Sen. Sasse Just DESTROYED The Media And Planned Parenthood In EPIC Fashion

There is so much misinformation on abortion spread by the mainstream media that it can be overwhelming.

There are people out there who think abortions are only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does. That’s false.

There are people who think women will be left high and dry if Planned Parenthood goes away. That’s false.

There are people who believe Planned Parenthood provides desperately needed mammograms. That’s false.

There are people who think the “selling baby parts for profit” thing was made up by conservatives. That’s false.

It’s hard to blame them for believing all this when you consider how the media has been pushing these lies 24/7.

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse has had enough of it and he spoke to a pro-life crowd recently and didn’t hold back.

From Newsbusters:

Pointing to the 196,543 pairs of baby socks at the U.S. Capitol representing half of the babies aborted per year by Planned Parenthood, Sen. Sasse urged, “we need to have images like this so that people start to reflect on the magnitude of this suffering that’s happening out there.”

Life, he argued, transcends party politics.

“I’m a conservative Republican, but I care about a whole bunch of things far more than I care about the Republican party or the Democratic party,” Sasse declared, referencing DNC Chair Tom Perez’s controversial words that “every candidate who runs as a Democrat” and even “every Democrat, like every American” should support abortion.

Love it.

He wasn’t done.

He called out the media in the perfect way as well.

“The picture I tweeted out is just science,” Sen. Sasse affirmed. “It’s a picture of an actual baby. It’s a picture of what’s actually happening inside a mom’s womb. And that kind of picture needs to be the thing that we’re about…”

But that’s not how many in the media see it. Talking afterwards with MRC Culture, Sasse condemned the media’s handling of abortion.

“First of all, there’s just not honesty in dealing with the magnitude of the crisis and where Americans actually are on the issue,” he noted. “…Think about the butcher that is Gosnell, and how the media just tried to overlook that for ages.”

Here’s some video.

Gotta love that!

Always nice to see people in positions of power standing up for what’s right.

Bill Nye Pushes Sick “Ice Cream Orgy” Cartoon to Kids

Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” is quickly gaining a reputation as being the pervy guy after he debuted a new video apparently aimed at children that suggests heterosexuality is just one of the many “flavors” of sexuality.

On an episode of his Netflix series “Bill Nye Saves the World,” Nye introduced the video with a condescending, “We are enlightened and forward-thinking, but not everyone sees it this way, but there are lots of flavors to sexuality.”

The video then showed a cartoon of ice cream cones of different flavors, where the vanilla ice cream tried to convert the other flavors to being vanilla. (The cartoon includes some not-too-subtle jabs at Christianity, too.)

Other flavors of ice cream in the video, such as strawberry and chocolate appear to represent alternatives to heterosexuality. The vanilla ice cream told the others that the “big ice cream in the sky” wants all ice cream to be vanilla. He also told them that vanilla is the most natural of ice creams.

Everyone should pretend to be vanilla, he said, until they no longer have the urge to be vanilla.

The group engaged in a conversation where the other ice cream flavors told vanilla that not everyone wants just one flavor of ice cream. The group pressured the vanilla ice cream into tasting one the other flavors, and when he did, he discovered that he liked it, and the group ended up in a giant ice cream orgy.

Take a look:

Wow.

Nye’s credibility has suffered over the years with his ideas on climate change and environmentalism, but this ice cream analogy is over-the-top degenerate.

It is especially offensive that Nye would intentionally use cartoon characters and ice cream, two things children love, to push his anti-Christian message. The so-called scientist is just one of many who are trying to shove their liberal views down our children’s throats, and it needs to end.

H/T PJ Media

CNN Mistakes Chinese Troops for American Marines

One would think that after being called out numerous times for reporting fake news and spreading misinformation, CNN might try to sharpen its investigative skills and get things right for once. One would think.

Apparently that’s not the case as the network has once again been caught reporting something fake — this time about the U.S. Marines.

In a report on the U.S. Marines nude photo scandal on Wednesday, CNN’s attempt at real journalism was overshadowed by the fact that the network had its own photo faux pas that included a photograph of the Chinese military carrying Chinese weapons, boarding a Chinese helicopter.

Oh, boy.

Defense One editor Marcus Weisgerber spotted the error and promptly called out CNN for it:

 What an embarrassing mistake.

Apparently, CNN’s primary concern is not being able to spot the difference between the Chinese military and the U.S. military. (The red star might have been a clue.)

It has more important things to do, like push the Democrat agenda. But pushing that agenda has blinded them to what actual news looks like and, as a result, the network has a disgusting track record.

For example, it tried to get away with exaggerating about the size of President Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd in comparison to the crowd at former President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

They also don’t always vet their guests.

Apparently, they can’t add. They once reported that 110 percent of Scottish voters went to the polls.

 The network doesn’t seem to know its geography, either, after it reported that the capital of Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Indonesia. (It’s the capital of Malaysia.)

And their hosts appear to simply make things up as they go along just to see if they can get away with it.

CNN’s lies are almost too much to keep up with.

