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Shortly before 12:30 p.m., Glendale PD officers responded to a 911 call at the Java Lounge Coffee House in the 900 block of North Emerson Road. They found a person who had collapsed in shock and went to the station for help. Witnesses say the man was having a casual conversation about politics with another patron when the minutely opposing viewpoint was expressed.

“They were both Democrats, Bernie supporters,” said Janice Hughson, a barista at the Java Lounge. “Then the guy he was talking to said he had some issues with abortion and thinks there should at least be a few limitations put on the practice. That’s when the man seized up and began foaming at the mouth. It was terrible.”  Four other bystanders were also emotionally injured by the moderately divergent opinion but were not hospitalized.  The man is being kept stable on ideology support at St. Francis medical center, surrounded by friends and family who agree with him 100% on every single issue.

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A huge police presence did not deter the rowdy behavior at Millennium Park.

The crowd then moved to State and Lake, where Chicago police were preparing to hold a press conference about the chaos. Police said they told most of the teens to go home, and some moved towards public transportation. Officers arrested those who disobeyed orders from police.

A huge police presence did not deter the rowdy behavior at Millennium Park.

The crowd then moved to State and Lake, where Chicago police were preparing to hold a press conference about the chaos. Police said they told most of the teens to go home, and some moved towards public transportation. Officers arrested those who disobeyed orders from police.

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SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – California is moving toward banning those little bottles of shampoo you get in hotel rooms.

“In California alone, hotels use hundreds of millions of single use plastic bottles every year,” said Assemblymember Ash Kalra of San Jose.

Kalra is co-authoring a bill that would ban the tiny plastic bottles at almost 10,000 hotels state wide.

“We can get those bottles out of the waste stream, but also cut the production of them, which is also harmful to the environment,” he said.

Last year Santa Cruz County became the first jurisdiction in California to ban the small bottles.

“This is a significant step forward to make sure that these bottles do not get into the bay,” said Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zack Friend.

Karla’s bill, AB 1162 is working its way through committees in Sacramento. If it passes on the assembly floor later this year, the ban would not take effect for at least three years.

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After a three-year legal battle, a federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled a lawsuit can proceed against an Illinois school district that said it was OK for high school transgender students to use girls’ locker rooms, restrooms, and showers.

But the court’s decision wasn’t all good news for the families who are fighting to protect their children’s safety and privacy. The College Fix reports the judge also took a swipe at individual privacy rights, ruling the girls have no right to “visual bodily privacy” if the government says so.

As CBN News reported, dozens of families joined in the lawsuit against Chicago-area Township High School District 211 back in 2016 because of the district’s policy of letting children as young as 14 choose to use the locker rooms of the opposite sex without informing parents.

The district opened the girls’ locker room to a boy after the Obama administration’s Department of Education threatened the district’s federal funding.

Under the Trump administration, the agency rescinded the Obama administration’s attempt to rewrite federal law and restored the understanding that, under Title IX, “sex” means male or female and not one’s beliefs about their gender.

The 1972 federal law prohibits schools from discriminating “on the basis of sex,” which for more than 40 years has meant being male or female. Title IX’s existing regulations specifically state that a school receiving federal funds can “provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex” without putting that funding at risk.

US District Judge Jorge Alonso ruled the Title IX and religious freedom claims can go forward in the lawsuit.

Tom Petersen, director of community relations for the district, emphasized that “only three” of the five claims in the lawsuit are going forward.

“The District will continue to defend our practices that affirm and support the identity of all our students,” he wrote in an email to The College Fix.

The families are represented by attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom.

“We need a compassionate approach to protecting students’ privacy, and we welcome the court’s decision to allow key claims to move forward,” ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb said in a press release. “The district officially authorizes opposite-sex use of school privacy facilities, and that violates Title IX. Letting boys into girls’ showers, restrooms, and locker rooms is sexual harassment. Students should be confident that their school will protect their privacy and dignity. So far, this school district has failed to do so.”

