House Democrats on Wednesday elected New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries — who has repeatedly painted conservatives as racists — as their leader, making him the successor to Nancy Pelosi, who led the House Democrats for decades and served as speaker when her party was in the majority.
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House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as party leader, first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress <a href="https://t.co/DexG6TNH7B">https://t.co/DexG6TNH7B</a>
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Jeffries’ leftist rhetoric over the years has included saying of Kyle Rittenhouse, “Lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key,” prompting Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) to fire back, “If this isn’t proof that the Democrat Party has largely departed from American principles of neutrally applied justice and the right of self-defense, then I don’t know what is.”
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If this isn’t proof that the Democrat Party has largely departed from American principles of neutrally applied justice and the right of self-defense, then I don’t know what is. <a href="https://t.co/WYsTAw3PeU">https://t.co/WYsTAw3PeU</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1458639042250223617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In July 2021, Jeffries, who was named one of seven impeachment managers by Pelosi in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump, ripped Republicans for their efforts to restore election integrity across the nation while branding them as racists, tweeting, “The Civil War ended in 1865 and the racists lost. Get over it.”
Crenshaw fired back on Twitter with a blunt reminder of exactly which party had the history of racism, snapping, “You’re right, the Democrats lost.”
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You’re right, the Democrats lost. <a href="https://t.co/fapklELoeh">https://t.co/fapklELoeh</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1415105589882114055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Appearing on <a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2021/07/14/hakeem-jeffries-voting-rights-child-care-tax-credit-nyc-mayoral-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spectrum News NY1</a>, Jeffries was asked if President Biden had exaggerated when he called measures such as voter ID and tighter control of mail-in ballots &#8220;the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.&#8221;
“He’s not exaggerating at all,” Jeffries replied. “The Republican party has adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy. Which is a shame because the modern history here in America post the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has largely been — this was a settled question. The right to vote was a sacred thing, an important part of our democracy.”
Jeffries implied that Republican efforts stemmed from racist reaction to the election of Barack Obama, calling the GOP efforts part of a “voter suppression epidemic.”
In February 2022, Jeffries attacked the legitimacy of the conservative members of the Supreme Court.
“Supreme Court majority has zero legitimacy,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Ghosts of the confederacy are alive and well.”
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The Supreme Court majority has zero legitimacy.
Ghosts of the confederacy are alive and well.
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In September, Jeffries claimed that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and fellow Republican and Texas Governor Greg Abbott were “behaving like human traffickers” after DeSantis sent 50 illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.
DeSantis, who served three terms in Congress before becoming the Sunshine State&#8217;s governor, fired back at his former House colleague, noting that the Biden administration has been moving illegal immigrants around the country since coming to power.
“When Biden is flying these people all over the fruited plain in the middle of the night, I didn&#8217;t hear a peep out of those people,” DeSantis said.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-wrecks-top-democrat-for-human-trafficker-remark-i-didnt-hear-a-peep-out-of-those-people/">DeSantis Wrecks Top Democrat For ‘Human Trafficker’ Remark: ‘I Didn’t Hear A Peep Out Of Those People’</a>

