New Born Termination

For John, BLUF:  Democrats, aided by their Press Partners, are trying to hide their more extreme abortion views.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Trump Repeats a False Claim That Doctors ‘Execute’ Newborns

From The Old Gray Lady, by Reporter Chris Cameron, 28 April 2019.

Reporter Cameron claims that this assertion by the President has been "fact checked" by the Paper.

Either they are ignorant or they think Virginia isn't part of the Union.  Here is Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:

“If a mother is in labor...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 & mother"

Maybe it is a question of tone.  But, this slippery reporting is disgraceful.

Hat tip to Memeorandum.

Regards  —  Cliff

Looking Forward From Notre Dame

For John, BLUF:  Not an explanation, but hope.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Grieving for Notre Dame? Turn to Nagasaki for comfort.

From The Washington Post, By Ms Meghan Kruger, Associate Opinion Editor at The Wash Post, 17 April 2019.

Here is the lede plus two:

How does one begin to dry the tears streaming down the ash-stained faces of Parisian Catholics?  To be sure, Notre Dame Cathedral is a treasure for the world, for people of all nations and creeds.  But it is first and foremost a Catholic church — where the sacraments have been celebrated for centuries, where the faithful labored more than a hundred years to erect a glorious monument to God.  To watch this sacred space burn during Holy Week — the most solemn of the Christian liturgical year — stings all the more.

Here’s one suggestion for where Paris’s grieving faithful might turn for comfort: eastward, to Nagasaki, Japan.

Nagasaki has been the heart of Catholic Japan almost since St. Francis Xavier arrived on the island of Kyushu in 1549.  By 1580, the country had an estimated 200,000 converts, many of them concentrated in the trading port that regularly welcomed their Portuguese co-religionists.

Hope is one of the three Theological Virtues.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

Kansas Goes Abortion

For John, BLUF:  We are at the point where many consider unwanted babies as not human, ever after birth (eg, Virginia's current Governor).  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Kansas: Now The Abortion State

From The American Conservative, by Mr Rod Dreher, 26 April 2019.

Here is the lede:

The Kansas Supreme Court issued a stunning 6-1 decision today that guarantees expansive abortion rights in the state, no matter what happens at the federal level.  To make this clear:  even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortions will be legal in Kansas, because the state Supremes say abortion is guaranteed in the state constitution.

We face two problems, one moral and one demographic.  In both cases we need to leave a trail, in case we wish to walk back from where we find ourselves.  Demographically, we need to encourage enough births that, with immigration, we can sustain our population.♠  The moral issue refers to if we are on a slippery slope, one that will eventually lead to euthanasing the "worthless eaters".

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  And avoid the orally dubious activity of depopulating other countries with our immigration policies.

Losing Trying to Win

For John, BLUF:  Not everyone one the Left wants to jump off the cliff of impeachment.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Noam Chomsky Calls Dem Focus on Russia a ‘Huge Gift’ to Trump:  ‘They May Have Handed Him the Next Election’

From Mediaite, by Mr Joe DePaolo, 19 April 2019, .

Here is the lede plus one:

Noam Chomsky, the noted progressive scholar, believes Democrats have focused far too much on Russia.  And he thinks it might earn them four more years of President Donald Trump.

Speaking at a forum in Boston with Amy Goodman, Chomsky stated his view that he always believed there was going to be little to no proof of collusion in the Mueller Report.

Professor Chomsky is not a lightweight, and not a Trump supporter.

Hat tip to the Drudge Report.

Regards  —  Cliff

Banning Kate Smith

For John, BLUF:  I am old enough to remember watching Kate Smith on TV after arriving home from Grade School.  I remember no racism.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Yankees Drop Kate Smith's Version of 'God Bless America' Because People Were Racist in the 1930s

Here is the sub-headline:

This is a tricky one, but is worth examining

From PJ Media, by Stephen Kruiser, 19 April 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

Yankees drop Kate Smith’s "God Bless America" after questions of possible racism arise

It isn't God Bless America, but a couple of other songs Ms Kate Smith belted out in the 1930s.

Frankly, I think this is really about "Fat Shaming".

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

One View on Mueller Report

For John, BLUF:  Progressive Reporter Glenn Greenwald says Mr Mueller delivered the Report and shot down collusion.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theories.  He Obliterated Them.

From The Intercept, by Reporter (and Lawyer) Glenn Greenwald, 18 April 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

THE TWO-PRONGED CONSPIRACY THEORY that has dominated U.S. political discourse for almost three years – that (1) Trump, his family and his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, and (2) Trump is beholden to Russian President Vladimir Putin — was not merely rejected today by the final report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  It was obliterated:  in an undeniable and definitive manner.

The key fact is this:  Mueller – contrary to weeks of false media claims – did not merely issue a narrow, cramped, legalistic finding that there was insufficient evidence to indict Trump associates for conspiring with Russia and then proving their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.  That would have been devastating enough to those who spent the last two years or more misleading people to believe that conspiracy convictions of Trump’s closest aides and family members were inevitable.  But his mandate was much broader than that: to state what did or did not happen.

That’s precisely what he did:  Mueller, in addition to concluding that evidence was insufficient to charge any American with crimes relating to Russian election interference, also stated emphatically in numerous instances that there was no evidence – not merely that there was insufficient evidence to obtain a criminal conviction – that key prongs of this three-year-old conspiracy theory actually happened.  As Mueller himself put it:  “in some instances, the report points out the absence of evidence or conflicts in the evidence about a particular fact or event.”

Proving that Reporters can rise above their clans.

Hat tip to the Drudge Report.

Regards  —  Cliff

Fair is Fair

For John, BLUF:  Consistency is not a common political virtue.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Leftists Demand That All Criticisms Of Trump Cease Until He Stops Getting Death Threats

From The Babylon Bee, 15 April 2018.

Here is the lede plus two:

The left has urged people to stop quoting stupid things Representative Ilhan Omar has said and to stop accurately pointing out that she’s a bigot because Omar has received death threats.  It was revealed, though, that President Donald Trump has also received death threats.

“Yes, it’s hard to believe, since I’m the greatest president ever,” Trump told the press.  “My death would be the worst tragedy this country has ever seen -- I’d expect mass suicides if it happens.”  Still, he confirmed that the Secret Service has intercepted numerous death threats.

If there is one thing the American left is known for, it’s being extremely consistent and never only espousing certain principles in a partisan or self-serving way.  Thus when they heard President Trump had received death threats, they immediately went after those who would criticize the president.

UPDATE:  An alternative view is provided by Mr Jim Treacher at PJ Media.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff