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Your First Look at Today's Top Stories
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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President Biden Delivers State of the Union Riddled with Half Truths Meant to Deceive Listeners
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Daily Wire: President Joe Biden made numerous false or misleading statements during his opening remarks in his State of the Union address Tuesday evening. Biden started out by making misleading claims about the economy, claiming that he “created a record 12 million new jobs, more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years.” Biden failed to note that many of those jobs were people coming back to jobs that they lost during the pandemic. Biden touted how gas prices have gone down slightly, but failed to note that they skyrocketed to all-time highs during his administration. Biden claimed that inflation is coming down, but failed to note that inflation levels have remained high throughout his administration and peaked at 40-year highs ( Daily Wire). On multiple occasions throughout the speech, President Biden began screaming into the microphone. RNC Research: BIDEN, screaming: “Name me a world leader who changed places with Xi Jinping. Name me one. NAME ME ONE” ( Twitter). Joe Biden also demanded the US ban assault weapons. Graham Allen: COME AND TAKE IT JOE ( Twitter)!
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Delivers Response to Biden’s State of the Union Speech
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CBS: Sanders claimed Mr. Biden and his Democratic colleagues have “failed” the American people, and declared that it’s “time for a change.” Sanders focused her response on many of the “culture war” issues that have motivated conservatives, and largely bucked the message of unity and bipartisanship that wound through Mr. Biden’s address. Instead, she attacked the president as the “first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.” Sanders criticized Mr. Biden for his border policies, claiming they have led to a flood of fentanyl crossing the border, and accused the administration of being beholden to “woke fantasies” ( CBS). RNC Research: Gov. @SarahHuckabee: “Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies, and defend our people. He is simply unfit to serve as commander in chief” ( Twitter).
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US Surpasses Trade Deficit Record in 2022
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Wall Street Journal: The U.S. posted its largest trade deficit on record last year, as global demand weakened amid high inflation, climbing interest rates, disruptions due to the Ukraine war and the pandemic’s continued effects. America’s imports exceeded its exports by $948.1 billion in 2022, up 12.2% from 2021, the Commerce Department said Tuesday ( Wall Street Journal). Just the News: Exports increased 17.7% last year to $3 trillion, while imports rose 16.3% to $4 trillion, data shows. The Commerce Department’s announcement comes the day of President Joe Biden’s state of the Union address ( Just the News).
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Bill Gates Defends His Climate Hypocrisy
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Daily Wire: Climate advocate Bill Gates recently attempted to justify using private jets by noting his investments in various green technology initiatives. The Microsoft co-founder spurned accusations of hypocrisy during an interview with the BBC in Kenya broadcast on Friday, claiming that his decision to “spend billions of dollars” on climate innovations such as carbon capture systems more than accounts for his personal carbon footprint ( Daily Wire). Fox News: Gates has already invested over $2 billion toward climate technologies. This includes investments in direct air capture in addition to solar energy and nuclear fission. Private jets are 5 to 14 times more polluting per passenger than commercial planes. One private jet can emit two tonnes of CO₂ within an hour ( Fox News).
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IRS Proposes Restaurants Report Tips
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Why are tips any of their business? Fox News: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposed a revenue procedure this week to crack down on the service industry’s reporting of tips. The Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program would be a voluntary tip reporting system in which the IRS and service industry companies cooperate. As part of the proposal, the IRS will give the public until early May to provide feedback on the program before implementing it. According to the IRS, the program would seek to “improve tip reporting compliance,” reduce administrative burdens and provide more transparency and certainty to taxpayers ( Fox News). Daily Caller: The IRS has been moving to crack down on small transactions, including through a requirement that digital transactions over $600 be reported to the agency on 1099-K tax forms ( Daily Caller).
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Virginia House Approves Legislation Keeping Schools Accountable to Parents Regarding Gender Dysphoria
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Washington Times: The Virginia House approved legislation Tuesday that would prevent schools from keeping parents in the dark about their child’s gender transition. Known as Sage’s Law, the bill passed the Republican-led state House by 50-48 over the objections of Democrats who said the legislation was aimed at “forcibly outing transgender students.” House Bill 2432 requires school employees to notify parents if a student is self-identifying as “a gender different from the student’s biological sex,” and clarifies that treating children based on their sex at birth does not constitute abuse or neglect ( Washington Times). Sarah Weaver: The bill is named after a teen girl who was sex trafficked and raped after the state removed her from her parents custody for “misgendering.” Sage’s school had hid her new male identity from her parents, even as Sage was being abused in the men’s bathroom she now used ( Twitter).
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Earthquake in Turkey, Syria Rises to 7,800 People
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Reuters: The death toll of a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria jumped to more than 7,800 people on Tuesday as rescuers worked against time in harsh winter conditions to dig survivors out of the rubble of collapsed buildings. As the scale of the disaster became ever more apparent, the death toll looked likely to rise considerably. One U.N. official said thousands of children may have died ( Reuters). CBS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that he was declaring a state of emergency for three months across 10 provinces in the earthquake zone. The country’s vice president, Fuat Oktay, told reporters that 8,000 people had been pulled from under rubble. Nations from around the world began pouring aid material and rescue teams into the region. Oktay said rescue teams from 14 countries were already in Turkey and teams from 70 more nations were expected as the day progressed ( CBS).
