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- Executive News Summary
- Featured Analysis: The ‘Jesus Is a Refugee’ Heresy
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EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY
The Editors
- FBI foils LA terror plot: Four members of the Order of the Black Lotus, an offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, have been arrested by the FBI on charges of conspiracy and possession of an explosive device. The FBI reports that the radical pro-Palestinian, anti-capitalist group was a credible terroristic threat due to its plan to coordinate bombings in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents shortly after the new year. Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page, Dante Garfield, and Tina Lai had arrived in the Mojave Desert and begun assembly of explosive devices for testing when the FBI intervened and arrested them. In court on Monday, Page identified himself as a trans woman and requested to be sent to a women’s prison.
- Trump EO on fentanyl: Yesterday, Donald Trump signed an executive order designating illicit fentanyl drugs as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). “Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” Trump explained. “Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose.” Last year, fentanyl was responsible for 87,000 American deaths, accounting for the vast majority of drug overdose-related deaths in the country. The classification of fentanyl as a WMD follows Trump’s designation earlier this year of a number of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations over their trafficking of fentanyl. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem noted that Trump’s order will allow the U.S. to use “the full array of appropriate counter-fentanyl tools.”
- Update on Owens and Kirk meeting: Following the private in-person meeting between Charlie Kirk’s widow and Candace Owens, Erika Kirk called it “a very productive conversation,” adding, “more to come from both of us.” The CEO of TPUSA concluded, “Time to get back to work.” Owens also weighed in on X, saying it was “an extremely productive 4 ½ hour meeting that I think we both feel should have taken place a lot earlier than it did.” She also noted that the two “agreed on much more than I had anticipated,” while she also observed they had disagreements as well. Owens added that she would give a full rundown of the meeting on Tuesday. Given that Owens has spun outlandish and factually vacuous conspiracy theories surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it will be interesting to see if she pulls back from continuing to push them, particularly her claims of TPUSA’s involvement.
- Judge continues to stymie efforts to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Judge Paula Xinis has shown how incredibly far she is willing to go to protect human traffickers from justice. Last week, she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from custody and forbade his deportation, claiming that the 2019 deportation order omitted the specific words requiring his removal. The administration rushed to secure such an order, and upon obtaining it, Xinis stepped in again, casting doubt on it and blocking the criminal’s re-arrest. Xinis, who used quotation marks around the deportation order, declared that the ability of the executive branch to be held to account is now at stake — suggesting that the overturning of her order so quickly puts the public’s faith in the administration of justice at stake. If the administration wanted to expose Xinis, it has done so. It’s time to stop playacting and deport Garcia.
- Chinese billionaires buy surrogate wombs in America: “Birth tourism” is on the rise in the U.S. as wealthy Chinese are using fertility services to have numerous children born in America. Some have had up to 100 babies via IVF and surrogacy without even setting foot in the country. The Wall Street Journal reports, “A thriving mini-industry of American surrogacy agencies, law firms, clinics, delivery agencies and nanny services — even to pick up the newborns from hospitals — has risen to accommodate the demand, permitting parents to ship their genetic material abroad and get a baby delivered back, at a cost of up to $200,000 per child.” Most U.S. states don’t bar international parents from working with American surrogates. Chinese law does prohibit domestic surrogacy, but it does not stop its citizens from acquiring surrogacy overseas. Not only are there serious ethical issues involved in IVF and renting out wombs, but the birthright citizenship abuse has also reached a whole new level.
- Ford EVs found on road dead: Offering products that customers want is generally considered basic business sense. Indeed, a company will quickly find itself out of business if customers aren’t buying what it’s selling. This explains Ford’s recent decision to stop production of its electric vehicle, the F-150 Lighting, and instead invest in building hybrid trucks. This move represents a significant pivot away from Ford’s 2021 commitment to invest heavily in EVs. A Tennessee plant Ford had planned for EV manufacturing will now be repurposed for building gas-powered trucks, and a Kentucky plant Ford had proposed to build EV batteries will now be retooled to make batteries for stationary storage. Ford has reportedly lost $13 billion on its EVs since 2023. That is not a sustainable business model, hence the change. This is good news for customers.
- Hunter Biden disbarred in CT: As part of a deal connected to his gun and tax cases, Hunter Biden’s attorneys struck a deal last year, and a judge on Monday disbarred Biden in Connecticut. Judge Patrick L. Carroll III ruled that Biden had violated Connecticut’s lawyer ethics rules by his “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” Carroll also noted Biden’s disbarment in DC. While disbarred, Biden avoids admitting any criminal wrongdoing through the deal. Joe Biden pardoned Hunter — an action he promised he would not do following his criminal conviction tied to a 2018 illegal firearm purchase — less than two weeks before he was to be sentenced.
