Trump Tells Democrats to Embrace Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal – Here’s WHY

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President Donald Trump sarcastically tweeted that he believed Democrats should embrace Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” resolution.

“I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal,” Trump tweeted Saturday evening. “It would be great for the so-called ‘Carbon Footprint’ to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!”

Ocasio-Cortez released her highly-anticipated Green New Deal resolution Thursday. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey released a companion bill in the Senate, and both versions were sponsored by Democratic lawmakers eyeing a 2020 presidential bid.

The Green New Deal bill calls for “10-year national mobilizations” to fight global warming by pushing “clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources” and “dramatically expanding and upgrading existing renewable power sources.” . . .

Republicans also caught a break because Ocasio-Cortez’s office botched the Green New Deal’s roll out. An “FAQ” document that Ocasio-Cortez’s staff distributed to the media along with the resolution contained numerous gaffes, including anti-nuclear language, a reference to “farty cows” and calls for “economic security” for people “unwilling to work.” (Read more from “Trump Tells Democrats to Embrace Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal – Here’s Why” HERE)

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Coming to America? Mom Arrested in Front of Kids for ‘Misgendering’ a Transgender ‘Woman’

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(Editor’s note: the mainstream press engages in the PC fiction that men can be women and vice versa. Thus, the improper use of pronouns in the article below. Our apologies)

A mother was arrested in front of her children and jailed after referring to a transgender woman as a man online.

Three officers detained Kate Scottow, a 38-year-old masters’ student, at her home in Hertfordshire, England and locked her up for seven hours last December. Her photograph, DNA, and fingerprints were taken, and she remains under investigation. . .

Scottow allegedly tweeted “defamatory” comments about Hayden amid a “toxic” online debate over proposed changes to the UK Gender Recognition Act, according to High Court papers obtained by The Mail on Sunday. She has been accused of a “campaign of targeted harassment” against Hayden, allegedly motivated by her “status as a transgender woman.”

Writing last week on Mumsnet, a popular British parenting website, Scottow said: “I was arrested in my home by three officers, with my autistic ten-year-old daughter and breastfed 20-month-old son present.”

“I was then detained for seven hours in a cell with no sanitary products (which I said I needed) before being interviewed then later released under investigation … I was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because I called someone out and misgendered them on Twitter.” (Read more from “Coming to America? Mom Arrested in Front of Kids for ‘Misgendering’ a Transgender Woman” HERE)

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Second Accuser Comes Forward Against Virginia Democrat Justin Fairfax

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A second women has publicly accused Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, of sexual assault. Meredith Watson said she was raped by Fairfax in 2000 when they were students at Duke University.

Watson said Fairfax’s attack was “premeditated and aggressive,” and calls for the Lt. Governor to resign. “Mrs. Watson shared her account of the rape with friends in a series of emails and Facebook messages that are now in our possession,” her statement said.

Fairfax denied the allegations as “demonstrably false” and has demanded an investigation to confirm his account. “I will clear my good name and have nothing to hide.” He has not indicated whether he is thinking of stepping down at this time. According to Watson’s statement, the two were friends at Duke but never dated or had a romantic relationship.

Watson’s accusation comes after another woman, Vanessa Tyson, came forward earlier this week with her own sexual assault allegations against Fairfax. Tyson alleges she had an encounter with Fairfax in 2004, in which she was forced to perform oral sex on him.

Fairfax denied Tyson’s allegations and said they were not credible because The Washington Post found “significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation,” when they investigated it over a year ago.

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Tax Refunds Are Shaping up to Be Smaller This Year. Here’s Why.

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Government income tax cuts, as promised, increased take-home pay for many people this year. But the downside is that tax returns are shaping up to be smaller.

On average, returns are about 8.4 percent smaller this year. Specifically, the average tax refund this year is $1,865, or $170 smaller than last year’s average of $2,035, according to IRS figures. The IRS data compared the cumulative statistics of Feb. 2, 2018 and Feb. 1, 2019, according to published reports.

“While some people likely noticed an uptick in their take-home pay, the amount might have been small enough that people didn’t notice, especially those who get direct deposit and might not look at their pay stubs,” NBC News explained. . .

One reason it’s happening is due to adjusted tax withholding tables under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in 2017. This marks the first year the changes went into effect. . .

To date, the IRS has received 12.4 percent less individual income tax returns than it did at this time last year, according to published reports. In all, $8.713 billion in tax refunds have been paid this year to 4,672,000 taxpayers. At the same time last year, 6,171,000 taxpayers received $12.560 billion in returns. (Read more from “Tax Refunds Are Shaping up to Be Smaller This Year. Here’s Why.” HERE)

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Warren Makes Insane Comment About Trump Being Jailed

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By The Blaze. On her first full day of campaigning as a declared presidential candidate, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) mused that President Donald Trump might be in jail by the time Election Day arrives.

“By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be President,” Warren reportedly told voters in Iowa. “In fact, he may not even be a free person.” . . .

