On ending the abortion industry

One television or news presentation of an aborted baby might well end the debate over the abortion issue.

There would be such an outcry from citizens the abortion industry, which has claimed some 60 million infants before they had a right to life, would likely shut down overnight.

The Free Press Foundation has issued a release citing a Judicial Watch open records request announcing it had 676 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showing that the agency paid thousands of dollars to a California-based firm to purchase organs from aborted human fetuses to create “humanized mice” for HIV research.

The records show that NIH paid at least $18,100 between December 2016 and August 2018 to Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) for livers and thymuses from second trimester aborted fetuses. They include at least 26 such purchases from ABR by Dr. Kim Hasenkrug, senior investigator at the NIH lab in Hamilton, Montana.

Purchase orders associated with the transactions state: “These tissues, liver and thymus, are required [by] Ron Messer for ongoing studies of HIV in the Hasenkrug Lab. Our mice will be ready for reconstitution soon.”

“These records detailing the federal government’s purchases of organs of aborted fetuses are the most disturbing I’ve ever seen in all my time at Judicial Watch,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Federal law regulates the purchase and acceptance of human fetal tissue for research purposes. It is unlawful to knowingly transfer fetal tissue for profit. According to the records, agency officials concluded in March 2018 that: “Federal regulations for the protection of human subjects do not apply to above named activity.”

Whether or not the research is helpful to save other lives, the fact that babies are being sacrificed to attain it is ghoulish.

How to Solve America’s National Debt Problem

Thanks to Mike Rosen of Kingfisher for sending the following item regarding the national debt, which threatens to destroy the U.S. economy:

Warren Buffett: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 ... before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land ... all because of public pressure.

Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email (message) to a minimum of 20 people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Our own thought would be to cut the number of federal employees who occupy the agencies and bureaus, which have been given the authority to run citizens’ lives. It would also be a good idea to restrict pay for federal jobs to that which the same positions would pay in the private sector.

Congressional Reform Act Suggestions

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Members of Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are voided. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their terms, then go home and back to work.

On that score, Congressmen-women often become multi-millionaires while serving in Congress.

For instance, Socialist-whatever Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination and rails constantly about the top 1 percent – who he says need to be taxed more – is part of the 1 percent.

Forbes reports the following:

Sanders, 77, has, in fact, amassed an estimated $2.5 million fortune from real estate, investments, government pensions – and earnings from three books, including the 2016 hit “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.”

“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he recently told the New York Times, striking a downright Trumpian note.

Since his bid for the Democratic nomination raised his profile in 2016, Sanders has released a book a year. In all, he has pulled in at least $1.7 million from the series, starting with “Our Revolution” (220,000 copies sold, according to industry tracker NPD Book-Scan) and then “Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution” (27,000) and finally “Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance (26,000).”

Gorsuch Challenges Court’s ‘Cert Pool’

Then Jon Cochran of Loyal sent us the following item about Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch refusing to join the court’s “cert pool.”

The cert pool was established in 1973 during the early days of the Burger Court, in order to efficiently review the near 8,000 petitions received each term. In practice, the petitions are apportioned among the court’s law clerks, who then circulate a memo to the justices recommending a grant or denial. The obvious problem here is that this gives the power in these 8,000 cases to the law clerks instead of the justices. It also, in theory, allows third parties to unfairly influence a case through the clerks.

That is NOT how the Supreme Court was designed to operate. Gorsuch just managed to set his foot down in the Supreme Court and say it is NOT okay to pass off judgments to the discretion of legal clerks. This is the kind of story everyone should be hearing or reading in the media, but obviously is not.