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"I couldn't vote for Roy Moore. The state of Alabama deserves better." – Sen. Richard Shelby, senior senator of Alabama, Republican.
Senator Richard Shelby has given his verdict on Judge Roy Moore. But will that sway the voters of Alabama who'll make the final judgment on Tuesday?
Don't bet on it.
Sen. Shelby is a popular Alabama Republican, no doubt about it. He got a whopping 64 percent of the vote when he ran for re-election last year, even edging out Donald Trump's impressive 62 percent. He's been in the U.S. Senate since the Reagan administration – he was elected as a Democrat, then switched parties in 1994. He has an A+ rating from the NRA and the endorsement of Alabama (Tea Party) Patriots.
In other words, nobody's going to accuse Sen. Shelby of being a moderate.
So, when Alabama's senior senator appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper to tell Alabama "I wouldn't vote for Roy Moore"—his first appearance on a major Sunday show since 2008, by the way—it should be a big deal.
Why isn't it? Why isn't the word of this popular, long-time politician likely to sway a significant number of voters? The question answers itself in the phrase "long-time politician." Donald Trump doesn't have a 96 percent (!) approval rating among Alabama Republicans because he's a Republican politician or a conservative politician. Trump's passionate supporters are with him because he's not a politician at all.
If political heavyweights could swing political fights for Alabama Republican, Roy Moore wouldn't be on the ballot today. The state's GOP bigwigs, including Sen. Shelby, overwhelmingly backed incumbent Republican Sen. Luther Strange in September's primary election, as did a certain, prominent out-of-towner: President Trump.
Judge Moore crushed Sen. Strange in the GOP primary anyway, as Republican voters ignored the endorsements and voted for the outsider. If Sen. Shelby couldn't persuade Alabama Republicans to change their votes when they had other, conservative, GOP options, it's unlikely he can do so when the only other option is a pro-abortion Democrat.
It's true that the polls are all over the place. Two polls hit on Monday, a Fox News poll with the Democrat Doug Jones up by 10, and an Emerson University poll with Moore up by 9. The Real Clear Politics average still favors Moore by 2.5 percent, but in an election where less than a quarter of the electorate is likely to show up, polling is only slightly better than guesswork.
Roy Moore's opponents are hopeful that the combination of new revelations about the judge's past, a tidal wave of negative ads from the Democrats (Jones is outspending Moore on TV by at least 7-1) and endorsements like Sen. Shelby's will convince Republican voters to abandon their party's nominee. But even that math makes no sense because the GOP voters most likely to be affected by these forces aren't likely to cross over and vote for a relatively liberal candidate like Jones.
(Note: Yes, Jones would be a moderate Democrat in most states. But in Alabama, he's basically Bernie Sanders with better hair.)
In fact, even Sen. Shelby wrote in a Republican—he declined to say who—rather than vote Democrat. So the best-case scenario for Republicans trying to keep Roy Moore out of the Senate is that overall voter turnout goes down, which in turn makes the hard-core pro-Roy-Moore vote even more powerful. The smaller the election-day pie, the larger the slice taken by the GOP base.
Finally—and perhaps more importantly—Sen. Shelby's negative comments feed the same narrative as the barrage of out-of-state funded negative ads: Washington politicians and liberal outsiders don't want Alabamans to elect Roy Moore.
In the era of Trump, that may be the most powerful pro-Moore message of all.

