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Senate Approves Rail Strike Deal Sending the Bill to President Biden’s Desk
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NBC: The Senate passed legislation Thursday to avoid an economically catastrophic rail strike, one day after the House approved the measure. It now goes to President Joe Biden, who said he “will sign the bill into law” ( NBC). Sen. Tim Scott: President Biden kicked the can down the road in September when he claimed to have “reached a deal” to prevent the rail strike. We wouldn’t be facing this crisis if he had focused on the issue at hand instead of playing politics during an election season ( Twitter). Sen Ted Cruz: A rail strike could cost the American economy $2 billion a day. The results would be catastrophic. Unfortunately, what Biden and the Democrats have decided to do is squash the demands of railroad workers ( Twitter).
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California Reparations Committee Recommends Doling Out $223,200 to Slave Descendants
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Daily Mail: A reparations committee in California has suggested that descendants of slaves in the state could be compensated $223,200 each for ‘housing discrimination’. The nine-member Reparations Task Force was formed by California Governor Gavin Newsom as part of the country’s largest ever effort to address reparations for slavery. A focus of the California task force has been ‘housing discrimination’ – it has been estimated that it would cost around $569 billion to compensate the 2.5 million Black Californians for setbacks between 1933 and 1977. That is more than California’s $512.8 billion expenditure in 2021 – which included funding for schools, hospitals, universities, highways, policing and corrections. It has until June 2023 to submit its final recommendations to the Legislature ( Daily Mail). John Cardillo: California wasn’t a slave state. Let that sink in ( Twitter).
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Biden’s Student Loan Program on Pause While Supreme Court Hears Legal Challenge
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New York Times: The Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to decide whether the Biden administration had overstepped its authority with its plan to wipe out billions of dollars in student debt. The justices put the case on an unusually fast track, saying they would hear arguments in February. In the meantime, though, they left in place an injunction blocking the program ( New York Times). ABC News: The program, which would grant up to either $10,000 or $20,000 in federal debt relief to student borrowers who make under a certain income, depending on the kind of loan they used, has been blocked by lower courts since November ( ABC News). Forbes: 26 million. That’s the number of federal student loan borrowers who had applied for student loan forgiveness before applications for the program were suspended on November 11, according to the Biden Administration—more than half of the 43 million borrowers who are eligible for debt relief (Forbes).
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Mitch McConnell Calls Out Democrats’ Hypocrisy in Pointed Floor Remarks
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Washington Times: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell broadsided his Democratic House counterpart Thursday, painting Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as an “election denier” for previously questioning former President Donald Trump’s 2016 win amid claims of Russian interference ( Washington Times). New York Post : “Many of the same individuals and institutions on the political left, who spent the years 2017 through 2020 yelling about the importance of norms and institutions, have themselves not hesitated to undermine our institutions when they’re unhappy with a given outcome,” McConnell said ( New York Post) . McConnell’s remarks : U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding free speech and the rule of law ( Newsroom).
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303 Creative to Fight for 1st Amendment Before Supreme Court Monday
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This case carries massive first amendment implications. Most significant case we have had in years. Alliance Defending Freedom: Lorie Smith is an artist who runs her own design studio, 303 Creative. She specializes in graphic and website design and loves to visually convey messages in every site she creates. She was excited to expand her portfolio to create websites that celebrate marriage between a man and a woman, but Colorado made clear she’s not welcome in that space. A Colorado law is censoring what Lorie wants to say and requiring her to create designs that violate her beliefs about marriage. In July 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against Lorie, holding that Colorado can force her to create websites promoting messages that contradict her beliefs about marriage ( Alliance Defending Freedom). Scotusblog: On Dec. 5 the justices will hear oral argument in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a clash between free speech rights and LGBTQ rights ( Scotusblog).
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EU Seeks to Cap Russian Oil Price at $60, Poland Holds Out
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Wall Street Journal: The executive body of the European Union has asked its 27 member countries to cap the price of Russian oil at $60, officials and diplomats involved in the discussions said. The plan, using the clout of the EU’s insurance and shipping industries, is part of the West’s effort to crimp Moscow’s ability to wage war in Ukraine while keeping global crude prices steady. But whether that plan can go forward hinges on a response from Poland. All 27 EU countries need to sign off on the proposal for it to move ahead as planned on Monday—no other bloc member raised an objection to the plan on Thursday. Poland asked for extra time to consider it, Polish and other EU officials said, who added a decision wouldn’t come before Friday ( Wall Street Journal).
