Daily News Roundup

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Jordan Boyd contributor to The Federalist: If Haley’s primary goal in running were to defeat President Joe Biden, she would have stood up in front of the American flags at her New Hampshire campaign headquarters Tuesday night, quit the race, and endorsed Trump as Americans’ last hope to win back the country. Her insistence on staying in a race she cannot and will not win because Republican voters don’t want her, however, signifies that unseating the most radical Democrat to ever grace the White House is not her goal. After Trump recently clarified that Haley is “not going to be chosen” as his vice president, she’s certainly not staying on the campaign trail with the hopes of becoming the next Kamala Harris. Haley’s reasoning for keeping her campaign alive hinges on her promise to her Democrat donors and neocon supporters to attack Trump.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage.com: The domestic terrorists of tomorrow are blocking traffic in the streets of our cities today.

David Krayden contributor to Human Events: Klaus and his globalist dandies are terrified that you know the emperor wears no clothes and that they are standing in front of the world ideologically naked. That’s a reason for optimism in 2024.

H. Sachs, M.D. contributor to American Thinker: . . . in reality, the majority of our new generation of doctors have not acquired much wisdom in all those years. Almost none of them have any acquaintance with the great ideas of western civilization from the writers of the Bible, to Shakespeare, to our great modern scholar Thomas Sowell. What they have absorbed in bulk is the poisonous ideology of modern or rather postmodern American academia. They have absorbed anti-American, anti-western Marxism, a cultural destruction machine bashing truth, beauty, and goodness. Hence, large numbers of doctors today are the fools asking patients to embrace the poison of socialized medicine.

Michael Cantrell contributor to PJMedia.com: One of the most disturbing developments to come out of the progressive movement is their gung-ho attitude toward the sexualization of young children and their desire to groom them to accept sexual deviancy in a variety of forms as normal behavior.

Faith Kuzma contributor to American Thinker: How do you get largely reluctant parents — and a resistant American public generally — to cooperate with transitioning kids? Bring in legal penalties and state surveillance, of course! Not to go along will be discrimination and require intervention. Becoming an enemy of the state is looking easier for trans-nonconforming parents

Helen Roy contributor to TheBlaze.com: Lack of “affordable child care” has become another in a growing list of buzzwords modern parents cite when enumerating why they can’t have children. The claim rests on a couple of assumptions baked into the euphemisms “affordable” and “child care.” We’ll start with “child care,” which is the crux of the issue. “Child care” is the concept that remains when “raising one’s children” is left to someone other than the children’s parents. Sanitized and stripped of profundity, the term soothes the anxious parent’s (usually the mother’s) guilt for outsourcing her active love for her young children.

NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY ELECTION

Forbes Breaking News: Trump Delivers Victory Address After Winning Republican New Hampshire Primary

Watch the 18:31 minute speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXVEU3b0a6g

Solomon: Analysis: Trump’s start to 2024 election historic, Haley’s New Hampshire finish a likely mirage

Donald Trump has done what no other Republican non-incumbent has accomplished in modern politics, scoring wins in the opening contests of Iowa and New Hampshire. And he scored both with more than 50% of the vote, without participating in a single debate and while facing the political machinery of two popular incumbent governors who threw their support to his competitors. His lone remaining major competitor, Nikki Haley, tried to sound like a winner Tuesday despite trailing by about 10 to 12 points as the evening treaded on. But even in that handy defeat, Haley’s showing was somewhat a political mirage. Exit polling showed she captured only about a quarter of registered Republicans who cast ballots. […] One such voter told CNN that he voted for Haley to oppose Trump but planned on voting for Biden in the fall. The crossover and unaffiliated vote also exposed areas in which Trump could improve: College graduates went 58% to Haley while independents went 61% to the former South Carolina governor. But Trump matched Haley evenly on women voters, a strong showing, while winning the male vote overwhelmingly. And 59% of all voters said they would be satisfied with Trump as the nominee compared to just 51% for Haley.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/analysis-trumps-start-2024-election-historic-haleys-new-hampshire-finish

Barkoukis: Why Is Haley Saying the ‘Race Is Far From Over’? Ramaswamy Has a Theory.

