Pro-abortion activists in Missouri succeeded on Tuesday in getting a proposal on the November ballot to make abortion a constitutional right in the state. The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that the pro-abortion initiative, along with three other citizen-led initiatives, will make the general election ballot, the Missouri Independent reported. Missouri isn’t the only state to see a pro-abortion amendment make the November ballot as it joins Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, and South Dakota. Missouri currently has a near-total abortion ban after becoming the first state to outlaw the practice when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Doctors in the state can also face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of performing abortions deemed unnecessary, according to the Missouri Independent. If passed, the proposed state constitutional amendment would permit abortion up until what doctors call the point of viability, an arbitrary line drawn around 24 weeks. Unborn babies, however, can survive outside the womb earlier than 24 weeks thanks to advancements in medical technology. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Midwestern Regional Director Sue Liebel said the proposed amendment in Missouri would make the state “as radical as California” on abortion if it passes. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “The abortion lobby’s ballot measure would end thousands of lives. Unborn children who have heartbeats, feel pain, suck their thumbs, smile and even survive outside of the womb will no longer be protected in Missouri if this extreme measure passes. Missouri would become as radical as California in allowing horrific late-term abortions and forcing the taxpayer to fund them,” Liebel said in a statement. “Missouri’s all-trimester abortion amendment gives the abortion industry a free pass from operating under any health and safety requirements from the state. With Missouri Planned Parenthood business’ record of breaking the law, women and girls will be at risk if the state’s abortion industry goes unregulated,” Liebel added. “In the past few years, Missouri Planned Parenthood businesses were caught using moldy abortion equipment, ignoring informed consent laws, disregarding the law for 15 years to report when a woman has a complication, and allegedly being willing to traffic a 13-year-old out of state.” Earlier this year, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Planned Parenthood after Project Veritas released a video of Kansas City, Missouri, Planned Parenthood workers appearing to say that they would help a young girl get an abortion in Kansas without her parent’s knowledge after Missouri had banned abortions. The pro-abortion proposal successfully made Missouri’s ballot less than 24 hours after state officials in Arizona, a vital battleground state, confirmed that a proposal seeking to make abortion a “fundamental right” easily cleared the signature threshold for ballot placement. Arizona’s Republican-controlled legislature voted in May to repeal the state’s near-total abortion ban after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the 160-year-old law banning abortions could go into effect. Democrats are hoping to ride abortion initiatives to electoral victories in November after voters in multiple Republican-led states passed pro-abortion ballot initiatives in the months and years after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

Minnesota Grandma Lisa Hanson labeled her Governor, Tim Walz, a bully and “evil” after she was locked up for violating his COVID policies and said the legacy media is lying to you about Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate. In an interview with Fox News, the former wine and coffee bistro owner said claims that Walz is “cuddly” couldn’t be further from the truth, warning Americans about the kind of “tyranny” Walz has put on Minnesotans. Hanson was sentenced to 90 days behind bars — and served 60 — for violating Walz’s “lockdown order.” She explained that she missed her wedding anniversary, Christmas, and the birth of one of her grandchildren because of the governor, not to mention that she said Walz “shut down” and “destroyed” her family business, the outlet noted. “He shut down a lot of the mom-and-pop shops, those folks that were just trying to make a living and provide a great product and a great service,” Hanson said. “In contrast, he allowed big box stores, etc. to stay open. Really incredible, an incredible use of tyranny against the people.” The grandmother said that eventually, she decided to reopen when Walz was refusing to let business owners do so. She attempted to do it six times, and in December 2021, she was convicted of a misdemeanor charge and received the maximum sentence of 90 days and a $1,000 fine, before her sentence was reduced to serving 60, the outlet noted. Minnesota grandma sentenced to 90 days in prison for violating Tim Walz COVID lockdown orders speaks out: “[Tim Walz] will take away your rights.” pic.twitter.com/3iwdwgmLjv — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 13, 2024 “I can never have that time back. That time was stolen from me,” Hanson said. “My business was destroyed. My business is gone. After everything that happened, Tim Walz and Keith Ellison [Minn. Attorney General] destroyed my business. They wrecked my life.” Hanson said after incurring “tens of thousands” of dollars in legal fees and fines, she eventually closed her business after all the pressure from Walz’s government. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “This is the story that America needs to hear, that Tim Walz is not some cuddly, joyful coach, like all the things that the MSMs are calling him,” Hanson said. “That is not who this man is. This man would like to take your rights away. He will take your rights away. … What happened to me will happen to you.” “I’ve heard some people say that Tim Walz is a real nice guy. Yeah, well he’s not,” she added. “Take my word for it. Through this whole process, I’ve gotten to know other people. Similar things have happened to them when they were trying to run their business and survive. … So Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison really like to go after women.” “They’re bullies,” Hanson continued. “And they like to go after women and torment and destroy women’s lives. This is what they have done in the state of Minnesota. So let America know you do not want Tim Walz as vice president. You do not want tyranny at this level.” “We, the people of Minnesota, have seen what Tim Walz, the type of evil he orchestrates if he is elected as vice president of this country. He, in lockstep with [Kamala] Harris, who is also evil, will perpetuate this same type of evil on the American people. We do not want that. So this is the truth about Tim Walz.” “I would like to see Tim Walz impeached. I would like to see him prosecuted for the crimes he has committed against the people of Minnesota,” Hanson said. “Tim Walz has accomplished a lot of horrific things in the state of Minnesota in a very short amount of time. … That man is a wrecking machine. He needs to be stopped.” Related: New Yorker Magazine Goes After ‘Generic’ Kamala Harris

Beneath the coordinated, manufactured hype campaign promoting Kamala Harris, it’s not hard to detect an air of desperation. We’re constantly being told that Harris is a transformative candidate who will save democracy as we know it, but she’s dodged pretty much every opportunity to answer serious questions since stealing the nomination.  The whole thing violates a basic rule of persuasion, which is that you’re supposed to show, not tell. Everything’s more convincing when you see it, instead of hearing about it. But Harris isn’t capable of making the case for her own candidacy. The best she can do is cackle and repeat her stump speech. So it falls on professional commentators to articulate why it makes sense to vote for her. The problem that these commentators have is that, if they go into any kind of detail about the policies Harris has said she supports, then she will lose the election. Abolishing ICE, guaranteeing everyone a federal job, outlawing private health insurance, banning fracking — these are all proposals that make it basically impossible to win a national race. That’s why she has backpedaled on every single one of these proposals. She has no real values. Everything’s malleable at a moment’s notice. So how exactly do you pitch a candidate like that? The other day in The New York Times, columnist David French came up with a solution. He wrote a piece entitled, “To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris.” And it’s worth talking about this in some detail, because it’s going to be a familiar refrain from the Left in the next three months. The idea is that electing Kamala Harris will end Donald Trump’s political career and allow the Republican Party in four years to get back to what French calls “Reaganite conservatism.”  In other words, don’t worry about what Harris believes or doesn’t believe. Vote strategically to take down Donald Trump so that in four years, the party of Ronald Reagan will return. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show This is an argument that’s tailor-made to appeal to conservatives with some memory of Reagan, and a very poor understanding of Kamala Harris. But everyone else understands the problem with it: Saving conservatism by voting for Kamala Harris is like saving someone from drowning by chaining a millstone around their neck. A Kamala Harris administration would guarantee that the future of American conservatism would look a lot like “conservatism” in Canada or the UK. We’re already trending in that direction. An administration that censors dissent, criminalizes firearm ownership, and stops enforcing the law would complete our transformation into a one-party, Left-liberal government. People like David French want that transformation to happen as quickly as possible. And French hopes to convince conservatives to buy into this change by arguing that their preferred political ideology has already been replaced by the so-called MAGA movement. Since the day Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling ideological and characterological transformation of the Republican Party. At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism. It has divorced Republican voters from any major consideration of character in leadership and all the while it has labeled people who resisted the change as ‘traitors.’ What allegiance do you owe a party, a movement or a politician when it or they fundamentally change their ideology and ethos? The issue here is pretty simple: French’s assumption is wrong. Trump has not “fundamentally changed” conservatism. Many of his positions (immigration in particular) are more conservative than the average Republican politician, especially the average Republican politician before Trump came onto the scene. Even where he has moderated — on abortion and gay marriage for example — he’s not any more moderate than the average Republican politician. I wish he was less moderate, but it’s absurd to suggest that some establishment Republican like Tim Scott or whoever would have held the line better on those issues. French seems to realize this because he immediately moves on to talking about how Donald Trump supposedly lies a lot. He drops the topic of ideology and starts making familiar observations about Trump’s character. Let’s take an assertion that should be uncontroversial, especially to a party that often envisions itself as a home for people of faith: Lying is wrong. I’m not naïve; I know that politicians have had poor reputations for honesty since Athens. But I have never seen a human being lie with the intensity and sheer volume of Donald Trump. Even worse, Trump’s lies are contagious. The legal results speak for themselves. A cascade of successful defamation lawsuits demonstrate the severity and pervasiveness of Republican dishonesty. What’s not mentioned here is the fact that Harris spent several years lying about Joe Biden’s mental capacity, or the fact that Tim Walz spent 20 years lying about his service in the National Guard. These are actual falsehoods. They’re statements of face that can be proven false. What French is accusing Trump of doing is very different. He’s saying that Trump was lying by claiming that the 2020 election was “rigged.” But this isn’t a claim that anyone has proven false, or that anyone can prove false. It’s Trump’s assessment of what happened to him, and it happens to be a very well-founded assessment. The entire system of elections in this country was changed in a matter of weeks, removing all kinds of safeguards against fraud — ultimately allowing Joe Biden to receive millions more votes than Barack Obama. That followed years of deliberate falsehoods about Russian collusion that never took place, along with lies about “very fine people” in Charlottesville and the Hunter Biden laptop and so on. These falsehoods were repeated many times by the Biden-Harris administration. Add then of course there are the millions of illegal aliens who have been shipped into this country over the past few decades. Any reasonable person can conclude that this amounts to an unfair or “rigged” political process. But David French doesn’t care about those lies. He only cares about Trump’s response to them. So he continues: Let’s take another assertion that should be relatively uncontroversial: Political violence and threats of violence have no place in the American democratic process. Yet threats and intimidation follow the MAGA movement like night follows day. Only one party has nominated a man who was indicted for his role in the criminal scheme to steal an American election, a scheme that culminated in a violent political riot. French then hand-waves away the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last month, as well as the attempted assassinations of Brett Kavanaugh and Steve Scalise. All of those instances of political violence, according to David French, pale in comparison to Donald Trump’s decision to challenge the results of the 2020 election. That decision, French says, led to a “violent” riot in which only Trump supporters were killed. Therefore, Trump is responsible for inciting political violence.  I’m not going to recount all of Trump’s statements on January 6 calling for peaceful protest. Those are well-documented. And it’s also well-documented that the Left likes to pretend that Trump never made those calls for peaceful protest, which is why the Supreme Court faulted Jack Smith’s indictment for failing to mention them. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI What’s remarkable about French’s assertion is that, even if it were true, then he could make a very similar complaint against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’ve already talked about Tim Walz’s role in delaying the National Guard response to the riots in Minneapolis. But it’s actually worse than that. A Minnesota police sergeant testified that Walz ordered the authorities to surrender the police station to the mob. Watch: "I heard the Governor say 'Give it up'" -Minneapolis Police Sergeant Anna Hedberg Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gave orders to allow the Third Precinct to burn, abandoning Minnesota families and police in favor of BLM rioters. pic.twitter.com/X1NYjKA40p — Clarity (@covid_clarity) August 12, 2024 So the governor of Minnesota whips up a mob of violent thugs. They ransack businesses. They set buildings on fire. They kill people and cause tens of millions of dollars in property damage. And then, in response, the governor tells the authorities to stand down so there can be more carnage. Meanwhile his wife lowers the window