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has thrown down the gauntlet to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — whom he has described as “the most dangerous person in the world” — challenging her to a debate.
Last week, Pompeo told <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/mike-pompeo-slams-teachers-union-head-randi-weingarten-as-dangerous/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Semafor</a> that when he was asked who the most dangerous person in the world was, he named Weingarten, adding, “It’s not a close call.”
“I fear America is on a path to disintegration due to persistent failures in our education system. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and her fellow travelers have crippled our nation’s schools,” Pompeo wrote in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/pompeo-yes-randi-weingarten-is-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in the New York Post on Tuesday.
In February 2021, in an <a href="https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363682689962901504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1363682689962901504%7Ctwgr%5Eaba3043602bc4aefbc4aabee2692d275670f3162%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D193194action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Axios</a>, Weingarten said in reference to children who had been out of school for months, “kids are resilient and kids will recover.”
Axios’ Dan Primack asked, “Is there a point — and maybe you think we’re already past it — is there a point in which kids have been out of in-person school for so long that the education that they’ve lost isn’t really recoverable, that the third grade, the fourth grade, the kindergarten they lost, they can take extra semesters in the summer; they can do [that], but it can’t really be fixed?”
“No,” said Weingarten, whose union is the second largest teachers union in America, representing 1.7 million teachers. “I don&#8217;t believe that. I believe that kids are resilient and kids will recover. But we as adults have to meet their needs. Their emotional needs, their social needs, their learning needs.”
“The <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/mike-pompeo-is-right-randi-weingarten-is-a-danger-to-our-children/">danger she presents to our nation is clear and real</a> and exceeds that of all the bad guys I battled abroad for four years as secretary of state and CIA director,” Pompeo declared.
Noting that Weingarten responded to his Semafor remarks by ranting that Pompeo was  “extreme,” “anti-LGBTQ,” and “anti-Semitic,” Pompeo charged, “Her personal venom evidences an unwillingness to defend <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/randi-weingarten-and-unions-own-the-tragedy-of-kids-learning-loss/">what she has wrought on our children and our nation</a>. I am prepared to debate her and to present to the American people my case for the risks she presents to our republic and our nation’s future.”
Pompeo quoted the Father of the Constitution and America’s fourth president, James Madison: “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
He quoted iconic historian Will Durant: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
“I believe the future of our republic will not be written by our enemies,” Pompeo opined. “Indeed, America is more likely to be lost if we do not retake our schools from radical and progressive forces. &#8230; Failing to teach math, science, real history and civics and, importantly, to imprint America as the most exceptional nation in civilizational history on the hearts and minds of the next generation dooms America and the world that counts on us.”
“Students in China now outscore our children across the board,” Pompeo noted. “America’s students are severely deficient in mathematics and science, vital in our technological age.”
He pointed out that according to the Program for International Student Assessment, among 70 countries “American students ranked 35th in mathematics, 16th in science and 11th in reading.”
“All of this on Weingarten’s watch,” Pompeo asserted. “And it’s now worse. That assessment was conducted before the school lockdowns Weingarten helped engineer.”
“This focus on indoctrination over education is why Weingarten and the leftist establishment she represents are so dangerous; their malfeasance directly empowers Xi, Putin, and Ali Khamenei, who look to our schools to accelerate the decline upon which they build their global narrative,” Pompeo theorized. “<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/08/how-the-1619-project-slandered-america/">Critical race theory and the 1619 Project</a> derive from Marxist precepts; they do not reflect the greatness and the power of the American experiment. Today, only 1 in 3 Americans could pass the citizenship test.”
“America’s founding was a watershed in world history. Our nation is exceptional,” Pompeo stated. “President Biden should demand a renaissance in America’s schools, but he is too indebted to Weingarten, her union and other special interests to do his job.”
“Who are the beneficiaries of Weingarten’s vision of education?” Pompeo asked rhetorically. “Union bosses. Bureaucrats who multiply beyond function — and our adversaries. What Xi, Putin and Khamenei could never accomplish on the battlefield they are reaping in our classrooms.”
“If Weingarten and her ilk continue to control our schools and universities, we will lose our country, for it will become indefensible. She dissembles, knowing that an echoic media will front for her,” Pompeo blasted.
He concluded, &#8220;I look forward to the opportunity to defend our republic against the America-hating left that has occupied the commanding heights of our schools as opposed to the parents who so desperately need teachers to stay on mission.&#8221;
&#8220;Therefore, will you, Randi Weingarten, accept my challenge to debate?&#8221;

