Trump demands Senate GOP show strength by using debt limit to kill Biden’s social welfare bill . . . Former President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans on Tuesday to use the looming debt ceiling deadline to pressure Democrats into abandoning the White House’s roughly $1.75 trillion social welfare bill. Mr. Trump, a leading figure of the GOP, prodded Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to refuse any efforts to hike the debt ceiling even at the risk of a default on U.S. debts. “Old Crow Mitch McConnell, who is getting beaten on every front by the radical left Democrats since giving them a two-month delay which allowed them to ‘get their act together,’ must be fully prepared to use the DEBT CEILING in order to totally kill the Democrat’s new social spending (Wasting!) bill, which will change our country forever,” said Mr. Trump in a statement. He has long been a fierce critic of Mr. McConnell. Washington Times

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in case that could overturn landmark abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade . . . The scope of abortion in the U.S. is at stake Wednesday as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, potentially the most consequential challenge to the 1973 Roe. v. Wade landmark ruling that limited government restrictions on abortion. Here are some key details about the case and what you can expect.The state of Mississippi will be arguing that the Supreme Court should allow it and other states to ban abortion after 15 weeks. More specifically, it's asking the court to strike down a lower court's decision blocking its 15-week abortion ban from taking effect. Passed in 2018, Mississippi's law encountered a legal challenge from Jackson Women's Health Organization, an abortion clinic that claims Mississippi's law is unconstitutional and should be permanently blocked because it violates previous court decisions on the issue. Fox News

 

Understanding the abortion industry's greatest lie . . . The greatest lie women have ever been told is that they need abortion in order to achieve their dreams, to have the career they want, to be the movie star they worked so hard to become, to keep their partner. I told this very lie to countless women in order to convince them to pay us at Planned Parenthood to get rid of that growing life inside of them. It is also the same lie that the abortion industry has built their case on in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Women, don't believe this lie. At its very core, this lie demands you attain justice and equality at the expense of a human being who shares your DNA, who will have parts of your personality and physical qualities, and whose very existence is a miracle. Fox News

 

Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Could Imperil Talks, Diplomats Say . . . Senior European diplomats warned on Tuesday that negotiations to revive nuclear talks could be terminated if Iran moved to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel. “It would seriously imperil the process” if Iran did something “as provocative as going to 90% enrichment,” said a senior diplomat from the three Western European nations that are participating in the talks—Britain, France and Germany. The warning came on the second day of the latest round of talks in Vienna aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, which lifted most international sanctions on Iran in exchange for tight but temporary restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program. Wall Street Journal

 

Space Force general says US satellites are attacked on daily basis . . . A Space Force general said American satellites are attacked by adversaries every day in ways that flirt with “acts of war,” and the US will lose a space arms race if it doesn’t take action. China and Russia regularly strike US satellites with lasers, radiofrequency jammers, and cyber attacks, Gen. David Thompson told The Washington Post in an op-ed published Tuesday. “The threats are really growing and expanding every single day. And it’s really an evolution of activity that’s been happening for a long time,” said Gen. Thompson, Vice Chief of Space Operations in the new military branch. “We’re really at a point now where there’s a whole host of ways that our space systems can be threatened.” David Thompson disclosed a 2019 incident when a Russian satellite flew so close to a US "national security satellite" that authorities believed it could be an offensive. New York Post

 

 

Americans Consider China Top National-Security Threat, Survey Finds . . . Americans listed China as the nation’s top foe and their trust in the U.S. military dropped to its lowest levels in three years, according to the first major national-security survey conducted since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. For the first time since the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute began surveying Americans about national security four years ago, a majority of Americans—52%—named China as the nation posing the greatest threat to the U.S. That is up from 21 percent four years ago. Russia came in at a distant 14%—a shift from three years ago when 30% of Americans considered that country to be the biggest risk, while China came in second place at 21%. Wall Street Journal

 

China Is The Primary Source Of Another Plague Killing Americans . . . While many in the U.S. have attacked China for its role in allowing COVID-19 to spread across the globe, China is also the primary source of another plague that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in recent years: Fentanyl.
Opioid and drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 200% in the U.S. from 2000 to 2014, and haven’t stopped increasing since. The country hit a record 63,600 deaths in 2016 and we crossed the 100,000 death threshold for the 12-month period following April 2020, with the majority of those deaths coming from synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited synthetic opioids as the cause of death in 62,338 of those 100,000 deaths, adding that the category was “primarily fentanyl.” President Joe Biden has largely focused his administration on combating the COVID-19 pandemic and passing his expansive infrastructure legislation. While he released a statement on Nov. 17 mourning the loss of the 100,000 American lives lost between April 2020 and April 2021, the statement made no mention of China’s role in the opioid crisis. Daily Caller

