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Report: 180 Republicans Crush Liberals' Most Progressive Agenda In Midwest State.

Combating the liberal agenda can seem like a near impossibility these days.

The Left controls the mainstream media, our nation's education system, Hollywood, and

Silicon Valley.

Add it all up, and that's a recipe for controlling the message and stifling opposing viewpoints.

However, strides can still be made when conservatives actually stand together and push back against

things they don't agree with.

And 180 Republicans in one Midwest state gathered together to decimated Liberals' most precious,

progressive agenda in one fell swoop.

From The Daily Caller:

Kansas GOP voted to pass a resolution Saturday that indicates the party will oppose all efforts

to surgically or hormonally change one's body based on the notion that the physical

form may not correlate with their identity (or identity of choice).

A committee of roughly 180 Kansas politicians (including delegates from each congressional

district in the state) passed the resolution, according to The Wichita Eagle's Sunday

report, which affirms self-perception does not and should not possess the gravity to

change one's biological sex.

The document opposes all surgical and hormonal procedures for identity alteration(s).

In recent years, the Left has been going out of its way to bring transgender issues to

the forefront.

The overriding message has been that the issue is as common as the sun coming up in the morning.

Reality tells a vastly different story, but liberals have never let small things such

as facts hinder the advancement of a topic they hold near and dear to their heart.

Any questions that may push back against that line of thinking are met with outrage and

indignation, and that makes it awfully tough for one to do anything more than throw their

hands in the air and walk away.

That seems to be the ultimate goal of the Left on this and countless other issues, but

headway can still be made when folks stand together.

Of course, any successes on that front will be met with further name calling from those

on the other side of the argument.

Equality Kansas doesn't see the move as one of love, however, calling it "an undignified

and crass assault."

When an opposing viewpoint is referred to as an "assault," it's quite clear that

serious problems are afoot with the debate as a whole.

If one can't defend their position without resorting to name-calling and baseless claims,

then there's a really good chance that they lack clarity on the argument that's dancing

around in their heads.

As the Kansas GOP has successfully demonstrated, common sense can ultimately rule out if the

urge to walk away while shaking your head is resisted.

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GOLD! BC, Boston celebrate US Women's Hockey win - Duration: 0:42.

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Top US Army engineer talks Puerto Rico recovery - Duration: 0:44.

A top U.S. Army engineer says he's not happy that many Puerto Ricans still don't have power

five months after Hurricane Maria put the island in the dark.

According to ABC, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite said during an interview Wednesday:

As of Wednesday, about 84 percent of residents on the island had power.

In October, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló had pledged to restore power to 95 percent of the island

by late last year.

But even he said that estimate was "aggressive."

ABC reports the Army Corps of Engineers now hopes to reach that goal by the end of March.

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ASK US QUESTIONS - 3K Q&A (LEAVE QUESTIONS HERE) [CC] - Duration: 1:52.

*spooky theremin music*

Hey folks welcome back to my channel. If you're new here welcome! My name is Natasha.

This is my husband Geoff. And today's video is just a little video. To leave any questions you guys might have for us.

Basically, you know, I put up my wedding video.

I've done vlogs in the last month or so and you guys really like Geoff and so I figured for

3,000 subscribers and

because of the wedding video was kind of just put up and all that stuff.

Um so leave us any questions. So that can be questions for me. Book related questions for Geoff. Book related. Wedding related.

Our relationship related. Anything you guys want to ask! Leave them in the comments down below. This will be the spot to um,

to leave them. It's just easier for me to go through and answer them that way. Get creative with them. We'll answer most stuff.

Right? Yep. Yeah, yeah most stuff. Most stuff. Yeah, yeah.

Dirty nasty questions? Probably not. Probably not. Can leave us questions down below and I'll answer them and

yeah, it should be interesting. Just say like "ask us some questions peeps".

Ask us some questions...PEEPS.

Yo-yo ask us some questions peeps.

Perfect. Hi guys welcome back to my channel. Yo ask us some question peeps! Just cut it

Wedding stuff. Book stuff.

Our lives stuff. Video game stuff. Video game stuff. You guys want to ask Geoff questions about what he likes to do and all that

stuff.

Yeah, leave us any question down below. We'll do like a massively long

awesome Q&A and uh

answer any questions you guys have for us. Yo ask us some questions peeps.

Byeeeeeeeeeee. Bye.