to take in the aroma of burning tires. And Kamala Harris gets to work bailing out the perpetrators. It’s easy to talk about violence like this in the abstract. So here’s new footage of what Tim Walz oversaw in Minneapolis. This apparently hasn’t been widely broadcast until yesterday, when it resurfaced on social media. Watch: A startling new video that has never been seen before by the public from the Minneapolis Riots. This was filmed on 5/30/2020 at 4:23am in the Phillips Neighborhood according to the video’s metadata. This is Tim Walz and Kamala Harris’s legacy.pic.twitter.com/YMqP042Cpm — Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 12, 2024 It looks like a war zone. Any competent governor who cared about his city would have done everything in his power to end this destruction. But Tim Walz enabled it. This is why, whatever criticisms you can bring against Donald Trump for January 6, it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever to protest Donald Trump by voting for a Harris-Walz ticket. These people aren’t just liars — they promoted violence that led to the deaths of innocent people all over the country. They bailed out radicals so they could commit more acts of violence. That kind of violence isn’t suddenly acceptable because it happened outside of the Capitol building. At best, even if French’s points were all valid (and they aren’t) it would be an argument for not voting for Trump. But actively voting for a far-Left Democrat — and doing it in the name of conservatism — is an asinine position. Despicable, even. Trump may not be pro-life enough for my tastes, but the Biden Administration supports abortion until the moment of birth. They are also actively prosecuting pro-lifers. French, the avid pro-lifer, is voting for the regime that is currently throwing pro-life activists in federal prison. He’s also backing a government that’s just proposed “ethics rules” and term limits for the Supreme Court, which would obviously be a major step towards ending the independent judiciary in this country. What part of “Reaganite conservatism” involves kicking conservative justices off the bench because they fly historic flags outside their beach houses? What conservative principle is that defending? Using pretexts to oust justices who don’t toe the Left’s party line is not “conservative.” It’s not what Reagan did, either. It’s what Reagan’s enemies did in the Soviet Union. And for that matter, what exactly is “conservative” about abolishing ICE and closing all illegal immigrant detention centers? Does that conserve our borders or our national heritage? No one can ask Kamala Harris about this because she won’t sit for any hostile interviews. But it’s on tape. Watch: Open borders Kamala wants to free all criminal illegal immigrants. Attendee: “I want to know, when you become president, would you be committing to close the immigration detention centers?” Kamala: “Absolutely, on day one. On day one.” pic.twitter.com/XLfrhyLpns — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 12, 2024 You can’t have a functioning country with someone like this in charge. It’s impossible by definition to maintain our borders when you shut down all border enforcement. And there are many more examples like this. A Harris-Walz administration would mean that more federal resources would be allocated on the basis of race. It would mean vastly more government spending and giveaways to preferred groups, like student loan debt “relief.” None of these ideas are consistent with Reaganism, but people like David French want you to think they are. And they’re now actively campaigning for a candidate who hates this country and its people and wishes to do harm to both. Now, some perspective is important. I’m not going to claim that this election is the last election we’ll ever have and we have to win or America is over. Both sides say that about every election. I’ve heard it for as long as I’ve been alive. But it is true that a Kamala victory would mean eight years of this current regime. Very likely 12 years. This country has suffered greatly from just four years. Another decade of this would be disastrous. Every American who considers himself “conservative” or Christian has a moral obligation to vote against Kamala Harris. She is an evil person and part of a regime that wants to kill babies, destroy our national sovereignty, indoctrinate our children into an ideology of self-harm and confusion, and in every other sense actively work against everything we claim to stand for. Whatever you think of Trump — even if you have the most unflattering view of him that a reasonable person could possible have — he is not a part of that agenda. If you are voting for that agenda, you are actively participating in the evil. You are supporting it. You are helping it to gain power. That you are doing it all to get back at Trump, at the expense of our country, just makes you a fool at best. This isn’t about being loyal to Donald Trump or any other politician. It’s about loving your country enough — and caring enough about your children and their future — to put your feelings about Donald Trump to the side and casting a vote against this regime that has already done incredible harm to this country. And will do a lot more, if we don’t stop it.

