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Chinese Foreign Minister Says Conflict with US Inevitable Because of Recent Strategy
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Reuters: The United States should change its “distorted” attitude towards China or “conflict and confrontation” will follow, China’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, while defending its stance on the war in Ukraine and defending its close ties with Russia. The U.S. had been engaging in suppression and containment of China rather than engaging in fair, rule-based competition, Foreign Minister Qin Gang told a news conference ( Reuters). NBC: “In fact, the U.S. side’s so-called competition is all-round containment and suppression, a zero-sum game,” he said, suggesting that conflict may be unavoidable unless Washington stops trying to suppress Beijing. On Taiwan, the self-ruling island that Beijing claims as its territory, Qin said it was the first red line in China’s relations with the U.S., which is Taiwan’s most important international backer ( NBC).
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Two of the Four Abducted Americans in Mexico Found Dead
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Spencer Brown: The story of four American citizens abducted by armed men after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Matamoros last week came to a tragic conclusion on Tuesday morning when Mexican officials announced that two of the four were found dead, the third was alive but wounded, and the fourth is apparently in fair condition, considering the circumstances ( Townhall). Bill Melugin: Two of the four Americans who were fired upon & kidnapped by gunmen in Matamoros, MX have been found dead, according to the governor of Tamaulipas. The two others were found alive, one of whom is wounded, he says. Matamoros is controlled by the Gulf Cartel ( Twitter). Daily Wire: The State Department has a travel advisory on its website that warns U.S. citizens against traveling to Tamaulipas state, which is located south of Texas, due to “crime and kidnapping” ( Daily Wire).
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President Biden Looks to Raise Taxes on Wealthy Citizens
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Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to raise the Medicare tax on high earners and push for more drug price negotiations to help keep the federal health insurance program solvent through at least 2050 as part of his budget proposal this week, the White House said. The tax increase from 3.8 percent to 5 percent on earned and unearned income above $400,000 is part of a package of proposals aimed at extending the solvency of Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund by at least 25 years, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday ( Reuters). Washington Examiner: The budget proposal comes as lawmakers are considering ways to salvage Medicare and Social Security benefits amid concerns the programs will go insolvent in the next few years. Biden has repeatedly accused Republicans of seeking to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits, hoping to use the attack as fodder in the 2024 election cycle ( Washington Examiner).
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Biden Supports Bipartisan Legislation Aimed at Banning TikTok
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Bloomberg: The White House endorsed a bipartisan bill that could give the president authority to ban or force a sale of TikTok, support that could hasten passage and break a deadlock over how to address privacy concerns around the popular Chinese-owned app. The bill introduced Tuesday would give the president the ability to force the sale of foreign-owned technologies, applications, software or e-commerce platforms if they present a national security threat to US users. It doesn’t mention Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.’s TikTok by name, but the video-sharing app, is the clear target ( Bloomberg). Daily Wire: Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD) led a group of 12 bipartisan senators to introduce the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. The legislation empowers the Department of Commerce to review, prevent, and mitigate information communications and technology (ICT) transactions that pose undue risk to U.S. economic and national security ( Daily Wire).
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SoFi Files Lawsuit to Continue Student Loan Repayments
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Bloomberg: SoFi Technologies is asking a federal court to order repayment by borrowers who aren’t eligible for student-debt cancellation under the terms of the Education Department’s debt-forgiveness plan. Millions of Americans with student loans haven’t needed to make a payment on their debt since March 2020. It’s the eighth extension of the pause ( Bloomberg). Federalist: Beyond the economic and financial implications, the true consequences of Biden’s plan are fundamentally moral in nature. This plan goes against the beliefs of our founders and the great thinkers before them who helped create this republic. Our nation was constructed on the premises of liberty and responsibility — in particular, duty. You don’t have to be a philosopher to understand that if you undertake a burden willingly and voluntarily, you have an obligation as a moral person to fulfill it. Such is the true cost of the Biden loan forgiveness plan: the loss of duty to oneself and to fellow citizens. When a civilization forgets its foundations of morality, it heads down a destructive path ( Federalist).
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Press Secretary on Fentanyl Deaths: “Because of the work that this President has done, it’s at historic lows”
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Daily Caller: White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the dangers drug cartels pose to Americans at the U.S.-Mexico border at Tuesday’s briefing. Doocy accused President Joe Biden of being “comfortable” with cartels operating close to the U.S. as fentanyl and other drugs flow into the U.S. and kill Americans ( Daily Caller). RNC Research: Karine Jean-Pierre claims success in the fight against fentanyl “because of the work that this president has done.” Overdoses, fueled by a surge in fentanyl, is the number one killer of Americans ages 18 to 45 ( Twitter). National Review: Both overall drug overdoses and specifically fentanyl overdoses leaped in 2020 and 2021, the most recent years available, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics ( National Review).
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Fed Chair Hints at Raising Interest Rates Again
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Wall Street Journal: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell opened the door to a larger half-point interest-rate increase this month and said officials are likely to lift rates higher than they previously expected to combat inflation in a stronger economy. In making their next rate decision, Mr. Powell suggested officials would pay close attention to Friday’s government report on February hiring and next week’s report on inflation ( Wall Street Journal). Washington Post: Republican and Democrats on Capitol Hill are clashing over the debt ceiling. Powell told lawmakers that the consequences of not raising the debt limit “are hard to estimate, but they could be extraordinarily adverse and could do long-standing harm” ( Washington Post).
