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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 12:8):
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San Francisco Voters Recall 3 School Board Members in Stunning Message to Left Wing Ideologues

WALL STREET JOURNAL (CHRISTINE MAI-DUC)
San Francisco Votes Overwhelmingly to Recall School Board Members

WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
San Francisco’s Political Foreshock

NEW YORK TIMES (THOMAS FULLER)
In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members

PART 2 (12:9 - 16:44):
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Woke Wake Up Call for The Left: Will Democrats Heed the Warning of Their Own Party That They Are Moving Too Far Left?

NEW YORK TIMES (MAUREEN DOWD)
Can Dems Dodge Doomsday?

AMERICAN PROSPECT (STANLEY B. GREENBERG)
Democrats, Speak to Working-Class Discontent

PART 3 (16:45 - 24:25):
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‘Here Comes the Broom?’ New Non-Binary Language Comes to the Wedding

NEW YORK TIMES (JULIANNE MCSHANE)
Here Comes the … Broom?

An urgent threat to churches and parents

Right now, even as you read this column, religious liberty is threatened in the heartland of America. For the last 45 years, Faith Church in Lafayette and West Lafayette, Ind., has offered a ministry of Biblical counseling. The church has made a costly and sacrificial commitment to ministering to people based on the Word of God. But, as WORLD's Ste... The post An urgent threat to churches and parents appeared first on AlbertMohler.com.

Monday, February 21, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:54):
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The Russian Bear is Poised for Attack: Russia Escalates Situation in Ukraine to Explosive Proportions

PART 2 (7:55 - 16:57):
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A Dark Day in Canada’s Constitutional History: Government Shuts Down Trucker Protests with Emergencies Act — And Reveals Both Constitutional Subversion and Class War

NEW YORK TIMES (ROSS DOUTHAT)
A New Class War Comes to Canada

PART 3 (16:58 - 25:21):
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The Revolt Against Creation and the Destruction of Women’s Sports: Transgender Woman Continues to Defeat Biological Women in NCAA Swimming — as the Debate Reveals Cultural Insanity

NEW YORK TIMES (AZEEN GHORAYSHI)
Trans Swimmer Revives an Old Debate in Elite Sports: What Defines a Woman?

Friday, February 18, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 17:57):
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An Unprecedented Reign and the Lessons of History: Queen Elizabeth II Set to Celebrate Platinum Jubilee

PART 2 (17:58 - 19:24):
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Moral Convulsions of the Twentieth Century: Hard Lessons Extend to Her Own Family

PART 3 (19:25 - 20:49):
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Is Cryptocurrency Gambling or a Form of Investment? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 4 (20:50 - 22:29):
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Does Russia Have Legitimate Reasons to Reject Values of the West? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 5 (22:30 - 23:39):
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What American Interests Would Justify U.S. Military Intervention in Ukraine? How Would That Fit with Christian Just War Theory? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 6 (23:40 - 24:23):
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Who is the Highest Political Authority for Christians in the U.S.? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 7 (24:24 - 25:54):
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Would Abortion Become Illegal if SCOTUS Reverses Roe v. Wade? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, February 17, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:50):
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A Challenge to Constitutional Order in Canada as the Government Invokes the Emergencies Act — Is the Trucker Protest Really an Existential Threat to the Nation?

PART 2 (8:51 - 18:59):
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U.S. Media Claim that Trudeau’s Emergencies Act Move Will Not Suspend Fundamental Freedoms, but Are They Just Denying the Truth? — A Lesson for Americans to Watch

WALL STREET JOURNAL (PAUL VIERIA AND KIM MACKRAEL)
Canada’s Trudeau Invokes Emergency Powers to Address Trucker Protests

NEW YORK TIMES (IAN AUSTEN AND DAN BILEFSKY)
Trudeau Declares Rare Public Emergency to Quell Protests

NEWSWEEK (RYAN ALFORD)
Trudeau's Power Grab Is Unconstitutional

NATIONAL REVIEW (CHARLES C. W. COOKE)
Justin Trudeau Has Disgraced His Office

PART 3 (18:60 - 24:34):
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Once A Prince, Now A Parable of Moral Shame: Prince Andrew Settles Lawsuit Over Sex Trafficking Allegations

