[American Thinker] If President Trump feels that Sean Hannity has got his back, there is more evidence to support his sense. In the wake of the Charlottesville attack on demonstrators, the hate really started to flow, and Sean spotted this direct threat to the POTUS in a tweet from someone using the name Lorie Wise, @Lori4040.
Another idiot hands himself over to the FBI, but this one is not a jihadi.
[IsraelTimes] Jerry Varnell sought to carry out copy-cat attack to Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 blast which killed 168 people
US officials announced Monday the arrest of a man who sought to detonate a bomb in Oklahoma City, reminiscent of the deadly 1995 bombing by anti-government bad boy Timothy McVeigh in the same city.
Jerry Varnell, 23, was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Saturday, after attempting to trigger what he thought was an ammonium nitrate fertilizer bomb -- like McVeigh’s -- outside a BancFirst branch in the center of the city, according to a criminal complaint filed in Oklahoma district court.
Varnell told an undercover FBI agent and a cooperating source that he had wanted to attack the government, with his initial target the Federal Reserve in Washington, eight blocks from the White House.
Varnell told the undercover agent that, unlike McVeigh, he did not want to kill a lot of people with his bombing, but to “cripple the government,” according to the complaint.
He also considered attacking data centers at Facebook and the Internal Revenue Service, before settling on the bank in Oklahoma City, 130 miles (210 kilometers) east of his home in Sayre, Oklahoma.
"I think I’m going to go with what the okc bomber used," Varnell allegedly told the FBI’s source in an encrypted message.
"What happened in Oklahoma City was not an attack on America, it was retaliation," he later said. "The time for revolution is now."
McVeigh killed 168 people when he went kaboom! a fertilizer bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. McVeigh was arrested soon afterward, imprisoned, and, in 2001, executed for the crime.
Varnell’s arrest was announced two days after white supremacist and extreme-right anti-government groups clashed with opponents in Charlottesville, Virginia. One woman was killed when an bad boy rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, and two coppers died in a helicopter crash.
Varnell told Sherlocks he supported the far-right "Three Percenters" (III%ers) anti-government movement and wanted to form his own armed militia.
But he told the undercover agent that, unlike McVeigh, he did not want to kill a lot of people with his bombing, but to "cripple the government," according to the complaint.
Varnell also told the agent he wanted a way to communicate his message about the bombing to prevent other groups like Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... from claiming responsibility.
According to the complaint, Varnell and the FBI agent built the bomb in a van, with "inert" materials including blasting caps and dynamite that were all supplied by the agent.
The inert bomb was parked outside the bank and Varnell was immediately arrested early Saturday morning, after he tried to used a cellphone to set it off.
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As a side note: Did you notice how quickly Timothy McVeigh faced trial and execution? When they want to 'send a message' it seems they can move expeditiously. Particularly, when 'they' are the target. You and me don't count.
[REUTERS] North Korea's leader received a report from his army on its plans to fire missiles toward Guam and said he will watch the actions of the United States for a while longer before making a decision, the North's official news agency said on Tuesday.
North Korea said last week it was finalizing plans to launch four missiles into the waters near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, and its army would report the strike plan to leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... and wait for his order.
Kim, who inspected the command of the North's army on Monday, examined the plan for a long time and discussed it with army officers, the official KCNA said in a report.
"He said that if the Yankees persist in their extremely dangerous reckless actions on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity, testing the self-restraint of the DPRK, the latter will make an important decision as it already declared," the report said.
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All this posturing is crap. It's delaying our going in and grabbing their nukes. We need to get in there yesterday and rip those things out of their hands.
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Before long we'll have the same scenario with the Iranians. We really are at a very important Strategic point in History.
I'm glad we have a no nonsense POTUS!
I just hope he stays true to America and his promises. The choices will be clear when the time comes. Obama pee'd his pants, Trump will Thump!
[NYT] North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by American intelligence agencies.
