Federal Appeals Court Upholds Law Requiring an Ultrasound Before an Abortion

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A federal appeals court upheld a Kentucky law Thursday requiring doctors to conduct an ultrasound, show patients the images, and have women hear the fetal heartbeat at least 24 hours prior to an abortion.

In a 2-1 ruling, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals backed the “Ultrasound Informed Consent Act” which was passed in 2017 and was immediately challenged by the state’s only abortion clinic.

The majority opinion was written by Trump appointee Judge John Bush who cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey and, more recently, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra.

He argued that the information required by the Kentucky legislation was “truthful, non-misleading, and relevant information about an abortion,” and did not violate a doctor’s free speech rights as the abortion clinic claimed. . .

“Today is a historic day, as Kentucky continues to lead the charge in implementing strong pro-life protections for its citizens,” [Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin] said. “We applaud the decision by the Sixth Circuit, which affirms the commonsense notion that patients should be well equipped with relevant information before making important medical decisions. I am grateful to be governor of a state that values every human life, and we are committed to continue our fight on behalf of the most vulnerable among us.” (Read more from “Federal Appeals Court Upholds Law Requiring an Ultrasound Before an Abortion” HERE)

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Man Who Identifies as a Pup Wears a Fur Dog Suit, Barks, Licks, and Bites His Friends

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By The Blaze. A British man who identifies as a dog claims he has never felt like a human, the Mirror reported. Kaz James wears a fur dog suit and he eats from a dog bowl. He often barks at, licks, and even bites his friends.

“I didn’t ever feel like a human, I always felt like a dog that was really out of place,” James told the Mirror. “I was known by my friends for saying hello to them by grabbing hold of the collar of their shirt in my teeth and biting or licking them, very canine-type behaviors. It was always how I was.”

The 37-year-old from Salford, Greater Manchester, who works as a store manager, describes himself as a “full-time orange, brown and camo K-9.” . . .

“The first time I heard the term of being a pup was through a pup I met online, he was the first person I met who was like me,” he said. “Through him, I knew other pups and learned a whole new language of this other world that I didn’t know about with a whole bunch of other people who were like me.”

Now, James belongs to an online “pup play” community, which has helped him with his transition from a “part-time pooch to a confident canine,” according to the Mirror. (Read more from “Man Who Identifies as a Pup Wears a Fur Dog Suit, Barks, Licks, and Bites His Friends” HERE)

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Man Who ‘Never Felt Human’ Now Lives His Life as a Dog

By The Mirror. Kaz says he always felt like there was something not right with other people when he was around them. . .

Single Kaz said: “I realised that my behaviours were quite dog-like in childhood, probably from the age of six. No-one ever talked about it, it was never mentioned.

“My parents took early retirement and we moved to a farm in Norfolk.

“It wasn’t until the internet arrived in our house that I started chatting to people online – mostly through groups and message boards.

“I was incredibly nervous when I first started talking to people online. I was living with my parents and I would sneak downstairs at three in the morning to get on the internet to look for this stuff. (Read more from “Man Who ‘Never Felt Human’ Now Lives His Life as a Dog” HERE)

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Former Democratic Staffer Who Doxxed Republicans Pleads Guilty — Here’s the Punishment He’s Facing

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By The Blaze. A former staffer for a Democratic congresswoman has pled guilty to several counts related to his revealing personal information of several Republican members of Congress during the debate over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

Jackson Cosko was arrested in October 2018 over his hacking that amounted to “an extensive computer fraud and data theft scheme,” according to prosecutors. . .

He could face up to two years in prison.

Cosko admitted that he stole information from congressional computers because he was angry over being fired by Democratic Senator Maggie Hasan (N.H.).

He burglarized her office several times in order to gain access to proprietary computer information, including personal information of several members of Congress. (Read more from “Former Democratic Staffer Who Doxxed Republicans Pleads Guilty — Here’s the Punishment He’s Facing” HERE)

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Former Democratic Aide Arrested, Suspected of Leaking GOP Senators’ Personal Info

By The Blaze. Capitol Police have arrested the man suspected of releasing the personal phone numbers and home addresses of Republican senators during last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, according to The Hill.

