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A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel
by Michelle Malkin
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House to vote Thursday on liar-nObamaCare repeal. (The Hill)
House passes $1 trillion government funding bill. (ABC News)
Susan Rice refuses to testify in Senate probe of Russian influence on 2016 election. (The Washington Times)
Last remaining insurer for most of Iowa may drop out of liar-nObamaCare. (Washington Examiner)
Aetna will exit liar-nObamaCare markets in Virginia in 2018. (CNBC)
Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy. (Bloomberg)
Trump agenda's Achilles heel: 129 judicial vacancies. (LifeZette)
DHS uncovered more than 60 cross-border tunnels along Mexican border used for smuggling. (The Washington Free Beacon)
While the Left ignores voter fraud, more evidence mounts to prove them wrong. (The Daily Signal)
Three in custody, others sought after two Chicago police officers shot in Back of the Yards. (Chicago Tribune)
Policy: Loose talk about gasoline taxes. (Washington Times)
Policy: The real problem with school voucher programs. (Washington Examiner) ~The Patriot Post
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DHS Uncovered 60 Cross-Border Tunnels along
Mexican Border Used for Smuggling
by Natalie Johnson
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Department of Homeland Security uncovered more than 60 cross-border tunnels along the southwest border that were used to smuggle people and illicit drugs into the United States over a five-year period... according to a new government report. The agency also detected more than 530 "ultralight aircraft" intrusions into the United States and roughly 300 drug smuggling incidents involving small fishing boats and recreational vessels along American borders from 2011 to 2016, the Government Accountability Office reported. All 67 tunnels discovered by border patrol agents were located along the U.S.-Mexican border... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dhs-uncovered-60-cross-border-tunnels-along-mexican-border-used-smuggling/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=57eaa87487-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-57eaa87487-45611665Pentagon Pulls Security Clearance of
Trump White House Aide
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Pentagon this week suspended the security clearance of a White House National Security Council analyst that U.S. officials say was the target of political retribution by government bureaucrats... opposed to President Trump's appointees. Adam S. Lovinger, a 12-year strategic affairs analyst with the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA), has been on loan to the NSC since January when he was picked for the position by then-National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn. Lovinger was notified in a letter from the Pentagon on Monday that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended and that he had to return to the Pentagon...
.Iran's Forward Operating Base against the U.S.
Imam Rizvi, of the Jaffari Mosque in Ontario, is a leading
proponent of the Iranian/Khomeinist ideology in Canada
by Thomas Quiggin
by Thomas Quiggin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Iran and its Islamist regime is currently making a major effort to expand its footprint in Canada. Their aim is to use American's northern neighbor as a "forward operating base" for influence operations against the American government... In a recent video, Hassan Abbasi, a leadership figure in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was boasting about a "guerilla movement of Iranian agents living and working in the United States." Iran, he says, is leading a clandestine army of potential martyrs within the US. This does not seem to be an isolated event. Iranian diplomat Hamid Mohammadi said in 2012 there were many Iranian-Canadians "working in influential government positions" and called on others to "occupy high-level and key positions."...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/
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Former US Attorney Slams FBI Director: "James Comey is a Danger to the Country"
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Jay Sekulow: FBI Director Comey has "selective disclosure disease"
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TUCKER: Katie Hopkins asks Why do Muslims always want to come to Christian Countries
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New York MS-13 Members Arrested, Charged for Attempted Murder
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCJBzsN9wxY
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCJBzsN9wxY
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Russian bombers, fighter jets fly near Alaska, prompting Air Force escort
by Lucas Tomlinson
{foxnews.com} ~ Two Russian Bear bombers -- escorted for the first time by a pair of Su-35 "Flanker" fighter jets -- entered Alaska's Air Defense Zone on Wednesday night, U.S. officials told Fox News... The Russian formation was intercepted by a pair of U.S. Air Force F-22 stealth fighter jets that were already flying a patrol about 50 miles southwest of Chariot, Alaska. A NORAD spokesperson told Fox News the intercept began at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday and a defense source said it also occurred into Thursday. The Russian fighter jets were unarmed and remained in international airspace, officials said... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/04/us-air-force-jets-intercept-russian-bombers-fighter-jets-near-alaska.html
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by Michelle Malkin
{townhall.com} ~ I feel your pain. But please use your brain.
On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery.
Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel's shoes. We've experienced the terrifying roller coaster of emotions -- panic, helplessness, anger, anxiety, relief, grief and unconditional love -- that comes with raising chronically ill kids.
But Kimmel didn't use his high-profile platform to educate the public about coping with rare diseases. Or to champion the nation's best and brightest pediatric specialists and medical innovators. The Tinseltown celebrity turned his personal plight into a political weapon, which his liberal friends were all too happy to wield. Top Democrats tweeted their praise for Kimmel's advocacy of expanded government health care regulations:
"Well said, Jimmy," Barack liar-nObama gushed.
"Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what's at stake w/health care," liar-Hillary Clinton effused.
The Huffington Post piled on: "Jimmy Kimmel's Humanity Underscores Heartlessness Of GOP's Approach To The Poor."
I don't need lectures from Huffington Post and Hollywood elites about having a heart. Neither do the rest of America's parents, whatever their political affiliations, who know what it's like to stay up night after endless night with suffering children, wondering whether they would ever be able to breathe normally again or see the light of the next day.