The entrepreneur explained why he believes she’s not dropping out despite the fact that it’s clear the GOP primary is over. “[T]here’s no way she can defeat Trump through the front door, so her donor puppet masters are propping her up long enough while plotting to eliminate Trump from the ballot,” he alleged on X. “It’s ugly. But it’s the TRUTH.”

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/01/24/ramaswamy-reacts-to-haleys-comment-about-race-far-from-over-n2634101

(H/T GC) Citizen Free Press: 70% of Nikki Haley voters in New Hampshire were not registered Republicans.

Watch the 36 second video: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1749963732988383361

Benny Johnson X post: “It was a strategic vote… I wouldn’t vote for her in a general election. A vote for Haley helps diminish Trump’s influence.” This is basically the majority of Haley voters

Watch the 40 second video: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1749979891611672915

Sundance: Positively Stunning – Nikki Haley Campaign Manager Sends Letter Saying the Haley Plan Is to Use “Open Primaries” and Democrats

Sometimes the reality of the fraudulent plan just hits you harder when you see the people who construct the fraud write it down and promote it. In a letter from Nikki Haley’s campaign manager Betsy Ankney, the corporate-funded plan to use “open primaries” is not only admitted, but also espoused as the core element of the Nikki Haley strategy. The only Republican politician I can remember campaigning with such an open intention to defy the will of the Republican base voter was Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who lost the Republican primary to Joe Miller, then openly asked Democrats to vote for her as a write-in during the general election. What Nikki Haley is openly stating, as her intention, is filled with an equal amount of disdain for the Republican voters and off-the-charts arrogance.

Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/23/positively-stunning-nikki-haley-campaign-manager-sends-letter-saying-the-haley-plan-is-to-use-open-primaries-and-democrats/

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT

(1/19/2024) The Ann and Phelim Scoop: Free Speech Vs. Climate Alarmism

Welcome back to the Ann and Phelim Scoop! We bring you today’s episode all the way from Washington, DC, where the free speech trial of the century is taking place. You might remember that broadcaster Mark Steyn is in the middle of a twelve-year legal battle because he called out Michael Mann’s shoddy science in the hockey stick graph, which reveals the spike in global temperatures following the Industrial Revolution after having remained stable for a thousand years. Funny enough, there’s no consideration of the Medieval Warming period or the Little Ice Age, but Steyn targeted one of the Left’s favorite orthodoxies, so of course, he’s being dragged through the courts. The trial between Professor Michael Mann and broadcaster Mark Steyn will determine whether climate alarmism or free speech is going to be the rule of the land.

Read more: https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/01/19/mann-v-steyn-goes-to-trial-after-12-years/

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE  POWER & CONTROL

Climate Change Experts STUMPED By The Simplest Question Imaginable

Laughable if it wasn’t so serious.

Watch the https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mugHus0bZr8

(1/19/2024) Mitchell: Mark Steyn’s opening statement at Mann climate trial: ‘He’s not a Nobel Prize recipient…Mann continues to promote one of the most brazen of scientific frauds – that he is of the same rank as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie’

Mark’s opening statement today at the Trial of the Century in the frozen tundra that is our Nation’s capital was another example of his linguistic prowess. For the hundreds watching online and the too many to count who filled two courtrooms to support Mark and got to witness it firsthand, Mark led the jury through what this case is really about: corruption. The corruption of our institutions, our higher education system, our media, and sadly, our society writ large. It is perhaps fate that the trial was postponed to this week, the week we recognize the contributions and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who wrote from jail in 1963 that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” That is the heart of this case as Mark noted. Corruption spreads, he reminded the jury repeatedly, and if those responsible are not held accountable, corruption erodes everything it touches until we are left with nothing.

Read more at ClimateDepot.

The Ingraham Angle: Watch: Morano on Ingraham on Fox: EV mandates ‘making freedom of movement more difficult’ to ‘force us into mass transit, subways, buses’ – Plus Gore in Davos claims Net Zero will stop global warming COLD

Morano on cold temps stopping EVs: I would argue this is a feature, not a bug. I mean, this is part of making travel, freedom of movement more difficult — the more we’re stuck with cars that don’t work, cars that take a long time to charge, the more they think they’ll force us into mass transit, subways, buses, and the Earth will smile. This is what the ideologues that Davos are pushing. This is what the Biden Administration is pushing. Morano China’s auto dominance: It was Trump’s 2013 tweet about global warming being invented to help China. China is now passing Japan as the number one Global exporter of cars. There is an invasion of Chinese cars. It’s because they have a monopoly on EVs. As I say, EVS dig the Earth, and that’s why China has a monopoly.

