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President Donald Trump played a Halloween themed campaign video on Saturday for his supporters at a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF CATHOLICISM, POPE FRANCIS, ITS RELIGIOUS ORDERS, AND/OR CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES OR SCHOOLS. IT IS SIMPLY AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE, REGARDLESS OF RELIGION AND/OR FAITH PRACTICES, AS PER THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
BY BOB ADELMANN
SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/maga-nuns-who-attended-trump-rally-explain-why/;
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Three nuns from the Children of Mary in Cincinnati who sat behind President Trump at his rally in Circleville, Ohio, on Saturday became instant celebrities, and targets. Known now as the “MAGA Nuns” — each wore a mask with Trump’s favorite expression on them — they were immediately asked why they were there expressing their support for the president’s reelection.
They responded in a statement published by LifeSite News:
Thank you to the vast majority who have responded with love and support. To those who have responded with criticism or simply questioned why we would send Sisters to the rally, we are happy to have this opportunity to explain:
There are indeed many issues concerning the quality of life that need to be addressed. However, the pre-eminent issue is the intrinsic evil of taking innocent human life through abortion. We, as faithful Catholics, consider it our duty — a joyful duty — to support a president, regardless of party affiliation, who upholds the Gospel of Life.
Mother Philomena Maria told LifeSite News, “We’re trying to do what we feel the Lord wants us to do.”
Although most responded favorably to the nuns’ public display of support, others weren’t so charitable, including an individual who described himself as a “former” Republican who “doxed” the group on Twitter, claiming that “I like nuns with no political agenda.”
But he appeared to be in the minority. Sister Deirdre “Dede” Tyrne, a sister with the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, spoke at the Republican National Convention this past summer, contrasting Trump’s record as “the most pro-life president this nation has ever had” with the Biden/Harris ticket which she said was “the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.”
Recent polling data from EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) and RealClearPolitics showed that Trump leads Biden among Catholics “who regularly attend Mass.” Overall, according to that poll, Trump leads Biden among Catholic voters by 51-43, with 43 percent of them saying that practicing Catholics should follow the teachings of the Catholic Church and oppose abortion.
Abortion is the most important issue for Teresa S. Collet too. Collet, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and a well-regarded advocate for the protection of human life, told America, The Jesuit Review:
Had President Trump proven unfaithful to his promises to protect the unborn and religious liberty, I would consider voting for someone else. Had a significant number of his judicial nominees been unqualified or unsuitable, I would be looking at other candidates more closely….
In fact, the president has been faithful to his promises and delivered more than I hoped for when I voted for him in 2016.
Taylor Marshall, another well-known Catholic apologist, advocate for traditionalist Catholicism and board member of Catholics for Trump, excoriated Joe Biden. He told his followers back in July that he was supporting President Trump in his reelection bid because “Joe Biden is vehemently pro-choice, pro-abortion, and supports a number of policies that grind against Catholic doctrine and Catholic school teaching.”
Catholics, according to James Keane, writing in America, are being pushed into the arms of Trump by the now-radicalized Democratic Party. He wrote:
Perhaps no issue in U.S. politics over the last half-century has driven more Catholics from their traditionally Democratic leanings into the arms of the Republican Party than abortion law….
The consistent leftward drift of the Democratic Party on abortion is a huge stumbling block to Mr. Biden’s pursuit of widespread Catholic support.
If nothing else the “MAGA Nuns” have awakened Catholics to the preeminent issue of life, and the threat to it by the positions taken by Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.
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Pompeo said. “It’s historic to be here. It’s the first time that a multilateral coalition has been built around the issue of defending life.”
The virtual international ceremonial signing of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, cohosted by Secretaries Alex Azar and Mike Pompeo and co-sponsored by the governments of Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Uganda, and the United States was held on October 22 at 11 am EST. The Geneva Consensus Declaration strengthens the resolve to achieve these four pillars: (1) better health for women, (2) the preservation of human life, (3) strengthening of the family as the foundational unit of society, and (4) protecting every nation's national sovereignty in global politics. This event charts a positive way forward for accelerating progress and will be a celebration of partnership between the many countries gathered.