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The Biden administration announced Tuesday a $1 billion arms sale to Qatar, despite the Arab nation&#8217;s strong ties to groups the United States has listed as terrorist organizations.
The announcement from the State Department came as Qatar hosts the World Cup and during halftime of the match between Iran and the U.S. The State Department said the move will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the U.S., and called Qatar &#8220;an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;The proposed sale will improve Qatar’s capability to meet current and future threats by providing electronic and kinetic defeat capabilities against Unmanned Aircraft Systems,&#8221; the State Department said in a statement that appeared to allude to attacks carried out or sponsored by Iran.
While it is true that Iranian-backed proxies have targeted Qatar, the Gulf country does have deep ties to terrorism. Earlier this month, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/qatars-regional-role-as-a-mediator-between-west-and-middle-east/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that three neighboring countries, along with Egypt, severed ties with Doha in 2017, accusing it of financing terrorism.
Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2017 <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115hhrg26427/html/CHRG-115hhrg26427.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Qatar of funding U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, as well as several extremist groups operating in Syria.
&#8220;Qatar has openly housed Hamas leaders, Taliban leaders, and has several individuals who have been sanctioned by our U.S. Treasury Department, and it has failed to prosecute them,&#8221; former Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said during testimony. &#8220;At least one high-ranking Qatari official provided support to the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks against our country, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.&#8221;
The report also noted Qatar&#8217;s ties to international terrorist Khalifa Mohammed, who financed al-Qaeda and the 9/11 mastermind. Mohammed was tried and convicted in absentia in 2008 by Bahrain for his terrorist activity, and arrested, only to be released by Qatar six months later, she added.
“Many individuals and charities in Qatar have been known to raise large sums of money for al-Qaeda, the Nusra front, Hamas, and even ISIS,&#8221; Ros-Lehtinen said. &#8220;In Qatar, there are three buckets: Terror financing by the government; terror financing done in Qatar through their own citizens that their government may not know about; and terror financing in Qatar that the government knows about but does nothing to stop.”

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in an unprecedented move, has approved using remote-controlled robots armed with deadly explosives.
The San Francisco Police Department claimed they would use such robots to breach buildings or “contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous” suspects when lives are at stake, according to a spokesman for the department. The Board of Supervisors’ approval must now be passed in a second vote by the board and then get approved by San Francisco Mayor London Breed before the robots can be used.
“Some of the supervisors said they are concerned police will disproportionately use lethal robots on Black and other people of color,” <a href="https://theweek.com/lgbtq/1018836/senate-passes-respect-for-marriage-act-putting-marriage-equality-protections-a-big" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Week</a> reported.
Supervisor Connie Chan <a href="https://apnews.com/article/police-san-francisco-government-and-politics-d26121d7f7afb070102932e6a0754aa5">stated</a>, “According to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not a[n] easy discussion.”
But Democrat Shamann Wilson, president of the Board of Supervisors, contended, “Most law enforcement weapons are used against people of color. I’m really just stunned that we’re here talking about this.”
Only three senior police leaders have the power to authorize such actions, and they can only do so after other tactics have been attempted or the suspect cannot be subdued any other way.
Former Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant Adam Bercovici <a href="https://gizmodo.com/police-robots-kill-san-francisco-vote-authorizes-1849835184" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post, “If I was in charge, and I had that capability, it wouldn’t be the first on my menu. But it would be an option if things were really bad.”
The Oakland Police Department had considered using similar robots but backtracked after the idea elicited harsh reaction. “The only known use of lethal robots by a U.S. police department <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/635079/dallas-shooter-wrote-walls-blood-final-moments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was in Dallas in 2016</a>, when police used a robot armed with explosives to kill a sniper who had ambushed and killed five officers,” The Week noted.
That sniper was caught in a parking garage and killed by police with a robot-operated pound of C-4 explosive, which was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/30/san-francisco-police-robots-kill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guided by an extending arm</a> toward the suspect. Dallas Police Chief David Brown <a href="https://theweek.com/obituaries/1018840/former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemin-dies-at-96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated,</a> “You have to trust your people to make the calls. We believe that we saved lives by making this decision,” adding, “I appreciate critics, but they&#8217;re not on the ground, their lives are not being put at risk by debating what tactics to take.”