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Planned Parenthood leaders are calling Georgia’s heartbeat bill “blatantly unconstitutional.” That’s to be expected. But what’s somewhat surprising was the way the Democratic Party’s former candidate for governor described it.  Stacey Abrams, the former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives who nearly won the governor’s race in 2018, called the pro-life bill “abominable and evil.” Those two words are usually used by pro-lifers in describing the horrors of abortion, not the other way around.  In her MSNBC interview, Abrams went on to say the heartbeat bill is “bad for morality and our humanity.”  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) pointed to Abrams’ remarks fly in the face of morality. “Human beings have heartbeats. Blobs of protoplasm do not,” he argued on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning.

“I hope that somewhere among Democrats who even, perhaps believe in abortion, they recognize that the science on this, and they love to talk about science all the time. Then let’s talk about the science of biology and stop the madness of killing babies with a heartbeat. Surely we’re civilized enough to think that that’s just flat-out evil,” Huckabee said.  The Georgia measure would restrict abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. The individual and distinct heartbeat of an unborn person can usually be detected by the sixth week of pregnancy.  The bill passed the state legislature in late March and should be signed soon by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. His office says they don’t have a timeframe for the signing.

Kemp applauds the bill which is considered one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the nation, saying, “We stand up for the innocent and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.”  “Our efforts to protect life do not end here. We must work to ease the adoption process, find loving homes for those in our foster care system, and protect the aging and vulnerable,” he said.  Along with the expected attack from Planned Parenthood and the not-so-expected label from Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s heartbeat bill has also led to a boycott threat against this Bible-belt state.  Kemp is moving forward with plans to sign the bill despite the criticism and a Hollywood campaign to boycott filmmaking in Georgia if he does.  The boycott threat from the Writers Guild of America actually holds more clout than many people realize because Georgia is the third biggest state for film and TV production. Some have even called the state “the Hollywood of the South.”

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Self-avowed socialist and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released his proposal for a government takeover of the American healthcare system. The proposal, which Sanders calls “Medicare for All,” replaces private insurance with government as the single payer.

Rather than including financing mechanisms in the legislation, Sanders released a set of tax hike “options” that would be paired with the proposal.

These tax hikes would hit American families at every income level and businesses large and small. The proposal increases taxes by $16.2 trillion over the next decade, according to an estimate of Americans for Tax Reform.

This would pay for roughly half of the cost of single payer healthcare, which costs between $32 trillion and $36 trillion according to estimates.

The list of proposed tax hikes are below:

A New, 4 Percent Employee Payroll Tax

Sanders would impose another 4 percent payroll tax which on employees which he calls an “income-based premium paid by employees.”

According to Sen. Sanders’ estimates, this increases taxes on American families and individuals by $3.9 trillion.

A New, 7 Percent Employer Payroll Tax

Sanders would impose another 7 percent payroll tax which on employees which he calls an “income-based premium paid by employers.”

This is a $3.5 trillion tax increase over ten years.

Eliminating Health Tax “Expenditures”

The proposal would ban employer-provided insurance and repeal the deduction for health care, increasing taxes on businesses by over $3 trillion over a decade.

This proposal would also repeal Health Savings Accounts, which are utilized by an estimated 25 million American families. These tax advantaged savings accounts largely benefit the middle class – roughly half of all HSAs are owned by families earning between $60,000 and $200,000.

The deduction for cafeteria plans and the medical expense deduction is also eliminated.

In all, Sanders estimates this will increase taxes on families and businesses by $4.2 trillion.

70 percent Top Tax Bracket for Ordinary Income and Capital Gains Income
This would give America the highest income tax rate in the world.

According to the Tax Foundation, a top 70 percent rate for ordinary income and capital gains income above $10 million will raise $51.4 billion over a decade. After accounting for macroeconomic effects, the proposal would actually cost the government $63.5 billion because of the proposal suppresses investment and economic growth.

77 Percent Death Tax

Sanders proposes raising the death tax rate to 77 percent for inheritances. Under the proposal, the death tax would kick in at $3.5 million with a rate of 45 percent.

Currently, the death tax applies to estates over $11 million and applies a 40 percent rate.

This proposal will increase taxes by $2.2 trillion over ten years.

Wealth Tax
Sanders proposes an annual wealth tax of 1 percent kicking in above $21 million in assets. Sanders estimates the proposal will increase taxes by $1.3 trillion over ten years.

