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Fox News
The massive $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that was made public by federal lawmakers Tuesday includes a $750,000 earmark for a Los Angeles-based transgender Latina group that wants to “dismantle” the U.S. criminal justice system and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and inject “transgender history and discourse” into elementary schools, among other progressive initiatives.
The release of the bill, which spans 4,155 pages, came after negotiations between Senate Republicans and House and Senate Democrats. The sprawling package, which contains $858 billion in defense spending and $772.5 billion in non-defense discretionary spending, has to pass by the end of the week to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Daily Wire
An academic report commissioned by the United States Marines urged Marines to stop calling their drill instructors “sir” and “ma’am” to avoid “misgendering” the instructors.
The 739-page report from the University of Pittsburgh — which was catalyzed by a new congressional mandate —featured PhD biologists Bradley C. Nindl and Mita Lovalekar heading a team of 22 academics telling Marines they should address their instructors by their last names.
Victory Girls
Democrats are hoping you’ll be too busy with the holidays to notice the coal that they’ve stuffed into the Omnibus bill. The same bill that is costing taxpayers $1.7 trillion. So while you’re waiting for relatives to arrive, or those of us in the Midwest are waiting for the “bomb cyclone” — what we call a “bad winter storm” — Democrats want to pass this monstrosity.
But it’s not just Democrats who want to push through this Goliath of a bill. As you might guess, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wants to pass the omnibus bill, too.
“Cocaine Mitch” buddying up to the Democrats to throw more of our money into the streets. Who had that on their Bingo card other than, well, just about everybody who pays attention to McConnell’s shenanigans?
The Federalist
The United States Department of State has just issued its annual watchlist of the world’s worst religious freedom offenders, and strikingly, Nigeria did not make the cut. The country is among the most dangerous in the world to be a Christian, and daily we hear news of abuses imperiling the human rights of all Nigerians. In breaking news: Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted systematic, wide-scale forced abortions on at least 10,000 women and girls, many of which were kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants.
Yet in spite of clear-cut evidence of mass human rights atrocities, the U.S. government remains silent, failing to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern.” Between January 2021 and March 2022, more than 6,000 Christians were targeted and killed in Nigeria. In May of this year, Christian student Deborah Yakubu was stoned to death and her body burned in Sokoto State, Nigeria, after classmates deemed her WhatsApp messages blasphemous. Following this tragedy, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, a Christian woman from the northeast, is now on trial for blasphemy for sharing a WhatsApp message condemning Deborah’s brutal killing. And earlier this year, humanist Mubarak Bala was sentenced to 24 years in prison for social media posts critical of Islam.
Rob Morse
Governing a large city is a difficult job in the best of times. There are always more needs than resources. These are not the best of times. Governing a major US city is harder still when Democrats and the Biden economy have decimated small businesses and inflation has eliminated personal savings. Chapter 11 bankruptcies are up 76-percent. We are seeing a parallel surge in foreclosures that increased 64-percent.
Lives are at stake. Unemployment and poverty leads to a cycle of family breakdown, drug abuse, and violence. People move to find better jobs and safer homes. Deep blue cities and states are bleeding US citizens. When you’re a Democrat mayor of a major US city, you can’t exactly blame the Democrat politicians for your city’s problems. That would be political suicide.
Rather than fix the difficult underlying problems, billionaire Michael Bloomberg provides the obvious political excuse for these big city mayors. They can claim that guns cause violence in our large democrat-controlled cities. These Democrat mayors can’t admit that guns only cause crime in their cities but not in other cities with a growing economy and a working criminal-justice system. It is easy enough for the corporate media to ignore gun-control’s history of failure.