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:24):
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A Drama With Life and Death Hanging in the Balance: Vermont Pushes to Become First State to Present Constitutional Amendment Establishing Abortion Rights

WASHINGTON POST (CAROLINE KITCHENER)
Vermont Moves Forward on Becoming First State to Guarantee the Right to Abortion in Its Constitution

PART 2 (7:25 - 8:53):
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Culture of Death Comes with an Industry: California Declares Itself Sanctuary State for Abortion with Roe v. Wade in the Crosshairs

PART 3 (8:54 - 18:4):
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The Consequence of Creation Unraveled by Human Sin: China Faces Catastrophic Birth Rate and All of a Sudden Wants to Limit Abortion

WALL STREET JOURNAL (LIYAN QI)
China Tries to Dial Back Its High Abortion Rate

PART 4 (18:5 - 26:24):
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Once Information Exists, It Will Be Used: The Surveillance State Is Rising, and the Threats Are Real

WALL STREET JOURNAL (RICHARD RUBIN AND LAURA SAUNDERS)
IRS Retreats From Facial Recognition to Verify Taxpayers’ Identities

NEW YORK TIMES (BEN DOOLEY AND HISAKO UENO)
Where a Thousand Digital Eyes Keep Watch Over the Elderly

WALL STREET JOURNAL (JOHN D. MCKINNON)
Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices

Jude 1-2

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 11:34):
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The Crisis in Ukraine as a World Crisis: Russia’s Ultimate Target Is Not Ukraine, It’s the Western World and Freedom

PART 2 (11:35 - 17:59):
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A Statement to the West and Direct Threat to World Order: The Political and Military Posturing Continues

WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
The New World Disorder

THE ATLANTIC (ANNE APPLEBAUM)
Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing

PART 3 (17:60 - 25:12):
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‘Cheating is Acceptable If You Don’t Get Caught’: When Cheating Becomes National Policy

ASSOCIATED PRESS (BRIAN CAROVILLANO AND TED ANTHONY)
At Olympics and Beyond, Getting Away with It Is Russia’s Way

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 10:56):
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A Big Win for the Integrity of Christian Ministry and Christian Families as West Lafayette City Council Withdraws Proposed “Conversion Therapy” Ban

WEST LAFAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER (MARGARET CHRISTOPHERSON)
West Lafayette Leaders Condemn Conversion Therapy, Withdraw Proposed Ban

PART 2 (10:57 - 16:12):
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A Difference Can Still Be Made in the Public Square: How Faith Life Church Alerted Us About Ordinance 31-21 in Indiana — And What Christians Should Learn From the Example

PART 3 (16:13 - 23:39):
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The Allure of Spectacle and the Solidarity of Autocrats: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Send Message to West in Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics

WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
The Burner Phone Olympics

NEW YORK TIMES (STEVEN LEE MYERS AND ALAN BLINDER)
In Beijing, the Subject on Everybody’s Mind but Not Lips

NEW YORK TIMES (ALEXANDRA STEVENSON AND STEVEN LEE MYERS)
For Olympic Sponsors, ‘China Is an Exception’

Monday, February 7, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:9):
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What Does It Mean to be an Evangelical? According to David Brooks, It Means to be a Part of a Fracturing Movement at War with Itself

NEW YORK TIMES (DAVID BROOKS)
The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself

PART 2 (8:10 - 15:49):
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Evangelicals are Out of Step with the New York Times — No Surprise There

WORLD OPINIONS (R. ALBERT MOHLER JR.)
Sir, you are not a conservative

PART 3 (15:50 - 19:39):
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The Transgender Revolution: If You Accept the Ideology You Accept the Policies

NEW YORK TIMES
N.C.A.A. to Review U.S.A. Swimming’s New Policy for Transgender Athletes

PART 4 (19:40 - 26:59):
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'Lia Thomas Has Every Right to Live Authentically’: The Transgender Movement, Existentialism, and the Psychotherapeutic Turn

NEW YORK POST (PATRICK REILLY)
Teammates say they are uncomfortable changing in locker room with trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas