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We'll Know By Summer
by Tom McLaughlin
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How Trump can Save Rural Health Care
By Dr. Benjamin Alli
{ americanthinker.com } ~ In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, America is coming to terms with a grim reality: thanks in large part to the federal government’s destructive, centrally planned healthcare initiatives, the healthcare industry is deteriorating rapidly... The system doesn’t have the resources to address the United States’ growing medical needs -- and nowhere is this more acutely felt than in rural America. A December Fox News report highlighted how fixing the rural healthcare crisis has become a top campaign issue for many states. Since 2005, over 160 rural hospitals have closed their doors, and no less than 430 more are at risk of shutting down. Coupled with the looming doctor shortage, the shuttering of rural-based hospitals presents a difficult problem for the 46 million Americans living in low-population-density areas. President Trump has been ahead of the curve on this issue. His office isn’t merely parading slogans and empty promises; for the last three years and counting, it has been working to combat this issue. Whether the administration is updating Medicare payment policies to advance rural medical innovation or easing regulations for rural providers, it has done a great deal to expand healthcare access throughout the American heartland. The residents of critical electoral states like Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Texas have taken note. The Democrat nominees have taken note as well. In an attempt to cut into the president’s rural voting base, candidates such as socialist-Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have drummed up some noise by trotting out their own “solutions” to this crisis. Their pie-in-the-sky plans won’t mean much to these voters -- not when they already have a proven ally in the White House. However, if the Trump White House makes any mistakes on this issue, it will allow them to pounce and steal away some support. And unfortunately, if implemented, a well-intentioned but harmful new measure from Trump’s Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) can do just that. CMS recently proposed policy, called the Medical Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR), intended to reform Medicaid. At issue are the federal matching funds Washington, D.C. provides to the states for the entitlement program -- a policy that has unintentionally led to the states ballooning their Medicaid budgets, thereby costing the federal government a considerable amount of money....
Trump Says Ginsburg, Sotomayer Should
Recuse Themselves From Cases
Involving His Administration
by Martin Walsh
{ explainlife.com } ~ President Donald Trump has come out swinging this week after liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her conservative colleagues of being politically biased towards the president... Soon after her comments scorched across social media, the president sounded off on Twitter and said both Sotomayor and liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the ones who are biased and should recuse themselves from any cases involving his administration over their past comments. In a series of tweets, Trump cited host Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, “The Ingraham Angle,” and he accused Sotomayor of attempting to shame other justices to vote with her. This all began last Friday when Sotomayor, who was nominated by President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in 2009, issued a blistering dissent after a ruling in the case of Wolf v. Cook County. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the Trump administration to enforce its “public charge” immigration restriction, lifting a pair of preliminary injunctions issued by federal judges. The “Public Charge” rule states that legal immigrants are less likely to secure permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, such as food stamps or other taxpayer-funded housing programs. The rule, announced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in August, defines a “public charge” as an immigrant who received one or more designated benefits for more than 12 months within a 36-month period. The 5-4 split vote divided the court’s conservatives and liberals, and Sotomayor took a take a cheap shot at her conservative colleagues. She wrote in her dissent, “It is hard to say what is more troubling: that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”....
commie-Bernie Sanders Is Proving
liar-Nancy Pelosi Wrong
by PETER HASSON
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders is proving House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi wrong... liar-Pelosi has repeatedly tried to distinguish the Democratic Party mainstream from the party’s socialist wing. liar-Pelosi told a college student at a January 2017 town hall that Democrats “are capitalists” rather than socialists. When a CBS News reporter asked liar-Pelosi in June 2018 if socialism is “ascendant” in the party, she answered: “No.” “I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view,” liar-Pelosi told “60 Minutes” in April 2019. “That is not the view of the Democratic Party,” she added. But the socialist senator’s presidential campaign is demonstrating otherwise. commie-Sanders won two of the first three Democratic presidential contests — including an easy win in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses — and is the party’s clear frontrunner in national primary polls. The RealClearPolitics polling average has commie-Sanders running 12 points ahead of the next closest candidate, former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. A Morning Consult poll of Democratic primary voters Sunday found commie-Sanders’s lead over his primary rivals is only continuing to grow. commie-Sanders’s surge is consistent with polls showing that Democratic voters will choose socialism over capitalism when given the choice... https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/24/bernie-sanders-nancy-pelosi-socialism/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12040 .