BY HEATHER CLARK
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WASHINGTON — The United States hosted a virtual signing of the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Thursday, joining with 31 nations to declare their commitment to women’s health and the strengthening of the family, while also proclaiming that there is no international “right to abortion.”
The event featured remarks from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who state that they have been co-laboring to promote the value of the unborn.
“Alex and I both share a deep and very personal commitment to protect human dignity. Our agencies have worked tirelessly together,” Pompeo said. “It’s historic to be here. It’s the first time that a multilateral coalition has been built around the issue of defending life.”
He explained that he and Azar sent a letter to likeminded countries last year to ask that they join in the effort to promote human dignity, and 2o of those leaders came up with a joint statement denouncing abortion advocacy sentiments in UN documents.
“Today, we’re taking the next step, as we sign the Geneva Consensus Declaration. At its very core, the declaration protects women’s health, defends the unborn, and reiterates the vital importance of the family as the foundation of society,” Pompeo outlined. “It’s a group of countries that respects life, and the U.S. is proud to stand with each and every one of them.”
The declaration states that the signing nations “[e]mphasize that ‘in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning’ and that ‘any measures or changes related to abortion within the health system can only be determined at the national or local level according to the national legislative process.”
The countries also “[r]eaffirm that ‘the child … needs special safeguards and care … before as well as after birth’ and [that] ‘special measures of protection and assistance should be taken on behalf of all children,’ based on the principle of the best interest of the child.”
The document proclaims the nations’ commitment to improving health care for women but “without including abortion” and again affirms that “there is no international right to abortion, nor any international obligation on the part of States to finance or facilitate abortion, consistent with the long-standing international consensus that each nation has the sovereign right to implement programs and activities consistent with their laws and policies.”
Signing countries include Belarus, Cameroon, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Zambia.
Azar says that other nations are welcome to sign the declaration at any time.
“Tragically, women around the world unnecessarily suffer health challenges — all too often, deadly health challenges — while too many wealthy nations and international institutions put a myopic focus on a radical agenda that is offensive to many cultures and derails agreement on women’s health priorities,” he remarked at the signing.
“Today, we put down a clear marker: No longer can U.N. agencies reinterpret and misinterpret agreed-upon language without accountability. Member States set the policy for the U.N. to pursue. Not the other way around,” he said.
“Without apology, we affirm that governments have the sovereign right to make their own laws to protect innocent life and write their regulations on abortion. The stakes are too high to permit radical, divisive agendas to hinder the ability of women in countries at all stages of development to attain better health.”
Read the Geneva Consensus Declaration in full here:
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/geneva-consensus-declaration-english.pdf
Watch "Clarence Thomas swears in Amy Coney Barrett at Rose Garden ceremony" on YouTube
BY DAVE WORKMAN
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U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- By a 52-48 Senate vote Monday evening, Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, igniting a backlash from angry Democrats whose fury may have been best represented by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who branded Barrett’s ascension to the high court as a “corrupt and illegitimate process.”
But it was vehemently anti-gun Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut who laid down a veiled threat during his remarks.
As quoted by Fox News, Blumenthal warned his Senate colleagues, “The fact is that our Republican colleagues are shattering the norms and breaking the rules and breaking their word, and there will be consequences. There inevitably are consequences when one person breaks his or her word to another.”
Blumenthal also declared, “Nothing less than everything is at stake. A shift in the balance of the court that will last for decades if we do not correct it – and believe me, there are appropriate measures that should be considered.”
Democrats admitted days ago there was little, if anything, they could do to prevent Barrett’s confirmation. It was the fulfillment of an important campaign pledge by Donald Trump in 2016 to bring balance back to the federal court system by nominating qualified constitutional conservatives to fill court vacancies.