Read more/Watch the 4:34 minute Angle interview at ClimateDepot.

Climate Depot: ‘Landification’ – or ‘land emergence’: Even with sea level rise, around the world coastal land area has increased 13,000 square miles or about size of Belgium!

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: “If sea level rise is ongoing and inexorable, then all else equal, the areal extent of global land areas should be shrinking, especially in low-lying continental areas and among tropical islands…However, from 1985 to 2015 — a period when global sea levels increased by about 60 millimeters (about 2.4 inches) — the areal extent of global coastal land increased by almost 34,000 square kilometers (about 13k square miles), or about the size of Belgium home to more than 11 million people.” For example […] The literature on landification is in strong consensus that global land areas, even along coasts, are generally increasing in areal extent. For example, Mao et al. 2021 looked at global shorelines and found that instead of retreating on a global scale they are generally expanding:

Read more at ClimateDepot.

BlazeTV Staff: Watch CBS News embarrass itself explaining how the planet getting warmer actually makes it colder

For a long time, the media has harped on global warming — the idea that our planet is progressively getting hotter, causing countless issues. However, as soon as the temperatures plummet — as they inevitably do — people start asking questions about the legitimacy of global warming. Why are we suddenly experiencing sub-zero temperatures if our planet is supposedly getting hotter? A very fair question. Pat Gray plays a clip of CBS News’ Ben Tracy attempting to answer this question by linking “climate change” and “arctic chill.”

Read more/Watch the 5:19 minute video: https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/watch-cbs-news-embarrass-itself-explaining-how-the-planet-getting-warmer-actually-makes-it-colder

Nova: What a backflip: The Biggest political party in the EU now wants to drop the ban on petrol and diesel cars 

The voter backlash begins How much more would the car lovers and petrol-heads of Europe take? In draconian style, last February, the EU declared all petrol and diesel cars would be banned from 2035. It was their star policy for the Net Zero push. Car makers would have to cut their emissions by a shocking 55% by 2030 and an unthinkable 100% by 2035. It was to be the end of an era. The idea was so big and embedded in the EU that only one month ago an insurance insider warned that his company was already devising elaborate plans for a world where everyone had an EV and the insurance giants and the government got access to all your data. Police would be issuing your speeding tickets while-you-drove, and insurance companies would be granting drivers a discount if they allowed them to sell all their data to the highest bidder. Indeed, the word was that insurance companies wouldn’t even insure petrol cars. Obviously only the rich were going to be able to afford a petrol car or an EV “with privacy”. But now, the largest party in the EU is drafting a policy to ditch the same ban they voted in a year ago. The European People’s Party (EPP) is theoretically a “centre right” party, despite acting like the radical left, but that means they stand to lose their voter-base in a blink as the reality of the bans sinks in, which it has.

Read more: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/what-a-backflip-the-biggest-political-party-in-the-eu-now-wants-to-drop-the-ban-on-petrol-and-diesel-cars/

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

(H/T GC) TheLibertyDaily: WEF Mastermind Yuval Noah Harari Says Human Rights Are Fiction, Just Like God

Watch the shocking 1:29 minute video: https://rumble.com/v48qxz5-wef-mastermind-yuval-noah-harari-says-human-rights-are-fiction-just-like-go.html

Krayden: The jig is up for the World Economic Forum

Last week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) conference in Davos, Switzerland was unlike any in recent memory. This enclave of globalist authoritarians is worried; this club of unelected tyrants who want you to eat insects and own nothing is distracted; this cabal of international busybodies is running scared in 2024 and they seem to know that the jig is up in terms of convincing all those common folk that there is nothing sinister about the WEF’s plans for you and the world. […] by even appealing for your trust, Schwab betrayed the moral and ideological bankruptcy of his grasping organization. Why should he think he deserves your trust or that he should be anybody’s trustee? Who elected this guy to make decisions on our behalf? Why should the WEF insist that every country in the world from the United States to China must participate in its plans?