H/T Task and Purpose

Teen girl fatally shot by brother after giving him a birthday hug

A Florida teen with a history of gun violence shot his 13-year-old sister in the back of the head moments after she hugged him on his 17th birthday, police say.

Martaevious Santiago pointed a loaded semi-automatic handgun at his sister Tedra King as she turned away after a hug in the kitchen of the family's Florida City home, Miami-Dade police said.

Then he pulled the trigger.  

Santiago told cops that the shooting was an accident. Authorities charged him with manslaughter, the Miami Herald reported. 

Santiago's family and friends have called the killing a freak accident.

'He said, "Daddy, I'm sorry. It was an accident. I'm sorry, Dad," his stepfather, Vernon Williams, told WSVN 7 News, adding: 'I can't fault anyone for this here. It happened.'

 'He didn't mean to kill his sister,' family friend Shamara Perpall told the station.

The accused shooter's life had already been marred by gun violence even before the Tuesday night tragedy.  He told the radio station WLRN, in a series on young gun violence survivors,  that he himself had been to jail 18 times, mostly for robberies.

In December, Santiago was shot in the leg in his driveway, the station reported. His friend was shot in the head and nearly died.

Eleven months earlier, Santiago's younger brother Martwan was shot four times, according to the report. One bullet went through his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down.

Local leaders ripped the killing as an example of why Florida should change its gun access laws. The Sunshine State had by far the highest number of people with concealed weapons carry permits, about 1.4 million, as of March 2015, Politifact reported.

 'Criminally or accidentally, the carnage continues. A 13-year old middle schooler is latest victim of heartbreaking, reckless gun violence,' tweeted Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

'Accidental but not acceptable. In the streets, at home, easy access to guns is, itself, indicting. How many more will it take?' he added, using the hashtag #EnoughCarnage.

Teacher allegedly called students ‘murderers’ for raising livestock

A Florida teacher stands to lose his job after school officials said he bullied and harassed Future Farmers of America students who are raising livestock to be sold for slaughter.

Middle school teacher Thomas Roger Allison Jr., 53, has been placed on unpaid leave from Horizon Academy at Marion Oaks near Ocala for calling the students who are raising livestock “murderers,” according to a Marion County school district letter documenting the case.

In a written recommendation for termination, Superintendent of Schools Heidi Maier said that Allison “has engaged in a repeated, egregious pattern of mistreating, ridiculing, insulting, intimidating, embarrassing bullying and abusing FFA students, crushing their dreams and causing them to feel that they must discontinue FFA activities to enjoy a peaceful school environment.”

The Ocala Star-Banner reports Allison is also accused of harassing the group’s teacher adviser and encouraging his honors science students to harass FAA members.

A district investigation revealed that Allison is on a quest to end the animal agriculture program because of his animal rights beliefs. Maier said he’s also made it harder for FFA students to get good grades in his science class.

Allison told investigators he won’t stop speaking out on animal slaughter, and said he is innocent. He is on unpaid leave pending a hearing before the school board.

“I love working in Marion County and love my students,” he said. “I will fight for my job.”

Allison was named as one of the five finalist for 2016 Golden Apple teacher of the year honors.

Maier ordered the investigation on March 28. It looked into dozens of accusations from teachers, students and parents. The investigation lasted 10 days and resulted in a scathing report.

Allison told students that he was obtaining his certification in agriculture so that he could take the agriculture teacher’s job and stop animal projects, the report states. “This has upset and confused the FFA students, who do not want their academics to suffer because of their involvement with animal projects.”

One agriculture student told investigators that Allison makes her feel like she is doing something wrong.

According to the report, even after Allison was made aware of the investigation, he continued “addressing students antagonistically and cruelly, thus failing in his obligation not to harass or discriminate against any student.”

Donald Trump`s first 100 days: A chaotic discovery of power

From the resounding setbacks in Congress to the stunning policy flip-flops, Donald Trump has certainly been confronted with a steep learning curve in his opening months at the White House.

While the new US president has shown a capacity to change both his tone and his positions, Trump has struggled to convey a clearly articulated worldview.

As the symbolic milestone of his 100th day in power, which falls on Saturday, draws near, a cold, hard reality is setting in for the billionaire businessman who promised Americans he would "win, win, win" for them.

At this stage of his presidency Donald Trump is the least popular US leader in modern history (even if his core supporters still fully support him).

The 70-year-old Trump, whose election victory unleashed a political shockwave around the world, is still clinging to the take-no-prisoners, unpredictable, impulsive style that made him a property mogul and reality TV star.

But the onetime anti-establishment candidate who promised to "drain the swamp" in Washington appears to have recognised -- with a mix of naivete and craftiness -- that he has one of the most difficult jobs in the world.

In just his first few weeks in office Trump suffered some crippling blows -- the federal courts halted his proposed travel ban, and Congress failed to move ahead on health care reform.

"Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated," Trump said during his efforts to see Obamacare -- his Democratic predecessor`s signature domestic policy achievement -- repealed and replaced.