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Oral arguments began on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-texas-5/">United States v. Texas</a>, in which Texas and Louisiana are fighting against the Biden administration’s policy of prioritizing certain illegal immigrants for deportation, leaving the states to fend for themselves against the huge number of illegal immigrants in their states.
The issue at hand was catalyzed by a <a href="https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/guidelines-civilimmigrationlaw.pdf">September 2021 memorandum</a> from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in which he argued, “We do not have the resources to apprehend and seek the removal of every one of these noncitizens. Therefore, we need to exercise our discretion and determine whom to prioritize for immigration enforcement action.”
“The fact an individual is a removable noncitizen therefore should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them,” Mayorkas added.
But on June 10, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a judgment vacating Mayorkas’ memorandum. Texas and Louisiana had contended that the federal government had no authority to prioritize some illegal immigrants for deportation over others.
After the memo was vacated by the court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit refused to put the ruling on hold while the Biden administration appealed the decision, asking SCOTUS to freeze the decision. SCOTUS ruled that the decision could stay in effect, but agreed to hear the Biden administration’s challenge.
As Amy Howe of <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/11/in-u-s-v-texas-broad-questions-over-immigration-enforcement-and-states-ability-to-challenge-federal-policies/">SCOTUS Blog</a> noted, three salient questions are being asked by the Court. SCOTUS is asking both the plaintiffs and defendants whether the states have legal standing. The Biden administration says the states do not have legal standing because they have not been damaged by the federal government, while the states argue that they have to shell out more funds due to the presence of additional immigrants in their state, including public benefits.
SCOTUS is also inquiring whether the Biden administration policy follows federal immigration law and the federal law governing administrative agencies. The states argue that Congress’ federal immigration laws require that the federal government “shall take into custody any alien who” has committed certain crimes “when the alien is released” from criminal custody. In addition, the states argue, Congress’ federal immigration laws stated that a final deportation order requires that the federal government “shall remove” the noncitizen within 90 days.
The word “shall” indicates a mandatory step, the states assert, but the Mayorkas memo makes them discretionary .
The third question asked by SCOTUS, Howe concludes, is whether the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas had the power to vacate Mayorkas’ policy.

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Hollywood, which has determinedly stuck to its guns in forwarding its woke agenda, crashed and burned over the Thanksgiving weekend, as box office receipts plunged to their lowest Thanksgiving weekend total since 1994.
The total from the three-day weekend amounted to $95 million, as <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2022/11/worst-thanksgiving-weekend-box-office-history-1234785622/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieWire</a> reported; the two years prior to the 2020 COVID pandemic, in 2018 and 2019, the box office gathered $216 million and $181 million.
“A weekend garnering under $100 million is rare in and of itself; in 2019, only four weekends wore the heavy crown,” <a href="https://www.avclub.com/at-the-box-office-thanksgiving-has-never-looked-worse-1849825953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AV Club</a> noted.
Although “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2022W47/occasion/us_thanksgiving_3/">took in</a> $45.9 million, Disney’s woke “Strange World,” the children’s animated film which finished second at the box office and features an openly gay character, gathered a mere $11.9 million.
“Sources estimate that &#8216;Strange World&#8217; will lose at least $100 million in its theatrical run,” <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/disney-strange-world-lose-100-million-box-office-1235442714/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> reported, explaining that the film cost $180 million to produce and tens of millions of dollars to market and distribute around the world. Sources told Variety that the film would have to gross roughly $360 million just to make its money back.
<a href="https://deadline.com/2022/11/strange-world-bombs-box-office-disney-glass-onion-bob-iger-bob-chapek-1235182222/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> reported that “Strange World” would lose $147 million.
In third place, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” grossed $9.4 million over the weekend while “Devotion,” in fourth place, only collected $5.96 million. “The Menu” grossed $5.2 million, “Black Adam” grossed $3.4 million, and Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” grossed $2.2 million, as did “Bones and All.”
After &#8220;Bros,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a>&#8216;s first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-the-representation-were-looking-for-netflix-removes-lgbtq-tag-from-jeffrey-dahmer-drama-series/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> romantic comedy, bombed at the box office in October, its writer blamed “homophobic weirdos” for the film&#8217;s dismal opening weekend box office performance.
Billy Eichner, who co-starred in the film as well as co-wrote it with director Nicholas Stoller, lashed out as the movie pulled in a mere $4.8 million, leaving it in fourth place behind “Smile” ($22 million), “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wildes-dont-worry-darling-takes-on-utopia-toxic-masculinity-and-a-whole-bunch-of-drama/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don’t Worry Darling</a>,” ($7.3 million) and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-story-is-fictionalized-viola-davis-responds-to-boycott-of-the-woman-king-for-being-historically-inaccurate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Woman King</a>” ($7 million). The disappointing ticket take couldn&#8217;t possibly have anything to do with the movie&#8217;s quality, he insisted.
“Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theater playing BROS in LA,” he tweeted. “The audience howled with laughter start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out. It was truly magical. Really. I am VERY proud of this movie.”
“Rolling Stone already has BROS on the list of the best comedies of the 21st century,” he said.
Then he posited his theory that his movie was struggling because heterosexual people didn&#8217;t want to see it.
“Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”
Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.

