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The video was the stuff of nightmares. Dads cradling the dead bodies of their sons and daughters. Children writhing on the ground in pain. Others foaming at the mouth, the result of a deadly poison gas attack by the Syrians' own government. When news reached the White House, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson knew exactly where to place blame. "There is no doubt in our minds that Syria and the regime under Bashar Assad were responsible for this attack," he told reporters. "It's a serious matter; it requires a serious response."
Years from now, April 6, 2017 will be remembered as the day the Senate changed forever. After three decades of warring over judicial nominees, Democrats finally brought America to the brink in the fiercest political fight of a generation.
If Congress won't rewrite the law, liberals will find a court who will! That's been the M.O. of the Left for decades: packing the bench with wannabe legislators who'll impose the agendas they could never pass democratically.
North Carolina scored a big victory Monday night — and not just on the court! It looks like the NCAA is finally starting to address the question that the organization's president, Mark Emmert, raised in the Final Four press conference last week: "What's the appropriate role for a national athletic association in public policy issues?" By accepting the legislature's small changes to HB 2, the organization has indicated that it's either decided to stick to sports or it's beginning to ignore the small but rowdy agitators on the Left who've used the NCAA to fight their losing political battle over the state's public safety bill.
There's never been a successful filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee in history — but that won't stop the Democrats from trying! The hard-headed minority is insisting that it'll pull off what no party in America ever has: blocking Neil Gorsuch from an up-or-down vote. Nevermind that Democrats blasted the GOP for threatening the same thing under President Obama. As far as Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is concerned, some political views were only meant to last as long as the party's power does.
A doctor explains that abortion is such a workout that she had to get a gym membership.
It was a buzzer-beating shot, but when legislators tried to appease the NCAA, no one in North Carolina won. The "fake repeal" of HB2 (as liberals called it) was — as far as most people were concerned — worse than doing nothing. Desperate to pass something before the NCAA's midnight deadline, lawmakers attempted to piece together a bill that reset the state's bathroom, locker room, and shower policies to the pre-2016 standard. To the Left's frustration, also bars anyone but the state from enacting gender-free ordinances like Charlotte's for at least three years.
If the goal of compromise is to ensure that nobody's happy, then North Carolina is succeeding!
No one has done a better job persuading people to defund Planned Parenthood than, well, Planned Parenthood. In video after undercover video, the organization has been its own worst enemy in the fight for taxpayer dollars. Out of its own mouth, it's let Americans into a dark world where killing is currency and empires are built on the backs of innocent children. One after another, the tapes sound like something out of a horror movie. If only they were. Instead, the gory trade — often joked about by the employees involved — is putting an exclamation point on taxpayers' insistence that Congress defund Cecile Richards's group.
Short-term loss or long-term win? That's what analysts are starting to ask about the sudden collapse of the health care bill last Friday.
Nobody said repealing Obamacare would be easy. And after Friday afternoon, there's no shortage of opinions on what Republicans could have done better. But just because leaders struck out with this version of the American Health Care Act doesn't mean the conversation is over.
There's something else you can add to the list of services Planned Parenthood doesn't provide — honesty. Truth-telling hasn't exactly been a hallmark of Cecile Richards's group, but lately, it's selling more fiction than Amazon. With Congress dangerously close to pulling the plug on $550 million in taxpayer funding, America's biggest abortion business is serving up plenty of whoppers in a desperate attempt to keep the dollars flowing.
If you thought your job interview was tough, try being Neil Gorsuch. The president's Supreme Court pick has spent three grueling days under the microscope of nitpicking Democrats who seem more interested in finding a super-legislator than a replacement for Antonin Scalia.
The House bill to replace Obamacare has been through a dozen rewrites — but the biggest one may be in the Senate.
More than a decade ago, Neil Gorsuch had an interesting way of describing judicial confirmation hearings. "They're just another avenue of political warfare," he wrote. And today, he's finding out just how true those words are. In the second day of his own hearing — which would have seemed like a distant dream when he penned those words 12 years ago — he's putting his theory to the test with Democrats who are having trouble finding anything wrong with the Supreme Court nominee.
St. Patrick's Day may be over, but Planned Parenthood still has green on its mind. In the fight of its financial life, Cecile Richards is doing everything she can to keep her grip on the $550 million dollars her group rakes in from taxpayers each year. And that includes keeping a lid on the organization's latest numbers. While Congress debates the future of Planned Parenthood funding, the nation's largest abortion business is being unusually tight-lipped about its services in 2015-16.
There are times when conservatives would actually like to be proven wrong. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was certainly hoping for that in his 2015 dissent in the Obergefell same-sex marriage case. But unfortunately for him — and millions of other Americans — his predictions are coming true in the most painful way possible. Like us, he feared that redefining marriage would ignite a firestorm of persecution against anyone who believed otherwise. Any opposition to the Court's ruling, he prophesied, would be used as a license to "vilify those who disagree, and treat them as bigots." "We are seeing this come to pass," he said soberly during a speech to the Catholic group Advocati Christi. "It is up to all of us to evangelize our fellow Americans about the issue of religious freedom... A wind is picking up that is hostile to those with traditional moral beliefs."
There's probably no horror on earth that compares to being sexually abused. For women like the one who wrote to the atheist website Sheologians, it was a nightmare that will take a lifetime of healing. And in a heart-wrenching email, she says that healing didn't start at Planned Parenthood.
Which would you rather pay for: a baby shower or a funeral? That's the very real choice facing taxpayers in the health care debate today. By defunding Planned Parenthood, Americans could celebrate the arrival of thousands more babies or fail and find themselves back where they've been: financially shackled to the culture of death. Either way, liberals warn, there's a cost.
Who would trust their health care to a group that doesn't know anything about medicine? Try the U.S. government. For years, it's been funneling billions of dollars to an organization that can't even answer basic questions on pregnancy: Planned Parenthood.
