A new undercover report by Live Action shows that Kermit Gosnell is not the only abortion doctor willing to let a live baby die after a botched abortion.

LiveAction.org's "Inhuman Investigation" shows the brutality and inhumanity of abortion in America.  

And the atrocities aren't committed by a few fanatics.  Planned Parenthood argues for the right to kill babies through all nine months of pregnancy.  

Wake up America!  The mainstream media's avoidance of the Gosnell trial has been intentional.  They don't want women to understand what abortion really does to both mother and child.  Many people, when they understand the gruesome reality, become advocates for life. 

Last week, Chris Crane, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)  Officer and President of the National ICE Council (representing our nation's ICE officers and agents) testified concerning the senate immigration bill.

His remarks last five minutes and give significant information about our immigration situation. 

Some in the senate hope to rush the bill through before the American people know what is in it, but Officer Crane has serious reservations about the bill.  Eleven of his concerns are listed below.

1. This legislation guarantees legal status for millions of  illegal immigrants, nothing more.  
2. It does not begin to solve our nation’s immigration problems.
3. It does not guarantee stronger enforcement on our nation’s interior or its borders.
4. It ignores the problems that caused our current system to fail.
5. Americans were denied the ability to effectively study the bill and give input.
6. The legislation was crafted behind closed doors with the input of big business, unions, hispanic activist groups, and groups that will make millions from this legislation.
7. Anyone with a different view of immigration reform was prohibited from giving input.
8. American citizens working as law enforcement officers within our nation’s broken immigration system were purposefully excluded from the process and prohibited from providing input.
9. Since 2008, President Obama has ignored many of the immigration laws enacted by Congress. Obama and his agencies apply The Dream Act to jail inmates who commit felonies, assault officers, and prey on children.
10. The bill gives far great control to the United States President and the Department of Homeland Security, who have consistently refused to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
11. Aliens are already engaged in sophisticated  illegal activities that make this system obsolete.
    

Couldn't let Autism Awareness Month pass without sharing this sweet video of a young girl expressing her love and feelings about her autistic brother.

Everyone deserves to be loved and valued, even when they are different from us.  

The more we learn about autism, the more we can teach our children, the less bullying of innocent children there will be, and the more understanding and love we can share. 


 

In his remarks at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, President Bush declared:

"...The purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition. Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves. The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold."

In this inspiring speech, President Bush talks about the convictions he holds dear.  

(You may want to skip to 5:08 if you don't have time to listen to all of the acknowledgements.)

Laura Bush's remarks are below.  Always gracious and refined, she continues to be an inspiration to millions of Americans.

"The new American dream is not owning a new home.  The new American dream is getting the kids out of the home you own."  

So started Mitt Romney's wonderful address to Southern Virginia University graduates at the 2013 commencement exercises.

Full of Mitt's optimism and wisdom, this is a great address!

"Launch out into the deep. Don't live in the shallows. Live in the deep waters. Grasp every ennobling experience that's available to you. Embrace every dimension of living that challenges you, that educates you, that elevates you. Live for purposes greater than yourself. Lose yourself in the service of others. Reach beyond the shallowness of selfishness, complacency and mindless conformity and of indulgence." ~Mitt Romney 

More than any other nation in history, the United States has made itself a new home for immigrants in search of a better life. It embraces those who come to this country honestly—often with nothing more than their work ethic—in search of the promises and opportunities of the American Dream.

As a second-generation American, I think of this promise often. Each and every day, when I see my grandfather’s Ellis Island records hanging on my wall, I remember what he went through to come to this country. I remember how he left behind all he had ever known in Hungary to escape discrimination and the destruction left in the wake of World War I; how he gave up everything so that he could offer his children and grandchildren the promise of freedom and opportunity in a new land.

His story is not unique. Since our nation’s founding, millions of immigrants have come to our shores with a similar dream, each bringing with them new experiences and pieces of their cultures that together form part of what makes this nation great.

Over the past several decades, however, immigration policy has become confused, unfocused, and dysfunctional. America lacks a simple system to attract the qualified immigrants who can help our economy and contribute to our nation. Millions of unlawfully present immigrants are undermining America’s core principle of the rule of law, while the legal naturalization process isn’t working as well as it should. Large-scale immigration without effective assimilation threatens social cohesion, along with America’s civic culture and common identity. This is particularly true when immigrants are assimilated into the welfare state rather than into a society of opportunity.

