50 Years Ago: The Speech That Launched the Reagan Revolution

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Photo Credit: Reagan FoundationFifty years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave a speech on behalf of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater that launched his own political career and “catapulted him into the political stratosphere,” recalls former aide Thomas Reed.

Reed reminisced about Reagan’s famous Oct. 27, 1964 speech entitled “A Time for Choosing” that laid out what would eventually become his governing philosophy of limited government and fierce opposition to totalitarianism.

Reagan himself later wrote that the speech “was one of the most important milestones of my life.”

“This is the issue of this election,” Reagan said five decades ago. “Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government, or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”

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Sheriff Joe: 36% of Criminals Turned Over to ICE 'Keep Coming Back'

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Photo Credit: Ross D. FranklinMaricopa Co., AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio reported that 36 percent of the criminals his sheriffs turned over to ICE “keep coming back” on Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.

“We turn them [illegal aliens who have committed crimes] over to ICE and they should be deported. 4,000 people, I think I mentioned a while back, on your show, that nobody seems to cover until now, 4,000 people in our jails for state crimes in the last eight months,” Arpaio said. “They’re here illegally. We turn them over to ICE and 36 percent keep coming back. Last month a guy came back 25 times. So what is this? Either the border is really unsecure, or they’re letting these guys out in the streets of Maricopa County. We got a big problem” he said. Arpaio added that releasing illegal aliens with criminal records was a “form of amnesty by the Obama administration.”

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New Jersey Releasing Quarantined Nurse

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Photo Credit: AP / University of Texas at ArlingtonBy Associated Press.

New Jersey officials say a nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released.

The state Health Department said in a statement Monday that Kaci Hickox had been symptom-free for 24 hours and would be taken on a private carrier to Maine.

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U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia monitored for Ebola in Italy

By CBS/AP.

U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia are being placed in isolation in Vicenza, Italy out of concern for the Ebola virus, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The soldiers being monitored include Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams who was the commander of the U.S. Army in Africa but turned over duties to the 101st Airborne Division over the weekend, Martin reports. There are currently 11 soldiers in isolation.

They apparently were met by Carabinieri in full hazmat suits. If the policy remains in effect, everyone returning from Liberia – several hundred – will be placed in isolation for 21 days. Thirty are expected in today, Martin reports.

A Pentagon spokesman calls it “enhanced monitoring.” The soldiers are confined to a building and unable to see their families, Martin reports. The decision made by the Army and applies only to soldiers returning from Liberia. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will decide whether to make isolation apply to members of all services returning from Liberia.

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NYC Boy Being Observed for Possible Ebola Symptoms

By Thomson/Reuters.

A 5-year-old boy is being observed in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for possible Ebola symptoms, according to media reports on Monday.

The boy, who arrived in the United States on Saturday from Guinea, had a 103 degree Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) fever, ABC News reported. He has not been tested for the virus and is not under quarantine, ABC said, citing officials with New York City’s health department.

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Photo Credit: NJ Governor’s Office Chris Christie insists he DIDN’T do U-turn under pressure from Obama after Ebola nurse is allowed to leave New Jersey hospital quarantine tent to return to Maine

By David Martosko and Francesca Chambers.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Monday morning that the release of a quarantined nurse by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t indicate that his state-level Ebola-containment policies had shifted at all.

‘I didn’t reverse any decision,’ he told reporters outside a campaign event for Florida Gov. Rick Scott. ‘If she was continuing to be ill she would have to stay. She hadn’t had any symptoms for 24 hours and she tested negative for Ebola so there’s no reason to keep her.’

A Christie spokesperson told MailOnline that nurse Kaci Hickox ‘was never going to be quarantined for 21 days in the hospital.’

State policy, she said, called for Hickox to be quarantined until she no longer had medical symptoms for at least 24 hours, after she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from west Africa.

