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December 7, 2021
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Republicans in Top Form on Draft Day
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by Tony Perkins
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In a Congress run by Democrats, it's not every day that conservatives can celebrate a common-sense victory. So when word leaked that there'd been a dramatic change to the military spending bill, most Republicans were waiting for the other shoe to drop. By late Tuesday morning, the rumors about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) turned out to be true: As part of a new compromise between negotiators, the language over forcing women in the military draft has been completely eliminated -- a stunning turnaround that wouldn't have been possible without a handful of leaders in the House and Senate, and more than 200,000 messages from people like you.
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Confronting Another Evil Empire: China
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by Tony Perkins
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Nearly 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan rightly characterized the then-Soviet Union as "the focus of evil in the modern world." Were he alive today and surveying the international scene, he might direct that same remark to China.
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Mutate, Update, Repeat: The Flu-ture of COVID
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by Joshua Arnold
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You may know it as the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, but you'll soon know "Omicron" in another context; it's the designation of the latest virulent variation of coronavirus sweeping the globe. First reported after Thanksgiving in southern Africa, the new variant has already reached 17 states in the U.S.A. -- even though the Biden administration imposed travel bans on eight African nations.
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On today's show: Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Missouri and member of the House Armed Services Committee, celebrates the provision mandating women to register for the military draft being dropped from the National Defense Authorization Act; Sam Brownback, former Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, remembers former U.S. Senator Bob Dole; Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, discusses the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor; Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, talks about his investigation into China's crackdown on Uyghurs.
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