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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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California Introduces Wealth Tax Forcing People to Pay Years After They Leave State
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Fox News: California lawmakers are pushing legislation that would impose a new tax on the state’s wealthiest residents — even if they’ve already moved to another part of the country. Assemblyman Alex Lee, a progressive Democrat, last week introduced a bill in the California State Legislature that would impose an extra annual 1.5% tax on those with a “worldwide net worth” above $1 billion, starting as early as January 2024 ( Fox News). Just the News: The tax will apply to every resident, regardless of whether they are in the state part-time or temporarily. It will also allow the state to pursue wealth taxes from former residents who built their wealth in California but moved. For those who move out of state and do not plan on returning, the wealth tax will be slowly decreased over several years “based on the percentage of days in the year the taxpayer was present in the state, plus the years of residence over the three previous taxable years,” the bill states ( Just the News).
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Speaker McCarthy Officially Rejects Top Democrats Committee Assignments
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Fox News: Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ demands to reappoint Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, both Democrats from California, to the Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday. Jeffries said in a letter to McCarthy on Friday that Schiff and Swalwell were “eminently qualified” legislators with more than two decades of providing oversight of the nation’s intelligence community ( Fox News). Kevin McCarthy: I have rejected the appointments of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell for the House Intelligence Committee. I am committed to returning the @HouseIntel Committee to one of genuine honesty and credibility that regains the trust of the American people ( Twitter).
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Florida Supreme Court Upholds 15-Week Abortion Ban During Ongoing Lawsuit
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Life News: The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the 15-week abortion ban Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last year can continue saving babies from abortions while the pro-abortion lawsuit against it continues. The ruling it a good sign about the long-term prospects for upholding the pro-life law and using it as a springboard to pass stronger legislation protecting more babies from abortion. Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union handsome abortion companies tried to get the state’s highest court to halt the law while their case continues ( Life News). Washington Examiner: DeSantis, who signed the legislation into law last year, has appointed three conservative justices to the state Supreme Court in his tenure. His administration has previously indicated that he is waiting for the court challenge to play out before pursuing additional legislation to further restrict access to abortion earlier in pregnancy ( Washington Examiner).
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US Asks Russian-Affiliated Countries to Donate Old Russian Equipment to Ukraine, US Will Replace Donated Equipment
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Tippinsights: The United States has asked Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and six other Latin American nations to send their old Russian weapons to Ukraine in exchange for U.S. equipment ( Tippinsights). MintPress News: US SOUTHCOM Commander General Laura Richardson discussed the request in a recent interview ( Twitter).
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Biden Looking to Reverse Course, Considering Sending Ukraine Abrams Tanks
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Associated Press: In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode. The decision could be announced as soon as Wednesday, though it could take months or years for the tanks to be delivered ( Associated Press).
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Iran Irate with New Western Sanctions, Promises Retaliation
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Reuters: Iran on Tuesday strongly condemned new sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain and said it would retaliate, after the West stepped up pressure on Iran over its crackdown on protests. The European Union imposed sanctions on more than 30 Iranian officials and organizations, including units of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, blaming them for a “brutal” crackdown on unrest and other human rights abuses ( Reuters). HotAir: This is the ninth round of U.S. sanctions put into effect because of the regime’s oppression of protesters. Unfortunately, the regime is resilient. The clerics have survived decades of Western sanctions ( HotAir).
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Walmart Increases Hourly Wage to $14
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Wall Street Journal: Walmart Inc. said it is raising wages for its U.S. hourly workers as the retailer continues to fight to attract staff in a tight labor market for front-line workers. Starting next month, Walmart’s U.S. workers in stores and warehouses will earn a starting wage of at least $14 an hour, up from $12, the country’s largest private employer said in a memo to staff Tuesday. Rivals, including Amazon and Target, have a $15-an-hour minimum wage, while Costco Wholesale Corp.’s minimum is even higher ( Wall Street Journal).
