Poll: Nancy Pelosi’s Negatives Jumped More Than Trump’s During Shutdown

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Pundits are quick to tweet the top lines from a new NBC/WSJ poll showing that a majority of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track” following the government shutdown, but do you know the poll also found one Democratic leader’s negatives shot up more than any other politician?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is more unpopular than both President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

In fact, the percentage of respondents with a “very negative” of Pelosi increased by six points from 28 percent in December to 34 percent in January. President Trump’s “very negative” numbers held at 43 percent over the last month, and McConnell’s numbers actually improved by one point. Pelosi’s total numbers show a 19-point gap between her positives and negatives, larger than McConnell (18 points) and Trump (12 points).

But the headlines don’t mention that. NBC News’ write-up of the poll focused on how “six-in-10 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and nearly 70 percent of them have negative opinions on the state of the nation today.”

President Trump’s approval rating has held at 43 percent approval, with 54 percent of those polled disapproving of Trump’s performance in office. Other recent polls have shown President Trump’s approval rating taking a hit during the shutdown.

Many Americans may think the country is on the wrong track because of the government shutdown, but assigning all the blame to President Trump doesn’t reflect reality. (For more from the author of “Poll: Nancy Pelosi’s Negatives Jumped More Than Trump’s During Shutdown” please click HERE)

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POLAR VORTEX: It’s About to Get Very Cold in the Midwest

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The “polar vortex” is bearing down on the northern United States and is expected to drive temperatures as low as 20 to 30 degrees below zero, with windchills registering in the low -50s. The storm is expected to bring some of the coldest temperatures the midwest has seen in decades, and could set records in cities like Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“By Wednesday and Thursday, morning lows may reach the minus 20s in the Twin Cities, with minus teens and minus 20s in Des Moines, Iowa, Chicago and Milwaukee,” the Weather Channel reports. “Subzero-cold lows may extend through much of the Ohio Valley and into the interior Northeast by late-week. Thursday will be the coldest day along the Northeast Interstate 95 corridor with lows in the single digits from Washington D.C. to Boston.”

Accuweather reports that the temperatures are unique, also, in that they are “prolonged,” and could last from late Tuesday night through early Thursday morning: “Some locations in the Midwest will be below zero continuously for 48-72 hours.” The high on Thusday in Chicago is not expected to top -14 degrees. . .

The rest of the country isn’t safe, either. According to meteorologists with USA Today, one day after the record cold hits the midwest, it’ll bear down on Washington, D.C., and even the “Deep South,” though temperatures down the Eastern seaboard aren’t expected to fall below zero. . .

Places as far south as Jackson, Mississippi; Birmingham, Alabama; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, may see upwards of an inch of snow. “Atlanta could even receive a coating to an inch of snow,” one local weatherman predicted, giving Georgia students an official “snow day” later in the week — something they rarely experience. (Read more from “POLAR VORTEX: It’s About to Get Very Cold in the Midwest” HERE)

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Rashida Tlaib’s Ties to Anti-Semitism Run Deeper Than Previously Known

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Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ties to anti-Semitism run deeper than previously known, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Tlaib, part of a heralded freshman class of House Democrats, has already come under scrutiny over her positions on Israel and ties to fringe figures. But TheDCNF’s investigation uncovered additional ties to anti-Semitism.

Tlaib is a member of the Facebook group “Palestinian American Congress,” where members often demonize Jews. The group’s founder, Palestinian activist Maher Abdel-qader, was a key fundraiser for Tlaib and organized campaign events for her around the country.

In January 2018, Abdel-qader shared an anti-Semitic video that claimed Jews aren’t actually Jewish, and invented their historical claim to Israel and secretly control the media. . .

In several other posts to the group, Abdel-qader insisted that Israeli Jews aren’t actually Jews and in one October 2017 post, he accused Israeli settlers of training children “to terrorize Palestinian civilians.” (Read more from “Rashida Tlaib’s Ties to Anti-Semitism Run Deeper Than Previously Known” HERE)

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D.C.’s Homicide Rate Soars in the Midst of National Decline

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Zyair Bradley was 20 years old. He loved football and boxing, music, dancing and playing jokes on people. He had a job and “a million friends.” He was a son, a protective big brother and his mother’s “beautiful angel.” He was also one of 18 people to have been murdered in the District of Columbia just this month.