CAIR: Councilman who said Muslims
should obey law must resign
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Ninth Circuit Court Rules Trump Admin
Stripping Funding From Abortion
Clinics Is Constitutional
by MARY MARGARET OLOHAN
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue stripping federal funding from clinics that offer abortions... The court upheld the Trump administration’s June 2019 declaration that taxpayer-funded clinics must stop referring women for abortions or be stripped of their Title X funding. Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote Monday’s majority opinion, stating that “there is no ‘gag’ on nondirective abortion counseling.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) followed the decision in June by alerting clinics that it would enforce the administration’s ban. Planned Parenthood withdrew from the Title X federal family planning program, thereby forgoing about $60 million a year, in August 2019 rather than comply with this decision. The rules, which advance President Donald Trump’s promise to stop funding businesses that perform abortions, require that organizations that perform abortions and make abortion referrals will have to do so in separate buildings from those that receive Title X federal funds. “Today’s ruling is a vindication of President Trump’s pro-life policies and a victory for the American people,” Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement, adding that abortion is not family planning and that “a strong majority of Americans” oppose taxpayer-funded abortions. “President Trump’s Protect Life Rule honors their will and the plain language of the Title X statute by stopping the funneling of Title X taxpayer dollars to the abortion industry, without reducing family planning funding by a dime,” Dannenfelser added. “We thank President Trump and HHS Secretary Alex Azar for their strong pro-life leadership and look forward to the end of further frivolous litigation by the abortion lobby.”....
A Trumpian Proposal to Conquer Cancer
By Jeff Lipkes
{ americanthinker.com } ~ On March 12, 1938, Germany invaded Austria. Recognizing that war with the Third Reich was now probable and anticipating bombing raids on London... Admiral Hugh Sinclair, head of the Government Code and Cipher School (GCCS), set out to find property outside the city where the agency could relocate. Unable to get funding from the government, Sinclair purchased with his own money Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. This would be the site of the most spectacular cryptographic breakthroughs in history, made possible in part by the engineering of the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer. In September of 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich to announce that he had achieved “peace in our time.” Alexander Denniston, operational head of GCCS, was skeptical. Deinniston, who had led the team that decrypted the Zimmermann Telegram, set out to recruit prospective cryptologists. He dined at the high tables of most of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges and identified the most brilliant and creative problem-solvers among the young dons and students. GCCS sleuths were mostly former scholars in the humanities, but Denniston recruited mathematicians, linguists, engineers, and others. Some were keen chess players; several were accomplished musicians. Many were eccentric. There seemed to be a correlation The story of Bletchley Park has often been told, sometimes as in the films Enigma and The Imitation Game with a great deal of creative license. German ciphers were encrypted by the Enigma machine. This electromagnetic device used as many as 8 rotors to encode and decode German text. The settings were changed daily at midnight. Using a model of the machine build by the Polish Cypher Bureau and smuggled out of the country, Alan Turing’s team first broke a code in January 1940. But the operation was enormously time consuming. Even a 3-rotor Enigma could produce nearly 159 quintillion (million million million) different settings. A new machine had to be created to accelerate the process. The first device was the electromechanical “bombe,” the second, the famous Colossus, the first digital computer, operational in February 1944. Ultra, the intelligence generated by Bletchley Park, was invaluable in winning the war. Without it, the conflict might have claimed hundreds of thousands of additional lives and ended with the dropping of an atomic bomb on Berlin, or with the meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Rhine. Historians have argued for worse outcomes, including the failure of the Normandy invasion. Ultra was always credited to human agents. “By Jove, you must have some very brave chaps,” Stewart Menzies, head of M16, was told... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/a_trumpian_proposal_to_conquer_cancer.html .
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We'll Know By Summer
by Tom McLaughlin
After returning to the classroom in 1979 to teach history, one of the first assignments I gave was for students to find someone 70 years old or older and ask a series of questions. Interview subjects would have been born in 1909 or earlier and, if they lived in New England, would almost certainly have known people who died in that plague. Its American epicenter was Fort Devens in central Massachusetts.
It was called "Camp Devens" then.
About 850 soldiers died there in 1918 after it spread from Commonwealth Pier in Boston where the first recorded outbreak seems to have occurred according to the New England Historical Society. The American version of the epidemic eventually killed 675,000 Americans and perhaps 100 million worldwide. Even more surprising was that the most vulnerable demographic was young adults — about 10% died globally.
South Korean at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall 
China’s economy is tanking. Car sales have dropped 92% for February. As of February 13, China has virtually stopped importing crude oil. Tankers are backed up offshore. Since China makes so many products we buy including iPhones, we’re bound to be strongly affected here in America. The supply chain of vital components for products manufactured here in the USA will be slowing down and cut off as well. Japan may cancel the Olympics scheduled this summer. The Epoch Times this morning (Tuesday) quoted Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley:“80 percent of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients are produced abroad, the majority in China and India.”
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