Supreme Court Won’t Protect This Girl’s Privacy Rights Against Trans Activism In School

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the important case Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, which centered on the question of whether or not students have the privacy right to sex-segregated bathrooms and locker rooms. Boys were shocked to find a girl changing with them and teenage girl Alexis Lightcap was terrified to a find a boy in her restroom. These violations of privacy were justified in the name of transgender inclusion. While the Supreme Court did not take up Lightcap’s case, it may consider similar ones coming down the pike.

“Students struggling with their beliefs about gender need compassionate support, but sound reasons based on common sense have always existed for schools to separate male and female teenagers in showers, restrooms, and locker rooms,” John Bursch, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, the firm representing Lightcap, said in a statement. “No student’s recognized right to bodily privacy should be made contingent on what other students believe about their own gender.”

The Boyertown Area School District secretly implemented the pro-transgender policy during the 2016-2017 school year. Boys discovered a girl changing in their locker room. Embarrassed and confused, they sought help from school officials, who told them they should just “tolerate it” and “make it as natural as possible.” One of the male students left the school as a result of the policy. Lightcap encountered a boy in her restroom. Shocked and afraid, she fled the restroom, but school officials rejected her privacy concerns.

The lawsuit, Doe v. Boyertown, argues the school is violating its students’ fundamental right to bodily privacy under the Constitution and effectively denying them access to locker room and restroom facilities on the basis of sex under Title IX.

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the school, and ADF had appealed the case to the Supreme Court. (Read more from “Supreme Court Won’t Protect This Girl’s Privacy Rights Against Trans Activism” HERE)

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Pope Francis Breaks Silence on Recent Abuse Scandal

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After nearly a yearlong silence, Pope Francis has officially addressed allegations that he knew about the sexually abusive Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and lifted sanctions that were imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI.

In an 11-page letter released in August of last year, Archbishop Viganò, former Nuncio from the Vatican to Washington, D.C., alleged that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had been sanctioned under Pope Benedict XVI only to have those sanctions removed by Pope Francis upon his ascendancy in 2013. Cardinal McCarrick had an alleged history of sexually abusing male seminarians and, according to Viganò, was ordered by Pope Benedict to refrain from saying Mass or public ministry.

Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington, D.C., said flatly that Viganò “said the truth” in his letter, which was followed by several other high-ranking prelates testifying to Viganó’s respectable character.

Shortly after the letter dropped, Pope Francis elected to remain silent and maintained that protocol until this past Tuesday when he told Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki that he “knew nothing” about Cardinal McCarrick’s behavior and did not remember if Archbishop Viganò ever informed him about the sanctions.

“I have said it many times, I knew nothing, no idea,” he said. “And when this guy (Vigano) said that he told me about it that day, that he came … I don’t remember if he told me about this. If it’s true or not. No idea!” (Read more from “Pope Francis Breaks Silence on Recent Abuse Scandal” HERE)

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Watch: Pro-Lifer Demolishes Common Pro-Abortion Talking Point from Feminist

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During a speaking engagement for her “Lies Feminist Tell” campus tour at Miami University of Oxford, Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins broke down the severely flawed and oft-repeated talking point from pro-abortion activists regarding pro-lifers allegedly only caring about children in the womb. . .

“An unborn fetus, that cannot live outside the mother, what right do you have to tell me to carry it to term?” [an audience member] asked. “If it’s an unplanned pregnancy, and odds are, that if it goes into the foster care system, it will face severe neglect and abuse.” . . .

“You just said that, if you knew that for 100% certainty, that the child you’re birthing is going to have a lifetime of suffering, that it would be better for the child, for you to kill, to end the life of the child, than for the child to suffer. So, instead of attempting to try to solve the suffering of the child, you’ve just eliminated the potential sufferer. Right?” Hawkins again reiterated.

“My question was, how do we end that suffering to make bringing a child that is unwanted into this world justifiable,” the feminist said.

