On Wednesday‚ House Republicans moved forward with the Pregnant Students’ Rights Act‚ a measure that would help protect students who deal with unplanned pregnancies. The bill‚ introduced by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa)‚ would mandate that colleges explain rights and accommodations to women who are pregnant to help them recognize that there is a way to both have a child and continue their education. The bill aims to counter leftists' rhetoric that abortion is the only way for a pregnant woman to succeed in school. That’s not true‚ and that’s what House Republicans are trying to emphasize. The bill indicates that around 30 percent of all of the abortions that take place in the United States are performed on women who are around college age (20-24). The bill hopes to change that statistic.  According to the bill‚ colleges will be required to inform students about what rights and resources they’ll be given in the case that they get pregnant. Colleges would also have to provide accommodations and exceptions for pregnant female students‚ like missing class for prenatal doctors appointments‚ maternity leave‚ extra water and bathroom breaks‚ and information for other local resources.  During the hearing Wednesday morning with the House Committee on Education &; the Workforce‚ Representative Mary Miller (R-Ill.) noted that one goal of the bill was to facilitate a campus culture that values women's education and the sanctity of life. She charged‚ “Let's focus on building a future where a pregnant student can feel supported‚ informed‚ and empowered to continue her education while embracing the beautiful journey of bringing a child into the world‚” during her testimony. .@RepMaryMiller on supporting H.R. 6914‚ the Pregnant Students' Rights Act: "Let's focus on building a future where a pregnant student can feel supported‚ informed‚ and empowered to continue her education while embracing the beautiful journey of bringing a child into the world." pic.twitter.com/s4BK4ByWSO — House Committee on Education &; the Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) January 10‚ 2024 Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) shared Miller’s sentiment when she kicked off the meeting. “As for universities‚ it is their role to foster an environment of support and understanding‚ where pregnant students feel safe seeking guidance and assistance‚” Foxx said before pointing out that oftentimes colleges don’t provide female students with a complete list of resources and accommodations available to them‚ explaining‚ “The Pregnant Students’ Rights act insures that universities are not withholding resources and information [about] carrying the baby to term‚ from pregnant students." Related: 6 Lies From Ms. Magazine Bull S**T Piece on Pro-Life Movement In a statement to the Washington Examiner‚ Mallory Carroll‚ Vice President of Communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America‚ said  she wished she’d had this sort of support during college. “Women should never feel pressured to abort their child for fear that they will not have the support they need to pursue higher education. I know this firsthand. I was not aware of resources available to me when I had my unplanned pregnancy in college. As a result‚ I dropped out until after my child was born‚” she told the outlet. Of course‚ pro-aborts weren't in favor of the bill‚ preferring that a woman simply kill her child instead of realizing she can succeed in both her education and as a mother. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research insisted that the policy is “nothing more than a thinly veiled anti-abortion law that fails to offer genuine support for pregnant students’ educational access.” Congresswoman Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) insisted that the act makes pregnant women an “afterthought” and suggested that if House Republicans were “serious about supporting students’ reproductive health‚ they'd focus on contraception‚ affordable child care‚ and maternal health in their legislation.” Leave it to the libs to cause a fuss on something that aims to help women and children. SMH.  Follow us on Twitter/X: The Left’s Fantasy World: Eating Flesh‚ Dating Fake Ladies &; Grooming Kids The Left's rules of dating are a confusing mess but at the end of the day the results are the same‚ you're gay. pic.twitter.com/sTM2MBPyNZ — MRCTV (@mrctv) January 9‚ 2024

As actual voting is set to begin in the 2024 presidential election‚ a new study by the Media Research Center (MRC) finds the three broadcast evening newscasts’ fixation with bashing Donald Trump has meant both his fellow candidates and substantive policy issues have been shunted to the sidelines. MRC analysts looked at all coverage of the Republican candidates on the ABC‚ CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through December 31‚ 2023‚ including weekends. Among the key findings: â–  In 2023‚ Trump received 1‚192 minutes of evening news airtime‚ or 79% of all GOP candidate coverage. Top challengers Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley were far behind‚ with 166 and 35 minutes of airtime last year‚ respectively. â–  The networks trashed Trump with ferociously hostile coverage: 91% negative‚ vs. just 9% positive (scroll to read methodology). DeSantis and Haley fared better‚ but neither received more good press than bad. Coverage of DeSantis was 73% negative vs. 27% positive; Haley’s press was split down the middle: 50% negative and 50% positive. â–  Campaign trail discussion of substantive issues such as the economy‚ immigration and abortion were buried under an avalanche of media attention to Trump’s legal cases. The evening newscasts devoted 992 minutes to Trump’s various legal problems in 2023‚ eight times more than was spent on all policy issues combined (121 minutes).   