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WHO’S REALLY GOT POLL POSITION IN ALABAMA?
What’s the deal with that Fox News poll in Alabama?
If Republican Roy Moore is leading in an average of all polls, why does the one from FNC call it a blowout for Democrat Doug Jones?
The answer is plain: There’s simply no precedent for this race.
The way pollsters make their predictions is to look at how voters behaved before and then make an educated guess on what patterns will be like this time.
If you’re polling, say, Missouri for a presidential election, you can look immediately at the three or four elections before and get a sense of who will be showing up to vote and in what numbers, e.g. 53 percent female, 40 percent aged 45-64, 79 percent white, etc.
Then you keep calling folks until you get a representative sample of respondents that looks like the expected electorate, ask your questions and presto!
But what election would tell us how Alabama would vote? There hasn’t been a competitive special election for a seat in Alabama since 1978, so there’s no direct analogue. Will it be more like a big statewide midterm election with something like 50 percent turnout, or closer to the 25 percent typical of a single-office race?
The pollsters at Monmouth University have a survey out today and they have helpfully for the purposes of explanation hedged their bets. Their best model comes up with a tie, but they have also offered two other turnout scenarios, one slightly favoring Moore and one slightly favoring Jones.
Our pollsters don’t hedge, and, as their track record has shown, they don’t need to.
Take it from our polling maven, Dana Blanton, who offered today this opinion-science version of a smack down: “A subtle but potentially noteworthy finding is Alabama voters who were interviewed on cellphones are +30 for Jones, while the race is roughly even among all others. The fact that traditional, high-quality probability samples, like the Fox News Poll, include both landline and cellphone numbers may be why these polls show Jones doing relatively well compared to automated or blended polls.”
Put simply: Because our poll is better, we’re in a better position to see parts of the electorate that other less expensive polls that often fill the space. But Dana is far too nice to ever say that…
Then there are the candidates.
As the great Harry Enten observed last week even when Moore’s advantage seemed to fully reassert his itself, the Republican was hardly safe. Senate polls in the past 20 years have been off by an average about 5 points, and consistently so.
Even if the race hadn’t shifted back in Jones’ favor, a lead in the mid-single digits would not have been enough to put him out of reach – especially in an oddball race like this one.
The point here is that Moore was not a very good nominee even before Nov. 9, the start of the deluge of accusations of misconduct with teenaged girls while he was a prosecuting attorney.
Moore and Jones were tied in the Fox News poll taken in mid-October. You would have had to give Moore the edge given the general political proclivities of the state and the huge number of undecided voters.
But even so, a tie in a state where Republican statewide candidates win by 30 points or so? That’s some weak tea right there.
If you will recall, though, the argument was that the things that made Moore a weaker general election candidate than incumbent Luther Strange – Moore’s bellicosity and embrace of outré views on sodomy laws, etc. – were the very things that Moore’s backers said were the most needed in Washington.
Steve Bannon and his crew argued, in essence, that Alabama Republicans could take a chance on Moore because, well, it was Alabama, a place where a Republican can underperform by 15 points and still win in a landslide.
But Moore would prove to be a doubly deficient candidate, and worst of all the claims against him undercut his well-cultivated image as a moral authority. If you were skeptical of Moore’s views or attitude, you might have taken solace in the idea that he was bound by a strict code.
That he was accused of abusing his position to seek out children was devastating. That he so badly mangled the response – first offering flimsyish denials before reversing himself and offering a blanket denial and scorn for the accusers – made it worse.
You can imagine the though process: Roy Moore the firebrand pistol-packer? Maybe. Roy Moore the charlatan? No way.
The other thing Bannon didn’t account for was that the Democrats would have a vote in this too. Jones has run well – positioning himself as a means by which for Alabamians to avoid disgrace, a caretaker for two years.
By the time popular, longtime Sen. Richard Shelby announced Sunday that he had not voted for Moore, it amounted to a tacit endorsement of a Jones win. Jones dove on the ball at once and offered himself up as a Senator in the mold of Shelby, who though now Republican, was first elected as a moderate Democrat in 1986.
The ingredients behind a potential Jones win are the following: a weak Republican nominee, a huge scandal, a highly energized Democratic electorate and a competent Democratic nominee.
Jones needs those irregular, largely African-American voters to actually show up and for the pangs of conscience that have been stabbing Alabama Republicans – is it more morally dubious to vote for an accused creep or a pro-choice Democrat? – don’t stab more sharply against Jones Tuesday in the voting booth.
OBAMA, BIDEN CONTRIBUTE TO ALA. RACE WITH ROBO-CALLS
Fox News: “Former President Barack Obama and his veep Joe Biden have recorded robo-calls in support of Democratic Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones, in a final push to get out the vote ahead of Tuesday’s special election. A Jones campaign official confirmed the calls to Fox News. They started going out statewide on Monday. The 11th-hour efforts are being undertaken on both sides. President Trump – who held a rally Friday just across the Alabama state line in Florida where he touted Republican Roy Moore’s candidacy – has also recorded a pro-Moore robo-call. The national interest reflects the importance to Trump's agenda of keeping the seat in Republican hands.”
Trump records robo-call to boost Moore - Reuters: “President Donald Trump sought to boost Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by releasing a recorded phone call on his behalf in the final stretch of a bitter Alabama election fight marked by accusations of sexual misconduct against Moore. Moore, 70, a conservative Christian and former Alabama Supreme Court justice, will face off in Tuesday’s election against Democrat Doug Jones, 63, a former U.S. attorney. On Monday, the eve of the election, the Moore campaign is rolling out a ‘robo-call’ with Trump’s voice telling voters that if they do not support the Republican candidate, progress on his agenda will be ‘stopped cold.’”
Jones is utilizing Shelby’s sentiments - The Hill: “Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones will use excerpts of Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) saying he cannot support Republican candidate Roy Moore as part of a new robocall ahead of Tuesday's special election in Alabama, CNN reported on Sunday. On Sunday morning, Shelby told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" that he did not vote for Moore over concerns about the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against Moore. The robocall, expected to be aired statewide on Monday, will take advantage of the Republican senator's remarks, according to CNN. Jones's campaign is already utilizing excerpts from Shelby's critical comments in two 15-second digital advertisements.”
Moore says it’s him versus the GOP establishment - The Hill: “GOP candidate Roy Moore on Sunday said he is fighting against both the Republican establishment and the Democratic Party, claiming that both groups want his Democratic rival to win in Tuesday's special Senate election in Alabama. Moore said in an interview on Breitbart journalist Aaron Klein's radio show that the Republican establishment wants Democratic candidate Doug Jones to win the election because they think he would be easy to defeat in the next Senate race.”
Uhhh where are ya Moore? - Politico: “In the last weekend of Alabama’s wild special Senate election, Doug Jones barnstormed the state with A-list Democrats in a bid to turn out black voters he desperately needs to win in the deep-red state. Republican Roy Moore disappeared. … Two Republicans briefed on Moore’s schedule before this weekend said he intended to spend Saturday in Philadelphia at the Army-Navy football game… One of those Republicans, who expressed concern about Moore’s absence, said that the planned trip was discussed with Moore’s campaign within the last few weeks and the candidate determined to go — case closed.”
THE RULEBOOK: THAT IS THE QUESTION
“Is it not (we may ask these projectors in politics) the true interest of all nations to cultivate the same benevolent and philosophic spirit? If this be their true interest, have they in fact pursued it?” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6
TIME OUT: DON’T MIND THE TURTLES
Sturgill Simpson has reinvigorated – and maybe even saved – mainstream country music. But he doesn’t do interviews. Reporter Annalise Domenighini got what Simpson said would be his last interview ever, a pretty bold statement for someone not yet 40. But in his case, we might just believe it. Noisey: “The path of a greasy, teenage pot dealer doesn’t usually lead to a $100,000 recording budget and a two-record deal with one of the largest labels in the United States. … It rarely allows you to enter the music business at age 35, long after any normal person would give up on the dream. But Simpson is not normal, and life is often better to some people than they feel they deserve. ... It’s there in how seriously he takes the job of making music providing ‘maybe 20 minutes of distraction in a person’s life.’”
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Trump net job-approval rating: -23.6 points
Change from one week ago: down 4 points
[President Trump’s score is determined by subtracting his average job disapproval rating in the five most recent, methodologically sound public polls from his average approval rating, calculated in the same fashion.]
TRUMP ACCUSERS TO UNITE, SEEK HILL PROBE
The Hill: “Women who have publicly accused President Trump of sexual misconduct will call for Congress to investigate the allegations at a press conference on Monday. The women will unite for the first time to demand the probe and share details of their allegations against Trump, according to a press release. The conference is being hosted by Brave New Films, a film and campaigns organization that works for progressive causes. It released a film about the allegations against Trump in November. More than a dozen women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump during his presidential campaign. Trump has denied the reports, and the White House has said its official position is that the women are lying. Sexual misconduct has emerged as a major topic in recent weeks as prominent men in politics and entertainment have been accused of sexual harassment or abuse.”
Haley: Accusers ‘should be heard’ - NYT: “Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that women who have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct ‘should be heard,’ a surprising break from the administration’s longstanding assertion that the allegations are false and that voters rightly dismissed them when they elected Mr. Trump. Ms. Haley, a former governor and one of the highest-ranking women in Mr. Trump’s administration, refocused attention on the allegations against the president by insisting that his accusers should be treated no differently than the scores of women who have come forward in recent weeks with stories of sexual harassment and misconduct against other men. ‘They should be heard, and they should be dealt with,’ Ms. Haley said on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation.’”
Gillibrand calls for Trump’s resignation over allegations - CNN: “Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump should resign over allegations of sexual misconduct. ‘President Trump should resign,’ Gillibrand told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview. ‘These allegations are credible; they are numerous. I've heard these women's testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking.’ If he does not ‘immediately resign,’ she said, Congress ‘should have appropriate investigations of his behavior and hold him accountable.’ Responding to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley saying that Trump's accusers ‘should be heard,’ Gillibrand said: ‘Not only should women be heard, but they should be believed.’
