Officials at Grand Canyon University, the largest Christian university in the United States, last week blocked conservative commentator Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus as part of an upcoming Young Americans Foundation event.
Now, the university is facing criticism after officials released a lengthy statement explaining the decision to bar Shapiro. . .
In a scathing statement Friday, YAF spokesman Spencer Brown revealed that GCU officials told students the university would not “provide a venue” for Shapiro’s upcoming speech.
School administrators reportedly also said that Shapiro’s speech style is divisive and “cut throat.” Additionally, YAF reported that GCU president Brian Mueller personally approved denying Shapiro a venue, believing the university would dodge negative media attention.
Brown said in a statement: “By caving to an unseen mob and ignoring the popularity of Shapiro among its student body, Grand Canyon University just played itself and deserves whatever negative response this brings. GCU has abandoned the sentiment of its own proclaimed values, deluded itself into acting like the liberal campuses it claims to differ from, and blindly accepted the Left’s ludicrous argument that Shapiro’s presence somehow damages students, campuses, or debate.” (Read more from “Largest U.S. Christian University Blocks Ben Shapiro From Speaking on Campus. Then Officials Release Statement.” HERE)
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Multiple artists were asked to perform during the coveted Super Bowl halftime show. There were quite a few who decided to turn down the gig. Their reason? They supposed Collin Kaepernick kneeling to “bring awareness” to supposed instances of police brutality and racial inequality. His actions started a political firestorm involving the National Football League. Other players began following suit and conservative football lovers who disagreed with the supposed policy brutality boycotted tuning into games.
Ultimately, Maroon 5, Big Boi of Outkast and rapper Travis Scott agreed to perform during the show. In order for Scott to agree to perform, the NFL had to agree to make a $500,000 donation to The Dream Corps, a progressive organization founded by CNN’s Van Jones. . .
[Cardi B] “My husband [Rapper Offset], he loves football. His kids play football. It’s really hard for him. … He really wants to go to the Super Bowl, but he can’t go to the Super Bowl, because he’s got to stand for something,” the rapper told the Associated Press. “You have to sacrifice that. I got to sacrifice a lot of money to perform. But there’s a man who sacrificed his job for us, so we got to stand behind him.” . . .
The NFL and CBS really wanted Rihanna to be next year’s performer in Atlanta,” the source explained. “They offered it to her, but she said no because of the kneeling controversy. She doesn’t agree with the NFL’s stance.” . . .
Another singer who decided not to participate was Pink. According to Entertainment Tonight, Pink decided to move on because the the negotiations were taking too long. (Read more from “These Are the Celebrities Who Refused to Perform During the Super Bowl Halftime Show” HERE)
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This week, Democrats finally succumbed to the inescapable logic of abortion. They have admitted, perhaps against their better judgement, that there really is no difference between abortion and infanticide.
Between New York’s expansive new abortion legislation, a bill now before the Virginia General Assembly, and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s infamous comments about making a just-born infant “comfortable” while the mother and a physician discuss whether to snuff its life out, there can be no doubt that Democrats have acceded to the demands of their own ruthless logic on abortion.
What that logic demands is nothing less than unrestricted abortion up to the moment of birth and after. There is almost nothing in these bills to limit late-term abortion. Indeed, they constitute a strenuous effort to free late-term abortion of any kind of medical justification.
The Virginia bill, for example, would change state law to allow third-trimester abortions if the continuation of the pregnancy is likely to “impair the mental or physical health of the woman”—removing the qualifiers “substantially and irremediably.”
In other words, almost any impairment—anxiety, depression, physical discomfort—is enough to justify abortion up to the point of delivery. As my colleague David Harsanyi pointed out on Twitter, is there a difference between aborting a fetus in the third trimester because it’s causing the mother emotional distress, and killing a premature infant in the NICU for the same reason? If there is a difference, what is it? Will any Democrat say?
I wish someone could explain the moral difference between going to a NICU unit and injecting poison into a premature baby that is causing the mother emotional stress & injecting poison into another baby – same age; same reason– that's in the womb?