“As pro-lifers and as Americans, we care about the children in foster care, we care about children who are being neglected, who are living on the streets with their parents,” said Hawkins, adding, “I actually don’t believe anyone in this room, regardless if you’re pro-life or pro-choice, thinks that childcare should be suffering in foster care, or children should live through hunger and homelessness.” (Read more from “Watch: Pro-Lifer Demolishes Common Pro-Abortion Talking Point from Feminist” HERE)

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WATCH: Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside White House

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An unidentified man set himself on fire early Wednesday afternoon in front of sightseers on the Ellipse park in downtown Washington, D.C., not far from the White House, authorities said.

The Ellipse is a 52-acre park area that lies south of the White House and north of the National Mall, in the heart of Washington. The fire occurred just north of the Washington Monument.

Secret Service spokesman Jeffrey Adams said in a statement that the agency’s Uniformed Division Officers “responded in seconds” after the “male individual lit himself on fire.” Officers then began administering first aid to the man. . .

A spokesman for the Washington Fire Department told CNBC that, “I can confirm that we’ve transported one patient with burns from the Ellipse and we’re now on the scene assisting law enforcement,” referring to Park Police and U.S. Secret Service officers. . .

Alina Berzins, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Lorton, Virginia, told CNBC that she was visiting the National Mall with two of her cousins from Bolivia when “we saw this man” on the Ellipse and “he starts running, and then we saw him covered in flames.”

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Chinese State Media: Crackdown on Smuggling Is ‘First Step in China-US Rare-Earth War’

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By Breitbart. The trade war is quickly becoming a rare earth war–at least in the rhetoric of Chinese state media.

The often belligerently nationalist Global Times, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, called on China to cut-back on rare-earth licenses and “tighten management’ of foreign-invested companies as first steps to “weapons the minerals.” . . .

From the Global Times:

The crackdown on rare-earth smuggling makes it possible for China to weaponize the minerals in an escalation of the trade war. Now China needs to tighten management of rare-earth enterprises, especially foreign-invested companies, to make smuggling absolutely impossible.

Rare-earth minerals are important strategic resources but China had never thought of using the minerals as leverage to hit the US. The trade war is prompting China to rethink its rare-earth strategy and make quick adjustments. Once merely an economic sector, rare earths have become a counter weapon for China to hit back at the US. There is a lot of work to be done, and cracking down on smuggling is only the first step in weaponizing the sector.

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‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You’: A Phrase from China Signals the Trade War Could Get Even Worse

By CNBC. The biggest Chinese newspaper explicitly warned the U.S. on Wednesday that China would cut off rare earth minerals as a countermeasure in the escalated trade battle, using a history-laden expression the publication has used ahead of full-on wars.

“We advise the U.S. side not to underestimate the Chinese side’s ability to safeguard its development rights and interests. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!” the People’s Daily said in a commentary titled “United States, don’t underestimate China’s ability to strike back.” The publication is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

The phrase “Don’t say we didn’t warn you” has been used before by the People’s Daily in 1962 before China’s border war with India and ahead of the 1979 China-Vietnam War. (Read more from “‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You’: A Phrase from China Signals the Trade War Could Get Even Worse” HERE)

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Rudy Giuliani GOES OFF on Mueller over Recent Investigation Comments

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By Fox News. President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani didn’t hold back when it came to addressing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s latest comments on the Russia investigation.

Giuliani who appeared on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Wednesday where he told guest host Ed Henry Mueller’s Russia probe was a ‘waste of two years.’

“If you take that analysis that he can’t indict, and he can’t give an opinion, then the reality is we just wasted two years. He did give an opinion. And his opinion is no collusion, no obstruction,” Giuliani said. . .