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Zoom to Undergo Massive Cuts
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Hill: Zoom announced Tuesday that it was cutting about 1,300 jobs, a 15 percent reduction of its workforce. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said that the company didn’t take as much time to understand whether it was sustainably growing, adding that the uncertainty of the global economy pushed it “to look inward to reset ourselves so we can weather the economic environment.” He added that he was reducing his salary by 98 percent for the coming fiscal year and foregoing this year’s corporate bonus. His executive team will also reduce their base salaries by 20 percent and forfeit corporate bonuses ( Hill).
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Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to Provide Ukraine with Fleet of Tanks
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Bloomberg: Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands will supply Ukraine with as many as 178 older generation Leopard 1 battle tanks in the latest shipment of heavy military equipment as Kyiv braces for an expected intensification of fighting with invading Russian forces. In a joint statement on Tuesday, the defense ministers said the first deliveries would arrive in Ukraine in “a few months” in a package that includes training, spare parts and ammunition. Belgium has also shown interest in participating, they said ( Bloomberg). Reuters: Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands said their Leopard 1 initiative was open to further partners, adding Belgium had shown “initial interest to participate” ( Reuters).
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China Wants Their Balloon Back
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Reuters: Beijing condemned the shooting down of the balloon as an “obvious overreaction” and urged Washington to show restraint. When asked on Tuesday whether China had asked the United States to return the debris from the downed balloon, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the balloon belonged to China. “This balloon is not American. The Chinese government will continue to defend its legitimate rights and interests,” she said at a regular presser ( Reuters).
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Brandon Tatum cheers on surfer superstar Bethany Hamilton for standing up for her sport and for women athletes everywhere
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Officer Tatum: I wanted to talk about this young woman who’s a surfer. I think we got a clip on this. But it says, “U.S. female surfer icon slams World Surf League for allowing trans-identified biological men to compete against women.”
So let me see. Bethany Hamilton. I want you to hear what...
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Hugh Hewitt and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discuss how the China spy balloon was an incursion not only on our national security but on our collective psyche
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Hugh Hewitt: Welcome back, America. I’m Hugh Hewitt, joined by former Secretary of State, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo. Mr. Secretary, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Mike Pompeo: Hugh, it’s great to be with you this morning.
Hugh Hewitt:...
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Charlie Kirk and his pastor, Rob McCoy, discuss the importance of the Judeo-Christian worldview in producing a thriving, ethical society
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Pastor Rob McCoy: Charlie, we just had the privilege to be with some pastors, especially some that stood in defiance of the tyranny of Governor Newsolini there in LA County. We had some up in Ojai, which, you know, that’s no conservative bastion up there. And they came here tonight, they traveled...
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Eric Metaxas talks with David Horowitz about the ideologues of the left who seek to undermine the United States of America
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Eric Metaxas: Folks, I’m talking to David Horowitz, who now I’m proud to say is a friend and who really has had an extraordinary journey in his own life, from genuine communism to, what shall we call it, anti-communism, which is to say love of the American Founders’ vision for the Republic...
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Dinesh D’Souza analyzes the political wrangling and final outcome of the latest committee battle, a win for the House Speaker and fair-minded Americans
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Dinesh D’Souza: It looks like today, Ilhan Omar is going to be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And this also means that Ilhan Omar will no longer be the top Democrat on the subcommittee on Africa. This is something that she has taken great pride in. And so this is a kind of a blow...
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Dennis Prager talks with Chris Rufo, newly installed trustee at New College of Florida, which is being reformed and de-wokified under the leadership of Governor DeSantis
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Dennis Prager: Hello, my friends Dennis Prager here. And you should now spell interesting with a capital I, because what we are going to talk about with my guest is beyond interesting. It is fascinating. It is something happening in Florida, and it is with Chris Rufo, who has made quite a name for...
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Sebastian Gorka talks with Lauren Chen, AKA “The Roaming Millennial,” about the current state of the culture war
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Lauren, you had a show on CRT called “Roaming Millennial Uncensored.” I have to ask you because there’s a little bit of a difference in age between us. Where are we in the effort to win the culture war or just to convince people of the veracity of our arguments when it...
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Mike Gallagher comments on illegal immigrants making themselves at home in New York City hotel rooms on the taxpayers’ dime
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Mike Gallagher: Of all the crazy stories going on in the world right now, the craziest has to be illegals in New York City refusing to leave their cushy hotel because they want better quality housing.
And the city of New York is like, well, what are we gonna do? They don’t want to leave. They...
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Julie Hartman shares the story of her frightening encounter with a homeless man and exposes the severity of America’s growing crime problem
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Julie Hartman: I want to tell you a personal story about something that happened on Friday night that I’ve been thinking about and wanting to share with you. And it has to do with the broader issue of crime in America.
So I was invited to go to a dinner on Friday night, and I was in charge of...
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