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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Senator Dianne Feinstein Will Not Run for Re-election in 2024
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Daily Caller: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the oldest Democrat in the upper chamber, will not run for re-election, she announced Tuesday. First elected to the Senate in 1992, Feinstein was the first woman to chair the Intelligence Committee and the Rules Committee, and she also served as ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. Before running for Congress, she became the first female mayor of San Francisco following the assassination of George Moscone ( Daily Caller).
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GOP Begin Investigation into Covid Origins
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CNBC: House Republicans have asked former White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony to testify before Congress as they launch a new investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The GOP leaders of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Committee on Oversight and Accountability sent a letter to Fauci on Monday requesting a transcribed interview. Fauci said in November that he would cooperate with any oversight hearing in the Republican-led House ( CNBC). Associated Press: Many scientists, including Fauci, who until December served as Biden’s chief medical adviser, say they still believe the virus most likely emerged in nature and jumped from animals to humans, a well-documented phenomenon known as a spillover event. Virus researchers have not publicly identified any key new scientific evidence that might make the lab-leak hypothesis more likely ( Associated Press).
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MSU Gunman Known for Prior Offenses with a Gun
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A criminal took a gun to a gun free zone to commit this heinous act. Wall Street Journal: Police said the suspect, 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae, had no affiliation with the university. He killed himself after being confronted by police a few hours after the shooting. Mr. McRae had pleaded guilty to a felony firearm charge in 2019, according to court records, and neighbors said they had called police last summer to report gunfire at the house where he lived. Two of the three students who were killed were identified on Tuesday as Brian Fraser, a sophomore from Grosse Pointe, Mich., and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson, Mich. Five students were injured, and remained hospitalized Tuesday in critical condition ( Wall Street Journal). Julio Rosas: The mass shooting at MSU has once again prompted calls from Democrats and progressives for more gun control. MSU is a “gun free zone” with only police being allowed to carry firearms on campus ( Townhall).
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California Lawmakers Target Police K9 Units, Call for Their Removal Because of Racism
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Dogs are now racist. ABC 10: A new effort is underway to ban police from using police dogs to arrest or apprehend suspects. If passed, it would also ban police from using them for crowd control. The lawmaker behind the bill, newly-elected Assemblymember Corey Jackson, said that the use of police canines, or K9s, has been the backbone of this country’s history of racial bias and violence against Black Americans. Jackson said police canines were first used by slave catchers and are a violent carryover from America’s dark past ( ABC 10). Townhall: This is a ridiculous legislative push; criminals on the run or being chased by police shouldn’t be comfortable… All this bill would do is decrease public safety. And police dogs have been essential in various other law enforcement duties, not least being tasked with saving the lives of fellow officers ( Townhall).
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Nikki Haley Enters 2024 Presidential Race
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Wall Street Journal: Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, said Tuesday she is entering the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race in a move that puts her in direct competition with her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump. “It’s time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border, and strengthen our country, our pride and our purpose,” Ms. Haley said in an announcement video released a day before she is scheduled to give a formal campaign-launch speech in Charleston, SC. Ms. Haley’s remarks seemed to reference the age of some of the top candidates expected to be in the race. Mr. Trump is 76, while President Biden, who is expected to make a formal announcement in March or April about seeking the Democratic nomination, is 80. The 51-year-old is the first major Republican candidate to commit to taking on Mr. Trump, who launched his third consecutive White House bid in November and remains the party’s dominant figure even after disappointing GOP results in the past three national elections ( Wall Street Journal).
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Teen Girls Reach Record Levels of Sadness
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Axios: Teen girls are experiencing record high levels of sadness and violence, according to a new report published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the report, 57% of teen girls in 2021 reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless” over the past year, up from 36% in 2011 and the highest rate seen in the last decade. By comparison, 29% of teen boys reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, compared to 21% in 2011. LGBTQ+ students and students with same-sex partners also reported high levels of sadness and hopelessness in 2021, at 69% and 78% respectively. State of play: About 30% of teen girls said they had seriously considered attempting suicide, up from 19% in 2011 ( Axios). NBC: The survey did not ask students about reasons for their feelings of sadness or thoughts of harming themselves. While anxiety and depression increased among teens during the pandemic, the trends, especially among girls, have been building for years ( NBC).
