News of the Week for Oct. 1st<\/sup>, 2017<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n D.C. Circuit lets stand concealed-carry ruling, cheering gun-rights activists<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The State of Colorado Is Being Sued by…the Colorado River?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I Was On Medicaid For Years. It’s Horrible And Should Be Cut, Not Expanded <\/a> The Right Prescription<\/a> Graham-Cassidy Dead, Will Not Get Floor Vote<\/a> If you love how sports were politicized, just wait for your next visit with Dr. Progressive<\/a> Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines<\/a> When the Single Payer Becomes the Single Player<\/a> Crossing the line… The state line, that is.<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the Kurds vote for independence, Turkey paves the way to invade<\/a> Man who threw flare into cop car during May 1 protests gets 5 years<\/a> Another Left-Wing Fascist Movement on the Rise<\/a> Russia left troops in Belarus after wargames<\/a> Reports: Terror Attacks in France, Canada<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor says he was investigated for sexual harassment because he disagreed with women <\/a> Sanders Donor Clarifies She Doesn’t Want DeVos to Be Raped, Just Tortured<\/a> 8th-Graders Made to Lie in Dark with Wrists Taped, Watching ‘Roots’ at Calif. School<\/a> Dianne Feinstein Laments Return of Due Process<\/a> New Mexico school board to recite Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish at meetings<\/a> Taking a stand: Male student senator refuses to announce his preferred gender pronouns <\/a> Clemson students given ‘Heterosexual Questionnaire’ in class<\/a> Jared Kushner has Used Private Email Account to Conduct White House Business<\/a> 11th Circuit: Gay Man Cannot Deduct Costs To Father Children Through In Vitro Fertilization As Medical Expenses<\/a> After University Apologizes For Political Incorrectness, One Man Shares Photo That Speaks Truth To Thousands<\/a> California considers its own ban on combustion-engine cars<\/a> White Woman Discusses Her “Black Woman” Transition on Maury<\/a> West Point grad promotes communism while in uniform<\/a> Study claims “microaggressions” associated with racism in white college students <\/a> Trump waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico<\/a> ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Comics Artist Tweets Death to All GOP<\/a> The Supreme Court’s 5 most contentious cases and how experts think they’ll rule<\/a> “Whoville is SO white!” Librarian who refused free books from Melania MOCKED on #RacistSeuss<\/a> Study claims anger linked to conservative economic views <\/a> John Kelly Is Now in Charge of All Travel by Cabinet Officials<\/a> No Tax Returns, No Presidential Election Ballot, California Democrats Tell Trump<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n GDP growth raised to 3.1% in second quarter<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sweden: Only eight percent of rapes investigated by police<\/a> No business, no boozing, no casual sex: when Togo turned off the internet <\/a> Enormous Turnout for Kurdish Independence Referendum<\/a> Official sacked after Yoda image appears on Saudi textbook<\/a> Japan’s Abe Triggers Early Elections <\/a> Clergy and Lay Scholars Issue Filial Correction of Pope Francis<\/a> Is Spain Going to Explode Over Catalonian Secession? <\/a> UN peacekeepers in Congo hold record for rape, sex abuse<\/a> New World Order: Muslims to be majority in Europe within two generations<\/a> Why Italy has not yet suffered Islamist terrorism<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nA federal appeals court let stand Thursday a decision that it is unconstitutional to require firearms owners prove a “good reason” in order to carry legally a concealed handgun in the nation\u2019s capital \u2014 a win for gun rights advocates that has the potential to send a significant Second Amendment case to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe Colorado River is about to have its day in court – and not as the subject of a lawsuit, but as the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nSince most in the media and on Capitol Hill come from upper-middle-class households, few seem to spend time talking to those Americans on Medicaid rolls.<\/p>\n
\nObamacare Repeal: Is There Life After September 30?<\/p>\n
\nThe GOP’s “last ditch” effort to try and fix the Affordable Care Act is officially dead, according to sources.<\/p>\n
\nNo place left to hide.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs down and stir greater competition in the national marketplace.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican medical care and its financing have been transformed over the last century. Up until about 1920, American medical care in was quite primitive. It is quite possible that before then, it would have been healthier for the average person to not visit a doctor. But then several factors coalesced. There were new pharmaceuticals, widespread acceptance of the germ theory, improved anesthesia and surgical techniques, vaccination, and standardization of medical education. People began to gain confidence that if you were admitted to a hospital that you might actually go back home instead of dying, as was the previous experience. Although these new advances look inexpensive to us, the cost was onerous for its time. People dreaded the cost of hospitalization.<\/p>\n
\n“Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines”<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThere are plenty of purple fingers all over the northern region of Iraq again today. At the time of this writing, the Kurds in that region are concluding a non-binding referendum on the question of independence from Baghdad and the formal creation of an independent Kurdistan from what’s now known as the Kurdish autonomous region. (That region is seven hours ahead of east coast time in the U.S.) But even a non-binding vote is causing trouble on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n
\nA 23-year-old man who threw burning flares into a Portland police cruiser and the downtown Target store during May 1 protests that overran downtown Portland admitted guilt Monday and will be sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n
\nRAM informs us that slavery in America never actually ended.<\/p>\n
\nRussia has left troops behind after staging war games in Belarus despite promising not to, Ukraine\u2019s Commander in Chief Viktor Muzhenko told Reuters. <\/p>\n
\nTwo dead in Marseille, five wounded in Edmonton<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nUsing Title IX to “punish other people for expressing views they don’t like”<\/p>\n
\n“I would love to see that woman metaphorically castrated”<\/p>\n
