[Breitbart] In order to "break the vicious circle of anxiety" threatening the world, Pope Francis is calling on the media to shift their focus away from bad news toward "constructive forms of communication."
While praising the media for making it possible for countless people to "share news instantly and spread it widely," on Monday the Pope said it is necessary to "break the vicious circle of anxiety and stem the spiral of fear resulting from a constant focus on ’bad news’ (wars, terrorism, scandals and all sorts of human failure)."
What is needed, Francis proposed in his yearly message to the communications media, is "an open and creative style of communication that never seeks to glamourize evil but instead to concentrate on solutions and to inspire a positive and responsible approach on the part of its recipients."
"I ask everyone to offer the people of our time storylines that are at heart ’good news,’" he said.
[LA Times] Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, a highly regarded conservative jurist best known for upholding religious liberty rights in the legal battles over Obamacare, has emerged as a leading contender for President Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination.
Gorsuch, 49, was among 21 potential high court candidates circulated by Trump’s team during the campaign, but his stock has been rising lately as several admirers and supporters have been named to positions in the Trump administration.
He currently serves on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. A former clerk for Justice Byron White, also a Colorado native, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, he served in the George W. Bush administration’s Justice Department.
In Gorsuch, supporters see a jurist who has strong academic credentials, a gift for clear writing and a devotion to deciding cases based on the original meaning of the Constitution and the text of statutes, as did the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Just as importantly, Gorsuch is seen as someone who might be more easily confirmed in the Senate. Unlike other appointees of President George W. Bush, Gorsuch won an easy Senate confirmation on a voice vote in 2006.
"He is very bright, well-respected and quite personable," said John Malcolm, a lawyer at the Heritage Foundation. "And there's no question he would not be as contentious as some others."
[New York Post] Listening to President Trump on Friday, I was reminded of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Cow Palace speech when he accepted the Republican nomination. "My God," someone said. "He’s going to run as Goldwater!" And so it was last Friday. Unlike Goldwater, Trump won the election, but apart from that he’s going to govern as Trump.
And he didn’t waste any time. After his speech, and before the customary lunch with members of Congress, Trump sat down and signed some executive orders to undo some of President Barack Obama’s executive orders. One executive order gives the Health and Human Services Department the power to waive ObamaCare’s individual mandate requiring everyone to buy insurance.
Obama boasted that he had a pen, but Trump has an eraser.
In his speeches, Trump has taken advice from a variety of people, but this one was pure Trump, a distillation of all the things he’s been saying throughout the campaign, in formal speeches and unrehearsed moments. It was the man, himself, and the speech is about the country we’ll be living in the next four years. Or maybe eight.
When an outsider comes to Washington, as a president or congressman, the mainstream media waits expectantly for him to "grow on the job." Which means going native, adopting all the values of DC and its insiders. What Trump told us is that that’s not going to happen with him. So no surprise outgoing CIA Director John Brennan took a parting shot at Trump by calling the president "despicable" -- when in reality, of course, the despicable ones are those who claim to be "resisting" the duly elected president.
[The Hill] Democrats are voicing strong misgivings about President Trump’s reported decision to keep James Comey atop the FBI.
Comey infuriated Democrats in October when he announced an extended investigation into presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server days before the election.
Many Democrats now view Comey as more of a partisan operative than a straight shooter, and they doubt his willingness to lead any investigation into possible links between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign.
"I can’t speak for Democrats, but I can speak for myself, and I think that James Comey needs to fade away into oblivion," said Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), former head of the Congressional Black Caucus. "He embarrassed this nation, he possibly influenced the outcome of a presidential election, and he should not hold any position of trust, whatsoever, in our government."
The Democrats are particularly indignant because, in contrast to the Clinton case, Comey has refused to say publicly if the FBI is examining potential ties between Trump and the Kremlin. They have called that a politically motivated double standard, a charge the FBI director has rejected outright.
Ralph Peters at the New York Post lays out the facts as he sees them. I don't agree completely but he makes an interesting argument. Of particular note is his thought that Syria is a Russian graveyard, and we should do everything in our power to make sure it stays one. He sees Syria as not worth our time, Afghanistan and Iraq as lost, and Turkey as a near-enemy.
