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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Varsity Blues Cheating Scandal Is A Desperate Elites Tale
[Victory Girls] About 50 people have had arrest warrants issued, been arrested, are negotiating their arrest or are being pursued in connection with a college cheating scandal code named "Operation Varsity Blues". Parents paying to get their mouth breathing, drooling spawn into schools the little idiots are not qualified to attend. If you missed the press conference today, it was absolutely jaw dropping. Not shocking or surprising just jaw dropping.

Here from ABC New York is a short video recap:

While the rest of us honorable schmucks were paying for college board prep tests (my son wouldn’t go) or at least begging our little cherubs to get a good night’s sleep prior to the test (nope to that one, too), these elitists, who are so much better than we are, schemed with a weasel named William Singer to phony up the test scores for the college boards, create phony elite athlete profiles and get their kids into college as athletes or just plain bribe college officials. And, then as if these elitists didn’t disdain us enough, they claimed the costs as charitable contributions on their tax returns. You cannot make this excrement up.

Actress Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky on Full House) and her husband, Target fashion designer, Mossimo Gianulli are two of the parents caught in the web of lies. From Deadline Hollywood:
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#1  and it's not really to skill up with study, just to get networking (which implies a large degree of nepotistic rent-seeking)!

American universities have an enormous problem caused by their taxpayer subsidy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  And, then as if these elitists didn’t disdain us enough, they claimed the costs as charitable contributions on their tax returns.

I'm wondering if that's what started the Fed / AG investigation. If the ratio of charitable contributions to your taxable income on the Federal tax return (1040) exceeds 4.2%, the IRS can and will audit your tax return. If that turns out to be the case then, yeah, they got too greedy all right.
Posted by: Raj || 03/13/2019 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  How far back will the investigation be permitted to go ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  well at least one of the perps won't have to move far after conviction:

"Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, Calif"
Posted by: Whegum Grumble8605 || 03/13/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I think I'm on the right track:

“In or about November 2017, the Hillsborough Parents filed personal tax returns that falsely reported total gifts to charity in 2016 of $1,061,890 — a sum that included the purported contribution” to Singer’s fake foundation.
Posted by: Raj || 03/13/2019 9:43 Comments || Top||

#6  and it's not really to skill up with study, just to get networking (which implies a large degree of nepotistic rent-seeking)!

'I was on the pocket polo team and have a degree is post-modern anti-colonial gender fluid basket weaving...at Hahvard.'

'Well that settles it...congratulations new supervisor of human resources.'

'Did you just assume my species? Better watch your ass.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2019 10:35 Comments || Top||

#7  I wish these investigative resources would be applied to things that mattered. Have the local police do this instead. This is easy stuff and only for political face saving.
Posted by: gorb || 03/13/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  We can discuss mission and resources, but I don't think Local Detective shuts down University of Your State on suspicion Celebrity's Child is not as bright as test indicates.

And if raj is on it, this looks to be initially a federal tax evasion. I also wonder about interstate commerce; say paying for test cheating in CA for services (schooling) in MA.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2019 11:47 Comments || Top||

#9  The Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2019 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  swksvolFF - there's no doubt in my mind this is tax evasion. Just like what happened to Wesley Snipes, give them 1 year in jail for every tax return they cooked.

Speaking of Wesley Snipes & tax problems, looks like he's in deep shit again with the IRS.
Posted by: Raj || 03/13/2019 13:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Someone should play "New order confusion" over the IRS tannoy and send the daywalker in.

Solve the vampire problem...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 15:10 Comments || Top||

#12  I don't want any of the Hollyweird or Wall Street people caught up in this to ever lecture me again about my taxes being too low, or my concern for the poor being so inadequate that only gummint enforced redistribution can solve the problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/13/2019 15:30 Comments || Top||

#13  All the discussion so far is about the bribe providers. What about the bribe recipients? The schools that were involved need to be sanctioned. The admissions officers involved need a "career death penalty" for their involvement in this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/13/2019 15:33 Comments || Top||


Britain
Dossier and the Poisoning of Sergei Skripal
BLUF:
[American Thinker] Oddly enough, Skripal's poisoning was triggered not by the actions of the Trump administration, but by the indictment put forward by Mueller's team against 13 Russians from the "troll factory" on February 16, 2018.