As homicides across the country’s most populated cities declined overall in 2018, Washington, D.C. saw an increase of almost 42 percent in its murder rate, which experts say will continue to trend upwards in 2019. The D.C. Chief of Police warned that easing penalties would make the District less safe.

“Repeat offenders who have committed gun crimes will be back on the street sooner,” wrote Chief Peter Newsham in an editorial that ran in The Washington Post last summer. “Less-stringent penalties embolden criminals, demoralize law enforcement and enable violent offenders to return more quickly to terrorizing the very communities who are calling out to the government for help.” . . .

The Brennan Center for Justice reported 116 homicides in the District in 2017 and 165 in 2018. In other cities like Baltimore, Detroit and Chicago, homicides fell.

Robert Contee, the assistant chief of the Investigative Services Bureau at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, D.C., pointed to a few central issues at the heart of the homicide spike. (Read more from “D.C.’s Homicide Rate Soars in the Midst of National Decline” HERE)

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This Is Trump’s Plan for the Border Wall ‘With or Without Democrats’

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By PJ Media. The White House said on Friday night that Donald Trump will “move forward” with funding for a wall along the southern border “with our without the Democrats.”

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee tweeted the warning while she defended the president against conservative criticism that he caved on wall funding in order to end the shutdown.

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So did Trump cave to the Democrats or is he playing possum? CNN has been reporting all week that the White House has been working on declaring a national emergency and would get funds to build the wall from various government sources, including the military. (Read more from “This Is Trump’s Plan for the Border Wall ‘With or Without Democrats'” HERE)

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Trump Says There’s a Good Chance of Declaring National Emergency

By Breitbart. President Donald Trump said Friday there was a “good chance” of declaring a State of Emergency on the Southern border, shortly after announcing his short-term surrender to Democrats on the partial government shutdown fight.

“I think we have a good chance,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate and if we can’t do that, then obviously we’ll do the emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency.”

Declaring a national emergency would allow the president to shift funding to secure the border without Congress, although it would likely be challenged in court.

The president made his remarks during a White House event with Hispanic pastors on Friday to discuss the importance of security on the Southern border. (Read more from “Trump Says There’s a Good Chance of Declaring National Emergency” HERE)

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Pregnant Cancer Patient Puts off Treatment to Save Baby’s Life, Refuses to Consider Abortion

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. . .The heroic decision was chronicled during a recent episode of “Hospital” on BBC Two, the Daily Mail reported. The program offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of England’s National Health Service.

On Thursday, the show followed staff and patients at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. That’s where a story emerged about a pregnant woman identified only as “Kate,” who was given a life-altering diagnosis: Her breast cancer returned and spread to her bones. . .

Kate was first diagnosed with cancer in her 20s and had both of her breasts removed in 2008. She and her husband, Glen, waited more than five years to have their second child so Kate could finish treatments designed to prevent the cancer from returning, according to the report. . .

The heart-wrenching story arrives as the U.S. is caught in a firestorm over New York State’s announcement that it will allow abortions up until a baby is born. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the New York’s Reproductive Health Act, on Jan. 22, the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.

Supporters claim the law is intended offer protection is a woman’s health is at risk. But the measure also moved the abortion law “from the state’s penal code to its health code,” which eliminates the chance for doctors and others to face prosecution, according to Newsday. (Read more from “Pregnant Cancer Patient Puts off Treatment to Save Baby’s Life, Refuses to Consider Abortion” HERE)

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School Board Keeps Policy Pushing Male Coach to Supervise Undressing Girl

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In November I reported on a Florida transgender school policy that resulted in demanding that a male athletic coach supervise an 14-year-old girl undressing in the boys’ locker room, without informing the boys’ parents. The policy was written by a school district employee who refers students to outside organizations that may, without their parents’ knowledge, provide HIV-resistant drugs to minors for risky sexual encounters.

Last week, objecting parents packed the Pasco County School Board’s regular meeting and filled the public comment period. Each received three minutes for comments, after which the board adjourned with zero action on the matter, and no indication of any future action.

Male middle school P.E. teacher Rob Oppedisano, who objected to this policy after boys came running out of the locker room in confusion when they found a girl in their private space, says in return he received employment threats from the school district.

During his public testimony on Jan 15, Oppedisano also said he complained to his administrators that such a policy, besides being morally wrong, would open the district to lawsuits. For example, a male teacher in the district was recently arrested for recording a video of a female student changing her shirt.

