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January 9, 2024
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| Defense Sec. Austin's Vanishing Trick Stuns and Vexes Both Sides |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| When people criticize the Biden administration's lack of leadership, they usually don't mean it literally. But Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to keep his days-long hospitalization a secret from everyone (including the president) has rocked the D.C. establishment. Not since the Supreme Court leaker - a mystery that remains unsolved - has the political world been so stunned by a breach of protocol. What possible "elective surgery" could have made the chief of America's military operations AWOL at such a critical time? And why on earth wouldn't he tell his team? |
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| Conservative Jeff Landry Inaugurated as Louisiana's 57th Governor |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The Bayou State has a new governor - a stalwart conservative Christian dedicated to faith, family, and freedom. On Sunday, former Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) was sworn in as the state's 57th governor, succeeding Democrat John Bel Edwards. Landry was elected governor in an October primary election, winning with 52% of the vote and averting a runoff election. |
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| Biden Obsesses over January 6 as Military Extremism Study Comes up Empty |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| With a family-pummeling economy, the worst border crisis on record, a new war in the Middle East, and ongoing protests openly endorsing genocide against Jews, this weekend President Joe Biden decided to spend his time commemorating the third anniversary of the January 6 capitol riot with a major speech. In President Biden's analysis, the embarrassing incident deserves to be remembered as a quasi-holiday on the order of 9/11 or the attack on Pearl Harbor, but a recent report commissioned by his own administration undercuts his chosen narrative. |
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| Outstanding - Ep. 61: Public Good or Personal Gain - Should Congress Members Own Their Own Stocks? |
| Podcast with Joseph Backholm and Matt Carpenter |
| Why is it that most congressional members take office being relatively poor and then slowly amass large sums of money over time? Joining host Joseph Backholm to discuss members and their personal stocks is FRC Action's Matt Carpenter. Recently, two members of Congress proposed a policy amendment that would ban congress members from owning or trading individual stocks. Due to their influential and powerful positions, congressmen and women can be exposed to crucial information that would help them pad their own financial portfolios. Looking at Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and other financial disclosure forms Matt and Joseph ask the question - What are the motives for individuals pursuing congressional and senate seats? The public good or personal gain? |
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| Over 80% of Dems Want Trump Removed from the 2024 Ballot |
| by Dan Hart |
| The startling results of a new poll have revealed that over 80% of Democrats believe that former President Donald Trump should be removed from 2024 presidential ballots. The poll comes despite the fact that Trump has not been formally charged with, much less convicted of, a crime that would constitutionally disqualify the leading Republican presidential contender from running. |
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| 'Lawless Overreach': SCOTUS Blocks Biden's Attempt to Overrule Idaho Pro-Life Laws |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| It's the start of 2024, and the Biden administration is beginning the new year the same way it ended the last one: with strong opposition to states' pro-life laws. |
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| Pro-Life Coffee Company Raises Nearly $300K to Support Pregnancy Resource Centers |
| by Samantha Kamman |
| Founded in 2021, Seven Weeks Coffee is named after the stage in a woman's pregnancy when her unborn child is the size of a coffee bean. The company supports the mission of pro-life pregnancy centers, which provide free resources and counseling services to pregnant women and families by donating 10% of its earnings from coffee sales to them. |
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| Claudine Gay Makes Us Ask, What Is an Education For? |
| by Rob Schwarzwalder |
| Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard. Her defenders are claiming that opposition to her continued leadership of that institution is grounded in racism or the threat to the historic prominence of European-descended persons in positions of power. So she herself claims in a defiant op-ed in The New York Times. |
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