On this day, the Kremlin realized that the noose is being tightened, and, from the Kremlin's point of view, it does not matter at all whether the Trump team or the Mueller team did it. Under no circumstances would Moscow have allowed the GRU to be called a true source of the "Russian dossier" on Trump. The Kremlin urgently needed to send world public opinion to a false direction.

The Kremlin considered the nonexistent Steele-Miller-Skripal link as a convenient and timely combination of circumstances, an opportunity that it could not pass up. Putin's regime had to prove that it was not Russian intelligence services who composed the "Russian dossier." The Kremlin needed to send the investigation on the wrong track ‐ ostensibly, this Skripal was the very "source close to the Kremlin" of Christopher Steele. Moreover, supposedly, this is precisely why the buyers of the "Russian dossier" decided to eliminate Skripal.

In other words, the Skripal poisoning was a cover-up operation of the Kremlin, the purpose of which was to send the "ObamaGate" investigation in a false direction.

For the Kremlin, killing Skripal looked like a pretty attractive move that would explain much, if not all, to the court of public opinion. It would explain the fact that the "author of the dossier" sufficiently "knew Russian material" and the fact that the linguistic analysis of the "dossier" showed that the text was written grammatically correctly and formatted according to MI6 reporting standards but that the author is not a native English speaker.
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#1  This is more than a bit of a stretch!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I've always suspected Nellie Ohr was the author. The Russian piece, a convenient cover for action. They 'the Russians' were being blamed for everything else.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||


Economy
Oil Markets See An Explosion Of Bullish News
[OILPRICE.com] Oil prices jumped to two-week highs on Tuesday morning, rising on the back of severe outages in Venezuela and the ongoing production cuts from OPEC+.

A devastating electricity blackout swept over Venezuela late last week, crippling daily life for much of the country. PDVSA’s oil exports have been severely disrupted, and while data is scarce, output may have plunged by half to about 500,000 bpd, according to Energy Aspects. "Operations halted at main facilities, reducing output of main synthetic grades and blended Merey to almost zero," Energy Aspects wrote in a note.

"There’s a vicious circle," the International Energy Agency’s head Fatih Birol told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the IHS CERAWeek Conference in Houston. "Since the oil isn’t exported, there’s not revenue, since there’s not revenue you cannot invest in infrastructure."

The big question is how long the outage will last. The U.S. State Department announced the withdrawal of its remaining embassy personnel in Caracas. That could reduce the potential for conflict, since any incursion on American personnel could be used as a pretext for an escalation, possibly even military intervention. However, the withdrawal cuts both ways. Removing American diplomats could get them out of harm’s way, clearing the way for bolder action. Worryingly, U.S. Secretary of State justified the withdrawal by saying that keeping them in Venezuela had become a "constraint" on U.S. policy.

The outages have global implications. Oil prices surged at the start of the week, with WTI jumping above $57 per barrel, and Brent above $67 per barrel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 01:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  >Since the oil isn’t exported, there’s not revenue

Magic borders theory. The problem is the Venezuelan economy cannot find a use for the oil (because the government is marxist)!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 5:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Invest in infrastructure my foot. They drove out the competent, experienced people and hired loyalists, hacks, and everybody's hard corps unemployable brother in law. Apparently unbeknownst to the chattering class there is more to exploration, production, transmission and refining than what comes on tv.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/13/2019 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Cesare, historically they understood this, and required thier own people to be hired but did not interfere with corporations employing duplicate foreigners (either on site or overseas) to do the actual work, which the national employees would submit for implementation. Inefficient, but it did work. The collapse of the past few years destroyed that system at an accelerating rate.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/13/2019 12:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democratic Presidential Candidates' Perfect Orwell's Language Manipulation
[American Thinker] Seventy-three years ago, in his now classic essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell examined the deceitful nature of political speech in his day. He offered some superb examples of words that mask their actual meaning and of rhetorical devices intended to fool the reader. "In our time," he wrote, "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." The imprecision, pretentiousness, and staleness are deliberate, intended to conceal what the writer does not want to admit. His examples, most of them from leftists like Harold Laski, were bad enough, but even Orwell could not have foreseen the nonsense coming from progressives this election season ‐ and it's still early in the game.

Take defenses of the "Green New Deal." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who popularized the idea (which has been around for a decade or more), doesn't seem to have any comprehension of its cost, or the cost of anything else. When asked about how she would pay for it, her initial response was "tax the rich." The truth is that there aren't that many rich, and under her 70% and up federal tax plan, there soon wouldn't be any. Now she seems to believe that one can simply print money to pay for it all. This radical extension of Modern Monetary Theory would bankrupt the country and render our currency worthless.