Farenthold a marked man - Houston Chronicle: “In the last two weeks, five Republicans have qualified to challenge U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, for re-election. Four of those five candidates have filed since Monday… The latest candidate to jump in the race is Bech Bruun, the former chairman of the Texas Water Development Board who is from Corpus Christ but lives in Austin. Bruun officially qualifed for the 27th Congressional District primary on Friday morning. Earlier this week Republicans Jerry Hall, Eddie Gassman and Christopher K. Mapp all qualified for the primary as well. And a week earlier, former Victoria County Republican Party chairman Michael Cloud qualified for the March 6 primary. … Democrats Raul (Roy) Barrera of Corpus Christi and Ronnie McDonald of Bastrop will be in a March 6 Democratic primary.”
Ryan looks to stay ahead of scandals - WashEx: “Speaker Paul Ryan is under mounting strain as the rising number of sexual misconduct allegations has forced the Wisconsin Republican to assume the role of House warden. Former Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona and Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania are unlikely to be the last House Republicans Ryan is compelled to push out of Congress because of sexual misconduct. Congressional ethics probes and media investigations are expected to unearth more incidents of harassment, or worse. Ryan has embraced the task. He’s disgusted with the alleged malfeasance and concerned for female staff — those already affected and those who could be, absent changes in workplace culture. But it’s also trying, as Ryan in some instances confronts longtime friends and respected colleagues about the sordid details of their abhorrent behavior and demands resignations.”
Pawlenty eyes run for Franken’s Senate seat - Twin Cities Pioneer Press: “Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he’s considering running for Sen. Al Franken’s U.S. Senate seat. The Republican governor and onetime presidential candidate insisted Friday that he’s still ‘politically retired.’ But Pawlenty would be a prized recruit in 2018 for Republicans hoping to capitalize on Franken’s resignation amid a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations. Pawlenty became the last Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota when he won his second term in 2006. And he considered running for Senate before he decided to run for governor. Franken’s resignation has forced him and others to think about how to improve the state and nation, he said. He spoke after addressing a local Chamber of Commerce event.”
Conyers resignation ignites family squabble - WaPo: “That field may or may not include [John Conyers’s] son [John Conyers III]; he’s yet to declare his candidacy and has been slammed with news of an arrest connected to an alleged domestic assault earlier this year in Los Angeles. But even before Conyers’s announcement on [Mildred Gaddis’s] program Tuesday, another relative — state Sen. Ian Conyers, the congressman’s 29-year-old great-nephew — announced his own candidacy. And state Sen. Coleman Young II, son of Detroit’s first black mayor but fresh off being clobbered by incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan last month, declared his bid Friday.”
DEMS LOOK TO EASE DIVISIONS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS
WaPo: “In recent weeks, Democrats have scored huge electoral wins in Virginia, cultivated public opposition to the Republican tax plan, purged two liberal stars accused of sexual misconduct and gotten closer to winning a Senate race in Alabama that should be out of reach in such a conservative state. But they still can’t agree on what the party stands for. From immigration to banking reform to taxes to sexual harassment, many in the party say it does not have a unified message to spread around the country. Those concerns flared up at a party meeting over the weekend in Washington. … But pulling those advantages into a coherent message remains elusive in Trump’s tweet-driven Washington. Instead, Democrats are continuing to argue among themselves over how to present themselves to voters. In addition, the bitterness cultivated during the party’s 2016 presidential nominating contest has not fully faded.”
DNC discuss cutting amount of superdelegates - Politico: “A commission set up to help reform the Democratic presidential nominating process has voted to restrict the number of superdelegates as part of a slew of changes. The Democratic Party’s Unity Reform Commission is recommending cutting the number of superdelegates by about 400, equal to a 60 percent reduction. Many of the remaining superdelegates would see their vote tied to the results in their state. The commission is also suggesting that absentee voting be required as an option for presidential caucus participants. It is calling for automatic voter registration and same-day voter registration. And it wants to mandate public reporting of raw vote totals from caucus states. The recommendations will now go to the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee, and then likely to the full 447-member Democratic National Committee…”
Tennesseans change their tune on Bredesen - National Journal: “A dozen years ago, liberals denounced Phil Bredesen, the then-Democratic governor of Tennessee, for his decision to kick off about 170,000 adults from the state’s expanded Medicaid program in order to fix a budget crisis. … Now, Democrats have turned to Bredesen, a 74-year old white, moderate man for their political salvation, even as many of them wish for a future of ever greater progressive policies on the backs of increasingly diverse younger generations. But officials and strategists from Tennessee to D.C. say Bredesen is the Democrats’ best shot to win the open Senate seat, giving them a slim chance to take back the Senate in 2018. The argument: He’s the last Democrat to win statewide, and he’s the only one left who can do it again—though he’s unlikely to spend much time highlighting that fact.”
SCRAMBLE TO CORRECT ERRORS OF HASTE IN TAX PLAN
WaPo: “Republicans are moving their tax plan toward final passage at stunning speed, blowing past Democrats before they’ve had time to fully mobilize against it but leaving the measure vulnerable to the types of expensive problems popping up in their massive and complex plan. Questionable special-interest provisions have been stuffed in along the way, out of public view and in some cases literally in the dead of night. Drafting errors by exhausted staff are cropping up and need fixes, which must be tackled by congressional negotiators working to reconcile competing versions of the legislation passed separately by the House and the Senate. And the melding process underway has opened the door to another frenzy of 11th-hour lobbying as special interests, including President Trump’s rich friends, make one last dash for cash before the final bill speeds through both chambers of Congress and onto Trump’s desk. Passage is expected the week before Christmas.”
Oops: Bill would tax top earners at 100 percent - WSJ: “Some high-income business owners could face marginal tax rates exceeding 100% under the Senate’s tax bill, far beyond the listed rates in the Republican plan. That means a business owner’s next $100 in earnings, under certain circumstances, would require paying more than $100 in additional federal and state taxes.”
Trump to make closing argument this week - Axios: “On Wednesday, President Trump will deliver his closing argument on tax reform to an audience made up largely of young people and middle-class families whose personal stories will be laced into his remarks. Trump's remarks at the Treasury Department, next door to the White House, are expected to lay out how the once-in-a-generation tax cut/reform bill will create economic opportunity and brighter futures. Aides say Trump will display his deal making/closing skills as he makes his case to the American people, while continuing to work behind the scenes to iron out final details. A source close to the White House told me: ‘There's no way we would have been here had he not pushed for this to happen before Christmas.’"
PLAY-BY-PLAY
White House starts push for January infrastructure spending package - WSJ
Bannon’s conspicuous absence from Russia storyline - Politico
Trump spats with NYT over TV viewing habits - Politico
What’s become of the individual mandate - WSJ
GOP pushes back on judicial nominations - Politico
AUDIBLE: REV. MOONBEAM
“I don't think - President Trump has a fear of the Lord, the fear of the wrath of God, which leads one to more humility.” – California Gov. Jerry Brown said about President Trump in an interview with “60 Minutes.”
FROM THE BLEACHERS
“I am highly concerned about our political future. It appears that the Democratic Party is increasingly headed towards even bigger government potentially even socialism. The democrat candidates currently highlighted, even excluding Bernie Sanders, seem focused in that direction (Warner, Harris). Also, polling within the younger generations indicates that they are receptive, and even may prefer, socialism. Additionally, the recent Soros sponsored event in California indicated that he would like to see the entire country go further in the direction of California, which in my opinion is towards socialism. It surprises me since our government (particularly the Senate) is showing that they really aren’t very good at anything in the current environment, why would we want to give them more control? What are your thoughts? Do you see us heading there, or avoiding that treacherous path?” – Leslie Rice, Hillsboro, N.H.
[Ed. note: Well, when you put it that way… Maybe it will be helpful to think of it like this: Politics is always a struggle between youth and maturity. It’s one of the basic dividing points for everything else we do and, historically, young voters tend to push for change, while older voters seek to hold the line. A funny thing happens to those young voters, though… They turn into old voters. Just as Baby Boomers went from burning draft cards in the 1960’s to lighting up Wall Street IPOs in the 1990s, time and tide change us all. I think the more fundamental concern I have is whether we can preserve some political norms in near term so that whatever does come next has to operate within some guardrails. The degree to which governing and political norms have been upended in the past 25 years is a big deal. My hope is that there will be pendular swing toward normalcy and decency. But that only happens if voters demand it.]
“I enjoy Halftime Reports, but I was surprised that neither you nor any other reporter picked up or commented on what Senate Leader McConnell said to President Trump in yesterday’s meeting, re the spending bill. Mitch said he looked forward to extending the CR to be able to work a long-term solution. Only in Congress is a six-to-nine month spending bill considered a long-term solution, especially when it is already three months late. None of the media is addressing the deleterious effects to the military and other federal agencies of operating on CR’s each year. At a time when our military needs to recapitalize, a CR impedes the ability to do that. When Congress finally passes the spending bill and all the attendant authority associated with it, the military will not have the time to spend it appropriately before the end of the fiscal year. The good news though, is that Congress will be the first to criticize the military for any rushed or inappropriate expenditures.” – David Jowers, Littleton, Mass.
[Ed. note: I think that was more a question of timing than disinterest! In fact, we talk so much and so often about the perils of fiscal improbity that I worry readers will become bored. It has now been a decade since we’ve really had anything like ordinary budgeting. Unlike many who think that the 60-vote threshold on legislation is causing Senate dysfunction, I see another culprit: The Byrd rule and budget reconciliation. The arrangement was supposed to make budgeting easier and more ordinary. But since it has become the preferred vehicle to advance partisan policy objectives that budgetary function has been substantially lost. As the Senate looks at revamping rules after the next election, I think there’s a strong argument to be made for abolishing reconciliation.]
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EJECT!
KDVR: “Every holiday season when Santa comes to town, children and their parents line-up to meet the jolly big man – but one Maryland toddler wasn’t having it. Kerry Spencer taught her son the sign for ‘help’ in sign language. And during his photo with Santa – he made the sign. ‘We taught our baby sign language. This is the sign for ‘help.’ You’re welcome,’ Spencer wrote. Spencer tweeted out the hilarious photo on Tuesday and it has gone viral with over 5,800 retweets and over 22,900 likes, as of Saturday afternoon. She went on to clear up the specific sign language variant he was taught. ‘In baby sign you go with what they do. We showed him the ASL version and this is what he did,’ she wrote on Twitter. No word on if the little boy was able to let Saint Nick know what he wanted for Christmas before his parents rescued him.”
Chris Stirewalt is the politics editor for Fox News. Brianna McClelland contributed to this report. Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up here.