Jackson A. Cosko, a former aide who has been employed by several Democratic congresspeople recently, was arrested and charged with making public restricted personal information, witness tampering, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, second degree burglary, unlawful entry, and threats in interstate communication.

Last week, someone made anonymous edits to the Wikipedia pages of Sens. Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Some of the information was inaccurate, according to The Washington Post. (Read more from “Former Democratic Aide Arrested, Suspected of Leaking GOP Senators’ Personal Info” HERE)

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HHS Reprogramming Department Funding to Facilitate Resettling ‘Unaccompanied’ Central American Teens

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What if I told you that our government is unintentionally completing a criminal conspiracy to deliver Central American teens from cartels and smugglers to other illegal aliens, resettling them on our dime, and sending them to our schools, all the while enriching some of the most evil organizations and nourishing the growth of MS-13 and drug traffickers?

Yesterday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar told the Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for and resettles unaccompanied alien children (UACs), will run out of cash before the end of the year. That is because, as Congressional Quarterly (paywall) reported in a summary of the hearing, at a pace of about 300-350 UACs arriving each day, HHS is taking custody of roughly 70-80 children from CBP each day who are not immediately released to other family members. Azar said that there are currently 12,340 mainly Central American children, in HHS custody and bed space is almost full.

We’ve been spending roughly $1.3 billion a year on this program, and Azar revealed at the hearing that the administration transferred $446 million from other HHS programs to help fund the UAC program and that it recently transferred another $385 million.

I reached out to ORR for comment and received this statement from an HHS spokesperson:

HHS is assessing the additional resources that may be needed to support this influx and sustain critical child welfare operations. Last month, Secretary Azar notified the Appropriations Committees that he would make $385 million in administrative resources available to the UAC program, $99 million in reprogrammed ORR funds and $286 million from a Secretary’s Transfer. However, HHS projections show a continued influx would exceed all current HHS resources this fiscal year. The Administration is currently working to find solutions to this potential issue.

As I’ve noted many times, almost all of the Central American teens are self-smuggled into the country to be reunited with other illegal immigrant family. That makes them ineligible for the program on two accounts – they are not victims of a “severe form of trafficking” and they are not here without relatives. In fact, we are completing the very criminal conspiracy of smuggling that the law was designed to combat. At $4,000-$8,000 per illegal alien, the cartels have made billions off this scam, so they can further ramp up their drugs to kill Americans.

As Thomas Homan, former ICE acting director, told me last week, in one operation against MS-13, 40 percent of those caught were UACs resettled through this very program designed for refugees. According to Homan, “Many that entered the U.S. were already gang members or soon became gang members after arriving in the U.S.” We’ve witnessed a spike in MS-13 growth over the past few years as a result of the influx of Central American teens in 2014. One can only imagine the degree of danger our country is in from the exponentially higher number of teens coming in under the same circumstances.

In fiscal year 2018, roughly 72 percent of the teens being held in ORR facilities were 15-17 years old, and 71 percent were males. Mark Morgan, former chief of Border Patrol, reiterated yesterday in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee what he told me in an interview last week:

As chief of the Border Patrol, I toured the detention facilities filled to capacity with unaccompanied minors, 17 years of age or younger, who had illegally entered the country. Alone, without any parents or guardians. As I looked on, I saw both hardened young men as well as vulnerable and lost youth. With every encounter, I walked away wondering how many would be lured into joining a gang. The odds were not in their favor, as they were released into a city somewhere in the U.S., never to be heard from again.

But there is another important catch in this development. Remember how members of Congress, including a number of self-described conservatives, expressed outrage that the Trump administration reprogrammed defense funding for the quintessential defense function of border security? Well, now that HHS has reprogrammed funding from sacred federal health programs to essentially facilitate the smuggler criminal conspiracy against America and to resettle volatile illegal alien teens in our schools and communities, not a single person will protest. Funding the cartels and nourishing the growth of MS-13 while leaving taxpayers with the tab is evidently the true quintessential function of our government.