Kamala Harris, another master of Orwellian speech, insists that "we have to be practical, but..." The problem is that she never defines what is meant by "practical." It is one of those words (like Obama's "smart" policies, which were invariably dumb) meant to end a conversation rather than open it to reasonable debate. Who can object to "being practical," but is it practical to spend an estimated $3.26 trillion per year on the Medicare for All plan Harris has endorsed? Harris refuses to discuss cost, insisting as she does that health care is a basic right and that destroying private insurance is the best way to deliver it.

Then there is Cory Booker, a speaker who often reverts to the rhetorical device known as "the big stick." When asked about paying for the Green New Deal, Booker responded by raising his voice and barking that "we can have it both ways." By this he implies that there would be no crippling cost to eliminating carbon fuels. Sen. Booker did not explain just how this would work, as if vigorously asserting that having it both ways were the same as doing so. But what is really meant by "having it both ways"?
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#1  Reading Gerald F. Seib’s 12 March article, Echoes of 1972 Election Reverberate Today, We are reminded of George McGovern’s comment on his loss. He was a guest on Johnny Carson’s show, and Carson asked him what happened. McGovern replied, “We threw open the doors of the Democratic Party, and the American People walked out.”

Hopefully, the growing radicalism of the Democrat Party will provoke a similar exodus in 2020.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  They always slide past the question: "After you steal all of the Rich People's Money™ where will the next cash infusion come from? Solid gold unicorn droppings?"
Posted by: magpie || 03/13/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||


Paladin's AMERICAN GOMORRAH ™ ‐ The Worship of Moloch
[Victory Girls] Face it. Now before it’s too late. Of the three great monotheistic religions‐Judaism, Christianity, Islam‐Islam alone is Evil. The Swords of Allah are poised to behead the West through cultural tyranny, unchecked immigration and massive breeding. Islam’s Devotees worship a death cult of Moloch which murders their own children in the pursuit of power. Teaching them to be Jihadis, racist supremacists, and pedophiles.

Islam breeds the Orcs and Uruk Hai of Tolkien Legend. Female Genital Mutilation. Honor killings. Beheadings of wives, even here in the USA. The stoning of women and captives. Their cultural and moral practices are both deviant and despicably evil.

Yet the limp, supine Catamites of the West, wring their hands and search for ways to appease their new Overlords. Believing in nothing but their own sick lust for power, the Left in every country leap to make common cause with Islam in a quest to rule. Let me tell you something‐you on the Left‐when Allah is strong enough, when there enough Moslems in our cities, in our schools, in our civic life‐they will devour you.

Pelosi, Hoyer, Schumer, Blow, Corn, McConnell, The New YorkerRump Swabs and rest of you Quislings‐you will be wiped from history like the statues of Buddha in Afghanistan. No one will remember your names. Behold!

Before Allah.
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#1  People who worship moloch are more likely to be called Vanderbilt than Mohamed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 5:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Or Rothschild.
Posted by: charger || 03/13/2019 12:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How your body talks to your brain
[The Week] Have you ever been startled by someone suddenly talking to you when you thought you were alone? Even when they apologize for surprising you, your heart goes on pounding in your chest. You are very aware of this sensation. But what kind of experience is it, and what can it tell us about relations between the heart and the brain?

When considering the senses, we tend to think of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. However, these are classified as exteroceptive senses, that is, they tell us something about the outside world. In contrast, interoception is a sense that informs us about our internal bodily sensations, such as the pounding of our heart, the flutter of butterflies in our stomach, or feelings of hunger.

The brain represents, integrates, and prioritizes interoceptive information from the internal body. These are communicated through a set of distinct neural and humoral (i.e., blood-borne) pathways. This sensing of internal states of the body is part of the interplay between body and brain: It maintains homeostasis, the physiological stability necessary for survival; it provides key motivational drivers such as hunger and thirst; it explicitly represents bodily sensations, such as bladder distension. But that is not all, and herein lies the beauty of interoception: Our feelings, thoughts, and perceptions are also influenced by the dynamic interaction between body and brain.