Giuliani also took Democrats to task for continuing to demand access to redacted parts of the report, accusing them of “lying to the American people” before declaring the president is “not guilty.” (Read more from “Rudy Giuliani Goes off on Mueller over Recent Investigation Comments” HERE)

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Mueller Remarks Put Barr Back into Harsh Spotlight

By Politico. Moments after Robert Mueller gave brief concluding remarks about his Russia probe on Wednesday, the former Republican New Jersey governor and sometime Trump adviser Chris Christie declared that the special counsel’s statement “definitely contradicts what the attorney general said when he summarized Mueller’s report.”

Christie wasn’t alone. The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff called Mueller’s statement a “direct rebuke of Attorney General William Barr,” arguing that Barr had “deliberately and repeatedly misled the American people.” And while she didn’t mention Barr by name, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was “greatly disappointed with the Department of Justice for their misrepresentation of the Mueller report.”

Even though Mueller’s remarks focused on his findings about Russian election meddling and whether President Donald Trump obstructed his probe, it was clear that he had also thrown the klieg lights back on to his old friend Barr — rekindling anger over suspicions that Trump’s attorney general has been carrying water for the president.

And if Mueller was not engaging directly in a food fight, cable news networks did the job for him, playing side-by-side reels of Mueller and Barr’s seemingly conflicting statements nearly all of Wednesday afternoon. (Read more from “Mueller Remarks Put Barr Back into Harsh Spotlight” HERE)

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Donald Trump’s Feud with the McCain Family Is Heating Up

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By Fox News. The feud between President Trump and John’s McCain family escalated Tuesday as a top campaign adviser clashed with daughter Meghan McCain, and the president himself declared he’s “not a fan” of the late Republican senator.

“I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be,” Trump told reporters at the White House, during a meeting with Brazil’s visiting president.

The comments comes after Meghan McCain, who on Monday tore into the president during an emotional segment on “The View,” went back on the offensive on social media. The 34-year-old shared a Toronto Star cartoon on Instagram showing her late father’s military medals side-by-side with a collection of pacifiers under the heading, “Donald Trump.” . . .

The latest shots were fired after McCain hammered Trump on Monday’s episode of “The View.” . . .

“My father was his kryptonite in life and he was kryptonite in death. On a personal level, all of us have love and families and when my father was alive until adulthood we would spend our time fishing, cooking, really celebrating life and I think it’s because he almost died. (Read more from “Donald Trump’s Feud with the McCain Family Is Heating Up” HERE)

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Meghan McCain Calls Trump a ‘Child,’ Says His Attacks on Her Late Father Make Her Grief ‘Unbearable’

By People. The View co-host spoke out against President Trump on Wednesday in response to a Wall Street Journal report published on Wednesday that claimed the White House asked for the USS John McCain to remain “out of sight” during the president’s trip to Japan.

This report has since been denied by the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Information’s Twitter account, which stated, “The name of USS John S. McCain was not obscured during the POTUS visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day. The Navy is proud of that ship, its crew, its namesake and its heritage.”

“Trump is a child who will always be deeply threatened by the greatness of my dads incredible life,” Meghan, 34, wrote on Twitter in response to the WSJ report. “There is a lot of criticism of how much I speak about my dad, but nine months since he passed, Trump won’t let him RIP. So I have to stand up for him.” (Read more from “Meghan McCain Calls Trump a ‘Child,’ Says His Attacks on Her Late Father Make Her Grief ‘Unbearable'” HERE)

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Mueller Sets a Pathetic New Standard for Innocence

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Speaking at Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning, a visibly nervous Robert Mueller told reporters that he found no evidence of collusion with Russia, but then appeared to invent a new, extrajudicial standard for innocence in the United States.

First going through many of the conclusions of his April report on supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election, Mueller then announced that he will be “resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life,” effective today.

He restated his report’s conclusion that there was no evidence to support the collusion narrative.

As for the obstruction case, Mueller stated that his office was unable to charge President Trump.

“Under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he’s in office,” Mueller added, saying that “charging the president with a crime was not an option we could therefore consider.”

In defiance of his prosecutorial duties, Mueller restated the “prove a negative” standard from his report.

“If we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mueller said during his appearance at DOJ headquarters.