The studies may solve the mystery of how North Korea began succeeding so suddenly after a string of fiery missile failures, some of which may have been caused by American sabotage of its supply chains and cyberattacks on its launches. After those failures, the North changed designs and suppliers in the past two years, according to a new study by Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Such a degree of aid to North Korea from afar would be notable because President Trump has singled out only China as the North’s main source of economic and technological support. He has never blamed Ukraine or Russia, though his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, made an oblique reference to both China and Russia as the nation’s "principal economic enablers" after the North’s most recent ICBM launch last month.
Analysts who studied photographs of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, inspecting the new rocket motors concluded that they derive from designs that once powered the Soviet Union’s missile fleet. The engines were so powerful that a single missile could hurl 10 thermonuclear warheads between continents.
Those engines were linked to only a few former Soviet sites. Government investigators and experts have focused their inquiries on a missile factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, on the edge of the territory where Russia is fighting a low-level war to break off part of Ukraine. During the Cold War, the factory made the deadliest missiles in the Soviet arsenal, including the giant SS-18. It remained one of Russia’s primary producers of missiles even after Ukraine gained independence.
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For a small, rather impoverished communist country which lacks the technology to provide electricity and food to it's people, they do seem to have made a giant leap forward in nuclear science and missile technology. Perhaps our illustrious "intelligence services" could shed some light on this topic.
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You mean the same "21 Intelligence Services" who missed 9/11, the rapidity of NORK nuke developments and seem certain Mr. Trump "colluded" with the Rooskies? That group of intelligence services?
Although I am certain they could find out what I had for breakfast this morning.
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1. The Houthis (or rather, renegade elements of the Yemen Army loyal to the deposed president) are using Russian-design missiles.
2. The Iranians are involved with the Houthi elements in Yemen.
3. The Iranians also have ties with North Korea, both in the NorKs training Iranian forces and cooperation on their respective nuclear programs.
4. The Iranians are flush with funds, both from Euros eager for profit(after lowered sanctions) and $400 million on pallets along with a note saying "With Love from Barry and Valarie".
5. The Ukranians aren't exactly the least corrupt people on the planet and they have a renowned fondness for cash.
Does that mean the Russians are selling to the NorKs, or to the Iranians? Or the Chinese?
Or
It was mentioned in that ridiculously long message thread of another production site, albeit slower and lower production numbers. What's to stop the design from being 'quietly' produced or (more likely) assembled elsewhere, possibly in smaller numbers?
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If North Korea has a couple of large Haas's, a BOM stock list, and prints, they could probably make the rocket engines.
For example,
Just because Pratt and Whitney _charges_ 38 million for an RL-10 engine doesn't mean it was that hard to build back in the 1990's when they charged a lot less for the four that went into the DC-X. (And those were specially modified with a different nozzle design to work with atmospheric backpressure, and therefore essentially custom engines with RL-10 turbomachinery).
[DAWN] China will halt iron, iron ore and seafood imports from North Korea starting Tuesday, following through on new UN sanctions after US pressure for Beijing to strongarm Pyongyang over its ally's nuclear programme.
The decision was announced on Monday after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's regime, which has raised international alarm about where the crisis is headed.
Beijing had pledged to fully enforce the latest sanctions after the United States accused China of not doing enough to rein in its neighbour, which relies heavily on the Asian giant for its economic survival.
The Chinese commerce ministry said on its website that all imports of coal, iron, iron ore and seafood will be "completely prohibited" from Tuesday.
Beijing had already announced a suspension of coal imports in February.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council, including permanent member Beijing, approved tough sanctions against Pyongyang on August 6 that could cost the hermetic country $1 billion a year.
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I wonder if 0bumhole could have accomplished this. Not.
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I'm guessing China did this as a warning to Pudgy not to start anything. Not that they will actually follow through with it, just that the announcement was a warning.
Nothing like cutting off a Frat-boys money to get the message across.