It is high time for an immigration policy that serves immigrants and citizens alike. As an important part of this, we must find ways to reform our legal immigration system to create a process that is truly fair, orderly, and efficient. Indeed, currently there are close to 4.5 million individuals waiting in line to come to this country legally—and some have been waiting for as long as 24 years.

These numbers make one thing clear: America needs meaningful immigration reform. It must, however, be done in a deliberative and thoughtful manner. It must also seek to uphold the rule of law, welcome individuals through a legal framework, and discourage future flows of unlawful immigrants.

By recognizing these facts and beginning to work on solutions where we can all agree, we can rebuild an immigration process in harmony with our highest principles and best traditions.

Jessica Zuckerman is a policy analyst who works on national security issues at The Heritage Foundation. Her grandfather, Joseph (Jeno) Zuckerman, came to the United States on the S.S. Rotterdam in 1921.

Need a smile?  Celeste and Sydney, Boston Marathon amputees, received a heartwarming visit from Marines who  suffered similar injuries.

Watch these awesome marines offer hope and encouragement to two incredible, courageous women.

Here are a few comments on the video:

"There are a million reasons why this is the most incredible kickass thing I have ever seen. If you are not swayed by this then you are missing the point of life. Listen to what that guy is saying -- he's lifting her up in a way only he can.  They go from devastated to feeling better- why is it so friggin hard for us to realize that this is what we're all supposed to be doing."


"Wow beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this, thanks to the Marines and all others like him who don't give up and spread their courage on, and lots of love and encouragement to Celeste and Sydney. I'm so sorry to you both and for what it is worth, I am rooting along with millions of others for you to be healthy and happy."


"It's incredible what humor and a strong will can do for someone. This video, I think, captures a lot of what I feel the nation is experiencing now. It threw us off, but we'll be all right. I'm angry as hell that such a beautiful woman and her daughter have had to experience this pain; but I'm relieved knowing that this marks a new phase in their lives. I wish them the best."


"Iraq vet here, makes me proud and honored to see wounded soldiers with such strong character, and lets face it... Probably a heck of a lot more love for life than I have. God bless them and these woman, all the victims, in recovering not just from the physical wounds, but from the emotional wounds as well.  As he said, this is the start, the new beginning."


"Amazing folks all of them. I am proud to be an American."

The Senate is moving closer to passing an Internet sales tax law, known as the Marketplace Fairness Act, despite rising opposition that includes Democratic Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Max Baucus (D-MT).

Here are 10 reasons for opposing an Internet sales tax, as the Senators state them in the video above:

1. It will hobble the Internet economy and constrain online commerce.

This will subject almost everything sold on the Internet to taxation, opening the door to harm consumers’ already tight budgets.

2. It forces small businesses to jump through new bureaucratic hoops.

Every time anyone buys something on the Internet, businesses will have to figure out where the purchasers are from and charge them the appropriate tax.

3. The bill erodes state sovereignty.

Four states, including Wyden’s Oregon and Baucus’s Montana, have chosen not to have sales taxes. This bill will require businesses in those states to collect sales tax even though they chose to live in a state without sales tax.

4. It is full of unintended consequences.

Many small business owners will have to lay off employees or significantly restructure their companies at great expense.

5. It will take the Internet down a dark path.

Internet-based firms, which do not consume the amount of local services as physical stores that require access to everything from roads to plumbing, will face massive new costs.

6. It forces small businesses to become tax collectors for other states.

A business in New Hampshire, a state without sales tax, could be commandeered by a state like California into collecting taxes for a government thousands of miles away.

7. It unleashes all the nation’s tax collectors on small businesses.

If a business in Texas is suspected of not complying with sales tax collection in New York, that business could face a paralyzing audit. Each state with a sales tax could potentially audit the same business, opening the door to upwards of 46 audits per year for an Internet business.

8. How does this bill create jobs? It doesn’t.

9. It violates the “do no harm” principle.

It harms both small Internet businesses and consumers who purchase products online.

10. It forces businesses to track thousands of different tax codes.

There are between 7,500 and 9,600 different tax jurisdiction in the United States, and businesses will have to understand and comply with all of them.

