This week, the irrepressible, irreplaceable, So Fresh, So Face™ Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Twitch), made her latest important contribution to America’s political culture: she showed up at the much-ballyhooed Met Gala wearing a dress festooned with the slogan “TAX THE RICH.” It was a magical moment: this soldier of revolution striding into the court of the wealthy glitterati, risking everything to purvey her message — a message universally celebrated and approved by those same wealthy glitterati, who had apparently given her a ticket to the $30,000 event, created her oh-so-audacious dress, and who now cheered her dauntless fearlessness. 
So bold. So valorous.
And AOC was not one to underestimate her achievement: in the face of criticism, she swung into full-throated defense of her own intrepidity. “I thought about the criticism I’d get,” she wrote, “but honestly I and my body have been so heavily and relentlessly policed from all corners politically since the moment I won my election that it’s kind of become expected and normalized to me…we all had a conversation about Taxing the Rich in front of the very people who lobby against it, and punctured the 4th wall of excess and spectacle.”
Of course, none of this is true. But the grift is real, it it is spectacular.
True revolutionaries eat the rich. Cosplaying revolutionaries wear dresses reading “EAT THE RICH” to gaudy parties with the rich, snap pictures with the rich, go home to their Teslas and their fridges stocked with Whole Foods, and then brag on their Instagrams about changing the world. 
This, writ large, is the beauty of American-style Marxism: all the fun, none of the cost. The most ardent Marxists in America aren’t the downtrodden poor, but the well-educated, wealthy patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They live off the fat of the land, but free themselves of the burden of their guilt by associating with pseudo-revolutionary Twitch streamers. Our corporations clear billions while advertising their adherence to critical race theory nonsense about the evils of capitalism; our celebrities — the beneficiaries of a system so rich that even a modicum of talent, combined with unmitigated gall, is rewarded with millions of dollars — wear thousand-dollar outfits to ostentatious balls with slogans emblazoned “PEG THE PATRIARCHY.”
Indeed, not much has changed for the radical Left over the past few decades. In 1970, Tom Wolfe wrote a cover essay for New York magazine, titled “Radical Chic.” In it, he described a party at the home of New York Leonard and Felicia Bernstein thrown on behalf of the Black Panthers. Here is his characterization of the <a href="https://nymag.com/news/features/46170/">Radical Chic</a> phenomenon:
<blockquote>From the beginning it was pointless to argue about the sincerity of Radical Chic. Unquestionably the basic impulse, “red diaper” or otherwise, was sincere. But, as in most human endeavors focused upon an ideal, there seemed to be some double-track thinking going on. On the first track—well, one does have a sincere concern for the poor and the underprivileged and an honest outrage against discrimination….On the other hand—on the second track in one’s mind, that is—one also has a sincere concern for maintaining a proper East Side lifestyle in New York Society. And this concern is just as sincere as the first, and just as deep. It really is. It really does become part of one’s psyche.</blockquote>
Nothing is new under the sun.
But there is something new happening in America today: the cosplay has become part and parcel of the culture rather than the counterculture. Leonard Bernstein held his little party in 1970, while Richard Nixon was president; the Black Panthers were an actual revolutionary gang. AOC is a member of Congress. The people with whom she attended the Met Gala aren’t merely the height of culture, they’re the height of corporate and political power. What happens when the powerful cosplay the revolution?
Complete fragmentation. Because when the powerful are playing at revolution — when the institutions of power are complicit in the revolution — the revolution can only be directed downward. It is no coincidence that the president of the United States, who considers himself a revolutionary fellow traveler, trafficking in “equity” and cradle-to-grave government support and foreign policy withdrawal, seeks to channel ire from himself toward normal American citizens who don’t wish to be subjected to vaccine and mask mandates: at whom else could he direct his energies? Our nation’s largest institutions know that the simplest way to immunize themselves from the revolutionaries is to join them. Prop up a semantically-overloaded sign on your vast Hancock Park lawn, and the revolutionaries will pass your doorpost like the Angel of Death during the plague of the firstborn.
And so the Met Gala represents something beyond hypocrisy and decadence — something more sinister. It represents the simple truth that today’s supposed brave revolutionaries are the powerful, and that revolution from above eventually manifests as tyranny.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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It’s Saturday, September 18th, and this is your Morning Wire. Listen to the full podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/morning-wire">here</a>.
1) Disappearances In Communist China
The Topline: Four years ago, the wife of Chinese businessman Desmond Shun disappeared in what’s suspected to be another case of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) targeting influential citizens. Then, on the eve of the release of his <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Red-Roulette/Desmond-Shum/9781982156152">book</a> exposing Chinese political corruption last week, his wife suddenly reappeared. 
Quote Of The Day:
“I decided to publish the book because, in my view, this is bringing international attention to her case. It&#8217;s probably the last resort.”
– Desmund Shun
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Disappearances
Shun joined Morning Wire to discuss corruption in communist controlled China and his wife’s sudden reappearance. 
Shun said his wife disappeared for four years with virtually no warning, adding that the Chinese government takes people for certain amounts of time and when people return, they usually don’t say anything about their experience for fear of repercussions from the Chinese Communist Party. 
Last week, after media outlets reported on Shun’s situation, his wife contacted him by phone and warned him not to publish the book, claiming she was back in her apartment in Beijing. Shun said she could be taken by the government again at any time. 
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2) Decline In U.S. Men Attending College
The Topline: A generation of American men, especially working class white men, are opting not to go to college, while women continue to earn degrees and graduate at a considerably higher rate than their male peers.
The Decline
Over the last year, colleges saw a steep drop in enrollment among men — many of whom seem to have decided the expense and trouble of getting a degree is no longer worth it. 
Men now make up only two out of every five college students in the U.S. 
Over the past five years, U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million total students, and male students made up 71% of the decline. 
By the end of this past school year, 59.5% of college students were women, an all-time high. Only 40.5% were men.
The Gap
The disparity exists at both two-year and four-year colleges, but it’s the most stark at private four-year schools, where during this past year female students comprised 61% of the student body.
Some universities are even quietly trying to recruit more men, while others are now accepting a higher percentage of men than women to balance out the student body. 
The decline in college enrollment is also most dramatic among poor and working-class white men. Minority men from the same economic background are now enrolling more frequently than their white counterparts. 
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3) The 2021 Emmys
The Topline: The 2021 Emmy awards will air tomorrow night and this year’s nominations provide a window into how the television industry is changing &#8212; and how it’s staying the same.
Streaming
The biggest trend is the near-total domination of streaming over traditional broadcast networks.
For Example: In the award category for Outstanding Comedy Series, all but one of the eight nominees originated on streaming platforms. For Outstanding Drama Series, only two of the eight nominees air on broadcast.
Ratings
This trend doesn’t dovetail with ratings. Going by the sheer number of viewers, traditional broadcast and cable networks vastly outperform streaming.
The most recent Nielsen ratings <a href="https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2021/the-gauge-shows-streaming-takes-a-seat-at-the-table/">report</a> showed that streaming accounts for around 26% of the audience share. Together, cable and broadcast draw 64% of the audience.
Nielsen ratings have adapted their metrics to capture streaming views, as well, revealing how a popular streaming show is much different from a popular TV show of the past.
Emmy ratings have been on a downward trajectory for a while, with every year essentially a new record low since 2015 — around when streaming platforms started to become popular.
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Other Stories We’re Tracking
Essential Worker Shortage
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/school-shortages-bus-drivers-workers.html">Schools</a> around the country are experiencing serious employee shortages and are now making efforts to fill roles, including cafeteria personnel and substitute teachers. Massachusetts is even enlisting the National Guard to assist with bus driver shortages.
Ocasio-Cortez Ethics Complaint
The Conservative group American Accountability Foundation filed an ethics <a href="https://9b57ee93-8fae-434e-a844-6b3e2e6dcd24.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b57ee_0bbb09db34774fedae37979172f56e21.pdf">complaint</a> against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for “accepting an impermissible gift to attend” the New York Met Gala without having a “permissible exemption.&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez’s <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/572508-conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-over-ocasio-cortez-appearance-at-met">office</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/conservative-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-aoc-attending-met-gala-n1279308?utm_campaign=morning_wire&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile">told</a> NBC News they are “confident [they] complied with all ethics rules.&#8221;
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Morning Wire

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1) Former Military Officials Discuss General Milley Allegations 

The Topline: Morning Wire spoke to former military officials about the allegations of potential “treasonous” behavior against General Mark Milley, who reportedly subverted the chain of command by making calls to Chinese military leaders without President Trump’s approval. 
Quote Of The Day:
“If Eisenhower were the president and what you say is true, Milley would be summoned to the White House and he would be removed from his position. Then there would be a decision by legal authorities and advisors to the president regarding whether Milley should be placed under house arrest pending court-martial. That&#8217;s how serious these infractions would be, if they turn out to be accurate.”
– Retired U.S. Army Colonel Doug Macgregor
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The Allegation
A bold allegation from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, “Peril,” accuses sitting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley of actively undermining President Trump during the last months of his administration.
According to the bombshell new book, Milley made phone calls to foreign military counterparts in China, promising to warn them in the event that President Donald Trump planned an attack. 