 

Beijing’s strategy for global dominance . . . Opinion. Enlisting American governors and mayors is a clever component. The Cold War between two superpowers ended thirty years ago this month when the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin. A second Cold War has begun. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has made it abundantly clear that global supremacy is his goal. The tougher question: Do Americans have the will and the energy “to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out” as President John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address in 1961, described what then appeared to be an endless contest with the U.S.S.R.? If it turns out we’re not up for the fight, it is likely that we will leave our children a world dominated by totalitarians. Put the past (e.g., the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution) aside and consider what China’s rulers have been doing lately. They have stripped Hong Kong of its freedoms in violation of their clear treaty obligations. They’re threatening Taiwan. Washington Times

 

The Most Powerful Data Broker in the World Is Winning the War Against the US . . . Beijing is beating the United States and its allies in one crucial domain: data. Data is the oil of the 21st century, the indispensable resource that will fuel artificial-intelligence algorithms, economic strength and national power. The wellspring of this data is all of us: our health records and genetic sequences, our online habits, the supply chain flows of our businesses, the terabytes of imagery guzzled by phones, drones and autonomous cars. The competition for global influence in the 21st century will require protecting and harnessing this data to achieve commercial, technological and military advantages. So far, China is winning, and the West is barely even engaged. Through a latticework of recent laws and regulations, Mr. Xi has been hard at work making the Chinese Communist Party the world’s most powerful data broker. How does Beijing do that? New York Times

 

United Nations Weighs Taliban Admission . . . The United Nations is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Taliban should be allowed to join the international body and serve as war-torn Afghanistan's official representative at Turtle Bay. The United Nations Credentials Committee will meet to consider who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar, which experienced its own military coup in February and has been beset by violence since. Ghulam Isaczai, the former Afghan government's U.N. representative prior to the Taliban's takeover of the country, is still serving in his role, but the Taliban has chosen its own representative, Suhail Shaheen, to replace him. Washington Free Beacon

 

 

France Deploys Military Police to Caribbean Islands Amid Unrest Over Vaccine Mandate . . . The French government has deployed military police to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe amid intensifying protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic related restrictions. Following several weeks of unrest and violent protests over COVID-19 measures—including a vaccine mandate for health care workers—police reinforcements were sent to the French Caribbean territories on Tuesday. Compulsory vaccinations for health workers, a measure already introduced on the French mainland, had fuelled resentment among the islands’ population. Epoch Times

 

As Protests Shake Iranian Regime, Iranian Americans Demand Meeting With Biden Admin . . . Amid a wave of protests in Iran over mass water shortages that has shaken the Iranian regime, an Iranian-American group is petitioning the Biden State Department for an immediate sit-down about ways to hold the regime accountable for its violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. The National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), a nonpartisan organization of Iranian Americans that promotes human rights in Iran, says the latest mass protests—and the Iranian regime's violent crackdown—represent a watershed moment in the Iranian people's efforts to depose the hardline clerical regime. The government has already shot at protesters on the street and shut down the country's internet to stop the spread of information and prevent the rise of more protests. Washington Free Beacon

 

COVID-19 variant omicron is unlikely to cause severe illness in vaccinated people, BioNTech founder says . . . The omicron variant of the coronavirus could lead to more infections among vaccinated people but they will most likely remain protected from a severe course of illness, according to the inventor of one of the first COVID-19 vaccines. While the new variant might evade the antibodies generated in reaction to the vaccine, the virus will likely remain vulnerable to immune cells that destroy it once it enters the body, BioNTech SE co-founder Ugur Sahin said. Fox News

 

Border Crossers Want Jobs, Not Sanctuary . . . A recent study on migration from the Migration Policy Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has concluded what many Americans have long known — the number one reason the vast majority of migrants enter the U.S. illegally is for employment. The study was based upon an in-person survey of some 5,000 individuals combined with another online survey that garnered 6,000 responses. Again, it found that the primary factor pushing people to migrate to the U.S. was jobs. Analysts noted, “Low wages, unemployment and insufficient income to cover basic necessities directly affected people’s livelihoods and contributed significantly to the desire to emigrate.” Furthermore, the study found that some 30% of households in three countries — El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala — relied on money sent to them from household members working in the U.S. Patriot Post

 