Details: â–  All About Trump: From January 1 through December 31‚ 2023‚ ABC’s World News Tonight‚ the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News aired a combined 933 stories that featured or at least mentioned the 2024 Republican nomination contest‚ with a total airtime of 1‚405 minutes. The vast majority of that coverage went to frontrunner and former President Donald Trump (1‚192 minutes). Florida Governor Ron DeSantis received 166 minutes of attention‚ but most of that (126 minutes) was from January through July; during the final three months of 2023 (October 1 to December 31)‚ DeSantis was seen for a meager ten minutes on the Big Three evening newscasts. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley received 35 minutes of evening news airtime last year‚ of which 16 minutes came in the past three months. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (who has since left the race) was given just 18 minutes of airtime last year‚ and just four minutes during the most recent three months. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy was virtually invisible: six minutes in all of 2023‚ just two minutes of which came during the final three months. The numbers show the media’s obsession with Trump only grew during the year. Overall‚ the former President accounted for a hefty 79% of all coverage of all of the GOP candidates (including drop-outs) during 2023‚ but the 231 minutes he received during the final three months of the year equated to an even larger 87% share of the GOP total. â–  They Came Not to Praise‚ but to Bury Him: As was the case in 2016 and during his entire Presidency‚ virtually all of the media’s 2023 coverage of Trump consisted of negativity and criticism. Yet while his chief rivals faced much less scrutiny‚ there was no media goodwill for either Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis last year‚ either. To measure good press and bad press‚ our analysts focused solely on statements from reporters‚ anchors and non-affiliated sources (see methodology explanation at the end of this article for more detail). In 2023‚ evening news viewers heard 1‚478 negative statements about Trump‚ vs. just 143 positive statements. That computes to 91% negative spin‚ on par with the hostile coverage Trump has historically received from these broadcasts. The networks were nearly as negative towards Ron DeSantis: 103 negative statements‚ vs. just 37 positive ones‚ for a spin of 73% negative. Most of anti-DeSantis coverage came early in the year‚ as detailed in an August NewsBusters report. While year-end polls showed Nikki Haley surging in New Hampshire‚ there was little evidence of a boom in her evening news coverage. Haley received the least evaluative coverage of any of the major candidates: just ten positive and ten negative statements throughout 2023. While a 50% positive/50% negative spin score might seem superior to the much more negative coverage of Trump and DeSantis‚ it’s hardly the kind of Obama-esque positive publicity that candidates desire at the end of a campaign.   â–  No Interest in Policy: For voters‚ the value of a lengthy presidential campaign is to hear the candidates explain how they would deal with the problems of the country if they were to become President. That’s what gives elections meaning‚ and what gives winning candidates a mandate to act once in office. But that’s not what voters are getting from the media this time around. By far‚ the most coverage has accrued to various legal cases surrounding Trump: Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case related to January 6 (290 minutes); Smith’s indictment of Trump for allegedly mishandling government documents (224 minutes); the so-called “hush money” case brought by Manhattan’s Democratic D.A.‚ Alvin Bragg (172 minutes); and the Georgia election case brought by Democratic D.A. Fani Willis (132 minutes).                   Each of these cases drew more network evening news airtime than all of the policy discussions involving these candidates in all of 2023 (just 121 minutes). Overall‚ Trump’s legal cases drew 992 total minutes of coverage last year‚ eight times more than was allocated to the GOP candidates’ discussion of policy matters. The most heavily-covered policy issue was race relations (29 minutes‚ mostly about DeSantis’ record in Florida). Next came abortion (17 minutes)‚ immigration (14 minutes)‚ the economy (just 7 minutes) and the war in Ukraine (7 minutes). As voting draws nearer‚ the lack of issue-oriented coverage has gotten more pronounced. From October through December‚ the evening newscasts offered up just 11 minutes‚ 24 seconds on policy (the top issue was immigration‚ with 5 minutes‚ 24 seconds). During these same months‚ coverage of Trump’s cases amounted to 178 minutes of evening news airtime. There’s no question the investigations and indictments of Trump are a big news story. But the media have made the choice to cover those legal issues instead of covering the crucial issues that will face the next President‚ when they could be giving at least equivalent coverage to both the legal challenges facing the candidate and the policy challenges facing the country. Elections have always been about the future. But it might be hard for voters to see a clear choice about what lies ahead in the next four years when the dominant media discussion has been about legal dramas rooted in the past.   ++++ METHODOLOGY:  We calculated the spin of the GOP primary candidates by tallying all clearly positive and negative statements from non-partisan or unaffiliated sources — in other words‚ reporters‚ anchors‚ voters as well as Republicans not linked to any of the campaigns. We excluded evaluative comments from the GOP candidates‚ their campaign staffs and identified surrogates‚ as well as all Democratic sources. In this way‚ we could eliminate the partisan back-and-forth of the campaign‚ in order to isolate the spin being imparted by the networks themselves. It also excludes “horse race assessments” about the candidates’ prospects for winning or losing.