 I don't want to know his name. I don't want to see his face. I don't want to know his life's history, his back-story, who his family is, where he went to school, or what he liked to do in his spare time. I don't want to know what "cause", if any, he was fighting for. I don't want to know why he did it, or may have done it, or what possessed him to carry out his actions. I don't want to know. 

Because that's what he really wants. I'll be damned if I'm going to give him what he wants.

Put him on trial, but don't cover it. Tell me when you decide to jail him for three lifetimes - because that number matters. That's the number of lives he has to now pay for. That's all I want to know about him. Nothing else.

Instead, tell me about the first responders who ran towards the fray, within seconds, fearless. Tell me about the ones wearing the yellow volunteer jacket, or the neon police vest, or even the ones in the regular everyday t-shirt who became a helper. 

Tell me the story about the first responder who held gauze over a wound until they made it to the hospital. 

Tell me the story about the volunteer who held the hand of the injured spectator until they got into the ambulance. 

In six months, tell me the story of those who lost a limb, who beat the odds, pulled through countless surgeries, and are learning to walk again. 

Tell me the story about the love, the compassion, and the never-ending support of thousands, millions, of people who support the victims here. Tell me their stories. Tell me everything you can, because they are the ones that matter. 

Tell me of the good that they have done, are doing, and will continue to do, regardless of... No, not regardless of, in spite of. In spite of that someone who would do them harm. Because that's what freedom in this country means. 

It means coming together in the hardest of times, even in the face of unfathomable adversity, to make life better for all those around us.

Tell me the good stories. That's all I want to hear.

Kirsten Powers has done a national service, by virtue of her now famous USA Todaycolumn, of getting the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen.

This of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia posturing as an abortion clinic, operating without inspection for 17 years. Gosnell, the doctor who ran the place, has been formally charged of murder of one woman and seven infants.

However, the grand jury report and testimony of family and staff at the trial indicate that if there were records in this dump, where life and death were meted out daily, Gosnell would be indicted for hundreds of murders of live children.

Most likely, and sadly, this horror story will have its fifteen minutes of fame and the nation will move on. The national press got dragged unwillingly to report it, finally, because of Ms. Powers' courageous column. But there is no way to keep them on a story they don't want to cover.

Maybe we can keep this story alive by keeping in mind a few things.

What was happening in Gosnell's Women's Medical Society clinic was not some bizarre exception to the rule.

You can ask Day Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-life Union. Her life is dedicated to covering these realities. In her words, "This is not an exception. These realities are happening every day all over our country."

Despite the sense that no one was paying attention to the Gosnell story before Kirsten Powers wrote about it, know that Dr. Gardner, Dr. Alveda King, and other pro-life activists were demonstrating outside Gosnell's clinic as early as February 2011.

They held a press conference about the trial on April 4, a week before Powers' column appeared. Alveda King wrote in her blog the day before, "Rev. Clenard Childress and Dr. Day Gardner...are in Philadelphia reporting on the Kermit Gosnell trial that the mainstream media is virtually ignoring."

Just this week, The Washington Times has reported that Gosnell-like conditions have existed at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Vice President Biden's own backyard in Delaware.

The Times reports: "Abortions have been suspended at a Delaware Planned Parenthood, after several 911 calls made from within the clinic prompted a new investigation by Health and Human Services."

Two nurses quit to protect their licenses, one saying "I couldn't tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was."

According to the story, "Since Jan. 4, five patients have been rushed to the emergency room."

Last year pro-life activists worked assiduously to get press attention on the story of the death of 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, who died after a botched abortion procedure at a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic.

These realities persist for two reasons.

One, we still as a nation are willing to tolerate the reality of abortion. We still allow ourselves to believe that Dr. Gosnell should be convicted of murder because he botched an abortion, the live child was born, and he still destroyed it. But that somehow it would have been okay if that same child died while still in the womb.

And two, the squalid conditions allowing this butchery to take place all over the nation persist for the same reason that the Gosnell trial almost went uncovered. The press does not want to report about the gruesome truths of abortion. And, because it occurs disproportionately among low income, minority women, they are even less interested.

We can, at minimum, do something as a nation today. We can stop allowing our tax dollars to fund the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

According to Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), who has submitted a bill to stop funding Planned Parenthood, "Every 94 seconds Planned Parenthood performs an abortion and in that amount of time they take in over $1600 in federal taxpayer money."