As I explained last month following the release of the Mueller report:

But the conclusion from Mueller’s prosecutors is largely misleading and it fails the logic test. It was not Mueller’s job to prove a negative – that the president did not commit a crime. His job was to determine whether the president did commit a crime.

Commentators on Twitter seemed baffled by the new Mueller standard of innocence, with many arguing that by bypassing his duties as a prosecutor, he greenlit impeachment for Democrats in Congress.

The president also took to Twitter to speak about the Mueller report:

Mueller’s final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election exonerated the president on charges — originating largely from baseless allegations drawn up in an infamous dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign — that he or any members of his campaign collaborated with Moscow to secure his victory at the polls. Even as they strung up several Trump associates on process crimes unrelated to the investigation, Mueller and his team of Democrat prosecutors failed to find a single piece of evidence to prove the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. (For more from the author of “Mueller Sets a Pathetic New Standard for Innocence” please click HERE)

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The Coming Crime Wave That Border Patrol Isn’t Stopping

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here’s a very simple question the president needs to ask as he continues to contemplate action at the border. For whom does our Border Patrol or even the military exist? Do they exist to protect Americans from bad people coming into this country or to serve as babysitters for a cartel smuggling operation that enables bad people to come in? The two jobs are mutually exclusive. Cartel babysitting undermines protecting Americans. This fact alone should prompt the president to shut down all asylum requests at the border and turn back migrants.

Yesterday, the U.S. Border Patrol celebrated a grim 95th birthday. On May 28, 1924, Congress established the Border Patrol as part of the Immigration Bureau in the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924. Prior to that, land borders were patrolled by ad hoc “mounted watchmen” with few formal federal resources, because most people entered through sea ports. The purpose of the Border Patrol was very clearly spelled out in the 1924 funding bill: “Preventing the unlawful entry” of mainly Chinese nationals and deporting anyone who was caught. The Department of Labor was given funding for “the operation of horse and motor vehicles.” It was all for detention and deportation. Nothing more, nothing less.

Fast-forward 95 years later, and Border Patrol has now become a global babysitting and hospital service. It exists for the invaders, not for those supposed to be protected from them. Border Patrol has advertised “the creation of a new Border Patrol Processing Coordinator position” for the purpose of processing and transporting aliens and for “custodial watch of detainees in hospitals.”

Just in the El Paso sector alone, 2,200 illegal immigrants surrendered themselves to Border Patrol on Memorial Day. While most are still from Central America, the message has gotten out to the rest of the world that we are not enforcing our border. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 15 illegal aliens from Congo, a country ravaged by Ebola, yellow fever, and other diseases, were apprehended at Eagle Pass, Texas. Not surprisingly, “The group consisted of five adult males, five adult females, and five minor children.” In other words, just enough minors to go around that each adult pair has one to use as a ticket to amnesty.

What is going on in plain sight at the border is bad enough, but what’s worse is what we don’t see. Try to imagine how many really bad people are coming in the New Mexico desert while the agents are on babysitting duty rather than patrolling. In Texas, border agents at secondary checkpoints caught 38 illegal aliens being smuggled up the highway in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. Thankfully, those checkpoints are still being manned, but what is happening in New Mexico, where all the checkpoints are down? Any suspicious smuggling activity of people who are scared to meet agents will go unchallenged because they have unfettered access to the interior of the country.

Even among the hundreds of thousands we do apprehend without prior criminal records, we have no idea who these people are. Many Central American teens come from extremely volatile backgrounds and are being resettled in our communities under the most tenuous circumstances in neighborhoods full of existing illegal immigrant gangs. The entirety of the Long Island MS-13 surge has been caused by the influx of Central Americans since 2014. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said that there are 2,000 MS-13 members in Long Island and “their ranks are continually being refilled with new emissaries from El Salvador.” The Nassau County Police union said on Sunday that they need 60 additional detectives just to combat MS-13 in their area. Eleven people have been killed by MS-13 in Long Island since 2016.