But nobody could have foreseen the magnitude of that pivotal pledge four years ago, as the president has filled more than 250 federal court seats and three Supreme Court positions in less than four years.
From nomination to confirmation, the process took less than 40 days, making the far left even more angry. According to several reports, one of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last wishes was that her replacement would be appointed by the next president. If Trump wins re-election Nov. 3, that would have taken an impossible four years to fulfill.
CNN wasted no time in taking a dig at the president eight days before the election, making sure to remind listeners that Judge Barrett is “President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee,” as if that were something for which to be ashamed.
Associate Justice Barrett will hit the ground running, with some important cases coming before the court within days. One of those deals with Barack Obama’s “Affordable Care Act,” which many say was not affordable at all. The New York Times also noted other cases “including abortion rights, gay rights, business regulation and the environment.” Interestingly, potential gun rights cases weren't spotlighted.
But on the horizon could be several Second Amendment cases. Now, with a sure five-vote conservative majority that will not be concerned about a wrong vote by Chief Justice John Roberts, the country could see some cases dealing with gun rights outside of the home, and whether semi-auto modern sporting rifles—the so-called “assault rifles” Democrat Joe Biden and running mate Sen. Kamala Harris want to ban if they win—are protected by the Amendment.
Many believe it was doubt about which way Roberts might vote that caused the court earlier this year to decline hearing any of ten important gun rights cases that were on the table.
Indeed, Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, told AmmoLand News via a text message, “The confirmation of Judge Barrett will help make the Second Amendment great again.”
The only Republican voting against confirmation was Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. She is locked in a tight re-election race, the outcome of which could go either way.
As noted by CNN, “Barrett, who is 48 years old, is likely to serve on the court for decades and will give conservatives a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, a shift in its makeup that could have dramatic implications for a range of issues that could come before it, including the future of the Affordable Care Act and any potential disputes regarding the 2020 election.”
Even if Trump loses Nov. 3, his lasting legacy will be how he re-shaped the federal courts and the Supreme Court, which is no small feat.
With only days remaining before the election, America’s gun owners are being urged to vote. Their choice now is more clear than ever between a president who has filled federal court vacancies with judges who are likely to support the Second Amendment, and a former vice president who sent a career on Capitol Hill trying to erode it.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
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The Senate Votes to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett
BY TYLER O'NEIL
SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/26/watch-senate-confirms-amy-
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The U.S. Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Trump nominated Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Every Democrat voted against Barrett, while every Republican except Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted for her. The vote came down to 52-48.
Democrats have excoriated President Trump and the Republican Senate for nominating Barrett and holding a confirmation vote despite the looming election.
However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) explained that it is not unprecedented to confirm Supreme Court justices shortly before or even after a presidential election, even with a lame-duck president. On the contrary, it would have been unprecedented (at least since 1888) for the Republican Senate — elected to check a Democratic president — to confirm Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee in 2016.
Watch the confirmation below.
As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis reported, Justice Clarence Thomas — a consummate originalist — will administer Amy Coney Barrett’s oath.
Barrett becomes Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, after Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. She has pledged to follow the original public meaning of the Constitution, rather than unilaterally amending the Constitution in the manner of Roe v. Wade (1973) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), cases in which the Supreme Court struck down state laws on abortion and marriage in order to establish a constitutional “right” to abortion and same-sex marriage, respectively.
Many irrationally fear that if Roe and Obergefell are overturned, abortion will be illegal across the country and same-sex marriage will also be illegal. On the contrary, reversing these rulings would only allow the states to make their own laws.
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BY STACEY LENNOX
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President Trump has signed an executive order that removes civil-service protections from certain positions within federal government agencies. There has been much whining and gnashing of teeth, but voters should be thrilled. Making policymakers in the Deep State “at-will” employees, who are easier to dismiss if they attempt to obstruct the duly elected president’s agenda, is a good thing. Not being bound to hire according to a career-progression ladder will also allow agencies to bring in new people with new ideas. This will be true whether or not Donald Trump is president.