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RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Officials in a remote South Texas county have approved a contract to open a privately run, 1,000-bed immigration lockup on the site of a tent city prison that was destroyed during a 2015 riot.
The Valley Morning Star of Harlingen reports that Willacy County commissioners on Monday agreed to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre outside Raymondville, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) from the U.S.-Mexico border city of Brownsville.
County Judge Aurelio Guerra says the new lockup will boost the local economy.
The prison that housed 3,000 inmates in tent-like domes closed after the 2015 uprising. A county lawsuit blamed the riot on “abysmal mismanagement” by Utah-based Management & Training Corp.
Management & Training, which bought the site last year, will operate the new immigrant facility.
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Question: Travel broadens the mind at Theatre Royal

Around The World In 80 Days comes to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from July 11-15.
Adapted from the Jules Verne story by Laura Eason and directed by Theresa Heskins, in this play the mysterious and fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days.
Join him and his loyal valet Passepartout, as they voyage from the misty alleys of Victorian London to the exotic subcontinent and the Wild West in a race against the clock.
Theresa Heskins’s celebrated production is on six month UK tour including a summer season in London and a Christmas engagement at the Lowry.
A cast of eight play over 125 characters in this imaginative, high-spirited escapade including six trains, five boats, four fights, three dances, two circus acts and an elephant!
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A plucky spirit: Georgia Kelly rode her harp to New Age notoriety in the 1970s; today she finds peace in Praxis. Georgia Kelly introduces George Lakoff, the Praxis Peace Institute guest at a Jan. 29 lecture at a sold-out Vintage House, with about 300 people in attendance.
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BEIJING (AP) — China's government said Thursday it reserves the right to retaliate if Washington goes ahead with proposed investment controls Beijing said violate global trade rules.
The Commerce Ministry's comment came as the two sides prepared for weekend talks in Beijing on American complaints about China's trade surplus and Beijing's promise to buy more American goods.
The White House announced plans this week to restrict Chinese investment in the United States and purchases of high-tech goods. It renewed threats to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods in response to complaints Beijing steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology.
Such curbs would violate the "rules and basic spirit" of the World Trade Organization, said a Commerce Ministry spokesman, Gao Feng.
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"The Chinese side will carefully evaluate the U.S. measures and reserves the right to take corresponding measures," Gao said at a regular briefing.
Meanwhile, the ministry said a team of more than 50 American officials was meeting with Chinese officials to prepare for the talks due to start Saturday involving Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

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lashed out on Wednesday at renewed threats from the on trade, warning that it was ready to fight back if Washington was looking for a trade war, days ahead of a planned visit by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
In an unexpected change in tone, the said on Tuesday that it still held the threat of imposing on $50 billion of imports from unless it addressed the issue of theft of American intellectual property.
Washington also said it will press ahead with restrictions on investment by Chinese companies in the as well as export controls for goods exported to
Its tougher stance comes as President Donald Trump prepares for a June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose key diplomatic backer is China, and as Washington steps up efforts to counter what it sees as Beijing's efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
The trade escalation came after the two sides had agreed during talks in Washington this month to find steps to narrow China's $375 billion trade surplus. Ross is expected to try to get China to agree to firm numbers to buy more US goods during a June 2-4 visit to the Chinese capital.
“We urge the United States to keep its promise, and meet China halfway in the spirit of the joint statement,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing, adding that China would take “resolute and forceful” measures to protect its interests if Washington insists upon acting in an “arbitrary and reckless manner”.
Rrelations, every time a country does an about face and contradicts itself, it's another blow to, and a squandering of, its reputation,” Hua said. China has said it will respond in kind to threats by Trump.
It was not clear if the developments would have any impact on the planned visit to China by Ross. China's Foreign Ministry referred questions to the Commerce Ministry, which did not reply to a fax seeking comment.
Several U.S. officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for talks, according to a U.S. embassy spokeswoman, including Under Secretary of Agriculture Ted McKinney; the U.S. Trade Representative's chief agricultural negotiator, Gregg Doud; and Commerce Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Alan Turley.
Trade war fears had receded after the Trump administration said it had reached a deal to put ZTE Corp back in business after banning China's second-biggest telecoms equipment maker from buying U.S. technology parts for seven years.
The easing in tension had fuelled optimism that agreement was imminent for Chinese antitrust clearance for San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc's $44 billion purchase of Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors NV, which has been hanging in the balance amid the trade dispute.
A team of Qualcomm lawyers that is expecting to meet with Chinese regulators ahead of Ross's arrival remained in San Diego as of late Tuesday, a source familiar with the matter said.
"On hold now," another person familiar with Qualcomm's talks with the Chinese government said on Wednesday, declining to be identified as the negotiations are confidential.
"Trump is crazy. Crazy tactics might work, though," the person added.
AND TACTICS
William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said the U.S. threat of appeared to have been "somewhat effective".
"I don't think it is only a tactic, personally," he told reporters on Wednesday, adding that the group does not view tariffs as the best way to address the trade frictions.
"The thinking became that if the U.S. doesn't have any leverage and there is no pressure on our Chinese friends, then we will not have serious negotiations."
The Global Times, an influential tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said the United States was suffering from a "delusion" and warned that the "trade renege could leave Washington dancing with itself".
State news agency Xinhua said China hoped that the United States would not act impulsively but stood ready to fight to protect its own interests.
"China will continue to hold pragmatic consultations with the United States' delegation and hope that the United States will act in accordance with the spirit of the joint statement." Also on Tuesday, a official said the U.S.
government plans to shorten the length of visas issued to some Chinese citizens as part of a strategy to prevent intellectual property theft by U.S. rivals.
Citing a document issued by the Trump administration in December, the official said the U.S. government would consider restrictions on visas for science and technology students from some countries.
Beijing should open more to world, says IMF
US says still holds threat of imposing tariffs on $50 bln of Chinese goods
Beijing asks US to stick to earlier agreement on trade
US officials arrive in Beijing for talks
US plans to shorten length of visas issued to some Chinese citizens
Beijing should open more to world, says IMF
China has made progress on reforms but should allow market forces to play a more decisive role and accelerate its opening up to the rest of the world, the Monetary Fund (IMF) said.
While credit growth has slowed, it remains too fast, and policy makers should de-emphasise growth targets and focus on higher-quality growth, the fund said in a statement released Wednesday in Beijing at the conclusion of its mission for the 2018 Article IV Consultation.
Embracing market forces means reducing public sector dominance over many industries, opening markets to the private sector, and ensuring competition, the fund said, adding that the trade and investment remain restrictive.
The fund's recommendations chime with the criticisms that the Trump administration has leveled at Beijing in the course of the current trade dispute. - Bloomberg


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Question: Arrested Tennessee reporter wins stay of deportation

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An appeals board has ordered a stay of deportation for a Spanish-language news outlet reporter who was arrested in Tennessee during a demonstration.
The Commercial Appeal reports a lawyer for 42-year-old Manuel Duran said he won the stay of deportation but still faces months in immigration detention while an appeal is pending.
Attorney Jeremy Jong said federal authorities had planned to deport Duran to El Salvador on Wednesday, but the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia, ordered a stay on Tuesday. Jong said he spoke with Duran and said he is excited and happy.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan D. Cox confirmed the stay but said the underlying immigration case wasn’t addressed.
Duran’s lawyers have said he came to the U.S. after receiving death threats related to reporting on corruption in El Salvador.
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Convicted coast physician Dr. Albert Diaz was back in court seeking to become a free man before his sentencing in May.


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Question: What are the last Christmas posting dates for International Airmail?

While many of us are in constant touch electronically with friends and family, the old tradition of sending (and receiving) Christmas cards to far-flung places is one that we still hold dear.
But a physical letter’s journey is still subject to the delays caused by the huge distances between here and our far-away relatives and acquaintances.
So, it’s best to get your cards and presents in the post good and early, to avoid disappointment.
And Royal Mail has published its recommended latest Christmas posting dates for air mail.
Post to the Middle East and Africa should be dispatched by Saturday, December 2, while cards or gifts to Australia or New Zealand should be mailed by Saturday, December 9.
The last recommended posting date for the United States and Canada is December 14, while cards and presents to Denmark, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland can be posted up to Friday, December 15.
Closest to home, letters and parcels going to the The Republic of Ireland and France have a final sending date of Saturday, December 16 if they’re to arrive in time for Christmas.
These last posting dates apply to both standard international services and those which have tracking and signature.

Dates to remember if you want your stuff to arrive BEFORE Christmas day.
US Postal Service
Dec 15 – Deadline for Standard Mail shipments…
Dec 20 – Deadline for First Class Mail and Priority Mail shipments.
Dec 23 – Deadline for Priority Express Mail shipments.
Fed-EX
Dec 15 – Deadline for FedEx Ground shipments.
Dec 18 – Deadline for FedEx Home Delivery shipments.
UPS
Dec 18 – Deadline for UPS 3 Day Select shipments (delivery on Dec 22).
Dec 20 – Deadline for UPS 2nd Day Air shipments (delivery on Dec 22).
NOTE: Christmas falls on a Monday this year , and many carriers do not deliver on weekends. Therefore, the final day to order items and get them in time for Christmas is earlier this year compared to typical years.
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Question: Did Texas A&M make a mistake jumping from the Big 12 to the SEC?