If true, his actions would represent a radical subversion of the civilian chain of command. 
Secretary Chris Miller
Morning Wire spoke with Secretary Chris Miller, who was acting Secretary of Defense from November 2020 to January 2021. He worked closely with Milley during the last three months of Donald Trump’s presidency &#8212; during the time of these allegations. Milley said his working relationship with Milley was positive and professional and described Trump and Milley’s relationship as “businesslike.”
Miller said he’d be surprised if the allegations were true, adding that calling foreign counterparts is not unusual, but if the accusations of working to undermine the president are true, he said that is extremely serious.
Miller also pushed back on claims that President Trump needed any safeguards when it came to national security, saying he got a bad wrap because he refused to use politically correct speech.
Routine Call Vs. Violation
Kash Patel served as chief of staff for Miller while he was acting Secretary of Defense. Patel also stressed the difference between a “routine call” and the violation of chain of command.
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Doug Macgregor, who has served as senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense, said he is not confident President Biden will release the transcripts of the call between Milley and his Chinese counterpart. He said he expects nothing to change and Milley to be kept in his position. 
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2) The Situation Facing Afghan Refugees
The Topline: Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the Biden administration has flown thousands of Afghans to the U.S. Now, the federal government is struggling to resettle them. 
“Essentially it’s secrecy masking pandemonium.”
– Daily Wire Investigative Reporter Luke Rosiak
Afghan Refugees In U.S.
According to Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, some Afghan migrants have been taken to the Dulles Expo Center, as well as hotels around the airport. Others are being housed on military bases throughout Virginia and other states.
Top local officials reportedly don’t know how many Afghans there are in the country, or what’s happening to them. 
Temporary Facility 
The Daily Wire discovered how a Dick’s Sporting Goods in Virginia that went out of business was being used as a temporary facility. A large black fence was put up, and Afghans were living inside earlier this week.
On Tuesday afternoon, a Department of Defense subcontractor who was sitting on a folding chair out front told The Daily Wire she was the closest thing to an official on site, and the migrants had been moved somewhere else. 
Local Community
Despite some refugee facilities being run by the Department of Defense, a lot of the work has fallen to civilians. Fairfax County, for example, has spent $300,000 transporting the migrants. 
The Virginia Department of Health also put out an alert saying Virginians who traveled to certain hotels, hospitals, or the airport, could have been exposed to measles, after five migrants were diagnosed.
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3) New Washington Law Hampers Police Making Drug Arrests 
The Topline:  A new law is making it difficult for police in Washington state to arrest people for drug possession as drug overdose deaths spike in the state.
The Law
A new Washington policy went into effect in May which prohibits police from arresting someone for drug possession until the third time they’re caught. 
The first two times, they have to give the person a warning and contact information for rehab, unless there is a large quantity of drugs suggesting a connection to drug trafficking.
The Problem: It’s essentially impossible for police to know for sure how many warnings a person has been given because there’s no statewide database for drug warnings. 
On the local level, police have created their own local databases to try to comply with this law, but outside of their immediate areas they still have no idea who’s been warned and who hasn’t.
The Fallout
In February, the state’s supreme court ruled the old law, which classified drug possession as a felony, was unconstitutional. 
State lawmakers who supported the new law hoped it would steer drug users into treatment rather than the criminal justice system, but police chiefs in Washington state told The Daily Wire the reality on the ground is much different. 
Cops are forced to let people with drugs go in most cases, so the substance abuse cycle continues. 
Drug Data
Data show drug use is up, public drug use is rampant, and fatal drug overdoses are up, especially in places like Seattle. 
There were 418 overdose deaths in the first 3 months of 2021 compared to 378 in the same time period the year before. 
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Daily Wire police are now aware of children as young as sixth-graders using marijuana at school. Violent crime and property crime are also up in Washington, as drug users try to generate revenue to fund their addictions.
Police Point: In May, the Seattle police chief <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seattle-police-shortage/">said</a> 260 officers &#8212; about 20% of the force &#8212; have left in the last year and a half. 
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Other Stories We’re Tracking
Abbott
On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) moved to shut down six ports of entry from Mexico to stop a surge in illegal border crossings. In a statement, Abbot said, “The sheer negligence of the Biden Administration to do their job and secure the border is appalling.” Abbott later <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/16/migrants-haitians-del-rio-bridge-texas/">said</a> the Biden administration “has now flip-flopped to a different strategy that abandons border security and instead makes it easier for people to cross illegally and for cartels to exploit the border &#8230; I have directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard to maintain their presence at and around ports of entry to deter crossings.&#8221;
France 
On Thursday, France <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-says-it-has-killed-islamic-state-leader-responsible-for-deaths-of-four-u-s-soldiers-11631784955?st=edwqbl0dr0qv4yt&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share">announced</a> it had killed an Islamic State leader who headed up a 2017 operation that killed 4 U. S. Service members in Africa. If confirmed, the success would be an achievement for France in its efforts to fight against terrorism in the region. 
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According to a new analysis, Democratic lawmakers’ newest tax hike will severely impact small businesses.
The potential $2.9 trillion in new taxes follows a separate Democratic attempt to pass a $3.5 trillion social welfare agenda — without any support from Republican colleagues. Among other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-democrats-new-tax-hike-will-impact-your-wallet">items</a>, the revenue proposal suggests raising the income tax, the corporate tax, and the investment tax, as well as creating an additional surtax on wealthy Americans.
It would also introduce forced retirement account distributions, taxes on tobacco and nicotine products, subsidies for journalists, and nearly $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to enforce federal tax laws.
In a recent analysis, however, <a href="https://www.atr.org/dems-set-break-biden-small-business-tax-pledge">Americans for Tax Reform</a> notes that many of the new tax increases will target small businesses.
For instance, raising the top income tax rate from 37% to 39.6% “will increase taxes on businesses organized as pass-through entities like sole proprietorships, LLCs, partnerships and S-corporations” — a legal status that applies to 95% of America’s 26 million businesses. Pass-through companies also hire “65.7 million of all private sector workers,” carrying worrying implications for small business employment.
Democratic lawmakers’ suggestion to expand the 3.8% Obamacare net investment income tax “so that it applies to all earnings from passthrough businesses” will also raise costs for millions of small businesses.
Meanwhile, limiting the 20% small business deduction to $500,000 for a joint tax return — or $400,000 for an individual return — would impact as many as 860,000 households.
“While some Democrats characterize this tax cut as a ‘giveaway’ or ‘loophole’ for the wealthy, the Small Business Deduction is limited to prevent taxpayers from taking advantage of the tax code by improperly allocating wage income, which is paid by the individual, as business income,” explains the analysis. “One of the main limitations within the deduction is a wage limitation combined with a capital limitation. The wage limitation applies to taxpayers with greater than $315,000 in income for joint filers or $157,500 for single filers and is phased in over the next $100,000 or $50,000, respectively.”
Likewise, increasing the highest corporate tax bracket’s rate from 21% to 26.5% would impact the roughly 1.4 million small businesses currently operating as C-corporations.
The analysis refers to a United States Chamber of Commerce <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/press-release/us-chamber-launches-state-initiative-shows-small-businesses-would-be-hit-hard">study</a> examining the state-by-state impact of such a corporate tax increase. In New Jersey, for instance, “45,053 small businesses would face a combined state and federal corporate tax rate” of 36.3%. In West Virginia, “6,081 employers will face tax hikes, including 4,203 small businesses,” resulting in a combined state and federal tax rate of 32.7%.
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Analysis: Democrats Say They’re ‘Taxing The Rich,’ But They’re Actually Crushing Small Businesses

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Small Businesses

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It’s Thursday, September 16th, and this is your Morning Wire. Listen to the full podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/thursday-september-16-2021">here</a>:
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1) Top General Faces Calls To Resign
The Topline: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley is facing widespread calls to resign after reports emerged claiming he’d promised a Chinese military leader he would warn China in advance if then-President Donald Trump planned to attack the country.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-lC1Q-uHU">Quote Of The Day:</a>
“I hope these reports are inaccurate, but he does need to resign. He needs to resign, and if he won’t resign, he needs to be fired.” 
– Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) 
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The Report
This story comes exclusively from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, Peril, in which the authors say General Milley was concerned President Trump might launch an attack on China, so twice he called his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, of the People’s Liberation Army. 
In one of the conversations, he reportedly said, “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
The book says Milley told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) he agreed President Trump was “crazy” and was so worried Trump could start a nuclear war that he made his fellow military commanders swear an “oath” not to act unless Milley was involved. 
Response
General Milley has confirmed he made the calls but did not comment on what was discussed. He also admits to holding a meeting to discuss “nuclear weapons protocol,” but he maintains he did nothing illegal.
President Trump has called for Milley to be tried for treason, saying, “I never even thought of attacking China.”
Calls To Resign
Critics say if Milley were to insert himself into the chain of command on nuclear issues, he would be subverting the civilian command of the U.S. military. Prominent Republicans in Congress have called for Milley to resign, be fired, or even face court-martial. 
General Milley is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 28.
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2) Newsom Wins Recall Election
The Topline:  The California recall election has been called for Democrat Gavin Newsom, who will remain governor.