The need to reduce protections within the civil service became apparent when training based on critical race theory was banned from the federal government. Within two weeks of the order, whistleblowers started to report that their scheduled critical race training would proceed—in direct violation of the order.
Many who made their careers in private industry were stunned. Any department head or manager who operates in direct defiance of an order from a CEO would not remain on the team for long. Yet when this happened in federal agencies, no one was apparently held accountable.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought explained why on Glenn Beck’s radio show:
BECK: I mean, this is insubordination. I mean, you are going against a presidential directive. If you can’t be fired for that, what can you be fired for?
VOUGHT: Not much, Glenn, to be honest with you, and that’s the rules and the laws that have been put in place. But we do have the ability to build a record of where individuals have not performed.
BECK: Unbelievable. Absolutely.
VOUGHT: And that is what we are looking at to the best of our ability.
BECK: This is, it’s unacceptable. I am not saying it is you, Russ, but this is unacceptable. I don’t know how the president accepts that. That should be priority number one—figuring out a way to be able to fire people or you’ll never get rid of the Deep State. If you can’t fire the people, that just sends a message to all of the other people who want to disagree with the president to do what they want.
At the time, I likened President Trump trying to stop the resistance to his agenda to a game of Whack-a-Mole. The administration would issue a strategy, policy direction, or order and then wait to see who slow-walked, ignored, or outright defied it. The administration would then correct the behavior with a “note to file” and little else.
In essence, these employees are defying the will of the electorate, no matter who the chief executive is. We elect our representatives based on our policy preferences. To be sure, the election of Donald Trump resulted in a significant change in foreign policy, immigration policy, and education policy. Administrative rules make changing policies and regulations arduous. Employees who are proud members of the #Resistance only make it more difficult.
For example, President Trump directed the government to reduce illegal immigration. The experts and civil servants in the appropriate agencies should determine how best to accomplish this. Debate on the “how” is important, but the debate on the “what” is over when the citizens elect the president. The problem arises when the president meets resistance on the “what.” The defiance of the critical race theory training ban was a glaring example.
Some critics are saying this decision will chill speech within the agencies, eliminating diverse points of view. This was not a problem during the fifteen years I spent in public and private companies in corporate America. Executives determined strategy and what needed to be accomplished, while managers and employees determined how to achieve the strategy.
As the new executive order is written, the agencies will have discretion on how it is implemented through crafting detailed rules. This includes determining which positions will become Schedule F as defined in the executive order. These positions will have fewer protections and won’t be subject to competitive hiring.
Private-sector unions make clear distinctions about what type of employee is protected by a union contract and which are not. Managers and employees with special education and training are generally not given the same employment protections and are considered at-will employees. There is no reason not to make similar distinctions in the public-sector positions within the government.
In a recent interview, Jared Kushner explained to Ben Shapiro how bringing business people into the government allowed the Trump administration to deliver on so many promises. They brought a results-orientation approach to the execution of the administration’s priorities. This mix has worked out well as the president approached projects like building the southern border wall using traditional project-management skills.
Bringing new perspectives and new skills into an ossified bureaucracy is an excellent idea. It will also make resistance to the will of the voters a risky proposition. At the end of the day, civil servants work for us, and it is high time they were reminded of that.
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One of the most baffling epidemics plaguing the Christian Church in our modern times is the push to move the Church away from traditional biblical conservatism and closer to the center-left. Several prominent Evangelical pastors and theologians have shifted toward this position in recent years arguing that the sins of the right are no different — no less deadly — than the sins of the left.
As the Southern Baptist Convention and progressive outlets such as The Gospel Coalition embrace leftist ideology, more and more, the Church itself becomes less of a bastion for conservatism enabling leftism to enter the pews and pulpits of our churches. The Church has done a poor job of teaching cultural issues from a biblical perspective leading many church-goers with the impression that politics is subjective and whether or not you vote for a Democrat or a Republican, so long as you do so in “good conscience,” you are in good standing.