Bank Tax
Sanders proposes a tax on financial institutions totaling $800 billion over ten years.

Broaden the Self Employment Tax
Sanders would require business owners to report more of their business income as salary, increasing the amount of self-employment tax owed. This would increase taxes by $247 billion over ten years.

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Lawmakers are pushing to regulate trampoline parks following a 600% increase in emergency room visits over the past five years.  In most cases locally, if you do get injured at a trampoline park, you can forget about suing because the park can sue you back.  Jason Freewalt is facing months of rehabilitation after jumping into a foam pit at the Get Air trampoline park near Chicago.  “I can’t describe it. It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever had,” Freewalt said.  CBS News found that over the past seven years, at least six people have died at trampoline parks. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, almost 18,000 ended up in emergency rooms in 2017 alone. Yet the parks operate with no federal oversight, and in most cases, if you get injured, you can’t sue.

“Trampoline parks want to avoid justice. They want to rig the system against anyone who is injured who may assert claims against them,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal.  Blumenthal wants trampoline parks to be held liable for the injuries at their facilities. In many cases, visitors sign waivers with forced arbitration clauses, meaning they give up the right to take their cases to court.  For instance, court records show a Sacramento family tried to sue Sky-High Sports in Rancho Cordova in 2008 after their son was injured just days before his ninth birthday. But according to court records, the boy’s mom signed a waiver, so Sky-High sued her back. The complaints were eventually dismissed.

Today, that liability waiver is the first thing you see on the Sky-High Sports website, and we found similar waivers for all the top-rated trampoline parks in the area. It’s something Blumenthal says helps the industry to hide the problem.  “They’re trying to hide individual deaths, the total number, everything about these injuries that may cast them in a bad light,” Blumenthal said.  While Freewalt also signed a waiver, he is still speaking out.  “When you go to places like this, you sort of trust in the fact that things are safe,” Freewalt said.

The Hurns have decided to try and sue Jump Highway anyway, but the business has since closed and declared bankruptcy.  Sky High Sports is now under new ownership. The previous owners did not return our request for comment about suing the family of the injured boy, but the world’s largest trampoline park company, Circus Trix, said, as with any sport, there are inherent risks, but they are committed to ongoing safety evaluations and take numerous measures to reduce risk at their parks.

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Maybe it is time to try China’s program.  You enter the country illegally you go to “re-education camp”.  Let them become educated in the American way.  If that is what they want they should not have a problem with it.

As the Trump administration has leveled more threats to close the southern border to immigrants, the number of illegal immigrants stopped at the border hit 103,492, the highest in five years, according to just-released U.S. Customs and Border Protection numbers.  The agency seized around 92,607 immigrants at the southern border last month, including 53,000 family units and 8,900 unaccompanied immigrant children.  On individuals, it was an increase of 25,723, or 38% over February. And it was a one-year boost of 55,217, or 148% over March last year, according to a quick analysis by Princeton Policy Advisors.  An earlier version of this story focused on the 92,607, but Border Patrol and the administration said the fuller accounting was 103,492.

That is the highest number on the Border Patrol chart of apprehensions and inadmisibles. The chart dates to October 2014.  “More than 103,000 migrants were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at the southern border in March,” said an official. “We continue to face an unprecedented and unsustainable surge of migrants flooding to our border,” said the administration in the updated accounting of the numbers.  One said, “#USBP agents apprehended 92,607 individuals along the Southwest border in March—averaging nearly 3,000 apprehensions a day. 76 percent of those apprehended were from 3 countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.”  The second said, “#USBP has experienced a rapid increase in family units and unaccompanied children, who make up 62 percent of Southwest border apprehensions. Family unit apprehensions have increased nearly 375 percent compared to the same time period last FY.”

