Times Square Billboard Owners Refuse Space for Pro-Life Event

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On Saturday, May 4, Focus on the Family [held] an event it’s calling “Alive from New York,” featuring speakers, live music, and a “live 4D ultrasound of a baby in the third trimester of pregnancy and broadcast on the jumbotrons in the middle of Manhattan.” New York became a focal point of the abortion debate in January, when the state enacted a law effectively permitting abortion-on-demand up until birth, to the cheers of Democrat lawmakers and left-wing activists.

“Nearly 60 million babies have been aborted since 1973,” the group explained. “In fact, just three miles from where we’ll be gathering on May 4th, sits Planned Parenthood’s largest clinic. Over 11,000 babies are aborted there each year, an unfathomable fact for anyone who loves and cherishes life. So, our goal is to fill Times Square with joy-filled people who are committed to protecting pre-born life.”

On Wednesday, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly announced that three of the companies who own Times Square billboards – Silvercast, Clear Channel Outdoor, and ABC Supersign – have refused to lease space for the pro-life event.

“In many ways, this blockade only confirms what we’ve long known,” Daly wrote. “There are many people who don’t want the world to see these images of preborn life, because the abortion industry is predicated on a lie – namely that a baby is just a blob of tissue inside the womb.” . . .

Pro-lifers support and abortion activists oppose ultrasound requirements for their ability to convey the humanity of preborn babies and dissuade women from abortion. Pro-life groups Save the Storks says that four out of five pregnant women who see one of their free ultrasounds ultimately choose life. (Read more from “Times Square Billboard Owners Refuse Space for Pro-Life Event” HERE)

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Want to See Bill and Hillary Clinton on Tour? Grab Your Couch Change

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By The Blaze. The disastrous “An Evening With The Clintons” tour is coming mercifully to its end, and if you want to be there for the final moments, it won’t cost you much. Ticket prices have been slashed, slashed, and slashed again.

The tour is wrapping up over the weekend, and Sunday night’s final show at the MGM isn’t even sold out yet. Tickets for the weekend’s shows were going for prices so low you would probably pay more for an uber to the venue or the parking outside than the entry fee to hear Bill and Hillary talk. . .

On Saturday, the Daily Wire found StubHub prices at an amazing $6 for the LA show. And the DailyMail found them for TWO DOLLARS. . .

This isn’t a late-breaking development. Prices began to drop off a cliff at the end of last year. The tour took a break for the winter, but coming back didn’t rescue flagging sales.

Last week in D.C., they threw in a video of Hillary Clinton reading from the Mueller report, but over most of the tour they haven’t talked much Trump–perhaps a contributing factor in the lack of interest. In Seattle on Friday, Hillary opened the show by saying America is in a “constitutional crisis.” (Read more from “Want to See Bill and Hillary Clinton on Tour? Grab Your Couch Change” HERE)

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Ticket Prices to See Clintons Plummet

By The Daily Caller. The former president and first lady are on the speaking circuit but the cost of seeing the pair pontificate on politics and current affairs is dropping as the tour progresses. Tickets can be had for as little as $20 while the VIP seating at Seattle’s WaMu Theatre was priced at $829 — down from the $1,785 asking price when the tour began last November, the Seattle Times reported. . .

Tour organizers have cut prices and reached out to Groupon to sell tickets, according to the New York Post.

The Clintons faced an overwhelmingly positive audience in Seattle, according to a Times reviewer. Hillary Clinton, who spent much of 2017 on an international speaking tour to promote her book “What Happened” stuck to a political patter that is heavily critical of President Donald Trump. (Read more from “Ticket Prices to See Clintons Plummet” HERE)

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Muslim Society ‘Investigating’ Alarming Video of Children, Attempts to Defend Content

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A national Muslim group says it will conduct an investigation into an event at a Philadelphia Islamic center last month during which a group of youngsters sang songs it said were not “properly vetted,” calling that “an unintended mistake and an oversight.”

Youngsters at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in North Philadelphia are shown in video footage speaking in Arabic during a celebration of “Ummah Day,” said the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East monitoring organization. One girl says “we will chop off their heads” to “liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Jerusalem, according to the MEMRI. . .