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Jim Jordan Subpoenas National School Board Members to Answer for Branding Parents as Domestic Terrorists
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National Review: Representative Jim Jordan issued a series of subpoenas on Monday aimed at senior executives of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) as part of an investigation into the organization’s push to have the Biden administration to crack down on parent protesters, who they accused of engaging in “domestic terrorism.” In September 2021, the NSBA, a nationwide non-profit that represents 90,000 school board members and 14,000 districts, sent a letter to Joe Biden asking the president to investigate threats made against educators over policies such as mask mandates ( National Review). USA Today: Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo in October 2021 to the FBI and U.S. attorneys about the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence” against school officials. Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have testified repeatedly that they have not targeted parents voicing concerns at school board meetings, but focused on violent incidents and threats of violence ( USA Today).
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Biden’s FCC Nominee Backs Out of Contention After One Year
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Fox News: President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) withdrew her name from consideration Tuesday. Gigi Sohn, whom the White House first nominated in October 2021, said her decision came in response to “unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks” from cable and media industry lobbyists. Sohn ruffled feathers with her past social media posts and views on certain key issues that prevented the Senate from ever holding a floor vote on her confirmation ( Fox News). CNBC: The FCC is stuck with only four commissioners, leaving an open seat and making it virtually impossible for Biden to push his internet agenda without bipartisan agreement ( CNBC).
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Los Angeles City Council Pushes to Officially Make LA a Sanctuary City
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Los Angeles Times: Soon after President Trump took office, Los Angeles immigration groups demanded that City Hall label L.A. a haven for immigrants in the face of his promised crackdown. The Los Angeles City Council ultimately passed a resolution that declared L.A. a “city of sanctuary” — a symbolic gesture that offered no legal protections. Now, Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Raman want to strengthen L.A.’s laws around immigration. If adopted, the law would be largely similar to one in San Francisco. It prohibits city employees from using city funds or resources to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the enforcement of federal immigration laws unless such assistance is required by federal or state law ( Los Angeles Times).
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Dennis Prager dives into the truth about January 6, as revealed by thousands of hours of footage released to Tucker Carlson
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Dennis Prager: I think that Tucker Carlson’s program last night was among the most important television hours in modern American history. I don’t know of a more important hour. As I have said to you for much of my broadcast and publishing life, truth is not a left-wing value. The left lies...
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Mike Gallagher reacts to Tucker Carlson's coverage of the J6 footage, exposing what is turning out to one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history
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Mike Gallagher: There are topics in our culture that are the third rail. You touch them, you’ll get electrocuted. And what happened on the day of January 6th is one of those topics. Anybody who dares to push back against the narrative that this was an armed insurrection where multiple law...
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Charlie Kirk covers the story of Pete Buttigieg’s “buddy,” former College Park mayor Patrick Wojahn, being arrested on 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography
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Charlie Kirk: We’re going to start with a story that is pretty disgusting, I’ll be honest. But it needs to be covered and talked about. We’re not going to spend too much time on it, but it needs to be talked about.
“Democrat Mayor in Maryland arrested on 56 child pornography related...
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Sebastian Gorka talks with President Donald J. Trump about the failures of the Biden Administration, including China balloons and the war in Ukraine
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: President Trump, when it comes to China sending surveillance satellite balloons across America, across the whole swath of the nation, would you have waited if you were in the White House to shoot that balloon down after it had completed its mission?
Pres. Donald Trump: Well, it...
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Dinesh D’Souza dissects the story of the 74-year-old rancher who is facing murder charges for fatally shooting a Mexican national
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Dinesh D’Souza: An Arizona rancher is facing murder charges for shooting an illegal migrant on his property. Now not all the details of this case are known, but what is known is a little disturbing. At first it emerged that this rancher — his name, by the way, is George Alan Kelly — was...
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Brandon Tatum discusses recent reports that roughly 50% of homicides go unsolved and relates a funny and true personal story of proactive policing
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Officer Tatum: I’m sure many of you guys probably would be horrified at what I’m about to read, but it’s true: “Roughly half of the homicides go unsolved in the United States of America. The FBI data analysis by the Murder Accountability Project and The Marshall Project revealed that in...
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Julie Hartman continues her point-by-point discussion on what makes America different — and yes, exceptional
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Julie Hartman: So, the first way America is exceptional is the tremendous upward mobility that America allows. The second is our religious pluralism. And third, I would like to say is our Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights is one of the things that has made this country so exceptional.
The way that...
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Julie Hartman offers reasons to be unapologetically proud of the United States of America
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Julie Hartman: I would like to talk to you about American exceptionalism, which may seem like a total 180 from the previous subjects that I was discussing on the show. But actually, the previous subjects inspired me to do this final one.
If you look at what I have talked about today — Hungary’s...
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Hugh Hewitt and Mike Pompeo discuss the US Energy Department concluding that the covid virus likely escaped from a Wuhan lab
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Hugh Hewitt: Joined by the former Secretary of State and CIA Director of the United States, Secretary Mike Pompeo. Good morning, Mr. Secretary. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Mike Pompeo: Good Morning, Hugh. Great to be with you.
Hugh Hewitt: The first question has to be the story that came...
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Eric Metaxas and Naomi Wolf discuss the very dark, very troubling plans the Davos oligarchy has for America and the world
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Eric Metaxas: Naomi, I’m a simple person in many ways, and I just have to over and over and over, you know, repeat the obvious or try to remind myself, I’m not dreaming this, I’m not making this up. This is real. You have bravely and brilliantly uncovered what is happening because there are...
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