Thought-provoking and thus recommended.
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Brillian thinker, profound insights. Some of the reasons he never made into the Army senior grades.
[Ynet] So far, the new American president has made no effort to prove that he has a vision. He is a businessman who is out to sell the headline ’America First.’ Whoever wants to make him offers on issues unrelated to the homeland should take a number, get in line and be ready to pull out their wallet.
If I were a chief strategic advisor to one of the 22 leaders of the Arab world ‐ and it really doesn’t matter who the leader is ‐ I would write a dual recommendation:
First, go out of your way to congratulate US President Donald Trump
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The kings and presidents of the Arab world should pay attention to the fact that he did it the other way around: First business and millions, and only then rulership. He already knows that they do it from the other direction: Only after entering the palace, they learn how to rake in the money.
Usually I don't pay attention to Yediot Ahronot (latest news) - besides carrying the usual journo prog agency, their publisher been conducting a personal vendetta against Bibi for the last 20 year. But, LOL!
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Four former presidents – Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – showed up for the inauguration ceremony at the White House. You won’t see such an image in any of the Arab world’s countries.
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Well they'll have less to worry about from Iran with Trump President. Perhaps if the Arab leaders stopped funding ISIS a Sunni block might be formed and proper lines in the sand drawn between Sunni and Shia.
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If moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is explosive, the explosion will occur in the Arab world. If Iran tries to take advantage, then it all goes up in flames.
Sarah Hoyt makes the case that Progressivism is a cult
...the behavior of the left, since November, has me breathless.
...If you posit they’re a cult, it all falls in place. They’re just a very large cult who has done what cults have done throughout history and got control of the structures of power. (I said that Heinlein was right about the First Prophet, he just didn’t realize what the "religion" would be.)
Having control of the structures of power, they could at least force people to PRETEND to believe in their nonsense. They’ve managed this rather effectively across the media, entertainment, education, and a lot of other professions.
...My younger son, shortly after the election, told me his colleagues were losing their minds. I asked -- sarcastically. I am STILL me -- why the election of the most socially liberal Republican in decades was scaring them so much, and why they thought immigrants, women or gays would be sent to camps, and he said it wasn’t even that "they were taught, and believed it, that no Republican, ever would win again." Explains "not my president" rather neatly
[Breitbart] People trying to live as transgender members of the other sex complained that the Women’s March on Washington unfairly excluded them by declaring that a person’s sex is decided by their male or female biology.
"The main reason I decided not to go was because of the pussy hats," said 28-year-old Jade Lejeck, who is a man trying to live as a transgender woman. "I get that they’re a response to the ’Grab them by the pussy’ thing, but I think some people fixated on [biology] the wrong way," Lejeck said in an interview with Mic.com Sunday night
Lejeck said "trans-exclusionary radical feminists" unfairly equate womanhood with having a vagina, and sometimes argue that transgender men are improperly trying to encroach upon female communities.
Sam Forrey, a 20-year-old "nonbinary" student from Ohio, and his transgender girlfriend Lilian McDaniel, were afraid that the march would be dangerous for them. "Non-binary" refers to people who view themselves as embracing a blend of male and female characteristics.
The transgender girlfriend is biologically male, and worried that he would be placed in a men’s jail if arrested at the protest. He planned on going to the march until he saw people using the march to promote "genital-based" womanhood, he complained.
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Where is the compassion? Feeding their delusion deepens it, it doesn't make them biologically any different. At some point the truth is inescapable, and those who have been "compassionately" aided in their delusion have a much, much harder time squaring with reality. Better to help them get over whatever is driving the delusion, to help them accept the truth, before they believe the only choices are their fantasy or suicide.
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My psychotherapist wife is tearing her hair out about all of this transgenderism.
Everyone here is correct. It is a dangerous illusion and the end game is self destruction. Much as Buffalo Bob in "Silence of the Lambs" was a self destructive transsexual who killed to gain a female identity, these poor mental health wrecks are on their way to suicide or mass murder.
