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Monday, February 13, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Mainstream Media Outlets Ignore Murder of Second Republican Lawmaker
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National Review: A second Republican New Jersey councilman was gunned down on Wednesday just one week after a councilwoman from a different county in the state was killed. Milford councilman Russell Heller, 51, was in his car in the parking lot of the office building where he worked when a former employee confronted him and shot him ( National Review). LifeNews: For all the leftist media’s crowing about “attacks on democracy,” you would think the three evening networks newscasts would be all over this story. Unfortunately, all three ignored the story during their Thursday broadcasts. Instead of reporting on the second assassination of a Republican elected official, the three networks decided to report on stories like local weather forecasts (ABC), a segment on the future of robots (CBS), and a report on potential racial discrimination in home appraisals (NBC). If this happened to two Democrat council members, the broadcast networks would not be ignoring this story ( LifeNews).
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US Shoots Down Two Additional Flying Objects
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Daily Mail: Officials confirmed the unidentified flying object shot down over Alaska was able to penetrate US airspace before detection as military helicopters recover it from frozen waters. It comes after sources told CNN that the military had developed a method to track spy balloons last year, but this object wasn’t picked up on radar until after it was over Alaska ( Daily Mail). ABC: A high-altitude object tracked over northern Canada has been shot down over the Yukon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage, Trudeau said ( ABC). Justin Trudeau: I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. NORAD Command shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object ( Twitter).
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Missouri AG Begins Investigation into Trans Center for Putting Minors in Serious Danger
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Washington Examiner: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey called for a halt on authorizing puberty blockers for children at St. Louis Children’s Hospital on Friday. In a letter to Washington University officials, Bailey addressed allegations from whistleblower Jamie Reed, who claimed that the university’s transgender center was operating irreversible gender transition surgeries and possibly permanently sterilizing children without parental consent. Bailey added that the procedures, which affect a person’s hormones, have led children to attempt suicide and were often done without an individualized assessment of the child ( Washington Examiner). NBC: Reed alleged she raised concerns to doctors at the center and university administrators for years and was discouraged from tracking adverse outcomes of patients, she stated in the affidavit ( NBC).
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Former Tavistock Clinic Employees Regret Regularly Prescribing Thousands of Children Puberty Blockers
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Daily Mail: More than 1,000 children at the NHS’s controversial child transgender clinic were handed prescriptions for puberty blockers, a new book has claimed, as former staff compare it to the ‘doping of East German athletes’. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London will close later this year after being slammed in a report amid accusations it was rushing children onto puberty blocking drugs. Now former clinicians at the service have revealed how ‘incredibly complex’ children were handed the life-altering drugs after just one assessment – despite having a multitude of mental health or background issues… Former clinicians at GIDS have spoken of their ‘regret’ of how the clinic regularly prescribed children under the age of 16 with puberty blockers and cross-hormone treatment. Former medical staff compare the prescriptions to the doping of athletes representing East Germany through the 1960s and 1970s ( Daily Mail).
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Senator John Fetterman Has Trouble Hearing Voices After Stroke
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Washington Examiner: Nearly nine months after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) suffered a stroke on the campaign trail, the first-term senator faces lingering health challenges as he adjusts to life in the Senate. He continues to struggle with auditory processing, making it difficult to understand the words of his colleagues. Fetterman says it can feel like deciphering the voice of the teacher from the Peanuts cartoon. Although he has been given accommodations to help ease his transition, several members of his staff have voiced concerns that he needs to take things slow. Those concerns only grew after Fetterman was hospitalized earlier this week after feeling lightheaded ( Washington Examiner). Daily Wire: The report comes following Fetterman’s hospitalization this week after feeling lightheaded at a Democrat Senate retreat. Fetterman’s staff claimed that doctors said that he did not have another stroke and that they were checking for signs of seizures. The report noted that the stroke last year has taken a “very real psychological toll” on him and that he has “had to come to terms with the fact that he may have set himself back permanently by not taking the recommended amount of rest during the campaign” ( Daily Wire).
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Florida Approves Immigration Program Allowing DeSantis to Move Illegals to Sanctuary Cities
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National Review: Florida lawmakers on Friday approved a new immigration program that will allow Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration to relocate illegal immigrants from anywhere in the country to Democratic-led states and sanctuary cities. The Florida Senate passed the “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program” on Friday, sending the measure to DeSantis for final approval. The legislation sets aside $10 million for Florida’s Department of Emergency Management to spend on the program ( National Review).
