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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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World Economic Forum Dubs 2023 a “Polycrisis”
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National Review: The attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, warn that the world is facing a “polycrisis” — multiple multinational crises that are interconnected and exacerbate each other ( National Review). Epoch Times: World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab announced the kick-off of the 53rd annual meeting of political leaders, corporate executives, and activists in Davos, Switzerland, declaring that the summit will focus on rededicating its members to a progressive climate and social-justice agenda in the midst of what he described as “unprecedented multiple crises” ( Epoch Times). Dennis Prager: A German scientist said that every individual — in the Western world at least — should have a carbon dioxide limit. Now, since none of you knows how many tons of CO2 you emit, the average person emits 10. That means that you, according to this, would have to be penalized monetarily if you used one-third of the amount of energy, fossil fuel energy, that you do now. So, if you were under the limit, you would get money from people over the limit. That’s a beautiful, honest, redistribution-of-income plan ( Daybreak Daily).
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Washington D.C. City Council Overrides Mayor Bowser’s Veto for Bill Reducing Penalties for Violent Crimes
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National Review: The Washington, D.C. city council on Tuesday voted to override Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a progressive public-safety bill that would reduce maximum penalties for certain violent crimes. The council voted twelve to one to override the veto and impose the measure, which Bowser and her fellow critics argue will exacerbate crime in the district ( National Review). Washington Post: The bill would, among other things, eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases, and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies. Law enforcement leaders had expressed concern that it could burden an already stretched court system and would send the wrong message to residents at a time when the city is struggling with gun violence ( Washington Post).
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Harvard Med No Longer Will Participate in University Ranking
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Washington Times: Harvard Medical School will no longer provide data to U.S. News & World Report for its surveys and rankings of best medical schools, its dean announced Tuesday, a decision that echoes that of prominent law schools in rejecting the influential ranking system in recent weeks. George Q. Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, wrote in a message to the school that the ranking system creates “perverse incentives for institutions to report misleading or inaccurate data,” sets flawed policies or diverts financial aid from needy students to boost rankings. Harvard Medical School is ranked No. 1 in the country for research by U.S. News ( Washington Times).
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Russia Seeks to Boost Military Recruitment
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Wall Street Journal: Russia detailed its plans to boost the size of its military as Ukraine warned that Moscow may be preparing an offensive and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Western allies to accelerate the provision of arms to the country. On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu provided a timetable for the troop increase the Kremlin outlined in December following a string of setbacks on the battlefield and criticism from Russian nationalists. The country’s army will increase to 1.5 million military personnel between 2023 and 2026—compared with its current level of 1.15 million and one million at the start of 2022, Mr. Shoigu said ( Wall Street Journal). NBC: On Monday, Belarus and Russia began joint military exercises, adding to fears that Moscow will use its ally to launch a new ground offensive, as it did the invasion in February ( NBC).
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Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Aimed at Criminalizing Political Speech by White People
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New York Post: US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill aimed at fighting “white supremacy” by attaching criminal charges to certain forms of hate speech. The Texas Democrat introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023, which aims “to prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.” The conspiracy addition means people who use hate speech online could face criminal charges under the legislation even if they don’t act on their threats ( New York Post). Jeremy Carl: Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), long one of the most entitled, imperious, and racist members of Congress, has just introduced a bill in the House, that literally criminalizes political speech by white people ( Twitter).
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China’s Population Shrinks for First Time in 60 Years
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CNN: China’s population shrank in 2022 for the first time in more than 60 years, a new milestone in the country’s deepening demographic crisis with significant implications for its slowing economy. The population fell in 2022 to 1.411 billion, down some 850,000 people from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced during a Tuesday briefing on annual data ( CNN).
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New York to Offer Free Abortion Pills in Several City Clinics
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Hill: New York will offer abortion medication free-of-charge at four city-run health clinics, Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced Tuesday as he laid out an agenda to repair health care inequities for women in the city ( Hill). Townhall: Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens will be allowed to offer pills that cause an abortion, commonly known as a “medication abortion.” Medication abortions consist of two pills, one that cuts off nutrients to the developing baby and one that expels the pregnancy from the mother ( Townhall).
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Six Percent of California Students Identify as Transgender
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Daily Wire: A California public school district has seen a surge of children and adolescents identifying as transgender and “nonbinary.” A new survey found soaring numbers of trans-identified students at California’s Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD). An average of 6% of surveyed DJUSD students identified as neither male nor female during the 2020-2021 school year. Given the nature of the survey question, this number did not include students who identified as the opposite sex ( Daily Wire). Colin Wright: DJUSD admins don’t pause for a moment to ponder whether their obsessive focus on gender ideology may be worsening students’ mental health as they reject their natural bodies at unprecedented rates in their district ( Twitter).
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White House Still Fighting in Court to Force Masking on Public Transportation
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News 13: The Eleventh Circuit of Appeals heard arguments over a federal mask mandate on Tuesday, Jan. 17. After a Florida federal judge struck down a mask mandate for planes and other transportation last April, the CDC quickly countered by requesting an appeal through the Justice Department. The appeal drew criticism from the U.S. Travel Association, which, along with other industry groups, had been pressuring the Biden administration for months to end the mask mandate for travel ( News 13). Katie Pavlich: On April 18, 2022 U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down President Joe Biden’s mask mandate for air and rail transportation. The Department of Justice quickly appealed the decision after a request from the Centers for Disease Control. At the time, the White House admitted the appeal was to preserve the power of the federal government ( Townhall).
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CNN Moving Out of Landmark Atlanta Building
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Newsmax: CNN is planning to be completely moved out of its downtown Atlanta offices by the end of the year. The news network is moving its Georgia operations to the Warner Bros. Discovery Techwood Turner Broadcasting campus a few miles to the north. The closing of the CNN Center will remove the network’s logo from the downtown skyline, where its been a fixture for years ( Newsmax).
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Hugh Hewitt covers a racism story no one is talking about — the suppression of National Merit Awards because they benefit Asian Americans
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Hugh Hewitt: I believe the biggest story in the United States not yet covered by legacy media is what happened in Fairfax County high schools, where a pattern in practice has developed that is clearly unconstitutional, in my view, of suppressing test results because they benefited Asian American...
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Dennis Prager exposes a troubling, communistic scheme to impose individual limits on CO2 emissions
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Dennis Prager: Listen to this. A German scientist said that every individual — in the Western world at least — should have a carbon dioxide limit.
“Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said that every person should have a limit of three tons of CO2...
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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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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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