Say hello to my little friend . . .No‚ it's not Al Pacino in Scarface. It's Donald Trump‚ if he's elected in 2024. At least‚ if you believe MSNBC guest Harry Litman. On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show on Wednesday afternoon‚ New York Times investigative reporter Susanne Craig described Trump as being "so upset" and "so angry" over the financial and business-limiting penalties that Judge Arthur Engoron is expected to impose on him in the civil fraud suit brought by New York Democrat Attorney General Letitia James. Substitute host Alicia Menendez--daughter of scandal-ridden Dem Senator Bob Menendez of NJ--then teed up  Litman‚ a former Thurgood Marshall SCOTUS clerk and Bill Clinton US Attorney appointee: "So Harry‚ given all of that context from Sue. As you well know‚ Trump's finances‚ they've been a so-called redline for him‚ going all the way back to Robert Mueller's investigation. If these rulings‚ if they do in fact have a profound effect‚ as Sue just outlined‚ on Trump's finances‚ are you worried about retribution should he win in 2024? Do you think he would target people like the Judge Engoron out of a sense of revenge?" Replied Litman:  "There's no one he won't target out of a sense of revenge. Think of a guy with a machine gun‚ spraying everyone." Litman also worked in a petty shot at Trump‚ claiming that as a result of the expected ban on Trump serving as an officer or director of any New York company‚ "he can't sell his steaks in New York." Not only was Littman's gibe snide‚ it wasn't even true. Nothing would stop Trump from running a company based in any of the other 49 states and shipping to New York. Get your July 4th BBQ order in early‚ Harry! Here's the transcript. MSNBC Deadline White House 1/10/24 4:12 pm ET SUSANNE CRAIG: The attorney general was initially looking at penalties of around $250 million. That's now gone up to $370 million. It's going to come in somewhere around there. And it's going to be very painful for Donald Trump.  We know from both the analysis that the attorney general has done of his finances‚ and also‚ the New York Times obtained 20-some years of his taxes -- I was part of that group that looked at it‚ his finances. He doesn't have that sort of cash on hand. And there's a monitor that will be going -- is already over his business. And part of the reason that monitor is there is to make sure there isn't a sale of assets in New York. Because he may eventually have to sell one or two of his major assets in the state just to pay that penalty. I mean‚ it's a big deal. We're going to be looking‚ I think‚ years out‚ who knows really how long‚ but a long time out‚ because it's going to go up to appeals. But that's the reality for him‚ and that is why he's so angry. There is so much at stake for him. And for his children‚ it's their inheritance. And just his ability to do business in New York will also be affected. He may essentially be run out of New York. I mean‚ it's not just the financial penalty‚ either. Seeking to bar officers of the company and him from doing business. It's a huge deal for him. ALICIA MENENDEZ: So Harry‚ given all of that context from Sue. As you well know‚ Trump's finances‚ they've been a so-called redline for him‚ going all the way back to Robert Mueller's investigation.  If these rulings‚ if they do in fact have a profound effect‚ as Sue just outlined‚ on Trump's finances‚ are you worried about retribution should he win in 2024? Do you think he would target people like Judge Engoron out of a sense of revenge? HARRY LITMAN: There's no one he won't target out of a sense of revenge. Just think of a guy with a machine gun‚ spraying everyone.  But that‚ that comes with  the territory. I‚ I‚ I agree‚ by the way‚ with everything Susanne just said. But one point to add on the last point that Sue said‚ we can really amplify. Because the proposed penalties include that he‚ Trump‚ be barred permanently from any job in the real estate industry. You know‚ he can't even send out a flier. And‚ he couldn't be an officer or director in any company. He can't sell his steaks in New York.  

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