Breitbart,
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Alana Mastrangelo
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9/12/2023 1:32:48 PM
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A double rainbow appeared over New York City on September 11, the 22-year anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attack on the United States.
“A real thing I just saw with my eyes,” New York City resident Meg wrote in a TikTok caption, sharing a video of the double rainbow spanning over downtown Manhattan, with one of them seeming to originate near where the World Trade Center once stood.
Daily Caller,
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Micaela Burrow
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9/12/2023 1:13:05 PM
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley’s end-of-tour award citation will include “gender-specific” pronouns, although a recent change to Department of Defense (DOD) policy requires the use of gender-neutral language, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
On Aug. 7, DOD updated a regulation for joint decorations and awards to require that officials use the “gender-neutral” term “themself” in lieu of “himself” or “herself” when preparing recommendation letters for joint awards and citations. Milley’s award citation, however, includes pronouns appropriate to his gender and will be processed for a final sign-off using that language, a spokesperson for the chairman told the DCNF on Sept. 5.
Washington Examiner,
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Gabrielle M. Etzel
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9/12/2023 12:54:14 PM
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Republicans in Congress are investigating a claim from a high-ranking CIA officer that leadership at the agency offered monetary incentives to investigators to dismiss the lab leak theory of origin for the coronavirus.
The whistleblower alleges that six of the seven-member CIA COVID Discovery Team tasked with investigating the origins of the virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology initially concluded that the virus originated in the lab, but they were given financial incentives to change their position to a zoonotic origin hypothesis. (snip) They say that the whistleblower is a "multi-decade, senior-level current Agency officer" and the information under review comes from "a seemingly reliable source."
Biz Pac Review,
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Nick Pope
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9/11/2023 6:21:53 PM
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The Biden administration’s decision to restrict oil activity in Alaska last week will likely face at least one legal challenge, E&E News reported Monday. The Department of the Interior (DOI) declared Wednesday its intention to retroactively cancel seven leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) owned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), (snip) The lease sales in question were mandated by Congress in 2017 to pay for the Trump-era tax cuts of that same year.
“A willingness to circumvent laws passed by Congress has consequences reaching far beyond ANWR’s boundaries, and will impact future development across this country,” AIDEA said,
Hot Air,
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David Strom
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9/11/2023 5:59:37 PM
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I am hardly the first or the only person to note the fact that social justice ideology is simply a religious replacement for Christianity.
(snip) But my Alma Mater, Carleton College, surprised even me by hiring as its new Chaplain of the college an avowed atheist. (snip) I know that many people who do not believe in God still have a sense of justice, but for the most part, that sense is informed by a Christian tradition that they are actively attacking. Equality as a good is a particularly Christian concept, and based on the belief that whatever our individual differences we are all creatures of God.
Daily Wire,
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Corrine Murdock
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9/10/2023 3:50:22 PM
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A federal appeals court ruled against Mississippi’s permanent voting ban for certain felons, going against Supreme Court precedent in doing so. (snip) Judge Edith Jones countered in a dissenting opinion that the majority ruling itself contradicted the Constitution and reflected judicial activism. (snip) Jones also cited the Supreme Court precedent set in the 1974 case Richardson v. Ramirez, which determined that felon voting bans don’t violate the Equal Protection Clause. In that case, the court ruled that the question of handling voting rights for felons should be hashed out in a legislative forum, and that it wasn’t for their court to “choose one set of values over another.”
Breitbart,
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Kristina Wong
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9/10/2023 3:35:26 PM
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Friday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding he explain the Pentagon’s apparent decision to use the “gender neutral” term “themself” instead of “himself” or “herself” for decoration and award citations.
Cotton, an Army veteran, wrote to Austin:
I write regarding the Department’s decision to incorporate ‘gender neutral’ language into decoration and award citations. Our military apparently will now use “themself”—which is not even a word, I hasten to add—instead of “himself” or “herself” to describe heroic or distinguished actions.
Breitbart,
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Thomas D. Williams
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9/10/2023 3:05:17 PM
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Americans are split in their opinion of Pope Francis, with equal numbers “very favorable” and “very unfavorable” toward the Argentine pontiff, a poll reveals. (snip) Unsurprisingly, more than three times as many self-proclaimed liberals (57 percent) say they have a very favorable or somewhat favorable view of the pope as those who identify as conservatives (17 percent).
Similarly, 40 percent of Republicans who have an opinion as to the pope’s ideological leanings said he was “very liberal” or “liberal” whereas only 14 percent of Democrats said the same.
Breitbart,
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Allum Bakhari
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9/10/2023 2:58:06 PM
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a modified version of an injunction in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, blocking the White House and federal agencies from pressuring social media companies to censor American citizens. (snip) In a win for opponents of online censorship, the entire FBI remains blocked from demanding censorship from social media companies under the new injunction, as is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the White House press secretary, and a host of other Biden officials who applied pressure to the tech platforms during the coronavirus pandemic.
Breitbart,
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Simon Kent
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9/10/2023 2:46:00 PM
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The concept of the state delivering cash payments as reparations to the descendants of enslaved African Americans is opposed by California voters by a 2-to-1 margin, a poll released Sunday reveals. (snip) Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers created California’s Reparations Task Force in 2020 with the goal of establishing a path to reparations that could serve as a model for the nation. (snip) Reparations for black residents in California are forecasted to cost $800 billion — more than twice the cost of the state’s entire annual budget, but activists say that is not enough.
Daily Caller,
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Nick Pope
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9/10/2023 2:34:09 PM
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The Department of Defense (DOD) has paid about $1 billion to an arms dealer who was once indicted for allegedly bribing foreign officials to supply equipment to the Ukrainians, The New York Times reported Saturday. (snip) Marc Morales, who leads Global Ordnance, was the subject of a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment in 2009 that alleged he had participated in a conspiracy and money laundering activities, with the DOJ further alleging Morales was recorded on tape talking about ways to illicitly pay off foreign officials.
Because FBI agents mishandled their relationship with a key informant and the investigation into Morales, prosecutors dismissed the charges against him, according to the NYT.
Just the News,
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Madeleine Hubbard
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9/10/2023 2:24:01 PM
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Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who was feet away from President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, is coming forward with his version of events that challenge the official government narrative. (snip) If his recollections are accurate, it may indicate that the central thesis of the Warren Commission is incorrect. The presidential-appointed commission, which never interviewed Landis, concluded in 1964 that the single bullet struck the president's back and exited through the front of his throat before hitting Texas Gov. John Connally and injuring his back, chest, wrist and leg as he sat in the front of the presidential limousine.