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Left Exposing Its ‘Extreme’ Position on Abortion

January 31, 2019 by GregC

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Lawmakers in New York recently enacted legislation allowing abortion at any point in a pregnancy if the abortion provider determines a risk to the mother’s health.

Virginia Democrats pushed a very similar bill this week, even allowing abortion during labor or allowing parents to let a baby die if it is delivered alive following a failed abortion.  That bill was defeated in subcommittee by a Republican majority.

Similar abortion measures are advancing in California, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam set off a firestorm of condemnation Wednesday by stating a baby fully delivered after a failed abortion is not necessarily entitled to medical care.

“In this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.  The infant would be delivered.  The infant would be kept comfortable.  The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired.  And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,” said Northam.

Northam insists he was referring to late-term pregnancies in which the babies are not considered viable or suffering from severe birth defects.

Catholic Association Senior Fellow Ashley McGuire says the late-term abortion bills advancing in multiple states prove something more sinister: that Democrats are out of touch with the public on abortion.

“What I think all of this shows is how extreme the left has gotten on abortion.  The overwhelming majority of Americans, by a nine-to-one ratio, oppose third trimester abortions.  In fact, most Americans, even those who self-identify as pro-choice, are only OK with it in the first trimester,” said McGuire.

But whether Northam was defending infanticide or not, McGuire says the debate shows how silly it is to consider a baby a human at one end of the birth canal and not the other.

“What is the difference, really, between an abortion right before a baby is born and killing a baby right after it’s born.  I think it’s showing that when you take their position to it’s logical extreme, it’s pretty appalling and barbaric,” said McGuire.

But McGuire is hopeful that the outrage to the legislation in New York and Virginia will wake people up.

“If there’s any sort of positive coming out of all of this is that it is shedding light for Americans on the grotesque extremism that’s gotten the Democratic Party in a choke hold when it comes to abortion,” said McGuire.

Not long ago, Democrats were publicly horrified at the story of Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murdering babies who survived attempted abortions.  Listen to the full podcast to hear McGuire explain how the Democrats have taken steps in legislatures and in court to prevent states from preventing Gosnell-like horrors from happening again.

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Dems Exposed on Abortion, Left Savages Schultz, Banish the Billionaires

January 31, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad America is seeing just how radical Democrats are getting on abortion, with Virginia’s governor even appearing to endorse infanticide.  They’re also happy to see one Democrat in the Virginia legislature change her mind on an abortion bill after the intense public opposition.  They also shake their heads as Democrats and their friends in the media launch a relentless mission to destroy former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz for considering an independent presidential run.  And they react to a Huffington Post column arguing that billionaires are bad for America so we shouldn’t have any.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: abortion, billionaires, democrats, National Review, Northam, Schultz, Three Martini Lunch

Why Do We Still Pay Property Taxes?

January 30, 2019 by GregC

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Most Americans know that property taxes pay for the public schools, police and fire departments, and services like trash pickup and road repairs, but why are those things funded through what one economics expert considers a relic of the colonial era.

The issue arose in connection with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s call for a wealth tax on assets above $50 million.  During an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Warren claimed her wealth tax was a brand new idea in America.

Hayes gently corrected her, noting that all homeowners already pay a wealth tax.

“It’s brand new, although I will note to people out there who own a home, you’re paying a wealth tax right now called property taxes.  So it does exist in America,” said Hayes.

But should it?  Longtime economic author and columnist John Steele Gordon says property taxes belong on the ash heap of history.

“It’s a very inefficient way of raising revenues for the government.  For one thing, how much is a given property worth?  Well, you really only know that when it is sold,” said Gordon.

He says property taxes made a lot more sense around the time of our nation’s founding because property value was closely linked to income.

“In colonial days, almost all properties were income-producing.  They were farms or they were stores.  Today, almost all properties are income absorbing.  They’re houses,” said Gordon.

Gordon’s biggest complaint is that property taxes are regressive and can wallop people making far less than their neighbors.