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You’ve no doubt heard anecdotal evidence of Facebook users feeling better after they’ve quit the social network, but how often does that help, really? A fair amount, according to researchers. A study from New York University and Stanford showed that Facebook users were happier, more satisfied with life and slightly less likely to feel anxious, depressed or lonely. They also used other social networks less, and used Facebook less when they came back. . .
This doesn’t necessarily mean that you should rush to delete your account — as TechCrunch observed, there are some factors to consider. This is self-reported data, so there’s a chance this doesn’t represent the subjects’ complete emotional landscape. It’s unclear what would happen if the break were longer, for that matter. Also, the researchers conducted this study ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, right when political tensions were high. It might have been more enjoyable to leave Facebook simply because it helped users avoid heated debates and rhetoric. (Read more from “Delete Facebook: Study Reveals Facebook Users Are Happier After Leaving for a Month” HERE)
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With all the municipal governments banning the use of plastic straws, somebody has to be the guy that enforces it. In our nation’s capital, that man is Zach Rybarczyk, an inspector for the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, who goes from restaurant to restaurant issuing notices to any violators, reports the Anchorage Daily News.
Rybarczyk described his recent patrol of D.C.’s Union Station food court, where one violator, the Chinese restaurant Lotus Express, was issued a warning: Should the restaurant fail to eliminate their stash of plastic straws, they would be fined up to $800.
“At Lotus Express, the inspector, one of three dispatched by the city to check cafeterias, bars and restaurants, scribbled the restaurant’s name on the paper sleeve of the plastic straw and tucked it into his back pocket, along with two others from scofflaw restaurants,” reports the Anchorage Daily News. “He planned to later check whether they floated in water, another telltale sign of prohibited plastic.”
Julie Lawson, director of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s Office of the Clean City, told the Anchorage Daily News that plastic straws will soon become as socially unacceptable as tobacco.
“It’s pretty absurd the amount of resources we put into creating plastic materials that we are using for five minutes to an hour, and then never again,” said Lawson. “Single-use plastics are taking the same cultural place as tobacco, where it’s socially unacceptable.” (Read more from “Meet Washington’s Plastic Straw Cop” HERE)
When is it time to question the power of the pro-life movement? This week the state of New York passed a law that will mean babies can be killed up to the moment of birth. Babies that feel pain, cry, and could easily survive outside the womb will be brutally killed, chopped up, and sucked out like pieces of meat. Vermont is considering a similar bill. So is Virginia.
Meanwhile, the annual March for Life had a huge turnout this year, estimated to be as high as 300,000 people. How do these two things go together? Perhaps big marches are not a sign of success.
A New York book store owner, who became somewhat famous after he shut down his store in protest of the new abortion law, put it this way: “When intense pro-life involvement is defined by going to an annual pep rally or giving five bucks to a pro-life lobbyist at a Sanctity of Life Sunday, it’s not surprising that someone hanging a sign in his window, turning off the lights and going home is viewed as heroic.”
The pro-life movement has too much bark and no bite, too much signal and too little virtue. It takes participation in a march as more significant than legal victories ending abortion. The simple truth is that the pro-life movement is stagnant, dominated by an uncritical and defeatist attitude. It needs some new life.
A friend who worked for a pro-life organization very much in the “the movement” confirms this. He became frustrated that people there ignore the evidence in front of them, and instead show excitement about the size of the marches, acting “as if our country is turning a corner and is getting closer and closer to life.” Meanwhile, they react more strongly to those who challenge their approved legal tactics or rhetoric than they do actual political defeats, as if questioning the success of the movement is some sort of heresy. (Read more from “It’s Time for Pro-Lifers to Realize They’re Losing” HERE)
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Cumberland County High School students filed a lawsuit against their Pennsylvania school district over what they call an unconstitutional ban on distributing the Bible on campus.
The students, leaders of the Christians in Action Student Club, filed their lawsuit against Mechanicsburg Area School District (MASD) Wednesday with the help of Independence Law Center after the district refused to rescind its policies preventing the students from handing out Bibles on campus during non-instructional hours. The law firm, a local pro-bono legal organization, initially sent a letter to school district administrators challenging them to rescind their “Bible ban.”
