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Additional Classified Documents Found in Biden’s Possession, House Judiciary Committee Opens Investigation
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Townhall: Biden’s “garage-gate” scandal keeps growing as it turns out even more documents were found at President Biden’s private residence earlier this week, but their existence was only disclosed on Saturday morning. On Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — who has insisted she’s being truthful with the American people and transparent about what she and the White House knows — told Americans that the search for classified documents in Biden’s possession was “complete” and Biden was “confident” in the process ( Townhall). NBC: The House Judiciary Committee announced Friday it’s opened an investigation into the Obama-era classified documents that were found in President Joe Biden’s Delaware home and his former Washington office. The panel, headed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding all documents and communications between the Justice Department, FBI, and the White House about the discovery ( NBC).
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Republicans Favor McCarthy as Speaker
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National Review: A majority of Republicans support Kevin McCarthy’s election to the House speakership. Despite the chaos surrounding the speakership race, 59 percent of Republicans approve of McCarthy’s election, 21 percent disapprove ( National Review). YouGov: Though McCarthy only recently became Speaker of the House, 42% of Republicans approve of how he’s handled the position so far. Just one in eight (12%) disapprove of how he’s handling the role ( YouGov).
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Christian Colleges Win in Court Where Title IX Threatened to Remove Funding
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WNG: Christian colleges won a major victory in court this week when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that threatened the schools’ federal funding. In April 2021, a group of LGBT students sued the U.S. Department of Education for exempting the Christian colleges from nondiscrimination rules. The lawsuit included personal statements from students at universities such as Baylor University. The students described how colleges disciplined or expelled them for not abiding by standards for Biblical sexuality—standards rooted in the schools’ religious beliefs ( WNG). Christian Post: Title IX of the Civil Rights Act forbids sex-based discrimination in education, but colleges upholding traditional definitions for marriage and sexuality can request exemptions that allow them to adhere to scriptural beliefs on matters of sexuality ( Christian Post).
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Supreme Court to Revisit Racial Preferences in College Admissions
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Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court is revisiting the issue of racial preferences in higher education. The last time it did so, in 2016, it upheld them by a 4-3 vote. All three dissenters are still on the court, along with three new conservative colleagues. In this term’s cases, involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina, Students for Fair Admissions asks the justices to hold that racial preferences violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, when practiced by public institutions, the 14th Amendment. The common expectation is that they will do so and definitively overturn 45 years of precedent permitting colleges and universities to discriminate in the interest of achieving “the educational benefits of a diverse student body” ( Wall Street Journal).
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Iraqi PM Defends US Troop Presence in Country
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Wall Street Journal: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, signaling a less confrontational posture toward Washington early in his term than his Iran-backed political allies have taken. Until now, Mr. Sudani has been publicly silent about his views on keeping U.S. forces in Iraq, saying only that he would consult Iraqi commanders. Some pro-Iranian militia leaders and Mr. Sudani’s supporters in Parliament are pressing him to reconsider the U.S. presence. That has left Biden administration officials unsure about the future of around 2,000 American troops in Iraq and a separate multinational training force under NATO command ( Wall Street Journal).
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Florida Judge Allows Ron DeSantis’ “Stop Woke Act” to Remain in Place
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Fox News: A federal judge ruled that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration did not violate a court order regarding the state’s “Stop WOKE Act,” which prohibits colleges from promoting critical race theory lessons and targets other “woke” concepts prevalent on higher education campuses ( Fox News). Townhall: According to a survey of 20,000 students across 55 colleges, there is a liberal bias within higher education. 50 percent of college students identified as liberal compared to 26 percent who were conservative ( Townhall).
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Former NBA Player, Enes Kanter Freedom Makes Turkey’s Terrorist List for Criticizing the Country’s Human Rights Practices
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National Review: Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, a native of Turkey, is on the country’s most-wanted-terrorist list for his comments about the government’s human-rights abuses. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is offering up to 10 million Turkish lira, or about $500,000, for information leading to his capture, Freedom told the New York Post. Freedom is a longtime critic of Erdogan, calling him a “dictator” and the “Hitler of our century.” Freedom expressed support for the coup attempt against Erdogan in 2016 and was later banned from the country as a result ( National Review). New York Post: He caused a rift in the league — which pulls in billions of dollars in revenue from China via nearly half a billion viewers — when he became an outspoken critic of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. He’s also been critical of Nike — a major NBA advertiser and player sponsor — for its manufacturing deals in China ( New York Post).
