“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new transgender regulations for Obamacare on Friday.
These regulations threaten the religious liberty, freedom of conscience, and independent medical judgment of health care professionals. And, just as they did in the transgender school policy the Obama administration announced this morning, the administration has created these new Obamacare regulations by redefining “sex” to mean “gender identity.”
As Roger Severino and I explain in a Heritage Foundation report, these regulations will create serious conflicts of conscience for many organizations, hospitals, physicians, and other individuals involved in healthcare.
By prohibiting differential treatment on the basis of “gender identity” in health services, these regulations will penalize medical professionals and health care organizations that, as a matter of faith, moral conviction, or professional medical judgment, believe that maleness and femaleness are biological realities to be respected and affirmed, not altered or treated as diseases.
The regulations create special privileges based on gender identity that will lead to unreasonable and costly litigation for physicians, hospitals, insurers, and others involved in health care. They will effectively require controversial procedures, such as “sex-reassignment” surgery, that respected medical professionals argue have not been proven to be effective in treating serious mental health conditions. Rather than respect the diversity of opinions on sensitive and controversial health care issues, the proposed regulations endorse and enforce one view.
These new regulations go beyond what Congress established in Obamacare.”
Little Sisters is prominent in our town, they run a home for the elderly (and I’ve mentioned here before about Mother Marguerite & her border collies whom I met at the dog park 🙂 )
As one pundit said originally of the administration’s decision to pursue this case, any time you politically take on a group called Little Sisters of the Poor, you’ve already lost.
The Supreme Court punted Monday on a challenge by religious-affiliated employers to ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, sending the dispute back to the lower courts.
The justices had been considering whether religious-affiliated institutions like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charity of nuns, can be exempt from having to pay for — or indirectly allow — birth control and other reproductive coverage in their health plans.
But the court did not rule on the merits. Instead, the justices sent the cases back to the appeals courts to make new decisions based on recent statements. …
The decision ducks, for now, a high-profile dispute before the Supreme Court at the height of an election year — at a time when the court is dealing with a vacancy following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. …
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Bernie Sanders, for all his talk of revolution, never wanted to be Ralph Nader. He has a long history of keeping the Democratic Party at arms length, but he also has a long history of rejecting spoiler bids.
Since 1992, he has always endorsed the Democratic presidential nomine, snubbing Nader’s four left-wing third-party campaigns. He became a Democrat to run for president instead of keeping his “(I)” and following in Nader’s footsteps. He has pledged to support Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination and has ripped Donald Trump at every opportunity.
But even if Sanders isn’t deliberately trying to replicate the electoral trauma inflicted by Nader in 2000—when he probably cost Al Gore the presidency—Bernie’s lingering presence in the Democratic primary threatens to produce a similar result in November: delegitimizing the eventual Democratic nominee in the eyes of the left and sending many critics, if not to Trump, then to the Green Party’s Jill Stein or the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson. …
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Huh. And yet this is what Sander’s and his supporters want for the US? They seem totally unaware of the real life consequences of the socialism they seek. No thanks.
“Here in the Caribbean port town of Barcelona, two premature infants died recently on the way to the main public clinic because the ambulance had no oxygen tanks. The hospital has no fully functioning X-ray or kidney dialysis machines because they broke long ago. And because there are no open beds, some patients lie on the floor in pools of their blood.
It is a battlefield clinic in a country where there is no war.
“Some come here healthy, and they leave dead,” Dr. Leandro Pérez said, standing in the emergency room of Luis Razetti Hospital, which serves the town.
This nation has the largest oil reserves in the world, yet the government saved little money for hard times when oil prices were high. Now that prices have collapsed — they are around a third what they were in 2014 — the consequences are casting a destructive shadow across the country. Lines for food, long a feature of life in Venezuela, now erupt into looting. The bolívar, the country’s currency, is nearly worthless.
The crisis is aggravated by a political feud between Venezuela’s leftists, who control the presidency, and their rivals in congress. The president’s opponents declared a humanitarian crisis in January, and this month passed a law that would allow Venezuela to accept international aid to prop up the health care system.
“This is criminal that we can sit in a country with this much oil, and people are dying for lack of antibiotics,” says Oneida Guaipe, a lawmaker and former hospital union leader.
But Mr. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, went on television and rejected the effort, describing the move as a bid to undermine him and privatize the hospital system.
“I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one,” Mr. Maduro said.”
“Children as young as THREE convinced they are born in the wrong body: Toddlers are among 1,500 under-16s sent to a ‘transgender identity clinic’
Children as young as three were among the 1,419 under-16s given support
That’s an increase from the 697 children in 2014/15 who attended clinics
Drugs can be prescribed to children who believe they are in wrong body
Boss of North London clinic, Dr Carmichael, said rise was unprecedented ”
“Dr Polly Carmichael, from the clinic which is part of the Tavistock Centre, told The Sun the rise was unprecedented.
