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DATE: FRIDAY, 02.23.24
LAST UPDATE: 09:07 AM ET
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Here are some highlights from this day on previous shows:

Feb 23, 2010 - Obama and the ACORN voting fraud scandal… The Tea Party movement… Details about the upcoming 8/28 Rally in Washington DC... Voice your independence… Obama’s bright ideas… Glenn Beck's American Revival...

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News...

Trump can’t postpone paying $355M judgment in NY fraud case, Democrat judge rules
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron said Trump’s attorneys hadn’t provided a good reason as to why he should delay his judgement from last week in the civil fraud case against the ex-president, the Trump Organization, and others.

If A President Can Have His Money And Property Snatched By His Political Opposition, This Isn’t A Free Country And We Don’t Have Fair Elections
Voters in a few months are supposed to cast a ballot for their preferred presidential candidate. Meanwhile, we just watched one of our major political parties attempt to literally bankrupt the likely nominee of the other and seize his property.

Trump Condemns ‘Persecution’ of Christians Under Biden DOJ, Pledges Feds Will ‘Never Again’ Target Them
“For all Americans, but especially for Christians, nothing is more important than to defeat this wicked system and to return to equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law,” the former president said.

Report: Attacks on Churches Increased 800% in 6 Years
In just the last year alone, 436 acts of hostility against churches occurred, according to the report by the Family Research Council.

USDA Colludes with Left-Wing Group to Turn Out Voters Under Biden Order, Documents Reveal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with a left-wing advocacy group to boost voter turnout as part of President Joe Biden’s executive order directing federal agencies to get involved in elections.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says FCC is mandating a diversity scorecard for broadcasters
The FCC's new directive requires broadcasters to disclose workforce diversity stats, sparking debate over hiring practices and constitutional compliance.

Not Content To Topple Monuments, The Left Erects Anti-Monuments
While a monument can bring a community together by its beauty and truth, an anti-monument divides a community through its ugliness and evil.

Family of second Kansas City shooting suspect also starts GoFundMe for medical bills: Report
The family of the second suspect charged with murder in the Kansas City parade shooting appears to have set up two fundraisers to pay for his medical bills, just a day after it was revealed that the other gunman’s family tried to do the same, according to a report.

San Francisco store requires customers to shop with employee escort to curb ‘rampant shoplifting’
“Attention shoppers,” the sign reads. “Due to the rampant shoplifting, Fredericksen has introduced a one-on-one shopping experience: wait here and a clerk will be right with you to help you with all your shopping needs.

Bronx beautician sentenced to prison after unlicensed silicone butt injection leads to death
Investigators said the woman charged about $1,500 for the unlicensed injections, far less than the usual price by licensed practitioners.

KFC to roll out 'Chizza' in the US
Chicken plus pizza equals "Chizza." Instead of a dough crust like traditional pizza, it features a base layer of fried chicken topped with sauce, cheese, and pepperoni.

Biden...

Biden says he prefers his segregationist peers of yesteryear to House Republicans: 'These guys are worse'
Biden, who once eulogized a former Klan leader, took a trip down memory lane this week in search of a group of people he prefers to House Republicans. He settled on segregationists.

Biden Mocked For Claiming Nine World Leaders Have Said He’s ‘Got To Win’ In 2024
Critics riffed off some of the president’s other recent claims — namely that he had met with or spoken to heads of state who had died long before he assumed the presidency in 2021.

Biden meets Alexei Navalny’s daughter and widow Yulia, calls her ‘Yolanda’ afterward
President Biden met Thursday in California with the widow and daughter of the late Russian activist Alexei Navalny — before appearing to botch the name of the heroic opposition leader’s wife in a later statement to the press.

Biden claims ex-Katie Couric colleagues told him they’d flee US if Trump wins again in 2024: ‘Embraces political violence’
“Two of your former colleagues — not at the same network — personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,” Biden told Couric, who was in his audience for a high-dollar Silicon Valley re-election fundraiser.

Feds Rearrest Burisma Bribery Source Just Days After Judge First Released Him
Lawyers for Alexander Smirnov, who served as an FBI source for more than a decade, filed an emergency motion in Nevada’s federal court that said their client was arrested for a second time on the same charges while at their law office for meetings with counsel.

Politics...