“I mentioned that no girl should be taking off her clothes in front of these young boys or grown men, both her privacy and the boys’ privacy needed to be protected,” Oppedisano said in his public comments. “I mentioned that parents needed to be informed. [The school district’s lawyer] told me that only the female student had any rights, and the parents would not be informed.”

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Left-Wing Rep. Ilhan Omar Faces New Backlash Over Effort to Gain Leniency for 9 Men Accused of Trying to Join ISIS

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is facing new scrutiny after it was revealed she once attempted to win leniency for a group of Minnesota men accused of trying to join the Islamic State. . .

In 2016, Omar wrote to Judge Michael Davis on behalf of Abdirahman Yasin Daud, who was one of two young men arrested in San Diego in 2015, but were members of a larger group attempting to join ISIS, according to KMSP-TV. The group consisted of nine Somali-Americans.

Specifically, Daud was arrested for attempting to purchase fake passports for travel to Syria. Federal prosecutors recommended in 2016 that Daud serve 30 years in federal prison with a lifetime of supervised release.

At the time, Omar — who was only a Minnesota state lawmaker — urged Davis to exercise “compassion” on the men, employing a “restorative approach to justice.” She emphasized that the ruling would “set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.” . . .

In the end, Omar’s plea did not persuade Davis, who sentenced Daud to 30 years in federal prison. He was found guilty on charges of “conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit murder outside the U.S.,” according to the Chicago Tribune. (Read more from “Left-Wing Rep. Ilhan Omar Faces New Backlash Over Effort to Gain Leniency for 9 Men Accused of Trying to Join ISIS” HERE)

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Report Reveals Hillary Is Really Considering 2020

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Failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is reportedly telling close advisers and friends that she hasn’t fully “shut the door” on a 2020 presidential campaign. . .

“Clinton is telling people that she’s not closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020,” CNN reported Jeff Zeleny told the network Sunday morning on “Inside Politics.” “I’m told by three people that as recently as this week, she was telling people that look, given all this news from the indictments, particularly the Roger Stone indictment, she talked to several people, saying ‘look, I’m not closing the doors to this.'”

Although, Zeleny added, he does not believe “that there’s a campaign-in-waiting, or a plan in the works,” or that Clinton is likely to throw her hat into the ring for 2020 unless there’s truly a dearth of qualified Democratic candidates.

That said, according to Zeleny, the rumor is a strong one. “I think we have to at least leave our mind open to the possibility that she is still talking about it. She wants to take on Trump. Could she win a Democratic primary to do it? I don’t know the answer to that.”

The answer to that is likely, “no.” Unlike in the two previous contests Clinton entered, she would be competing against a strong field of Democratic contenders in 2020, each hell-bent on being the Democratic choice to dethrone President Donald Trump. And while the party may still be finding its footing, deciding where on the spectrum from progressive to moderate it wants to be while up against the Republican populist President, one thing is for certain: they’re looking for fresh blood. (Read more from “Report Reveals Hillary Is Really Considering 2020” HERE)

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Horrifying Tradition of Ironing Developing Girls’ Breasts Spreading

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. . .So-called “breast-ironing” entails taking hot stones to a girl’s chest, as you would an iron, in order to stunt her development. The painful practice may be done numerous times to a growing child, often on a weekly basis, depending on how each girl’s development is affected.

“Breast-ironing” is typically done by female elders in the girl’s family, such as her mother, with the supposed purpose of keeping unwanted male attention away from the child and curb the threat of rape and sexual assault, a report from The Guardian details.

With the massive influx of migration — often without assimilation — the abusive practice has popped up across the pond in an estimated 1,000 cases. The United Nations has categorized the practice as one of the top five under-reported gender-specific global crimes.

“Community workers in London, Yorkshire, Essex and the West Midlands have told the Guardian of cases in which pre-teen girls from the diaspora of several African countries are subjected to the painful, abusive and ultimately futile practice,” the report found.

An unnamed community activist told The Guardian that she’s aware of 15-20 cases of breast-ironing in Croydon, a town in England, alone. “It’s usually done in the UK, not abroad like female genital mutilation (FGM),” said the activist. “Sometimes they do it once a week, or once every two weeks, depending on how it comes back,” she noted. (Read more from “Horrifying Tradition of Ironing Developing Girls’ Breasts Spreading” HERE)

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