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Circuit of Appeals Court to Hear Case on Maintaining Integrity of Female Sports
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Daily Citizen: The effort to protect girls and women’s interscholastic sports from unfair competition from males claiming to be females received an encouraging signal from a federal appeals court in New York this week. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued notice on February 13 stating that it was vacating (removing) a December 2022 decision from a three-judge panel of 2nd Circuit judges against several female Connecticut high school track athletes and will re-hear the case. In the appeal, several female track athletes are seeking to overturn a Connecticut state policy allowing so-called “transgender” women – i.e., males who claim to be females – to compete against high school girls. The notice explains that a poll was taken among all the active judges on the 2nd Circuit and that a majority voted to rehear the case, titled Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools ( Daily Citizen). ADF: Starting in 2017, two male athletes began competing in Connecticut girls’ high school track. In just three years, those two males broke 17 girls’ track meet records, deprived girls of more than 85 opportunities to advance to the next level of competition and took 15 women’s state track championship titles ( ADF).
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Fed Warns of Further Interest Rate Increases
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Reuters: The U.S. central bank will need to keep gradually raising interest rates to beat inflation, Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan said on Tuesday, putting investors on notice that borrowing costs may ultimately need to go higher than is now widely expected. The Fed last year lifted interest rates further and faster than any time since the 1980s to fight inflation. Fed policymakers have signaled they expect the benchmark overnight interest rate, now in the 4.50%-4.75% range, to need to go to at least 5.1% before policy will be “sufficiently restrictive” to ease price pressures ( Reuters). Wall Street Journal: Fed Chair Jerome Powell and several of his colleagues have for the past three months justified continued rate increases by pointing to still-tight labor markets, elevated wage pressures and high inflation for labor-intensive services ( Wall Street Journal).
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Ford to Cut 3,800 Jobs in Europe to Accommodate EV Production
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CNBC: Automaker Ford on Tuesday said it intends to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe over the next three years to adopt a “leaner” structure as it focuses on electric vehicle production. The company plans to slash 2,300 jobs in production development and administration in Germany, 1,300 in the U.K. and 200 posts elsewhere in Europe. It said it will retain roughly 3,400 engineering roles in Europe, focused on vehicle design and development, alongside the creation of linked services. The overhaul will not affect Ford’s aim to offer an all-electric fleet by 2035. The company expects production of its first European-built electric passenger vehicle to start later this year ( CNBC).
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NORAD Intercepts Four Russian Aircrafts Over the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone
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Fox News: Four Russian aircraft were detected and intercepted over the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on Monday in what NORAD called a “routine” incident. Two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched by NORAD to intercept the Russian aircraft. Since 2007, Russian aircraft have been intercepted in the North American ADIZ six to seven times a year ( Fox News). Hill: The command noted that the incident is in no way related to objects shot down over the United States and Canada this month and that the Russian aircraft did not enter the two countries’ sovereign airspace ( Hill).
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Dinesh D’Souza discusses Biden’s recently released National Security Strategy, a naïve policy that makes the U.S. weaker, not stronger
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Dinesh D’Souza: The Biden administration a few weeks ago released its National Security Strategy as sort of a manual for how it sees the world, the threats that are out there, and how it expects to deal with those threats.
Reading this document is a little dismaying because you get the idea that...
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Mike Gallagher comments on Biden’s nonchalance over apparent spy balloons being shot out of the sky — a cause for alarm for most reasonable Americans
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Mike Gallagher: We’re in such trouble with this bunch in Washington calling the shots. The president absolutely silent as we have now shot down, what is it, four unmanned objects over American airspace. Are we under attack or what? I mean, this is an act of espionage. We all know it.
And isn’t...
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Charlie Kirk addresses James O’Keefe being booted out of Project Veritas
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Charlie Kirk: So someone sent this to [email protected]: “Charlie, I love your program. And I’m going to get my kids involved with Turning Point USA. And I love James O’Keefe. I love when you have him on the show. Have you spoken to James? Is he okay?”
I have. I spoke to James... |
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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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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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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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