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December 3, 2021
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Senate Strikes Funding Deal in the Saint Nick of Time
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by Tony Perkins
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If federal workers were hoping for an early start on their Christmas vacation, they're out of luck! No one is turning off the government's lights any time soon, thanks to a deal struck in the Senate late Thursday night. With Friday's shutdown deadline breathing down Democrats' necks, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea for his party to preside over another disaster and finally caved to the conservatives' demand: a vote on the vaccine mandate.
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Profiles in Courage -- and Cowardice
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by Arielle Del Turco
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A global social media movement asking #WhereIsPengShuai has yet to find convincing answers. The Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared after she publicly accused a former vice premier of China of sexually assaulting her. The social media posts in which she made the accusation were removed within 20 minutes of posting. But Peng's fans were faster than Chinese censors, saving her posts and demanding answers about her disappearance.
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Powerful Words about Biden's 'Unconscionable Retreat' in Nigeria
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by Lela Gilbert
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For several years, Family Research Council has focused attention on the troubled African country of Nigeria. We have frequently reported about the rampant violence and killing of Christians by radical Islamist terrorists -- in the eyes of many seen as a "slow-motion genocide." In early 2021, FRC updated an extensive report on the relentless violations of religious freedom in that vast and influential African nation.
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On today's show: Matt Rosendale, U.S. Representative for Montana, discusses Congress approving a continuing resolution and efforts to use the Congressional Review Act to nullify the Biden vaccine mandates; Erin Hawley, senior counsel to the appellate team at Alliance Defending Freedom, explains the possible outcomes of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court case; David Closson, FRC's Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, shares how Christians can be praying for the Dobbs case.
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