Arkansas Gov. signs bill banning abortions on babies because of race, sex, or Down Syndrome

Last week Gov. Sarah Sanders signed a good law to prohibit certain abortions if Arkansas’ pro-life laws ever change.

In Arkansas, since 2022, the law has stood resolute: abortion is forbidden, except when a mother’s life hangs in the balance. This year, the state’s legislature, with a steely determination to fortify its pro-life ramparts, passed a measure to tighten any conceivable loopholes in its already robust framework.

 
Before the U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic 2022 ruling, which cast Roe v. Wade into the dustbin of history, Arkansas had already woven a tapestry of laws—dozens of them—designed to shield the unborn. These included noble statutes that barred the termination of a child’s life merely for being the “wrong” sex or for bearing the perceived burden of Down Syndrome. “Technically, those good laws are still on the books,” and they lie in wait, ready to spring into action should a federal court ever dare to tamper with Arkansas’ near-total prohibition on abortion.

Enter S.B. 591, championed by Sen. Clint Penzo (R, obviously — Springdale) and Rep. Karilyn Brown (R — Sherwood). 

This bill, now Act 973 of 2025, delivers a clear message: should Arkansas’ pro-life laws ever be weakened or struck down, no abortion shall be permitted on the vile grounds of an unborn child’s race. It is a law that speaks to first principles, to the unyielding truth that every life is sacred, regardless of the arbitrary markers we impose.

 
The measure sailed through the Arkansas House and Senate with a mandate that brooked no dissent, and on April 22, Gov. Sanders affixed her signature, enshrining it as law. The Family Council, stalwart defenders of the cause, rightly proclaimed their pride in collaborating with legislators to see this through. 

“We appreciate lawmakers’ continued dedication to upholding the sanctity and dignity of human life,” they declared, and who could quibble with that? Gov. Sanders, in signing this “good law,” has added another laurel to Arkansas’ crown as a bastion of moral clarity.

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Tom Cotton ridicules 'partisans and obstructionists' in DOD who reportedly plan to block Trump's plans

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) strongly criticized any individuals [aka obstructionists] within the Department of Defense who are attempting to protect specific norms or policies that they anticipate will be challenged by the incoming Trump administration.

"It appears that partisans and obstructionists inside the Department of Defense are laying groundwork to defy or circumvent President Trump’s plans for both military and civil-service reform," Cotton wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in reference to reports of such strategizing among DOD employees.

"These actions undermine civilian control of the military and our constitutional structure of government."

[H/T Fox News Digital]

There were "informal discussions" earlier in the month among Pentagon officials regarding what the department would do if President Trump, as Commander in Chief, ordered the military for a domestic purpose or even if he simply fired a substantial number of useless employees.

One anonymous defense official was quoted in the report telling CNN, "Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders." 

"But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?" they reportedly asked.

But the other question is, if illegal aliens are flooding into the country posing a threat to America as it's known that some are terrorists, murderers and otherwise criminals, isn't the military supposed to protect the people? 

Israel and Ukraine know the answer to that question.

Trump promised during his campaign to shake up the federal government, whether it be through staffing changes or reorganization. Some reports have indicated specific people, those who are as useless as a monkey wrench for a trout, are being looked at for termination once he enters office again. 

In fact, the majority of Americans, those who voted for President-elect Trump, want to see the government shrunk in size, and Vivek Ramaswamy, who was tapped by Trump along with Elon Musk to do the job, agrees with the American people.

Ramaswamy and Musk will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in Trump's administration with the goal of reducing the size of our bloated government and cutting spending while increasing efficiency.

Senator Cotton criticized the progressive Defense Secretary in his letter for "promulgating false claims that the incoming administration plans to arbitrarily fire uniformed leaders."

He also slammed Lloyd for a message after the election that the military would specifically follow "lawful orders" from Trump. Cotton said this was "a thinly veiled and baseless insinuation that President Trump will issue unlawful orders."

Lloyd is that aforementioned monkey wrench, as he has made the military an experiment in woke ideology. He has supported gender dysphoric people in the military and has fully supported make-believe President Biden's directive allowing transgender people to serve openly. In fact there have been cases under Lloyd's tenure where the taxpayers footed the bill for several military members to have their members removed and dress as women soldiers and sailors.

"I have to observe that these actions and reports only prove the need for reform and fundamental change at the Department of Defense. And, of course, while inappropriate and annoying, these tactics are also useless because no action by the outgoing administration can limit the incoming president’s constitutional authority as commander-in-chief," Cotton wrote.

