News Roundup & Comment

Date: December 15, 2023
Host: Jim Schneider
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Finish the week with Crosstalk and get caught up on news from around the world.  Here’s a sample of what Jim presented to listeners this week:

–At the U.N.’s COP 28 gathering, governments from around the world agreed to a global transition from fossil fuel, greater limits on energy use, and a new fund to compensate governments of poor nations for alleged damages caused by C02 emissions from wealthier nations.

–The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a January 6th defendants appeal of the Department of Justice’s novel use of evidence tampering law to prosecute hundreds of defendants for obstruction of Congress. 

–In October of 2021, Joe Biden called on the Department of Justice to prosecute  people who defy congressional subpoenas.  Now President Biden’s son Hunter skipped out on a deposition before Congress this past Wednesday.   

–Hunter Biden claimed the investigation into his business dealings is a move to undermine his father’s tenure as president.  Jim provided audio from his public statement.

–Jim also provided audio of Republican Congressman Jim Jordan speaking out on Hunter Biden being a “no-show.” 

–The House narrowly approved opening an impeachment probe into President Biden Wednesday, hours after his son Hunter defied a congressional demand to testify on Capitol Hill. 

–A Christian veteran tore down the satanic shrine at the Iowa capitol and beheaded it.

–An after-school Satan club is coming to a Tennessee elementary school.

–Viewers got their first taste of Hallmark’s “woke” holiday programming Saturday with the debut of “Christmas on Cherry Lane.”  Management made it abundantly clear that the “heart of TV” will continue to push the LGBT envelope, despite America’s towering wave of push-back. 

–The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by a Christian therapist against Washington state’s ban on so-called gay conversion therapy.

–The conservative group, One Million Moms, has launched a petition against Target over its decision to stock LGBT-themed Christmas merchandise including gay Santas and “pride” Nutcrackers, months after Target faced backlash for selling products by a designer of satanic apparel.  

–Homosexual lawmakers in Wisconsin want to change the state’s constitution to recognize so-called same-sex marriage.

–A major Texas police department is reportedly considering a proposal that would alter the way police interact with individuals that identify as LGBTQ. 

–President Biden said during a campaign fundraiser that Israel could lose international support for its military campaign against Hamas if it carries out indiscriminate bombing in the Gaza Strip.

–Seconds after a Turkish lawmaker threatened Israel with the wrath of Allah, he collapsed of a heart attack.

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