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Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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SCOTUS Votes 5-4 to Keep Title 42 in Effect, for Now
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Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration’s plans to end a pandemic-era policy allowing the quick expulsion of migrants from U.S. borders without the opportunity to seek asylum. The Trump-era policy, known as Title 42, had been set to expire last week, but Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. paused that plan to give the high court time to weigh the issue ( Washington Post). CNN: The 5-4 order is a victory for Republican-led states that urged the Supreme Court to step in and block a lower court opinion that ordered the termination of the authority. The Biden administration has said it was prepared for the authority to end and had put in place precautions to guard against confusion at the border and any potential surge of migrants. In its order, the court also agreed to take up the states’ appeal this term. The court said it would hear arguments on the case during its argument session that begins in February 2023 ( CNN). Greg Abbott: Supreme Court orders Title 42 border restriction to be kept in effect ( Twitter).
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Southwest Airlines Leaves Thousands Stranded Over Holiday Weekend
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National Review: Travelers have been stranded across the country as Southwest Airlines, hobbled by a holiday weekend of extreme winter weather, continues canceling and delaying thousands of its flights, an outcome that the company’s leaders have called “unacceptable” ( National Review). NPR: Southwest canceled more than 2,900 flights Monday — at least 70% of its schedule for the day — and more than 2,500 flights Tuesday as of 9:10 a.m. ET — at least 60% of its schedule, according to flight tracker FlightAware ( NPR). Los Angeles Times: Many people stranded at California airports now must wait days to get back on a Southwest flight ( Twitter). Washington Examiner: President Joe Biden has promised to hold airlines accountable over the high number of flights that have been canceled in recent days and said some travelers may be entitled to compensation ( Washington Examiner).
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Taiwan to Extend Mandatory Military Service Amid Tension With China
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Axios: Taiwan will extend and reform its period of mandatory military service to one year as the country continues to contend with heightened tensions with China, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced at a press conference Tuesday. Taiwan’s current four-month mandatory military service program is no longer sufficient to meet the country’s combat readiness “in terms of quantity and quality of training,” Tsai said ( Axios). Washington Post: “China’s expansion [of military aggression] continues to impact the international order, threatens regional peace and stability, and affects cross-strait relations,” she said. “The existing system does not meet combat readiness requirements.” The change to a longer period of service is set to take effect in 2024. Men born after 2005 will be required to serve in the military for a year sometime after reaching the age of 19 and before turning 37. Military service is optional for women ( Washington Post).
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Time Is of the Essence for Kevin McCarthy to Secure Votes for Speakership
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The Hill: It’s crunch time for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Members of Congress departed Washington on Friday with the group of House Republicans voicing opposition to McCarthy for Speaker showing no signs of wavering, setting up a dramatic Jan. 3 Speaker’s vote — or series of votes — on the first day of the 118th Congress. At least five House Republicans have explicitly said or strongly indicated they will not vote for McCarthy to be Speaker, and several others have withheld support for him as they push for commitments on governing priorities and rules changes that would empower individual members. But with House Republicans heading into the majority with 222 seats to 212 for Democrats and one vacancy, that opposition could keep McCarthy from securing the gavel. He needs 218 votes, assuming all members are present and voting for a candidate. As the GOP leader aims to secure the votes to be Speaker, he is making overtures to his critics, and his allies are mounting a forceful show of support. No Speaker vote has gone to a second ballot in a century ( The Hill).
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Rep-Elect George Santos Admits to Lying on the Campaign Trail
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National Review: New York congressman-elect George Santos is facing calls to step aside after he admitted on Monday to having fabricated key aspects of his education and work experience while on the campaign trail. However, the 34-year-old Republican told the New York Post that despite the controversy, he has no intention of relinquishing the seat he won in November to represent Long Island ( National Review). Townhall: According to the Post, Santos, 34, misrepresented several claims on the campaign trail, including where he went to college, and that he claimed to have worked for well-known Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. The Times article found that Santos did not attend college or work at the firms he claimed to have been a part of ( Townhall). “My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry,” Santos said Monday ( New York Post).
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Gas Prices Could Rise to $4 Per Gallon by Memorial Day, GasBuddy Projects
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Washington Examiner: The national average gas price is expected to fall over the coming months but could rise back up to $4 a gallon as early as May, according to estimates from GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices across the country. The daily average price of gas has continued to drop since early October 2022, falling to roughly $3.10 a gallon on Tuesday. GasBuddy predicts the national average in the summer of 2023 could get as high as $4.25 a gallon before petering out and falling back down to $3 by the end of the year ( Washington Examiner). CNN: “2023 is not going to be a cakewalk for motorists. It could be expensive,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CNN ( CNN).
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Car Thefts Hit Record Number in 2022
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Washington Times: The number of cars stolen in the U.S. in 2022 is expected to surpass 1 million for the first time, shattering previous records and leaving law enforcement struggling to keep up. Through the first nine months of 2022 more than 745,000 vehicles were stolen across the country, according to data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. That’s the highest number of cars stolen during the first nine months since 2008 and a 24% increase over pre-pandemic levels, the NICB said ( Washington Times).
