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Your First Look at Today's Top Stories
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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White House Confirms: No Visitor Logs for Biden’s Wilmington Home
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Fox News: There are no visitor logs for President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House Counsel’s Office said in a Monday statement. Republicans on Capitol Hill demanded the visitor logs this weekend following revelations that Biden’s lawyers had discovered a stash of classified documents inside the home’s garage. While it is common practice to keep comprehensive visitor logs at the White House, Biden’s lawyers say no such record exists for his home in Delaware ( Fox News).
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Republicans Press to Reduce Government Spending in Exchange for Raising Debt Ceiling
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Daily Wire: In a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged that the United States will reach the statutory limit of the debt ceiling on Thursday and warned against failing to raise the debt limit ( Daily Wire). Wall Street Journal: So the government will run out of funds sooner than expected because of Mr. Biden’s determination to make taxpayers rather than borrowers carry the burden of student debt and because of rising interest rates resulting from the inflation that the president’s spending has clearly exacerbated. Given that Mr. Biden’s fingerprints are all over the new debt deadline—not to mention much of the spending that created the $31 trillion monster—it would be flatly irresponsible of him to reject a negotiation with the Republican House over fiscal restraints ( Wall Street Journal). CBN News: House Republicans want the Biden administration to agree to major spending cuts before they’ll vote to raise the ceiling, but the White House is refusing to negotiate ( CBN).
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Time Up for TikTok? Chinese-Owned App Promises Better Transparency in Order to Stay in US
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Wall Street Journal: Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators about whether TikTok will be able to remain in the country, the popular video-sharing app is trying a new tack: increased transparency. In recent conversations with Washington lawmakers and civil-society organizations, TikTok has revealed details of a complex, $1.5 billion plan to reorganize the company’s U.S. TikTok is hoping that details of its planned reorganization—and promised measures to ensure oversight of its content-recommendation algorithms—will convince potential allies in Washington of its ability to operate independently of its parent company, China-based ByteDance Ltd. ( Wall Street Journal).
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Mired in Highly Contested Reelection Campaign, Sought Help from Public School Students
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Wall Street Journal: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing stiff competition from a large field of candidates in her re-election bid as Chicago struggles with public safety concerns and the lingering economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several wealthy neighborhoods have turned to private security patrols to address local concerns about crime. Ms. Lightfoot’s tenure also has been marked by repeated clashes with unions for teachers and police, contributing to low morale and departures from the police force. Early polling and surveys show her needing to fight to make it into the knockout round ( Wall Street Journal). Newsmax: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Sunday said it was “simply a mistake” for her reelection campaign to request public schools teachers “share” with their students the opportunity to work on Lightfoot’s campaign for “class credit” ( Newsmax).
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Record “High”: 14.3 Percent of American Population Regularly Uses Illegal, Dangerous Drugs
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Seth Leibsohn: And so it came and went without any headlines last week, but the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, found that 14.3% of the U.S. population regularly uses illegal and dangerous drugs. We’ve surpassed our 1979 high-water mark and reached a new high … or, some might say, a new low in our achievement on public health and sobriety ( Washington Times).
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San Francisco Proposes to Give Eligible Black Residents $5 Million — Each
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Plus, forgiveness of all debt. Fox News: San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery” ( Fox News).
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Repressive Taliban Rule: Face Coverings Now Required Even for Mannequins
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HotAir: Since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan immediately after America’s disastrous withdrawal from the country, women’s rights have essentially disappeared. Education for young girls has similarly either ended or been curtailed after elementary school. An entire generation of young girls grew up under American-backed governance and could largely dress however they liked. Now all females must wear burqas with full head and facial coverings. Those who disobey face beatings, arrest, or the possibility that they will simply “disappear” ( HotAir). Associated Press: Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan ( Associated Press).
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Heavy California Rain Forces Leaders to Reconsider Water Conservation Tactics
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Capturing rainfall? Now, that’s an idea. Politico: After the driest three years in the state’s modern history, California suddenly has a different problem on its hands: too much water. An ongoing series of storms drenching the state has forced officials to take measures unfathomable just a month ago, like releasing excess water from reservoirs and pumping surging river flows into storage. It’s also renewing interest in how to better capture rainfall for dry times — an idea long popular in agricultural areas, particularly among Republicans, and now increasingly embraced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats ( Politico).
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Russian Strike on Dnipro Considered One of the War’s Deadliest Attacks
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Associated Press: Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday sifted through what was left of a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war’s deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of rubble. Authorities said the death toll from Saturday’s strike rose to 40 and that 30 people remained missing Monday ( Associated Press).
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Wyoming Introduces Bill to Ban EV Sales by 2035
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Daily Mail: Wyoming has introduced state legislation to ban the sale of new electric vehicles by 2035 to ‘ensure the stability’ of its oil and gas industry. The announcement comes as several states, including New York, California and Oregon, move to phase out the sale of new gas-powered vehicles to combat climate change. Wyoming officials argue that the oil and gas production has created ‘countless jobs’ and contributed ‘revenues to the state of Wyoming throughout its history.’ The bill also notes that Wyoming lacks charging stations and that ‘the critical minerals used in electric batteries are not easily recyclable or disposable’ ( Daily Mail). Post Millennial: Wyoming ranked as the eighth top producer of oil in 2021 and hosts 30,000 miles of pipelines operated by 100 companies that maintain 68,000 jobs in the industry ( Post Millennial).
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Mike Gallagher rails against Democrats who, vitriolically and almost unanimously, oppose the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
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Mike Gallagher: I know it’s a huge story that Joe Biden apparently had classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette. … It’s a big story. But you know what’s even bigger to me? You know what’s a huge story to me? A headline that maybe you didn’t notice: “Senior Democratic...
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Brandon Tatum runs down the questions he and surely all Americans have about the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center and in Biden’s garage
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Officer Tatum: There’s 10 things, 10 questions that I have here that I want to know and that the American people should know the answer to. I’m gonna try to make it quick because I know I’m running out of time.
The first question is, how many documents were discovered? How many documents?...
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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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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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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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