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Happy Friday from Washington, where most Senate Republicans voted against the debt ceiling bill, even as it passed. Sen. Rand Paul offered a strong amendment, even though it failed, Samantha Aschieris reports. In Vermont, a school settles a case involving free speech about transgenderism, Mary Margaret Olohan reports. On the podcast, the reality of the nuclear threat posed by Iran. Plus: China’s questionable interest in missile research at a U.S. university; the tax consequences of runaway spending; and Biden’s strategy to fight antisemitism involves strange bedfellows. On this date in 1924, Congress passes legislation conferring citizenship on all Native Americans born within the nation’s territorial limits.
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31 Republicans, 4 Democrats, 1 Independent Vote Against Debt Ceiling Bill in the Senate
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| By Samantha Aschieris
The Senate votes to pass the debt ceiling bill, 63-36. Most Republicans vote against it. |
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Vermont School Agrees to Pay $125K to Father, Daughter Punished for Speaking Out Against Trans Student
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| By Mary Margaret Olohan
The settlement requires that a Vermont school board insurer pay $125,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees and costs to the parents of Blake Allen and their lawyers with Alliance Defending Freedom. |
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Sen. Rand Paul Unveils ‘Conservative Alternative’ to Cap Spending in Debt Ceiling Bill
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| By Samantha Aschieris
“Bold actions must be taken to defeat our mounting national debt,” the Kentucky Republican says in announcing a “conservative alternative to the Biden-McCarthy deal.” |
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‘George Soros Is a Destructive Civilizational Force,’ Co-Founder of ‘Jews Against Soros’ Says
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| By Virginia Allen, Samantha Aschieris
Critics of left-wing billionaire George Soros, who notoriously has funded soft-on-crime prosecutors, often get branded antisemitic. A new Jewish group aims to end this “gaslighting.” |
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Chinese Communist Party Infiltrates New York University at the Cutting Edge of Army Missile Technology
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| By Peter Wood, Ian Oxnevad
The Chinese Communist Party infiltrates a small, upstate New York college that receives funding to develop “ultra-high temperature ceramic material” for the Army’s hypersonic missiles. |
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Americans ‘Cannot Afford Joe Biden With an Unlimited Credit Card,’ Sen. Tim Scott Says
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| By Samantha Aschieris
“The biggest detail for me is the fact that Joe Biden, who we cannot trust on spending, has an unlimited credit card until the end of his term,” Scott says of the House’s debt ceiling bill. |
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Senate Votes to Block Biden’s Student Loan Handout, But There’s a Catch
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| By Samantha Aschieris
“This Biden proposal undermines these programs and forces hardworking taxpayers who already paid off their loans or did not go to college to shoulder the cost,” Sen. Joe Manchin says. |
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‘Their Aspiration Is World Domination’: Retired Israeli General Breaks Down the Threat of a Nuclear Iran
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| By Tyler O’Neil
China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran “feel they can pretty much do whatever they want” because the West has “zero willingness” to use its power, a retired Israeli general warns. |
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European-Level Taxes Coming to America If US Keeps Up Unsustainable Spending
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| By Preston Brashers
Unless Washington changes its big-spending ways, the U.S. middle class soon will face astronomical taxes similar to Europe. |
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DISTORTED PICTURE: Biden Antisemitism Push Celebrates CAIR, SPLC, Ignores Left-Wing Jew-Hatred
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| By Tyler O’Neil
President Biden’s strategy to fight antisemitism uses a definition of Jew-hatred that fails to account for the demonization of Israel, critics claim. It also touts pro-Palestinian groups as allies. |
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