Cotton was elected to serve as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference in the new Congress. He is also expected to take Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) place as the head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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AOC doubles down on defunding cops: crime wave is "hysteria" after AR cop is murdered

Comrade Comatose

Far-left Rep. and former bartender Alexandria Obviously-Comatose (Socialist-NY) doubled down on her call for defunding the nation's police. In a video this week, the anti-American congresswoman claimed that concerns about exploding crime rates across the country are "hysteria," in spite of crime statistics proving otherwise. But why let facts get the better of your feelings when you're an unintelligent leftist?

Large cities have seen an average surge in crime by more than 30 percent.

“The FBI does not release full statistics until September, but homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year,” The New York Times, reported, adding that “in the aftermath [of George Floyd’s death], some criminologists attributed the spike in homicides to hesitancy among residents to turn to the police for help.”

Ocasio-Cortez downplayed the rise in crime, claiming that news headlines were “hysteria.”

WATCH: Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the concerns over the spike in crime "hysteria" pic.twitter.com/MMZ2dlAhpM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch)

Ocasio-Cortez agrees with far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who said during the video event that the police should be defunded. Idiots like Bowman and AOC base these feelings on outliers like George Floyd's death by former Officer Derek Chauvin. They fail to consider the facts that clearly show that Blacks disproportionately commit more violent crimes than any other demographic in the U.S. and unarmed Blacks are killed by police far less than Whites--less than 20 per year out of the millions of police interactions that happen annually.

But the left never lets the facts get in the way of their feelings. 

“I agree with Representative Bowman," AOC said through her nose, "that I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away [like her Green New Deal] and that a big, you know, major causes of this — and by the way, I also think it’s important context because we hear on the news and media, they perpetuate this idea of crime wave, crime wave, crime wave, right? And so this idea that a lot of us are panicked thinking that we are at some unprecedented level that we’ve never seen before.”

Bowman is facing controversy over his repeated calls to defund the police after The New York Post reported this weekend that he requested special police protection at his home in New York earlier this year. It's the do as I say, not as I do hypocrisy you frequently hear from the left.

“About a week after the Jan. 6th incident at the Capitol, we received a request from the Congressman’s office for increased police presence at his residence,” Yonkers PD Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos told the New York Post. “In response, our Intelligence Unit was notified of the request and the local precinct instituted what is called a directed patrol at the Congressman’s home for the next two weeks.”

Politopoulos reportedly said that nothing unusual had been detected in Bowman’s neighborhood for years. The report noted that the day after the January 6 riot, Bowman told a radio host that he had been “safe pretty much throughout the event.”

A spokeswoman for Bowman claimed that the police were called because Bowman “received threats,” although she did not elaborate on the “threats,” and she reportedly ducked questions about Bowman’s hypocrisy given his repeated support for defunding the police.

Meanwhile, and Arkansas police officer was fatally run over and dragged by a vehicle on Saturday. Two suspects were captured and charged with capital murder and attempted murder.

Officer Kevin Apple

Shawna Rhae Cash, 22, and Elijah Anadoloza Sr., 18, were charged with capital murder and attempted capital murder and booked into the Benton County jail hours after they allegedly peeled out of a White Oaks, Arkansas, convenience store parking lot, leaving the officer dead, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

The suspects were finally caught in Bella Vista, approximately 100 miles north on the border with Missouri.

Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple, a 23-year law enforcement veteran, and his partner Officer Brian Stamps were attempting to speak with the driver of the parked Jeep when one of the suspects rammed a patrol vehicle and struck Apple, FOX 16 in Little Rock reported. He died at the scene.

Apple and Stamps wanted to speak to the driver because the department was searching for a Jeep suspected to be linked to a property crime. It appears they found it and it cost the officer's life.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson ordered flags in the state to be flown at half-staff Saturday.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas tweeted that he was praying for Apple's family and friends "during this terrible tragedy. Our police officers risk their lives each day to protect us from violent crimes, and we must continue to support their efforts."

AOC, ever the leftist, disagrees.

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Federal judge stops Biden administration from blocking new oil and gas drilling leases

A federal judge in Louisiana, Terry A. Doughty has stopped the socialist Biden administration on Tuesday from blocking new gas and oil drilling leases on federal land, thus putting a damper on Biden's extreme left environmental agenda that would obviously harm American energy workers. Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in the case.

“Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court in Monroe said the administration doesn’t have the legal right to stop leasing federal territory for oil-and-gas production without approval from Congress,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The WSJ added that Doughty noted that “states suing the federal government—largely southern and coastal states—will be harmed immediately as the pause prevents them from collecting lease bids and bonuses from oil-and-gas prospectors.”

Thirteen states in all sued the Biden administration over its radical and anti-American proposal: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

The court's decision was a clear setback for Biden, who in his total lack of wisdom ordered suspension of new leases for fossil fuel development on public lands and waters in January while a review of the permitting process was carried out. He also halted work on the Keystone Pipeline, which put thousands of American workers out of a job while allowing Russia to be the sole providers of energy to Germany with their Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 

Biden has never once gotten a foreign policy idea correct and he isn't planning on ruining his record of incompetence.

