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More Violence Over Abortion: Fourth Pregnancy Center Firebombed

National Review: Over the weekend, pro-abortion terrorists fire-bombed a pregnancy center in Gresham, Ore., that offers maternal care and information to expecting mothers. Authorities believe that an incendiary device was hurled through the window, lighting a fire that wrecked only one room in the facility because the alarm system promptly alerted fire personnel and police, Pregnancy Resource Center CEO Luke Cirillo said. “There was extensive damage and additional water and smoke damage in other parts of the building. Nobody was hurt,” Cirillo said in a press release (National Review). Lila Rose: This weekend, pro-abortion activists firebombed a pregnancy center in Gresham, OR, which provided material help for mothers & children. Imagine if this had been an abortion clinic. It would be headlines news. But because it’s a pro-life center, media & the Biden admin ignore (Twitter). Live Action: This latest incident by pro-abortion terrorists follows a litany of violent threats, vandalism, arsons and even an assignation attempt aimed at pro-life groups or individuals. First Image is the second pro-life pregnancy center in the state to be targeted for arson since the Supreme Court opinion was leaked (Live Action).

Pro-Abortion Protesters Gather Near SCOTUS Building Awaiting Roe v. Wade Opinion

Fox News: Pro-choice protesters staged a blockade of streets near the U.S. Supreme Court building on Monday, with the knowledge that the court was scheduled to hand down opinions that morning. One case awaiting a decision is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which deals with a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, posing a direct challenge to the viability standard set by Roe v. Wade. A leaked draft opinion dated February said the court was overturning Roe in its entirety, eliminating the court’s recognition of a constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court ended up issuing opinions in five cases Monday morning, but not Dobbs. The court is next scheduled to release opinions on Wednesday (Fox News). Julio Rosas: Pro-abortion protesters are heading towards the Supreme Court to “shut down” the streets nearby (Twitter). Washington Post: Monday’s demonstration comes at a time of heightened abortion rights protests in the region, including on the National Mall, outside the Supreme Court and outside the homes of conservative justices. Last week, authorities arrested a man they say traveled from California in an attempt to kill Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh (Washington Post).

House Declines McCarthy’s Third Request for Extra Security for Supreme Court Judges

National Review: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday expressed frustration after House Democrats declined his third request for unanimous consent to quickly advance a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices. McCarthy has tried several times over the past week to advance the measure — which passed the Senate last month but has stalled in the Democrat-controlled House — after authorities foiled an alleged assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday (National Review). Kevin McCarthy: For the 3rd time in a week, I’m calling for a vote for stronger security for Supreme Court Justices—ALL of them. This isn’t partisan. The threat is real. Why is Speaker Pelosi blocking something that the Senate has already passed unanimously (Twitter)?

Global Markets Down as Inflation Surges

Wall Street Journal: Faced with rising chances of aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, investors broadly unloaded risk. The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% as 495 of its 500 components ended the day lower. The declines left the U.S. stock benchmark down more than 20% from its January record, sending it into a bear market for the first time since 2020 (Wall Street Journal). New York Times: Global investors sold stocks, bonds and other assets, as inflation is running high in many countries, supply chains remain snarled and forecasts for economic growth are being downgraded. Stock markets in Asia closed deep in the red, with Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index dropping 3 percent and South Korea’s Kospi plunging 3.5 percent. In Hong Kong, shares fell by 3.4 percent while an index for China’s biggest companies that are listed in Hong Kong fell 3.6 percent. Japan’s yen fell to a 24-year low versus the U.S. dollar (New York Times).

Inflation: Biden Economic Advisor Blames Russia, Insists White House Hasn’t “Missed Much”

Fox News: Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers said Monday that he doesn’t believe the White House “missed much” on inflation during CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Bernstein emphasized that Biden has made inflation his top economic priority and said “that there’s always something we can do.” Inflation hit 8.6% in May, climbing to another 40-year high (Fox News). RNC Research: Top Biden economic advisor Jared Bernstein on inflation: “I don’t think the White House missed much at all” (Twitter). Breitbart: Bernstein said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine “very much exacerbated” the cost of goods. He added that no one knew Putin would invade Ukraine nor that the coronavirus would have variants like Delta and Omicron (Breitbart).

High School Football Coach Fired for Praying After Games, Gets Berated by Sports Illustrated