“Say you retire and your income goes down 40 percent.  Well, your property taxes don’t.  That seems hardly fair,” said Gordon.

So why do property taxes still exist?

“It’s sheer laziness.  It’s there.  It’s always been there.  The mechanism is in place.  Every town has its assessor and its grievance board.  Therefore, it’s just easier to let it go on rather than come up with a more efficient system,” said Gordon.

Listen to the full podcast to learn what Gordon thinks would be a much better and fairer alternative to property taxes and how former late night host David Letterman figures into his call to abolish property taxes.

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Inside the Koch Confab, We’re Not Getting A Wall, Covering Up Kamala’s Cronyism

January 30, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America review Jim’s trip to the Koch Seminar Network and how the billionaire brothers that Democrats and the media like to describe as evil are pouring money into charities so struggling Americans don’t have to depend solely on the government.  They also sigh as reports make clear that Senate Republicans have no intention of allowing another government shutdown, meaning they aren’t prepared to play hardball over border wall funding.  And they take aim at a Washington Post opinion column arguing that it’s somehow sexist to question whether Kamala Harris got help in launching her political career due to prominent appointments she received from a man she was having an affair with at the time.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Brown, Harris, Koch, National Review, Senate, shutdown, Three Martini Lunch, Trump, wall

Are Non-Citizens Voting in Texas?

January 29, 2019 by GregC

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Texas officials say they found 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote and believe as many as 58,000 cast ballots in the state.  More investigating needs to be done to determine how many of those people became citizens after registering, but one election law experts believes this is simply the tip of the iceberg.

“I think what they’re going to find is that a large percentage of these individuals were, in fact, not U.S. citizens when they registered to vote,” said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation.

He says other evidence proves this is more than a hunch.

“Federal reports indicate that the majority or folks who register to vote do so when they go to a state driver’s license bureau and get a license.  So I think they’re probably going to find that a very large number of these 95,000 individuals registered to vote at the very same time that they went in to get a driver’s license as a legal non-citizen,” said von Spakovsky

State official will now be asking county officials in Texas to look at each of those possible non-citizen voters to determine if they are now citizens and were citizens when they registered and when many of them voted.

Von Spakovsky says this revelation does not surprise him at all.

“It’s no surprise because it just complements the other evidence that has been found from many other states across the country that non-citizens are illegally registering and voting,” said von Spakovsky, noting that California now automatically registers anyone to vote when they come in to get a driver’s license.

Listen to the full podcast to hear von Spakovsky explain why he believes red and blue states will have very different reactions regardless of the final conclusions in Texas, why some political leaders seem to have no interest in making sure only eligible citizens are voting in their jurisdictions, and how he sees an effort to blur the distinction between citizens and non-citizens.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: news, Non-citizens, Texas, voting

Schultz vs. Warren, Harris Goes Hard Left, California’s Pronoun Politics

January 29, 2019 by GregC

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Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America enjoy watching Howard Schultz and Elizabeth Warren trade insults over Warren’s proposed wealth tax and shudder to think that Schultz might be the most sensible liberal considering a 2020 presidential run.  They also slam Kamala Harris for suggesting that lawmakers who don’t support gun control don’t care about the victims of mass shootings and contending that if Republicans saw photos of murdered children that they would vote differently.  And they laugh and cringe as the chairwoman of a California State Senate committee bans the use of gendered pronouns in committee – and then proceeds to violate her own rule over and over again.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, abortion, California, guns, Harris, National Review, pronouns, Schultz, taxes, Three Martini Lunch, Warren

Why Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work

January 29, 2019 by GregC

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing a wealth tax as one of the early economic priorities of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, but the head of the nation’s largest grassroots taxpayer organization says the wealth tax would never have the economic impact that Warren promises.

The tax on accumulated assets would levy a two percent rate on all wealth above $50 million.  It would rise to three percent for assets past a billion dollars.  Warren promises the tax could bring in $3 trillion in ten years, but National Taxpayer’s Union President Pete Sepp says that’s naive.

