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The video France doesn’t want you to see
by George F. Will

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Forget Fox News, Media Matters

declares war on new targets

by Bob Unruh

{wnd.com} ~ Media Matters, the far-left organization that monitors media, was caught a few years ago promoting as fact the disputed claim that the White House talking points on the Benghazi attack were edited to preserve a criminal investigation...  Then it was caught fabricating quotes to smear a liar-Hillary Clinton critic, and later founder David Brock admitted his nonprofit organization defended liar-Clinton from political attack, apparently in defiance of federal requirements that nonprofits avoid taking sides. So when it announced it will “pivot” from its focus on Fox News and now attack “fake news,” no one expected it to begin  scrutinizing the work of David Muir, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos of ABC; John Berman and Mark Preston of CNN, Amy Chozik, Gail Collins and Jonathan Martin of the New York Times; and the like...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/forget-fox-news-media-matters-declares-war-on-new-targets/
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Dark Web Plot to Assassinate Trump and Pence

by Dave Hodges

{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Most people have never heard of it. What is it? It would be the dark net. If you want drugs, the dark net is your place. IF you want to have sex with underage children, the Dark Net is your place... And if you want a President assassinated, it would appear that you can get that done as well. What is the Dark Net and what is its role in the planned assassination of Donald Trump and Mike Pence. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/12/06/dark-web-plot-to-assassinate-trump-and-pence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dark-web-plot-to-assassinate-trump-and-pence

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmN2LC2JPWY
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Would Reducing the US Corporate Tax

Rate Increase Employment in the United States?

by Martin Feldstein, Jason Furman & Betsey Stevenson

{aei.org} ~ Reducing the corporate tax rate and changing the rules for taxing the foreign earnings of US corporations would have many favorable effects, including an increase of employment in the United States... First, a brief description of the current corporate tax arrangements. The federal government now imposes a statutory tax rate on corporate profits of 35 percent, the highest tax rate among all the industrial countries of the world. In addition, the individual states levy corporate tax rates that average 9 percent. Since that state tax is a deductible expense in calculating income subject to the federal corporate tax, the combined tax rate is approximately 40 percent. Profits that are paid out to shareholders as dividends are subject to an additional personal income tax at both the federal and state levels. The federal tax on dividends is now 20 percent, and the state taxes average about 5 percent. Profits that are not paid out increase the value of the corporation and are subject to capital gains tax when shareholders sell their shares...  http://www.aei.org/spotlight/would-cutting-the-corporate-tax-rate-significantly-increase-jobs-in-the-us/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign
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liar-nObama’s Deceitful, Deliberately

Misleading Claims On Terror Are

Dangerous And Irresponsible

by Caleb Howe

Gary Mendoza, and his son Michael pay their respects

shooting victims in San Bernardino

{redstate.com} ~ As Jay pointed out last night, President liar-nObama in a speech on Tuesday made the ridiculous claim that he has overseen eight years without a foreign terror attack on American soil... and suggesting, as Democrats frequently incorrectly do, that this is because of him somehow. Whether he thinks it is from his bungling of every foreign policy incident, his refusal to recognize terror as a national security threat rather than a criminal act, his “JV team” idiocy, his pathetic Iran deal, or some other aspect of his term in office is not specified. Whatever reason they wrongly believe this stupid trope, it remains stupid and wrong... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/12/07/president-obamas-deliberately-misleading-claims-terror-dangerous-irresponsible/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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Michigan Appeals Court Order to Halt Recount

Sets Up Conflict with Federal Courts

by Kemberlee Kaye

{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein sued for a recount in Michigan. That suit has created tension between Michigan’s state government and the federal government... Tuesday evening, Michigan’s Court of Appeals ordered a halt to the recount, saying Stein was not an aggrieved candidate who would benefit from a recount. At the same time, the 6th Circuit ruled the must proceed... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/12/michigan-appeals-court-order-to-halt-recount-sets-up-conflict-with-federal-courts/

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The video France doesn’t want you to see
by George F. Will

{nypost.com} ~ The word “inappropriate” is increasingly used inappropriately.

It is useful to describe departures from good manners or other social norms, such as wearing white after Labor Day or using the salad fork with the entree. But the adjective has become a splatter of verbal fudge, a weasel word falsely suggesting measured seriousness. Its misty imprecision does not disguise, it advertises, the user’s moral obtuseness.

A French court has demonstrated how “inappropriate” can be an all-purpose device of intellectual evasion and moral cowardice. The court said it is inappropriate to do something that might disturb people who killed their unborn babies for reasons that were, shall we say, inappropriate.

Prenatal genetic testing enables pregnant women to be apprised of a variety of problems with their unborn babies, including Down syndrome. It is a congenital condition resulting from a chromosomal defect that causes varying degrees of mental disability and some physical abnormalities, such as low muscle tone, small stature, flatness of the back of the head and an upward slant to the eyes. Within living memory, Down syndrome people were called Mongoloids.

Now they are included in the category called “special needs” people. What they most need is nothing special. It is for people to understand their aptitudes, and to therefore quit killing them in utero.

Down syndrome, although not common, is among the most common congenital anomalies at 49.7 per 100,000 births. In approximately 90 percent of instances when prenatal genetic testing reveals Down syndrome, the baby is aborted. Cleft lips or palates, which occur in 72.6 per 100,000 births, also can be diagnosed in utero and sometimes are the reason a baby is aborted.

In 2014, in conjunction with World Down Syndrome Day (March 21), the Global Down Syndrome Foundation prepared a two-minute video titled “Dear Future Mom” to assuage the anxieties of pregnant women who have learned that they are carrying a Down syndrome baby.

More than 7 million people have seen the video online in which one such woman says, “I’m scared: what kind of life will my child have?” Down syndrome children from many nations tell the woman that her child will hug, speak, go to school, tell you he loves you and “can be happy, just like I am — and you’ll be happy, too.”

The French state is not happy about this. The court has ruled that the video is — wait for it — “inappropriate” for French television. The court upheld a ruling in which the French Broadcasting Council banned the video as a commercial. The court said the video’s depiction of happy Down syndrome children is “likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices.”

So, what happens on campuses does not stay on campuses. There, in many nations, sensitivity bureaucracies have been enforcing the relatively new entitlement to be shielded from whatever might disturb, even inappropriate jokes.

And now this rapidly metastasizing right has come to this: A video that accurately communicates a truthful proposition — that Down syndrome people can be happy and give happiness — should be suppressed because some people might become ambivalent, or morally queasy, about having chosen to extinguish such lives because…

This is why the video giving facts about Down syndrome people is so subversive of the flaccid consensus among those who say aborting a baby is of no more moral significance than removing a tumor from a stomach. Pictures persuade.

Today’s improved prenatal sonograms make graphic the fact that the moving fingers and beating heart are not mere “fetal material.” They are a baby. Toymaker Fisher-Price, children’s apparel manufacturer OshKosh, McDonald’s and Target have featured Down syndrome children in ads that the French court would probably ban from television.

The court has said, in effect, that the lives of Down syndrome people — and by inescapable implication, the lives of many other disabled people — matter less than the serenity of people who have acted on one or more of three vicious principles: That the lives of the disabled are not worth living.

Or that the lives of the disabled are of negligible value next to the desire of parents to have a child who has no special, meaning inconvenient, needs.

Or that government should suppress the voices of Down syndrome children in order to guarantee other people’s right not to be disturbed by reminders that they have made lethal choices on the basis of one or both of the first two inappropriate principles.

http://nypost.com/2016/12/04/the-video-france-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

VIDEO:  http://nypost.com/2016/12/04/the-video-france-doesnt-want-you-to-see/