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On Friday, the U.S. Air Force will give the family and friends of the 8,000 people who worked on it a chance to see the world’s first sixth-generation aircraft: the B-21 Raider stealth bomber.
The showing of the B-21, which is named for the World War II Doolittle Raiders B-25 bomber crewmen, will take place at the Northrop Grumman facility in Palmdale, California, where the assembly line is located and six B-21 Raiders that are in various stages of final assembly.
“The B-21 is the most advanced military aircraft ever built and is a product of pioneering innovation and technological excellence,” Dough Young, Northrop sector vice president and general manager, declared.
“I think it&#8217;s the first view of what&#8217;s going to be a great capability for our country,“ Tom Jones, president of Northrop Grumman Aeronautics System, stated, as <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/11/revealed-public-finally-gets-see-b-21-stealth-bomber-week/380175/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense One</a> reported. “B-21 really kind of takes it [to] the next step as you&#8217;re dealing with larger aircraft, better signatures, and the tolerances required to do all that.”
The new bomber, which has been worked on for years, was built using digital technology, as opposed to prior projects in which X-planes were flight tested then modified before they were produced.
“By being able to burn down a lot more risk digitally, we&#8217;re able to take this step, which cuts years out of the overall development program and really wrings a lot of risk out,” Jones said. “Hopefully we can get started and up and running in production much more efficiently and effectively.”
“I&#8217;m hoping as we go forward that future aircraft acquisitions will rely on a lot more high-fidelity, digital models, and emphasize fleshing out to production practices, because I think overall, that&#8217;s probably going to be a better acquisition practice in the long run,” he added.
Jones lauded the workers who built the plane:
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They didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to work at home, either because of the classification or they were working in a factory—they were coming in every day, couldn&#8217;t tell their families why they were coming in, just they have to go in when a lot of the rest of the world was able to work at home.
Working through all the turmoil of that and still successfully putting this aircraft together. I&#8217;m just so proud of the work that they&#8217;ve done, and the excitement on the manufacturing floor and engineering spaces is palpable. Like there&#8217;s a lot of people that are looking forward to this.
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“The B-21 Raider is named in honor of the Doolittle Raid of World War II when 80 airmen, led by Lt. Col. James ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle, and 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers set off on a mission that changed the course of World War II,” Northrop writes on its <a href="https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/features/10-facts-about-northrop-grummans-b-21-raider" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. “The actions of these 80 volunteers were instrumental in shifting momentum in the Pacific theater. This marked the raid as a catalyst to a multitude of future progress in U.S. air superiority from land or sea. The courageous spirit of the Doolittle Raiders is the inspiration behind the name of the B-21 Raider.”