Read more at Human Events.

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Justice: This J6 Defendant Was Thanked For Helping Officers At The Riot. Now Prosecutors Want Him Locked Up For 17 Years

Sarah McAbee’s husband, a former sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee, was incarcerated for 26 months before he was given a trial for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. “And clearly it wasn’t a jury of his peers,” McAbee said on the “Vicki McKenna Show,” a radio program in Madison, Wisconsin. Ronald McAbee now awaits sentencing after being convicted of five felonies in a D.C. district court. Mr. McAbee had already pled guilty to another felony and a misdemeanor related to the riot, and prosecutors are now asking the judge to give him 14 to 17 years behind bars. Sarah McAbee, however, says her family has become victims of politically weaponized prosecutions of those involved in the Jan. 6 demonstrations. When asked by the radio show’s guest host, Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle, why her husband remains behind bars 29 months later, Sarah blamed the lengthy incarceration on what her husband saw at the riot.

Read more/Watch the 6:45 minute video: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/24/this-j6-defendant-was-thanked-for-helping-officers-at-the-riot-now-prosecutors-want-him-locked-up-for-17-years/

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

“The Reason You Don’t See This in the Mainstream Media Is Because It Is Extremely Damaging” – Emerald Robinson and Ivory Hecker Discuss Explosive Report on How You Can Change Results on Voting Machines (VIDEO)

On Friday, in a Federal Court In Atlanta, Georgia, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman testified in front of Judge Amy Totenberg’s courtroom in the Culling vs. Raffensperger lawsuit on the insecure Dominion voting machines used in Georgia elections since 2020.

As reported earlier, during his testimony, Halderman was able to HACK A DOMINION VOTING MACHINE and change the tabulations in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg and the entire courtroom! Halderman USED ONLY A PEN TO CHANGE VOTE TOTALS! His testimony was part of a long-running lawsuit by election integrity activists set as a bench trial. On Monday Emerald Robinson joined Ivory Hecker on Gateway: Beyond the Headlines to discuss how you can use a pen change results on a Dominion voting machine as was demonstrated last week in Fulton County court.

Read more/Watch the 9:29 minute interview: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/reason-you-dont-see-this-mainstream-media-is/

Fleetwood: Read The Court Transcripts From The Major Election Integrity Trial In Georgia

In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Judge Amy Totenberg is presiding over Curling v. Raffensperger, in which plaintiffs are challenging the integrity of Georgia’s voting systems. Court transcripts from the trial, which began on Jan. 9, can be found below.

Transcript from Jan. 9: . . . Transcript from Jan. 10: . . . Transcript from Jan. 11: . . . Transcript from Jan. 12: . . .

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/23/read-the-court-transcripts-from-the-major-election-integrity-trial-in-georgia/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Greenfield: How Obama Took Over the Biden Administration

A little tidbit. Obama’s 2020 efforts on Biden’s behalf didn’t end there. He was also instrumental in creating the so-called party unity commissions that brought Sanders’ staff and allies together with Bidens’ — a move that has had a lasting impact on Biden’s first-term policy agenda. The officials and operatives who served on these committees wrote a party platform that incorporated a number of progressive priorities. They also formed relationships that would carry forward into Congress and the Biden White House. We found that progressive leaders in Congress like Pramila Jayapal forged close ties with Biden’s first chief of staff, Ron Klain, during this period. In other words, the Left lost the primary but won the nomination anyway. Now let’s go one step further. Obama needs . . .

