this section. [Amended 1972]

So was the Alaska State Constitution amended. It had nothing to do with abortion, which had already been legalized in 1970 in our state. But it did have everything to do with traditional frontier attitudes seen in American culture regarding personal vice. But at the dawn of the computer age, the primary concern was to protect data mining of electronic legal, corporate, private, medical and commercial files.

Note the bold highlight, my own. Understanding that “privacy” was a nebulous term, the legislature would be empowered to define its limits.

Naturally, it has never done so, and abdicated the field to — who else? — the courts. If you believe that this section has protected your personal privacy in the Internet Age, you are living in a dream world. However, the Alaska Supreme Court has used it primarily to protect [you guessed it] abortion. It is why Planned Parenthood has identified Alaska as an “abortion safe state” in a post-Roe culture.

This needs to be addressed by an allegedly prolife Governor, Attorney General and members of the legislature.

THE NEWS: the Alaska State House of Representatives, due to the efforts of prolife members within the majority coalition (dominated by Democrats), surprisingly left out funding for abortion. The inside scoop was a mild raised eye-brow most by prolifers, who have figured with their knowledge of past events, that the Democrats let them have their way, being protected by court-ordered funding.

Court-ordered funding, you say? Just who holds the “power of the purse”? The courts or the legislature? It is an amazing usurpation (overthrow) of constitutional principles, which have never, repeat never, been defended by the legislature.

It is time that they do. A person could even be in favor of abortion and state funding thereof, yet understand the principle at stake to be a vital one. What’s next? Court-ordered subsidies for dairy farmers?

However, due to constitutional ignorance, reinforced not only by junior high civics, high school text books and law schools that promote Case Law above all others, most people believe that “The constitution means whatever the courts say it is.”

When … not “If” … the courts order the legislature to install abortion funding, the Governor and the legislature ought to defy it. Imagine a prolife committee chairman of Senate Finance violating not only his conscience but his oath to defend the state constitution. [Please note: His oath is not to defend the courts.]

Imagine a prolife AG going along with funding. Or an already-proven risk-taking and prolife Governor to sit idly by!

There is absolutely no mechanism to support the courts, except that of constitutional ignorance. Would state troopers arrest legislators? Who would order them? Would they stand in committee with a gun at their head or handcuffs ready to take them to jail?

The courts cannot do it. The legislative lawyers, who are part and parcel of this scam, are mere bureaucrats. Would the courts impeach the legislature or Governor and AG? They have no power to do so.

In truth, such an action by the courts would be an impeachable offense. But because the legislature has been a weak and compliant arm for many years now, such an action would be — Gasp! — controversial! The mainstream media would not like them, you see. Screeching feminists would be in their face and Democrats would get open play with pontificating nostrums about “the poor”.

Your mission, prolife Alaskans, is to:

POM, email, call your local legislator and tell them that any effort by the courts to order abortion funding is an impeachable offense. At the very least, they should call the courts’ bluff this time.

And then, amend Article 1, Sec. 22 to state: “The right to abortion is not recognized in this section.” It would be that simple.

Do this often: today, tomorrow, next week.

A unified prolife response to this is being planned.

May God help us, and beg His assistance in prayer.

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Human Sacrifice Victims Discovered at Gruesome Ancient Site

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Some 26 human skeletons from the Iron Age and Roman periods were found at the site in Childrey Warren, Oxfordshire, some of which are believed to be ritual burials.

One female skeleton at the site was found buried with her feet cut off and placed side by side with her arms bound behind her head. . .

“The Iron Age site at Childrey Warren was particularly fascinating as it provided a glimpse into the beliefs and superstitions of people living in Oxfordshire before the Roman conquest,” said Neil Holbrook, chief executive of Cotswold Archaeology, in a statement. “Evidence elsewhere suggests that burials in pits might have involved human sacrifice.” . . .

Workers made the discovery as part of a project to protect a rare chalk stream. “We’ve found significant historical items on many previous upgrade projects but this is one of our biggest and most exciting yet,” said Chris Rochfort, Thames Water environmental manager, in the statement.