“While we celebrate the coming together of different cultures and languages, not all songs were properly vetted,” the Muslim American Society, based in Washington, said in a statement issued Friday. “This was an unintended mistake and an oversight in which the center and the students are remorseful. MAS will conduct an internal investigation to ensure this does not occur again.” . . .

In a subsequent statement late Saturday night, MAS said it has been informed that “the person in charge” of the April 17 event has been “dismissed” and that the organization in charge of it “will form a local commission to aid in sensitivity training and proper oversight for future programs.” MAS said it owns the property where the program was held and leases it to the school’s operator.

According to MEMRI, one girl reads: “We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.” (Read more from “Muslim Society ‘Investigating’ Alarming Video of Children, Attempts to Defend Content” HERE)

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Massive Beer Company Selling Rainbow Beer Bottles to Benefit Homosexuals

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In honor of Pride Month, Bud Light will be selling special rainbow bottles in partnership with the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). . .

“Bud Light is partnering with GLAAD to launch its first-ever rainbow aluminum bottle to celebrate World Pride,” reports PR Newswire. “The new limited-edition bottles will be available in bars nationwide throughout the month of June. For every case of rainbow bottles sold from May 27 to June 30, Bud Light will donate $1 to GLAAD, up to $150,000 to assist in their efforts of creating a world where everyone can live the life they love.”

The bottles will also include a pro-LGBT message about love and inclusivity in place of the Bud Light creed printed on the bottle’s crest. They will be introduced at the GLAAD Media Awards this weekend in New York City before going on sale in bars later this month.

In a statement, Andy Goeler, Vice President of Marketing for Bud Light, highlighted the company’s ongoing relationship with the LGBTQ community since the 80s, saying the new rainbow bottles will be for everyone to enjoy.

“Bud Light has been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community since the 80s and we are excited to continue our long-standing partnership with GLAAD by collaborating with them on this new commemorative bottle that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and everything GLAAD does to support it,” said Goeler. “The way we see it, our beer is for everyone to enjoy, so we are looking forward to seeing Pride bottles at bars throughout the month of June and beyond. With the release of these new bottles, we hope to create something that everyone can feel proud to hold during Pride month that also makes a positive impact for GLAAD’s initiatives and the LGBTQ+ community overall.” (Read more from “Massive Beer Company Selling Rainbow Beer Bottles to Benefit Homosexuals” HERE)

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Trump Administration Announces New Protections for Pro-Life Health Care Orgs

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The Trump administration finalized a new rule in the Department of Health and Human services to protect the conscience rights of pro-life people and institutions in the health care field, officials announced Thursday.

The actual finalized rule is a pretty long one, totaling a whopping 440 pages in PDF form. The summary section at the top of the document states that the new rules are meant to step up the enforcement efforts of laws already passed by Congress to “ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal conscience and anti‐discrimination laws applicable to the Department, its programs, and recipients of HHS funds.”

A primary goal of the new regulation is to ensure that people and institutions in the medical field cannot be discriminated against by the government or others because of beliefs that bar them from taking part in or providing abortion. It also protects beliefs against contraception and “assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing.”

The enforcement of those new laws will fall to HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR).

“This rule ensures that healthcare entities and professionals won’t be bullied out of the health care field because they decline to participate in actions that violate their conscience, including the taking of human life,” reads a statement from OCR Director Roger Severino. “Protecting conscience and religious freedom not only fosters greater diversity in healthcare, it’s the law.”

“Laws prohibiting government funded discrimination against conscience and religious freedom will be enforced like every other civil rights law,” explained Severino.

On a call with reporters Thursday afternoon, Severino went into greater detail on the scope of the rule, explaining that it’s meant to be an improvement over 2011 Obama administration regulations that have proven inadequate in the years since their enactment.

As an example of people who would be protected under the new regulations, Severino reminded reporters of the story of Cathy DeCarlo, a pro-life New York nurse who was forced by her employer to take part in an abortion, despite her clear, conscientious objections to doing so.