The suspension — which did not affect existing drilling permits — fulfilled an election pledge and marked the president’s most significant move against the energy sector after he campaigned on a “transition away from oil.”

“The omission of any rational explanation in cancelling the lease sales, and in enacting the Pause, results in this Court ruling that Plaintiff States also have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of this claim,” Doughty wrote. “Millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake. Plaintiff states have a reliance interest in the proceeds derived from offshore and on land oil and gas lease sales.

Judge Doughty added, “Local government funding, jobs for Plaintiff State workers, and funds for the restoration of Louisiana’s Coastline are at stake.”

Officials who support American energy praised the decision as a victory for the rule of law, workers, and American citizens.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said the ruling was “great news for Louisiana energy workers and their families!”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the ruling was “a major win for the Constitution, for workers employed in the oil and gas industry and for all Americans who have felt pain at the pump.”

Rep. Jody Arrington (R-TX) responded to the news by saying that the ruling could “save a million jobs and preserve a safe and affordable supply of energy for all Americans.”

The left is coming for your money, your jobs and your preferred transportation.

Joke of the Day: California is considering a $500 to $1000 tax on the purchases of new, gas-driven vehicles to dissuade their purchase in lieu of electric cars. And if you think it will stop there and not affect older vehicles in the future, you're smoking something skunky.

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Charges filed over firebombing police vehicles in AR thils summer

Four alleged firebombers, including a "journalist" from Arkansas have been charged with firebombing police vehicles over the George Floyd riots this past summer when he died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. 

It's likely Floyd died from having enough drugs in his system to kill a stable of police horses, but it made a convenient excuse to call the death a result of police brutality.

The "journalist." Renea Baek Goddard, 22, belonged to the gaggle of scumcrumpets that broke into a police compound a threw Molotov cocktails [not to be confused with Mazel Tov cocktails] at Little Rock PD cars, Fox News reported.

Fox reported that Goddard “has worked for KUAR Public Radio in Little Rock, contributed to the LGBTQ news outlet Autostraddle and interned for Arkansas Public Media after attending the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

On December 17, the DOJ issued a press release announcing the charges after their month-long investigation. 

“On August 25, 2020, a large group of protestors held a demonstration at the Little Rock Police Department 12th Street Substation. The following morning, officers arriving for duty noticed that several police vehicles in their parking lot had punctured tires. Officers also saw two green glass bottles with fluid inside that smelled like gasoline. The bottles were examined and found to be consistent with improvised incendiary devices, commonly referred to as Molotov cocktails,” the DOJ said in the release.

“Today’s arrests send a message that violence targeted toward law enforcement will not be tolerated,” U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland said in the release. “Breaking into a police compound and fire bombing a police vehicle with a homemade explosive device is clearly not a peaceful protest. Those who would target law enforcement with violent acts will not do so in the Eastern District of Arkansas without the full resources of the federal government being deployed to assist our state and local partners in bringing those responsible to justice. They will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

In addition, the Complaint points out the surveillance footage reflected that two individuals were moving near the parking lot after the protests, and a flaming object can be observed being launched into the parking lot area. Cooperating witnesses stated that the Molotov cocktails were assembled at Brittany Dawn Jeffrey’s residence. 

The Complaint states that on August 28, 2020, an Arkansas State Police vehicle was vandalized and burned while stored in a fenced parking lot at Arkansas State Police Headquarters in Little Rock. One vehicle had been set on fire, one had been vandalized with spray paint, and several others had punctured tires. Investigators discovered a detonated Molotov cocktail made from a bottle of brandy.

Surveillance video from that incident shows three people entering the vehicle storage area wearing dark clothing and backpacks. The video shows them bending down in a motion consistent with slashing vehicle tires as well as throwing a lighted object into a police vehicle. The Complaint states that witnesses informed law enforcement that Renea Goddard, Emily Nowlin, and Aline Espinosa-Villegas were those responsible for the incident. 

Federal search warrants were executed to obtain the locations of their cell phones, and cell site data confirmed that their cell phones were in the location of Arkansas State Police Headquarters on August 28, 2020. It evidently pays to leave your cell phone at home when planning to riot, loot, and destroy property.

Along with Baek Goddard, the so-called "journalist," the other three arrested for the incident were Brittany Dawn Jeffrey, 31; Emily Nowlin, 27; and Aline Espinosa-Villegas, 24.

And while these cretins would like to see all police departments defunded and put out of business, there are plenty of folks today in Nashville, TN who are thankful their police were on the job when the bomb in Anthony Quinn Warner's RV went off.

It's time to put Antifa and Black Lives Matter out of business.

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