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Australia balances close ties to US and China - Duration: 1:46.

Australia and China are going through a rough patch in their relationship right now — and

the U.S. seems like it wants to make things worse.

Australia is one of four nations, including the U.S., currently considering a joint initiative

to compete with China's massive Belt and Road infrastructure spending.

The still-tentative project could help counter what the U.S. views as an attempt to project

China's influence across the globe.

This sort of project fits well with Australia's close security and ideological alliance with

the U.S.

But Australia also has over 100 billion reasons to steer clear of a trade fight with China.

China is Australia's No. 1 trading partner — the two countries exchanged over $123

billion worth of goods and services from 2016-2017.

And China's financial ties to Australia are only growing: Chinese investment in Australian

agriculture jumped from $300 million to $1 billion last year.

Trade with China has helped Australia avoid a recession for almost 27 years in a row,

but Australian lawmakers are growing cautious of the country's influence.

An Australian politician was forced to resign late last year due to his links to Chinese

donors and after he was recorded seeming to support China's controversial presence in

the South China Sea.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has proposed a ban on foreign political donations

in response to China's influence.

And Australian lawmakers received a report in January about the Chinese government's

alleged attempts to infiltrate Australia's business and higher education sectors.

And the U.S. isn't likely to make things any less tense between Australia and China — President

Trump's choice for U.S. ambassador to Australia, Adm. Harry Harris, has repeatedly criticized

Chinese influence in the region.

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North Korea's trade deficit with China reaches US$1.7 bil. - Duration: 2:02.

The economic sanctions targeting North Korea may be starting to bite.

New data shows...

Pyongyang is selling less to its biggest trade partner, China.

Our Cha Sang-mi has more on the gloom that awaits unless the regime change its ways.

U.S. news website Business Insider on Wednesday reported that North Korea has fallen into

a one-point-seven billion U.S. dollar trade deficit with China, its biggest and most important

trade partner.

NK News, a U.S.-based website that provides news and analysis about North Korea, also

pointed out at contrasting trade figures.

While North Korea spent over three-billion dollars on Chinese imports in 2017,... it

only exported one-point-six billion dollars in goods.

The North's exports last year represent a dive from 2013 when it exported nearly three-billion

dollars in goods to China.

The slump comes after the UN imposed and pushed for "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang a year

ago by restricting its trade, especially on rare earth minerals.

Hinting at some alternative source of funding, questions rise over how Pyongyang manages

to operate in the face of such trade deficit.

According to experts, the culprit could be the dollarization of Pyongyang's economy,

where foreign currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen are preferred

over its own banknotes.

"Actually North Korea's private marketplace has a lot of foreign currencies.

North Korean individuals also have some savings.

So the government is using this money to continue the imports.

But as soon as the cash dries out, imports will stop dramatically."

The expert also said that North Korea has been searching for profits in cyber- or crypto

market-hacking, but that activity, even when paired with other illegal acts, is not enough

to sustain the regime's economy.

As such, many experts are saying that North Korea's trade won't be blooming anytime soon

under the ongoing sanctions which were imposed following its sixth nuclear test last September.

Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News.

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Proud US Olympians Get Nasty Surprise For Winning Gold After Anti-American Athletes Lose Miserably - Duration: 5:38.

Proud US Olympians Get Nasty Surprise For Winning Gold After Anti-American Athletes

Lose Miserably The USA women's hockey team just defeated

Canada's women's hockey team in a thrilling shootout, finally claiming the gold medal

for the USA.

It was an exciting event that saw so many happy people cheering for the Americans.

However, there was one athlete from the Canadian women's hockey team who showed the most

significant display of unsportsmanlike behavior that one could imagine.

It was rightfully disrespectful and not something that should be done in Olympic sporting events

or presentations.

The Canadian team lost in the last minute shootout after a 2-2 tie to the United States

in the women's hockey final.

This gave the gold medal to the US team for the first time.

Canadian Jocelyne Larocque was so upset about this loss that the moment she was given the

silver medal she took it off, while she was still on the podium and in front of the whole

world.

Millions witnessed her disrespect for the second place silver medal and also the disrespect

for the American team.

The response was not very good.

No one wants to win second, but everyone takes their Olympic loss with honor and respect.

Sadly, that wasn't the case when the American women's hockey team scored the game-winning

goal and received the first place gold medal.