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Looking back, did Texas A&M make a mistake going to the SEC? Wouldn't they have been more competitive in the Big 12 these last few years?
Tim Cowlishaw: I have always thought A&M overreacted, but I can't really blame the school and its people from overreacting after Texas got the Longhorn Network and just continued to bully the league around. That network was going to make more money for UT, but it was never going to be the recruiting tool that schools feared. Regardless, A&M makes a lot of money and gets new exposure by being in the SEC. It could be that they only win the SEC West in football once every 20 years, which is the thing that matters most to Aggies. But they hired Jimbo Fisher to see if they can do a little better than that.
Matt Mosley: The excitement over the SEC helped Sam Torn spearhead a $450 million renovation to Kyle Field. It got the Aggies out from under the Horns' shadow that DeLoss liked to cast. I think the fanbase has loved it. They now have spent enormous money on one of the few coaches out there who has a national title in Jimbo. I don't think you'll find many Aggies who think it was a mistake. The Big 12 doesn't really have the cachet of the SEC, and that's not going to change. The Ags are very happy. The alums seem happy. If they ever win something, it will go to another level.
Adam Grosbard: Maybe short-term it would have been a better fit to stay in the Big 12, but it's not like A&M sacrificed guaranteed Big 12 titles to go to the SEC. Long-term, the SEC was far and away the better option for A&M. No one is wondering about the SEC's long-term viability, or if someone is going to poach teams away. A&M got much more long-term security with the move and was very forward-thinking compared to the other Big 12 schools who stayed pat during the last round of realignment.
Ben Baby: I definitely understand both sides of this very expensive coin. A&M definitely would have been more competitive in the Big 12 during the Manziel era had the Aggies stayed. However, the longer the Aggies stayed in the SEC, they started building their team differently and changed its style of play to look less like a Big 12 team and more like an SEC squad.

Coming off of the bye week, Lauren Sisler and Kevin Scarbinsky discuss Auburn's upcoming trip to College Station to face off against Texas A&M.


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Question: WATCH: Yuvraj Singh showcases his 'super powers' in front of Virat Kohli ahead of India-Bangladesh match

New Delhi: As India take on Bangladesh in second semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy, all eyes would be on veteran left-hander Yuvraj Singh, who will be playing his 300th ODI match on Thursday.
The southpaw, who made his debut in the same tournament in 2000, remains to be a vital cog in Men in Blue's batting line-up.
Ahead of the second semi-final match against The Bangla Tigers, Yuvraj posted a video on social media showcasing his supernatural skills.
Watch the video here which was recorded by Indian skipper Virat Kohli:
Speaking on the eve of his side's semi-final clash against Bangladesh at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Yuvraj said that he is not focussing on his 300th game and just looking forward to guide his side to the finals.
"It is a big achievement for me. I am not going to do anything special. I think the team is much more important than my 300th game. We are focussing on our semi-final. I think Bangladesh have been doing really well in the tournament. We want to contribute towards our plans. We have to win this match at any cost. I am not focussing on my 300th game," he said.
Reflecting on his numerous comebacks, Yuvraj admitted that although it is not difficult to play for India, sustaining is tough. He further said that his "never giving it up" attitude is his biggest attribute."
To play for India is not that difficult, but to sustain in it is tough. I think the biggest quality in me would be never to give up. Keep pushing no matter what obstacles come in your life. That is what I can give to the younger guys: never back down, always keep on working the same way whether you are having a good time or a bad time, be consistent and be persistent. Focus on the process of the game," Yuvraj pointed out.
(With ANI inputs)

India qualified for the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 semi-final after beating South Africa by eight wickets on June 11. The pressure of playing Bangladesh in the second semi-final, on June 15, doesn't seem to have got to the players as they look pretty relaxed. Recently, the official Instagram page of the Indian cricket team uploaded a photo MS Dhoni with his wife Sakshi and daughter Ziva. The former Indian captain took some time out before the semi-final to spend time with his family. Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan had also uploaded photos on social media their practice sessions at Birmingham.
While Dhoni is playing his part of an experienced campaigner in the Indian team, daughter Ziva is displaying her music skills. Sakshi Dhoni uploaded a video of Ziva where she can be seen trying to play the piano.
A post shared by Sakshi (@sakshisingh_r) on Jun 14, 2017 at 11:40am PDT
The Men in Blue take on Bangladesh in the second semi-final at Edgbaston. Bangladesh who advanced to the semi-final rather dramatically will look to cash-in on the opportunity.
MS Dhoni who did not get a chance to bat against South Africa, scored a fantastic knock of 63 runs in 52 balls. All eyes will be on the experienced campaigners, Dhoni and Yuvraj, along with the Indian batsmen who are good form and go past Bangladesh to set up a finals clash with arch-rivals Pakistan who defeated England in first semi-final.


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Question: Man To Plead Guilty To Buying Weapons Used In San Bernardino Attack

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Enrique Marquez Jr., 25, of Riverside, Calif., is accused of purchasing the assault rifles used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, and has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges.
Benjamin Gottlieb of member station KCRW tells our Newscast unit:
In his plea, Marquez admits that his friend, Syed Rizwan Farook, paid him for the assault rifles used to kill 14 people and injure 22 others in December of 2015. That's when Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a holiday party of Farook's coworkers at the Inland Regional Center. Marquez also admits he conspired with Farook in 2011 and 2012 to attack Riverside City College (RCC) — as well as commuter traffic on a major freeway in Southern California. Those plans never materialized.
U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said, "While his earlier plans to attack a school and a freeway were not executed, the planning clearly laid the foundation for the 2015 attack on the Inland Regional Center."
Prosecutors say there is no evidence that Marquez participated in the San Bernardino attack or had advance knowledge about it.
He did acknowledge that he was a "straw buyer" when he purchased two high-powered rifles used in the San Bernardino attack.
According to a Justice Department statement:
"Straw purchasers are criminals who are the beginning of the chain of violence in our country," said ATF Special Agent in Charge Eric D. Harden. "It is purchases like Marquez's that led to the terror on that tragic day in San Bernardino. The crime goes beyond making a false statement on a government form. It puts guns in the hands of criminals who will victimize the community. In this case, the straw purchase is as reprehensible as the attack."
Mandy Pifer, whose boyfriend Shannon Johnson was killed in the terror attack, told The Associated Press that Marquez's plea agreement brought mixed emotions:
"It's a hell of a day to come out, Valentine's Day," the 42-year-old Los Angeles resident said. "I'm relieved that it won't be a long trial. If it'll be finished sooner, I'm all for it." She said she planned to speak at Marquez's sentencing about the impact her boyfriend's killing has had on her. In his last moments, Johnson huddled with a colleague under a table, shielding her from the bullets. "It is what it is," she said. "Nothing's going to bring him back."
Marquez is expected to formally enter his guilty pleas Thursday morning.
He has been in custody since he was ordered detained at his initial court appearance in this case on Dec. 17, 2015.
Marquez faces up to 25 years in federal prison.

Good morning, here are our early stories:
-- Iran's Foreign Minister: Renegotiating Nuclear Deal Would Damage U.S. Credibility.
-- Border Patrol Agent Acquitted In 2012 Fatal Shooting Of Mexican Teen.
-- Prince's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Hospital, Pharmacy Chain.
-- Facebook Updates Community Standards, Expands Appeals Process.
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Report: Confirmation Hearing To Be Delayed For V.A. Nominee. (Washington Post)
Suit Filed Against New Indiana Abortion Law. (Indianapolis Business Journal)
Government Seeks E-Coli Source In Contaminated Lettuce. (Washington Post)
Despite Government Action, Nicaragua Protests Continue. (Los Angeles Times)
New Afghanistan Attacks Leave 9 Dead. (RFE/RL)
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Question: Mushroom hunter finds human skeletal remains in rural Ohio

MCCONNELSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are working to identify human skeletal remains found by a man searching for mushrooms in a wooded area of rural southeastern Ohio.
The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office says the mushroom hunter found the bones Saturday in a recreation area near a campsite east of McConnelsville, roughly 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Columbus.
The sheriff’s office said the Licking County coroner’s office would conduct an autopsy and try to help identify the remains.
The sheriff’s office also says personal items were found with the remains, but authorities aren’t releasing details about those.

A 21-year-old North Carolina man suffered severe burns after falling into a hot spring Tuesday in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.


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Question: Sunday Holiday Box Office: 30 Days Kerala Collections

Sunday Holiday, the family entertainer which was released on 13th July 2017 has already earned the superhit status in Kerala. The movie, which features Asif Ali and Aparna Balamurali in the lead roles, is directed by Jis Joy.
When it completed the first 30 days at the Kerala box office, Sunday Holiday has successfully entered the 14-Crore club. The Asif Ali movie has made a total gross collection of 14.27 Crores from the Kerala releasing centres.
It is a highly impressive collection for a film, which was made with a medium budget and released without much huge pre-release hype. The word of mouth publicity has immensely helped Sunday Holiday, in reaching the audiences.
Sunday Holiday had made a strictly average opening at the Kerala box office, by collecting Rs. 1.27 Crores within the first two days. The movie had crossed the 7-Crore mark within the first 10 days, and 13-Crore mark, within the first 25 days.
Alencier Ley Lopez and Sruthi Ramachandran has essayed the other pivotal roles in Sunday Holiday, which is produced by Maqtro Productions. The outside Indian box office collection report of the Asif Ali movie is expected to be revealed soon.