New Jersey residents, the spokesperson explained, can be quarantined in their homes. But since Hickox is from Maine, her isolation had to be carried out at University Hospital, which was prepared to accept patients like her.

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Over 200,000 Doctors Avoiding Obamacare Plans

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Photo Credit: WND The number of physicians nationwide that are declining to accept health plans from Obamacare exchanges is growing, according to a study from the American Action Forum.

As of May 2014, over 214,000 doctors wouldn’t participate in Obamacare plans, and that number may be growing,according to AAF, a free-market think tank in Washington. While some Obamacare kinks have been worked out over the past year, exchange plans remain as unfriendly to doctors as ever.

Obamacare puts physicians — especially the dwindling number of those in private practice — in an especially difficult financial situation, expecting doctors to eat the costs of patients who discontinue coverage and to simply take on more patients to make up for bottom-level reimbursements.

Exchange plans nationwide pay on average significantly less than plans in the private market and even Medicare, according to AAF. While private plans generally pay doctors $1.00 for performing a given service, Medicare averages just $0.80; exchange plans are allowing doctors just $0.60 for the same thing. That puts Obamacare plans more in line with Medicaid reimbursements, AAF reports, and Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates have been driving doctors away for years.

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Follow Up: Father Who Shot Felon During Home Invasion Arrested

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Photo Credit: Guns Save LivesLast week we reported on a story out of Sarasota, Florida in which a father of a young boy shot and killed a convicted felon who allegedly broke into his home in the middle of the night and opened fire.

An 11 year old boy was also in the home at the time of the shooting.

Police investigated the incident and it seemed that it was a case of self defense.

However, now the father, Christopher Bane, has been arrested on gun charges.

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LAX Flight Delayed After WIFI Hotspot "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork"

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Photo Credit: AlamyAn American Airlines flight from Los Angeles International Airport to London was delayed Sunday after concerns over the name of a WiFi hotspot.

A passenger saw the WiFi connection, named “Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork,” and expressed concern to a flight attendant.

The plane was held at a remote part of the airport for three hours and passengers were told to turn off their electronic devices. Passengers said they were initially told that it was a maintenance issue.

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After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

By Reuters.

After helping government forces break Islamic State’s grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi’ite militias decided it was time for payback.

A Reuters witness saw the fighters in green camouflage uniforms scream and swear at members of the Islamist group as they kicked and struck them with rifle butts in Jurf al-Sakhar.

As the angry crowd of militiamen around the unarmed militants swelled, shots rang out. The three men lay soaked in blood in the dirt with gunshot wounds to the head.

“Those dogs are Chechens. They don’t deserve to stay alive. We took confessions from them and we don’t need them anymore,” said one of the Shi’ite militiamen.

The victory could allow Iraqi forces to prevent the Sunni insurgents from edging closer to the capital, sever connections to their strongholds in western Anbar province and stop them infiltrating the mainly Shi’ite Muslim south.

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Abortion Laws in Doubt: 23 Weeks is ‘The New 24’ in Terms of Survival

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Photo Credit: TownHallBy Cortney O’Brien.

The current abortion law in England states that abortion can be carried out until the 24th week of pregnancy. New medical advances across the pond, however, prove that babies can survive outside the womb earlier than initially believed. The Daily Mail reports on what this could mean for national policy:

One top paediatrician says care for very premature babies has improved so significantly that at his hospital those born at 22 and 23 weeks are now more likely to live than die.

In light of this revelation, Dr. Martin Ward Platt, a consultant neonatologist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, England, said more mothers are opting to carry their children to term:

“The conversations we are having with parents are very different from the ones we were having ten years ago. Twenty three [weeks] is in essence the new 24. Things have shifted so much that most parents tend to be up for saying, ‘let’s give it a go.’”

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Pro-choice psychologist describes abortion she witnessed; baby would now be adult

By Sarah Terzo.