The shaping of emotional experience through the body's internal physiology has long been recognized. The American philosopher William James argued in 1892 that the mental aspects of emotion, the "feeling states," are a product of physiology. He reversed our intuitive causality, arguing that the physiological changes themselves give rise to the emotional state: Our heart does not pound because we are afraid; fear arises from our pounding heart. Contemporary experiments demonstrate the neural and mental representation of internal bodily sensations as integral for the experience of emotions; those individuals with heightened interoception tend to experience emotions with greater intensity. The anterior insula is a key brain area, processing both emotions and internal visceral signals, supporting the idea that this area is key in processing internal bodily sensations as a means to inform emotional experience. Individuals with enhanced interoception also have greater activation of the insula during interoceptive processing and enhanced grey-matter density of this area.
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#1  Himmmm. I'd like to talk about it. I'd love to talk about it but I can't talk about it.
Posted by: Dale || 03/13/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  How your body talks to your brain.

As you get older, it changes subjects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Re #2: ...and speaking in tongues....
Posted by: Glemp Omert6887 || 03/13/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  How your body talks to your brain.

In toots.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/13/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Re #2 & 3, I resemble that remark.

To quote a T shirt: I thought getting old would take longer.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/13/2019 14:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Like the chemical process of osmosis, migration is unstoppable
[AEON] As the world’s ranks swell, population shifts have emerged as a major global challenge with potentially catastrophic implications. Endless debates over immigration rights have failed to produce the faintest hint of an acceptable solution. So perhaps an alternative approach would be to factor in an underlying basic law of chemistry. At the risk of gross oversimplification, what if we saw the flow of populations as the human equivalent of osmosis?
No penalty if you stop reading here.
In high-school chemistry we learned that, in a container of water divided into two halves by a semipermeable membrane, uneven concentrations of salt resulted in movement of water from the more dilute side to the side of greater concentration. The greater the discrepancy in solute concentration, be it a salt molecule or a complex plasma protein, the greater the force to equalise the concentrations.

Now imagine the world as a giant vat subdivided into a number of smaller containers (nations) separated from each other by semipermeable membranes (borders). Instead of salt, provide each container with differing amounts of food, shelter and essential services. In this scenario, population flow from nation to nation will be a direct function of the degree of difference of goods, opportunities and hope.

This shift of populations isn’t just an ethical or metaphysical dilemma to be resolved at the level of ’us’ versus ’them’. It isn’t about the right to own land and enforce borders, or the relative worth of individuals versus groups. Instead, the pressures driving immigration should be seen as natural and unavoidable ‐ like chemical reactions; from that perspective, a reduction in the gradients would be the only possible long-term solution.

Sadly, most policymakers focus on how to best perpetuate the imbalance. The most popular and immediate reaction is to increase the impermeability of the membranes separating countries. But beefed-up border security or the erection of theoretically insurmountable walls does not take into account the enormous power of desperation. As the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire has written: ’No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark.’

About the author: Robert A Burton is a neurologist, author and the former associate director of the department of neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at Mount Zion. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and Nautilus, among others. His latest book is A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (2013).
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 07:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  San Francisco author discovers illegal immigration link to natural science? Why didn't I think of that ?

If the targeted country has the courage and is willing, it can be stopped.

Thank you Dr. Burton. That will be all. Your federal research grant application folders await you.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  We didn't make their homes the "mouths of sharks". They did. They made the shark, let it say them.

All "migration" does is being the shark to the innocent and make them suffer.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/13/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee, maybe we need to toughen up the semi-permeable membrane into something less permeable....like say a wall.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/13/2019 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ THIS
Posted by: Frank G || 03/13/2019 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  No discussion of cells pumping unwanted ions *back* across the membrane?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/13/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Like the chemical process of osmosis, migration is unstoppable

Osmosis is stoppable and reversible at the expense of energy.

Migration can be stopped and reversed.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/13/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh a Somoli Briton poet as authority....perhaps someone should ask the good neurologist what keeps the wind from entering the brain?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#8  You just make the membrane a little less permeable. If the wall is too expensive there is always concertina wire and M2 machine guns.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/13/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Cells die when they do not get the right kind of proteins across the cell membrane.

Since this is coming from dying cells, it's unlikely to be beneficial for cells.

We need to see failing nation autophagy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  You can make the boundary less permeable or the immigrants more permeable...
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/13/2019 12:27 Comments || Top||

#11  I like stories about gladiators Browning .50 Cals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 13:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Looking forward to a sportsball player's future authoritative article on neuroscience.
Posted by: charger || 03/13/2019 13:41 Comments || Top||

#13  No discussion of cells pumping unwanted ions *back* across the membrane?