Results
With over 9 million votes counted so far, the race has been called for Gavin Newsom, with the “no” vote leading the “yes” vote by almost 30 percent, or well over 2 million votes. There’s still around 30% of the expected vote to be counted, but given his comfortable lead, Newsom is projected to remain in office. 
The Background
In August, the race was very tight, but in the days leading up to the election, the “keep” vote began showing momentum in the polls. Political analysts have cited three main reasons for the outcome:
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<li> Newsom essentially mobilized the entire national Democratic Party apparatus to protect his position. </li>
<li> The Democratic Party successfully repositioned the election from being a referendum on Newsom’s performance as governor to being a referendum on their characterization of Larry Elder as Donald Trump 2.0.</li>
<li> Due to California’s recall policies, Newsom was able to amass over $70 million in campaign funds, while Elder had about a quarter of that amount.</li>
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Political Point: For a recall election to even happen in a deep blue state like California should be a warning sign for Democrats, especially since the policies promoted by Newsom and President Biden aren’t as popular in other areas of the country as they are in L.A. or San Francisco.
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3) Texas Judge Blocks Group’s Enforcement Of Pro-Life Law
The Topline: A Texas judge temporarily blocked some pro-life groups from enforcing the state’s new abortion law banning most abortions after six weeks and allowing citizens to take legal action against abortion providers.
The Ruling
A judge in Texas <a href="https://www.axios.com/texas-abortion-ban-planned-parenthood-injunction-6adc256a-54fd-4530-bdcd-7b6660571b02.html">issued</a> a temporary injunction preventing Texas Right to Life, and others, from suing specific Planned Parenthood facilities — or their doctors, and staff — until a final judgment is handed down.
A trial on the merits of the case has been set for April of next year, so the injunction will likely last until at least that time. 
Response
Abortion activists are generally supportive of the court’s decision, but they’re not entirely happy about the ruling, which only applies to the group named in the lawsuit, meaning the law is still in effect for everyone else in the state.
Texas Right to Life <a href="https://texasrighttolife.com/texas-right-to-life-defeats-planned-parenthoods-attempt-to-block-heartbeat-act-enforcement/">pointed</a> out that, even though they are prevented from suing at this time, the law still remains in effect more broadly, which they consider a win. 
Planned Parenthood was also attempting to reveal the names of pro-life advocates, which Texas Right to Life says was also defeated by this ruling. 
The Law
The new law <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-abortion-providers-request-to-stay-texas-heartbeat-law">bans</a> most abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around 6 weeks. It also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and those who “aid and abet” illegal procedures.
While “heartbeat bills,” or laws that prevent abortion after a fetal heartbeat, have been passed in other states, they typically don’t go into effect because the courts block them as abortion providers sue. This is because past Supreme Court rulings have decided that states have to allow pre-viability abortions — which is typically up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Remember: The Supreme Court didn’t rule on the constitutionality of the Texas law, so they can still make a decision on it as more people sue.
Biden Administration
Last week, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-sues-texas-for-law-protecting-unborn-babies-with-heart-activity-clearly-unconstitutional">announced</a> it’s taking legal action and suing the state of Texas over the new law which they claim is unconstitutional.
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Other Stories We’re Tracking
Protests
Protests against vaccine mandates are heating up across the country. In New York City, protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, some shouting chants against President Biden. The demonstrations come after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last month that all public school teachers and staff must get vaccinated by Sept 27.  
Women’s Soccer
On Tuesday, the U.S. Soccer Federation agreed to the demands of female soccer players by offering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-soccer-caves-offers-identical-contracts-to-mens-womens-teams">identical pay structures</a> for the men’s and women’s national teams. The organization said in a press release that U.S. Soccer “firmly believes” the “best path forward for all involved” and “for the future of the sport” is a “single pay structure” for both teams. 
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In 1629, frustrated by the unwillingness of Parliament to grant him taxation power, King Charles I of England dissolved the body and had nine members arrested. He did not recall Parliament for over a decade. The intervening period, known as Personal Rule, saw Charles I govern as a de facto dictator, with only a body of councilors to advise him. In 1640, forced by military necessity from Scotland, Charles I recalled Parliament in order to raise money to pay the military; shortly thereafter, stymied by Parliament, he dissolved the body again. But necessity encroached once again, and Charles I finally recalled Parliament. This would be the beginning of the end of his monarchy: the Long Parliament, as it would later be called, directly opposed many of Charles I&#8217;s initiatives, and that opposition would devolve into the English Civil War — a war that ended with Charles I&#8217;s execution.
All of this should serve as a brief reminder that when a chief executive ignores checks and balances, he may maximize his authority temporarily. But after a while, the royal saddle tends to chafe.
We are now approaching an inflection point in the United States: Do we want an elective monarchy, or not? A great many Americans seem perfectly comfortable with such a system, so long as the president is of their party. Today, the president of the United States is elected once every four years; he mouths platitudes about respect for norms and institutions; and then he proceeds to do what he wants, using the authority of the administrative state as his scepter. The legislature has become a vestigial organ, delegated only the power to fund enormous omnibus packages. True rule-making authority lies with the chief executive.
Thus, former President Barack Obama declared more than 20 times that he did not have the authority to unilaterally suspend elements of immigration law. That did not stop him from doing just that with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Joe Biden recently declared he had no power to extend an eviction moratorium via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That did not stop him from pursuing precisely that policy. Biden and his administration stated repeatedly that they did not have the power to unilaterally mandate COVID-19 vaccination. That power was to be exercised by the individual states. That did not stop Biden from mobilizing the vague grant of power under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to dictate that every business with more than 100 employees had to test its unvaccinated employees once per week, or vaccinate them, or fire them, or pay $14,000 per violation.
There are only two institutions standing in the way of full-fledged presidential monarchy: the courts and the states. Biden has pledged to override the states: &#8220;If these governors won&#8217;t help us beat the pandemic, I&#8217;ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.&#8221; And while Biden has pledged not to stack the courts, his prior institutional pledges have lasted only as long as his power remains unchallenged; he repeatedly suggested he would not seek to destroy the filibuster but has now apparently flipped on that subject.
The problem with elective monarchy is that it destroys the feedback mechanisms that help balance a pluralistic, decentralized society. Charles I could reign under the precepts of Personal Rule just so long as his impositions were moderate and his foreign policy peaceful. The minute serious complications arose, Personal Rule began to collapse.
The same will hold true in the United States. Charles I had the authority of kingship, but not consolidated compulsory control. That made his dictatorship unstable. The lesson for us is simple: We may want change, and we may want to carve a path through the checks and balances that obstruct that change by granting near-total power to an elective monarch. But unity won&#8217;t follow. Chaos will.
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The trial of Elizabeth Holmes — the founder of fraudulent medical startup Theranos — is now underway.
Along with former boyfriend Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the young entrepreneur has been indicted on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Holmes <a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41">deceived</a> investors into thinking her company’s portable blood analyzer could “conduct comprehensive blood tests” from no more than “finger drops of blood.” As a result, she may now face up to twenty years in federal prison.
Before her would-be empire collapsed, Holmes managed to secure a $9 billion valuation for Theranos; with a $4.5 billion net worth of her own, she once <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2015/05/27/forbes-announces-inaugural-list-of-americas-50-richest-self-made-women/?sh=73d2e0df24c1">topped</a> Forbes’ list of “America’s Richest Self-Made Women.”
In essence, the story of Theranos — which was exposed and detailed by Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou in his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X">Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup</a> — centers upon an ambitious young entrepreneur who duped America’s most influential corporations and political elites into supporting an entirely worthless enterprise.
Born With A Silver Spoon
Holmes entered the world — and Silicon Valley — through an elite family.
Holmes’ father, Chris, was a former vice president at Enron, academic at Rice University, and Chief Operating Officer at the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. According to Carreyrou, Holmes learned from her father that “if she wanted to truly leave her mark on the world, she would need to accomplish something that furthered the greater good, not just become rich.” 
Biotechnology offered the perfect opportunity to carry out this vision, so Holmes enrolled in Stanford University’s chemical engineering program in 2002. By 2004, however, she dropped out to begin working on her first product — a wearable arm patch that could diagnose medical conditions and treat them on the spot.
Holmes reportedly leveraged her family’s connections to raise over $6 million in seed money. Among the investors were Victor Palmieri, who served with Holmes&#8217; father in the Carter administration. 
By late 2005, Holmes and her small team had pivoted into developing the prototype of Theranos 1.0 — a device that allowed a patient to prick their finger, place a drop of blood on a small cartridge, insert the cartridge into a device, and instantly send test results to a doctor. Holmes envisioned the product as a cutting-edge, stylish, user-friendly innovation that could disrupt medicine in the same way that Apple once disrupted personal computing.
Over the next few years, Theranos developed the Edison — a slightly larger device that used a technique called “chemiluminescent immunoassay” to test patients’ blood. 
Partnerships With Pharmaceutical Companies
Holmes managed to secure partnerships with several pharmaceutical development and retail companies — despite the Edison’s lack of versatility.
Safeway, for one, saw Theranos as a “breakthrough technology that made blood tests not only more convenient, but faster and cheaper.” The startup’s value proposition, according to Carreyrou, “offered a way to improve the supermarket chain’s stagnating revenues and razor-thin profit margins.” Safeway approved a $30 million deal with Theranos and renovated many of its stores to include blood testing clinics that could be outfitted with Theranos devices.
