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December 13, 2023

Within months, all but the top 1% of consumers will likely be doing worse than they were before COVID, in the bank’s view. Source: 99% of Americans to Be Financially Worse-Off Than Pre-COVID in 2024

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December 13, 2023
College Student Ignorance About Slogans

By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew…

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December 13, 2023
Standing With Israel and Jews

I began writing this column on Dec. 7, a date that, as President Franklin Roosevelt said, “will live in infamy.”

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December 12, 2023
Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Transit Authorit

Lawsuit Challenges D.C. Transit Authority for Violating the First Amendment Complaint Alleges That WMATA Unlawfully Rejected Controversial Ads. WASHINGTON D.C.— The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the District of Columbia, First Liberty Institute, and the law […]

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December 12, 2023
US Christians – AI & the Church

When the internet was introduced to the general public in the early 1990s, it was met with a mix of emotions.

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December 12, 2023
U. Penn President Resigns After Antisemitism Criticism

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.

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December 12, 2023
Supreme Court Declines A Chance To Restrict Abortion Clinic ‘Bubble’ Zones

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed up a chance to consider overruling its own precedent allowing protective “bubble” zones around abortion clinic patients, turning away a challenge by a Catholic woman in New York to a now-repealed county law passed after the justices overturned abortion rights nationally in 2022.

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December 12, 2023
Zelenskiy to Visit Washington in Bid to Break Senate Deadlock on Ukraine Aid Ukraine

US President Joe Biden has invited his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the White House, days after his administration warned it would run out of money for Ukraine aid in weeks unless feuding US lawmakers act.

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December 12, 2023
Lawmakers Oppose Biden Admin. Rule Change Targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Pro-life advocacy organizations and over three dozen federal lawmakers are criticizing the Biden administration’s proposed rule changes that they fear may prevent pro-life pregnancy centers from receiving taxpayer money.

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December 11, 2023
The Death of Wokeism?

As I was watching the presidents of three elite universities testify before Congress on Tuesday, I wondered whether I was watching the beginning of Wokeism’s death throes.

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December 11, 2023
No Menorahs?

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 10, 2023 The lighting was proposed for Dec. 10 at the 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival. But plans were cancelled. In messages to Rabbi Mendy Heber, festival organizer Shirley Vermillion said the organization decided that it couldn’t approve the lighting because it didn’t “want to make it seem we’re choosing a…

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