Here are my observations and opinions on some of the news.
PLANNED PARENTNHOOD is playing a word game, much like others I recently called to your attention. They avoid using the word “abortion,” and refer to it as “reproductive health care.”
My curiosity led me to research the latest figures on abortions, and I was shocked to learn that there is a website with an active counter on abortions in the U.S. and Worldwide. It shows that the lives of 89,445 babies have been taken by Planned Parenthood so far this year as of the time I logged onto the site, and 8, 065,693 since 1970. Worldwide, 887 babies were aborted in the five minutes I spent on the site.
For a compelling look inside Planned Parenthood and its outgoing president, Cecile Richards, who claims to be an advocate for a health care provider, I encourage you to read Kristen Hawkins’ piece, “Cecile Richards ‘Made Trouble’ Alright: For Millions of Babies, Their Mothers, and Our Humanity,” in The Federalist. Simply, click here.
SURPRISE! CNN’s new national poll was favorable, and … wait for it … they published it, unlike CBS recently. They did note that President Trump’s 42 percent approval rating “isn’t exactly great,” but it improved over their February poll when the president was at 35 percent.
The network’s Chris Cillizza, not a fan of the president’s, looked into the poll in depth and saw that Trump improved from 42 to 50 percent among men. In snapshots among young voters (18-34), college graduates, and middle-aged voters he moved up since the last poll. Cillizza attributes the rise to the tax cut.
IN THE RASMUSSEN POLL, the only daily tracking poll of the president’s approval, Trump was at 50 percent on Monday and 49 percent today.
THE AIR FORCE made it known that it had ordered additional 14-ton deep penetrator bombs like the one tested in Afghanistan awhile back. They have also modified the stealth B-2 bombers to carry two of the bombs. The B-2 can slip under the radar and deliver an unexpected surprise to underground facilities. The announcement was surely designed to remind Kim Jung Un and the Iranian leaders that while we favor the diplomatic route for resolution, we are not to be toyed with.
CICERO AND THE BUDGET – A captivating quote about the budget, supposedly accredited to Cicero in 55 BC, first circulated on the Internet in 2008, and has now surfaced again.
“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
According to TruthOrFiction.com, someone added wording to match some of that the United States was facing economically at the time (2008).
The actual quote is said to be:
“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”
ACTIVISM NOT AN INGREDIENT OF JOURNALISM – Comments made by Josh Kraushaar, Politics Editor at National Journal, attracted my attention as I have recently written about journalists who slip into activism. He told of a Parkland high school student who thought journalism was activism.
“It’s concerning to me that there are a lot of journalists, especially younger ones, who actually think journalism is activism,” he said, “The goal of journalists, whether you’re an opinion journalist, whether you’re a reporter … the goal is to pursue the truth.”
Rather and Hogg on CNN. (thegatewaypundit.com)
FORMER CBS ANCHOR DAN RATHER wasn’t interested in the truth when he actively attacked George W. Bush over his Air National Guard service. We recently saw Rather on CNN, offering advice to Parkland student gun control activist, David “Camera” Hogg.
Hogg was just three or four years old when Rather unceremoniously departed CBS after being caught in a scheme to “get” Bush. I doubt very much that Hogg was familiar with Rather’s notoriety