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अहमदाबाद। पहले चरण के मतदान के बाद गुजरात में चुनावी प्रचार तेज हो गया है। सोमवार को पीएम मोदी ने पाटन की चुनावी रैली के दौरान कांग्रेस पर हमला बोला।
पीएम मोदी ने रैली के दौरान कहा कि पहले चरण में कांग्रेस की हार तय है, इसलिए वे इवीएम का बहाना लेकर आरोप लगा रहे हैं। इसके अलावा उन्होंने गुजरात के गांवों में जाकर लोगों के बीच बच्चों की शिक्षा के प्रति जागरुकता जगाने की बात कही। साथ ही कांग्रेस की कमियों की ओर भी इशारा किया।
पीएम ने कहा, जब हम किसानों के पास गए, कृषि महोत्‍सव किया, हम अमीरों की मदद के लिए नहीं गए थे। हम गरीबों के बीच गए। दुखद है कि कांग्रेस नेताओं का जन्‍म सोने के चम्‍मच के साथ हुआ है, इसलिए वे कभी नहीं समझ पाएंगे कि गरीबी क्‍या है।
When we went to the farmers, did Krishi Mahotsav, we did not go out helping the rich. We went among the poor. Sadly, Congress leaders born with golden spoons will never understand what poverty is: PM Narendra Modi in Patan #GujaratElection2017 pic.twitter.com/6qW7yoOAAz
During peak summer, I would go to the villages of Gujarat and ask parents to educate their children. Whose children were they? Were they Ambani's children? No. They were children of the poor. We are working for poor: PM Narendra Modi in Patan #GujaratElection2017 pic.twitter.com/4P2K3QoY8y
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Coast Guard officials say a terminal at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina has been evacuated because of a claim about a threat aboard a ship.
Coast Guard Sector Charleston commander Capt. Greg Stump tells WCIV-TV (http://bit.ly/2s32DGI) that employees were evacuated Wednesday night and a portion of the Cooper River has been closed.
Stump says a YouTube conspiracy theorist reported a suspected threat aboard a container ship in the port. He says authorities are investigating out of caution.

(WSPA) – President Trump is scheduled to speak about the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
The deaths of three people are linked to the protests.
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Question: This doctor just explained late-term abortion - on Twitter

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The Senate rejected a ban on late-term abortions late Monday. It was an unsurprising outcome, but such a ban is a big priority for anti-abortion-rights politicians in Congress.
The bill would have banned all abortions after 20 weeks on the grounds that the fetus would feel pain and suffer during the procedure.
Abortion is legal in the U.S. and protected as a right to privacy. But why would any woman want such a late-term abortion, anyway? And can a fetus really feel pain?
Dr. Daniel Grossman of the University of California San Francisco boiled it down to a series of tweets.
“Research has shown a fetus does not yet have the capacity to experience pain until at least the third trimester, and unlikely until birth,” he said in one tweet addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican.
.@SenateMajLdr, you noted that “fetal pain” is your main reason for banning abortion at 20 weeks, and I’d like to take the opportunity to share some evidence-based medical information on this with you, as well. https://t.co/PsoxO8nrsj — Dr. Daniel Grossman (@DrDGrossman) January 26, 2018
“This has become such a highly politicized topic that the facts really get lost,” Grossman told NBC News.
Scientific studies indicate it’s not biologically possible for a fetus to feel pain, he said.
“The nerve fibers that connect the pain receptors to the cerebral cortex, where they would be able to perceive the pain, those fibers aren’t even present until the third trimester of pregnancy – after 26 or 28 weeks,” he said.
Related: Ireland weighs change in abortion laws
“So the connections just aren’t there. All the best evidence by researchers in this area indicate that if the fetus can feel pain at all while in the womb, it’s really later, in the third trimester,” he added.
“There is some data to suggest that the fetus is kind of in a semi-anesthesized state throughout all of the pregnancy and that all of the perceptions are blunted.”
Women seek abortions after 20 weeks for many reasons, Grossman said, including a late diagnosis of a severe fetal abnormality that means it would not survive after birth, or be in severe pain.
Women may also need an abortion to save their lives. “Sometimes the patient may develop complications of the pregnancy and the treatment is delivery and when that is at 20 or 21 weeks, that means terminating the pregnancy,” Grossman said.
Related: Trump decision to protect anti-abortion doctors draws criticism
“I really feel like it’s important for policymakers, legislators, to use the best available scientific evidence when they are making policy related to health. I also think it’s important for them to listen to the patients that are affected by this healthcare and neither of those things were done related to this recent bill.”
Similar to the fight to pass the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, it’s only a matter of time until we secure the votes to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 29, 2018
And, Grossman asserted, state laws aimed at protecting unborn babies are in fact forcing women to have later and later abortions.
“It’s also important to recognize that women have to jump through more and more hoops to access abortion care here in the U.S. even though it’s still legal. And those obstacles that are put in their way are creating delays before they can access care,” he said.
Restrictive laws in Texas, for example, led to clinic closures that meant longer waits for abortions. “There was a 27 percent increase in second-trimester abortions,” he said.

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They are demagoguing the situation. All children are separated from their parents when they go to jail. Barack Obama did the same thing.
“I cannot think of an act that is more cruel [sic] and more inhumane than to rip the child from the arms of the mother,” said Democrat and open borders activist Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez.
If you perform a search on google, you get the fake talking points:
Kamala Harris said that “There is no law that requires ripping these babies from their families. The president should pick up the phone and end this human rights abuse right now.”
One thinks of Nazi concentration camps thanks to their verbiage and that is what the left wants you to envision. Actor James Woods issued the final statement on it with a retweet of babies truly being ripped from their mothers. It’s a photo of tiny babies being aborted and thrown in a dumpster.
Is that who we are now?
Look at the photo Woods cc’d to Kamala if you dare:
It’s useless getting through to the stalwart leftists in the Democrat Party, but what about you? Should there be some restrictions of abortion? Right now, Roe v. Wade allows abortion until the moment of birth for any reason. It is something to think about.


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Question: Jon Rothstein On NBA Draft: ‘[Many] Guards Who Can Make Major Impact’