Daily Wire: Sports Illustrated didn’t wait for the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending opinion to blast a high school football coach Joe Kennedy who sued after being suspended and later fired for praying for 15 seconds on the football field after a game (Daily Wire). Sports Illustrated: He’s a human embodiment of a country that’s deeply divided; a religious movement that’s surging with momentum, even as organized religion becomes increasingly less popular; and, most of all, a powerful right-wing machine many say is employing a timeless division tactic: us vs. them. All morphed a man’s unremarkable existence into an extraordinary one and imbued Kennedy with elusive, far-reaching purpose. He’s no longer just a man. He’s now a symbol, for what his supporters term “religious freedom.” To them, he’s a hero, David slaying an anti-faith Goliath. To others, he’s a sledgehammer aimed at a bedrock of democracy: the separation of church and state… In what its opponents describe as ongoing attempts to redefine church and state, First Liberty has argued that attempts to stifle teaching creationism and sanctioned prayer in schools represent hostility to religion. Those opponents see the Kennedy case as the likely next step in what they describe as an “erosion” of the separation, their argument backed by other recent rulings: that “God” can remain in the Pledge of Allegiance, that the federal government can give money to faith-based schools, and that religious groups can discriminate based on their beliefs when hiring (Sports Illustrated). Breitbart: The main focus of Bishop’s article, though, seems to be to belittle coach Kennedy. Throughout the piece, Bishop constantly describes Kennedy as “aimless,” shiftless, and struggling to find meaning in his life, thereby coloring the coach as a nobody whose sudden fame earned as a result of this case makes him a joke of a human being. As if any of Kennedy’s life history makes any difference at all to the case that has brought him to the Supreme Court (Breitbart).

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Americans Over 13 Identify as Transgender

Reuters: A study published on Friday estimates that nearly 1.64 million people over the age of 13 in the United States identify themselves as transgender, based on an analysis of newly expanded federal health surveys. The study estimates that about 0.5% of all U.S. adults, some 1.3 million people, and about 1.4%, or 300,000, of youth between 13- and 17-years-old identify as transgender, having a different gender identity than the sex they were assigned at birth (Reuters). Townhall: The executive summary from the study says that there are more “transgender women” than “transgender men.” There are over 300,000 people who are “gender nonconforming” (Townhall).

New York Signs Six Abortion Bills Into Law

Life News: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed six pro-abortion bills into law Monday, including measures to protect abortionists, investigate pro-life pregnancy centers and allow people to sue individuals who “interfere” with their so-called right to abortion. Hochul, a pro-abortion Democrat, said the bills are their response to the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade this summer. “My friends, the sky is literally on the verge of falling in the next week or two and that’s why we are here today,” Hochul said when she signed the bills. “The right to control our own bodies is supposed to be settled by now, or so we thought” (Life News). Politico: The new measures bolster protections for both residents and out-of-state women seeking abortions with an omnibus measure that would block New York courts from issuing subpoenas in connection with out-of-state abortion proceedings; prohibit extradition of abortion providers unless they are alleged to have fled from the demanding state and provide legal protections for New York abortion providers. The other bills would protect the rights of individuals seeking abortion or gender-affirming care in New York; prohibit disciplinary measures against health practitioners for providing legal reproductive health services to patients who reside in states where abortion is illegal; bar medical malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against a reproductive health care provider who performs legal reproductive health care; and increase confidentiality for abortion providers and patients (Politico).

Ukraine Worried They Will Lose Eastern Front

Wall Street Journal: The war in Ukraine has turned into a grinding artillery contest where Russia is steadily gaining ground thanks to its overwhelming advantage in firepower. As the U.S. and allies gather Wednesday to discuss fresh military aid to Kyiv, Ukraine’s fate will largely depend on how fast and in what quantities these heavy weapons arrive. Without a broad and rapid increase in military assistance, Ukraine faces a defeat in the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian officials warn. That would pave the way for Russia to pursue its offensive to Odessa and Kharkiv after regrouping in coming months, they say, and potentially all the way back to the capital, Kyiv, after that. Western officials and analysts question whether Russia has the wherewithal to achieve this, even if it makes further gains in the Donbas area. They say Russia’s military has been severely battered in the war, and might lack the manpower and equipment to advance beyond the Donbas region soon (Wall Street Journal). Washington Examiner: Russia has increased its occupied territory in neighboring Ukraine threefold since its invasion began over three months ago. Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, a Ukrainian politician, spoke about territory lost during a Monday morning roundtable event with the Atlantic Council… “We also have to understand that as of today, it’s already 20% of the Ukrainian territory which is being occupied and in comparison to 7% of Ukrainian territories at the beginning of this full-scale invasion, which means that this situation is — I don’t know whether we can describe that as static,” she explained. “Even though not with the speed they wanted, not with the pace they were anticipating, but [Russia is] grabbing additional territories” (Washington Examiner).

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California Exodus Sees Thousands Moving to Mexico

Daily Wire: Now that Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and his cronies have ruined their state and inflation is crushing households, thousands of Californians are reversing the typical pattern and moving to Mexico. Many of the emigres count on the fact that their salaries from the United States enable them to afford much more South of the border (Daily Wire). CNBC: California continuously ranks high as one of the country’s most expensive states to live in. The median asking price for a home in California is about $797,470 — only 25% of the state’s households could afford that in the fourth quarter of 2021. California’s population growth has been declining for more than 30 years now. But thanks to the rise in remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic, those trends have accelerated. The ability to work anywhere has 62% of Americans considering moving to a new country. However, there are some setbacks. Many critics argue that Americans are driving up the cost of housing for locals and pricing them out of the market (CNBC). Daily Mail: Monthly rent in Mexico can average as little as $430 per month, while rents can average as high as $1,500 north of the border in San Diego (Daily Mail).

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