“[Warren] assumes that there would be virtually no change , no response to attacks like this.  That’s where this nearly three trillion dollar revenue estimate comes from – that year after year, people with accumulations of wealth will just happily pay that tax and not move the money offshore or think of other ways to either spend it rather unproductively rather than invest it or simply give it away to charity,” said Sepp.

Furthermore, Sepp says socking it to the very wealthy is a bad way to approach the economy.

“We have to remember, the income tax is already heavily skewed toward hitting people with high incomes, who generally also tend to have high wealth accumulations.  There’s already a capital gains tax.  There is still a death tax in place,” said Sepp.

Listen to the full podcast as Sepp explains why there’s plenty of data to suggest a wealth tax will not accomplish what its supporters think it will, and he details what policies would raise the income and living standards of people at the lower end of the economic spectrum.

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The Left’s Venti-Sized Freakout, Mayor Pete’s Prospects, Hillary 2020?

January 28, 2019 by GregC

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Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America enjoy watching liberals freak out over the possibility of an independent presidential bid by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is much more closely aligned with Democrats than Republicans.  A Notre Dame graduate, Alexandra also shares her insights into the presidential campaign of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and why his message could resonate with Midwest voters.  And they roll their eyes as CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny says the Mueller indictments have Hillary Clinton once again thinking about running in 2020.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Buttigieg, Hillary, Howard Schultz, National Review, Three Martini Lunch

Toensing Blasts Mueller Raid: ‘That Is So Corrupt’

January 25, 2019 by GregC

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Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone was arrested Friday and hit with a seven-count indictment, but former Justice Department official Victoria Toensing is aghast at how Mueller arrested the longtime political operative and says even if the Trump campaign was trying to get information from Wikileaks about Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails, that it is not a crime.

Before dawn Friday, a large presence of armed FBI personnel and police surrounded Stone’s Florida home, knocked on the door and ordered him to let them in.  Stone later appeared in federal court on Friday.  He will be arraigned in Washington next week.

Toensing, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general and a federal prosecutor, says the tactics used to arrest Stone were grossly excessive.

“That is so corrupt.  That is reserved for terrorists and drug dealers who are going to flee if they know they’re going to be arrested.  This is not done for a process kind of crime.  I am so offended as a former Justice Department person.

“Where was (FBI Director) Chris Wray?  Where was (acting Attorney General) Matt Whittaker?  How could they have allowed this?” said Toensing.

“This is how conservatives and Republicans are treated, whereas people like (Hillary Clinton associate) Cheryl Mills, who a federal judge said the other day was clear she she had committed perjury, they get immunity,” said Toensing.

Toensing is also demanding that incoming Attorney General William Barr address what she considers the problem of rogue special prosecutors.  She says special counsels regularly tell defendants to testify how the prosecutors want in order to make their legal headaches go away.

“Independent counsels and special counsels have got to stop.  I would hope that one of the first things that Bill Bar does is rewrite the regulations for the special counsel,” said Toensing.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Toensing give multiple examples of defendants harassed by special counsels for refusing to falsely implicate their superiors in criminal activity and to hear her explanation for why it wasn’t a crime even if Stone and the Trump campaign tried to find out what was in the stolen Clinton emails.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: indictment, Mueller, Stone, Trump, Wikileaks

Sinking Stone, Trump’s ‘Austin Powers Villains’, NYT vs. Christian Schools

January 25, 2019 by GregC

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David French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America dissect the Mueller indictments of Trump ally Roger Stone and how the latest revelations should concern the president.  They also comb through the indictment and marvel at Stone’s intimidation tactics, which David likens to a rejected script for a mobster film.  And they slam the New York Times for trying to pile on Christian education by begging young people to #exposeChristianschools.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Christian schools, indictment, Mueller, National Review, NYT, Roger Stone, russia, Three Martini Lunch, Trump, Wikileaks

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