I cannot believe this crap. Typical liberal BS feel good stuff with no concern for the consequences of pandering to it. The facts are there, every DSM ever written has warnings about this state of mental affairs.
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I have a prostate that put me through six months of chemotherapy and other fun medications.
I sometimes think this is some kind of lefty inside the ivy covered walls fad and it will blow over and we'll have a bunch of guys with partial conversion surgeries wondering what they were thinking.
[Hot Air] Today, Live Action released a new investigative video debunking Planned Parenthood’s claim that it provides critical prenatal care to pregnant women. The abortion giant has insisted that prenatal care is one of its core services that women will lose if its taxpayer funding is cut off. But Live Action’s investigation proves those services are virtually nonexistent at the abortion chain.
"The Prenatal Care Deception" is the first in Live Action’s "Abortion Corporation" series of investigative videos highlighting Planned Parenthood’s own employees saying its focus is providing abortions, not women’s health care. Live Action is releasing the investigative series as Congress plans to redirect Medicaid dollars away from Planned Parenthood to local health clinics and also vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.
Although Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told the media in 2011 that "Prenatal care ‐ these are the kinds of services that folks depend on Planned Parenthood for," Live Action investigators searching for such services at Planned Parenthood were turned away by 92 of the 97 centers they contacted. They received responses like:
"Planned Parenthood offers abortions, so they don’t offer prenatal care."
‐ Tempe, AZ, Planned Parenthood
"No, we don’t do prenatal services. I mean, it’s called Planned Parenthood, I know it’s kind of deceiving."
[Free Beacon] One of Washington’s most influential magazines published several updates to an error-filled article attacking ultrasound technology, without acknowledging the extent of those corrections.
The Atlantic published "How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus Is a Person" on Tuesday. The 2,500-word article argued that ultrasound technology "has been used to create an imaginary ’heartbeat’ and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus." The article by Moira Weigel, a Yale doctoral candidate in comparative literature,
Notably not a scientist, physician, or ultrasound expert...
included at least three major errors that the publication corrected.
The article originally claimed that fetal heartbeats depicted in ultrasound are "imaginary" because there is no heart in the body during early stages of development.
"It is dubious to call this movement a ’heartbeat’; there is no heart to speak of [at six weeks]," the article said.
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I thought all these people were big science Believers, not science Deniers?
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Not that I had really thought about subscribing to the Atlantic anyway...but this certainly removes any thoughts of buying their product now and in the future.
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scientist make whopping mistakes too
for example, this link, goes to a retraction from Hematological Ontology which retracts a recommended therapeutic procedure which, if followed, would be uniformly fatal.
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Mods, I'm terribly about the size of that picture. I'm sure I put a limit on the width and I even previewed it before I hit the submit button.
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Apology appreciated, dear Abu Uluque, though I had nothing to do with fixing it. When I took a look width was set to 450. Perhaps preview the thing before posting?
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I dunno just about any plumber or roto rooter operator could probably write better poetry than that woman...why anyone thinks she is a literary giant never bothered to read any of the classics...no wait...its just this politically correct stuff...anything a black woman can write has to be considered on the same level as Hemingway or George Sand (who was a woman with a nomme d'plume)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[New York Post] Listening to President Trump on Friday, I was reminded of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Cow Palace speech when he accepted the Republican nomination. "My God," someone said. "He’s going to run as Goldwater!" And so it was last Friday. Unlike Goldwater, Trump won the election, but apart from that he’s going to govern as Trump.
[Breitbart] People trying to live as transgender members of the other sex complained that the Women’s March on Washington unfairly excluded them by declaring that a person’s sex is decided by their male or female biology.
[Hot Air] Today, Live Action released a new investigative video debunking Planned Parenthood’s claim that it provides critical prenatal care to pregnant women. The abortion giant has insisted that prenatal care is one of its core services that women will lose if its taxpayer funding is cut off. But Live Action’s investigation proves those services are virtually nonexistent at the abortion chain.
[Free Beacon] One of Washington’s most influential magazines published several updates to an error-filled article attacking ultrasound technology, without acknowledging the extent of those corrections.