Severino also that the new regulations would even go as far as ensuring that pro-life medical students would not face discrimination because of their views, saying that medical specialities like gynecology and obstetrics should not be “pro-life-free zones.”

The rule stems from a 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump directing his administration to “to vigorously enforce Federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom.”

President Trump announced the new regulations during his remarks from the White House Rose Garden for the National Day of Prayer on Thursday.

“Together, we are building a culture that cherishes the dignity and worth of human life,” the president said, saying that the rules would protect the conscience rights of “physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities.”

“Every child born and unborn is a sacred gift from God,” Trump added, to applause from the attendees.

Like other federal regulations, the new conscience rule will go into effect 60 days from its publication in the Federal Register. On the call, Severino told reporters that he expects publication to happen “very soon.” (For more from the author of “Trump Administration Announces New Protections for Pro-Life Health Care Orgs” please click HERE)

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Fauxcahontas Doubles Down on ‘Racism’ of Doctors, Nurses Caring for Black Women

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is doubling down on the case she made at the She the People Presidential Forum last month that doctors’ and nurses’ “prejudice” makes them treat black women differently than white women when it comes to maternal health treatment.

“We have failed our babies exactly in the way you talk about,” Warren said at the forum, then went on to say that those failures affect all black women regardless of their education or income.

“And the best studies that I’m seeing put it down to just one thing — prejudice,” Warren said. “That doctors and nurses don’t hear African-American women’s medical issues the same way that they hear the same things from white women.”

In an op-ed published earlier this week in Essence magazine, Warren doubled down on her claim, this time naming the “study” conducted by ProPublica, an “investigative journalism” organization funded by leftists, including George Soros. . .

The data shows that black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes. This trend persists even after adjusting for income and education. One major reason? Racism. In a detailed report, ProPublica found that the vast majority of maternal deaths are preventable, but decades of racism and discrimination mean that, too often, doctors and nurses don’t hear Black women’s health issues the same way they hear them from other women.

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Airline Agent Caught on Video Losing It With Cop Passenger, Wife

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By The Blaze. An American Airlines customer service agent recently was caught on video in an argument with a police officer passenger and his wife over missing luggage, saying the officer “might kill me.”

The officer’s wife, Theresia Tirado, told WREG-TV the employee also said, “You’re a cop. That means you’re a killer.” . . .

Tirado told Blue Lives Matter that she, her husband Michael — a New Jersey correctional officer — and their two kids were traveling to Florida when bad weather led to the cancellation of their Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, flight.

So the family was rerouted through Memphis, Tennessee, to Miami, she told the outlet, and when they arrived in Memphis after midnight, they faced a four-hour-plus layover before their next flight.

The American Airlines gate agent suggested they make sure all their luggage made it on their new flight, Blue Lives Matter said. Sure enough, one bag was missing — and so they went to speak to an American Airlines customer service agent in the baggage claim office, the outlet said. (Read more from “Airline Agent Caught on Video Losing It With Cop Passenger, Wife” HERE)

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Couple Says American Airlines Employee Called Cop ‘a Killer’

By News Channel 3. The family consists of Theresia Tirado, her husband, and their two sons. She says one of their bags didn’t make it to the airport. So they went to customer service and asked an attendant where it was. She claims he wasn’t helpful. . .

She says the attendant got angry and, for some reason, started ranting about how his children are doctors and lawyers. That’s when Tirado’s husband told him he was a police officer.

“And he said, ‘You’re a cop. That means you’re a killer.” . . .

Her husband started recording after that. In the video, you hear the attendant say, “He might kill me.” . . .

“He might kill me because he’s a police officer who called me useless,” the attendant says back. (Read more from “Couple Says American Airlines Employee Called Cop ‘a Killer'” HERE)

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Merriam-Webster Adds Three New Transgender Terms to Dictionary

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By The Blaze. Merriam-Webster announced recently that it added hundreds of words to its dictionary, including three transgender terms.

Gender nonconforming, top surgery, and bottom surgery were among the 640 words that made it into the April update.

The more than 190-year-old company said that the revision “mirrors the culture’s need to make sense of the world with words.”