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-obama-took-over-the-biden-administration/

Salgado: WEEKEND READ: They Cannot Rest Until They Do Evil

If you understand the true nature of Leftism, very few things coming out of the Left can surprise you. At least in theory, evil is incapable of shocking the sober-minded individual, the one who has read about, lived through, studied, and reflected on human nature. God is full of surprises, the devil is full of tricks, which seem like surprises, until you realize that they surprised you only because you lost focus for an existential moment. And yes, I did just use “Leftism” and “evil” synonymously. If you are ever in doubt about the compatibility of those two, you need only read the media to re-convince yourself that they are, if not siblings, at least very close friends. In an article entitled “Why US Double Standards On Israel and Russia Play Into a Dangerous Game”, Patrick Wintour of The Guardian achieves what I thought impossible: he provided a Leftist take on the Israel-Hamas war which surprised me, though not in a good way. Although he uses full words and complete sentences, the majority of the piece is political stuttering and stammering about proportionality, excessive use of force, and “indiscriminate bombing”—all of which are lies. […] There is no angle from which to support the Palestinian people at the expense of Israel or the Jews: not from a historical angle, not from a social justice angle, not from a geopolitical angle. Like all forms of hatred and bigotry, the Free Palestine mania is a true—if I may so put it, a metaphysical—example of insanityIt is the formalization of the West’s self-hatred. It is a suicide note which is performed, rather than written.

Read more: https://pricklypear.news/weekend-read-they-cannot-rest-until-they-do-evil/

Chiappa: Elon Musk: Diversity-based hiring is antisemitic

Elon Musk has upped his war on woke by saying that diversity-oriented hiring policies are “fundamentally antisemitic” and discriminatory, shortly after a private visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp. The controversial tech billionaire was speaking at a European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in the Polish city of Kraków, amid rising criticism that his social media platform — X, formerly Twitter — has allowed rampant hate speech to spread. Musk himself sparked outrage in November when he publicly agreed with an antisemitic tweet claiming that Jewish communities have been “pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-diversity-based-hiring-is-antisemitic/

Bensman: The Road from Damascus

Time to recall the bloody history of border crossings from Syria. […] Syrians are ubiquitous on the newly-crowded migration routes into Europe. Frontex reports that they top the list of nationalities driving the most powerful surge since a continental crisis in 2015-2016. But Syrians pose an overlooked security threat for Europe, one worth American attention too: 538 of them were counted at the U.S.-Mexico border, which is facing its own historically unprecedented mass migration crisis. In case the world forgot, the last time Syrians surged across Western borders, in 2015-16, there followed a bloody onslaught of terrorism that brought France, Belgium, Germany, and other E.U. countries to their knees for several years—before Europe put all that out of mind. But whether Europeans or Americans choose to forget what happened last time, this resurgence presages an elevating threat of terrorism in 2024 and beyond. Observers on both sides of the Atlantic would do well to pay attention now.

Read more: https://americanmind.org/features/facing-up-to-immigration/the-road-from-damascus/

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION

Lepore:  Megyn Kelly obliterates MSNBC host Joy Reid for ripping into Moms for Liberty co-founder wanting to ban book that features underage kids discussing sex toys: ‘If she wants to expose her kid to that stuff, she can go right ahead’

Megyn Kelly slammed Joy Reid after the MSNBC host criticized the co-founder of Moms for Liberty for advocating banning a book featuring graphic sex from schools. The host of ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ – who called Reid an ‘idiot’ on X following the interview – said ‘I don’t know what Joy Reid is thinking’ and called her criticism of Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice ‘so frustrating.’ ‘I don’t want to know about Joy Reid’s weird sexual predilections or what she thinks is okay content for minors, but it’s not the same as what I think,’ she said.

Read more/Watch the videos: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12993757/megyn-kelly-msnbc-joy-reid-book-ban.html

Roy: Reject the ‘affordable child care’ fantasy

Millennial parents’ call for the government to subsidize the child-care industry is built on a dangerous lie. Lack of “affordable child care” has become another in a growing list of buzzwords modern parents cite when enumerating why they can’t have children. The claim rests on a couple of assumptions baked into the euphemisms “affordable” and “child care.” We’ll start with “child carae,” which is the crux of the issue. “Child care” is the concept that remains when “raising one’s children” is left to someone other than the children’s parents. Sanitized and stripped of profundity, the term soothes the anxious parent’s (usually the mother’s) guilt for outsourcing her active love for her young children.