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Children’s Wisconsin hospital, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has engendered anger after hiring as a chaplain an activist who has shared a poem titled “Jesus at the Gay Bar” and started a GoFund me page for her partner to have her breasts removed.
Fliers were posted reading “Meet Your New Chaplain: Kate Newendorp” with her pronouns listed as “she/her/hers” and her partner’s listed as “they/he.”
“Working in a pediatric hospital is a dream come true!!” Newendorp states on the flier, as <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/28/wisconsin-childrens-hospital-is-stacking-its-bench-of-chaplains-with-trans-activists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> reported. “I am so excited to be working alongside everyone and am pumped to be part of the team. Think of me as your friendly next-door neighbor!”
“We have already seen that Children’s holds little value for respecting deeply held religious beliefs, given their recent COVID Religious Waiver Committee. But this feels like a step too far. This feels like they have actively recruited activists into this field to further their progressive agenda,” a former Children’s Wisconsin employee told The Federalist. “I think this situation really calls into question who do we want guiding the spiritual development of our children — especially children who are stuck in a hospital, isolated, sometimes alone, and extremely vulnerable and easily impressionable.”
The reference to Children’s past history vis-à-vis religious beliefs revolves around fellow chaplain Ian Butts, who interviewed Children’s staff members who had submitted religious exemption requests to avoid getting the COVID vaccine.
“The questions included the specifics of the employees’ personal religious convictions and their vaccination record, with Butts pressing on what he considered to be contradictions,” Kylee Griswold of The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/24/premier-childrens-hospital-fires-unvaxxed-nurses-after-questioning-and-rejecting-their-religious-beliefs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in February 2022. “Two particularly leading questions regarded the specifics of how the employees would keep their patients safe without being vaccinated, implying a moral implication of refusing a vaccine, as well as how they could square working for a hospital that mandated something so contrary to their personal convictions as a condition of employment.”
Last June, Newendorp enthused on Facebook, “Love Jesus. Be gay. Get ordained. What better way to celebrate Pride than being ordained?! Many thanks to my church and classes for being willing to stand for queer folks being included in ministry and for allowing me to follow God’s call.”
In October, she wrote, “Also your casual reminder that my validity as an ordained minister is currently under review by my denomination because of the love I feel for my fiancé. Do better Church, because I’m not going anywhere. I was called.”
Children’s also issued a flier presenting a “Spiritual Care Intern” named Meg Trimm. The Federalist noted:
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Trimm has shared numerous TikToks of herself “<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thefragglewhithin/video/7135561514152365358?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deconstructing my white supremacy</a>,” explaining that “<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thefragglewhithin/video/7033105745835019566?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender is infinite</a>,” proclaiming, “<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thefragglewhithin/video/7160142761801338158?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">God is TRANSGENDER!!!</a>” and saying, “God has a purpose for your life, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thefragglewhithin/video/7106539836307246382?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">it might be fricken queer</a>!”
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The former Children’s employee told The Federalist:
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I am deeply concerned with this new infiltration of trans activists into our chaplain and faith-based services. We have already witnessed the erosion and lost of public trust in fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work and general mental health counselors due to the rise of activists in these areas. Now parents have to worry about this as well?
We have many parents and families at Children’s who are deeply religious and hold traditional Judeo-Christian values. Will these new chaplains be able to serve the need of these families objectively? How will they properly support a grieving parent who is dealing with a child’s traumatic injury? How will they properly counsel a child who may be alone in the hospital due to a single parent working to make ends meet and maintain insurance?
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Children’s Hospital Slammed For Hiring Transgender Activist As A Chaplain

Children's Hospital Slammed For Hiring Transgender Activist As A Chaplain

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After the players on Iran’s World Cup soccer team expressed solidarity with protesters against the tyrannical Iranian regime by not singing the national anthem before their opening game against England, the Iranian rime is now reportedly threatening to imprison or torture the players’ families if the team refuses to “behave” as the team prepares to face the United States’ team on Tuesday.
That report comes courtesy of a “source involved in the security of the games, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/football/iran-soccer-family-threats-intl-spt/index.html?utm_content=2022-11-28T20%3A00%3A14&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> reported. That source also indicated that subsequent to  members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and told of the threats.
“There are a large number of Iranian security officers in Qatar collecting information and monitoring the players,” the source told CNN, adding that the despotic Iranian regime had promised the players “presents and cars” before the game with England prior to the refusal to sing the anthem.
The Iranian team sang the anthem before their second game against Wales.
The sources suggested that the Iranian regime had manipulated the event against Wales by sending hundreds of these actor supporters in order to create a false sense of support and favor amongst the fans. For the next game against the U.S, the regime is planning to significantly increase the number of actors into the thousands.
The captain of Iran’s soccer team implicitly spoke out about the terrorizing of Iranian citizens by the government in his home country prior to the game against England. “I offer my condolences to all the bereaved families of Iran. And let them know that we are with them and sympathize with them,” he stated.
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IMPORTANT 🇮🇷 Ahead of their game against England, Iran’s captain Ehsan Hajsafi becomes the first Iranian player to speak out in support of women’s rights protesters in his home country, expressing condolences to families who’ve lost loved ones.<a href="https://t.co/iyOiZ9cikl">pic.twitter.com/iyOiZ9cikl</a>
&mdash; Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) <a href="https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1594497797792960515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Protests in Iran have surged since the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/16/middleeast/iranian-woman-dies-police-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini</a> in the custody of the government’s morality police in mid-September. Between her death and November 19, 378 Iranians were killed by the government’s “security forces,” including 47 children and 27 women, according to <a href="https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5594/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the non-profit Iran Human Rights</a> (IHR).
“Based on our information, the killing of protesters were committed exclusively by the Islamic Republic’s repressive forces,” the Director of Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, stated. “The responsibility for the killing of protesters rests solely with the Islamic Republic and its leader, Ali Khamenei.”
According to IHR, protesters had been killed in 25 provinces, with 40 protesters killed in by state “security forces” in the week between November 12 and November 19.