This, however, is false — and it is a false perception that is being promulgated by notable theologians like John Piper.
Today, John Piper released an article decrying the personal immorality of Donald Trump — whose policies have been friendly to the Christian Church and favorable to conservatism — and comparing it to the deadliness of Planned Parenthood. Piper tweeted the release of the article with the commentary, “This article is probably as close as you will get to an answer on how I will vote in the upcoming presidential election.”
After reading the article, one cannot walk away with any other conclusion than John Piper will not be voting for Donald Trump. He does not say if he would vote for the Democrat candidate, perhaps he would vote for a third party candidate. But he does not sound favorable toward Donald Trump … at all.
“I think it is a drastic mistake to think that the deadly influences of a leader come only through his policies and not also through his person,” Piper writes. “This is true not only because flagrant boastfulness, vulgarity, immorality, and factiousness are self-incriminating, but also because they are nation-corrupting.”
Piper, here, as so many other Evangelical leaders have tried to do over the last four years, is trying to make the case that somehow, because of Donald Trump’s personal immorality, that Democrats have some kind of moral high-ground, despite their destructive policies. Piper wants to argue that Trump’s personal immorality is somehow greater than the personal immorality of, say, Joe Biden and that Trump’s personal immorality somehow cancels out the bad policies of the other candidates.
Let’s be clear, the Democrats — who want to kill millions of children, want to force homosexuality down everyone’s throat and force everyone to celebrate it, want to allow violent mobs to rule major cities while defunding the police, want to steal from those who work hard to give to sluggards, and have a party platform that is basically the antithesis to God’s law — do not have any kind of moral high ground. They are murderers, not just at heart, but are actively involved in the plot to assassinate children. They are bloodthirsty and want more. They will not stop.
Sure, Donald Trump commits sins. He is an adulterer, he says crass things, and he suffers from an addiction to greed. He is most definitely a self-idolater — as are all lost people. Donald Trump is no angel of light. However, what is so mind-boggling that a man as “brilliant” as John Piper can’t grasp this concept: Donald Trump is not trying to legislate his personal immorality into national policy, the Democrats are.
I think Roe is an evil decision. I think Planned Parenthood is a code name for baby-killing and (historically at least) ethnic cleansing. And I think it is baffling and presumptuous to assume that pro-abortion policies kill more people than a culture-saturating, pro-self pride.
When a leader models self-absorbed, self-exalting boastfulness, he models the most deadly behavior in the world. He points his nation to destruction. Destruction of more kinds than we can imagine.
It is naive to think that a man can be effectively pro-life and manifest consistently the character traits that lead to death — temporal and eternal.
Does John Piper not understand the purpose of civil government? The Scriptures, while they do call civil leaders to righteousness, does not call the civil government to model the gospel. That is the job and function of the Church. The calling of the civil government is to wield the sword of righteousness, punish evil, and reward good. To dismiss the egregiousness of abortion as no greater — or even less than — the egregiousness of Donald Trump’s personal sins is at best a dereliction of his pastoral duty on the part of Piper.
The Scriptures are replete with examples of wicked leaders that God used for the good of a nation. Right now, we, as a nation, are faced with two choices. One choice is to vote for a grossly immoral man who, at least, still wants to preserve the individual rights of Christians to worship freely, preserve the right of children to live while at least attempting, to the best of his ability, to dismantle national pro-abortion policies (government is very limited here due to Supreme Court rulings), and to protect the law and order of the nation. The other choice is for a grossly immoral man who wants to expand abortion, strip religious freedoms, and enslave the nation to the idolatry of state.
Does John Piper really believe that there is freedom of conscience and moral equivalency in these two choices? If so, he should repent.