Read more: https://www.theblaze.com/align/reject-the-affordable-child-care-fantasy

PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD

Bray: California Parents Are Fighting Back

California government has descended into destructive cruelty, fully committing to the sexualization of childhood in a culture of official secrecy, and they’ve left most Californians behind. Real backlash is coming, but there are obstacles on the path that leads back to sanity. Also: Every bad idea that starts on the Left Coast rolls east. It’s the laboratory for social ruin. However little you care about California, and however much it irritates you to hear about it, it’s your future — or, more to the point, the future of your children and grandchildren. So wherever you are, take a few minutes to think about the fight that’s brewing here. It’s coming your way. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district to force it to keep sexual secrets from parents, and he keeps issuing legal advisories against “forced outing policies” in K-12 schools. […] A deep-blue state is splitting from an ideologically insane government in one important place, pulling together a genuine and possibly enduring left-right coalition. This is a cause for hope, but its success isn’t a given. In the next three months, a statewide nonprofit organization called Protect Kids California will succeed or fail at an effort to gather 550,000 valid signatures from registered voters to place a measure on the November ballot that will do three things: . . .

Read more: https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/california-parents-are-fighting-back?

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI POLICE ANTI VICTIM PRO CRIMINAL

Harris: Black Woman Deliberately Runs Down Police Officer, No Attempted Murder Charges, […] Why?

Bigotry has always been a multi lane highway, but the useless mainstream media only likes to cover one lane of the highway, that being white on black alleged crime. Bigotry exists not only between racial groups, but between religions, social classes, and countless others. Still, it’s the MSM’s endless indifference to all of the others that is damaging to society. Last week, a nasty example of bigotry behind the wheel took place in New York City. You probably haven’t heard much about it, because the MSM doesn’t want you to. In their way of thinking, it’s better that you aren’t really informed about incidences like this. That way you can’t use these blatant examples of bigotry as a frame of reference when you rationalize future events. Here’s the story.

Read more: https://canadafreepress.com/article/black-woman-deliberately-runs-down-police-officer-no-attempted-murder-charges-why

THE DANGEROUS AND CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Potter: CNN and MSNBC are slammed for muting Trump’s mic to chime in with fact checkers – as Jake Tapper speaks over the former president to condemn his ‘anti-immigrant rhetoric’

CNN and MSNBC doubled down on their decision not to air Donald Trump‘s primary victory speeches in full, again cutting away from his New Hampshire rally to offer fact checks to viewers. […] It comes after the prime-time broadcasts faced backlash a week ago after previously halting Trump’s Iowa caucus speech to interject with their own analysis. […] The decision from the major liberal-leaning networks to interrupt Trump’s speech was met with fury online from conservatives, with many feeling it was a blatant demonstration of their dislike for the former president.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12999579/CNN-MSNBC-Trump-speeches-cut-new-hampshire.html

PHYSICIANS FIRST DO NO HARM

Sach, M.D.: Make medicine great again

After decades of working as a medical doctor I have come to understand how, in general, there is a powerful myth of how intelligent and wise we are. In the great play Fiddler on the Roof there is a line about why Tevye the lead character longs to be rich. He says, “when you’re rich, they think you really know.” It’s the same with doctors, when you’re handed that M.D. degree, the doctor himself, the public, our patients, typically think he really knows. But honestly, and sadly, most don’t know much, and many lack what is even more important, wisdom. This is especially true for our young doctors, indoctrinated into cultrual Marxism for years, rather than experiencing a truly liberal American, western, and Judeo-Christian education. I opened the latest edition of RadioGraphics today. It’s one of the premier journals for doctors like myself who specialize in diagnostic radiology. I began reading an article on endometriosis, a common medical problem in women. The first sentence says, […] Hence, large numbers of doctors today are the fools asking patients to embrace the poison of socialized medicine. They don’t consider the consequences, citizens and fellow physicians losing vast swaths of their liberties under the iron fist of the State; people paying huge taxes and sitting in lines for months awaiting one of tens of thousands of nameless and faceless government bureaucrats to grant them permission to see a specialist or take a particular medicine they need. These are the legions of unwise and cruel doctors now lopping off the breasts of healthy girls or penises of healthy boys to “affirm their gender.” These are the caretakers voting for . . .

Read more at American Thinker.