Dr. Magda Denes was a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who died in 1996. 20 years before her death, she wrote a book called “In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital. “

Magda Denes was pro-choice for her entire life and talks in the book about why abortion should remain legal. However, when it was published, the New York Times reviewer called it ”a highly emotional anti-abortion tract.” Why?

It seems that Denes, who had had an abortion herself, was honest about what she witnessed in the clinic, instead of sugar coating the reality of abortion the way the New York Times (and other mainstream media) has always tended to do. She used plain, honest language to describe abortion procedures and the bodies of aborted babies.

One procedure she described was a D & E (dilation and evacuation) abortion. This procedure, which was new at the time, is still popular today. It takes place in the second and early third trimesters and consists of the abortionist reaching into the womb with forceps and pulling apart the unborn baby. You can see a diagram of it here.

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Rev. Graham: Obama’s Wrong, Islam ‘Is a False Religion’

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Photo Credit: BGEAReverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelical pastor Billy Graham, said that President Barack Obama was “fundamentally mistaken” about radical Islam; questioned why peaceful Muslims do not collectively condemn jihadist terrorism; and argued that Islam “is a false religion” and that “it is impossible for a false religion to be a true religion of peace.”

Rev. Franklin Graham also cited examples from a speech he recently gave outside the White House, decrying the actions of followers of a “peaceful religion” who practice “female circumcision,” hijacking, kidnapping, “honor” killings, and decapitation.

Rev. Graham commended President Obama for sending some U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State but, citing Obama’s Sept. 24 speech at the United Nations where the president said “Islam teaches peace,” the reverend said, “I also believe our president is completely and fundamentally mistaken about the intolerant and violent nature of hardened Islamic followers.”

“For Muslims, peace comes only through submission to Islam,” said Rev. Graham in his November commentary for Decision magazine, published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “When they speak of peace, they mean submission to their religion. Worldwide, tens of thousands of men, women and children have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, under the bloody flag of Islam.”

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Police Officer Sued for Pointing Gun at Teen’s Head for a Seatbelt Violation

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Photo Credit: Rob Crandall Stock Connection Worldwide / NewscomThe family of a Georgia teenager is suing the Waycross, Ga., Police Department for $12.5 million after a police officer allegedly pointed a gun to their son’s head and handcuffed him on the ground—all for a seatbelt violation.

The incident occurred on Jan. 18 when high school senior Montre’ Merritt was returning home and pulling into his driveway. Officer Cory Gay had been following Merritt for several blocks, but turned on his flashing lights when they neared Merritt’s house.

Instead of conducting a normal stop, however, Gay approached the vehicle, pointed a gun to Merritt’s head and forced him to lie on the ground. Despite Merritt’s insistence that he had done nothing wrong, Gay called for backup and handcuffed the teenager—while his mother watched in horror.

When backup arrived, Gay released Merritt and cited him for a seatbelt violation. No explanation was given to Merritt or his mother about why such force was used.

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CNN Poll: 74% of Voters 'Dissatisfied'

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Photo Credit: The Daily Signal Signaling Democrats could be hurtling toward a crushing defeat Nov. 4, a new poll shows voters angry about the way things are going — with 74 percent dissatisfied with the way America’s being governed — and 53 percent unhappy with President Barack Obama’s job performance.

According to the CNN/ORC International Poll, 30 percent of Americans are “very angry” and 38 percent “somewhat angry” about where the United States is headed, with 31 feeling “no anger.”

But it’s that segment of very angry voters that should be concerning for Democrats ahead of next week’s vote: polling director Keating Holland notes the anger level matches the America’s mood in 2010 when Republicans took over the House, CNN reports.

Holland said 36 percent of Republicans say they’re “extremely” or “very enthusiastic” about voting this year, though only 26 percent of Democrats use those words to describe their enthusiasm level.

“That 10 point difference is certain to affect turnout and hurt Democrats’ chances in marginal districts,” Holland said about House races on the ballot.

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