Experts also found an array of sacrificial remains during an excavation at the base of the Templo Mayor temple site in downtown Mexico City. Reuters reports that the finds include the body a 9-year-old boy dressed as Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the deity, who was also the god of the Sun. (Read more from “Human Sacrifice Victims Discovered at Gruesome Ancient Site” HERE)

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Muslims Celebrate as Blaze Destroys Notre Dame

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By WND. Social-media users with Muslim names are celebrating the catastrophic fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday. . .

Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer pointed out many Muslims “believe that the ruins and destruction of non-Muslim structures testifies to the truth of Islam.”

The Quran, wrote Spencer, “suggests that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth. . .

WND reported Monday that while there was no indication that the Notre Dame fire is related to terrorism, a YouTube algorithm designed to combat fake news and conspiracy theories equated the Paris catastrophe with the 9/11 New York City terror attacks. (Read more from “Muslims Celebrate as Blaze Destroys Notre Dame” HERE)

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Youtube Links Notre Dame Fire to 9/11 Attacks

By WND. While there is no indication that the devastating fire at the iconic Notre Dame is related to terrorism, a YouTube algorithm designed to combat fake news and conspiracy theories equated the Paris catastrophe with the 9/11 New York City terror attacks.

Beneath live streams Monday from various broadcasters, YouTube viewers saw an explainer for the 9/11 attacks.

The Verge reported the 9/11 context was briefly visible below live streams from CBS News, NBC News and France 24 on Monday afternoon before being removed.

The 9/11 explainer is part of YouTube’s fact-checking effort to prevent the spread of misinformation on the platform, the Verge pointed out.

A YouTube spokesman said the panels “are triggered algorithmically and our systems sometimes make the wrong call.” (Read more from “Youtube Links Notre Dame Fire to 9/11 Attacks” HERE)

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Teen Girls Stage School Walkout to Protest Boys in Their Bathroom

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The backlash against the relentless assault on nearly every civilizational institution by transgender activists seems to be slowly increasing as ordinary men and women realize the implications of the transgender agenda and the abolition of gender. Muslim parents in the UK pulled hundreds of children out of school, forcing a shutdown of recently-implemented LGBT programming. And as I reported back in February, students are pushing back, signing petitions demanding the return of their gender-segregated bathrooms and even suing their high schools in order to retrieve their right to privacy.

Last week, the debate erupted again in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Two groups of students staged a walkout at Abraham Lincoln High School over bathroom privacy, with the protest being sparked by a girl who stated that her privacy was violated by a biological male who “recently began to identify as a girl” using the female bathroom. She was joined by about twenty other high school girls who left the school at 10:30 AM and began “chanting for privacy in restrooms, saying they don’t want boys transitioning into being girls to be in the restroom with them.” . . .

The 20 girls demanding privacy were confronted by nearly 40 students of mixed gender chanting in favor of state law, which requires schools to allow students to use whichever bathroom they feel most comfortable with, irrespective of the feelings of female students. Many of the girls made their feelings crystal clear.

“We felt very uncomfortable with a male who’s not doing anything to be transgender going into female restrooms,” said Elana Owens. “I believe if you have the male parts you go to the males’ bathroom and if you have the female parts you go to a ladies room and that’s just the way I was raised,” added Brandi Scherlund, almost in tears. Those supporting the so-called right of biological males to use the female bathroom stated that the law is on their side. (Read more from “Teen Girls Stage School Walkout to Protest Boys in Their Bathroom” HERE)

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Police: Illegal Alien Fled Car Crash on Foot After Killing Teacher

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New details are emerging about a hit-and-run crash in Mobile, Alabama, allegedly caused by an illegal alien that left a schoolteacher and mother dead.

As Breitbart News reported, 49-year-old Sonya Jones was allegedly killed by 16-year-old illegal alien Domingo Francisco Marcos, from Guatemala, in a head-on, hit-and-run collision on March 18. The illegal alien had been previously released into the U.S. by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after he crossed the southern border. . .