Walgreens, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline also seriously considered working with the startup at various stages of its development.
Despite the new partnerships, the Edison could only perform a handful of minor blood tests. Therefore, Holmes — still fixated on the idea of a small, sleek piece of technology — initiated the development of the miniLab. The new device required the miniaturization of several previously existing technologies, leading to many delays in production. 
Eventually, Balwani ordered engineers at Theranos to “write an application for the miniLab’s software that masked test malfunctions” by preventing an error message from appearing on the device’s digital display. Meanwhile, Theranos secretly used traditional blood testing machines manufactured by Siemens and other companies to complete tests for their partners.
In the absence of a functioning device, Holmes still managed to “convince board members, prospective investors, and journalists that the miniLab was a finished, working product.”
Endorsed By Political Elites
Far beyond her father’s own connections, Holmes was able to bring some of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century into her inner circle.
For instance, George Shultz — who served as Secretary of Labor, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State under the Nixon and Reagan administrations — joined Theranos’ board of directors in 2011. According to Carreyrou, Shultz was “one of Elizabeth’s biggest champions” — and he even hosted Holmes’ thirtieth birthday.
Shultz’s grandson, Tyler, worked at Theranos as a research engineer. However, he eventually resigned and became a leading whistleblower against the firm and its fraudulent practices. 
Theranos’ board was composed of several other powerful individuals — including former Defense Secretary James Mattis, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, and former Navy Admiral Gary Roughead. As Carreyrou writes, “these were men with sterling, larger-than-life reputations who gave Theranos a stamp of legitimacy.”
Holmes also developed a close relationship with the Clinton family. She became friends with Chelsea Clinton, attended several Clinton Foundation events, and hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton as she campaigned against Donald Trump in 2016.
Despite her political connections, Holmes was unable to continue channeling Silicon Valley’s “fake-it-until-you-make-it” culture.
“A sociopath is often described as someone with little or no conscience,” said Carreyrou in his epilogue. “I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there’s no question that her moral compass is badly askew.”
“I’m fairly certain she didn’t initially set out to defraud investors and put patients in harm’s way when she dropped out of Stanford,” he continued. “By all accounts, she had a vision that she genuinely believed in and threw herself into realizing.”
“But in her all-consuming quest to be the second coming of Steve Jobs amid the gold rush of the ‘unicorn’ boom, there came a point when she stopped listening to sound advice and began to cut corners. Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it.”
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How Did Elizabeth Holmes Build Her Fraudulent Biomedical Empire?

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Last Thursday, nine months after promising not to mandate vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus, President Joe Biden mandated vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus. Yet while the president may have lied to the American people, he did so for the noblest of reasons: he “followed the science.” Conservatives may not trust Democrat politicians, one concedes, but surely we trust “the science.
I, for one, trust neither. “The science,” the record shows, does not have a particularly good record in this “pandemic,” now in its 547th day of 15 to slow the spread. In February of 2020, as the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/3478233/who-covid-china-cover-up-pandemic-coronavirus/">helped</a> China hide the extent of the epidemic from the rest of the world, our putatively science-denying president Donald Trump banned travel from our sickening geopolitical adversary. At the same time, supposedly science-minded politicians such as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden urged unmasked crowds to “come to Chinatown,” dismissing Trump’s attempts to protect the public health as “hysterical xenophobia.”
In Pelosi’s partial defense, she would have had no reason to encourage her constituents to wear masks. At the time, “the science” and its spokesman Dr. Anthony Fauci actively discouraged people from donning the secular keffiyeh. “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” Fauci declared on March 8, 2020. “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think it is.” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-video-masks/fact-checkoutdated-video-of-fauci-saying-theres-no-reason-to-be-walking-around-with-a-mask-idUSKBN26T2TR">According</a> to Fauci, the masks did not merely fail to stop the spread of the virus; they actively damaged public health.
The mullah of microbes reversed his fatwa the following month, encouraging people to follow the science as laid out by the CDC and wear the masks. But by then the masks had become almost a moot point: people had little occasion to leave their houses at all as the disciples of the science “locked down” society. Sporting events shunned fans. Businesses conducted their commerce on livestream when they were not forced to close shop altogether. Priests could not minister to the faithful at church.
But “the science” spared certain activities. The “mostly peaceful” leftist terrorists who looted, burned, and shot up cities coast-to-coast during the summer of 2020 seemed immune to the deadly pandemic and the public health apparatchiks who ruled in its name. Twelve-hundred scientists signed an <a href="http://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1b7K1A/view">open letter</a> in support of mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations, which they reasoned would actually improve the public health by suppressing “white supremacy,” in their view “a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.”
Not even the invention of multiple vaccines seems to have cleared up the confusion. “The science,” fickle as ever, continues to make contradictory claims. The vaccines, “the science” says, are safe and effective, but the vaccinated must continue to mask in order to protect themselves from the unvaccinated, who comprise people reluctant to receive the vaccine, which can cause <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/13-year-old-dies-in-sleep-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-vaccine-cdc-investigating/ar-AALHXDL">heart problems</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-risk-from-pfizer-jab-side-effect-than-covid-suggests-study">blood clots</a>, particularly among young people, who face little risk of grave injury from the virus in the first place but who must take the shot regardless to protect the vaccinated, whose effective immunization has nonetheless left them vulnerable to infection by the unvaccinated.
If you are still following, that makes one of us.
The scientific method tests the truth of an hypothesis through experimentation. Over the past year-and-a-half, test after test has disproved the wisdom of a political order set exclusively by “the science.” It is long past time to try another theory.
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KNOWLES: Why I Don’t ‘Trust The Science’

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Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee — which plays a key role in determining tax policy and other fiscal measures — are drafting a proposal to raise $2.9 trillion in new taxes.
The proposed tax <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/documents/SubtitleISxS.pdf">hikes</a> — which would occur over the course of ten years — were introduced by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) as Congressional Democrats attempt to pass a separate $3.5 trillion social welfare agenda without any support from Republican colleagues. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-advances-3-5-trillion-budget-resolution-with-no-republican-support">outline</a> of the omnibus legislation — which incorporates key elements of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nonpartisan-economists-say-bidens-infrastructure-plan-will-decrease-economic-growth">American Jobs Plan</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-american-families-plan-is-far-from-a-new-deal-economic-boon">American Families Plan</a> — includes universal pre-K, &#8216;tuition-free&#8217; community college, a paid family and medical leave handout, additional health benefits for Medicare, and a “Civilian Climate Corps.”
The Democrats’ bill would follow President Biden’s $1.9 trillion <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comparing-trump-and-bidens-covid-relief-bills">American Rescue Plan</a>, which intended to stimulate economic activity following COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession.
Indeed, the Democrats’ tax hikes mark another milestone in codifying President Biden’s domestic spending agenda. Although Rep. Neal’s proposal did not perfectly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-release-details-of-tax-increase-11631539532">match</a> the Commander-in-Chief’s preferred tax rates in some instances, the possible changes to the tax code match the overall framework of President Biden’s campaign <a href="https://joebiden.com/two-tax-policies/">platform</a> — which blasted President Trump for allegedly rewarding “wealth over work” and called for rollbacks of many key provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Here’s what you need to know about the Democrats’ new tax increases — and how they may end up lightening your wallet.
Tax Increases
The proposal suggests raising the income tax, the corporate tax, and the investment tax, as well as introducing an additional surtax on wealthy Americans.
Income Taxes
The policy would increase the top marginal individual income tax rate from 37% to 39.6%, reversing the cut enacted by Republicans four years ago.
Married couples filing jointly with taxable income over $450,000; heads of households with taxable income over $425,000; unmarried individuals with taxable income over $400,000; and married individuals filing separately with taxable income over $225,000; and estates with taxable income over $12,500 would all be subject to the new benchmark.
The proposal is in line with the Biden administration’s desired 39.6% top income tax rate.
Corporate Taxes
After Republicans decreased the corporate tax from 35% to 21%, Democrats want to introduce a graduated rate structure that would cut into the profits of medium and large corporations.
A corporation’s first $400,000 of income would be taxed at 18%. Income up to $5 million would then be taxed at 21%, and any additional earnings would be subject to a 26.5% tax. 
President Biden, however, prefers a slightly higher 28% corporate tax rate.
Capital Gains Taxes
The long-term capital gains tax — which applies to appreciated investments sold after at least one year of ownership — for those earning above $500,000 would increase from 20% to 25%. Combined with the existing 3.8% surtax, the total tax would rise to 28.8%.
The Biden administration has previously suggested a significantly higher 39.6% tax on long-term capital gains and dividends.
Estate Taxes
The tax proposal also includes a 3% surcharge on adjusted gross income above $5 million for high-income earners, estates, and trusts. The change marks a significant reduction from the current $11.7 million estate tax exemption, which was enacted under the Trump administration.
Other Changes
Beyond increases to the most important revenue generators for the federal government, the proposal involves several extraneous changes to American tax policy — including a boost in enforcement funding, new taxes for niche products, and handouts for various special interests.