Later in an interview, she said it's frustrating because she worked so hard to get the gold

but instead she ended up with the silver.

That's the way sports and competition works.

What's even worse is the fact that when she makes a scene like that, then it loses

all value for that silver medal her team just won.

She lost all the blood, sweat and tears they all put in practice all those years.

No one will ever remember the US win, or the Candian second place finishes anymore, all

they will remember is the fact that one of the players on the Canadian team was disrespectful

on worldwide tv and brought her team and whole country down by acting this way.

Via The Chicago Tribune:

"Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson skated slowly back and forth toward the net, showing forehand,

then leaning quickly to the left to fake a backhand that pulled Canadian goalie Shannon

Szabados out of the crease.

On the sport's biggest stage, against the Americans' greatest rival, with all her

teammates leaning eagerly over the boards watching her every move, the three-time Olympian

came back to her forehand to finish off a dazzling, triple-deke move by sliding the

puck into the net past the outstretched glove of Szabados for the deciding goal in the sixth

round of a shootout thriller.

"I knew when that went in that Maddie was going to stop the next one," Lamoureux-Davidson

said.

That would be 20-year-old goalie Maddie Rooney, who stuffed the last two Canadian shooters

to wrap up a 3-2 victory Thursday that snapped the Americans' 20-year gold medal drought

and ended Canada's bid for a fifth straight title in the first shootout in an Olympic

women's final.

The Americans piled over the boards, throwing gloves in the air before piling on top of

Rooney on the ice — 20 years after their last gold medal in women's hockey and 38

years to the day after the men's famous "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet

team in group play at Lake Placid.

"Joy's the only word that comes to mind," said Gigi Marvin, a three-time Olympian and

at 30 the oldest American on the roster.

This victory capped a year that started with the Americans threatening a boycott of the

world championships to secure more money and the same kind of treatment that USA Hockey

gives to the men's team.

"They should make a movie on it," forward Hilary Knight said.

"We had all the drama and everything.

It's sort of a storybook ending to an incredible series of accomplishments."

Nothing was more incredible than the move by Lamoureux-Davidson, who decided to use

the deke called "Oops, I did it again " — something she had practiced uncounted times in practice,

skating around tires set up on open ice to mimic defenders.

"I'm just thrilled beyond words," the beaming Lamoureux-Davidson said with a U.S.

flag draped around her shoulders and gold hanging on her chest.

"I've butchered it a thousand times, just ran into tires, tripped over tires just working

on my hands.

Just glad it worked out this time."

Her twin, Monique Lamoureux-Morando , said coach Peter Elander, now at Ohio State, had

taught the sisters the shootout move when the three were at the University of North

Dakota.

"Not everyone can take the pressure like that, and she took it like a champ," she

said.

Marvin and Amanda Kessel also scored in the shootout, another nail-biter ending four years

after Canada won its fourth-straight gold medal in Sochi after rallying to stun the

Americans in overtime."It's not like she has never won gold before.

The Canadian team has won the gold for the past four Olympics.

Maybe her best bet would have just been to just suck it up, say it was not your day,

and go back into the locker room to throw a tantrum.

Instead, this video clip will be used for generations to show future athletes what you

don't do on worldwide television.

Maybe now the Olympics will have to incorporate a mandatory sportsmanship etiquette course

before being allowed to compete in the Olympic games, don't you agree?

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US women's hockey team finally gets gold in dramatic final against rival Canada - Duration: 5:16.

US women's hockey team finally gets gold in dramatic final against rival Canada

womens hockey team finally returned to the top of the Olympic podium with a dramatic, heart-stopping display of hockey against rival Canada.

The USA won in a nail-biting shootout -- 20 years after they last won gold in 1998 when womens hockey made its debut as an Olympic sport. broke Canadas streak of four straight Olympic gold medals in womens hockey.

players celebrated on the ice, draped in the American flag, as they gained a measure of redemption for their heartbreaking overtime loss four years ago.

Its going to be part of our legacy, gushed Hilary Knight, who scored the first goal of the game.

The things we have gone through together on and off the ice, the characters, the group of women we have in this room, its quite incredible..

The Lamoureux twins played key roles in the victory. Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored the game-winner in a shootout with a dramatic, circus shot of a goal in the sixth round of shots to put the USA ahead.