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Pence Lawyer Finds Classified Documents in Former VP’s Home
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Associated Press: Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, his lawyer told the National Archives in a letter. The records “appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal home of the former vice president at the end of the last administration,” Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, wrote in the letter. He said that Pence “engaged outside counsel, with experience in handling classified documents, to review records stored in his personal home after it became public that documents with classified markings were found in President Joe Biden’s Wilmington residence ( Associated Press). Ed Morrissey: What does this mean politically? It probably lets Joe Biden off the hook, or at least provides enough of a distraction to cool the temperature around his scandal. Biden and his team certainly didn’t embrace the “everyone does it” defense when Donald Trump deployed it, but you can bet they’ll grasp at it now ( HotAir).
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DOJ Sues Google, Says Google Should be Forced to Sell Ad Services
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Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department sued Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of abusing its dominance of the digital advertising business and said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, in the government’s latest jab at thwarting Big Tech’s market power. The lawsuit tackles a business at Google that is responsible for 80 percent of its revenue. The Justice Department asked the court to compel Google to break up its ad technology business ( Reuters). Wall Street Journal: Last year, Google offered to split off parts of its ad-tech business into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella to fend off the most recent Justice Department investigation. Justice Department officials rejected the offer and decided to pursue the lawsuit instead ( Wall Street Journal).
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Japanese PM: "Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society"
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Reuters: Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday to take urgent steps to tackle the country’s declining birth rate, saying it was “now or never” for one of the world’s oldest societies. Japan has in recent years been trying to encourage its people to have more children with promises of cash bonuses and better benefits, but it remains one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child ( Reuters). BBC: He said that he eventually wants the government to double its spending on child-related programs. A new government agency to focus on the issue would be set up in April, he added. Falling birth rates are driven by a range of factors, including rising living costs, more women in education and work, as well as greater access to contraception, leading to women choosing to have fewer children. Last week, China reported its first drop in population for 60 years ( BBC).
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Hugh Hewitt talks with New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu about the looming bankruptcy of Social Security
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Hugh Hewitt: I’m joined this morning live by New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. Good morning, Governor. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Gov. Chris Sununu: Good morning, Hugh. How are you doing?
Hugh Hewitt: I’m great. Now, I start almost every show, right before a show, I read the Ellis...
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Mike Gallagher turns to Dark Wars host and Fox News contributor Sara Carter for a glimpse into the tragic world of cartels and drug addiction playing out in the streets of America
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Mike Gallagher: It’s fun to be able to spend time with people you admire greatly. And this platform gives me the opportunity to do so. Sara Carter, of course, is a Fox News Channel contributor. She’s an investigative journalist. She’s the host of the Sara Carter Show, which is her wildly...
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Dinesh D’Souza weighs the pros and cons of Kevin McCarthy’s proposal to replace the income tax with a national sales tax
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Dinesh D’Souza: Kevin McCarthy and some House Republicans are floating a new and interesting idea. And this is an idea that should not be considered seriously as a proposal that is going to go through and become law. Why? Because as we’ve discussed on the podcast before, the Republicans control...
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Julie Hartman discusses Dr. Leana Wen’s belated admission that covid deaths and hospitalizations have been (greatly) overcounted
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Julie Hartman: Dr. Leana Wen, who is a CNN medical analyst and a Washington Post columnist, is under fire for a column that she published last Friday in which she claimed that doctors are “overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations.”
So Dr. Wen was analyzing CDC data and she also pulled...
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Charlie Kirk exposes San Francisco reparations that seek to solve racism by perpetuating racism
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Charlie Kirk: San Francisco has recently issued a report. The San Francisco report comes after a reparations committee met, whose job was to investigate the subject of reparations and produce recommendations.
It’s been two years and they have delivered their report, and it’s nearly 60 pages...
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Sebastian Gorka talks to Kyle Rittenhouse about the woke mob, cancel culture and how the Second Amendment saved his life
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: You may have heard of him. His name is Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle, welcome to America First.
Kyle Rittenhouse: Sebastian, thank you for having me. …
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: In the last few days, you were slated to speak at a couple of events as the new media personality you are....
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Brandon Tatum calls out LAPD Chief Michel Moore for disrespecting police officers and pandering to the left
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Officer Tatum: The LAPD is getting ripped for the police chief banning the thin blue line flag. I’m going to try to say this without cussing because I’m supposed to be a Christian. I don’t understand how we as a nation fall for this crap. When is enough enough?
I was a police officer since...
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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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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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