WAR IN ISRAEL

Glick: The U.S. Campaign to Oust Netanyahu

Is Israel on the cusp of political upheaval? In recent days, evidence has grown that two key actors—the Biden administration and Israel’s security establishment—are both pushing the country in that direction to advance their longstanding common goal of ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the religious-right bloc from power. The Biden administration showed its hand on Tuesday when U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave Israel an ultimatum to support Palestinian statehood or risk demonization by the administration. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blinken restated the administration’s demand that Netanyahu present a plan for the day after the war against Hamas in Gaza and the administration’s goal of using the war to establish a Palestinian state. Blinken insisted that the only side that refuses to accept the administration’s goal is the Israeli public—and its leader, Netanyahu.

Read more: https://carolineglick.com/the-u-s-campaign-to-oust-netanyahu/

Rabbi Michael Barclay: Israel: Don’t plan the victory party until you’re in the end zone

Competitive athletes know that you never plan the victory party until the game is finished. It is foolish and dangerous. Foolish because anything can happen and there might not be a victory at the end of the game. Dangerous because in thinking about the party, you could lose focus and ultimately lose the game.

The United States, the world and especially Israeli politicians need to remember this truth. It seems that everyone is now talking about “the day after.” What will happen after Israel wins the war with Hamas and now Hezb’allah? How Gaza will be governed after there is a cease fire? Everyone seems to be planning what happens after the victory over Hamas, but not discussing the more immediate issues: what is the goal of the war, and how do we get there? We all recognize that for a long-term peace, Hamas needs to be “destroyed.”

Read more at American Thinker.

Ravid: Scoop: Israel proposes 2-month fighting pause in Gaza for release of all hostages

Israel has given Hamas a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that includes up to two months of a pause in the fighting as part of a multi-phase deal that would include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza, two Israeli officials said. Why it matters: While the proposal doesn’t include an agreement to end the fighting, it is the longest period of ceasefire that Israel has offered Hamas since the start of the war. Driving the news: More than 130 hostages are still being held in Gaza. Israeli officials say several dozen hostages either died on Oct. 7 or in the weeks since then.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/22/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-hostages

Isaac: Hamas denies it slaughtered civilians on Oct. 7

The Islamist group’s about-face is in part driven by fear of destruction as the IDF closes in, says one expert on the Arab world. Hamas on Sunday released a statement denying its members committed atrocities on Oct. 7. The denial is a complete reversal for the terrorist group and a total disavowal of its own footage, after it supplied GoPro cameras to its operatives so that they could capture for posterity their horrific deeds on that day. “Avoiding harm to civilians, especially children, women and elderly people, is a religious and moral commitment by all the Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters,” Hamas stated in the 16-page document, claiming it only targeted Israeli military sites. (The Al-Qassam Brigades is Hamas’s so-called military wing.) “We reiterate that . . .

Read more: https://www.jns.org/hamas-denies-it-slaughtered-civilians-on-oct-7/

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Masson: Defenestrating the Deep State

It has become clear that our government needs to have its wings clipped. On multiple occasions, it has abused its power at the cost of the people it serves. The Department of Justice’s two-tiered justice system and its use of lawfare, the FBI and our intelligence agencies interfering in the election process, and the Department of Homeland [In] Security’s abandoning the slightest pretense of controlling our southern border by ignoring our immigration laws are examples of the deep-rooted corruption of the administrative state. A three-point plan could help get accountable government back on track: 1. Implement Schedule F. Our government agencies have a set of existing career officials who can prevent a duly elected presidential administration from accomplishing its goals (e.g., the Russian dossier hoax). The Pendleton (Civil Service Reform) Act of 1883 sought to improve government efficiency and end the “spoils system” by creating a professional managerial element based on merit. A noble idea that, since its enactment, has been corrupted by demographical shifts. An elected presidential administration deserves to have a bureaucracy that facilitates accomplishing its goals, not one that obstructs it. 2. Direct the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to . . . 3 . . .

Read more at American Thinker.

Crilly: Audio recording reveals the moment that senior Republican figure tried to bribe Kari Lake not to run for Senate

An audio recording obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the extraordinary moment when what appears to be Arizona‘s top Republican official tried to bribe populist firebrand Kari Lake not to run in the state’s Senate race. Jeff DeWit, 51, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, can be heard asking Lake, a close ally of Donald Trump, to name her price to stay out of politics for two years.