Ca-:IN
Pb+:OUT
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/13/2019 14:13 Comments || Top||


Study: White People Responsible for Blacks' and Latinos' Higher Exposure to Pollution
[Breitbart] A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that white people contribute more to pollution than black and Latino people, but the latter suffer from it more than the white polluters.

"The air that Americans breathe isn’t equal," USA Today says in its report on the study.

"Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that’s been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study," USA Today says. "This new research quantifies for the first time the racial gap between who causes air pollution ‐ and who breathes it."
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#1  DOA, junk science.
Posted by: Dale || 03/13/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting 'polluted' does hold some attraction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Filed under "Everything is Problematic"
Posted by: SteveS || 03/13/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Keeping clean is expensive. The rich have more choice of where to live. The poor have fewer choices, and often that means living in areas downstream or downwind from pollution. The poor do not have the front money to buy property, therefore are usually renters. If you rent, and it's not yours, you don't take as good care of it. When you're discouraged, you tend to let things go to pot around you. It can become a way of life. This has everything to do with human nature and economics, and zero to do with race. Sometimes poverty has to do with other people's choices (factory closings and blockbusting, for example). Sometimes poverty is a function of fecklessness (I can see an example in my very white family). Urban poor tend to be black. Rural poor tend to be white. The issue is poverty, not race.
Posted by: mom || 03/13/2019 10:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Back in the 70s, Uncle Sam was the largest slumlord in America, as any base housing could attest to. That was even in an environment in which you were expected to turn it back over they way you found it. See - PCS inspections.

When the base reductions hit in the 80s, the idea and practice of turning over the housing to local government for low income housing was nicked because the habitats failed to meet local building standards.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2019 12:17 Comments || Top||

#6  I live in former military housing. Some of it is privately owned. 20% is county owned. I've had some good neighbors and bad ones in both types of housing.

There are in fact wealthy people who are perfectly willing to dump their crud any old where. We have a bunch of polluted wells in farm country, from careless handling of manure from industrial-scale operations. This is a character issue, not a racial one.
Enough ranting for one day.
Posted by: mom || 03/13/2019 13:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Since blacks and latinos appaprently have no agency or free will, we should probably take away their right to vote or to have autonomy in any area of life.

We should also place them all in areas where they can do as little harm as possible to themselves and others.

We could call these areas ghe--, er barr, er "safe spaces".

Yeah, "safe spaces".

Safe spaces far away from the rest of us.

For their own good, of course.
Posted by: charger || 03/13/2019 13:47 Comments || Top||

#8  they tend too leave their safe spaces and head towards places like Buckhead, Alpharetta < Johns CReek, East cobb county ga. around Atlanta. I'm sure every major city is the same. ButI'm a white male so I guess that's my fault too.
Posted by: chris || 03/13/2019 14:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Give me a cabin up in Blue Ridge, 5 acres and a steel gate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2019 16:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Yer welcome down here B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/13/2019 21:04 Comments || Top||


Federal appeals court OKs Ohio law aimed at abortion funding
CINCINNATI (AP) ‐ A divided federal appeals court Tuesday upheld an Ohio anti-abortion law that blocks public money for Planned Parenthood.

The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower federal court ruling. The Ohio law targeted funding that Planned Parenthood receives through the state’s health department. That money is mostly from the federal government and supports education and prevention programs.

The law bars such funds from entities that perform or promote abortions.

Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote the opinion for an 11-6 majority, saying the judges rejected the contention by two Planned Parenthood affiliates that the Ohio law imposes an unconstitutional condition on public funding.

"The affiliates are correct that the Ohio law imposes a condition on the continued receipt of state funds. But that condition does not violate the Constitution because the affiliates do not have a due process right to perform abortions," Sutton wrote.

Sutton wrote for the majority that while Planned Parenthood contends that the Ohio law will unconstitutionally deprive women of the right to access abortion services without undue burden, that conclusion is premature and speculative because Planned Parenthood has stated it will continue to provide abortion services.

Judge Helene White wrote the dissenting opinion, saying such laws allow targeting of abortion providers who are "merely a proxy for the woman and her constitutional rights" and are trying to make them "cry uncle." She said using the majority’s reasoning, "the government can do almost anything it wants to penalize abortion providers so long as they resist the coercion and continue to perform abortions."
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#1  Not funding is coercion?!?

The funding source is coerced!

These people live in an inverted morality.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/13/2019 5:36 Comments || Top||



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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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