“But her campaign, which has faced more direct attacks from Trump than other Democratic candidates, appears to see the question about Trump’s own viability as way to stop engaging with everything he says,” the Washington Post reported. . .

“Every day, there’s a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly,” the Massachusetts senator also said. “And what are we, as candidates, as activists, the press, going to do about it? Are we going to let him use those to divide us?”

Warren launched her own controversy by claiming she’s Native American. She recently apologized to the Cherokee Nation for a DNA test that revealed she has just a tiny percentage of Native American heritage. Then, the Washington Post learned that Warren hand-wrote “American Indian” as her “race,” on a State Bar of Texas registration card from 1986. (Read more from “Warren Makes Insane Comment About Trump Being Jailed” HERE)

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Warren: Trump ‘may not even be a free person’ by 2020

By CNN. President Donald Trump might be in jail by the time Election Day comes around, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on her first full day of campaigning as a declared presidential candidate.

“By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be President,” Warren said to voters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, gathered at the Veterans Memorial Building. “In fact, he may not even be a free person.”

The moment marked a notable shift in tone for Warren, who has been reluctant to take on Trump directly by name since she announced her exploratory campaign on New Year’s Eve.

Warren elaborated on those comments to reporters at an event in Iowa City, pointing to the ongoing investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election by special counsel Robert Mueller. (Read more from “Warren Makes Insane Comment About Trump Being Jailed” HERE)

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Mom Carries Dying Baby to Term Despite Prognosis. What She Did Next Blessed Countless Lives.

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By The Blaze. Krysta Davis was four months pregnant when she received the heart-shattering news: Her baby had a rare disorder and was expected to live only minutes after she was born. . .

Doctors gave Davis and her boyfriend, Dereck Lovett, just two options. They could induce labor immediately or have the baby and donate her organs. Davis and Lovett decided on the latter.

“We decided that even if we couldn’t bring our daughter home, no mother would have to go through what we were going to go through,” Davis, of Cleveland, Tennessee, told People magazine.

Their daughter, Rylei, was expected to live about 30 minutes after birth. Instead, she survived one week. . .

Most babies with Rylei’s condition don’t survive childbirth, said Dr. Kyle Gonzales, a maternal fetal medicine doctor at Erlanger Hospital, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Rylei was born. The hospital sees babies with Anencephaly about once every year, and none of them survive, Gonzales told the TV station.

(Read more from “Mom Carries Dying Baby to Term Despite Prognosis. What She Did Next Blessed Countless Lives.” HERE)

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“She’s a Hero”: Cleveland Baby Defies Odds, Saves Two Children

By News Channel 9. A Cleveland family is turning their worst day into hope for other families. Rylei Arcadia Lovett was born at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga on Christmas Eve. . .

Doctors told them if carried to full-term, they could donate her organs to save other children. Davis and Lovett looked at each other and knew that’s what they were going to do.

“If I wasn’t able to bring my baby home, at least others could bring theirs home.”

Rylei took her last breath New Year’s Eve night, one week after she entered the world. She beat her own odds of survival. . .

Gonzales say Erlanger says only sees babies with this condition about once a year. No baby survives it. (Read more from “She’s a Hero”: Cleveland Baby Defies Odds, Saves Two Children” HERE)

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Border Town Declares One of Trump’s Border Security Measures as ‘Inhuman’

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By Townhall. The small border town of Nogales, Arizona has issues with President Donald Trump’s move to secure the border by installing contra wire along the wall. City officials have deemed the installation “irresponsible” and “inhuman,” The Independent reported. On Wednesday, Nogales City Council passed a resolution that would sue the federal government if the barbed wire was not removed. . .

“I can’t really imagine why this is necessary, especially in a downtown area where we’re trying to build a business-friendly community, so close to an area where we’ve had economic problems in the past. This right here is not safe, for anybody walking through here. This wire is at ground level. It’s not only at the top, but it’s ground level,” Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino told CNN.

The most interesting aspect: Garino believes the contra wire is a threat to people (which is kind of the point of having it put up).

“Now concertina wire is being placed on that wall from the very top all the way to ground level, which is not safe for the residents of Nogales, Arizona, and it’s not safe for anyone getting close to it,” Garino said.

“That wire is lethal, and I really don’t know what they’re thinking by putting it all the way down to the ground,” Garino said. (Read more from “Border Town Declares One of Trump’s Border Security Measures as ‘Inhuman'” HERE)

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A Small Arizona Town Wants Feds to Remove Razor Wire From the Border Wall That Runs Through It

By CNN. An Arizona town is condemning the federal government’s use of razor wire on the border wall running through its downtown area as an “indiscriminate use of lethal force.”

The Nogales City Council passed the measure unanimously Wednesday night, and included a threat that it will sue the federal government if it doesn’t remove the wire, CNN affiliate KOLD reported. Nogales is a town of about 20,000 about an hour’s drive from Tucson.