BY HEATHER CLARK
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“Trump Pride” events, organized by the Trump Pride advisory board and featuring speakers such as daughter-in-law Lara Trump, daughter Tiffany Trump and others, are being held in various cities across the country in order to rally the homosexual vote for Election Day.
“Donald Trump has never cared about how you look; he has never cared about your gender, your religion or who you love. Donald Trump is fighting for every single American, period. That’s it,” Lara Trump told those gathered in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, on Oct. 13.
She was introduced by Richard Grenell, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and current Trump Pride coalition co-chair. As previously reported, Grenell, a homosexual himself, led the Trump administration’s effort to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide. He noted at the event that he is the “first openly gay cabinet member appointed by any president in American history.”
“[T]he entire family is with us. Don and Ivanka and Eric [and] Lara — everyone is with us,” he said, meaning that homosexuals have the Trump family’s support.
“This is a family that for decades has been fighting for gay equality. This isn’t new,” Grenell stated. “As someone who has sat in the oval office with this president on numerous occasions, I can tell you he loves the support from gay Americans. He loves it. He constantly asks me about it in his very Trumpian way.”
Lara Trump made similar remarks in speaking to those in attendance, some of whom held up “Trump Pride” rainbow placards.
“This [event] is upsetting a lot of people in Washington, D.C. This is upsetting a lot of Democrats. Because they don’t want the message to get out that Donald Trump has been the most pro-gay president in American history,” she declared.
“Not only did he appoint Ric Grenell to a cabinet position, not only do we have the first LGBT coalition of any Republican Party in history, but Donald Trump led the way, [inaudible] the campaign for decriminalizing homosexuality around the world. [He is] the only president to do that, ladies and gentlemen,” Trump’s daughter-in-law boasted. “This is big league.”
On Saturday, Tiffany Trump appeared at a “Trump Pride” rally in Tampa, Florida, speaking enthusiastically about her father and his support for homosexuals.
“I know what my father believes in. Prior to politics, he supported gays and lesbians, the LGBQIA+ community. … My father has always supported all of you,” she said. “He’s not doing it for politics and he has never done it for politics.”
Trump noted that her mother, Marla Maples, was also in the audience. Maples stood to her feet and happily waved to those gathered.
“People can say whatever they want to say. But I’m here because I support my father. He supports all of you,” she stated. “And we are here to fight for equality, democracy. To keep America [great] and make it better.”
During her speech, Tiffany Trump said that her Facebook post inviting others to the “Trump Pride” event was deleted as spam and expressed how the act of removing her status was suspect.
“People’s eyes are opening … The Lord is opening our eyes; I do believe that,” she opined, being met with cheers, applause and one attendee shouting out “amen.”
View her remarks in full here or scroll to the end of this report.
As previously reported, according to pride.donaldtrump.com, the Trump Pride advisory board “is a diverse coalition dedicated to re-electing President Trump, the first president to begin his presidency in support of marriage equality.”
“President Donald J. Trump is the only president to openly support the LGBT community since his first day in office,” the page reads. “President Trump stands in solidarity with LGBT citizens by supporting and enacting policies and initiatives that protect the wellbeing and prosperity of all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.”
In August, when Grenell recorded a video referring to Trump as the “most pro-gay president in American history,” the president re-tweeted the recording with the exclamation, “My great honor!!!”
Last month, while speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Eric Trump said, “the LGBT community, they are incredible and you should see how they’ve come out in full force for my father every single day.”
Proverbs 14:34 states, “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” The Pulpit Commentary says in remarking on the verse, “[I]f righteousness exalts and sin degrades heathen nations, how much more must this be the case with God’s own people, who have clearer revelations and heavier responsibilities!”
BY TYLER O'NEIL
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump will file an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday. Both Republicans and Democrats have accused Google of engaging in anticompetitive conduct to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising. Psychologist Robert Epstein has long warned about the potential political impact of Google Search, claiming that Google bias may have been responsible for Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote in 2016.