“It all begins, in each case, with evidence of words in use. Each word follows its own path at its own pace before its use is widespread enough to be included in a dictionary,” the company explained on its website. (Read more from “Merriam-Webster Adds Three New Transgender Terms to Dictionary” HERE)

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We Added New Words to the Dictionary in April 2019

By Merriam-Webster. The English language never sleeps, and neither does the dictionary. The work of revising a dictionary is constant, and it mirrors the culture’s need to make sense of the world with words. There are always new things to be named and new uses for existing words to be explained. A release of new words is also a map of the workings of a dictionary—you get to see what we’ve been up to—and of how words from different contexts come to reside in the same place. . .

[Some of the newly added words:]

Gender nonconforming: exhibiting behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits that do not correspond with the traits typically associated with one’s sex.

Top surgery: a type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person’s breasts are removed or augmented to match their gender identity.

Bottom surgery: a type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person’s genitalia are altered to match their gender identity.

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HILARIOUS: Talk Show Host Mocks Biden’s Botched Campaign Slogan

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Late-night host Stephen Colbert jabbed former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night for botching an opportunity to best President Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan.

Appearing on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, anchor Robin Roberts asked Biden how he plans to compete with President Trump’s iconic “Make America Great Again” slogan that catapulted him to success in 2016. “The president has a motto: ‘Make America Great Again.’ Do you have one?” Robin Roberts asked Biden.

The vice president did not exactly give a catchy answer and threw out a litany of potential campaign slogans that would not really work as an acronym like MAGA. “Make America Moral Again,” he told Robin Roberts. “Make America return to the essence of who we are, the dignity of the country, the dignity of people and treating our people with dignity and this God-awful deliberate division that’s being taken in order to separate people to aggrandize his own power.”

After playing a clip of Biden’s jumbled reply, Colbert quipped, “Move over, MAGA,” and then attempted to create an acronym out of his answer.

“MAGA’s over because Biden’s coming at you with: MAMAMARTTEOWWATDOTC…” Colbert continued, in a moment noted by Fox News. “A little awkward to say, I’ll admit, but it’s going to look fantastic on his hat.” (Read more from “Talk Show Host Mocks Biden’s Botched Campaign Slogan” HERE)

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Transgender Weightlifter Smashes Multiple Women’s World Records in Single Day – Olympic Winners Speak Out

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Powerlifter Mary Gregory — a biological male competing as a transgender female — announced Saturday on Instagram setting four women’s world records in one day at a Raw Powerlifting Federation event: Masters world squat, open world bench press, masters world deadlift, and masters world total.

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What a day, 9 for 9! Masters world squat record, open world bench record, masters world dl record, and masters world total record! Still processing, full meet recap to come a bit later but I do want to thank a few people!💜 – From our initial consultation I told @savvysavit that I wanted to cut to the 82.5kg class, go 9 for 9, and set some records- we did it!!! I don't think she was happy with me cutting but she was there offering her support. When I needed a pick me up or advice she was there! Thank you coach!💜 – A huge thank you to @raw_powerlifting_federation_ , from the bottom of my heart! As a transgender lifter I was unsure what to expect going into this meet and everyone- all the spotters, loaders, referees, staff, meet director, all made me welcome and treated me as just another female lifter- thank you! And thanks to all the fans in the audience who cheered me on and congratulated me!💜 – Thank @rrrrachele for making the trip out to support me today, video my lifts, and cheer me on!💜 – And thank you to all the peeps on Instagram who reached out to offer your support!💜 – Now for 🍷 and 🍕!!! – #transgenderwoman#sharetheplatform#transrightsarehumanrights#lgbtq#bemoreawesome#upliftandliftheavy#morefemalestrength#richmondbalance#liftlunchlearnrva#squat#bench#deadlift

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However, a pair of Olympic medalists — who happen to be biological females — decried Gregory’s world record-setting efforts.

First up was former swimmer Sharron Davies who won a silver medal for Great Britain in the 1980 Summer Olympics. Davies — who’s been outspoken against transgender females competing against biological females — tweeted that Gregory has a “male body with male physiology” and that a “woman with female biology cannot compete. It’s a pointless unfair playing field.”

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