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Beijing had already announced a suspension of coal imports in February.
And I'm sure it's being rigorously totally, humorlessly, and officially enforced.
[TheLocal.it] More than 1760 messages from Italia's office at the EU in Brussels and from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were stolen between 2013 and 2016 by hackers linked to Russia and China, according to an investigation by Italian daily Repubblica.
The cyber attacks occurred at times when key decisions were being taken on Iran and the Ukraine in the last few years.
According to a special investigation by Repubblica, several confidential diplomatic cables on Syria and Libya were also intercepted or hacked by the Russian hacker group Apt 28, which cyber experts say has links to Russian government security forces.
Other hacks were effected by K3chang and Zegost, both groups believed to have links to the Chinese government, claims the report.
Information about NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... exercises, migration policy in the Mediterranean and energy pipelines were hacked, according to the Repubblica investigation. Discussions about Russia sanctions were also stored on the same servers.
According to another study by Italia's largest daily Repubblica, more than 100,000 computers used by the Italian army could have been penetrated. The computers' software ‐ 15-years-old and not updated since 2015 ‐ is run by Araknos Srl.
Araknos became part of the Italian military industrial complex in the early 2000s, effectively becoming the partner of choice for cyber security in the Italian army, claims Repubblica's report.
Up until 2010 the company's AKAB software fought off most cyber attack attempts. But when the Italian government decided to sign a contract with a new cyber security firm, Araknos slowly fell into decline and finally closed in 2015.
Italia's Ministry of Defence claimed all its networks were "well protected" in response to the Repubblica investigation, arguing that it's AKAB-dependent softwares are not in active use.
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No surprises here. It is most unfortunate that the leaders of Western countries don't understand much more about computers than pointing and clicking. What's even worse is they won't listen to people who do. Crooked morons.
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White supremacist and ’Unite the Right’ leader, Jason Kessler, was once reportedly a supporter a former President Obama and the Occupy movement.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that is certainly no friend to Conservatives), Kessler revealed his political transformation around November 2016, the same month then candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Southern Poverty Law Center reports:
Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.
At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.
Kessler himself has placed his "red-pilling" around December of 2013 when a PR executive was publicly excoriated for a tasteless Twitter joke about AIDS in Africa.
Regarding the incident, Kessler stated "... so it was just a little race joke, nothing that big of a deal, she didn’t have that many followers, she probably didn’t think anybody was gonna see it,"
Regardless of Kessler’s past politics, the rightward shift in his views was first put on display in November, 2016 when his tirade against Wes Bellamy began.
On Sunday, a violent leftist mob shut down a press conference by white nationalists Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler outside of Charlottesville City Hall.
The mob reportedly chased Spencer and Kessler back to their waiting vehicles.
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And the guy who drove the car into the crowd was apparently schizophrenic, presumably on (working) meds. And it could be reasonably argued he never intended to hurt anyone - that he hit them in panic. But execution first, trial later.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: The inquiry team constituted by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... chief minister to probe the hit-and-run incident during the rally of former prime minister, completed its proceedings in Lalamusa on Saturday.
A police brass hat on condition of anonymity said the use of fake number plate had been a normal practice regarding the protocol vehicles of the VVIPs motorcades owing to security reasons.
The team, headed by Additional IG Abu Bakar Khuda Bakhsh, had inspected the accident’s spot, besides recording the statements of eyewitnesses, heirs of the dear departed boy and local police officials and left Lalamusa the same day.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the registration number installed on the BMW vehicle that had crushed the 12-year-old boy in Lalamusa on Friday, is said to be a fake one as the law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) have so far been unable in arresting either the owner or driver of the vehicle.
The [registration] number SS 875 installed on the BMW jeep, has actually been registered for a Suzuki Bolan car (model 2011) in the name of Muhammad Ilyas Butt s/o Mushtaq Ahmed instead of the BMW that was part of the protocol vehicles of Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ’s convoy.