The DOJ will allege that Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., is maintaining its status as a gatekeeper to the internet “through an unlawful web of exclusionary and interlocking business agreements that shut out competitors,” DOJ officials told The Wall Street Journal in an exclusive.
“The government will allege that Google uses billions of dollars collected from advertisements on its platform to pay mobile-phone manufacturers, carriers and browsers, like Apple Inc.’s Safari, to maintain Google as their preset, default search engine,” WSJ reported.
As a result of such practices, Google dominates search on hundreds of millions of American devices “with little opportunity for any competitor to make inroads, the government will allege.”
The lawsuit will also fault Google for arrangements in which Google’s Search application is preloaded and cannot be deleted from mobile phones running the Android operating system. The DOJ will claim that such arrangements unlawfully edge out competing search engines.
Google owns or controls search distribution channels for about 80 percent of search queries in the U.S. According to the lawsuit, that means Google’s competitors cannot get a meaningful number of search queries to build the scale needed to compete, leaving consumers with less choice and less innovation and advertisers with less competitive prices.
The company has defended its prime position, arguing that its competitive edge comes from offering a product that billions of people freely choose to use each day. Google has argued that it faces vigorous competition across its different operations and that its products and platforms help both small and large businesses to reach new customers.
Google offers its services at little or no cost, undercutting the traditional antitrust argument around potential price controls.
Even so, the company’s massive search footprint has attracted legal challenges from both sides of the aisle. Democrats on a House antitrust subcommittee released a report this month, claiming that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google wield monopoly power and recommending congressional action.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Google for more than a year but decided against bringing an antitrust case in 2013. That case focused on claims that Google engaged in “search bias” by favoring its own services and demoting rivals like Yelp and Tripadvisor, which have long complained about Google’s search power. The FTC ultimately concluded that such a case would be hard to win because while the company desires to hobble rivals, it also pursues its policies to advance quality products and services for consumers.
The DOJ’s case will not focus on a search-bias theory, officials told WSJ.
The DOJ has investigated Google for more than a year. Nearly all state attorneys general are separately investigating the search company, while Amazon, Apple, and Facebook also face antitrust scrutiny. More than ten state attorneys general are expected to join the DOJ’s case.
The case will likely take years to resolve. If Google loses, a court may mandate changes to its business operations in order to create new openings for rival companies. The DOJ lawsuit will not specify particular remedies yet — this kind of recommendation will be addressed later in the case. If Google wins, a court ruling could hobble the government’s attempts to rein in Big Tech. However, a Google victory may spur Congress to take legislative action.
Google’s search engine has achieved such a near-monopoly that Americans will use the verb “to google” rather than “to search.” This seems innocent enough — after all, Google does provide an excellent search engine. Yet critics have long raised concerns that Google’s near-monopoly on internet search could have hidden impacts on Americans.
Ph.D. psychologist Robert Epstein, who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, has long warned about Google’s power to manipulate elections. In 2017, he wrote a white paper arguing that Clinton’s popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.
“Extrapolating from the mathematics introduced in this report … the lead author of the PNAS study [Epstein himself] predicted that a pro-Clinton bias in Google’s search results would, over time, shift at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton. She won the popular vote in the November election by 2,864,974 votes,” Epstein wrote with his co-author Ronald E. Robertson.
“Without the pro-Clinton bias in Google’s search results, her win margin in the popular vote would have been negligible,” Epstein wrote.
A 2018 survey found that conservative employees in Silicon Valley tech companies live in fear that their political beliefs will be found out. James Damore said conservatives at Google are “in the closet” and that Google executives are digging through a secret email list in order to out them.
Last month, a Google whistleblower told Project Veritas that Google News results are intentionally biased against Trump. This seemed to confirm the results of an unscientific test on Google News bias run by PJ Media editor Paula Bolyard last year (tweeted out by Trump himself), and a more scientific study also suggesting bias. The Google News slant is not a conspiracy theory, though Google of course denies manipulating results. After all, Google employees heavily favor Democrats in their political donations.