IRS Enforcement
The policy would allocate nearly $79 billion to the Internal Revenue Service for “enforcement activities and increasing voluntary compliance, and modernizing information technology to effectively support enforcement activities.” The Biden administration first floated the idea earlier this year as a tool to crack down on tax evasion and raise an additional $700 billion for the federal government. 
The proposal also clarifies that “no use of these funds is intended to increase taxes on any taxpayer with taxable income below $400,000.”
Forced Retirement Account Distributions
Among the changes to Americans’ retirement accounts is a “minimum distribution” for high-income individuals.
Americans who earn over $450,000 in a joint return and hold traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs with balances above $10 million will have to distribute 50% of the “amount by which the individual’s prior year aggregate traditional IRA, Roth IRA, and defined contribution account balance exceeds the $10 million limit.” Accounts with balances above $20 million will be subject to a 100% minimum distribution rule.
More Taxes On Tobacco
The Democrats’ tax plan would also double the existing excise tax on popular tobacco products — including cigarettes and small cigars — from $50.33 per thousand to $100.66 per thousand.
Meanwhile, the provision “changes the tax on large cigars from an ad valorem basis to a weight basis at the rate of $49.56 per pound, but not less than 10.06 cents per cigar,” while also increasing taxes for smokeless tobacco — such as chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and snuff.
The policy would also tax all nicotine products to match the new rate for cigarettes.
Tax Credits For Journalists
Among the groups that stand to gain from the new tax policy are “local news journalists.”
The provision creates an “employment tax credit for each calendar quarter wages, not to exceed $12,500, paid to local news journalists by an eligible local newspaper publisher.” An “eligible local newspaper publisher is any employer that is in the trade or business of publishing a local newspaper that serves the needs of a regional or local community and who employs no more than 750 employees.”
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1) Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Bill In Jeopardy
The Topline: Democrats are attempting to push their massive social spending bill through Congress but are hitting some major roadblocks. 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/09/12/joe-manchin-3-5-trillion-economic-bill-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn">Quote Of The Day:</a>
“He will not have my vote on 3.5 and Chuck knows that and we’ve talked about this.”
– Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)
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The Two Bills
First, the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate last month. It <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026081880/senate-passes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill">includes</a> what Americans typically consider infrastructure — roads, bridges, water systems. However, now it’s held up because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is trying to pass it along with the second bill.
That bill is a $3.5 trillion social spending law with zero Republican support. They hope to pass it by using the budget reconciliation process, which would allow them to pass the Senate with a simple majority. In the House, Democrats can afford no more than 3 defectors.
The second bill includes efforts to expand social policies and medicare, address climate change, provide universal pre-K and 2 years of ‘free’ community college. Some even want to include immigration proposals like providing green cards to millions of undocumented immigrants.
Pushback
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has suggested he won’t support more than $1 to $1.5 trillion in spending. He’s also asked Democrats to take a pause on passing the bill while the economy struggles under rising inflation and poor unemployment numbers, despite the many jobs available.  
Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has also said she won’t support a $3.5 trillion measure, and some Democrats in the House have also <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/12/nation/democrats-ponder-big-challenge-their-35-trillion-reconciliation-bill-how-pay-it/">voiced</a> concerns about how to pay for it.
Democrat Payment Plan
According to a leaked Democrat tax-plan draft, they’re looking at proposing $2.9 trillion in increased taxes by rolling back Trump-era tax cuts and targeting businesses and higher-income Americans. 
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2) Afghanistan Situation Worsens
The Topline: Following the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen after the U.S. withdrawal was completed late last month.
<a href="https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1437769149653164032">Quote Of The Day:</a>
“Green card holders is something that we don’t track directly, so what we’ve done is solicited people if they are green card holders to let us know. I think the best estimates are that there are several thousand green card holders in Afghanistan.”
– Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Afghanistan Update
Fighting is ongoing between the Taliban and resistance forces in the Panjshir province. In recent days, communications have been cut in the more remote valley, but the BBC recently reported the Taliban have been torturing and murdering civilians in the strategic stronghold.
The Panjshir Valley is the last region to hold out after the Taliban swept to power last month.
The United Nations is seeking to raise more than $600 million in aid for Afghanistan, warning the country is facing a major humanitarian crisis. The Secretary General of the U.N., however, admitted they were working with the Taliban to distribute aid, leading many to question whether any of this aid would ever reach the Afghans who need it most. 
Meanwhile in Kabul, the Taliban have formed their new interim government.
Women In Afghanistan`
The world is watching a return to the type of widespread discrimination faced by women and girls under the Taliban prior to 2001. The Taliban recently told women they can only study in gender-segregated universities where Islamic dress will be compulsory. The Taliban’s so-called “ministry of virtue and vice” has also reportedly returned. The group is a religious police force which viciously enforces Sharia law.
Hostages
American citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies are still reportedly scattered throughout Afghanistan, with many effectively being held hostage by the Taliban, and there are still no clear plans being shared when it comes to their rescue.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken — who testified to Congress this week — admitted the number of green card holders still in Afghanistan is largely unknown.
Biden Administration Backlash
Since the beginning of his presidency, Biden has enjoyed healthy approval ratings, but recent numbers dropped below 50% in mid-August because of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Big Picture: The Biden administration is choosing to focus on other domestic issues like the economy and COVID-19 in an effort to move away from the Afghanistan crisis.
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3) Companies Respond To Texas Pro-Life Law
The Topline: The CEO of a videogame company was forced to step down after voicing his personal support for Texas’ new abortion law while other companies are showing their opposition to the legislation through corporate policy. 
The CEO
John Gibson was the co-founder and CEO of TripWire Interactive, which publishes games played by millions.
On September 4th, Gibson posted a tweet on his personal account expressing support for Texas’s new pro-life law. 
Gibson was soon swarmed with thousands of angry comments, as were Tripwire’s corporate accounts. Two of their development partners released statements slamming Gibson and one studio announced it was canceling all its existing contracts with TripWire.
TripWire put out a statement saying they were “deeply sorry” about what Gibson said and promised that the company would “take swift action.”
Later that same day, Gibson announced he was resigning.
The Other Side
Other companies went beyond issuing official statements opposing the law, and instead implemented new policies.
Lyft announced it would pay any legal fees of drivers who might get sued under the law.
The company’s CEO gave an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035045952/lyft-uber-will-pay-drivers-legal-fees-if-theyre-sued-under-texas-abortion-law">interview</a> to NPR in an official capacity and said, “We do not appreciate how this law limits a woman&#8217;s right to choose…”
Another company, Match Group, which owns the dating apps Tinder and OKCupid, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/match-group-ceo-starts-healthcare-fund-texas-regressive-abortion-law-2021-9">announced</a> it is setting up a fund for Texas employees who might want healthcare outside of the state. 
In a memo to staff, CEO Shar Dubey said she “fervently [cares]” about “women&#8217;s rights, including the very fundamental right of choice over her body.”
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Other Stories We’re Tracking
Newsom Recall Election
California Governor Gavin Newsom is projected to have survived his recall election. The governor needed a simple majority to keep his position. The recall election is just the second ever for a governor in the state.
Norm MacDonald
Comedian Norm Macdonald died Tuesday “after a long and private battle with cancer.” The former Saturday Night Live cast member had reportedly been fighting cancer for nearly a decade and was 61 years old.  
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It’s Tuesday, September 14th, and this is your Morning Wire. Listen to the full podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/morning-wire">here</a>.

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1) Elder Confident On Eve Of Recall Election
The Topline: The California recall election takes place today with conservative radio host and author Larry Elder leading the way among candidates seeking to oust Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. 
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Recall History
Since 1913, the state of California has seen a total of 179 recall attempts. Of those attempts, only 11 collected enough signatures to even qualify for the ballot, and just 6 of those resulted in the actual recall of an elected official. Only 2 statewide recall attempts, including Newsom, have been governors.
Polls
FiveThirtyEight’s aggregate of several polls put the “keep” Newsom vote at around 57% heading into the vote and support for the recall in the low 40s. In early August, it was 50/50.
Multiple polls in the final days before the election showed Elder with a lead as large as 25 to 30 points among the contenders. If Californians vote to remove Newsom, Elder will almost certainly be the new governor. 
Remember: Only a simple majority is needed to remove Newsom.
Larry Elder
Elder told Morning Wire he feels good about the final polling data going into the election because he believes Democrats vote early and Republicans tend to be less trusting of mail-in voting and more likely to vote in person.
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The Topline: <a href="https://twitter.com/The_RGA/status/1437219476898910213">More than 20</a> Republican governors have promised to legally resist President Joe Biden’s mandate forcing private businesses with at least 100 employees to vaccinate their workforce or be subjected to weekly testing. 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=au2g88HKk6U">Quote Of The Day:</a>
“At the end of the day, we don’t live with a one-person rule in this country. We live in a constitutional system.”
– Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
Legal Arguments 
To this point, vaccine mandates have been issued at the state level. Several governors believe the Constitution doesn’t endow President Biden with the power to mandate vaccines on private employers. 
The federal government <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/current-constitutional-issues-related-to-vaccine-mandates">traditionally</a> only issues vaccination requirements for legal immigrants and federal workers.