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CBP Catches 185 Packages of Fentanyl, Sen. Joni Ernst Says China is “Poising America”
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Washington Times: Customs and Border Protection officials working at the Douglas Port of Entry in Arizona seized 185 packages of fentanyl pills from a Mexican national trying to cross the border. The unnamed man’s SUV was referred for secondary inspection. Authorities found a compartment in the floor of the car, and inside discovered the fentanyl pills. CBP estimates there were around 180,000 pills, weighing just over 45 pounds ( Washington Times). GOP Comms Director Danielle Alvarez: Border numbers were just released by the Biden administration. Last month… Over 150,000 illegal immigrants. Over 320 million lethal doses of fentanyl. Over 9,000 unaccompanied children. This is a HUMANITARIAN crisis that is profiting human and drug traffickers ( Twitter). Fox News: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa claimed Friday that China is intentionally “poisoning America” through its continued production and sale of fentanyl ( Fox News).
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Palestinian Terrorist Kills Seven Israeli Citizens in Car Ramming at Bus Stop
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Times of Israel: A six-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were killed and at least five others were wounded in a car-ramming terror attack near East Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, police and medics said Friday. One of those wounded was a child in critical condition, the brother of the slain six-year-old. Several bystanders were seen aiming firearms at the car. Police said the driver was shot dead by an officer who happened to be at the scene ( Times of Israel). Jyot Jeet: Brainwashed Palestinians celebrate Murder of an Israeli 6 year old little Boy as a man identified as Hussein Qaraqa rammed his car into the crowd at a bus stop in Jerusalem killing the lil kid & a 20 year old young man in the car-ramming terror attack ( Twitter).
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Yahoo to Reduce Workforce by 20 Percent, Restructure Advertising Department
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Bloomberg: Yahoo Inc. will eliminate about 1,000 jobs beginning this week, or roughly 12% of its employees, the first round of cuts in a larger plan to restructure its advertising tech division amid a wave of layoffs in the industry. The company, owned by Apollo Global Management Inc., plans to reduce headcount at its Yahoo for Business ad tech unit by almost 50% by the end of 2023, or more than 20% of the workforce at Yahoo ( Bloomberg). Axios: The changes will end Yahoo’s years-long effort to compete directly with Google and Meta for digital advertising dominance ( Axios).
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Turkish Authorities Blame Contractors for Poor Construction After Devastating Earthquake
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Associated Press: Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly involved with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that killed over 33,000 people. As despair bred rage at the agonizingly slow rescue efforts, the focus turned to assigning blame. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. While the quakes were powerful, victims, experts and people across Turkey are blaming faulty construction for multiplying the devastation ( Associated Press).
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Dinesh D’Souza traces America’s history to find the true foundations of American opportunity and prosperity
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Dinesh D’Souza: “America was built on slavery.” This has become a standard trope of critical race theory. It is something that is taught in our schools. It is something that has now surfaced on a Disney show called “The Proud Family.” It’s a kind of a cartoon show but weaved into it are...
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Julie Hartman talks with Manhattan Institute fellow Heather MacDonald, who gives a sober analysis of the Tyre Nichols beating and death
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Julie Hartman: I’m pleased to have Heather McDonald here with me to talk about last month’s murder of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten to death by five Memphis police officers.
Heather is a Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of “The War on Cops,” “The Diversity...
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Dennis Prager comments on the State of the Union speech, a testament to America’s deterioration under Biden’s feckless leadership
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Dennis Prager: Because I am committed to my job, I’ve gone through every word of President Biden’s State of the Union address, and we’ll be playing and analyzing clips from it.
I have to admit, in having done this now for about 30 years, analyzing the speeches of presidents, Democrat and...
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Mike Gallagher breaks down Biden’s State of the Union address — the good, the bad and the mostly ugly
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Mike Gallagher: What we suffered through last night. Biden screaming about “Name me one world leader who would trade places with Xi Jinping! Name me one!” — and no one knew what the heck he was talking about.
And then Sarah Huckabee Sanders with her tremendous Republican response afterwards...
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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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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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