Lawmakers fume over U.S. pandemic relief funds pilfered by crime gangs in China, Russia . . . Lawmakers on Capitol Hill demanded hearings into fraud in the government’s coronavirus unemployment benefit program after hearing that crime syndicates in China, Russia and other adversary nations pocketed tens of billions of dollars. Both Republicans and Democrats demanded accountability for mismanagement of funds, which The Washington Times reported this week. Of more than $700 billion in pandemic unemployment assistance Congress approved, as much as $175 billion fell into the hands of foreign fraudsters, and most of that went to syndicates that have the backing of other governments. Washington Times

 

Ex-Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to Join General Atlantic . . . Ajay Banga, former chief executive officer of Mastercard is joining General Atlantic as vice chairman, officials at the private-equity firm said. Mr. Banga, who stepped down as CEO at the card network Jan. 1 after more than a decade in the role, will advise General Atlantic’s top management on the firm’s strategy and work with its sector and geographic leaders on investment strategy. One area of focus will be on financial inclusion—providing individuals and businesses with access to useful and affordable financial products—a passion of Mr. Banga’s, according to General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford. Mr. Banga, 62 years old, became CEO of Mastercard in 2010 and oversaw a more than 13-fold increase in the company’s market capitalization. Wall Street Journal

 

Turkish man's 3.46-inch nose earns Guinness World Records title . . . The Turkish man who was verified by Guinness World Records as having the longest nose on a living person said his supersized schnoz gives him an enhanced sense of smell. Mehmet Ozyurek, whose nose was officially measured at 3.46 inches from the bridge to the tip, said his large proboscis was the cause of mockery when he was a child, but he came to see it as a benefit.

"My friends used to call me 'Big Nose' to upset me," Ozyurek told Guinness World Records. "But I took a look at myself. That's when I looked in the mirror -- I discovered myself. "God made me like this, there is nothing that can be done in this situation. I learned to live in peace with my physique." UPI

 

 

 

Disney Blocks Tiananmen Square Simpsons Episode in Hong Kong . . . An episode of The Simpsons that ridicules Chinese Communist Party censorship has been removed from Disney’s streaming platform in Hong Kong in what appears to be another example of Hollywood caving to Beijing’s censorship demands. Users of the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong noted that a 2005 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Goo Goo Gai Pan" was absent from the platform, according to news reports. In the episode, the Simpson family visits the site of the Tiananmen Square massacre, which is commemorated in the show with a plaque that reads, "On this site, in 1989, nothing happened." The episode also criticizes Mao Zedong and depicts "Tank Man," the Chinese dissident photographed blocking a Chinese military tank during protests at Tiananmen. Washington Free Beacon

 

Corporate backers of BLM undeterred by group's Christmas blitz against capitalism, holiday shopping . . . With corporate America poised to enjoy its yearly surge in holiday season sales — and profits — Black Lives Matter has been getting into the spirit of the season with a barrage of wrathful tweets denouncing Christmas and Cyber Monday for promoting "white-supremacist-capitalism." Yet despite BLM's recent stream of invective, corporations across the country are standing pat for now in their pledges of support — both moral and monetary — for the wrathfully anti-capitalist movement. Just the News

 

CNN indefinitely suspends Chris Cuomo over damning AG documents . . . CNN “indefinitely” suspended host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday over his secret role in trying to defend his brother, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, from the sexual harassment allegations that forced him from office — and for using his journalistic resources to aid that effort. The move came a day after state Attorney General Letitia James released a trove of subpoenaed records that include texts showing the “Cuomo Prime Time” star agreed to contact news industry “sources” for advance information on damaging reports regarding his older brother. In a prepared statement, CNN said the material “shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense.” New York Post

 

10 Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Conservative Child . . . With Christmas just around the corner, here's a list of unique gifts that tell your children how much joy they bring to your life as well as the importance of limited government. 
1) Red Rider .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle

2) Leftist Tears Sippy Cup

3) The complete works of Thomas Sowell

4) Donald Trump Magic 8-Ball

5) Kyle Rittenhouse Plush Doll: Toy AR-15 included with real bump-stock action!
6) Lego® Keystone Pipeline Play Set

7) Suit & Tie Pajamas: The conservative values of order and personal responsibility never rest.

8) Coal: Beautiful, clean coal will remind your child not to destroy entire working-class communities in the name of green energy.

9) Traditional Homemaker Barbie Dream House: Let Barbie extol the virtues of raising children in a loving home. (Ken doll with lawnmower sold separately.)

10) Ivermectin Candy Canes. Babylon Bee