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Monday, December 7, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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Worldview Clash as Biden Transition Team Continues to Announce Nominees for Cabinet Positions



WALL STREET JOURNAL (SABRINA SIDDIQUI AND NATALIE ANDREWS)

Biden Faces Pressure From His Party Over Cabinet Picks



PART 2
(14:9 - 18:2):

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Joe Biden, the Moderate? No ...  and Some “Conservatives” Are All For Getting Along with the Program, Just a Little More Slowly



NEW YORK TIMES (DAVID BROOKS)

No, the Democrats Haven’t Gone Over the Edge



PART 3
(18:3 - 24:45):

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It’s All Cats and Cannabis in the Final Days of the 216th Congress: House of Representatives Passes Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana



LOS ANGELES TIMES (BRIAN CONTRERAS)

In a first, House votes to federally decriminalize marijuana



ASSOCIATED PRESS (MATTHEW DALY)

House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

Friday, December 4, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 14:34):

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One Reason the American Birth Rate Is Falling? Car Seats? The Research Is Serious and the Evidence is Compelling



THE ECONOMIST

Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND BOSTON COLLEGE (JORDAN NICKERSON AND DAVID SOLOMON)

Car Seats as Contraception



JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS

Cars, Kids, and Unintended Costs



PART 2
(14:35 - 17:21):

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Policies Have Consequences, and the Worst Policies Have the Worst Consequences: A Two-Child Limit for Welfare Benefits in Great Britain Led to More Abortions During Pandemic



THE GUARDIAN (PATRICK BUTLER)

Two-child benefit cap influencing women's decisions on abortion, says BPAS



PART 3
(17:22 - 24:10):

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When Having Children is an Act of Defiance: China’s Draconian “One Child Only” Policy and its Continuing Effects



WALL STREET JOURNAL (LIYAN QI)

With Baby Steps, Chinese Parents Test Strictness of the Two-Child Policy



PART 4
(24:11 - 26:39):

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Flirty Won’t Be Flying Any Longer: U.S. Transportation Department Corrects a Policy that Had Unintended Consequences



THE GUARDIAN (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

No horses or peacocks: US limits service animals on planes to dogs

Thursday, December 3, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 7:9):

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A Bizarre and Delusional Fairy Tale That Just Won’t End: Hollywood Star Comes Out as Transgender



NEW YORK TIMES (MAYA SALAM)

Elliot Page, Oscar-Nominated ‘Juno’ Star, Announces He Is Transgender



PART 2
(7:10 - 15:55):

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The Transgender Revolution Brings Only Confusion, Not Clarity: Obituary of Famous Transgender Author and Adventurer Is Actually Impossible to Understand



LOS ANGELES TIMES (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94



PART 3
(15:56 - 22:4):

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The Sexual Revolution Comes to the Toy Department: Children Don’t Care Whether They Play with Dolls or Toy Soldiers . . . Right?



THE GUARDIAN (LISA SELIN DAVIS)

When children's stores reopen, let's leave boys’ and girls’ sections behind



PART 4
(22:5 - 24:52):

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Non-LGBTQ Actors Chastened for Playing LGBTQ Characters — But If the “Non-Binary” Ideology Is True, How Could Anyone Rightfully Portray Anyone Else?



USA TODAY (DAVID OLIVER)

Hollywood's casting dilemma: Should straight, cisgender actors play LGBTQ characters?

What Explains the Left’s Hostility to Religious Liberty? It’s All About the Sexual Revolution

Why is the Left so hostile to religious liberty? One event or decision can reveal much about our cultural moment-like a flashpoint, occurrences cast a bright light on what was previously unseen....


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Leadership Forged in War: A Conversation With Historian Andrew Roberts

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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Last Week’s Supreme Court Ruling Was a Cultural Flashpoint, But the Responses to the Ruling May Tell Us Even More about Our Cultural Moment



USA TODAY (LAURENCE H. TRIBE AND MICHAEL C. DORF)

To this Supreme Court, religious freedom trumps public health — even amid COVID-19 plague



PART 2
(9:35 - 16:22):

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Why Does the Left Have Less Affection for Religious Liberty Now Than in the Past? The New and Greater Affection of the Left for the “Rights” of the Moral Revolution



NEW YORK TIMES (BRET STEPHENS)

Thank You, Justice Gorsuch



WASHINGTON POST (KEVIN BAINE)

Is religious freedom a liberal or conservative value?



PART 3
(16:23 - 23:1):

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Why the Horror from the Left Over Last Week’s Supreme Court Ruling? A Clear Signal That the Supreme Court Is Not Going to Hand Over Religious Liberty Easily

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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The Duchess of Sussex Issues Heartbreaking Message After Miscarriage: Another Recognition of the Intrinsic Value of Human Life from the Moment of Conception



NEW YORK TIMES (MEGHAN, THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX)

The Losses We Share



PART 2
(7:42 - 14:30):

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Moral Opportunism in the Headlines in the Aftermath of Tragic Loss: A Lethal False Equivalence Between Abortion and Miscarriage



NBC NEWS (DANIELLE CAMPOAMOR)

Meghan's royal miscarriage story underscores broader problem of reproductive stigma



PART 3
(14:31 - 24:21):

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Those Who Consume Culture Are Never Unchanged by It: Hallmark and Hulu Employ the Holiday Rom-Com as a Tool for the Sexual Revolution



USA TODAY (ERIN JENSEN)

Hallmark, Lifetime Christmas movies finally show LGBTQ love in leading roles: 'It fits in'



NEW YORK TIMES (MELENA RYZIK)

In a Holiday Lesbian Rom-Com, Kristen Stewart Saw Herself



LOS ANGELES TIMES (ASHLEY LEE)

Finally, Hallmark’s holiday fare makes a gay couple ‘part of the family’



LOS ANGELES TIMES (TRACY BROWN)

‘Happiest Season’ is a holiday rom-com about coming out. Here’s why that’s important

What a Difference One Justice Makes: The Supreme Court Finally Steps Up to Defend Religious Liberty During the COVID-19 Pandemic

What a difference a single justice on the United States Supreme Court makes-it's just a matter of math....


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Monday, November 30, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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What a Difference One Justice Can Make: The Supreme Court Finally Steps Up to Defend Religious Liberty During the COVID-19 Pandemic



SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York



PART 2
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An Important Religious Freedom Case to Monitor from the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Christian Schools Challenge Governor’s Order Stopping In-Person Instruction



UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY

Danville Christian Academy, Inc., et al. vs. Andrew G. Beshear



UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

Commonwealth of Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, ex rel. Danville Christian Academy, Inc., et al. vs. Andrew G. Beshear



COURIER JOURNAL (BILLY KOBIN AND LUCAS AULBACH)

Appeals court allows Beshear to halt in-person classes at Kentucky's religious schools



PART 3
(19:37 - 23:10):

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Who Will Defend Religious Liberty Going Forward in America? Will It Be An Issue Only for Believers? An Ominous Proposition



WASHINGTON POST (STEVEN V. MAZIE)

What a conservative majority on the court really means



WASHINGTON POST (HENRY OLSEN)

The Supreme Court finally has a majority that will protect religious freedom



WASHINGTON POST (KEVIN BAINE)

Is religious freedom a liberal or conservative value?

He Who Has Ears, Let Him Hear: Session Four

Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove...


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