Kimmel doesn't need more maudlin Twitter suck-uppery. He needs a healthy fact-check.
"Before 2014," he claimed, "if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition, you were born with a pre-existing condition."
This is false. If parents had health insurance, the child would have been covered under the parents' policy whether or not the child had a health problem.
Kimmel continued: "And if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition."
The term "pre-existing condition" is used to describe uninsured chronically ill people who apply for insurance coverage, not for a child in need of immediate care. Moreover, in the U.S., virtually all hospitals are legally obligated to provide emergency treatment to every patient who urgently requires emergency medical care regardless of the patient's insurance status. This would include a newborn with an urgent heart condition. This requirement does not apply only to patients who enter an emergency room. It applies to all patients who set food on a hospital's property.
Kimmel then dramatically asserted: "If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make."
I repeat: It does not matter if you are rich are poor or if you are uninsured. If your baby is in the hospital, he or she will receive emergency care no matter what.
"This isn't football," Kimmel implored. "There are no teams. We are the team, it's the United States. Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants."
Kimmel implies that opposition to liar-nObamacare-style insurance mandates is both un-American and indecent. Had he been less hysterical, he would have acknowledged that different health care systems have pros and cons -- and decent Americans can have legitimate differences of opinion on such matters.
In the land of make-believe, it would be wonderful if everyone had free access to the same high-quality care Kimmel and his family did at Cedars-Sinai and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
In the real world, liar-nObamacare plans have severely curtailed the number of doctors and hospitals that customers can use. Command-and-control regulations on guaranteed issue, community rating and pre-existing conditions favored by Kimmel and company are driving up costs for everyone. Limited access to specialists and long waits have become the increasing norm -- just like that other model of government-run health care, the Veterans Affairs system, where the despicable practice of "death by queuing" spiked under liar-nObama.
Moving toward a nationalized health system might play well with an emotion-driven late-night comedy audience. But sober observers know it would mean undermining America's superior access to cutting-edge diagnosis, innovative treatment, top specialists and surgeons, technology, and drugs.
Compassion without clear thinking is just a waste of Kleenex.
A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel
{townhall.com} ~ I feel your pain. But please use your brain.
On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery.
Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel's shoes. We've experienced the terrifying roller coaster of emotions -- panic, helplessness, anger, anxiety, relief, grief and unconditional love -- that comes with raising chronically ill kids.
But Kimmel didn't use his high-profile platform to educate the public about coping with rare diseases. Or to champion the nation's best and brightest pediatric specialists and medical innovators. The Tinseltown celebrity turned his personal plight into a political weapon, which his liberal friends were all too happy to wield. Top Democrats tweeted their praise for Kimmel's advocacy of expanded government health care regulations:
"Well said, Jimmy," Barack liar-nObama gushed.
"Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what's at stake w/health care," liar-Hillary Clinton effused.
The Huffington Post piled on: "Jimmy Kimmel's Humanity Underscores Heartlessness Of GOP's Approach To The Poor."
I don't need lectures from Huffington Post and Hollywood elites about having a heart. Neither do the rest of America's parents, whatever their political affiliations, who know what it's like to stay up night after endless night with suffering children, wondering whether they would ever be able to breathe normally again or see the light of the next day.
Kimmel doesn't need more maudlin Twitter suck-uppery. He needs a healthy fact-check.
"Before 2014," he claimed, "if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition, you were born with a pre-existing condition."
This is false. If parents had health insurance, the child would have been covered under the parents' policy whether or not the child had a health problem.
Kimmel continued: "And if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition."
The term "pre-existing condition" is used to describe uninsured chronically ill people who apply for insurance coverage, not for a child in need of immediate care. Moreover, in the U.S., virtually all hospitals are legally obligated to provide emergency treatment to every patient who urgently requires emergency medical care regardless of the patient's insurance status. This would include a newborn with an urgent heart condition. This requirement does not apply only to patients who enter an emergency room. It applies to all patients who set food on a hospital's property.
Kimmel then dramatically asserted: "If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make."
I repeat: It does not matter if you are rich are poor or if you are uninsured. If your baby is in the hospital, he or she will receive emergency care no matter what.
"This isn't football," Kimmel implored. "There are no teams. We are the team, it's the United States. Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants."
Kimmel implies that opposition to liar-nObamacare-style insurance mandates is both un-American and indecent. Had he been less hysterical, he would have acknowledged that different health care systems have pros and cons -- and decent Americans can have legitimate differences of opinion on such matters.
In the land of make-believe, it would be wonderful if everyone had free access to the same high-quality care Kimmel and his family did at Cedars-Sinai and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
In the real world, liar-nObamacare plans have severely curtailed the number of doctors and hospitals that customers can use. Command-and-control regulations on guaranteed issue, community rating and pre-existing conditions favored by Kimmel and company are driving up costs for everyone. Limited access to specialists and long waits have become the increasing norm -- just like that other model of government-run health care, the Veterans Affairs system, where the despicable practice of "death by queuing" spiked under liar-nObama.
Moving toward a nationalized health system might play well with an emotion-driven late-night comedy audience. But sober observers know it would mean undermining America's superior access to cutting-edge diagnosis, innovative treatment, top specialists and surgeons, technology, and drugs.
Compassion without clear thinking is just a waste of Kleenex.
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