Republicans also say the president’s call to levy a fine of $13,600 for each separate violation will harm businesses and individuals. 
This mandate, they argue, is also counterproductive. Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts said if Americans are dubious about the government’s statements about the vaccines, they’ll only be more suspicious when the government forces it on people.
White House
Biden administration officials have appeared publicly confident regarding the mandates. The president responded to the impending lawsuits over the weekend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRoiyIzSqCw">saying</a>, “Have at it.”
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3) NYC Schools Reopen With Restrictions
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The Topline: Public schools in New York City opened for in-person learning Monday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, but classrooms have numerous restrictions in place.
COVID-19 Restrictions
With the city refusing to offer remote learning, kids are returning to school wearing masks. Some schools won’t let kids use lockers and others have disabled water fountains. New York’s Education Department suggested sports and clubs, particularly band and choir, are too risky because of the amount of breathing involved.
Field trips, group projects, and parties are also banned. Students will have to eat lunch outside and aren’t allowed to talk with friends. They will also need to fill out a daily symptoms report each morning before school.
Why The Rules For Kids?
Experts say teachers unions are the key factor in the new restrictions. Although kids present the lowest risk for severe complications from COVID-19, teachers unions insist the risk to adults is high. Part of their argument stems from the fact that children under twelve years old can’t get the COVID-19 vaccine. 
Teachers can get the vaccine, however, which has been shown to be highly effective at protecting against severe illness, so the impositions on children are controversial. 
Other States: In Bedford, Massachusetts, students will also have to eat outside without tables while sitting in chairs spread apart and facing in one direction. 
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Varsity Blues Trial
The trial began Monday in Boston for two parents accused of fraud and bribery in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal. John B. Wilson of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and Gamal Abdelaziz of Las Vegas, are being tried jointly in a US District Court in Boston. Both have pleaded not guilty. 
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In 1932, when journalist George Schuyler traveled with Roy Wilkins to report on abuses of black levee workers in Mississippi and Louisiana for the NAACP, he stopped to consult with “Dr. Dumas” in Vidalia, Louisiana. Dumas was later described in Schuyler’s 1966 autobiography, Black and Conservative, as “a former president of the National Medical Association, . . . a distinguished, courtly, and wealthy mulatto who owned a large white mansion atop a double terrace, six blocks of downtown real estate and a big plantation. He was one of a considerable number of Negroes in the vicinity who were planters and slaveholders before the Civil War. . . .” 
During the Great Depression, Dr. Dumas was doing quite well, thanks to inherited wealth from slave ownership. 
Those like Dumas and his descendants, however, do not figure in calls for reparations, which, according to Robin Rue Simmons, are needed to make up for “the massive intergenerational economic devastation inflicted by slavery.” Simmons, a former alderman in Evanston, Illinois, helped usher through legislation that allocated cannabis tax revenue as reparations to residents or descendants of a redlined district. She wrote in the Washington Post that such payments were still “inadequate,” a mere “down payment on what is rightfully owed to millions of African Americans.” 
Is Simmons thinking of the over 10,000 slaves owned by free blacks in 1830, in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia? As David Lightner and Alexander Ragan show, with black slaveowners constituting about two percent of the free black population of the South, and white slaveowners constituting six percent of whites, “a southern white was just three times more likely to own slaves than was a southern free black.” On a national level, “a white American was not even twice as likely as a free black American to be a slaveholder in 1830.” 
Today, however, histories that ignore black slave ownership and the role of African slave merchants, and wildly exaggerate the economic contributions of slavery, are used to argue for reparations. 
Listed among the “resources” at Simmons’s new nonprofit FirstRepair that advocates for “Local Reparations, Nationally” is The 1619 Project, the special issue of the New York Times Magazine published for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown. 
A collaborator of The 1619 Project’s creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates, testified for reparations before Congress in June 2019, claiming that by 1836, “more than $600 million, almost half of the economic activity in the United States derived directly or indirectly from the cotton produced by the million-odd slaves.” This comes from The Half That Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist, a member of the neo-Marxist New History of Capitalism school. 
A couple months later, in The 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones similarly wrote, “[Slaves] grew and picked cotton that at the height of slavery was the nation’s most valuable commodity, accounting for half of all American exports and 66 percent of the world’s supply.” One of the Project’s longer essays, by sociologist Matthew Desmond, advanced Baptist’s claims. 
Baptist’s wildly inflated numbers had been exposed widely. Trevor Bernard, writing in Slavery &amp; Abolition in 2015, called Baptist’s claims largely “made up.” Economists Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode in 2016 cast them “hocus pocus.” Economic historians Peter Coclanis, Philip Magness, and Gavin Wright have charged Baptist with innumeracy. 
But Hannah-Jones, in her June 30, 2020, New York Times Magazine article, “What Is Owed,” asserted that “white Americans’ centuries-long economic head start” and “their generational wealth and higher incomes” nullified antidiscrimination laws. They maintained “caste.” “[T]he racism we are fighting today,” she repeated, “was originally conjured to justify working unfree black people, often until death, to generate extravagant riches for European colonial powers, the white planter class and all the ancillary white people from Midwestern farmers to bankers to sailors to textile workers, who earned their living and built their wealth from free black labor and the products that labor produced.” Therefore, cash reparations should “go to any person who has documentation that he or she identified as a black person for at least 10 years before the beginning of any reparations process and can trace at least one ancestor back to American slavery.” 
But a black American could have ancestors from both the enslaving and enslaved camps, or have ancestors that were both at different times. Even those from disadvantaged backgrounds overcame racism to accrue fortunes on their own. Hannah-Jones, like Howard Zinn, promotes the Marxist narrative that black Americans are exploited proletariat. 
She ignores Frederick Douglass’s charges against “savage chiefs of the western coasts of Africa, who for ages have been accustomed to selling their captives into bondage,” and promotes the fiction that Europeans “kidnapped” Africans. 
She and other reparations agitators ignore the Wall Street Journal article, “When the Slave Traders Were African,” by Nigerian writer, and descendant of slave traders, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who reminded in 2019 that “local collaborators,” “middlemen and merchants,” sold slaves to the Europeans. Contrary to Hannah-Jones’s claims, slaves were captured by Africans. 
Nwaubani posed “questions of historic guilt and responsibility” to fellow Africans. But because agitators know that reparations are not forthcoming from Africa, they use fake histories like The 1619 Project. 
Mary Grabar is author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Debunking-1619-Project-Exposing-America/dp/1684511771/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=debunking+1619+project&amp;qid=1631049117&amp;sr=8-3">Debunking The 1619 Project</a>.
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OPINION: Reparations: A Bad Idea Based On Fake History From The 1619 Project

1619 Project

There’s an art to aging gracefully, especially for the rich and famous.
We expect stars to stay forever young, while the artists themselves fight to maintain that image by any means necessary. Staying young isn’t always about appearances, though. Celebrities struggle to maintain their brands over time, even as the culture shifts under their feet. It’s what led Madonna to <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a37575648/madonna-butt-vma-2021/">don</a> an outlandish outfit over the weekend at the annual VMAs telecast.
The Material Girl, now 63, rocked a black leather bodysuit that left little to the imagination. The reaction on social media proved mixed, with many suggesting her days of barely-there wear should be behind her.
No pun intended.
The real message is clear. Once upon a time, Madonna shocked us on a regular basis to gin up publicity, separate herself from her pop peers, and, well, burnish her brand.
She was beautiful and fit, and while she remains fit to this day the image of a 60-something legend playing the sexuality card seems … desperate. She could have crushed a musical performance instead, letting fans talk about that, not her recycled shtick. And she might have done so wearing an outfit that flattered her still-svelte physique.
It’s not the first time the aging superstar tried to shock us. In recent years she’s shared naughty images on Instagram hoping to gin up some headlines. The moves feel desperate, not revolutionary. In short, her brand needs a makeover.
The same holds true for the self-described King of All Media.
Howard Stern once defied every conventional norm he could via his radio pulpit. He said all the wrong things, bucked broadcasting traditions and, of course, became an icon in the process. Even his shift to satellite radio in the early 2000s changed the game for broadcasters — then and now.
Stern isn’t the performer he once was, though. The years have seemingly reduced his edge, the signature rage he once aimed at his professional peers and Hollywood hypocrites alike. 
He’s friends with Rosie O’Donnell, for example, their age-old feud long behind them. You might say he oh, so gently went woke, adapting to the new rules regarding “problematic” barbs. That positioning likely helped him survive a 2020 cancellation attempt when his blackface past, and copious use of the “n-word,” <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/cancel-culture-howard-stern-jimmy-kimmel/">resurfaced</a>.
It’s more than that, though.
Howard went Hollywood, embracing his insider status in a way that Stern of yore would mock for weeks on end. You can sense him holding back these days, knowing a classic Stern skewering might upset his new chums.
The most depressing part? He’s now part of the media borg, the groupthink he once mocked for attacking his fighting spirit in the first place. Stern sided with an elderly presidential candidate who hid at home for much of the campaign while trashing President Donald Trump. That decision earned him fawning press coverage.
Does anyone doubt he lapped it all up? “They like me … they finally like me!” Meanwhile, longtime fans wondered who this new Howard Stern was behind the mic.
