Townhall.com:
Despite mounting pressure from lawmakers and the public, President Obama on Saturday said that he would not cave on the issue of imposing travel bans on West African nations.
“We can’t just cut ourselves off from West Africa,” he said in his weekly radio address. “Trying to seal off an entire region of the world—if that were even possible, could actually make the situation worse.”
If that were true, then why has nearly every African nation—plus
a number of other countries (and airlines) around the world—imposed a
ban or significant restrictions on the Ebola-stricken countries in West
Africa? It’s simple: quarantines work. As Ann Coulter noted
in her column this week, “It’s becoming increasingly clear that this is
just another platform for Obama to demonstrate that we are citizens of
the world.”
Indeed. Our commander in chief has even sent thousands of U.S. troops with only four hours of training
to West Africa to combat the virus. The safety and security of
Americans has clearly taken a backseat to wellbeing of those overseas.
And if all this weren’t enough, a conservative watchdog group is out with a shocking new report that claims the administration is looking to bring Ebola-infected foreigners to the U.S. for treatment. Yes, you read that correctly.
Judicial
Watch has learned that the Obama administration is actively formulating
plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States
for treatment. Specifically, the goal of the administration is to bring
Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first
days of diagnosis.
It is unclear who would bear the high costs
of transporting and treating non-citizen Ebola patients. The plans
include special waivers of laws and regulations that ban the admission
of non-citizens with a communicable disease as dangerous as Ebola.
One
source tells us that the Obama administration is keeping this plan
secret from Congress. The source is concerned that the proposal is
illegal; endangers the public health and welfare; and should require the
approval of Congress.
If this plan comes to
fruition, the public outcry will be deafening. The fact that the cost
of this would undoubtedly fall on the backs of taxpayers is one thing,
the negligence it would show for the American people is quite another.
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FoxNews.com:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage reversed state bureaucrats and vowed to defy a
state Supreme Court court ruling if necessary to back a teen mom
seeking to lift a "Do Not Resuscitate" order from her one-year-old baby,
who was allegedly shaken into a coma but miraculously recovered.
The family of 1-year-old Aleah Peaslee, who was left in a coma and
with possible brain damage last December after allegedly being abused by
her 21-year-old father, signed a DNR order after being told her brain
damage was severe. But when the tot unexpectedly regained consciousness
not long after being placed in the arms of her mother, Virginia Trask,
the family sought to rescind the order. State child welfare officials,
who had taken temporary custody of the baby due to alleged abuse,
refused, convincing an Augusta District Court judge that “neither parent
can be counted on to be physically or emotionally available to make the
necessary informed decision when needed.”
Now, Trask's legal team that includes advocacy groups is preparing
for an appeal before nytthe Maine Supreme Judicial Court, with oral
arguments set for Sept. 23. And they may not be able to lose, after
LePage told FoxNews.com he will not allow state child welfare officials
to usurp a parent’s rights regardless of what either court says.\
“This case is disturbing and is not reflective of my administration’s
position that a parent who is the legal guardian of their child should
have final say in medical decisions about life-sustaining treatment,”
said LePage.
“The existing law violates the sanctity of parental rights,
and I cannot support it. Unless a parent is deemed unfit and parental
rights are severed, the state should not override a parent’s right to
make medical decisions for their own child.”
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Breitbart.com:
The Washington Post reports
that a highly definitive study from 2013 has pegged the size of the gay
population in the United States at far less than has sometimes been
estimated.
The National Health Interview Survey
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the federal
government’s most relied upon estimate of the nation’s health and
behaviors, found that fewer than 3% of respondents self-identified as
gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Only 1.6% of respondents self-identified as
gay or lesbian, and even less, 0.7%, self-identified as bisexual.
The estimate of the percentage of bisexuals was lower than the 2008
General Social Survey, which estimated that number at 1.1 percent, while
other surveys have intimated that the percentage of bisexuals is the
same as gays.
Conversely, 96.6% self-identified as straight, while 1.1% answered,
“I don’t know the answer” or stated they were “something else.”
Gary J. Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute, a research
center at the University of California at Los Angeles that studies the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population, acknowledged,
“This is a major step forward in trying to remedy some of these gaps in
our understanding of the role sexual orientation and gender identity
play in people’s health and in their lives.”
The study was first done in 1957; the Census Bureau conducts it and
sends the data to the CDC. It is widely considered highly reliable; the
2013 survey interviewed 33,557 adults between the ages of 18 and 64
using face-to-face interviews with additional telephone questions. The
questions ranged from medical care and vaccinations to tobacco use.
Government health officials champion the NHIS survey because the
population studied is so large.
Brian W. Ward, the researcher for the report, said some of the other findings included:
- Gays were more likely to smoke or have five or more drinks in one day than straights.
- More straight women considered themselves in excellent or very good health than lesbians did of themselves.
- More gays were likely to have had a flu shot than straights; gay men were not as overweight as straight men.
- Bisexuals were more likely to have suffered psychological distress in the last month than straights.
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