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Just How Far Left Are Democrats Going?

by Nate Jackson

House will vote Tuesday

to block Trump wall funding grab

by Susan Ferrechio

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The House will vote Tuesday on a joint resolution that would prevent President Trump from using a national emergency declaration to shift federal funding to the construction of a southern border wall... House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., announced the schedule in a conference call Friday. “The president is not above the law in any way, and this action he is taking is circumventing the Constitution of the United States and does violence to it,” Pulosi said. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, on Friday and has 227 co-sponsors. Only one of them is a Republican. “What’s really important is how they will vote on Tuesday when the legislation comes to the floor,” Pulosi said. “We will pass the resolution in the House and send it over to the Senate,” Pulosi said. The Senate must take op the measure within 15 days of House passage... Pulosi is wrong about the presidents authority. Which Congress gave to other presidents. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-will-vote-tuesday-to-block-trump-wall-funding-grab?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_02/22/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

Shooting for the moon, engineers

cheer successful launch of Beresheet

by Melanie Lidman

{timesofisrael.com} ~ Liftoff happened exactly on schedule at 3:45 a.m. Israel time, prompting a raucous cheer from the cafeteria at Israel Aerospace Industries... where 500 employees and their families gathered to watch the launch of Israel’s historic lunar mission. Israel hopes to become the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, with the launch of the unmanned spacecraft Beresheet from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Friday. If successful, the 160-kilogram 350 pounds without fuel, four-legged spacecraft, about the size of a car, will also be the smallest and cheapest spacecraft to land on the moon. But after the initial cheer, the room fell silent, engineers holding their breaths as the rocket escaped the earth’s atmosphere and reached an altitude of approximately 69,000 km (42,000 miles). At 4:23 a.m., another cheer went up as the command center in Yehud, where Israel Aerospace Industries is headquartered, received the first data from Beresheet as the spacecraft prepared to separate from the rocket. At 4:25 a.m., Beresheet separated from the Falcon 9 rocket that launched it into space, successfully deploying its landing legs in the first test of its ability to function under its own power. The spacecraft will now travel about for seven weeks before reaching the moon on April 11... https://www.timesofisrael.com/shooting-for-the-moon-engineers-cheer-successful-launch-of-beresheet/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-02-22&utm_medium=email

VIDEO 1: https://www.timesofisrael.com/shooting-for-the-moon-engineers-cheer-successful-launch-of-beresheet/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-02-22&utm_medium=email&jwsource=twi

VIDEO 2: https://youtu.be/_R4zk448oPs via @YouTube

Arkansas governor signs 'trigger'

abortion ban bill

by Morgan Gstalter

{thehill.com} ~ Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Tuesday signed into a law a measure that would automatically ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide... Hutchinson’s office said the governor signed the legislation, making it the fifth state with the so-called triggered abortion ban bill, The Associated Press reported. The bills hinge on the belief that a more conservative Supreme Court could overturn its 46-year-old decision and return authority to legalize abortion to the states. The law bans most abortions except for medical emergencies if the country’s highest court were to overturn its previous decision. The state currently outlaws abortion 20 weeks into a pregnancy. Exceptions would not be allowed in cases of rape or incest, KUAR reported. The legislation was passed in the Republican-controlled state legislature last week. Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota have similar “trigger” bans on the books. A similar measure has recently been introduced in Kentucky and Tennessee.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/430695-arkansas-governor-signs-trigger-abortion-ban-bill

liberal-Oregon lawmakers seek to lower

voting age in state to 16, so teens can

‘protect their future’