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Home Prices Drop for Fourth Straight Month
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Bloomberg: Prices fell 0.5% from September, the fourth consecutive monthly decline for a seasonally adjusted measure of home prices in 20 large cities, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index. The market began downshifting earlier this year as the Federal Reserve started hiking its benchmark interest rate, with the goal of easing high inflation that’s been driven in part by skyrocketing housing costs ( Bloomberg).
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Pandemic Learning: $70K in Lifetime Earnings Could Be Lost, Stanford Study
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Wall Street Journal: Learning loss could shave $70,000 off the lifetime earnings of children who were in school during the pandemic, according to a new study by a Stanford economist. The sobering forecast is based on an analysis of the sharp declines in the scores of eighth-graders on national math tests taken between 2019 and 2022. If the learning losses aren’t recovered, K-12 students on average will grow into less educated, lower-skilled and less productive adults and will earn 5.6% less over the course of their lives than students educated just before the pandemic, said Eric A. Hanushek, a Stanford University economist who specializes in education. He said the losses could total $28 trillion over the rest of this century ( Wall Street Journal). Dennis Prager: You lied about the vaccine. You lied about lockdowns. And you lied about masks. You ruined tens of millions of people’s lives around the world. You brought hunger to vast numbers of people. You brought unemployment around the world. You ruined American kids’ lives in the millions ( Daybreak Daily).
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Big Mac by Conveyor Belt: First Automated McDonald’s Opens in Fort Worth, Texas
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PJ Media: A taste of things to come, the “first mostly non-human-run” McDonald’s has opened in the Fort Worth area. … The noteworthiness is that this development is a bellwether of current trends and things to come. Other fast food giants like White Castle are flirting similarly with fully replacing outdated human resources with tech ( PJ Media). Fox Business: The Fort Worth, Texas, location uses technology to minimize human interaction when ordering and picking up food. The restaurant features an “Order Ahead Lane” where customers can receive orders by conveyor belt, Newsweek reported ( Fox Business). CNBC: This year brought a flurry of automation announcements in the restaurant industry as operators scrambled to find solutions to a shrinking workforce and climbing wages. But the efforts have been spotty so far, and experts say it will be years before robots pay off for companies or take the place of workers ( CNBC).
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Dennis Prager rants about how the medical establishment lied about the vaccine, lockdowns and masks, and how society has paid the price
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Dennis Prager: On the issue of the vaccine, they need to study all health outcomes over the long term, vaxed versus unvaxed. And that was a law but they have ignored it for three and a half decades, and they have not been held accountable.
I have lost all faith in the medical profession and in the...
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Hugh Hewitt explains how and when private enterprises like Twitter cross the line into being government actors
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Hugh Hewitt: I want to lay out for my audience so that you understand. There are two kinds of private companies: private-private companies, and publicly traded private companies. Neither of them are the government, all right? Neither of them are the government. The First Amendment does not apply to...
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Brandon Tatum sees the left’s obsession with Trump’s tax returns as an attempt to shame and humiliate
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Officer Tatum: Now let’s talk about Donald Trump’s tax returns. Now, I was expecting for Donald Trump to have strip clubs and all kinds of stuff on his tax returns, foreign trips to see prostitutes or something on his tax returns, given the way that the left has been begging and pleading for...
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Sebastian Gorka talks with Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn about what’s behind the J6 referrals and ahead for President Trump
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Senator Blackburn, I have to ask you: Yesterday, Congress forwarded multiple criminal referrals to the DOJ for the 45th president of the United States, that if they went through and he were convicted, would lead to 40 years in prison for President Trump. Your reaction to the...
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Hugh Hewitt and Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher talk about the need to come together and move forward in the 118th Congress
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Hugh Hewitt: Now, Congressman Gallagher, you’re probably awash with unsolicited advice. And I know my colleagues and myself, we’ve all written about the Select Committee on China, and I think the general verdict is to start with the threat, the military threat, the espionage threat and move...
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Eric Metaxas talks with stream.org’s John Zmirak about the metastatic corruption of big tech, hastened by the misapplication of Section 230
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Eric Metaxas: John, thank you for coming on. I want to ask you the same question I always ask you. What have you been writing about at stream.org? What shall we discuss first, my friend?
John Zmirak: I’ve been closely following the Twitter revelations and what they show us about the internal...
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Dinesh D’Souza digs into the Twitter files to expose just how deep the corruption goes
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Dinesh D’Souza: Now, it’s become clear from the January 6th cases and also from other cases that the FBI functions kind of like a criminal gang. It’s more dangerous than a normal gang for the simple reason that these are thugs with badges. They have the authority to get subpoenas. They can...
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Mike Gallagher offers his take on Elon Musk's "should I step down as head of Twitter" poll
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Mike Gallagher: Holy cow, Elon Musk is gonna step down as head of Twitter! This is pretty wild. Do you think that when Elon Musk decided Sunday night to throw up a poll question saying, “Should I step down as head of Twitter,” that it would go well for him?
I don’t know. I have no idea what...
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Charlie Kirk talks with Kirk Cameron about how libraries host drag queen story hours but consider Cameron’s new children’s book off limits
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Charlie Kirk: Joining us now is Kirk Cameron, a great American, and really someone I enjoy. Kirk, welcome back to the program.
Kirk Cameron: Hey, Charlie, great to be talking with you. I’m a grateful American and I’m really thankful to be talking with you today.
Charlie Kirk: So Kirk, you’ve...
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