The results of the biggest experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) are in, and they’re not good. Universal Basic Income is a welfare proposal embraced by progressive Democrats like Andrew Yang, who popularized the idea on the 2020 campaign trail. The idea is the government gives every adult citizen free money unconditionally every month to meet their basic needs, which frees them up to start a business, stay home with their children, or invest in another goal. In July, the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the biggest UBI program to date, which was run by two nonprofits. It was the “largest unconditional cash transfer program evaluated by a randomized controlled trial” ever done in the country, researchers said. The program gave $1,000 a month to 1,000 low-income individuals for three years. A control group of 2,000 people were given just $50 a month. The average household income among participants, who were between the ages of 21 and 40, was $29,900, so with the extra money their income jumped by about 40%. The result was that people worked less. With an extra $1,000 hitting their bank accounts every month, recipients worked about 1.4 hours less per week. The romantic partners of recipients reduced their working hours by about the same amount. The total individual income fell about $1,500 per year excluding the $1000, compared to the control group. For every one dollar received, total household income fell by at least 21 cents, and total individual income fell by at least 12 cents, not including the extra $1,000. Labor market participation also dropped two percentage points among participants, the analysis found. So what did participants do with their extra time? Leisure time saw the biggest jump. Driving, errands, and self care saw smaller increases in time spent. Participants spent less time searching for a job, taking care of children, and on self-improvement. The results of the experiment are disastrous for supporters of UBI, who insist that low-income people would be disciplined in their use of a supplemental income, using it to climb out of poverty and invest in their future. Back in 2019, “squad” member Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) introduced a bill to give every adult $3,000 a year even if they earn $0. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, proposed a bill during the pandemic while she was a California senator that would have given $2,000 a month to every adult, and more for up to three children. A family of five would have raked in an eye-popping $10,000 a month under Harris’ legislation. In reality, without the pressure to earn that extra $1,000 a month — enough to pay rent in many areas — people simply worked less and spent more time relaxing, this experiment found. The results of the UBI experiment also carry implications for the many welfare programs that conservatives have long criticized as trapping people in poverty.

When Flavor Flav burst on the scene in the late 1980s as the frontman of the rap group Public Enemy, he was a sight to see. While his career has had its ups and downs, one thing about Flav has stayed consistent for four decades. If you need to know what time it is, Flav’s your man. He’s worn his massive trademark clock around his neck for years and was seen donning a Team USA version in Paris during the Olympic Games. Flav is proud to be an American and was sure to inform all of Team USA that he supported them 100%. He not only supported the women’s polo team with a donation, but he also came out big for Jordan Chiles. USA gonna Fight the Powers that be,,, in the meantime between time,,,Imma always a man of my word @ChilesJordan https://t.co/evxFPV0YEd pic.twitter.com/rz72uZeWEz— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) August 13, 2024 The Olympic medalist has had an emotional few days amidst a battle with the International Olympic Committee over her bronze medal win. She was ultimately stripped of the medal in favor of Ana Bărbosu from Romania. It was a sad day for Jordan and Team USA, but Flav knew what to do. Flavor Flav Turned His Trademark Clock A Special Color Flavor Flav tagged Jordan in a message on X, “USA gonna Fight the Powers that be,,, in the meantime between time,,, Imma always a man of my word.” He included a video clip of a shiny bronze clock with a sample of Public Enemy’s He Got Game playing in the background. Flav’s sweet gesture had fans crowning him the gold medal winner. One person gave him the best blessing ever, writing, “I hope both sides of your pillow are always cold you and you always get the best sleep of your life.” A friend wrote, “THIS IS IT, my buddy!!!!!! you are an absolute legend. thank you for being more than just a hype man, but also a supporter of WOMEN and WOMEN’S SPORTS! you aren’t just in the hall of fame, you ARE THE HALL OF FAME.” “Now that’s a medal !! One of a kind too. Flav has a heart of gold,” someone agreed. This story’s featured image is by Eugene Powers via Shutterstock. The post Flavor Flav Recreates His Iconic Clock In Bronze For Gymnast Jordan Chiles appeared first on InspireMore.

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