The city’s resolution comes as the Pentagon announced this week it is sending 3,750 additional US forces to the southwest border to support Customs and Border Protection. As part of that deployment, troops are placing 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry.

In a video recorded in front of the wire before the meeting, Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino said, “I can’t really imagine why this is necessary, especially in a downtown area where we’re trying to build a business-friendly community, so close to an area where we’ve had economic problems in the past. This right here is not safe, for anybody walking through here. This wire is at ground level. It’s not only at the top, but it’s ground level.” (Read more from “A Small Arizona Town Wants Feds to Remove Razor Wire From the Border Wall That Runs Through It” HERE)

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Epidemic: Residents in This U.S. City Call 911 Every 15 Minutes Over Homeless People

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Officials in Portland, Ore. recently estimated it will cost $640 million over the next 10 years in order to help adequately prevent homelessness in the area, but a report out this week shows that many citizens from the City of Roses have simply resorted to calling the police on unwanted vagrants. In fact, authorities say that more any other problem, residents are calling the emergency hotline to complain about homeless people even when immediate danger is not present.

Katie Shepherd of the Willamette Week reports that the Portland Police Bureau receives a call from the public on average every 15 minutes per day to complain about an unsheltered person who “frightens or inconveniences them.” When lumped together with other calls such as mental health emergencies, police recive calls every 4 minutes for a non-violent issue. . .

“We get a lot of administrative-type calls,” Bureau of Emergency Communications director Bob Cozzie told WW. “Those kinds of things are certainly not 911 emergencies, but because they don’t know what other number to call, they call 911.”

This poses a problem for a number of reasons, chief among them the Portland Police have a lack of staff properly equipped to deal with homeless people who often have a mental illness. Advocates say the department needs more funding and training to help solve the crisis.

“The Portland Police Bureau has not been given nearly enough resources to fulfill its small piece in addressing the homelessness crisis,” police union president Daryl Turner said in a recent statement. “It’s a recipe for failure to put the burden of the homelessness solution on the Police Bureau’s shoulders and then give us insufficient resources to do the work.” (Read more from “Epidemic: Residents in This U.S. City Call 911 Every 15 Minutes Over Homeless People” HERE)

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Man Charged With Killing Pregnant Woman Won’t Be Charged With Abortion Due to New York’s New Law

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New York’s new law allowing late-term abortion has resulted in the dropping of abortion charges against a man arrested for murdering his pregnant girlfriend.

Jennifer Irigoyen was a 35-year-old real estate broker, a classical pianist, a professional Latin ballroom dancer, a certified Spinning instructor, and a licensed Zumba instructor. She was the mother of a 12-year-old boy from a previous relationship and five months pregnant at the time of her death.

This amazing woman’s life — and the life of her unborn child — was cut short after they were both stabbed to death in her Queens apartment building, according to Gothamist. Surveillance video from the apartment building showed Irigoyen being murdered, according to the superintendent, who told the New York Post that the woman screamed, “He’s got a knife! He’s going to kill the baby!”

Irigoyen’s boyfriend, 48-year-old Anthony Hobson, turned himself in to the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood, New York, and was arrested for the murder. He was initially charged “with murder, tampering with physical evidence, abortion, and criminal possession of a weapon,” according to Gothamist, but the “abortion” charge was later dropped.

The Post reports that the abortion charge was dropped because of a new state law that allows abortion up to the minute of birth. Even though Irigoyen wanted her baby, it was not considered a life under the new law. A spokesperson for the District Attorney told the Post the abortion charge “was repealed by the Legislature, and this is the law as it exists today.” (Read more from “Man Charged With Killing Pregnant Woman Won’t Be Charged With Abortion Due to New York’s New Law” HERE)

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Former Abortion Doctor Counters Progressive Narrative: ‘You Never Need Late-Term Abortion to Save a Woman’s Life’

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However, these results are misleading. Gallup’s question implies that there are certain circumstances during the third trimester of pregnancy in which an abortion could save a woman’s life. Such a question suggests that termination is sometimes the only solution to certain late-term medical scenarios. . .

During an interview with Live Action founder Lila Rose, former abortion doctor Anthony Levatino stated that late-term abortions are never medically necessary:

We hear all the time how abortion, including especially late-term abortion, is necessary to save women’s lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. I spent nine years working at a tertiary medical center. There are only certain hospitals in the country that are designated to take care of the really, really high-risk pregnancies …

Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where I worked, was one of them. I was faculty at the hospital for nine years, and I saw hundreds of cases of really severe pregnancy complications – cancers, heart disease, intractable diabetes … toxemia pregnancy, out of control. In those nine years, I saved hundreds of women from life-threatening pregnancies, and I did that by delivering them, by ending their pregnancy by delivery – either induction of labor or cesarean section…

I always tell people, in all of those years, the number of babies that I had to, that I was obligated to deliberately kill in the process was zero, none.

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