{fdd.org} ~ When Airbnb, the online lodging service, announced in November that it would ban Israeli listings in the disputed West Bank... hardcore anti-Israel groups took an undeserved victory lap. Surprisingly, though, the credit belongs to Human Rights Watch, an nongovernmental organization with seemingly no reason to enter into the circus of anti-Israel activism. With ground support from a big tent of vitriolic groups, it was HRW that pressured Airbnb into boycotting Israel. It was HRW that published “ Bed and Breakfast on Stolen Land,” a report documenting alleged human rights violations associated with renting Jewish properties in the West Bank. To avoid bad press, Airbnb yanked its Jewish-owned listings one day before the report dropped. It’s unclear exactly when HRW began to juggle both human rights research and anti-Israel activism. One could point to the joint declaration of the 2001 NGO Forum in South Africa, reportedly formulated with Human Rights Watch’s assistance, which endorsed sanctions against the Jewish state. It also could have been 2004, when it hired anti-Israel activist Sarah Leah Whitson. Soon after she took over as Middle East director, HRW endorsed a campaign led by vehemently anti-Israel groups to suspend sales of Caterpillar equipment to the Jewish state after pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie was killed when she stood in the way of an Israeli military bulldozer. By 2009, the anti-Israel invective reached a fever pitch, prompting HRW founder Robert Bernstein to pen a critical New York Times op-ed. Around this time, HRW became part of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group dedicated to countering anti-Semitism, describes BDS as a “thinly-veiled, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ‘poison pill,’ whose goal is the demonization, delegitimization, and ultimate demise of the Jewish State.”...
by Pardes Seleh {spectator.org} ~ U.S. Treasury reports show that the amount the U.S. government finances to pay for its spending will top $1 trillion in 2019 for the second straight year... The Treasury issued debt of $1.34 trillion in 2018, a number that should increase to $1.4 trillion this year. Steven Zeng from Deutsche Bank told Yahoo Finance that the annual new issuances will be between $1.25 trillion and $1.4 trillion each of the next four years. The issuance was just $550 billion in 2017. Yahoo Finance noted that the U.S. budget gap during fiscal year 2019 hit $780 billion, a six-year high. Due to tax cuts that were combined with increased spending that number will only continue to grow. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects the budget gap to be $973 billion during this fiscal year and top $1 trillion in 2020.The CBO says Uncle Sam will fork over some $7 trillion just to service the U.S. debt over the next 10 years. As an illustration of how wacky spending is around the globe, the U.S. may not even be in that bad of a fiscal condition. A former Treasury official under George W. Bush, Phillip Swagel, said that “with all these problems, we’re still in better shape than so many of the other advanced economies.” But Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t so optimistic. He said last week that the American federal budget is “on an unsustainable path that needs to be addressed. There is no time like now to go after that problem.”... https://spectator.org/american-debt-growth/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c88402d027-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_04_06_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c88402d027-104608113
The faces of the political Left are interchangeable, speaking in one voice to demand the Democrats’ declared “right” to abort babies. That demand has now been revealed to be extreme and daring in the escalated embrace of death to the unborn from conception to the moment of birth.
Two states, New York and Virginia, buoyed the vileness of abortion to the surface over the last few weeks. There was the celebration held by a cheering New York State Assembly as Democrat Gov. Andrew evil-Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act, which ensures the availability of an abortion on demand up to the very moment a child is born — even if the mother has gone into active labor. The law also removes criminality from those who fail to provide aid or resuscitation to a baby born despite an attempted abortion. New York is not just the abortion capital. New York is led by people who cheer death of infants.
Virginia’s General Assembly had its own moment of truth in introducing a bill very similar in scope and effect. Democrat Gov. Ralph Notrhram described how the law would be put into practice in the delivery, um, that is the procedure room. Now, more criticized for his scandal involving a 1984 yearbook photo that may or may not include him in blackface or KKK garb, Northram, a trained and practiced child neurologist, offered his support of the abortion bill in a very matter-of-fact description during a talk-radio segment: “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, 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 and the mother.”
Stunning? Not really, though it is sickening. The conscience is shocked because the details of abortion were spoken so very plainly and clearly that painted with words the image of a newborn being murdered, rather than some clump of cells or as a being threatening the life of the mother. Last week, Democrats spoke of abortion for the act that it truly is — a procedure used to end the life of a child with very rare occasions to save the life of the mother. It’s only stunning if you tolerate murder on a sliding scale.
Using the most currently available data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 638,169 abortions performed in the U.S. in 2015. Of those, over 91% were performed at or before 13 weeks, or just over three months, gestation. Within that cohort, 65% of abortions were obtained by mothers terminating their pregnancies at or before the eighth week, or two months gestation or less. Using 2015 survey data from the state of Florida, since the CDC doesn’t make publicly available reasons cited for abortions, of the 71,740 infant deaths caused by abortion, 0.001% were involving an incestuous relationship, 0.065% were due to protect the life of the mother, and 0.085% were performed in the cases of rape. So, a total of 0.151% of the time, abortion was performed for those rare circumstances that are oft-cited by the abortion industry justifying the ease of obtaining the procedure.
Looking at the real-time U.S. Abortion Clock, that projects the number of abortions performed daily, annually, and since Roe v. Wade in 1973, over 61 million abortions have ended the lives of conceived children. While the procedure’s popularity has declined over the years with the availability of technology like ultrasound, the absolute war fought by the political Left to protect this procedure is vicious and very determined.
Whether it’s New York, Virginia, or the other states like Maryland, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts rushing to file legislation that will yield the same horrors of infanticide, Americans are being given information that should forever frame their approach to political decisions.
Is there room in the Democrat Party for pro-life politicians? Clearly, no.
With the data proving abortion is used to end pregnancies, not save lives, can we all now just reject the lie that abortion is “reproductive health?”
Since the New England Journal of Medicine has published data studying premature births at 24 institutions to record that infants born as young as 22 weeks gestation are able to survive outside the mother’s womb when given supportive measures, can’t Americans now just admit that late-term abortions are performed upon human beings who are viable?
Are there any Christian Democrats who’ll speak loudly against this modern-day practice of infanticide?
At this moment, the silence of any who claim to believe in Jesus Christ, whose image we’re fashioned into, is deafening.
Using both faith and science, the evidence is in. Democrats’ commitment to abortion on demand should be a line of definition that separates those who support the endowments of the Creator referenced in the Declaration of Independence as well as the tenets of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. There is a red line. It’s one pulsing with the blood of life of the children whose rights are being disregarded by an unhinged political party that has abandoned God, science, and virtue.
~The Patriot Post
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