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The NBA Draft, the first big event of the offseason, is Thursday, June 22. Top prospects are tantalizingly close to realizing their dreams, or at least taking that next step toward NBA relevance. Lesser prospects may find themselves passed over in those 60 picks spread over two rounds.
As basketball fans put themselves in the minds of NBA executives, who better to talk about the upcoming draft than Jon Rothstein, CBS Sports Network college basketball insider? Jon shared his opinions about what to expect next week in the NBA Draft and going forward into the 2017-18 NBA season.
CBS Sports Network’s NBA Draft coverage continues with re-airings of recent shows this week and three new shows on Tuesday, June 20.
Some of the most impressive and NBA-ready prospects are coming out of the college game. Is college basketball at an all-time high talent-wise? What effect are one-and-done prospects having on the game?
When it’s mandatory that kids have to go to college for at least a year, it galvanizes college basketball. It allows people, when they’re getting ready for the season, to put guys in bold print who can have a major impact. But we’ve seen very few teams win national titles with one-and-done players. Kentucky did it in 2012 with Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Duke did it in 2015 with Justise Winslow, Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones. But look at some of the other teams that have won national championships: Louisville was a veteran team in 2013; [in] 2014, Connecticut was a veteran team and [in] ‘16 and ‘17, Villanova and North Carolina were veteran teams. So there’s a good balance right now in college basketball.
Is this draft as elite as everybody predicts?
The one thing that this NBA Draft has is an abundance of guards who can make a major impact at the NBA level. When you look right now at the NBA, it’s being dominated by guys who can have an impact at the lead guard position. You’ve seen it throughout the NBA more and more over the past decade.
Since there’s so many of those guys available who have the potential to be stars at the next level, that’s why the buzz is what it is about in the 2017 draft. You’ve got the star power at the top and then a couple other guys involved who can be really, really interesting.
Point guards Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball, De’Aaron Fox, Dennis Smith Jr. and Frank Ntilikina should all go top 10 this year. After watching them all year, what’s your opinion on their talent?
One thing you have to look at when discussing the point guards in this draft is that they’re almost like different types of sports cars. How does somebody decide whether they want a Lamborghini instead of a Porsche? A BMW or Jaguar?
When you look at Markelle Fultz, he’s a combo guard who can affect the game in a number of ways. He’s a combo scorer, a very good athlete. But a big concern about him is he didn’t play well enough to make his team a viable threat in the Pac-12. The argument is [that] that team would’ve been an NCAA tournament team if Dejounte Murray and Marquese Chriss went back to school. That altered what Washington could be. But, he’s more of a combo guard who can play both guard spots, similar to Dwyane Wade when he came out of Marquette.
Lonzo Ball is the ultimate table-setter in this draft. He’s can make everybody around him better at a higher level than anybody else in the draft. The example that I use is Bryce Alford. Alford was a really good player at UCLA during the first three years of his career, but averaged career highs in field-goal percentage and three-point percentage because he played with Ball. He single-handedly transcended that program.
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De’Aaron Fox is more of a speed guard, similar in mold to John Wall, except there are some different intricacies on offense. You love his ball security. He only committed two turnovers in the final 64 minutes that he played last season against UCLA and North Carolina. He only made 17 threes last season for Kentucky — that’s a concern. Shooting is the one thing that can be rectified at the NBA level.
When you look at Dennis Smith, you have to look at a guy who can be like a young Steve Francis coming out of Maryland. These four guys all have the ability to go into the NBA and anchor a lead guard position for 10 years.
As far as Frank Ntilikina, I would delay expectations. He’s more of an athlete right now than somebody who is going to blow you away. He can be more steady on offense and effective on defense.
Josh Jackson has received a lot of praise lately, projecting as high as the second pick in the draft. What stands out about his game, and what could he improve on?
Josh Jackson is an alpha dog who, right now, has the ability to have a great impact on the game by not demanding shots. When you look at it from a coaching perspective, the one thing you think about is shot distribution and whose hands the ball is in. Jackson, because of his intangibles last season, had the ability to impact the game without shooting. Thirteen games with 10 rebounds or more but, for somebody who people were concerned about in terms of his shooting ability, he really did a good job of making shots late in the season. They say he can’t shoot, but he shot just under 40 percent from three. In the NCAA Tournament alone, when you study the numbers, five of 13 from three? Not terrible.
Jonathan Isaac, Malik Monk and Jayson Tatum should all be called early. All three of them bring something different to the table, how do they project at the next level?
Jonathan Isaac had a really good impact defensively because of his speed and how he worked on ball screens. Some of the easy baskets he got in college he won’t necessarily get in the NBA. But he could evolve into a more consistent outside shooter. His body reminds you a bit of Rashard Lewis who had a good run in the NBA for a long time.
Malik Monk is a shooting guard trapped in a point guard’s body. He’s not a point guard, but he doesn’t have the size to be a two-guard in the NBA. One thing he can do is shoot the basketball at a high clip. He made over 100 threes last year, had 14 games with four or more made threes. If you’re projecting him at the next level, he has a chance to be a dynamite first guard off the bench.
Jayson Tatum is the guy that most resembles a Carmelo Anthony-caliber scorer in this draft. When you scouted him last year in the ACC, he was probably pound for pound the best player in that conference. He didn’t play with a true point guard, [so] there was nobody to set the table for him. When you look at Jayson Tatum, if you can put him with somebody who can get him shots, it could open up a whole ‘nother can of worms.
Front-court players are pretty thin this year. Which players stand out to you?
I felt all along that Zach Collins was underrated and the epitome of efficiency. If he played at Duke or Kentucky, he would be part of the vernacular of college basketball. Seven-foot, great hands, he had 10 [points], six [rebounds] and two [blocks] in only 17 minutes a game at 65 percent from the field. We saw what he could be in the final four from a production standpoint. That’s one person who comes to mind, though he’s got a ways to go defensively.
Also, the way Lauri Markkanen can shoot the ball puts him into a different stratosphere, because so much of the NBA right now is based on spacing and shooting. He was was a really good shooter last year; he made 69 threes. You’re looking at a guy who shot 42 percent from three. He can have a Ryan Anderson-type impact in the NBA.
If you could pick one player who would hit the ground running in the NBA, who would it be?
When you look at the ability to transcend teams and franchises, you have to look at Lonzo Ball as somebody who’s going to be an NBA star and a multi-year all-star. People forget that UCLA was a 15-17 team. And Lonzo went there and made UCLA the most entertaining team, the highest-scoring team and also the best-distributing team in college basketball. He’s one of the reasons why T.J. Leaf is in position to be a mid-first round pick. He has the ability to do for players what other point guards can’t.
If you had to name three sleepers for this year’s draft, who would they be?
One is going to be Terrance Ferguson because of the way he shoots the basketball. He’s somebody who has out-of-the-gym range. He could be in a different gym and make a shot, that’s how special he is in terms of shooting. He’s a straight bucket-getter, and he is a much more willing defender now. [He has] good length and has the ability to stretch the defense.
Semi Ojeleye has a major impact because of his physique and his ability to absorb contact. If you’re looking for a small-ball four man in the NBA, that’s Semi Ojeleye. I like that he can play different positions.
I’m really a fan of Derrick White from Colorado. He has great size, can handle the ball and has a great story. There’s still a lot of miles on the tank and a lot of room to grow in terms of his ceiling.
CBS Sports Network is airing six one-hour draft shows leading up to the NBA Draft on June 22, 2017. Draft coverage includes more analysis of the top prospects, along with breakdowns of players by position.
New shows will air Tuesday, June 20, starting at 7 p.m. ET.
Rahul Lal is an LA native stuck in a lifelong, love-hate relationship with the Lakers, Dodgers and Raiders. You can follow him on Twitter here.

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U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., praised President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, after meeting with him Monday (2/13/17). Enzi calling the nominee an admirable choice to be America’s next Supreme Court Justice.
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Growing up in southwestern Virginia in recent decades, poet Molly McCully Brown often passed by a state institution in Amherst County that was once known as the "Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded."
Since 1983 the facility, which was founded in 1910, has been called the Central Virginia Training Center, and it is now a residential home for people with various intellectual disabilities. But in the early 20th century, the place Brown now refers to as "the colony" was part of the eugenics movement taking hold in the U.S., and a variety of treatments now considered inhumane were practiced there — including forced sterilization. Brown, who has cerebral palsy, notes that had she been born in an earlier era, she might have been sent to live at the institution herself.
"It is impossible to know that for sure," she says. "I can look at my life and look at my family and look at my parents and think, No, never. That never would have happened. But I also understand that if I had been born 50 years earlier, the climate was very different."
She hopes to give voice to those early generations of residents, in her book of poetry, The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And Feebleminded.
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On seeing the buildings and grounds of the old facility
It was incredibly moving and incredibly powerful. The place is interesting because it is still an operational facility for adults with really serious disabilities, although it is in the process of closing. But like a lot of things in Virginia, it was initially built on an enormous amount of land. And, so, a really interesting thing happened, which is that as the buildings that were originally part of the colony fell into disrepair, they were largely just moved out of — and new buildings were built on accompanying land, but those original buildings were not necessarily torn down. So the place itself is this really strange combination of functioning facility and ghost town of everything that it has been. I've never been in a place that felt more acutely haunted in my life.
On how some people assume her physical disability means she also has an intellectual disability
We do have a strange tendency in this country to equate any kind of disability with less intellectual capability and with even a less complete humanity. Certainly as a child and as a teenager — and even now as an adult — [I] encountered people who assumed that just because I used a wheelchair, maybe I couldn't even speak to them. I often get questions directed at people I'm with, as opposed to me, and that's a really interesting phenomenon.
On the connection between poetry and theology
Both poetry and theology for me are about paying attention to the world in a very intentional way, and about admitting a mystery that is bigger than anything that I rationally understand. ... I think poetry has always been for me a kind of prayer. So those things feel very linked for me. And, again, poetry does feel like the first — and in some ways best — language I ever had for mystery and for my sense of what exists beyond the world we're currently living in.
On how Catholicism has helped her accept her body
One of the things that I find so moving about Catholicism is that it never forgets that to be a person is inherently and inescapably and necessarily to be in a body — a body that brings you pain, a body that brings you pleasure, a body that can be a barrier to thinking more completely about your life and your soul — but [that it] can also be a vehicle to delivering you into better communion with the world, with other people and to whatever divinity it is that you believe in.
What Catholicism did for me, in part, is give me a framework in which to understand my body as not an accident or a punishment or a mistake, but as the body that I am meant to have and that is constitutive of so much of who I am and what I've done and what I hope I will do in the world.
More and more ... I've come to see my body as a place of pride and potential, and as something that gives me a unique outlook onto the world. And I'd rather that, I guess, than be infuriated by it.
On her twin sister, who died shortly after birth
She lived about 36 hours after we were born. ... It's a phenomenon in my life that I have not a lot of rational explanation for, ... but it is true that I miss my sister with a kind of intense specificity that has no rational explanation, and that I feel aware of her presence in this way that I can't exactly explain or articulate, but which feels undeniable to me. ...
I do think that that sort of gave me no other option than to believe in some kind of something beyond this current mortal life that we're living. Because what is the explanation otherwise for the fact that I feel like I miss and I know this person who only lived a matter of hours? And for the fact as much as I know that she is dead and is gone in a real way, she doesn't feel "disappeared" to me.
On how her physical disability and her poetry are intertwined
I think the easiest way I have of describing it is I have two [early] memories. ... One of them is of sitting on a table in a hospital room in the children's hospital in St. Louis, choosing the flavor of the anesthetic gas I was going to breathe when they put me under to do my first major surgery. I was picking between cherry and butterscotch and grape. And the second memory that I have is of my father reading a Robert Hayden poem called "Those Winter Sundays."
Roberta Shorrock and Therese Madden produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Deborah Franklin adapted it for the Web.


