Morning Briefing
For June 18, 2013
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1. How Many Kids Will Die Before Pro-Lifers Are Willing to Move the Ball Toward Life?
House Republicans have the opportunity to save the lives of children and put the Democrats on defense all in one turn. They are set to consider legislation that would prohibit abortions in the United States after 20 weeks, which is the point a child in the womb can feel pain.
In light of the Kermit Gosnell horror story, you would expect a majority of Americans would support this legislation. They do. The GOP put in exceptions for rape and incest so the left cannot demonize them as being at war with women. As Trent Franks of Arizona noted, the instances of abortions due to rape is not high, nor are the instances of abortion due to incest. While they happen, they are not most common.
In other words, the House Republicans are set to restrict abortions in America in a way that the overwhelming majority of both men and women in the United States support. This will result in lives saved. It will put the Democrats on the defense on abortion in a way they haven’t been since the partial birth abortion ban.
Sadly, like Lt. Colonel Nicholson unwilling to blow up the damn bridge over the River Kwai, some pro-life groups are unable to bring themselves to actually save children from having their brains sucked out or injected with saline or all the other gruesome ways they are slaughtered. These pro-life groups have decided it is better that all children to be aborted keep getting aborted rather than spare the majority unless the law gets rid of the exception for rape and incest.
This is having ramifications for the legislation. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Insurance Premiums For Single Women Double In CA
War on women much? "[M]any Americans face substantial increases in their health insurance premiums. Much of the debate has focused on young men, the “bros” who will bear the brunt of Obamacare’s rate hikes. But in California, women and men will see equally high jumps in the underlying cost of individual-market premiums." . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. The 2016 GOP platform: equality and the rule of law
I agree with Erick’s point this morning that Senator Marco Rubio does not deserve tar and feathers for something one of his aides said. The quote in question went as follows: “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it… There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly.”
Actually, if this comment had not emerged during a discussion of immigration policy, it would be hard to argue with. It’s indisputably true that not every American worker is a star performer. There most certainly are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, and don’t want to do it. When these unlovely but accurate statements are followed with, “And that’s why we should import foreign workers, and give amnesty to those who came here illegally!” the context undergoes a tectonic shift, and all Hell breaks loose.
Among other problems with proposing immigration as the “solution” for the just-can’t-get-it segment of the populace is that they’ll never get it. The system will never improve with a safety valve like cheap foreign labor to release all the pent-up economic pressure. This is true for employees, employers, and the government. And let’s not be coy: quite a few members of the illegal alien population “just can’t get it” and “don’t want to do it,” either. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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