More than 90 percent of political contributions from employees of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, have gone to Democrats since 2004. In 2018, 96 percent went to Democrats.
Yet Google bias may not always be liberal. All Americans should be concerned about Google’s ability to interfere in elections, and a former Google engineer said the company will try to prevent Trump’s reelection. This should worry all Americans, no matter what they think about Trump.
Google’s near-monopoly should worry Americans, and this lawsuit may be a step in the right direction. Even so, Americans should also worry about a government take-over of Big Tech. Antitrust actions against Google may be necessary, but if politicians and regulators get their hands on the kind of power Google possesses, the prospects might be far worse than the threat Google currently poses.
Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
BY JOHN BINDER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
American medical school graduates are asking President Trump to expand his executive order to halt the H-1B and J-1 visa programs that import thousands of foreign doctors every year — taking jobs from qualified Americans who are unmatched for residencies.
In interviews with columnist Michelle Malkin, American medical graduates — unmatched for residencies — say there is no shortage of qualified doctors.
The medical process mandates that these graduates attend residency in order to begin practicing in the U.S. If a graduate is unmatched, they are often left with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and no way to pay it back.
One such graduate, Dr. Ricardo, told Malkin that more than 5,700 American medical graduates have gone unmatched for residencies this year as the U.S. keeps importing thousands of foreign doctors on H-1B and J-1 visas to fill residency spots.
American taxpayer dollars help fund, through Medicare, matching foreign doctors with U.S. residencies.
“This past year, there were a total of 34,266 training positions for doctors,” Ricardo said. “We had 33,887 matched positions — which only left just north of 1,000 free training positions … we had 5,717 U.S. citizens go unmatched this year.”
Another American medical graduate, Dr. Emily, said she and others should not be forced to compete against import foreign doctors for limited jobs. Emily said:
In summary, we had 5,000 Americans who did not get a job who now face extreme burdens of cost of living … and we pump in at least 5,000, if not 10,000 foreigners. Again, there is no shortage. We have thousands of people who are our own people, I want my own people first, always. There’s no reason for these people getting visas over us because we can easily meet the demand.
Dr. Paulina, a first-generation American medical graduate, say the process is especially unfair because she and others take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans to get a quality medical education while imported foreign doctors from India and Pakistan go to school for free.
Paulina said:
Our parents came here, they sacrificed, they worked so hard. They put us through college and then they have to sit here and see us not get accepted into medical schools and our jobs being taken over by these people who don’t even have medical school loans like we have. They don’t pay anything for their medical education. It’s all free in India and Pakistan … because there’s so much poverty in those countries. They’re supposed to be helping their own and then they come here and take our jobs. We have student loans to pay off. And we’re left in limbo, we can’t do anything about it.
Dr. Leroy, a black American, said he has about $450,000 in student loans that he has no way of paying off today.
“You can’t have a playing field where people from India can score high on an exam and have preference while we are driving Uber and doing Amazon Flex in order to pay our bills,” Leroy said.
The medical graduates said it is vital that Trump halt the H-1B and J-1 visa programs in any expansion of his executive order, especially when more than a million American medical professionals have been laid off during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
“It’s like saying to students, ‘You’re going to finish middle school in your district, but the high school in your district will be open to the entire world. We’re not going to ensure that only people from the district go to this high school,'” Leroy explained.
While Trump considers expanding the order, Senators David Perdue (R-GA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Todd Young (R-IN), and Chris Coons (D-DE) — as well as the Democrats’ HEROES Act — have sought to increase the number of foreign doctors and nurses taking high-paying American medical jobs.
Every year, the U.S. admits about 1.2 million legal immigrants on green cards to permanently resettle in the country. In addition, another 1.4 million foreign workers are admitted every year to take American jobs. Often, Americans are fired and replaced by foreign visa workers. Many are forced to train their foreign replacements.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/29/reformers-fill-medical-shortage-
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