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Question: When it comes to basketball courts in St. Louis, not every park is fair game

Jeffrey Perry doesn’t mind having to leave his St. Louis neighborhood to shoot some hoops with friends.
“It’s not the hoop, it’s the company,” Perry said as he and Calvin Lonzo played a little one-on-one in Fox Park recently. But he remembers when he didn’t have to go as far away from his home in Shaw to find a court in a public park.
“They took out Tower Grove, then they took out Lafayette, and then they took Compton Hill,” he said.
Rachel Lippmann reports on the often racially-tinged debate over public hoops in St. Louis.
About a quarter of the city’s 109 parks have hoops — only one is south of Tower Grove Park. Their location has been the source of a long-running, and some say racially motivated, controversy, which former 21st Ward Alderman Antonio French tried to help quell last year when he introduced legislation to install four courts in Forest Park, the city’s largest.
“Many people have interpreted the lack of basketball courts as an unwelcome sign, as a signal that the group that that sport most appeals to is not welcome or encouraged to come to the park,” French said in a YouTube video he posted in September. French did not return requests for comment, and the Board of Aldermen wrapped up the 2016-2017 session Monday without taking any action on the bill.
Decisions about installing any kind of amenity in a city park, including basketball hoops, requires an agreement between the city’s Parks Department and a ward’s alderman. Removing amenities happens if an elected official asks for it.
There’s a pattern when it comes to basketball courts in St. Louis: As a neighborhood begins to gentrify, complaints start coming in to aldermen about cussing and drinking. That’s what happened in 1997, when then-Mayor Clarence Harmon removed the basketball hoops from Lafayette Park at the request of 6th Ward Alderman Marit Clark. She told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she “wanted the basketball players to behave in such a way that families feel comfortable coming to Lafayette Park.”
The most recent example is Tilles Park in southwest St. Louis. In 2014, neighbors began circulating a petition to get the hoops removed, saying foul language was bothering kids trying to play on the playground. Alderman Joe Vaccaro, D-23rd Ward, found a compromise: Using money from a bond issue, he moved the court up the hill and away from the playground.
“Had the language stayed there, and the money not been available, it’s more than a good chance that we probably would have taken them out,” Vaccaro said.
But he fiercely rejected the idea that it was racially motivated.
“What it is is a certain age group that likes to play, in their teens and 20s, it’s M-F this, and M-F that, and you whatever, and this and that. The language is just foul,” Vaccaro said. “I don’t think anyone has ever sent me any email telling me that, ‘Gee, we have a certain group of people playing basketball and I just don’t want to see them.’”
Race and basketball
French isn’t the only person who sees racism in where the hoops are and aren’t.
There’s been a basketball net in the parking lot of Compton Heights Baptist Church since the late 1980s. Pastor Wendell Sapp said he’d never stopped to consider why the portable hoop was so popular, even though his church is about a mile from Tower Grove Park.
“I think it probably has to do with the fact that a basketball goal attracts a number of 14- to 30-year-old black males,” Sapp said. “And I just don’t think that parks are necessarily looking for something that attracts that particular crowd.”
Sapp said he’ll occasionally take the hoop down if players don’t pick up their trash, or get too loud for the neighbors. He said if complaints got really bad, he’d only bring it out if someone was around to supervise, but he’d never remove it permanently.
Michael Bierman and his 8-year-old son, Benny, may use Sapp’s hoop soon. A few weeks ago, Benny wanted to practice his skills.
“So we came home, got our ball, and then just sort of paused and thought, ‘Well, wait a minute, where are the courts in Tower Grove Park?’ and realized there weren’t any,” Bierman said. “I don’t know why there aren’t courts, but it seems to be racism to me.”
The city removed the hoops from the park in the late 1990s because the asphalt court had crumbled beyond repair, Tower Grove Park Development Director Brigid Flynn said. But they could come back, because the park is working on a new master plan.
Perry, who was using Fox Park’s court, hopes that happens.
“Well, I guess people will be concerned, but we live in a diversity neighborhood, you know, and they have the tennis courts, have the walkers, the jogger, the dog walkers, Peeping Toms, whatever. I think they should at least consider it,” he said.
Vaccaro wants his colleagues to do more than simply consider adding hoops, and plans to introduce legislation soon that would require more courts in more parks.
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Brown County’s student/athletes who compete in some sports have been at a disadvantage over the years, lacking local facilities to foster their development of skills for the sports in which they compete. Many local parents of student/athletes who compete in outdoor sports such as soccer and baseball have experienced how much cost, time and travel is involved during the offseason to attend practices at indoor facilities and compete in indoor competitions during the late fall, winter, and early spring.
Local Jeff Gorman is one of those many parents to go through this experience after years of trips to sporting events and practices with his daughter, Courtney Gorman, who competed in soccer from elementary school through high school and is now a freshman at Wilmington College. His daughter is among the local soccer players who have been involved with select soccer programs in the Cincinnati area such as the Beechmont Soccer Club.
“All of these rural kids are traveling to the Cincinnati area and sometimes out of state, and this gives them somewhere close where they can train or compete,” said Jeff Gorman. “This is an easy place to get to and it’s something we really needed in this area.”
The idea of having a local indoor sports facility large enough to hold arena style soccer games with other additions for hosting other types of sports training and events has been on the minds of Jeff Gorman and his father Ray Gorman for several years, and their vision has now become a reality.
In its final phases of construction, the new facility, dubbed the Mt. Orab Sports Complex, could be open for service as soon a mid-November.
Taking part in the construction of the new sports complex, located on Day Road in Mt. Orab, are Gorman Home Builders and Diverse Building Solutions, while the Mt. Orab Port Authority played a huge role in getting the ball rolling on the project.
The sports complex is sponsored by the Mt. Orab Port Authority, according to Ray Gorman. It was Mt. Orab Mayor Bruce Lunsford who also helped get the project moving forward by setting the Gormans up with the Mt. Orab Port Authority.
Inside the massive building will be approximately 22,000 square feet of astroturf and is well over 29,000 in total. Not only can the facility be used for indoor soccer leagues and possibly football practices or arena-style leagues, but it will also have a volleyball training area and a line of batting cages.
No need for event spectators to bring along food, as there will be a concessions stand serving a variety of food.
The building can also be used for non-sporting events such as weddings, receptions, and parties.
On Tuesday morning construction crews hung the insulation inside the facility, and excitement continues to grow as completion draws near.
“I’m losing sleep over it,” said Ray Gorman, as he watched construction crews work inside the facility on Tuesday. “We’re very excited.”
The project has not been easy. Just obtaining the necessary permits to construct the new facility was a lengthy endeavor, not to mention the construction work that has been involved with the massive building.
Before the new complex is open for business, an athletic director needs to be hired, according to the Gormans.
There are also future plans for outdoor athletic fields around the new Mt. Orab Sports Complex.