\nOne of the things I enjoy is history re-enacting. I’ve re-enacted various eras of history at different times in my life, and I’ve always found it a unique way to learn about and understand the people from that era. It’s easier to understand the misery of the Civil War when you’re standing in a line wearing a wool uniform in 95-degree weather, something the history books tend not to discuss, for example.<\/p>\n
\nSenator Dianne Feinstein is just one of a number of people who are less than pleased with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the moment. After all, the secretary removed Obama-era rules that require colleges to set up systems best described as “kangaroo courts” to deal with allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\nA New Mexico school board is planning to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish at public meetings starting next week.<\/p>\n
\n“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s safe to assume it’s a duck”<\/p>\n
\nCriminal Justice majors at Clemson University are reportedly being required to take a “Heterosexual Questionnaire” that paints heterosexuality in a decidedly negative light.<\/p>\n
\nDo. Not. Use. Your. Account.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a tax case. Fear not, keep reading. In determining whether the IRS properly denied a taxpayer’s claimed deduction on his 2011 return, we must decide two important and (as it turns out) interesting questions. First up: Was the money that a homosexual man paid to father children through in vitro fertilization – and in particular, to identify, retain, compensate, and care for the women who served as an egg donor and a gestational surrogate – spent “for the purpose of affecting” his body’s reproductive \u201cfunction\u201d within the meaning of I.R.C. \u00a7 213? And second: In answering the statutory question \u201cno,\u201d and thus in disallowing the taxpayer\u2019s deduction of his IVF-related expenses, did the IRS violate his right to equal protection of the laws either by infringing a “fundamental right” or by engaging in unconstitutional discrimination?<\/p>\n
\nMy guess is not a single one has ever been in a cotton field.<\/p>\n
\nThe internal combustion engine’s days could be numbered in California, where officials are mulling whether a ban on sales of polluting autos is needed to achieve long-term targets for cleaner air.<\/p>\n
\nMartina Big started out as a white woman, and now she’s here … with Maury Povich, explaining why she chose to drastically change her appearance. The plastic-surgery-obsessed Big appeared on Maury, wearing a gigantic “Black Girls Rock” necklace and her best kinky weave. Even as the audience sat dumbfounded and confused, you could tell Maury was thinking, “I should have just done my usual paternity-testing show.”<\/p>\n
\nA West Point graduate and self-described communist is being investigated after posting controversial tweets showing him sporting pro-communist attire under his uniform.<\/p>\n
\nResearcher claims that certain “conservative ideological beliefs” linked with racism<\/p>\n
\nWhat a difference a day makes, eh? Yesterday, Donald Trump offered a blunt assessment on why action to waive the Jones Act for the Puerto Rico crisis was unlikely. Others pointed out that even a waiver wouldn\u2019t really help, since shipping capacity for Puerto Rico vastly outstrips logistical capabilities for distribution in the wake of Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n
\n#Comicgate is gaining speed. Reminiscent of Gamergate, the video gaming fandom uprising against leftist influences, Comicgate has pulled back the curtain on the carnage being inflicted on the comics industry by leftists with a mission to push their worldview onto the culture. No longer can childhood favorites like “Jem and the Holograms” or “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” be kid-friendly entertainment. No, they’re now soaked in LGBTQWTF fantasy with an extra dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome just for fun.<\/p>\n
\nOnlookers who expected fireworks at the Supreme Court over President Trump’s travel ban are unlikely to be disappointed by the other battles set to begin Monday as the high court begins its new term.<\/p>\n
\nAs Twitchy readers know, librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro refused free books from Melania Trump because \u2026 well, we’re not entirely sure. She rambled on about it in a blog post and made digs at Betsy DeVos, said Seuss is boring and redundant and then went as far as to say Seuss used racist propaganda in his books. <\/p>\n
\nNevermind Bernie Bros and Occupy Wall Streeters who vehemently demand income equality and socialism; it’s the conservatives who are really pissed.<\/p>\n
\nThis just came out of the Office of Management and Budget<\/p>\n
\nJessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor, has no doubt someone will back a court challenge to legislation aimed at forcing President Trump to release five years of his income tax returns before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nHigher inventories of farmer crops give nudge to GDP<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nFewer rapes have been solved in Sweden so far in 2017 than by the same stage a year before, new figures from the country’s National Council on Crime Prevention (Br\u00e5) suggest.<\/p>\n
\nWhen young people started mobilising online against Togo’s president, the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder and had less sex \u2013 all of which proved bad news for the government<\/p>\n
\nNearly 80% turnout as tensions escalate with Turkey and Iran<\/p>\n
\nSaudi authorities fired a senior education official and other supervisors after a school textbook was found that included a photo-shopped image of the late King Faisal seated next to “Star Wars” movie character Yoda, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called early elections for next month, invoking the North Korean threat to argue for a renewed mandate. <\/p>\n
\nThe initiative, the first time such a mechanism has been used since the Middle Ages, accuses the Pope of “propagating heresies” and respectfully asks that he teach the truth of the Catholic faith in its integrity.<\/p>\n
\nThe conflict reveals a deep tension between ethnic groups who want self-determination, and countries seeking to maintain their borders and sovereignty.<\/p>\n
\nShe had been orphaned by a brutal conflict, but the 14-year-old Congolese girl found refuge in a camp protected by United Nations peacekeepers.<\/p>\n
\nWithin 40 years, given current demographic trends, the white population in France and the rest of old Europe will recede, creating a Muslim majority, a French researcher says.<\/p>\n
\nUnlike other European countries, Italy has avoided jihadist outrages<\/p>\n