U.S. goalie Maddie Rooney, born the year before the U.S. last won the gold, made the pressure-filled final save, stopping Canadas Meghan Acosta to give USA the win they have coveted.

Jocelyne needed her sisters -- and linemates -- magic on the ice to get that chance for glory.

Its been a dream come true to do this, said Jocelyne. We have pushed each other since we were little and our brothers have kicked our butts along the way.

To contribute the way we did today, we have prepared for this and what we have gone through the last month..

In the third period, Monique Lamoureux-Morando streaked down the ice on a breakaway after Rooney stopped a 2-on-1 rush with just over six minutes to play, and lifted a shot into the upper right corner of the net, the only place Canada goalie Shannon Szabados couldnt get to it, to tie the game at 2-2.

lost to Canada in the 2014 Olympic finals in Sochi, when they blew a two-goal lead in the final minutes and lost in sudden-death overtime.

The final on Thursday couldn't have been more evenly played. outshot their rivals, 41-31, over the course of three regulation periods and one overtime.

But the Canadians stepped it up on the defensive end, deflecting shots one after the other, to constantly thwart the U.S. attack.

got on the board first late in the first period, when Knight deflected Sidney Morins shot on the power play to go up 1-0, exciting the USA fans in the crowd, who outchanted the Canada fans for much of the game.

But Canada took over in the second, a period in which the U.S. had dominated opponents for much of the tournament, scoring twice and turning up the heat defensively to shut down the American attack.

They led 2-1 until Lamoureux-Morando scored with 6:21 left in the game. This team will go down in history not only for their play on the ice, but for their willingness to fight for equal rights.

Last March, they threatened to sit out the world championships if USA Hockey did not give in to demands for equitable treatment to the men's team and provide improved salary and benefits to women.

USA Hockey looked for replacement players, but women's hockey players in the United States stood together and won increased wages and perks.

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins Gold For First Time In 20 Years - Duration: 9:44.

U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins Gold For First Time In 20 Years

The Olympics are nearing an end, but that doesnt mean the nail-biting competitions have slowed down.

Late Wednesday night, the womens Olympic hockey match aired in the United States and saying it was suspenseful is an understatement.

Canada hasnt lost since the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, whereas Team USA hasnt won a gold in womens hockey in 20 years.

In fact, the United States and Canada are the only two teams to ever win gold in womens Olympic hockey.

But early Thursday morning, the U.S. womens hockey team took home gold.

With a score of 2-2, the competition went into overtime.

At that point, it was clear the stakes were high.

Sudden death overtime sounds scary — thats because it is.

It adds 20 extra minutes to the game and only eight players are allowed on the ice — four Americans and four Canadians.

If the game is still tied after the 20 minutes is up, both teams compete in a shootout.

If you tuned into the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, this might feel like deja-vu.

Back then, fans watched nearly the same exact situation unfold.

Team USA forward Meghan Duggan reflected on the loss with Sports Illustrated.

Hindsight is 20-20.

You lose a gold medal and you say to yourself, 'What should we have done?' Had we won, it would have been different.

You say, 'We did everything right!'.

The team had a lot of time to think about what went wrong in that 2014 game.

But when it came down to it, the 2018 gold medal match was much different from the 2014 one.

Thats because the game went into a shootout after neither team scored a goal in overtime.

During a shootout, each team gets to take five shots.

And, to make things even more nerve-racking, both teams made two of the five shots and the shootout went into a sixth round.

Ultimately, Team USAs Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored and Canada didnt.

According to the commentators, U.S. goalie Maddie Rooney was one of the major stars of the Olympic match.

At just 20 years old, she managed to block Canada from scoring for a long time.

Not to mention, much of the shootout depended on her ability to deflect the puck.

In fact, if she wouldnt have blocked Team Canada's Meghan Agostas shot during the shootout, the results could have been very different for both teams.

After the team won gold, she tweeted a humble we did it with a gold medal emoji.

Prior to the 2018 Winter Games, Team USAs Hilary Knight, who plays forward, spoke with TIME about how badly the entire team wanted this victory, especially after losing to Canada in 2014.

"When you go through heartbreak it changes you, she told the magazine.

This drive, this feeling inside your stomach, everything you do is focused on 'how do I bring a gold medal back to the United States?" Clearly, that focus and dedication paid off.

But winning an Olympic gold wasnt the only reason the womens hockey team absolutely shined this past year.

Members of the team also threatened to pull out of the world championships if USA Hockey didnt improve their salaries.

They claimed, according to CNN, that the mens team had better marketing and benefits.

An agreement was eventually reached.

Needless to say, both 2017 and 2018 have so far been monumental years for womens hockey.

Heres to hoping the team can turn this win into a streak.

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins First Gold in 20 Years - Duration: 2:26.

U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins First Gold in 20 Years

In a nail-biter of a final, the U.S. women's national hockey team won their first Olympic gold for the first time in 20 years, destroying Canada's winning streak.

Regulation time ended with a tie, leading to 20-minute overtime, then a penalty shootout, then a sudden-death shoot-out.

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored the winning goal.

But 20-year-old goalkeeper Maddie Rooney had to make one more save in order to end the game — which she did.

Team USA won after three hours of play.

If you needed any more reason to be a fan, the team had previously boycotted the World Championships, protesting unequal pay in USA Hockey.

They were reigning world champions at the time.

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Flip Lang Ep. 6 | A US newscaster asked Ferdinand Marcos about Imelda's shoes! - Duration: 4:31.

How do we connect the Iran hostage crisis,

broadcast journalist David Brinkley,

the EDSA People Power Revolution,

January 19, and the province of Nueva Ecija?

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students

took over 60 American hostages

at the US Embassy at Tehran, Iran.

This was in supposed retaliation from America's allowing

the deposed Shah of Iran sanctuary.

Some say that the hostage taking was about more than

the Shah's medical care.

It was a dramatic way for the student revolutionaries

to declare a break with Iran's past

and an end to American intervention in its internal affair.

It was also a way to raise the intra and international profile

of the revolution's leader,

the anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981,

or 444 days after the crisis began

and just hours after President Ronald Reagan

delivered his inaugural address.

Many historians believe that that hostage crisis cost

Jimmy Carter a second term as president of the United States.

Now going back to the story,

everyday there were regular news updates in the US media.

Once such update, over the 444-day ordeal,

evolved into a daily evening news program called

Nightline with Ted Koppel.

Let's leave that story aside for a moment

and talk about a man named Ninoy Aquino.

Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino

was the husband of the future president of the Philippines,

Corazon Aquino.

He was known to have formed the leadership

of the opposition toward Ferdinand Marcos

who was then president of the Philippines.

It was past 1 PM on August 21, 1983

when the plane he was in arrived

in the Manila International Airport, which is now known as

the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

There were over 1,000 armed soldiers and police officers

in Manila that were assigned by the government

to provide security for Aquino's arrival.

However,

sometime between him exiting the plane

and boarding the vehicle provided for him,

gunshots were heard.

After the gunshots stopped,

they found Aquino dead on the tarmac.

A few years later after the murder of Ninoy Aquino,

Koppel was one of the American journalists

who kept badgering Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos

about all the political problems he faced

and asking if he still had US support.

When people heard I was coming out

to do an interview with you,

you know what most people are interested in?

Mm?

[Koppel] Your wife's 3,000 pairs of shoes.

How many shoes—

- [Koppel] How many shoes— - Can you wear

on 20 years?

[Koppel] Exactly, how many can you?

Well...

To quell the complaints, Marcos agreed to an interview

on This Week with David Brinkley.

Instead, he announced snap elections for 1986,

a year before his latest term officially ended.

The allegations of massive cheating and a series of protests

culminated in what is now known worldwide

as the EDSA People Power revolution.

Now the EDSA Revolution in 1986 was a highlight

for Philippine democracy

and was praised worldwide as a successful,

bloodless revolution.

The revolution showed the successful efforts to oust

a tyrant via demonstration

without violence and bloodshed.

Why a "revolution" you ask?

Well, it was a result of the long,

supposed suppressed freedom by the Marcos government.

Now EDSA, the venue for the revolution,

or Epifanio de los Santos Avenue,

was originally supposed to be named

Disinuwebe de Junio, or the 19th of June,

or Ramon Magsaysay.

Instead, it was named after one of the most intelligent

Filipinos of all time.

Who was Epifanio de los Santos y Cristobal?

A historian,

scholar,

painter, and all-around genius,

and also governor of the province of Nueva Ecija.

And that's Flip Lang, where we connect the dots

from every when and every where

and bring it home to the Philippines.

I'm Bill Velasco

and you're not.