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Friday, February 26, 2021

House Passes Equality Act in Party Line Vote

Just three Republicans jumped ship. Every single Democrat voted in favor (Daily Wire). Another story notes “…the legislation will still meet a hurdle in the evenly divided Senate, where it will need 60 votes to overcome a legislative filibuster” (National Review). From Dr. Albert Mohler: We’ve seen the Equality Act before, but this time it is introduced with a president who has declared his active support for the revolutionary legislation. It represents the greatest threat to religious liberty in my decades of American public life. Our only hope is that somehow this legislation can be stopped in the Senate (Townhall Review).

U.S. Military Strikes Iran-Backed Targets in Syria

From the story: In the first known military action by President Biden, multiple facilities were struck by American F15 fighter jets that targeted Iraqi border-based Shia militia groups, Kait’ib Hezbollah and Kait’ib Sayyid al Shuhada. Both forces are suspected of having received funding and military support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (Fox News). From White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki in 2017: Also what is the legal authority for strikes? Assad is a brutal dictator. But Syria is a sovereign country (Twitter). In case the link vanishes, it has been preserved (Twitter).

Rules Kill Democrat Dreams of Including $15 Minimum Wage in Relief Package

The Senate Parliamentarian said the wage hike does not fit the criteria to be included.

Fox Busines

Democrats Seek to Eliminate Conservative Media

The article begins: Imagine if a pair of Donald Trump’s allies in Congress had sent a letter to cable company CEOs in 2017 blasting CNN and other progressive media outlets and asking why their content is still broadcast. Then imagine that a GOP-run committee in Congress staged a hearing on the societal menace of fake news and the need for government and business to rein in the hostile press. The media would have treated that as a five-alarm political fire, an existential threat to a free press, the First Amendment and political norms, and a step toward authoritarian rule. “Democracy dies in darkness,” and all that. Yet that’s exactly what Democrats in Congress did this week, targeting conservative media outlets, but the media reaction has been silence or approval.

WSJ

Hasbro Drops Mr. from Mr. Potato Head

Explaining “culture has evolved” (Business Insider). From Dan Proft: Why all the furor over Mr. Potato Head today? Isn’t Hasbro simply reflecting the prevailing culture where humans change parts, identities like they are soulless toys? Is the absurdity of the woke just now being realized by the asleep? (Twitter).

Oreo Cooking Tweets “Trans People Exist”

It’s a strange world that even cookies feel the need to speak woke.

Twitter

Unprecedented Number of Students Missing from Schools Since Pandemic

From the story: In North Carolina, a state education official told state lawmakers in December that more than 10,000 students had not been accounted for. New Mexico could not account for more than 12,000 students at the start of the school year, children who were enrolled before the pandemic but never showed up in the fall. This month, the state’s education department reported that more than 2,700 students were still missing.

Washington Post

Harsanyi: MSNBC Hires Anti-Semite to Host Show

Giving a slot to former Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hasan (The Hill). From David Harsanyi: A guy who regularly peddles anti-Semitic tropes for Qatar, once said gay men are no better than pedophiles, and calls non-Muslims “cattle,” gets a show. But if you don’t believe there are 90 genders, you get your book banned (Twitter).