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on fire defending President Donald Trump’s call to action on the Southern border. Part of the problem is Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who claims, “All Latinos have a race-based right to migrate to the United States.” Well, Sarah just torched AOC and her cohorts with a flamethrower. You’ll love this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Photo Credit: YouTube/Screenshot, Alex Wong/Getty Images) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the new face of the Democratic Party. The former bartender speaks, and the rest of the Democrats nod in unison. And besides her ridiculous Green New Deal, AOC has been really vocal promoting open borders. Now, every Democratic candidate for president has adopted the disastrous open border policy. And their cohorts in the courts, the Obama-appointed judges are causing mayhem. The 29-year-old Congresswoman said , “ All Latinos have a race-based right to migrate to the United States.” But that’s not all. “We have to have … respect for the right of human mobility,” Ocasio-Cortez told a press conference on Capitol Hill. “ It is a right. We are standing on native land, and Latino people are descendants of native people. We cannot be told and criminalized simply for our identity or our status.” So, let’s get this straight. AOC claims all Latinos should be able to just walk right into America and say, “This is our land.” This may sound bonkers to you, but this is exactly what the fringe far-left organizations like La Raza stand for. This is nothing new, but up until last year, no self-respecting Congressman would ever condone open borders. Welcome to the new rabid far-left Democratic Party. And thanks to AOC, we just received another blow from the leftist courts. “A federal judge on Monday blocked an experimental Trump administration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through the U.S. immigration court system, a major blow to President Trump’s efforts to stem the surge of crossings at the southern border,” the Washington Post   reports.  That means every migrant who presents themselves at our Southern border will be allowed to enter the United States. Sure, they will be told they have to show up at a court hearing, a court hearing they will never show up for. With record numbers coming every day, this activist judge just followed AOC’s crazy and dangerous open border policy. Well, Sarah Sanders was on fire: “A liberal activist judge in San Francisco ruled the United States and Mexico can’t work together to address asylum issues at the border,” tweeted the press secretary. “ It’s sad that Mexico is now doing more to secure our border than Democrats. President Trump will do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe .” A liberal activist judge in San Francisco ruled the United States and Mexico can’t work together to address asylum issues at the border. It’s sad that Mexico is now doing more to secure our border than Democrats – President Trump will do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe. — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) April 9, 2019 Mexico was in agreement that they would hold the migrants on Mexican soil until they got fed up and returned home or until U.S. judges could hear their case for asylum. Now, this Obama judge decides the United States can’t house the migrants on Mexican soil. It’s idiotic. Senator Tom Cotton, a major Trump supporter, was also livid. “Another crazy immigration ruling from activist Obama judge. Even if Mexico agrees to keep migrants, judge says no! Must release into our country! Democrats will do anything for open borders,” Senator Cotton tweeted. Another crazy immigration ruling from activist Obama judge. Even if Mexico agrees to keep migrants, judge says no! Must release into our country! Democrats will do anything for open borders. https://t.co/zrGlhEVgk0 — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 9, 2019 The point is almost 99% of these migrants have no case for asylum. They are being used as pawns by leftist organizations that are being funded by Democrats to encourage the migrants to come to the United States. It’s a big game. Think about it. How are these poor migrants sustaining themselves on this 6-week trip? These Democratic-funded organizations are giving them food etc. “Meanwhile, the U.N. is committing resources to the [migrant] caravan. In essence, it uses U.S. taxpayers’ money to fund a violation of their own border. That way, the U.S. can join all the other countries with a mass immigration problem,” Investor’s Business Daily reported.  In other words, the U.N. has set up shop in Mexico and is pushing these migrants to go to the U.S. Once again, the U.N. violates a member nation’s right to protect its own borders. Fortunately, President Trump is having none of it. For those who have suggested Trump’s move is illegal under the “Posse Comitatus” Act of 1878, they’re wrong. That law’s letter and intent were to keep the U.S. from using federal military troops against its own citizens. No one intended for this law to force our borders open to those who would violate our sovereignty. Sarah Sanders is right. It’s AOC and her Democratic cohorts who are aiding and abetting the migrants, who are just pawns, to cause the border crisis. They have powerful friends at the United Nations, and there is one man standing in their way: President Donald Trump. Every American citizen needs to learn the entire truth and do whatever they can to spread this information far and wide. The content on Mad World News expresses a personal opinion, advocates a point of view (e.g., on a social or political issue), or is self-promotional. For the purpose of fact-checking, it should be rated as Opinion according to Facebook policy .