Congress likely to punt government shutdown deadlines again, sources say
A GOP lawmaker blamed the Senate for forcing the need for short-term funding bill.

Polls: Trump Leads Biden in Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina
Most interesting in this new batch of polls is North Carolina, where in a head-to-head matchup, Trump is up +3, but if RFK Jr. is included, Trump goes to +9. Also the polls show Kamala Harris greatly outperforming Gavin Newsom if one were the DNC presidential nominee.

Tuberville: Fellow Senate Republicans opposed his bill to keep men out of women's sports
Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Thursday that some fellow Senate Republicans were against his "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," drafted to prevent biological men from competing in women's sports.

Jen Psaki and Nancy Pelosi Push a Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Putin
Where are the fact-checkers and misinformation cops?

Former Dem senator demands the media stop fact-checking Biden until they fact-check Trump
"It is ridiculous that The New York Times fact-checked Joe Biden on something," McCaskill said.

Fetterman Blasts Fellow Dems Who Criticize Biden
"If you're not willing to just support the president now, you might as well just get your MAGA hat because you're helping Trump."

Economy / ESG / DEI...

Teamsters' PAC gives its first large donation to RNC in years
The Teamsters PAC’s donations overwhelmingly go toward Democrats, but the $45,000 donation marks the first significant donation to the RNC in years.

UAW board OKs $40M to organize nonunion plants, battery workers
The UAW says it will spend $40 million in new funds to support the organizing of workers in nonunion auto plants and battery facilities, "particularly in the South," through 2026.

Immigration...

Report Suggests Biden Could Benefit If Fellow Liberals Sue Him To Stop Immigration Orders
Engaging in a legal fight over Biden’s potential executive action could benefit the president, as it would allow him to further blame Republicans for failing to address the border crisis, the NYT suggested.

Mike Johnson blasts Biden for 'finally admitting' he can address border without new laws
"My statement regarding President Biden finally admitting he has the authority to address the border catastrophe he has created."

Blaze Commentary...

Justin Haskins: Conservative airwaves under siege as Soros eyes Audacy
If George Soros manages to reduce the impact of right-leaning voices on radio, it could have a gigantic effect on the 2024 election, especially in swing states.

What Ivan Drago can teach us about the border crisis
Dolph Lundgren’s embrace of U.S. citizenship represents a dying notion of immigration.

Align: Fear and loathing in the Kroger parking lot
Maybe I had been too wrapped up in my own head to really take stock of the sincere moment of connection at the grocery store entrance. It was just a brief blur of humanity in an increasingly disconnected world.

Ukraine / Russia...

Zelenskyy: Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview ‘Two Hours of Bullsh*t’
Bret Baier asked, “One of the things he did say is that you signed a decree forbidding any negotiations with Russia and that he said Russia has never refused to negotiate.” Zelenskyy said, “It’s not negotiations. Negotiations with tanks with occupation of Ukraine was destroying our people. It’s not about negotiations."

Entertainment...

Wendy Williams, 59, diagnosed with dementia
The press release explained that Williams underwent a battery of tests in 2023 after her memory started to fail and she began to “lose words” and “act erratically.”

Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman to Claim Top Spot on Billboard’s Country Music Chart
The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart this week.

Media...

CBS News allegedly seized Catherine Herridge's files, records after suddenly terminating her employment: Report
Last week, CBS News terminated Herridge's employment as part of a layoff impacting fewer than two dozen employees at CBS News. Her surprise termination sent shock waves through Washington because Herridge is a respected, award-winning journalist with a storied career.

SAG-AFTRA Condemns CBS News Over Report On Catherine Herridge
SAG-AFTRA, which represents on-air correspondents, issued a statement this afternoon condemning the network. “This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment,” the union said.

Vice Media to stop publishing on Vice.com, will slash hundreds of jobs
In 2024, almost every major news publisher has cut jobs or completely closed its doors, including over 500 journalists.

China...

Leaked files from Chinese firm show vast international hacking effort
A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are attempting large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies, and infrastructure — with hackers of one company claiming to be able to target users of Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

China Demands America ‘Stop Making Excuses’ and Fund the Taliban
China’s top diplomat on Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, repeated the Communist Party’s demands this week for America to end sanctions and allow Taliban terrorists to access frozen Afghan government funds.

Environment...