bygopusa.com: Children are our future — and a group of liberal-Oregon lawmakers wants the future to be now. They’re pushing a bill that would amend liberal-Oregon’s constitution to lower the voting age in the state from 18 to 16... They hope to put it before voters in 2020. Younger liberal-Oregonians should have “a chance to participate in the ballot — about decisions that affect their homes, their clean air, their future, their schools and, as we’ve seen, their very lives,” Democratic state Sen. Shemia Fagan said at a Monday press conference announcing the measure. Teens are “begging us to take action to protect their future,” she added. OPB reported that she referenced the student activists from Parkland, Florida, who launched the “Never Again” movement in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at their high school. Several liberal-Oregon student activists spoke at the press conference about why they deserved the right to vote before age 18. “We need to be able to take our work to the ballot and protect the policies we’re working so hard to pass,” South Salem High School senior Maria Torres said. Pressing issues affecting young people have brought the voting age down before. It used to be 21 before the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1971, lowered it to 18. The amendment was fueled in part by teen. I was just in H.S. and my thoughts were not into politics. http://www.gopusa.com/?p=65355?omhide=true

scumbag-Comey's FBI Embraced American

ISIS Terrorist, Helped Him Get DOJ Job

by Patrick Poole

{pjmedia.com} ~ One of the biggest questions for Western governments that has played out in recent days in the American media is what to do with Western ISIS recruits who are now in the custody of U.S. ... backed forces as the Islamic State's geographical military presence collapses into nothing. At least one previous case involving disgraced former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey — where the FBI under his direction welcomed back an American ISIS terrorist from Syria and gave him a job working with the Justice Department — may be an example of how *not* to handle such cases. The American media are now rallying around the plight of Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana, who left the U.S. for Syria to marry an ISIS fighter in 2014. During her time inside the Islamic State, she openly called for attacks on the U.S. and encouraged the supporters of terrorist groups to "spill American blood." But now that Muthana has been captured by Kurdish forces and is currently imprisoned by U.S.-backed forces, she's using the media to make a case for her return to the U.S. and for leniency... https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/flashback-comeys-fbi-embraced-american-isis-terrorist-helped-him-get-justice-department-job/

Just How Far Left Are Democrats Going?

by Nate Jackson: We’ve spent much of the last two years chronicling how far and fast Democrats are moving to the extreme left. But don’t take our word for it — take the word of average Democrats.

In a new Gallup survey, “Understanding Shifts in Democratic Party Ideology,” the organization attempts to discern an answer to what average Democrat voters think on a range of current issues. What researchers found is staggering, though it confirms what we’ve written for years:

As Gallup has previously reported, the percentage of Democrats nationally who identify as politically liberal has been increasing. This has occurred in three distinct phases: 1) 2001-2006, when the percentage was trending steadily upward; 2) 2007-2012, when liberalism held steady near 40% for several years in a row and 3) 2013-2018, when liberalism resumed its upward trajectory.
The percentage of Democrats identifying as politically liberal averaged 32% in the first period, 39% in the second and 46% in the third. At the same time, the percentages identifying as conservative and moderate fell equally.

Though all identity groups within the party have moved left, the starkest shift has been among college-educated whites — a testament to the stranglehold “progressives” have on the higher-education system because, Gallup notes, “the percentage of all college graduates (including postgrads) increas[ed] by 13 points.” Just 34% of that cohort identified as “liberal” in the early 2000s. Now it’s 54%. The shift is on issues running the gamut, too. Whether it’s gun control, climate change, or abortion, rank-and-file Democrats are moving left.

Democrat politicians have exploited and driven this shift. Remember a dozen years ago when the likes of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, and Chuck scumbag-Schumer supported border security and opposed same-sex marriage and single-payer health care? Heck, scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (sponsored by then-Rep. scumbag-Schumer), and implemented “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Now, not only have those same politicians — and the entire party — shifted, but they utterly vilify anyone who hasn’t adopted the radical new positions of open borders, forcing bakers to serve same-sex weddings, and Medicare for All. In fact, the latter is practically a litmus test for the 2020 presidential field.

Pondering the fallout of this shift, National Review’s David French writes, “Any study of the political polarization in the 21st century has to account for the fact that it is extraordinarily difficult to achieve any kind of national consensus when one side is rapidly and constantly changing its demands. … The terms of the debate changed. The goalposts shifted.”

Indeed they have, and yet, somehow, leftists are even more angry than they were before all their victories. In any case, even with Donald Trump in the White House and the Senate under GOP control, Gallup’s findings portend trouble ahead for the cause of Liberty. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/61290?mailing_id=4092&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4092&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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