How is it that more and more of our money is being pumped into a circuitous operation that enriches evil cartels and nourishes the growth of vicious gangs without any questions? How is it that our laws say the exact opposite of this government policy, one judge even accusing the government of successfully complet[ing]” the “goal of the conspiracy” of drug smugglers at “significant expense” to taxpayers, and yet nobody stands up for we the people?

The day that our politicians begin placing the interests of America’s security and financial solvency at least on equal footing with the interests of illegal aliens and the Mexican cartels is the day we will preserve at least a modicum of representative governance. (For more from the author of “HHS Reprogramming Department Funding to Facilitate Resettling ‘Unaccompanied’ Central American Teens” please click HERE)

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A Whopping 373,610 Illegal Aliens Have Received DACA Renewal Just Since January 2018

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New data posted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, posted by the California attorney general’s office, confirms that 373,610 applications for Obama’s illegal amnesty were renewed between January 10, 2018, and March 31, 2019. Why January 10? January 9, 2018, was the date a single California judge, William Alsup of the Northern District of California, issued an unprecedented injunction on Trump’s order merely countermanding Obama’s illegal amnesty, thereby forcing the president to violate numerous immigration laws.

Now, as a result of the notion that any judge has that kind of power, over 373,000 people who came here illegally have access to Social Security cards, refundable tax credits, and a wealth of state benefits in certain states. Plus, 49,510 additional applications are still pending. Just 2,640 applications, or .007 percent, have been denied.

There are no words in the English language to describe the unprecedented power grab that the Article II and Article III branches of government are perpetrating on the duly passed statutes signed into law. No other power grab in American history ever involved the unelected branches of government handing out Social Security cards and billions in refundable credits to those who, pursuant to law, are not allowed to be here.

Yet somehow, none of the individuals in Congress who were so “concerned” about defending Article I power against the president’s order to protect sovereignty are demanding that Trump follow the law on Obama’s amnesty. Why is there no resolution of disapproval from these Republicans (and Democrats) who supposedly want to protect the prerogatives of Article I powers? If they want to check Trump’s power, they should demand that he end this amnesty. It has never been passed into law. Even if one believes in some form of this, it is inexcusable to let an administratively concocted “law” continue.

How is Obama’s amnesty alive after Obama himself is gone?

Judge Alsup’s order was the first time that a court actually told a president not only to do something he doesn’t have to do, but to do something he must not do, and applied the order to foreign nationals nationwide outside the judge’s own jurisdiction. The judge even demanded that USCIS publish quarterly data on illegal renewals and send them to the California AG!

Judges cannot legislate. Judges cannot give standing to foreign nationals to sue for the rights and privileges of American citizens. Judges don’t have the power to issue visas and Social Security cards; that is an executive power. Judges don’t have the power to bind one president to the acts of a previous president, even when they are not unlawful, much less when they are. And most certainly, district judges don’t have a power to place a nationwide injunction on a policy, nor does any judge have the power to place an injunction universally binding on non-plaintiffs who are not a party to the case.

This case was brought by the University of California. How can a state university get legitimate standing in a court to demand that a president change immigration law? We are going back to the Articles of Confederation, when states could bring in their own immigrants and impose them on the rest of the states.

Also, Judge Alsup took into account Trump’s political statements as a means of saying he cannot follow immigration law, a point the Supreme Court said last year is completely invalid in arguing against lawful powers of the president.

Another unprecedented part of this court case was that Alsup demanded that Trump surrender to him all texts and emails related to the legal and political advice leading up to this position. The Supreme Court slapped down that order 9-0, yet Roberts and some others still refuse to take up the underlying appeal. They have allowed this to stew, with irrevocable harm to Americans, for well over a year, despite the unprecedented assault on separation of powers.