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Appeals Court Rules Special Master Appointed to Review Trump Documents is Improper
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Townhall: An appeals court ruled that the appointment of a special master after the search of former President Trump’s Florida home was improper, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention of top-secret government information. The ruling now clears the way for them to at least 22,000 pages as part of their investigation the entire tranche of documents seized during an FBI raid in August on Trump’s Florida residence ( Townhall). National Review: The former president could appeal to the Supreme Court. The chance that the justices would agree to hear the appeal — at this early stage, when Trump has not been charged and the Justice Department has not yet attempted to use any of the Mar-a-Lago documents against him — is nil ( National Review).
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Biden Willing to Meet with Putin to End War Against Ukrainian
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New York Times: Standing beside the French leader who has championed the need for dialogue with Moscow, President Biden said he would talk to President Vladimir V. Putin, but only in consultation with NATO allies and only if the Russian leader indicated he was “looking for a way to end the war.” Mr. Biden’s public expression of conditioned willingness to reach out to Mr. Putin gratified French officials and provided unexpected support for President Emmanuel Macron’s outreach. Mr. Biden noted that Mr. Putin had shown no interest yet in ending his invasion, but said that if that changed, “I’ll be happy to sit down with Putin to see what he has in mind” ( New York Times).
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India On Pace to Become World’s Third Largest Economy
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CNBC: India is set to overtake Japan and Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy, according to S&P Global and Morgan Stanley. S&P’s forecast is based on the projection that India’s annual nominal gross domestic product growth will average 6.3% through 2030. Similarly, Morgan Stanley estimates that India’s GDP is likely to more than double from current levels by 2031. The country posted a record 20.1% year-on-year growth in the three months to June 2021 ( CNBC).
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Oakland Approves Measure Giving Adults $100 for Donating to Political Campaigns
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Fox News: Oakland, California, passed a measure that gives residents taxpayer-funded “Democracy Dollars” to donate to political campaigns in a bid to increase voter turnout and to broaden campaign opportunities to candidates who lack deep financial resources. Characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle this week as an “under the radar measure,” the bill was supported by 74% of voters in the Nov. 8 election. The Fair Elections Act, placed on the ballot as Measure W, requires the city to send adult residents, including non-U.S. citizens who hold Green Cards, four $25 vouchers every two years to be donated to local political campaigns. The measure will be funded by the city’s general fund, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and will total at about $4 million per election cycle ( Fox News).
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Mike Gallagher tries to untangle the narrative of the infamous, media-flamed Trump dinner with Kanye West, Milo Yiannopoulos and Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago
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Mike Gallagher: I had a long conversation with a colleague of mine this morning that I want to share with you. I had just seen a clip of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Mika. They’re all mortified at Trump having dinner with Kanye and Nick Fuentes, the Hispanic supremacist. And they call him a...
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Charlie Kirk dispels any notion that Apple is a fair-thinking, free-speech platform and instead is a multi-trillion-dollar company in bed with the Chinese Communist Party
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Charlie Kirk: A conservative thinker, author, or writer can probably tell you why government without checks and balances, without a proper structure, can lead to tyranny. As conservatives in kind of the conservative think-tank world, it’s well accepted and with a fair amount of detail and...
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Sebastian Gorka connects the dots on a troubling pattern of sexualizing children and celebrating the perverse
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: What makes human beings human? What makes you sentient or intelligent? One of the things that’s special about humans is not just our capacity to absorb information. It’s also our unique capacity to see patterns. To recognize when seemingly disparate things are actually...
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Senator Tom Cotton about why one more seat in the Senate is so important
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Hugh Hewitt: I want to switch over to Georgia. I just talked to Ronna McDaniel. They’ve got 400 RNC staffers down there. Everybody is going to help out Herschel. But people need to know they’ve got to vote early this week until Friday at 6:00 or next Tuesday. How important is a 50-50 Senate as...
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Dennis Prager presents the reality-denying gender options for applying for San Francisco’s new GIFT program
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Dennis Prager: Boy, I remember when I reported that Facebook had 56 gender options. Now, San Francisco has 130?
“San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income for Transgender People gives applicants 130 gender, sexual orientation, and pronoun options to identify as. Individuals can select gender F” —...
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Eric Metaxas talks with Tim Tebow about the football great's new 365-day devotional, "Mission Possible"
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Eric Metaxas: Folks, welcome to the program. I often ask people like, have you won the Heisman Trophy? Some people go, yeah. Then I go, well, have you won it twice? And they go, no. Well, that’s where they and I differ with my current guest. His name is Tim Tebow, and it’s always a joy to have...
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