"After listening for 10 minutes, I realised it`s not so easy," Trump said after talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping about North Korea. The demands and constraints of the Oval Office -- where every word uttered counts -- are quite different from the daily stump speeches Trump made on the campaign trail.

Who to turn to for advice? Whose advice to heed? What kind of relationship to build with Congress, even when it`s nominally controlled by one`s own party? How much latitude to afford the usually powerful State and Defense Departments?

All of his predecessors have said it: moving into the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a shock to the system.

"There`s just something about this job as president every president faces -- you know, that you think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the world, you know, are different than you thought," George W Bush said recently.

Aside from his unwavering penchant for morning tweetstorms, often influenced by the ebb and flow of headlines on Fox News, Trump has changed.

In the choice of his teams as well as in some negotiations, a sort of "presidentialisation" seems to be unfolding -- albeit haltingly.

Trump, who was elevated to the highest office in the United States with no prior political, diplomatic or military experience, says his ever-evolving approach works.

"I do change and I am flexible, and I`m proud of that flexibility," Trump said, shortly before authorising air strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over what Washington says was a sarin attack on civilians.

On China, Russia and NATO, his about-faces have -- to some extent -- reassured some Americans, and some of Washington`s allies.

"When a president moves from being so wrong to being so right on such important questions, the sensible response is not to carp but to celebrate, however cautiously," The Washington Post said in an editorial, reminding readers of the harsh, dark tone of Trump`s inaugural address.

But his approach also includes risks.

From Syria to North Korea, what is the risk of dragging the United States into a military conflict with an unpredictable outcome, a situation Trump warned against on the campaign trail?

How would the Republican president react if a major terror attack were to happen on US soil, as it did on 9/11?Both style and substance reveal that Donald J Trump is an American president like no other before him.

In a rather disconcerting interview given to Time magazine in March, in which Trump defended his controversial, far-fetched or just plain false statements one by one, he said: "What am I going to tell you? I tend to be right."

More than three months after taking office, many of his detractors still deem the profile written by author Philip Roth for The New Yorker in late January to be a just one.

He wrote of a president "ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance... and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words."

Trump`s numerous policy pivots and resets also raise questions about the very definition of his fluid brand of "Trumpism" -- which revolves around his ubiquitous "America First" slogan, a seemingly simple idea that is nevertheless tough to explain.

The internal squabbles within the Trump White House have not helped the president move forward with articulating his long-term vision.

Within a group that includes the ultra-conservative Steve Bannon, one thing stands out: the prime positioning of his family, especially daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The successful nomination of conservative federal judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court stands as the major success of the first 100 days of the 45th president of the United States.

All too aware that he doesn`t have much to show for those days, Trump lashed out with a tweet decrying the "ridiculous standard of the first 100 days" -- one that his team has repeatedly said was vital.

Trump, who regularly talks about possibly running for re-election, has more than 1,300 days ahead of him until his first term ends.

Donald Trump gives Pentagon more flexibility on Iraq, Syria troops

The White House is giving the Pentagon greater flexibility to determine the number of US troops in Iraq and Syria, in another move by President Donald Trump to shift greater power to his military leaders.

The decision will give Defense Secretary Jim Mattis the authority to send more forces into Syria, to assist US-backed local troops as they move to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State group, which has used the city as a de facto capital.

It will also let him adjust the force numbers in Iraq, in the ongoing fight to oust IS from Mosul and stabilize it as the rebuilding begins.

The Pentagon has already been making quiet, incremental additions to the troop levels in both countries in recent months, adding hundreds of Marines in Syria to provide artillery support, and sending more advisers into Iraq to work with units closer to the fight in Mosul.

Those moves were done with White House approval, but without any formal adjustment to the longstanding troop caps that had been set by the Obama administration.

Dana White, chief spokesperson for the Pentagon, said Wednesday that Mattis has not made any changes yet to the current authorised force levels.

Under the Obama White House, military leaders chafed about micromanagement that forced commanders to get approvals for routine tactical decisions and personnel moves, and provide justification for any troops sent into war zones.

Commanders have argued that they should be able to determine troop deployments based on the military capabilities they believe are needed at any given time.

The new authority will provide greater transparency about the actual number of US forces in Iraq and Syria after several years of public confusion about the accurate totals.

Under the Obama-mandated caps, the US was limited to 503 officially deployed troops in Syria, and 5,262 in Iraq. The Pentagon, however, has closer to 7,000 in Iraq, and hundreds more than the cap in Syria, but doesn't count them because they are on temporary duty or not counted under specific personnel rules.

The change, however, could trigger concerns particularly in Iraq, where there are political sensitivities about the footprint of American and coalition troops and fears about occupation forces.

Officials worry that if they publicly acknowledge there are thousands more troops there, it could fuel opposition and problems for the Iraqi government.

Trump's decision applies only to the two countries, and so far does not affect Afghanistan, although that change has also been discussed.

"This does not represent a change in our mission in Iraq and Syria to defeat ISIS," said White, using another name for the Islamic State group.