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Brittney Griner Released in Exchange for “Merchant of Death”
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CBS: Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for international arms dealer Viktor Bout ( CBS). Robby Starbuck: This is who Joe Biden just freed ( Twitter). National Review: In 2010, John Brennan, Obama’s deputy national security advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said in an interview that capturing and trying Bout was crucial to thwarting the flow of illegal arms sales to dangerous terrorist entities ( National Review). Benny Johnson: Meet Brittney Griner & Marine Paul Whelan. Both Americans. Both were convicted in Russian courts on dubious charges. Both serving multi-year sentences in Russian prison. Brittney hates America Paul served America. Guess which one Biden traded a terrorist to free ( Twitter)?
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Returning Viktor Bout to Russia Will Result in More Death
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Breitbart: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) predicted on Thursday that leftist President Joe Biden’s decision to trade imprisoned basketball player Brittney Griner for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the “merchant of death,” would result in people dying as rogue states interpreted the move as open season to arrest Americans ( Breitbart). Robbie Gramer: Bout, who was swapped for Griner with Russia, was convicted in 2011 for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the FARC, a U.S.-designated terrorist group in Colombia, to be used to kill Americans according to the Justice Department ( Twitter). Townhall: “You said the United States would stay vigilant. It sounds like the administration still sees [Viktor Bout] as a security threat, no?” KJP: “We are always going to stay vigilant.” “So you still have security concerns?” KJP: “I’m not the intelligence committee here” ( Twitter).
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House Enshrines Same-Sex Marriage Act
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New York Times: The House on Thursday gave final approval to legislation to mandate federal recognition for same-sex marriages, with a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers voting in favor of the measure in the waning days of the Democratic-led Congress. With a vote of 258-169, the landmark legislation cleared Congress, sending it to President Biden to be signed into law and capping an improbable path for a measure that only months ago appeared to have little chance at enactment ( New York Times). Daily Wire: The bill would not force states to allow same-sex couples to marry under the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision. It would, however, make it so that any “person acting under color of State law” fully recognizes marriage between two people in another state and that the federal government must recognize marriages if they were valid in the state where the marriage occurred ( Daily Wire).
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Military Revokes Vaccine Mandates
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Fox News: President Biden’s administration is furious that Congress is poised to remove the military’s universal vaccine mandate, a major concession to Republicans on Capitol Hill. Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been pushing Congress to keep the vaccine requirement as a non-negotiable, but Republicans appear to have successfully negotiated an end to the policy in exchange for passing the military’s budget proposal, according to the Washington Post. Biden officials argue ending the mandate will cost lives, while Republicans say they are standing up for individual autonomy ( Fox News). CNN: The provision to rescind the military’s Covid vaccine mandate comes after congressional Republicans pushed for its repeal. In a statement Tuesday night, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said, “the end of President Biden’s military COVID vaccine mandate is a victory for our military and for common sense” ( CNN).
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Republicans Introduce Border Plan
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Townhall: Dozens of Republicans introduced a four-pronged plan to secure the southern border that aims to limit the number of illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally. The measures the plan would implement would be to finish building the border wall, boost the retention of Border Patrol agents, ban federal grants from going to non-governmental organizations that support and assist U.S.-bound migrants, and designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations ( Townhall). Fox News: Earlier this year, Republicans issued their “Commitment to America” plan which pledged to take action on a number of border security measures and asylum reforms in order to close loopholes, protect national security and discourage a flood of migration that saw more than 2.3 million migrant encounters in FY 2022, and is on track to eclipse that number in FY 2023 ( Fox News).
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Iran Begins Executing Detained Protesters
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Daily Wire: The despotic, tyrannical Iranian regime has executed a protester against the government for the first time since protests surged after the mid-September death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman who died in police custody. According to the HRANA news agency, the government and its allies killed at least 459 protesters as of November 29, including 64 minors ( Daily Wire). Reporter Masih Alinejad: He was only 23 years old. This morning, just before sunrise, the Islamist regime in Iran executed Mohsen Shekari, a protester they had arrested in Tehran. Mohsen gave his life for freedom. He wanted a normal life. One more brave soul killed by this bloody regime ( Twitter).