State Trooper Timothy Freeman explained to the court that the illegal alien was injured in the crash but still attempted to flee the scene. Freeman alleges that Marcos stumbled away from the crash before collapsing but eventually got back on his feet and eventually crawled away. . .

The illegal alien’s defense attorney claims the hit-and-run was an accident, a claim that Assistant District Attorney Keith Blackwood denies.

“The evidence that we have, both from the video that was testified about and the crash data retrieval system that there was testimony about is totally inconsistent with that theory,” Blackwood said in court. “What we do know is that Mr. Diego was speeding and he directly crossed over a center lane of traffic directly into Ms. Jones lane of travel.” (Read more from “Police: Illegal Alien Fled Car Crash on Foot After Killing Teacher” HERE)

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Gay Candidate Buttigieg Knocks Own Supporters for Being Too White

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, an unexpected early frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is criticizing his own supporters for being too white after questions about the “lack of diversity” at his events and among his campaign staff.

Buttigieg, who is the first openly gay presidential candidate, was asked about the lack of racial diversity at a fundraiser in New York. He responded “that he is aware of the lack of diversity at some of his presidential campaign events, including the fundraiser he was headlining,” according to a CNN report.

He asked his audience for their help: “The honest answer to that question is I need your help. I need your help reaching out to anybody that could benefit from a more inclusive and more hopeful politics. And that is something that has no color.”

As of the latest polls, Democratic Party primary voters favor four white men: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden (who has not yet declared his candidacy), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), and Buttigieg. That result has surprised and upset some on the left — and candidates are eager to assuage their criticisms. (Read more from “Gay Candidate Buttigieg Knocks Own Supporters for Being Too White” HERE)

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Trump Peace Plan Likely Won’t Include Palestinian State

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President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan will include major economic and other incentives for Palestinians, but is likely to stop short of establishing a Palestinian state, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The plan will likely “enshrine” Israeli control in the West Bank, the report said, citing anonymous U.S. officials as well as Arab officials familiar with “sales pitches” delivered by Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Washington will call for tens of billions of dollars in aid from Gulf nations to be invested into both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Egypt and Jordan.

“The economic plan only works if the region supports it. This is a very important part of the overall equation,” a U.S. official told the Post. “But this is not a so-called economic peace. We are taking very seriously both aspects of this, the political, which deals with all the core issues, and the economic.”

“Core issues” generally refers to borders, status of Jerusalem, and the so-called right of return in which Palestinian “refugees” in the diaspora and their descendants will have the right to move inside Israeli proper, something that has always been a red line for Israel since it would spell the end of the Jewish state by demographic means. (Read more from “Trump Peace Plan Likely Won’t Include Palestinian State” HERE)

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Ohio Democrat Drafts Amendment Seeking to Make Black Babies Exempt From Pro-Life Law

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A female Democrat state representative from Ohio, Rep. Janine Boyd, drafted an amendment last week seeking to have black babies exempted from pro-life legislation dubbed the “heartbeat bill,” which bars babies with detectable heartbeats (around six weeks gestation) from being killed via abortion.

As reported by LifeNews, Boyd’s bill “would have given an exemption to African American women to abort their unborn babies for any reason up to the state’s current abortion limit, 20 weeks.” . . .

“Black slaves were once treated like cattle and put out to stud in order to create generations of more slaves,” argued the Democrat. “Our country is not far enough beyond our history to legislate as if it is.” . . .

Former Planned Parenthood executive turned pro-life advocate Abby Johnson ripped Boyd’s targeted amendment, snarking that “apparently a 38% national abortion rate in the African-American community isn’t enough.”

“A female, African-American democratic state representative from Ohio presented this amendment to the Ohio Heartbeat bill. This amendment would have made an exception for African-American babies…because apparently a 38% national abortion rate in the African-American community isn’t enough,” posted Johnson to Facebook. “The amendment was struck down 11-7.”

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