Governor Of Nation’s Largest Coal State Leads Charge To ‘Decarbonize’ The West
"Decarbonizing the West" has become Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon’s signature initiative as chair of the Western Governors’ Association.

Oil Companies Relinquish Last Pacific Coast Drilling Permits to Canada
“With these final permits, Natural Resources Canada has officially secured the surrender of all 227 permits in the Pacific offshore,” Canadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said, describing the achievement as a milestone in “protecting the ecologically rich waters of Canada’s west coast.”

LGBTQIA2S+...

Couple appeals to Supreme Court after child is removed from home over gender identity squabble
"The state’s removal of A.C. was prompted by abuse allegations against the Cox family, which were ultimately dropped, but the state still argued that the “disagreement over gender identity was distressing to their child” and contributed to an eating disorder. Indiana claims the dispute is now moot because their child has since turned 18.

Media Ignore Science On Dangers Of Transgenderism In Kids To Tout Garbage Pro-Trans Survey
A report by the American College of Pediatricians detailed the results of a review of more than 60 studies on mental health found “gender-affirming” care had “no demonstrable, long-term benefit” on patients’ psychosocial well-being. But that wasn't the story that made the headlines.

ADL: Nashville Transgender Shooter Not a Left-Wing Extremist Because She Used The Other 'F' Word
Hale, a white female, reportedly identified as male and went by the name “Aiden.” Her manifesto expresses hatred for white people, whom she refers to as “crackers.”

LGBT activists rage over proposed Kentucky bill that would improve protections for religious liberty
HB 47 would amend the state's current religious freedom law, in effect since 2013, elaborating on the definition of "government" and what "substantially burden" would mean in the context of the statement that the "government shall not substantially burden a person's freedom of religion."

Education...

Rolling Stone: Indiana Attorney General Sets Up Website for 'Snitching' on ‘Socialist’ Teachers
Imagine “Libs of TikTok,” but created by a state government to pillory public school teachers. That’s the gist of a new project launched by Indiana AG Todd Rokita, a Republican, who has created a portal that encourages members of the public to tattle on teachers they believe are pushing “woke” content on kids.

With ‘restorative justice’ and anti-police curriculum, why would you send your kid to NYC public school?
“If it weren’t for the snow, we wouldn’t have known.” It’s a throwback to COVID lockdowns, when Zoom school revealed to many parents that their children were learning critical race theory instead of critical thinking skills.

AI...

Google’s AI Language Model Claims Israelis Are More Violent Than Palestinians, Says ‘No Definitive Proof’ Hamas Committed Rape In Israel
Gemini’s alleged anti-Israel bias was documented by defense attorney Marina Medvin, who posted screenshots of the troubling answers she said she got from the AI language model on Thursday.

Google pauses 'woke' Gemini's AI after it shows white historical figures as 'racially diverse'
Elon Musk called Google's AI software "woke" and "racist."

Elon Musk Responds To Matt Walsh Posts Digging Into Lead Behind Google’s New Anti-White AI Tool
Musk blasted a Google AI executive for racist comments she’s made in the past, which he argued was the “confession of a crime.”

Tyler Perry says studio expansion 'indefinitely on hold' due to AI
"I was in the middle of, and have been planning for the last four years, about an $800 million expansion at the studio, which would've increased the backlot a tremendous size, we were adding 12 more soundstages. All of that is currently and indefinitely on hold because of Sora and what I'm seeing."

Technology...

Pharmacies nationwide face delays as health-care tech company reports cyberattack
Change Healthcare said it became aware of the "outside threat" on Wednesday morning, disconnecting their systems for security purposes.

AT&T says outage was related to software error, not cyberattack
“Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyberattack,” the company said in a statement.

Solar flare did not cause Thursday's cell phone outage
The outage and solar flare coincidently happened around the same time.

Science...

First US moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down on Thursday, becoming the first-ever moon landing by a private company.

Travel...

Here’s how many billions the top 20 airlines made off your baggage fees last year
The top 20 global airlines raked in $33.3 billion in revenue from a combination of fees for carry-on bags, price hikes for checked luggage, and fines for overweight suitcases, a new report found.

Sports...

MLB's new Fanatics-produced pants are practically see-through
The new Nike-designed pants have a see-through quality to them, and that was evidenced in a picture of Giants infielder Casey Schmitt, which went viral Thursday for what one could see in the groin region.

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