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Torture Or Prison: Iranian Soccer Team’s Families Threatened by Tyrannical Regime: Report

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Downtown San Francisco restaurants and have been hit so hard by the COVID pandemic and its aftermath, where people work remotely instead of traveling to the city, that restaurants are crying out to the local government to subsidize them.
Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, suggested that the city subsidize restaurants for as long as 12 to 18 months to keep them solvent.
“It’s dealing with the operating expenses for a certain period of time, so they don’t have to make money for that period,” she  asserted to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-shuttered-pizza-restaurant-demonstrates-17614635.php?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=briefing&amp;utm_campaign=sfc_baybriefing_am&amp;sid=54dd212c3b35d005218bb6e2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. “And then maybe you’re going to incentivize some people to come in and take a chance” to open a business.
“I know this is expensive, don’t get me wrong. I don’t know where we get the money,” she added.
The city has already doled out over $83 million to small business, whether by grant, loan or a tax break.
“There are bigger economic forces at play that are keeping people from our core and downtown than the lack of restaurants — one of them being the lack of foot traffic because of hybrid work schedules,” Gloria Chan, spokesperson for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, stated. “Subsidies going directly to property owners for new restaurants is a massive financial undertaking and likely not feasible without federal or state funding in addition to requiring significant resources and investments from the businesses themselves.”
Thomas cited the 2011 tax break that enticed Twitter and other tech companies to move to the area.
The list of restaurants closing in the Bay Area in October <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/mikkeller-restaurant-closures-17547688.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> the Mikkeller Bar in the Tenderloin area, Padrecito, the Soon and Soon Souvenir Shop, Fatted Calf, Bonchon, Holder’s House, Hotline, the Berkeley Bagel Street Café, Augie’s Montreal Deli, Pastis, Broken Record, Campo Fina, A Taste of Denmark, Tribune Tribune, Café Lane 33, and the Kebabery.
In September, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/september-restaurant-closures-17473667.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list included</a> Maru Ichi, Seven Stills, El Charro 1947, Chica, The Grove, Alchemy Collective, Zazzi Foods, Smitten Ice Cream, Big 4, Roosevelt Tamale Parlor, Double Play Bar &amp; Grill, and the Sesame Tiny Bakery.
“A lot of us hoped that the return to office would happen, but it didn’t. So we can’t just kind of hope, now, that these areas just organically create themselves,” Thomas concluded.

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San Francisco Restaurants Closing In Droves. Restaurant Assn. Wants City To Subsidize Them.

San Francisco Restaurants Closing In Droves. They Want City To Subsidize Them.

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On Monday, Tiger Woods, 46, issued a statement announcing he would not compete in the upcoming Hero World Challenge, scheduled in Albany, Bahamas, from November 28 through December 4, because of an injury he had sustained while practicing.
The Hero World Challenge, hosted by Woods every year, enables a small number of top-ranked golf pros to compete and serves as a benefit for the Tiger Woods Foundation. The tournament field is comprised of 20 players, including the most recent winners of the four major PGA tournaments, the top 11 available players from the Official World Golf Ranking, the defending champion of the tournament, and two special exemption players selected by the foundation.
“In my preparations and practice for this week’s Hero World Challenge, I’ve developed plantar fasciitis in my right foot, which is making it difficult to walk,” Woods tweeted. “After consulting with my doctors and trainers, I have decided to withdraw this week and focus on my hosting duties. My plan is still to compete in The Match and PNC Championship.”
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Unlike the Hero World Challenge, at The Match and the PNC Championship Woods can use a golf cart.
Since the Hero World Challenge was founded in 2000, Woods has won it five times: 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2011. Jordan Spieth recorded the lowest score recorded in the tournament in 2014 at 262, 26 under par.
Woods played his last competitive round at the Open Championship in mid-July; he has played a total of nine rounds on the tour this year in <a href="https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/12757246/tiger-woods-back-in-action-at-hero-world-challenge-ways-to-watch-his-return-live-on-sky-sports">three tournaments</a>: the Masters, the PGA Championship and The Open in Great Britain. He finished 47th at The Masters and withdrew after the third round at the PGA Championship. He missed the cut at The Open.
Woods, the towering figure who dominated golf for two decades, now ranks 1,277th in the world. He has amassed a total of 15 Grand Slam titles, second only to the legendary golf titan Jack Nicklaus, who won 18. Those four tournaments include The Masters, The Open Championship (aka the British Open), the US Open, and the PGA Championship.
Only Bobby Jones completed the Grand Slam, which entails winning the four championships in the same calendar year; Woods won the four titles consecutively but they were not in the same calendar year. Ben Hogan won all but the PGA in the same year, 1953, but the PGA overlapped the British Open, so it was impossible for Hogan to compete there.