What Trump can do to right this ship

When the administration did not push back against this unprecedented assault, it opened the floodgates for the courts to put orders on dozens of other policies where Trump was merely rooting up Obama’s concocted order. The precedent has now been set that there is simply nothing a lower court judge cannot do that will force a pushback from the other branches, nor will the Supreme Court lift a finger to patrol its own branch.

Meanwhile, this single judge has permanently distorted the entire political debate over immigration. Trump could easily have used elimination of DACA as leverage to get Democrats to negotiate on other priorities. Instead, they now know they have DACA in the bag indefinitely and feel no need to play ball.

Bottom line: The law as written prohibits Trump from issuing DACA documentation. At the very least, if he doesn’t actively deport claimants, he should not take active steps to violate the law by affirming status that he cannot give.

Moreover, even this radical opinion didn’t say that Trump must continue DACA forever. He just said that, in his view, the president didn’t properly overturn it under the Administrative Procedure Act. Were Trump to issue a new order with a 90-day comment period, he could terminate it even under Alsup’s convoluted assumptions.

Finally, Trump should assert the ruling of the Eleventh Circuit in a recent Georgia case, where the panel said clearly that DACA recipients are not “in any way ‘lawfully present’ under the [Immigration and Nationality Act].” Even other courts disagree with this power grab. There is no reason to pay deference to it.

As long as a single district judge can literally shred our Constitution and law with such grave consequences, without any check or balance, elections do not matter. Liberal lower court judges do not respect Supreme Court precedent because they’ve created a one-way ratchet, where they can always be more “progressive” than what the Supreme court said, but not less so.

During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution.” Fast-forward almost three years later, and we see that this very amnesty created a global incentive to come here with children and obtain immediate amnesty. The campaign promise is long overdue, and the consequences of keeping the amnesty culture are intensifying by the day. (For more from the author of “A Whopping 373,610 Illegal Aliens Have Received DACA Renewal Just Since January 2018” please click HERE)

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Ocasio-Cortez: Draft ALL Genders for the Military

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The Pentagon should draft all “genders,” not just men and women, according to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

She casually spotlighted her revolutionary rejection of biology, sex, and the male-or-female society during a live Facebook chat in which she was asked about her views on the military draft. “As long as we have a draft, I support people of all genders being drafted,” she said.

Male and female are the two sexes — but transgender advocates now claim more than 50 “genders” — including agender, bigender, gender fluid, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, intersex, two-spirit, etc, plus “cis-gender” for the 99+ percent of people who are normal, non-transgender people.

Also, progressives want the government to clear away the “social construction” — laws and civic norms — which supposedly prevent small women from wrestling large men to the ground, and which deter large men in tutus from trying to Jette far above tall female dancers.

For Democrats, this wave or new regulation, censorship, and civic pressure will free the less-than-one-percent of people who say they are transgender from the oppressive, outdated rules of male-dominated supremacy. People will discard the oppressive “gender binary” of male or female sexes and will embrace the freedom of new “genders” — transgender, bi-gender, non-conforming, etc, etc, etc., progressives say.

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Gillette Venus Ad Campaign Features Obese, Trans Models

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Gillette’s new Gillette Venus advertisement campaign features morbidly obese women and transgender models. The company claims “ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown,” but it has experienced resistance and widespread mockery on social media.

An advertisement featuring one obese model for the campaign, Anna, was captioned, “Go out there and slay the day.”

“Venus is committed to representing beautiful women of all shapes, sizes, and skin types because ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown,” declared Gillette in a Twitter post. “We love Anna because she lives out loud and loves her skin no matter how the ‘rules’ say she should display it.” . . .

18-year-old transgender activist Jazz Jennings, who is one of the youngest transgender public figures in the world, is also a model for Gillette Venus’ new campaign.

Gillette was also at the center of an advertising controversy in January, after the company released a commercial attacking “toxic masculinity.”