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Death Toll Reaches 29 in Russian Missile Strike on Ukrainian Apartment Building
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Associated Press: The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, the regional governor reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble. Russia also targeted the capital, Kyiv, and the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, ending a two-week lull in the airstrikes it has launched against Ukraine’s power infrastructure and urban centers almost weekly since October ( Associated Press). Maria Avdeeva: Horrifying images from Dnipro. The girl sits in her destroyed apartment on the fifth floor waiting for help. When rescuers take her down, she grasps a soft green toy and a golden garland. What kind of people dare to justify this ( Twitter)?
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68 People Confirmed Dead in Plane Crash in Nepal
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CNN: At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years. Seventy-two people – four crew members and 68 passengers – were on board the ATR 72 plane operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines when it crashed, Yeti Airlines spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said. Thirty-seven were men, 25 were women, three were children and three were infants, Nepal’s civil aviation authority reported ( CNN). Mekahlo: A deadly plane crash killed at least 68 people in Nepal. Rescuers are searching for survivors ( Twitter).
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Men Undergo Vasectomies to Oppose Overturning of Roe v Wade
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Life News: Liberal men are getting vasectomies in record numbers to protest abortion bans across the country in the wake of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Reports of increased numbers of vasectomies have been coming in over the last six months following the summer ruling from the Supreme Court. In fact reports began surfacing after Texas became the first state to successfully ban abortions in late 2021 ( Life News). Yahoo: Vasectomies offer a form of permanent birth control for men, and roughly 500,000 are performed every year in the United States ( Yahoo).
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Dinesh D’Souza compares Biden‘s classified docs with Trump’s, and finds that Biden’s case is far worse
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Dinesh D’Souza: I’m really enjoying this controversy over the classified docs. It gets not just funnier by the day, it gets almost funnier by the minute.
Remember the outrage — “Trump is in possession of classified documents! Classified documents are a serious crime, Dinesh! This guy needs...
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Sebastian Gorka notes the questionable timing and circumstances of the discovery of Biden’s classified documents in a closet at the Penn Biden Center
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Let’s set it up right. Let’s set it up correctly. Six days before the midterm elections in November, a slew of not just confidential — top-secret SCI, Special Compartmented Information, the highest level under Q, which is nuclear secrets — a slew of top-secret, SCI...
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Julie Hartman covers the Biden classified documents story but points out the bigger, more important revelation that we, including the media, should be following
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Julie Hartman: President Biden’s lawyers found a small number of classified documents that Biden left at his personal office at a Washington think tank during the time that he served as Vice President.
According to the White House, the files were found by Biden’s personal lawyers in November of...
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Congressman Mike Gallagher, now Chairman Gallagher, about the overwhelming bipartisan vote to create the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
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Hugh Hewitt: Chairman Mike Gallagher joins me. Chairman of the new House Select Committee on China. I’m going to have to call him Chairman Gallagher, now. That really bothers me because he’s a Packers fan (laughter).
But Chairman Gallagher, welcome. Congratulations. We’ve been talking about...
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Charlie Kirk turns to investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand for a report on the election protests in Brazil
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Charlie Kirk: Now we have Matthew Tyrmand to talk about Brazil. Matthew, welcome to the program. What on Earth is happening in Brazil? The storming of the presidential quarters yesterday? Walk us through it, Matt.
Matthew Tyrmand: Well, certainly, obviously, they’re trying to build as many...
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Mike Gallagher congratulates Matt Gaetz and the other GOP holdouts for getting concessions before giving McCarthy their votes
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Mike Gallagher: There was a whole lot of overheated, ridiculous rhetoric that resulted from the showdown between the establishment Republicans and these 20 Republicans who got a bunch of concessions to support voting “present” and allowing McCarthy to get across the finish line.
McCarthy’s...
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Eric Metaxas talks with journalist Andrew McDiarmid about how screens and gadgets are virtually taking over our lives
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Eric Metaxas: Right now, we have Andrew McDiarmid. Welcome to the program.
Andrew McDiarmid: Thank you, Eric. Thanks for having me. …
Eric Metaxas: I want to talk to you about this article you’ve written about technology that appeared in the New York Post a couple of days ago. If people want...
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Brandon Tatum takes a moment to huddle with listeners and bring God into the conversation about Damar Hamlin, politics and life
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Officer Tatum: Glory be to God, man. I feel like that there’s something moving here. There’s something moving here in the spirit realm, and if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to miss it.
This is bigger than a football player falling unconscious in front of the world. This is...
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Dennis Prager sings the praises of the Sunshine State and its freedom-loving governor, Ron DeSantis
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Dennis Prager: I listened to and watched Ron DeSantis’s inaugural address. He was inaugurated governor again in Florida. And I watched it and listened to every word.
I will actually play it for you as he is a significant hope for this country, this man. I like everything about him, including the...
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