Police had inserted the same registration number of the BMW vehicle into the already registered case under section 320 of Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) on the report of the dear departed boy’s paternal uncle.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... a police brass hat on condition of anonymity said the use of fake number plate had been a normal practice regarding the protocol vehicles of the VVIPs motorcades owing to security reasons.
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[Townhall] CBS featured a story Monday about "the country where Down syndrome is disappearing," namely Iceland. Had they uncovered an amazing new treatment for the chromosome abnormality that causes Down syndrome? No, CBS was reporting on the prenatal screenings that caused diagnosis and close to 100 percent abortion rates for unborn Down syndrome babies.
In other words, Iceland has not "virtually eliminated" Down syndrome, as this tweet suggests. Iceland promotes screening for the condition and abortion.
"With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased,"CBS opens, "but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland."
CBS describes the extensive prenatal screenings which "are optional," but "the government states that all expectant mothers must be informed about availability of screening tests, which reveal the likelihood of a child being born with Down syndrome. Around 80 to 85 percent of pregnant women choose to take the prenatal screening test, according to Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik."
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IIRC, the prenatal test for Downs Syndrome is not 100% accurate. Thus, there will be false positives. Who knows, they might accidentally kill the person who would have grown up to cure cancer.
Oh, well.
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[LI] Monday night, Texas A&M University released a statement saying the university had canceled a campus event reservation held by Preston Wiginton. Wiginton helped organize white nationalist leader Richard Spencer’s campus visit late last year and promised Spencer would attend the upcoming rally scheduled for September 11.
But Texas A&M University is having no part of it. Citing potential for student harm, disruption to the normal class day, and the fact that Wiginton hadn’t been invited or sponsored by any campus student organization, the university canceled the event reservation:
[Breitbart] During a live broadcast aired on CNN on Monday, Democrat supporter Keith Boykin called into question the "blackness" of black Republican commentator Paris Dennard.
Mr. Dennard, who served as the Director of Black Outreach in the George W. Bush White House, reacted with anger as Boykin attempted to race-shame him.
Allegations of "Uncle Tom" behaviour are often hurled by left-wing activists as a means to silence or shame minorities who lean conservative. Recently, the phenomenon spread to Muslims or ex-Muslims who find their political allegiances on the right of the political spectrum.
Despite the network hosts earlier urging Ken Cuccinelli to apologise for telling another contributor to "shut up" during a discussion, anchor Brooke Baldwin made no attempt to get Boykin to apologise for his on-air racism.
Speaking about the Charlottesville violence, Boykin baited Dennard, stating: "I’m ashamed that you as an African-American, Paris, will not say [that President Trump has not done enough]."
[Daily Caller] A group of protestors toppled a monument to Confederate soldiers in Durham, N.C., Monday evening in response to a white supremacist rally that turned violent over the weekend.
During the protest, a woman climbed up the statue located at the entrance of the Durham County courthouse and affixed a rope just after 7 p.m. EST, local CBS affiliate WNCN reported.
The group quickly pulled the statue from the its pedestal and began spitting on it and kicking it when it fell to the ground.
The statue was erected in 1924 "in memory of ’the boys who wore the gray,'" and is one of several war monuments around the courthouse. Other monuments near the site include memorials to both World Wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
"It needs to be removed," Loan Tran, one of the protest’s organizers, told WNCN Monday. "These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country."
"When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration," Tran said.
The "Unite the Right" rally, which turned deadly Saturday, was first organized to protest the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va. The rally turned into a violent clash between several white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups and Antifa.
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Evidently some public property is protected by law and some public property is not. What happens when they invade Bedloe's Island and Lady Liberty is destroyed ?
#4
I wonder when the statue of Lenin in Seattle will be destroyed.