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Ukraine Claims Russia to Use Nuclear Plant to Launch Rocket Strikes
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Associated Press: Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine’s shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials claimed Thursday, raising fears Europe’s largest atomic power station could be used as a base to fire on Ukrainian territory and heightening radiation dangers. The claim could not be independently verified ( Associated Press).
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Former President of Peru Faces Rebellion and Conspiracy Charges After Attempting Coup
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Reuters: Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo faced a first court hearing on Thursday over his arrest on charges of rebellion and conspiracy, as his successor issued her first pronouncements from the presidential palace. Castillo’s swift fall from power on Wednesday came after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to remove the leader following his failed attempt to rule by decree and dissolve Congress to avoid a third impeachment vote ( Reuters).
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DOJ Asks Judge to Hold Trump Office in Contempt of Court
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Washington Post: Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena to return all classified documents in his possession. One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government, according to two of these people ( Washington Post).
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Federal Trade Commission to Sue $69 Billion Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger
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Hill: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted Thursday to sue to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, adding to the aggressive antitrust action taken under Democratic Chairwoman Lina Khan. The FTC argued that if Microsoft closes the deal, it would have the power to harm competition by being able to change terms to withhold access to Activision’s content, such as the popular “Call of Duty” game, as well as to manipulate pricing and degrade game quality ( Hill). Bloomberg: Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard deal is the company’s largest ever and one of the 30 biggest acquisitions of all time. The transaction would give Microsoft some of the most popular video game franchises, such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. The Xbox maker already owns the Halo franchise and Minecraft virtual-world-building game ( Bloomberg).
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Charlie Kirk responds to voter frustration and despondency with the simple admonishment — don’t give up, go vote!
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Charlie Kirk: It’s interesting. I actually assumed incorrectly that if you take time to watch this program — thank you — that you would also just automatically vote. Turns out there’s a fair portion of you that are completely done and that are willing to voice that opinion.
And I just want...
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Mike Gallagher shakes a finger at Republicans who found something better to do than vote for Herschel Walker in the Senate runoff
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Mike Gallagher: Obviously, bad news out of Georgia, and I wish I could spin it. I wish I could tell you that it isn’t bad news or isn’t that bad. It’s not catastrophic. I mean, even with Herschel winning, the Democrats technically still had a Senate majority. And I suppose that might have...
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Mike Gallagher shakes a finger at Republicans who found something better to do than vote for Herschel Walker in the Senate runoff
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Julie Hartman: The Trump organization yesterday was convicted on all counts of tax fraud. So, I want to give a little bit of an explanation as to what was at stake here and what was going on.
So, companies have different ways of compensating their employees. Obviously, there’s overt compensation,...
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Dennis Prager spells out the nonsense spouted by a California English teacher who says proper grammar is a legacy of white supremacy
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Dennis Prager: I’d like you to hear a high school teacher in Oroville, California. Was it up at TikTok? So, if you are watching my show, you can actually see this fool, another female teacher ruining children and the civilization in which we live. Their stupidity is equaled by their arrogance....
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Alaska senator Dan Sullivan about Biden’s job-killing delay and cancellation of Alaska oil exploration
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Hugh Hewitt: Senator Sullivan, let’s talk now about Alaska and oil drilling. President Biden and his team keep going out and saying there are thousands and thousands of unused permits. Is he actually obstructing oil and gas development in Alaska?
Sen. Dan Sullivan: A hundred and ten percent,...
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Brandon Tatum discusses Elon Musk’s Twitter reveal, exposing evidence of the real collusion and censorship that ran rampant in 2020
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Officer Tatum: I wanna talk about the Twitter files. I don’t know, maybe I could do a better job at like being up to speed on who’s doing what. I don’t know who these people are. I know Elon Musk shared this one guy’s post, and if I had my phone, I’d know his name. But Elon Musk shared...
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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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Dinesh D’Souza discusses the anti-lockdown demonstrations in China, unfolding to be an important moment in history
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Dinesh D’Souza: We are seeing massive protests break out in China. Not just in one place, but in many places. And there’s every indication that these protests are spreading. The images on social media are incredible because not only do you see large crowds, but you see the bravery of...
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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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