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Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Hero World Challenge Due To Foot Injury

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A Mexican world champion boxer threatened Argentinian Lionel Messi after seeing a video of the soccer superstar standing atop what appeared to be either a jersey from Mexico’s soccer team or the Mexican flag.
On Sunday, Argentina defeated Mexico 2-0 in the World Cup as Messi scored the first goals. After the game, Messi appeared to stand on the jersey or flag amid a locker room celebration, sparking the ire of boxer Canelo Alvarez.
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“Did you guys see Messi cleaning the floor with our jersey and flag????” Alvarez, who has won multiple world championships in four weight classes from light middleweight to light heavyweight, tweeted. “He better pray to God that I don&#8217;t find him. Just like I respect Argentina, he has to respect Mexico! I&#8217;m not talking about the country as a whole, just about the bulls**** that Messi did.”
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Vieron a Messi limpiando el piso con nuestra playera y bandera ????
&mdash; Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canelo/status/1597017518530387968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Que le pida a Dios que no me lo encuentre!! 👊🏻👊🏻🤬🔥
&mdash; Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canelo/status/1597017649376276480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Así como respeto Argentina tiene que respetar mexico!! no hablo del país(argentina) hablo de messi por su mamada que hizo. 👊🏻🔥
&mdash; Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canelo/status/1597024849708228608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Messi’s former Argentina teammate Sergio Agüero chided Alvarez for his comments.
“Mr. Canelo, don’t look for excuses or problems, surely you don’t know about football and what happens in a changing room,&#8221; Agüero tweeted. &#8220;The shirts are always on the floor after games have finished due to sweat and then if you look properly, he makes the movement to remove his boot and accidentally hits it.”
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Señor canelo no busques excusas o problemas , seguramente no sabes de fútbol y que pasa en un vestuario . Las camisetas siempre después que se terminan los partidos están en el piso por el sudor y después si ves bien hace el movimiento para sacarse el botín y sin querer le da . <a href="https://t.co/zfftTXH3JB">https://t.co/zfftTXH3JB</a>
&mdash; Sergio Kun Aguero (@aguerosergiokun) <a href="https://twitter.com/aguerosergiokun/status/1597126414150807552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Messi was euphoric after the game with Mexico, which kept Argentina’s hopes alive after the shocking loss to Saudi Arabia in the opening game of Group C.
“We needed this euphoria,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The days were very long, and we were eager to have the chance to turn it around. It was a critical game. [Winning] was a weight off our shoulders, and we now have peace of mind.”
“The first half was difficult due to the situation and the need to win. We couldn&#8217;t find spaces,” he continued. “In the second half, we started playing our game and doing what we stand for. … The goal changed the game.”
In other World Cup news, U.S. Soccer briefly displayed Iran’s national flag without the emblem of the Islamic regime on its official Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts to show support for protests in Iran, but then pulled it down, telling <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/football/iran-us-flag-protesters-klinsmann-2022-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html">CNN</a> it always had intended to go back to the Islamic Republic flag, calling the brief display “a one-time graphic.”
Iranian state media Tasnim news agency reacted to the brief display by insisting the U.S. team be thrown out of the World Cup, tweeting, “By posting a distorted image of the flag of the Islamic Republic of #Iran on its official account, the #US football team breached the @FIFAcom charter, for which a 10-game suspension is the appropriate penalty. Team #USA should be kicked out of the #WorldCup2022.”

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‘He Better Pray To God I Don’t Find Him’: Mexican World Champion Boxer Threatens Soccer Superstar Messi

Mexican World Champion Boxer Threatens Soccer Superstar Messi 

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