It helps explain why Stern cozied up to Trump critic and future ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. Sharp observers knew Cuomo was crooked to the core. Who pens a triumphant book about pandemic leadership after his state ranked near dead-last with COVID-19 deaths?
That hypocrisy didn’t bother Stern. He chatted him up during the worst days of the pandemic as if they were old friends.
The media loved Cuomo and hated Trump. That was good enough for Howie, now a true conformist.
Didn’t anyone in Stern’s circle realize how many old New Yorkers died unnecessarily under Cuomo’s watch, a fact most knew long before the media stopped covering up for it? If so, perhaps they were afraid to share that inconvenient truth with their boss.
The “new” Stern approaches free speech differently, too.
In the 1990s Stern went to war with the FCC, outraged that his bawdy bits had to follow certain rules … or else. He was Captain Free Speech at the time. Now, it’s hard not to think he waged that war because it impacted his livelihood first and foremost.
His current status as a free speech pioneer could come in handy in the Age of Woke. Yet Stern has been mostly quiet about the Cancel Culture revolution. Instead, he’d rather lean into his cushy SiriusXM schedule, which affords him the summer off and endless vacation days.
The new, “evolved” Stern roared anew this week, and in a way it sounded like old times. He ranted about the unvaccinated among us, cursing them out and wishing them, well, death. How dare they disagree with him on a situation with many nuanced variables.
Stern even slapped Joe Rogan around, the podcaster who <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/howard-stern-roasts-joe-rogan-for-taking-ivermectin-instead-of-cure-vaccine/">took over</a> the shock jock’s mantle as broadcasting&#8217;s biggest star.
“I heard Joe Rogan was saying ‘what are you busting my balls [for]? I took horse de-wormer and a doctor gave it to me.’ Well a doctor would also give you a vaccine, so why take horse-dewormer?”
The attack felt petty, like a fading athlete attacking the rookie about to replace him.
It’s ironic that a man 30-odd years older than both Madonna and Stern could teach them a thing or two on aging gracefully.
Clint Eastwood’s latest drama, “Cry Macho,” arrives via HBO Max and theaters this month. The 91-year-old legend directs and stars in a tale of a former rodeo cowboy coming to grips with his legacy and, of course, Father Time.
Eastwood looks every one of his 91 years, but he’s still making movies on his terms and flirting with the Oscar race.
Again.
Why does Eastwood endure? He knows what the public wants to see, both from him and his films. Think timeless tales that connect with our humanity, our quest to explore what it means to live in today’s world.
He’s not getting facelifts or prepping another “Dirty Harry” sequel. He’s tackling roles that fit his age and Hollywood status.
You can grow old in the public eye without sacrificing your dignity. Eastwood is doing just that, and making it look easy.
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Within weeks of the Biden administration gaining control of the State Department, American diplomats were publicly humiliated at a meeting with their Chinese counterparts.
During the conference in Alaska, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a measured<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-backlash-after-humiliating-china-meeting-incredible-incompetence-biden-is-weak"> speech</a> about encouraging a “rule-based international order.” In a lengthy retort, Chinese officials bluntly informed America’s top diplomat that the United States “does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength” and that “the Western world does not represent the global public opinion.”
As Blinken predecessor Mike Pompeo<a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1372900245147897857"> remarked</a> after the incident, “Strength deters bad guys. Weakness begets war.”
For Sino-American relations, the principle extends far beyond diplomacy. 
Here are four ways America routinely surrenders to China.
Trade
Actor and WWE star John Cena made waves after he issued an apology — delivered in Chinese — for the crime of suggesting that Taiwan is an independent country. 
“Hi China, I’m John Cena,” the wrestler turned actor said in a<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-cena-apologizes-in-chinese-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-i-really-love-really-respect-china"> video</a> posted to a Chinese social media platform. “I’m in the middle of Fast and Furious 9 promotions… I made one mistake&#8230; I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very sorry about my mistake. I apologize, I apologize, I’m very sorry. You must understand that I really love, really respect China and the Chinese people.”
Cena was undoubtedly motivated by promoting “Fast and Furious 9” to countless millions of enthusiastic Chinese moviegoers. His grifting is by no means unique: American companies must comply with Chinese regulations — and dogma — to conduct business in the communist nation, which boasts one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer economies.
For instance, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nba-commissioner-on-chummy-ties-to-china-we-have-to-build-relationships"> notes</a> that his organization must “build relationships” in order to continue the growth of basketball as “the most popular team sport&#8221; in China. In 2019, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey faced condemnation from the league for supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
Companies in other industries must also avoid displeasing the Chinese regime. Media outlets like <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d121fd70-49f2-11e3-9a21-00144feabdc0">Bloomberg</a> have nixed stories critical of powerful officials in Beijing out of the fear that they could be shut out of the Chinese market. Technology firms like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have capitulated to Chinese demands that they provide back doors to their products. Former Attorney General William Barr accordingly <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/16/barr-alleges-apple-collaborating-with-china/">slammed</a> the companies for “being too willing to take steps to ensure access to the large Chinese market.”
The economic interdependence that exists between the United States and China has enabled Chinese entities to<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/china-technology-theft-fbi-biggest-threat"> steal</a> between $300 billion and $600 billion in American intellectual property every year. 
A large portion of the<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16522"> theft</a> arises from American universities and their research institutes. Last year, one Chinese national was caught attempting to smuggle Harvard cancer research out of the country in a sock. Others were likewise caught in possession of software and other assets.
As the Department of Justice explains, China maintains its “Thousand Talents” program to “lure overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information.”
Academia
Beyond the theft of intellectual property, American academia buckles under China’s ideological offensives.
Despite rising pressure from lawmakers, several dozen American universities host chapters of the Confucius Institute — an entity affiliated with China’s education ministry and labeled by the State Department as “part of the Chinese Communist Party’s global influence and propaganda apparatus.&#8221;
As a Campus Reform<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17541%27"> investigation</a> uncovered, several prominent American universities — including Georgia State University, the University of Toledo, and Southern Utah University — signed contracts effectively surrendering their academic freedom to the Confucius Institute Headquarters in China. One clause states that the American host institution “must accept” the “project assessments conducted by the Headquarters.”
“Think of the equivalent. Suppose somebody in the U.K. decides that they want to sponsor a chair at Harvard in 1779? That would be crazy,” Hudson Institute fellow Seth Cropsey told Campus Reform. “And nobody at Harvard in their right mind would have entertained such an idea.”
Indeed, the American professoriate is by no means vigilant in countering China’s encroachments upon their campuses. Recently, the Washington Free Beacon<a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/huawei-ghostwrote-op-ed-for-mit-scholar/"> discovered</a> that a Huawei employee ghostwrote an op-ed arguing that the United States “should collaborate with leading technology companies and their research labs, rather than banning them” on behalf of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Huawei — a Chinese telecommunications firm — is under investigation by the Department of Justice for thirteen counts related to compromising the national security of the United States.
Foreign Policy
As demonstrated by the Alaska meeting, the United States often fails to interact with China from a position of strength.
With respect to the investigation into the origins of COVID-19, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy<a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1396865962574585856"> asked</a> White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki why the Biden administration is not “pushing for more access and information to get to the bottom of exactly what happened” with the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan.
Psaki explained that the United States would trust the judgment of the WHO — an entity that the Chinese Communist Party has effectively<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-health-soft-power/"> shepherded</a> since the earliest days of the pandemic.
“We are. We have repeatedly called for the WHO to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic’s origins that is free from interference or politicization,” Psaki told Doocy. “There were Phase I results that came through. During the first phase of the investigation, there was not access to data or information provided. Now, we are hopeful that WHO can move into a transparent, independent Phase II investigation.”
Likewise, the Chinese government is seeking to grow its international influence through the “Belt and Road Initiative” — an expansive array of foreign infrastructure investments that would essentially establish China as the epicenter of the global economy.
Although Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled the plan as early as 2013, American officials only joined India in condemning the program four years later. In October 2017, then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis became the first American official to publicly express <a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-strategic-implications-and-international-opposition">concern</a> about the initiative.
Culture
While the Chinese government largely emphasizes cultural values aimed at fostering strength, the United States government largely promulgates cultural values which produce weakness.
In particular, one Department of Defense advertisement centering upon the emotional and psychological experience of an Army recruit experienced widespread backlash.
“This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation’s Patriot missile Defense Systems,” says the<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-releases-woke-cartoon-recruitment-ad-after-woke-cia-ads-mocked"> video</a>. “It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.”
The advertisement describes how a Corporal named Emma pursues “her own adventure,” finds “her inner strength,” and shatters “stereotypes” through her career in the Army.
The CIA faced similar criticism after publishing an advertisement that fixates upon an agent’s experience grappling with his homosexual identity.
“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family. I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work,” states the man in the advertisement. “Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at the CIA and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director Brennan’s lanyard.”
As American officials released these advertisements, the Chinese government began<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55926248"> devising</a> “The Proposal to Prevent the Feminization of Male Adolescents.”
Through its education ministry, the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to promote manhood by hiring more physical education teachers and intensifying health education. A government<a href="http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xxgk/xxgk_jyta/jyta_jiaoshisi/202101/t20210128_511584.html"> memo</a> asks schools to “pay more attention to the cultivation of students&#8217; masculinity, and continue to add new physical education teachers through multiple channels.”