‘Young people are making the full social transition — living full-time in their preferred gender inside and outside the home — at earlier ages,’ she said.
Children and their parents talk to psychologists, psychiatrists and experts at the North London clinic as part of consultations.
Poppy, now nine, has made the transition from a boy to a girl.
She said: ‘I didn’t feel right as a boy. When I was little I’d go to a wishing well in my garden and wish I was a girl. I’m so happy now that wish has come true.’
Children who attend the clinic can be given medication but would not be eligible for any gender reassignment surgery until 18.
Hormone blockers can be prescribed to children under 16 which helps to prevent the development of typically male or female features.
Cross-sex hormones can then be given to children at 16 if they wish to continue treatment.”
Like I said yesterday, do they really want to have that fight with Trump over women? Not only is Bill a bigger scumbag toward women, it turns out, totally un-shockingly, that the NYTimes was less than truthful with their hit piece you posted.
“One of the women quoted in a New York Times article headlined “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” is pushing back Monday and saying that she was taken out of context and Trump never made her feel uncomfortable.
The piece — which was published Saturday — begins with the line “Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.””
“But Brewer Lane disputed the way she is portrayed Monday in an interview with Fox & Friends.
“The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure my story that I was telling came across, they promised several times that they would do it accurately, they told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that I was telling it and honestly and it absolutely was not,” Brewer Lane said. “They did take quotes from what I said and they put a negative connotation on it. They spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump.”
Brewer Lane dated Trump and said that the presumptive Republican nominee “never made me feel like I was being demeaned in any way, he never offended me in any way.”
“Obviously they feel like they need to do something to make him look bad or go along with their article,” Brewer Lane said.
“Why do you think the left — the mainstream media — is so obsessed with just creating this headline about how Donald Trump treats women?” host Ainsley Earhardt asked.
“I don’t know. I think that they’re just reaching for straws,” Brewer Lane said, adding that her manager has reached out to the reporter to say they would be telling her side of the story.
“It just gives journalists a bad name, but I’m glad you’re here to set the record straight,” Earhardt said.”
My point was not that Hillary is going to go after Trump for sexual misbehavior. My point was the press will now start to do so. It isn’t going to stop or let up. They will not be fair. They are liberals. They favored Trump over Cruz, but they favor Hillary over Trump. Maybe if he continues to back a single payer healthcare program and increases in the minimum wage, he can win the lefties over to his side.
READING, Pa.—In this city of shuttered factories and falling incomes, Donald Trump’s swagger and promises to get tough with trading partners have rallied Republicans and shown signs of drawing working-class voters to the party.
A short distance away, in the thriving office parks of Montgomery County, Republicans worry that those same qualities are repelling upper-income GOP voters.
That’s the tricky electoral math that Mr. Trump faces in an expected general-election push to win Pennsylvania and industrial Midwest states that haven’t backed a Republican for president in decades.
Mr. Trump’s working-class appeal has helped add new Republicans to the voter rolls in the area around Reading, one of the nation’s poorest cities. But in adjacent and more populous Montgomery County, which borders Philadelphia, Republicans fear Mr. Trump could amplify a recent tilt into the Democratic camp. Democrats in recent months there have made big gains in voter registration.
“That’s the worry,” said Art Bustard, a 61-year-old who owns a promotional-products business in Montgomery County and will be an alternate delegate to the GOP’s national convention. Mr. Trump, he says, “is very popular with small-business men, contractors, machine-shop operators,” but he must show “the professional class that he’s not going to hurt them, not upset the apple cart so much that their jobs are in jeopardy.” …
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Ainsley Earhardt is very pretty and she is from South Carolina, and I’ve always hated the New York Times. Nevertheless, I figure you probably ought to go to bad Yankees to learn about other bad Yankees, so I’ll have to trust the Times reporter over Trump and Friends. Earhardt’s question was so hilarious as to be Hannityesque.
Wandering Views 
Another Obama overreach on transgenders, this time in the ObamaCare regs.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/13/new-obamacare-transgender-regulations-threaten-freedom-of-physicians/
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new transgender regulations for Obamacare on Friday.
These regulations threaten the religious liberty, freedom of conscience, and independent medical judgment of health care professionals. And, just as they did in the transgender school policy the Obama administration announced this morning, the administration has created these new Obamacare regulations by redefining “sex” to mean “gender identity.”
As Roger Severino and I explain in a Heritage Foundation report, these regulations will create serious conflicts of conscience for many organizations, hospitals, physicians, and other individuals involved in healthcare.
By prohibiting differential treatment on the basis of “gender identity” in health services, these regulations will penalize medical professionals and health care organizations that, as a matter of faith, moral conviction, or professional medical judgment, believe that maleness and femaleness are biological realities to be respected and affirmed, not altered or treated as diseases.
The regulations create special privileges based on gender identity that will lead to unreasonable and costly litigation for physicians, hospitals, insurers, and others involved in health care. They will effectively require controversial procedures, such as “sex-reassignment” surgery, that respected medical professionals argue have not been proven to be effective in treating serious mental health conditions. Rather than respect the diversity of opinions on sensitive and controversial health care issues, the proposed regulations endorse and enforce one view.
These new regulations go beyond what Congress established in Obamacare.”
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Little Sisters is prominent in our town, they run a home for the elderly (and I’ve mentioned here before about Mother Marguerite & her border collies whom I met at the dog park 🙂 )
As one pundit said originally of the administration’s decision to pursue this case, any time you politically take on a group called Little Sisters of the Poor, you’ve already lost.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/16/supreme-court-sends-obamacare-contraception-mandate-case-back-to-lower-courts.html
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The Supreme Court punted Monday on a challenge by religious-affiliated employers to ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, sending the dispute back to the lower courts.
The justices had been considering whether religious-affiliated institutions like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charity of nuns, can be exempt from having to pay for — or indirectly allow — birth control and other reproductive coverage in their health plans.
But the court did not rule on the merits. Instead, the justices sent the cases back to the appeals courts to make new decisions based on recent statements. …
The decision ducks, for now, a high-profile dispute before the Supreme Court at the height of an election year — at a time when the court is dealing with a vacancy following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. …
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Bernie as the new Nader?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/is-sanders-2016-becoming-nader-2000-213893
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Bernie Sanders, for all his talk of revolution, never wanted to be Ralph Nader. He has a long history of keeping the Democratic Party at arms length, but he also has a long history of rejecting spoiler bids.
Since 1992, he has always endorsed the Democratic presidential nomine, snubbing Nader’s four left-wing third-party campaigns. He became a Democrat to run for president instead of keeping his “(I)” and following in Nader’s footsteps. He has pledged to support Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination and has ripped Donald Trump at every opportunity.
But even if Sanders isn’t deliberately trying to replicate the electoral trauma inflicted by Nader in 2000—when he probably cost Al Gore the presidency—Bernie’s lingering presence in the Democratic primary threatens to produce a similar result in November: delegitimizing the eventual Democratic nominee in the eyes of the left and sending many critics, if not to Trump, then to the Green Party’s Jill Stein or the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson. …
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Huh. And yet this is what Sander’s and his supporters want for the US? They seem totally unaware of the real life consequences of the socialism they seek. No thanks.
“Here in the Caribbean port town of Barcelona, two premature infants died recently on the way to the main public clinic because the ambulance had no oxygen tanks. The hospital has no fully functioning X-ray or kidney dialysis machines because they broke long ago. And because there are no open beds, some patients lie on the floor in pools of their blood.
It is a battlefield clinic in a country where there is no war.
“Some come here healthy, and they leave dead,” Dr. Leandro Pérez said, standing in the emergency room of Luis Razetti Hospital, which serves the town.
This nation has the largest oil reserves in the world, yet the government saved little money for hard times when oil prices were high. Now that prices have collapsed — they are around a third what they were in 2014 — the consequences are casting a destructive shadow across the country. Lines for food, long a feature of life in Venezuela, now erupt into looting. The bolívar, the country’s currency, is nearly worthless.
The crisis is aggravated by a political feud between Venezuela’s leftists, who control the presidency, and their rivals in congress. The president’s opponents declared a humanitarian crisis in January, and this month passed a law that would allow Venezuela to accept international aid to prop up the health care system.
“This is criminal that we can sit in a country with this much oil, and people are dying for lack of antibiotics,” says Oneida Guaipe, a lawmaker and former hospital union leader.
But Mr. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, went on television and rejected the effort, describing the move as a bid to undermine him and privatize the hospital system.
“I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one,” Mr. Maduro said.”
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This is disgusting, and it’s coming here soon enough. It’s child abuse.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3590175/Children-young-THREE-convinced-born-wrong-body-Toddlers-1-500-16s-sent-transgender-identity-clinic.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK
“Children as young as THREE convinced they are born in the wrong body: Toddlers are among 1,500 under-16s sent to a ‘transgender identity clinic’
Children as young as three were among the 1,419 under-16s given support
That’s an increase from the 697 children in 2014/15 who attended clinics
Drugs can be prescribed to children who believe they are in wrong body
Boss of North London clinic, Dr Carmichael, said rise was unprecedented ”
“Dr Polly Carmichael, from the clinic which is part of the Tavistock Centre, told The Sun the rise was unprecedented.
