Trump Chimes in, Slams DNC After They Say Fox News Can’t Host a Primary Debate

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By Townhall. The Democratic National Committee has made one thing very clear: they don’t want Fox News involved in the primary debates. According to DNC Chairman Tom Perez, Fox News is unable to host a “fair and neutral debate” for the Democratic candidates.

Perez released the following statement about the subject:

I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News. Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.

What Perez didn’t anticipate, however, was how President Donald Trump would react to the news. Trump took to Twitter to remind Perez of one thing: in order for a general election debate to take place, the president has to be on stage. And he’s refusing to cooperate as long as Fox News is left out of the picture:

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DNC bars Fox News from hosting presidential primary debates; network urges party to reconsider

By Fox News. The Democratic National Committee has barred Fox News from hosting its presidential primary debates, prompting the network to urge the party to reconsider.

“We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate. They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters,” Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Sammon said in a statement. . .

While some Fox News Channel opinion hosts have come under fire for ties to the Trump administration, Wallace, Baier and MacCallum are anchors from the news division who have been praised for their handling of past debates. In 2016, Wallace moderated a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Read more from “DNC bars Fox News from hosting presidential primary debates; network urges party to reconsider” HERE)

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Progressives Are Laughing All the Way to Pagan Cultural Dominion

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Can’t stop. Won’t stop.

The pagan vision quest contemporary progressivism is attempting to achieve marches on. Like Bernie Sanders daydreaming about Soviet May Day parades. Like dumpster-diving in the socialist paradise of Venezuela. Like the border invasion. This is a banana (republic), after all.

The latest stops on the crazy train include (all from just the last week):

*Captain Marvel star Brie Larson said “I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ It wasn’t made for him! I want to know what that film meant to women of color” at the very same time that casting Will Smith to play the father of Serena and Venus Williams was criticized because he isn’t dark-skinned enough.

*Actor Ian McKellen, aka Gandalf, said Kevin Spacey and Bryan Singer abused others because of the pressure of being “in the closet.”

*A school in Great Britain agreed to stop teaching Rainbow Jihad propaganda because – wait for it – hundreds of Muslims protested and pulled their kids out of school.

*The top aide of savior of the proletariat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is alleged to have funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission. The companies may have been established for the very purpose of making the use of those political donations hard to follow. Oh, and she also called the black staffers or employees of Republicans “tokens.”

*BirthStrike, a group of people terrified that the earth is “collapsing” because of global warming, are following Ocasio-Cortez in her belief that having children is bad.

*Toledo voters granted Lake Erie the same legal rights as a person.

*Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts admitted because of identity politics she shouldn’t have been expected to not be used as a willing pawn for Jussie Smollett’s hoax.

Are these people fools? Yes.

Are these people easy to laugh at? Yes.

Are these people to be taken seriously? Sadly, the answer is, again, yes.

While they make for excellent clickbait, they’re the ones actually laughing all the way to the bank. They control pop culture, academia, the media, and the bureaucracy. Other than that, I’m saying there’s a chance. So while we’re “owning the libs,” they’re owning our cultural devolution. Hell, they even make us subsidize it. And when we do win elections, the unelected judges render those elections all but pointless. Because, of course, they must always be obeyed no matter what rotgut they conjure up from the bowels of their depraved minds.

Which is exactly why there will be a new batch of zany high jinks I look forward to writing about next week, too. That bait ain’t gonna click itself! (For more from the author of “Progressives Are Laughing All the Way to Pagan Cultural Dominion” please click HERE)

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Miami Reporter Missing in Politically Collapsed Venezuela

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WPLG Local 10 News in Miami, Florida lost their contributor in Venezuela Wednesday.

Cody Weddle’s sister, Kelsey McMahan, told Bristol Herald Courier that she believes the country’s authorities arrested him at 8 a.m. that morning after raiding his home in Caracas. Their mother, Sherry Weddle, said that the U.S. Embassy contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but have yet to hear back. She last contacted her son Tuesday on Facebook messenger.

“[I heard from him at] maybe about 6 or 7 yesterday evening and yesterday morning about 10,” Sherry Weddle told CNN. “I asked him how he was doing. He said he was fine and wanted to know how I was.” . . .

Weddle lived in Venezuela since June 2014, covering the economic turmoil, political struggle and humanitarian crisis in the area. One of his recent articles detailed the growing deadlock between political opposition leader Juan Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro as the National Assembly brought in a new board of directors for their oil sector. The new faces of the board consist of people who will give the opposition side more say in Venezuela’s government. . .