These are the direct effects of our Border Patrol being used to facilitate catch-and-release rather than stop-and-turn-back to enforce a shutoff of immigration the president should have announced long ago. If this is the degree of criminality we saw just from the 2014 wave, can you imagine what is going to occur as a result of this much larger wave?

That is a question Jaeson Jones, retired captain with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, asked on my podcast last week. Jones warned that tens of thousands of illegal aliens have now become “indebted to the cartels inside our country” and will have to go back into the criminal world to pay off that debt.

“Human trafficking will reach new heights in the United States in the next 18 to 24 months,” Jones warned. “Several cartels have stated that they cannot keep up with the number of people surging through their plazas throughout Mexico. Historically, the cartels’ process was to detain people in stash houses until receiving payments from migrants who wished to travel through their plaza or be smuggled across the border into the United States. Those who could not pay would compensate by working off the debt in Mexico for the cartels. For women, that would mean sex trafficking, and for men that would be carrying narcotics for the cartels.”

That has all changed, and the criminal activity will continue on our soil, according to Jones.

“Today, due to the surge of migrants from across the world, the cartels are dealing with new challenges in collecting the piso [tax]. Many migrants traveling from Central America cannot afford the tax ranging from $3,000 to $6,000 per person. Additionally, the cartel cannot afford to house migrants until receiving payment. As a result, the cartels are collecting the personal identifying information (PII) from migrants, including family contact information, which is then confirmed and validated through phone calls made to family members of the migrants. These migrants are then released to travel into the United States.”

Thus, the criminal problems we will face will not only come from those the Border Patrol misses but from those they catch and release.

“Once through U.S. immigration and customs processing, migrants are immediately contacting smugglers and are receiving instructions where to go and who to contact to work off their debt.”

I’ve noted many times that the president has the power to shut off even legitimate asylum claims when he believes it’s “detrimental” to U.S. interests. But this goes even beyond immigration law. This is national security and national defense in the face of a strategic 21st century-style invasion by the most dangerous cartels.

The president would be wise to make the national security case to the American people for designating the cartels as terrorists and using the military to counter them. That would easily pave the way for an executive shutoff of all immigration processing at our border. Then, the Border Patrol can actually focus on patrolling.

After all, that is why we created the Border Patrol. (For more from the author of “The Coming Crime Wave That Border Patrol Isn’t Stopping” please click HERE)

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After Promising to Respect Women’s Space, Biden Has Creepy Interaction with Young Girl – and It’s on Video

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By The Blaze. Presidential candidate Joe Biden was criticized for once again getting too close to a young girl after he promised to respect women’s personal space and act more appropriately. . .

In videos of the campaign stop, Biden tells the girl, “I bet you’re as bright as you are good looking.”

After she answers that she’s interested in journalism, so Biden grabs her and whisks her away to the back of the room where the reporters are covering the event. . .

Biden has been accused by a former Democratic lawmaker of inappropriately touching and smelling her before a campaign event. After she made her accusations, numerous women released statements offering other inappropriate behavior from the former vice president.

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Where’s Joe? Biden’s campaign pace called into question

By Fox News. It’s been more than one week since Joe Biden held a public campaign event.

After launching his Democratic presidential campaign in late April, the former vice president came out of the gate with a busy schedule, holding events in all four of the states that kick off the primary and caucus calendar, as well as stops in California. And Biden started and closed that campaign swing with speeches in his native Pennsylvania, which is also a crucial general election battleground state.

But Biden hasn’t held a public campaign event since his large kickoff rally in Philadelphia on May 18. Since then, he’s only headlined a top-dollar fundraiser in Nashville, Tenn., and two more in Florida.

And while a bunch of his rivals for the 2020 Democratic nomination are stumping this holiday weekend, Biden’s off the trail.

“Joe Biden has no public events scheduled,” read a release from his campaign. (Read more from “Where’s Joe? Biden’s campaign pace called into question” HERE)

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