‘Young people are making the full social transition — living full-time in their preferred gender inside and outside the home — at earlier ages,’ she said.
Children and their parents talk to psychologists, psychiatrists and experts at the North London clinic as part of consultations.
Poppy, now nine, has made the transition from a boy to a girl.
She said: ‘I didn’t feel right as a boy. When I was little I’d go to a wishing well in my garden and wish I was a girl. I’m so happy now that wish has come true.’
Children who attend the clinic can be given medication but would not be eligible for any gender reassignment surgery until 18.
Hormone blockers can be prescribed to children under 16 which helps to prevent the development of typically male or female features.
Cross-sex hormones can then be given to children at 16 if they wish to continue treatment.”
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Every time our socialist president leaves the U.S. he reinforces his dislike for the American way of life and his desire for a one-world order.
Still 248 days to go!
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/obama-put-nordic-countries-charge-while-because-they-could-clean-things
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Ricky,
Like I said yesterday, do they really want to have that fight with Trump over women? Not only is Bill a bigger scumbag toward women, it turns out, totally un-shockingly, that the NYTimes was less than truthful with their hit piece you posted.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/woman-in-nyt-piece-about-trumps-mistreatment-of-women-fires-back/ar-BBt6OtP?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U142DHP
“One of the women quoted in a New York Times article headlined “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” is pushing back Monday and saying that she was taken out of context and Trump never made her feel uncomfortable.
The piece — which was published Saturday — begins with the line “Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.””
“But Brewer Lane disputed the way she is portrayed Monday in an interview with Fox & Friends.
“The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure my story that I was telling came across, they promised several times that they would do it accurately, they told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that I was telling it and honestly and it absolutely was not,” Brewer Lane said. “They did take quotes from what I said and they put a negative connotation on it. They spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump.”
Brewer Lane dated Trump and said that the presumptive Republican nominee “never made me feel like I was being demeaned in any way, he never offended me in any way.”
“Obviously they feel like they need to do something to make him look bad or go along with their article,” Brewer Lane said.
“Why do you think the left — the mainstream media — is so obsessed with just creating this headline about how Donald Trump treats women?” host Ainsley Earhardt asked.
“I don’t know. I think that they’re just reaching for straws,” Brewer Lane said, adding that her manager has reached out to the reporter to say they would be telling her side of the story.
“It just gives journalists a bad name, but I’m glad you’re here to set the record straight,” Earhardt said.”
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I admit: The guy is really funny.
Trump challenged London’s Muslim mayor to take IQ tests to prove Trump isn’t stupid.
I’ve got $50 on the Muslim. Who wants Trump?
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My point was not that Hillary is going to go after Trump for sexual misbehavior. My point was the press will now start to do so. It isn’t going to stop or let up. They will not be fair. They are liberals. They favored Trump over Cruz, but they favor Hillary over Trump. Maybe if he continues to back a single payer healthcare program and increases in the minimum wage, he can win the lefties over to his side.
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Here is the IQ test article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36299929
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-adjacent-pennsylvania-counties-republicans-are-split-on-donald-trump-1463445389
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READING, Pa.—In this city of shuttered factories and falling incomes, Donald Trump’s swagger and promises to get tough with trading partners have rallied Republicans and shown signs of drawing working-class voters to the party.
A short distance away, in the thriving office parks of Montgomery County, Republicans worry that those same qualities are repelling upper-income GOP voters.
That’s the tricky electoral math that Mr. Trump faces in an expected general-election push to win Pennsylvania and industrial Midwest states that haven’t backed a Republican for president in decades.
Mr. Trump’s working-class appeal has helped add new Republicans to the voter rolls in the area around Reading, one of the nation’s poorest cities. But in adjacent and more populous Montgomery County, which borders Philadelphia, Republicans fear Mr. Trump could amplify a recent tilt into the Democratic camp. Democrats in recent months there have made big gains in voter registration.
“That’s the worry,” said Art Bustard, a 61-year-old who owns a promotional-products business in Montgomery County and will be an alternate delegate to the GOP’s national convention. Mr. Trump, he says, “is very popular with small-business men, contractors, machine-shop operators,” but he must show “the professional class that he’s not going to hurt them, not upset the apple cart so much that their jobs are in jeopardy.” …
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Ainsley Earhardt is very pretty and she is from South Carolina, and I’ve always hated the New York Times. Nevertheless, I figure you probably ought to go to bad Yankees to learn about other bad Yankees, so I’ll have to trust the Times reporter over Trump and Friends. Earhardt’s question was so hilarious as to be Hannityesque.
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