“We are working through various channels to get as much information as we can and to see that Cody is released.” said WPLG President & CEO E. R. Bert Medina. “Cody has been dedicated and committed to telling the story in Venezuela to our viewers here in South Florida. The arrest of a journalist doing his job is outrageous and unacceptable.” (Read more from “Miami Reporter Missing in Politically Collapsed Venezuela” HERE)

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CRISPR Babies: The Chinese Government May Have Known More Than It Let On

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When scientist He Jiankui announced he’d conducted an experiment that led to the birth of twin girls with CRISPR-edited genomes in November, the international scientific community swiftly condemned him. In the uproar that followed, the Chinese government, He’s university, and the hospital where the babies were born distanced themselves from the researcher, who claimed he was the first scientist known to use CRISPR to edit human embryos resulting in a live birth — and that a third CRISPR baby was on the way.

But there were also glaring inconsistencies in the official version of events. As the Washington Post reported, a hospital executive appeared on camera in an Associated Press video applauding He’s work, which seemed strange given that the hospital later denounced him. And an informed consent form He used stated that his university funded the experiment. . .

Shortly after He announced his experiment, China’s National Health Commission ordered an investigation of He’s research. In January, an initial government report found that He “seriously violated” state laws in pursuit of “personal fame and fortune.” His university, the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, fired him and said his experiment was done “outside of the school.” . . .

Overall, He has been painted in the media — including in China — as a rogue actor and bad apple, tinkering quietly in a lab while smashing through norms and local laws to feed his ego. He also claimed that he privately funded the work while on unpaid leave from his job as a professor.

But according to a slide presentation, the clinical trials registry, and patient consent forms obtained by journalist Jane Qiu for Stat, three Chinese government institutions were listed as the funders of He’s experiment: the Ministry of Science and Technology (the nation’s federal science agency), the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, and Southern University of Science and Technology, where He was a professor. (Read more from “CRISPR Babies: The Chinese Government May Have Known More Than It Let On” HERE)

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The Most-Below-Average Temperatures Anywhere on Earth Are in the U.S. Right Now

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If you think it’s cold for this time of year in the United States, you’re right. The most-below-average temperatures anywhere on Earth are in the U.S. right now.

The map … from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine shows the departure from average temperature – that is, how far the temperature is above or below average – around the globe on Tuesday. Below-average temperatures are depicted by the blue and purple shadings, while above-average temperatures are depicted by the orange and red shadings. . .

The first five days of this month brought the coldest March outbreak in years, breaking daily records and a few monthly records in parts of the Northwest, Rockies, Plains and Midwest. . .

This arctic block has also been responsible for abnormally mild weather in parts of Alaska, including record warmth at America’s northernmost city, Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. (Read more from “The Most-Below-Average Temperatures Anywhere on Earth Are in the U.S. Right Now” HERE)

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Troubling: U.S. Pastors Increasingly Accepting Homosexual Marriage

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Once news hit that the global United Methodist Church upheld its ban on same-sex marriage and gay clergy, a Methodist pastor in North Carolina promised to fight back against the ruling until it’s reversed.

“Let us not rest until all people can be welcome to worship God in any space that they choose,” the Rev. Jason Butler with Open Table Methodist Church in Raleigh said, WNCN-TV reported. “That is what we will fight for.” . . .

Butler told WNCN that when he heard about the ruling, he “was just broken. I felt almost sick inside because I knew that for so many of our LGBTQ friends this was yet another voice, another church saying that we close our doors.”

Depris Price noted to WNCN that he’s acquainted with adversity as an openly gay black man and was taught from childhood that it was a sin to be himself.

“It was the untouched subject,” Price told the station. “You did not talk about this, and even if you did, it was only during like Sunday school, and you just said it’s wrong to be homosexual. There was no reasoning, there was no explanation.” (Read more from “Troubling: U.S. Pastors Increasingly Accepting Homosexual Marriage” HERE)

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Rep. Claims She’ll File Articles of Impeachment Against Trump Within Weeks

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Speaking to reporters from her congressional office, Tlaib exclaimed, “We saw record turnout in an election year, where people wanted to elect a jury that would begin the impeachment proceedings to (sic) Donald Trump,” The Hill reported.

“We want to work on these economic issues, racial injustice issues and everything. But guess what? There is a wall there, and a constitutional crisis that is not going to [let us] do our jobs as American Congress members to push a lot of these agendas forward.”