The school district responded to the challenge, claiming the law firm’s allegations were “misleading” and that the students never formally requested to hand out Bibles and were therefore never officially prohibited from distributing scripture. The law firm disputed the district’s claim, saying that email records proved otherwise. . .
The students alleged that their school principal, David Harris, denied their request to hand out Bibles to their friends during lunch and told them that they would have to get approval from the school administration even if they wanted to hand out Bibles after school hours. School policy reportedly relegates students’ free speech to 30 minutes before school and 30 minutes after school on sidewalks bordering school property. (Read more from “U.S. School District Attempting Unconstitutional Bible Ban” HERE)
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A suspected robber is dead after allegedly trying to rob a Family Dollar in Dekalb County, Georgia, and ignoring the customer who was armed behind him during the altercation.
The attempted robbery occurred on Tuesday morning when a man walked into the discount store and pointed a gun at two employees.
While one employee was handing over money to the robber, a customer walked from the back of the store to the front, and witnessed the robber pointing his gun at the employee’s head.
He then pulled his own gun out and shot the robber several times. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. . .
Police say the customer who killed the would-be robber will not be charged with any crime. They are hailing him as a “good Samaritan” for stopping the robbery and possibly saving the lives of many people. (Read more from “Robber Points Gun at Family Dollar Employees — His Last Mistake Was Ignoring an Armed Customer Behind Him” HERE)
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. . .Jessica Medina, a volunteer leader, told police that a possibly disguised man took the envelope containing $500 cash and multiple checks off the table. She said the envelope had been left unattended but that the theft must have been captured on mall security cameras. She also said the thief was a man walking with an elderly woman using a red walker, according to NBC.
Police interviewed parents and anyone else who were helping to sell cookies that day, and discovered that the money envelope was actually “kept in a secure cash box and was never left out on the table,” NBC reported. Police also talked to the man traveling with the elderly woman and determined they were not suspects. The alleged theft was not captured on mall security cameras.
Medina then changed her story after police spoke to her again, now suggesting the envelope was accidentally thrown out after the cookie sale. . .
“Today, the Woodbridge Police Department announced that an exhaustive investigation into the alleged theft of Girl Scout cookie monies has concluded with a finding of insufficient evidence to support the theft allegation as initially reported by our troop leader,” the statement said.
“We are surprised and very saddened at this turn of events. The Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey expects the highest standards of fiscal responsibility and ethical behavior from our volunteers, in keeping with our mission, our values, and our Girl Scout Promise and Laws. To that end, GSCSNJ has removed this troop leader from her position as a Girl Scout volunteer,” the statement continued. (Read more from “Girl Scout Leader Said Someone Stole the Cookie Money. She Lied.” HERE)
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The American people were reminded this week that there are depraved politicians in this country who think there should be a legal right to kill children in the late stages of pregnancy and maybe even beyond. As Democratic lawmakers in New York, Virginia, and Rhode Island move to advance late-term abortion bills that would allow babies to be murdered at any point up to delivery, Democrats have nowhere to hide their radical, evil position on killing children.
President Donald Trump should go on offense on the abortion issue this week, today even, next week in the State of the Union address, and every day for the next two years if he wants to win re-election in 2020.
When it became clear in 2016 that Donald Trump was going to be the Republican nominee for president, many conservatives had reservations about voting for him. Though he claimed to be a conservative on many issues, he was still an unknown factor. He had no record of governing. He was a lifelong New Yorker, and his past positions were quite liberal. He had supported Democrats for election. Pro-lifers were among those concerned that if elected, Donald Trump would be a pro-abortion liberal president. He had, after all, declared in 1999 that he was “very pro-choice.”
There were two issues Trump campaigned on that united enough conservatives around his candidacy to ultimately prevail on Election Day and defeat Hillary Clinton. The first was abortion. Trump campaigned as a pro-life candidate, explaining that his position changed after watching a friend decide against abortion and coming to know the “great, great child” that is living today. He pledged to defund Planned Parenthood as president. The second issue that won over conservatives was Trump’s promises to nominate originalist judges to the Supreme Court. Trump also always promised these judges would be pro-life and would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Reality struck many wavering conservatives during the final presidential debate between Trump and Clinton when the abortion issue came up. In a powerful moment, Trump showed the clear distinction between his pro-life promise and the promise of an America under the Democratic Party where restrictions on abortion were removed.
