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Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi 
by Michelle Malkin  
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Has Europe Even Tried to Fight Anti-Semitism?
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by Yves Mamou
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On April 18, 2018, two young men, both wearing Jewish skullcaps, were insulted by a group of Muslims... and whipped with a belt in a clearly anti-Semitic attack in Prenzlauer Berg, one Berlin's most fashionable neighborhoods. The violent assault, partly filmed by one of the victims, sparked national indignation in Germany. One of the attackers can be heard on the video clearly shouting "Yahudi" (Arabic for "Jew"). "It is intolerable for young men to be attacked here just because they are wearing a kippah," said Heiko Maas, the German Foreign Minister. "Jews must never again feel threatened here. It is our responsibility to protect Jewish life." The incident echoes another case of anti-Semitism last December in Berlin. Then also, someone filmed a man, apparently born in Germany, insulting a Jewish restaurant owner, Yorai Feinberg, in the street. The aggressor made clear his understanding of the Holocaust and his compassion for the Palestinian cause. Although there was no violence, the case ignited public indignation...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12211/europe-antisemitism-fight
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A New Deal With Iran Will Fail And 
Pave The Way For War Between Iran And Israel 
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by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ President Trump is meeting with France’s leader Macron. Though ostensibly a socialist, he seems to have at least some spine and I have watched their interactions hopefully... My primary focus is the deal with Iran. Of course the media’s focus is on stupid questions about Michael Cohen. I actually enjoyed seeing Trump smack the reporter from ABC for asking such an irrelevant question while we are hosting a major ally. It’s rude and just moronic. Jonathan Karl asked Trump whether he was considering a pardon for his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, after he was raided by the FBI. “Stupid. Stupid question,” Trump replied at Karl, glaring at him. Macron was surprised and amused and I don’t blame him. The topic should be Iran, who is poised to get missiles from the Trump administration in a new Iranian nuclear deal. I’m watching both sides here. The joint press conference with Presidents Trump and Macron just finished and I think its safe to say that unless a lot more is being offered up by Iran than we know about, the Iran deal is probably dead. Both Macron of France and Merkel of Germany are pressing Trump to stay in the deal. Asked whether he would be willing to stay in the Iran deal, Trump said: “We’ll see. People know my views on the Iran deal. It was a terrible deal. It should have never ever been made. It’s insane. It’s ridiculous. It should never have been made. But we will be talking about it.” He’s right of course, but what Trump says and what is going on behind the scenes may be two different things here...
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Federal Judge: Mr. Trump, You Have 90 Days To Restart DACA 
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by Matt Vespa
{ townhall.com } ~ Well, the battle over what to do for recipients enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals... has been thrown back into the frying pan. Like crabgrass, this issue keeps arising—and causing headaches for the Trump administration. The Trump White House decided to gradually phase out the constitutionally questionable program, effectively rescinding an executive order issued by former President liar-nObama. Yet, politically, they couldn’t leave almost one million illegal aliens subject to immediate deportation; the political consequences would be too great. So, they added in a six-month enforcement delay, affording Congress time to pass a DACA fix. In other words, the Trump White House gave Congress time to pass the law the right way. Well, Democrats weren’t playing ball. This was the best option since close to a dozen state attorneys general threatened to sue the Trump administration should they do nothing on DACA. White House lawyers felt rightly that they couldn’t defend the law in court. So, here we are. Failed DACA fixes, government shutdowns over illegal aliens, and Democrats turning down the legalization of 1.8 million illegals, putting them on the pathway to citizenship, in exchange for border wall funding. It’s been a whirlwind—an issue that’s been a thorn in the side of the administration. Health care is the other one. So, what’s new? Well, a federal judge says DACA has to be restarted, though he gave Department of Homeland Security three months to better elaborate on why this program should go (via NYT)... Why didn't the Fed. Judge get the dems to start a fix.  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/04/25/federal-judge-mr-trump-restart-daca-n2474307?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad
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Supremes Lean Toward Trump In Travel Ban Hearing
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by KEVIN DALEY
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The U.S. Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Wednesday over the lawfulness... of President Donald Trump’s travel sanctions. Though a tenuous majority appeared to favor the administration, the liberal bloc peppered Solicitor General Noel Francisco with brutal hypotheticals and heart-wrenching examples of migrants denied entry to the United States since Trump took office.  Justice Elena Kagan asked Francisco how thoroughly the court could review a ban on migration from Israel enacted by an openly anti-Semitic president, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered why a ten-year-old with cerebral palsy from a sanctioned country was denied a visa, despite exceptions proscribed for immigrants seeking medical care...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/25/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban/?utm_medium=email
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$46,654: Annual Cost of Detaining 
Illegal Alien Exceeds Average American Income 
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by Terence P. Jeffrey 
{ cnsnews.com } ~ The federal government paid a “bed rate” of $127.82 per day to house each illegal alien detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement... in fiscal 2016, according to ICE data published in a new report by the Government Accountability Office. Even if you do not count the extra day in that leap year, that works out to $46,654.30 for each detention bed occupied by an illegal alien for 365 days. The approximately $46,654 it cost to house a detained illegal alien for 365 days in fiscal 2016 was approximately $104 more than the average income for Americans 15 and older that year—which, according to Census Bureau Table PINC-01, was $46,550...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/46654-annual-cost-detaining-illegal-alien-exceeds-average-american?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpNek9HWXpNRFk1TmpaaSIsInQiOiJKWkZhN25BdTZYTVdrTFZLMGtoR1NDNHVodmhERGQrV2FUSlhndDhIYVRHVmhPeEMwcHdRRGZcL0lWbU1VcXgydVhVd2NUODhRanNcLzRsWGU2Z1VXdGVTWmxcLzllamEyTWdJZGdHUW51U2ZoRThTd01DZVZwQUtNZHdrcW5iYjg5OSJ9 
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Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi 
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by Michelle Malkin 
{ townhall.com } ~ When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents' wishes, many Americans took to Twitter to count their blessings that they live in a country that would not allow such tyranny.