Referring to her fellow freshman Democrats, Tlaib continued, “This is the largest class since Watergate. This a class — a diverse class — that comes…with a sense of urgency to act. To act to hold corporations accountable; to act in holding President Trump accountable; to act to really try to see real reforms even within our congressional process. This is an emergency for all of us.”

According to WXYZ-TV, Tlaib added, “Later on this month, I will be joining folks and advocates across the country to file the impeachment resolution to start the impeachment proceedings.” . . .

“Remember, this is setting a precedent. If we don’t hold impeachment proceedings today, start them today and hold him accountable to following the United States Constitution — think about that, this is not going to be the last CEO that runs for president of the United States,” she said at her news conference.

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ICE Giving Pregnancy Tests to Migrant Girls as Young as 10 After Dangerous Journey to Border

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told lawmakers Wednesday that the journey for migrants traveling from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border is so fraught with danger that the U.S. is giving pregnancy tests to migrant girls as young as 10. . .

Nielsen was speaking to the House Homeland Security Committee and was informing lawmakers about the dangers that migrants face on the way to the border, a day after figures showed that the number of illegal immigrants coming over the border had spiked dramatically.

“In February, we saw a 30 percent jump over the previous month, with agents apprehending or encountering nearly 75,000 aliens,” she said. “This is an 80 percent increase over the same time last year. And I can report today that CBP is forecasting the problem will get even worse this spring as the weather warms up.” . . .

Nielsen’s testimony comes days after President Trump said in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he was told by Border Patrol that mothers give their daughters large amounts of birth control pills “because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border.” . . .

A Doctors Without Borders report from 2017 found that nearly one-third of women surveyed entering Mexico had been sexually abused on their journey north, while 68 percent of the migrant and refugee populations as a whole reported being victims of violence. (Read more from “ICE Giving Pregnancy Tests to Migrant Girls as Young as 10 After Dangerous Journey to Border” HERE)

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Religious Liberty Group Defends Veterans Memorial Against ‘Bully’ Trying to Remove Bible From Display

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A Bible at the center of a dispute between two military organizations will now be displayed prominently at a veterans hospital.

The Bible was donated to Manchester VA Medical Center by former U.S. Army Air Corps Technical Sergeant (TSgt) Herman “Herk” Streitburger, of Bedford, who was held captive in a German Prisoner of War camp during World War II.

It was placed in a memorial but moved after objections by Mikey Weinstein, the founder of Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The Bible ended up behind a glass display case.

First Liberty Institute, the same law firm that argued on behalf of the Bladensburg “Peace Cross” memorial in front of the Supreme Court last week, sent a letter Wednesday supporting the Bible.

“As usual Mikey Weinstein is wrong on the fact and wrong on the law but that’s never stopped him from bullying military and VA officials and their facilities across the country,” Mike Berry, the First Liberty lawyer representing the Northeast POW/MIA Network, told Fox News. “If he wants to remove that display or any part of it he’s going to have to come through us.” (Read more from “Religious Liberty Group Defends Veterans Memorial Against ‘Bully’ Trying to Remove Bible From Display” HERE)

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WATCH: Trudeau Arrives at Climate Rally, Protests Erupt, Things Get Crazy

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Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who has been implicated in a corruption scandal as well as a #MeToo accusation from two decades ago — appeared at a climate change rally on Monday, and the scene quickly got ugly.

Trudeau is facing increasing political pressure over accusations by Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s former female, indigenous attorney general, that he and other members of his administration attempted to pressure her to “abandon prosecution” of a “corrupt company,” SNC-Lavalin, that is allegedly tied to Trudeau’s political cronies. When she refused to cave, Wilson-Raybould says, Trudeau fired her. The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reports:

For some time, the story remained uncorroborated — a mere rumor that circulated around Canada’s government officials. But last week, Wilson-Raybould testified in front of Parliament, telling her story in “meticulous detail,” according to Canadian reporter Ezra Levant, parsing out “how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked.”

In a series of videos published by Global News, Trudeau’s attempt to explain the controversy at a climate change-focused rally on Monday was derailed when protesters erupted.

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at a rally on Monday amid the still-unfolding SNC-Lavalin affair, and the tone grew tense at times,” the outlet reports. “The rally, focused on climate change and taking place at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall, saw protesters interrupt the prime minister repeatedly before they were quickly ushered out of the venue.”

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