“If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now you can say that that’s okay, and Hillary can say that that’s okay, but it’s not okay with me,” Trump said.
Trump beat Hillary. Pro-life voters hoping he would keep his promises were a huge reason why.
The 2020 election is now under way. Democratic candidates are lining up to challenge President Trump. Confident in their 2018 midterm victory, Democratic lawmakers across America are pushing the envelope to see how far left they can take the country. In New York, with full Democratic control of state government for the first time in years, lawmakers stood and applauded as abortion till birth was legalized exactly as Trump described it in that debate.
BREAKING: New York State Senate just made HISTORY and passed the Reproductive Health Act on the anniversary of #RoevWade! pic.twitter.com/u2diMzgSQW
Now Democrats want to repeat that victory in Virginia and Rhode Island. If given the opportunity, they will try to do it nationally. They will make it legal to kill a baby at any time during pregnancy, even just before birth, because the mother wants to. With more Americans disapproving of President Trump now than at any time in his presidency yet, with most Americans believing the country is on the “wrong track,” the Democrats may have that opportunity soon. And if Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is an indicator, the Left’s real position is even more evil than permitting abortion through the third trimester.
“The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Americans will not stand for that. But so far President Trump’s response has been tepid. In an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump called Northam’s comments “terrible” and referenced his debate with Clinton.
“I thought it was terrible,” Trump said. “Do you remember when I said Hillary Clinton was willing to rip the baby out of the womb? That’s what it is, that’s what they’re doing, it’s terrible.”
The president also tweeted that the Democratic Party has become the party of late-term abortion.
Democrats are becoming the Party of late term abortion, high taxes, Open Borders and Crime!
Trump needs to go further. He can begin the course correction on his presidency right here, right now, making it clear to everyone that while he is president of the United States, he will fight this evil will all the powers of his office.
In his State of the Union address next week, Trump should renew calls to defund Planned Parenthood — which almost certainly is one of the special interest groups pushing the Democrats’ evil legislation. He should call on Congress to take up votes condemning the practice of abortion in the third trimester, to expose the Democrats in Congress who won’t vote for that. He should call on Congress to pass a federal heartbeat bill, protecting life from the moment of a baby’s first heartbeat. Congress should also take up legislation banning selective abortions based on sex or genetic deformity.
And if Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refuses to bring these bills to the floor of the House, then Trump should turn around during his address, point at her, and tell the American people the Democrats’ position on killing children is so evil and extreme that their leadership won’t even allow votes on these bills.
Rewrite parts of the speech if necessary. The president cannot show weakness or inactivity to pro-life conservatives when the Democrats’ abortion extremism is so naked.
After Trump delivers this address, he should make every single one of his Democratic challengers tell the American people what their position is on late-term abortion. It should be abundantly clear to every voter in America that if they oppose killing children just before birth, they must vote to re-elect President Donald Trump.
Go after the media, too. Show how the partisan progressive mainstream media in America is the enemy of unborn children. It’s easy enough to do. When Northam’s comments were finally reported in The Washington Post, the article was originally framed as “Va. Gov. Northam faces fierce conservative backlash over late term abortion bill.”
Virginia Democratic Delegate Kathy Tran openly admitted that her legislation allows killing a baby just before birth, and the Post made it seem like Republicans were the bad guys.
Washington Post headline on Virginia Democrat Kathy Tran calling for abortions up until the moment of birth pic.twitter.com/z0MtAx9YMU
This is the Left in America. These leftists do not need to be exposed. They have exposed themselves. They are defending and excusing infanticide. Do not let them get away with it, Mr. President! Shame them! Oppose them!
Do that, Mr. President, and conservatives will have your back again. Do that and you will be re-elected. (For more from the author of “Trump Must Be Stronger on Abortion to Win in 2020” please click HERE)
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