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It’s Monday, September 13th, and this is your Morning Wire. Listen to the full podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/morning-wire">here</a>.
1) Biden Vaccine Mandates
The Topline: On Thursday, President Biden announced he will impose vaccine mandates on all private companies employing more than 99 workers.
Andrew Kloster, former deputy general counsel for the office of personnel management in the White House, joined Morning Wire to discuss the legal questions surrounding the president’s vaccine mandates.
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The Plan 
The president’s plan essentially involves using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, to fine companies $14,000 per infraction if they don’t require proof of vaccination or weekly negative tests for employees.
According to Kloster, the details and carve-outs have not been released yet, though he noted the federal government will be targeting larger employers and the Biden administration will be looking at putting this within statutes they have on the books.
Legal Challenges
Kloster said legal challenges are likely and that those opposing the move will look to argue that the order is unconstitutional or exceeds the authority granted to OSHA.
2) Inflation Causes Record Price Hikes
The Topline: As the U.S. economy continues to recover from COVID-19 lockdowns, inflation rates have skyrocketed and new Labor Department data reveals the price of consumer goods rose at a record rate in the last year. 
Inflation
Each month, the Labor Department tracks the “Final demand price” for wholesale goods, which is the amount of money producers sell their products for each month. This August, prices were up 8.3% compared to last August &#8212; the biggest 12-month increase ever recorded.
Price Jumps
The price for makeup and hair products jumped 7.8% in the last month alone and the price of chicken rose another 11%. Over the last year, the price of beef is up 59%, cooking oil is up 43% and wholesale grain is up 98%.
Impact On Americans
In a recent poll, 70% of Americans said they’ve felt the impact of higher grocery prices and 67% said the same about gasoline prices. Experts say it’s low-income households who are typically most impacted by inflation because a higher percentage of their monthly income goes towards products more heavily impacted by inflation &#8212; mainly food and energy costs. 
Causes
The Biden administration has attempted to put the blame on COVID-19, which is true to a certain extent. The lockdowns impacted the supply chain and a certain level of inflation is to be expected during an economic recovery like the one Americans are experiencing. 
Many experts also blame the massive increases in government spending for inflation.
Will It Level Out?
Officials at the Federal Reserve and White House economists say inflation should start to taper off in the next few months, but Americans have heard that same message for months, and it’s worse now than it was before. 
The Fed is standing firm, however, and insisting they won’t be changing interest rates.
Political Point:  In a poll last month, 86% of Americans said they were concerned about inflation and 79% said Biden’s policies were contributing to the spike. 
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3) California Recall Election Nears
The Topline: The long-term effort to remove Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom has reached its climax, with the recall election only a day away.
Quote Of The Day:
“For the very first time, people are leaving California like you guys have, and the number one reason that people cite for leaving is the cost of housing.”
– Larry Elder, Republican Candidate for Governor of California
The Recall Election 
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14th, Californians will decide whether or not Governor Gavin Newsom should be removed from office, and if he is removed, who should replace him for the remainder of his term, which ends in January 2023.
This recall election is made up of two questions. The first is a simple yes/no question, asking voters if they want to recall Newsom. Voters will then be asked who should replace him.
Polls
In July, the polls between “keep” and “remove” tightened, and were effectively 50/50 in August. 
Since the end of August, the polls seem to suggest the “keep” vote is the clear favorite, with the latest polling averages showing 56.2% of those surveyed want Newsom to remain as governor, while 41.6% want him removed. 
Big donors have allowed Newsom to raise more than $70 million, a massive number achieved in large part because California has no limits on donations to recall committees.
Donations include $3 million from the CEO of Netflix, $500,000 from George Soros, and $750,000 from Priscilla Chan, the wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 
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Other Stories We’re Tracking
UK COVID Reversal
The United Kingdom Health Chief announced Sunday the country will abandon its plans for vaccine passports, and may soon end mandatory testing for returning travelers. 
Manchin’s Hard Line
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Sunday he will not support his party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. His decision marks a significant setback for President Biden&#8217;s Build Back Better agenda, as the bill will need the support of all Democratic <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/fox-news-senate">senators</a> to pass.
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1) First Responder Remembers 9/11
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The Topline: Twenty years ago today, America suffered the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history. 
Among the innocent civilians killed in the attacks were hundreds of first responders who raced towards danger to save others.
Morning Wire spoke with Stephen Dillon, a former New York Police Department Officer and 9/11 first responder. 
Dillon, a detective at the time, was called into duty after the second plane struck the World Trade Center. He lost friends and colleagues in the attacks. 
Quote Of The Day:
“Oddly enough. I remember&#8230;what a beautiful day it was. It was clear blue skies&#8230;and I just remember thinking…’how can this happen on a day like today? And then once I got into Manhattan and I saw the destruction&#8230;life is not going to be the same for a while here in the city or as a cop.”
– Stephen Dillon, Former New York Police Department Officer and 9/11 First Responder
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2) Biden And The 20th Anniversary Of 9/11
The Topline: President Biden is facing new waves of pressure from critics, this time on the subject of September 11th and the possible resurgence of al-Qaeda.
<a href="https://youtu.be/ZLr9nr28yW8">Quote Of The Day:</a>
 “I think the whole community is kind of watching to see what happens and whether or not al-Qaeda has the ability to regenerate in Afghanistan. You know, we put the Taliban on notice that we expect them to not allow that to happen.&#8221;
– U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
September 11, 2001
Al-Qaeda terrorists coordinated the 9/11 attacks, but U.S. policy at the time drew no distinction between terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda, and those who harbored them, like the Taliban. 
After twenty years of conflict in the region to eradicate terror, President Joe Biden is being widely criticized for the immediate consequences of his foreign policy.
Biden Faces Criticism
The first point of criticism relates to Biden’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Afghanistan, which has not only resulted in the complete return of Afghanistan to Taliban control, but the resurgence of other terrorist groups in the region, including al-Qaeda. 
Many are now condemning the potential inability of the U.S. to prevent the resurgence of the terrorist group behind 9/11, especially since much of the responsibility for preventing terrorism now rests on the shoulders of the Taliban. 
Transparency Concerns
The second layer of criticism relates to an ongoing push by hundreds of family members of 9/11 victims for the U.S government to release information regarding the attack. Many have argued that details are being hidden by the Department of Justice and the FBI regarding the alleged involvement of Saudi government officials in the attacks.
The group, called “Members Of The 9/11 Community,” wrote a letter saying President Biden is not welcome at all three 9/11 memorials he will be visiting on Saturday, unless he fulfills his commitment to “seek full truth and accountability.” 
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3) Who Is ISIS-K?
The Topline: The terror group ISIS-K has been discussed frequently after they claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the Kabul airport in Afghanistan which killed at least thirteen U.S. service members and over a hundred Afghans. 
ISIS-K
The group is a branch of the Islamic State technically called Islamic State-Khorasan. Khorasan is a wider historical region including <a href="https://www.csis.org/programs/transnational-threats-project/past-projects/terrorism-backgrounders/islamic-state-khorasan">parts</a> of Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
According to Katherine Zimmerman, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the group was officially recognized in early 2015. Zimmerman told The Daily Wire they started to form in the fall of 2014 from disaffected members of the Pakistani Taliban in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. She said at the time they were accusing the Taliban of compromising with the west and not pursuing global jihad.
Who’s Who?
The main groups Americans hear about are the Islamic State, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. 
Zimmerman told The Daily Wire one of the main differences between these groups has to do with how each one treats fellow Muslims. 
The Taliban and al-Qaeda believe other Muslims need to be taught true Islam in order to then be held accountable for their actions. The <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718">word</a> “Taliban” means “students” in Pashto, which is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Since the Taliban is in control now, however, they will be strictly enforcing Sharia law. 
The Islamic State is more extreme and fringe because they believe any individual — especially Muslims — who haven’t yet answered the call to jihad and joined the Islamic State are not actually Muslims. She said this distinction is extremely important. 
She said the Islamic State sees it as a duty to enforce its interpretation of Islam with force; Muslims who resist or reject it must be killed. The Taliban, by contrast, believes they need to teach Muslims their interpretation of Islam, and people will adjust once they’re exposed to it. 
Experts say the Islamic State is actively recruiting and ISIS-K has worked to expand its network into more urban areas, like Kabul, as seen by the recent terrorist attack.
Terror Threats
A 2018 <a href="https://www.csis.org/programs/transnational-threats-project/past-projects/terrorism-backgrounders/islamic-state-khorasan">report</a> by the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted that Islamic State-Khorasan “disregards international borders and envisions its territory transcending nation-states.”
The same report said the group’s &#8220;global aspirations include &#8216;[raising] the banner of al-Uqab above Jerusalem and the White House.'&#8221;
The Islamic State isn’t the only terror group for the U.S. to be watching. There’s also concern about al-Qaeda re-emerging.
A United Nations <a href="https://www.undocs.org/en/S/2021/486">report</a> from June of this year referred to an even earlier report and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/26/taliban-bin-laden/">said</a> “the Taliban and Al-Qaida remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties.” It also said al-Qaeda was present in 15 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. 
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