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Sad. Reminds me of the Taliban toppling of the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Attempts by disenchanted losers of the destruction of history and antiquities. They have assumed they speak for everyone and they have taken away the rights of others. These people are not exercising their right to free speech. They are leftwing thugs with mental problems who break the law by destroying public property. The mayors and governors who go along with this should be removed from office. Eva Panjwani, One of the Communist organizers of this protest.
#4
Reddit is huge with millennials. They need more mature conservative voices. Everyone should register there and start commenting. Think of it as the USENET of the 21st century.
It's not switching your browser, it's switching your default search engine. I already use duckduckgo.com and it's fine. As good as google, but without the censorship. Everyone change away from Google, we have to show them our numbers. Train your fingers to go away from Google.com for search
#5
Android defaults to g00gle. That's one reason they got into smartphone OS
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Reddit is huge with millennials.
Trailing daughter #2 loves it. When she was on internships in Japan and Germany, she consulted Reddits for the cities where she was to live, and made many friends through their activity meet-ups. She tried to do the same when she was transferred to Dallas -- I don't know if that was as effective.
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I'm on Day Two of using DuckDuckGo with the Opera browser. So far, so good.
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Prefer StartPage (no tracking and good results) from within the Brave browser - max privacy without having to do a bunch of behind the scenes programming.
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To continue the thread arc - if you're worried about all the info Windows 10 siphons off your computer there's:
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
#10
Duckduckgo is not as good as google. It can't be. These days good web design means optimizing for Google. That said, DDG is pretty good (better than bing, unless you are looking for p0rn).
I noticed years ago that global warming articles I recalled reading could not be found using Google. Started saving them, and have done some tests. If I use the exact article name I can find it on Google. If not, it doesn't appear at all, no matter what I search for -- at least on the first 20 or so pages of search results I was willing to look at. There is no doubt in my mind that Google buries news it doesn't like. The problem is that DDG does not reproduce these articles either.
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Google tweaks their results so they show what they want you to see for the most part. Bing is ok and doesn't do that. DuckDuckGo is better at searching and really doesn't filter shit.
So go with anything that isn't tied to Google or their ads and fuck the man.
#12
I have used DuckDuckGo off and on. It works fine. They state: "Switch to the search engine that doesn't track you. What you search for is your own business and we’d like to keep it that way. That’s why we don’t collect any personal information and therefore, have none to share."
#14
I just loaded Brave on my iPad. Seems fine, actually quick. Very little experience so far though. Also, I have been using DuckDuckGo for a while now, it is good enough. Anything but G/Alpha.
So, first look is okay.
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Been running Brave for well over a year - couldn't stand the thought of Edge. Early on there were some issues as it was brand new but it's been very stable for some time now. Flash and Google Widevine are off as defaults though you can turn them on if you want.It is fast because you can turn off ads and trackers - has a feature where you can see the number of ads and trackers blocked - e.g., zero for rantburg; 12 ads and 1 fingerprinting tracker blocked for Instapundit.
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I noticed years ago that global warming articles I recalled reading could not be found using Google.
Try looking up topics like "coal mines" or "steel mills" or "electricity generation". You'll end up with results that will have environmentalist, labor, and other leftist groups ending up with erections lasting longer than four hours.
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I tried this search on Google and DDG on Sunday.
"How many times did Barrack Obama denounce White Supremacy"
It helps to remind yourself that the war is for our minds. The ideas they plant have so much more impact that a Nato 5.56 round.
Once you start a cognitive process of looking for the propaganda, it is actually everywhere!
Feels like that Sci-Fi movie with Rowdy Roddy where the glasses show the aliens in clear contrast. "Them" I believe.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea
North Korea
[Townhall] CBS featured a story Monday about "the country where Down syndrome is disappearing," namely Iceland. Had they uncovered an amazing new treatment for the chromosome abnormality that causes Down syndrome? No, CBS was reporting on the prenatal screenings that caused diagnosis and close to 100 percent abortion rates for unborn Down syndrome babies.