Despite the commercial being widely mocked, receiving over 1.4 million dislikes opposed to just 785,000 likes, and becoming the 20th most disliked YouTube video ever as of February, Gillette parent company Procter & Gamble doubled down on the campaign. (Read more from “Gillette Venus Ad Campaign Features Obese, Trans Models” HERE)

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Family Finds Hidden Camera in Airbnb’s Smoke Alarm

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By Fox News. A New Zealand family was shocked to find a camera hidden in the smoke alarm of their Airbnb during a vacation in Ireland, which the father of the clan discovered as he was connecting his cell phone to the Wi-Fi.

On April 1, Nealie Barker took to Facebook to share the frightening tale, detailing that she, her husband Andrew and their five children are “avid” Airbnb users who “love” the platform — though the hidden camera spooked them into finding alternative lodging for the duration of their trip.

Barker shared two photos to the social platform, one of the surreptitious smoke alarm and a smiling shot of her kids, which her husband was able to take from the concealed camera. . .

Though the family had paid for the Airbnb in full, the mother felt “immediately protective” of her children being caught on camera and decided that it would be best if they spent the night elsewhere, as per New Zealand Herald. . .

According to the home sharing platform’s official policies, hosts are required to inform guests if there is a surveillance device in or around their property — even if it’s not turned on for use. Cameras are also never permitted in bedrooms, bathroom, or to be hidden. (Read more from “Family Finds Hidden Camera in Airbnb’s Smoke Alarm” HERE)

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Family on Holiday Find Hidden Camera in Airbnb

By Stuff. They had paid in full and were due to stay three days. When her husband, who is an IT consultant, went to connect his phone to the wifi network, he noticed a device called “IP camera”.

“He scanned that device’s ports and found the live video feed. We were all watching ourselves on his mobile phone,” Nealie Barker said.

The camera was found in the lounge, which Barker said had a view of the lounge, dining and kitchen area. . .

“There is no way to know whether the camera was recording. We asked the host but he refused to answer. We also asked if it was recording audio, again he refused to answer.” (Read more from “Family on Holiday Find Hidden Camera in Airbnb” HERE)

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Watch: Ocasio-Cortez Speaks to Black Audience in Accent

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was accused of making patronizing and racist remarks on Friday when she used an accent to tell an audience of predominately black people that there is nothing wrong with them serving other people in low skilled jobs for their careers.

“This is what organizing looks like, this is what building power looks like, this is what changing the country looks like,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a southern accent while speaking at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York City.

“I’m proud to be a bartender, ain’t nothin wrong with that,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “There’s nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy. There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat. There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work.” . . .

Ocasio-Cortez’s comments immediately sparked outrage as many accused her of racism, noting that her accent while speaking to black people was similar to how two-time failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would speak to black people — which was widely condemned as racist.

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Tensions Rising: Turkish President Accuses U.S. Of Meddling in Elections

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On Friday, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and the European Union of “meddling” in his country’s local elections.

Erdogan told reporters, “America and Europe are… meddling in Turkey’s internal affairs,” reported AFP, and that the U.S. and Europe should “know your place.”​ . . .

On Sunday, Erdogan’s party, the AKP, suffered a defeat in the mayoral race for Istanbul, the city in which Erdogan rose to power in as mayor. The AKP also lost control of Ankara, the capital city which has been held by the party for decades. Since the defeat, the AKP has contested the results in both cities, and a recount is currently taking place in districts of Istanbul, The Washington Post reported.

The results showed the mayoral candidate of the opposition CHP, Ekrem Imamoglu, ahead by about 25,000 votes in Istanbul, a city which has a population of about 15 million. But on Thursday, Ali Ihsan Yavuz, a deputy chairman of the AKP, reportedly said the recount had narrowed Yildrim’s lead to around 19,000. On Thursday, AKP secretary general Farih Sahin said the party would petition to Akara’s provincial election board for a recount in Akara as well.

In a Tuesday briefing, U.S. Department of State spokesman Robert Palladino reportedly commented on the results. “Free and fair elections are essential for any democracy,” Palladino said. “And this means acceptance of legitimate election results are essential.” (Read more from “Tensions Rising: Turkish President Accuses U.S. Of Meddling in Elections” HERE)

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