Read more/Listen to the audio: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12996297/EXCLUSIVE-Audio-recording-reveals-moment-senior-Republican-figure-tried-bribe-Kari-Lake-not-run-Senate.html

Toboroff: Goldman Sachs needs to explain why it’s donating to terrorist sympathizers

Claudia De La Cruz and Manolo De Los Santos are the co-executive directors of the People’s Forum. If one listens to a video that has now gone viral with 6.5 million views, it’s inconceivable that Goldman Sachs gave the deranged Santos and his organization one cent. Unless this was a DEI/affirmative action write-off to keep the likes of Al Sharpton off its rear-end. The pudgy radical from the Caribbean has spent a decade “committed to radical transformation.” Here’s the kicker, the People’s Forum has amassed $18 million dollars through the donor-advised Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. It’s unimaginable that Santos didn’t have major face-time with someone high-up at the investment bank and financial services company. Just a minute listening to him should have raised red-flags and landed him on the FBI’s terror watch list.

Read more: https://humanevents.com/2024/01/19/jacqueline-toboroff-goldman-sachs-needs-to-explain-why-its-donating-to-terrorist-sympathizers

INTERNATIONAL

Bordenkircher: The Lebanese Experiment

Eighty years of diversity and equity have destroyed a nation. Americans wondering about the future of a society that centers diversity as a core value should look at Lebanon, the 4,000 square mile eastern Mediterranean nation that just celebrated 80 years of equity as an official policy and the foundation of the state. Since 1943, Lebanon has found neither strength, unity, stability, cooperation, nor prosperity through its diversity and equity. Eighty years of history demonstrate that a continued adherence to the principle of diversity only exacerbates divides, produces political gridlock, paralyzes policy, suspends justice, breeds impunity, erodes and incapacitates state functions, and facilitates violence. The recognition of 18 diverse religious identities and an attempt to maintain a sense of equity among them has become ingrained in the DNA of Lebanon’s government and society. The Lebanese constitution institutionalized the recognition of multiple identities and proportional representation. The different Muslim and Christian communities must be represented in Parliament with representation proportional to their population. Parliamentary seats are equally divided between Christians and Muslims. Diversity and equity extend to the allocation of top government positions (e.g., the president and the prime minister), the orientation of foreign policy, and bureaucratic appointments. Each religious community dictates the laws governing the marriage and divorce of its adherents. The institutionalization of multiple identities and equity have produced dangerous and destructive behaviors; the relentless maintenance of diversity and equity underlies much of Lebanon’s travails.

Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-lebanese-experiment/

PRAGER U

Sophia Salma Khalifa: My Life in Israel as an Arab Muslim

“Israel gave me everything.” As an Arab Muslim growing up in Israel, Sophia witnessed firsthand the way non-Jews are treated: with respect, dignity, and full rights. Her life is proof that Arabs and Jews can live peacefully side by side. Why should everyday Americans care about the atrocities committed by Hamas? Sophia warns that if we turn a blind eye, the West will be next.

Watch the 10 minute video: https://www.prageru.com/video/sophia-salma-khalifa-my-life-in-israel-as-an-arab-muslim

Mesha Mainor: I Switched Parties Because of My Stance on Choice

After witnessing the flaws in our system, Georgia State Representative Mesha Mainor made the incredible decision to leave her political party and say goodbye to the leftist policies destroying our inner cities. A fierce advocate for her constituents, Mesha champions school choice and opposes defunding the police. Despite pressure to conform to the status quo, Mesha refuses to be bullied, even if it means going against the crowd to fight for what she believes in.

Watch the 7:37 minute video: https://www.prageru.com/video/mesha-mainor-i-switched-parties-because-of-my-stance-on-choice

Top 5 Man on the Street Moments of 2023

What a year it’s been! 2023 did not disappoint and neither did Aldo Buttazzoni during his first full year hosting Man on the Street. Enjoy the top 5 moments with Aldo in 2023 and have a Happy New Year!

Watch the 6:44 minute video: https://www.prageru.com/video/top-5-man-on-the-street-moments-of-2023

TAKE ACTION

The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.

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