"Stories like Alfie Evans make me realize how grateful I am to live in America where freedom still exists," one young social media user wrote.

"Folks, is this what we want for America? Parents rendered helpless before the gods of socialized medicine?" retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West asked.

Alfie's plight comes less than a year after another British baby boy with a rare genetic condition, Charlie Gard, was taken off life support after his parents lost a similar battle with judges and medical officials.

"WAKE UP AMERICA! We cannot let this happen in the U.S.," social media user Dian tweeted.

But it has happened -- and continues to happen -- in America. How quickly the public forgets.

In 2005, medical experts and child welfare bureaucrats in the state of Massachusetts deemed 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre "virtually brain-dead," in a "persistent vegetative state," and not worth saving after she suffered such brutal beatings and sexual abuse by her stepfather that she was left in a coma. Doctors at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and extermination agents at the Massachusetts Department of Social Services won a court order to remove Haleigh's ventilator and feeding tube. They collaborated on a "treatment" schedule to starve her of nourishment and oxygen until she succumbed to "death with dignity."

Haleigh and higher powers had other plans.

As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, the supposedly impossible happened: She emerged from the vegetative state that all the smarty-pants in lab coats had concluded was "irreversible." She began breathing on her own and picked up toys on command.

"There has been a change in her condition," a DSS spokeswoman grimly announced. "The vegetative state may not be a total vegetative state."

Like Alfie, Haleigh had an army of grass-roots pro-family and pro-life supporters who helped pressure the state-sanctioned murderers and bungling bureaucrats to back down. Fast forward to 2018. At 24, Haleigh lives with adoptive, loving parents. She is confined to a wheelchair, but attends school and occupational therapy. She laughs, she smiles, she lives.

Among Haleigh's prominent guardian angels: the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, founded by Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, after a Florida judge ordered brain-injured Terri to be deprived of water and food, leading to her death by dehydration after 13 days in 2005. As Schindler noted after Haleigh's life was saved:

"This is just one incident that made headline news. Indeed, most of the general public is completely unaware of how much these types of decisions are made every day and how our medical rights have been eroded by laws that have been changed to make it easier to deliberately kill our medically vulnerable."

Back in Britain, Alfie defied the medical professionals and survived the night off the ventilator as his parents begged court officials to take him to Rome. Benefactors have offered to pay for transportation and medical care; Italy granted Alfie citizenship.

As Alfie's life hangs in the balance, I think of another child written off by the experts here in the U.S.: Jahi McMath, whom medical experts declared "brain dead" after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong in 2013. Children's Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration.

But Jahi's mother a professional nurse, Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield, refused to give up on her child. California declared Jahi legally brain dead, so with the Schiavo Foundation's help, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.

Medical ethics writer Wesley Smith visited Jahi last fall and reported: "At the time of the tragedy, I believed ... that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. It's nearly four years later, and Jahi's body still has not broken down. Her skin remains smooth. There are no foul odors in her room as would be expected when a brain-dead person's body deteriorates. She has experienced no visible bodily decline... Disabled is not dead."

So, where are all the left's human rights champions when you need them? Once again, there have been no rallying cries from Hollywood celebrities, no tweetstorms from the self-anointed guardians of children who embrace gun control in the name of saving lives and abortion in the name of choice.

Alfie's life matters and Charlie's life matters and Haleigh's life matters and Jahi's life matters because all lives matter. Parents' rights are human rights. If we yield to the culture of death and the culture of expediency that permeate government-run health care systems around the world, no lives are safe.

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  • it is not that only some lives matter but where there is socialized medicine that is the case

    here remember the girl mike huckabee and alan dershowitz saved.  her parents took her to a hospital and one dr who wanted to experiment said he was not happy w/what the parents wanted and took her and admitted her.  the parents went to the gov of MA but mike huckabee stepped in along w/alan dershowitz and saved her the hospital was killing her. the parents were not allowed to even visit.   

    yep that was here in America

    too bad it goes on if their lives were threatened by a gun i am sure david hogg would be all over it

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