- Chicago’s dumb budget: It’s a surprising move from an organization that usually carries water for Democrats, but the new Chicago budget proposal earned even The Washington Post’s disapproval. The city’s operating budget has increased 40% in the last six years, in large part due to programs and personnel added with COVID funding. One of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposals to fill the gap left by expired COVID funding is to reinstate a “head tax” on large companies, effectively raising the cost of employing Chicago residents by $21 a month. The City Council rejected Johnson’s first proposal, so he doubled down, proposing a new $33-a-month head tax on every company with over 100 employees. Johnson also suggested a 50¢ tax on social media companies for every Chicago user after the first 100,000. If Johnson wants to kill commerce in his city, he’s got the budget proposals to do it.
- Chile elects first conservative in decades: Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast ran on a platform of being tough on crime, restoring law and order, and making Chile great again, so, naturally, the Leftmedia rushed to label him far-right. The 59-year-old Catholic family man will be the first conservative leader in Chile in decades thanks to his defeat of Communist Jeanette Jara on Sunday. Kast is good friends with Javier Milei, the leader of Chile’s close neighboring country, Argentina. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was quick to congratulate Kast on X, expressing his desire to partner with Chile to “strengthen regional security and revitalize our trade relationship.” Suddenly, South America has a solid bloc of center-right leaders stretching from Ecuador on the Pacific to Argentina on the Atlantic.
Headlines
- Trump says he is “considering” marijuana reclassification (The Hill)
- Bondi Beach terrorists had homemade bombs and ISIS flags in their car (NY Post)
- Pentagon “escalating” review of “serious allegations” against Mark Kelly (RedState)
- U.S. hits three more drug boats in Pacific, killing eight (CBS News)
- After throwing billions at the Metaverse, Zuckerberg is finally cutting its funding (Not the Bee)
- Pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai found guilty in national security trial (National Review)
- To read The Free Press in the UK, you need to submit ID to “protect children” (Hot Air)
- Satire: Democrats warn that ban on Islamic immigration may delay global intifada (Babylon Bee)
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FEATURED ANALYSIS
The ‘Jesus Is a Refugee’ Heresy
Emmy Griffin
‘Tis the season for leftist church pastors to pull out their favorite brand of spiritual abuse. By this, I mean cheapening the Nativity story to forward a political agenda through emotional and spiritual manipulation.
This heresy, unfortunately, is practiced worldwide.
In Massachusetts, a Catholic church, St. Susanna, removed baby Jesus from His rightful place at the center of the Nativity display, replacing Him with a sign stating, “ICE was here.” Another sign added, “The Holy Family is safe in The Sanctuary of our Church.”
Outside of Chicago, Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity display showed baby Jesus cuffed with zip ties and wrapped in an emergency blanket, while Mary and Joseph were clad in gas masks as if they were protesters anticipating getting tear-gassed during an anti-deportation protest.
In the UK, Christian protestors staged a Nativity in which the Holy Family was floating in an inflatable dinghy, which is often used to smuggle illegal aliens onto the shores of Great Britain.
These are three examples of a false narrative of a false gospel.
First, refugees aren’t illegal migrants. Second, Jesus and His parents weren’t refugees. Refugees are defined as persons who have to flee their countries because of war, violent social unrest, or persecution. They usually cannot ever return to their homes. Those who claim that Jesus and His family qualify for the title of “refugee” are either over-applying the term, are ignorant of the world map during biblical times, or are banking on the fact that many people are ignorant of the Nativity story. They are, in essence, taking a grain of truth from the Nativity story and then twisting it for emotional and spiritual blackmail to forward political agendas — like protesting immigration officers attempting to uphold the Rule of Law.
Let’s crack open the Bible to dissect the false narratives of these grifters.
Matthew 2 documents the entire affair. Mary and Joseph indeed had to travel to Bethlehem, the town of Joseph’s birth, to comply with a census. They were legal citizens complying with the law — therefore, not refugees.
After Jesus was born, King Herod of Judea — the puppet king over the southern province of Israel — found out about Jesus’s birth from the three wise men and tried to trick them into betraying Jesus’s location so he could kill the baby. Herod was very worried about losing what little power the Romans allowed him to have.
The wise men found Jesus and gave Him their gifts, but they didn’t go back to King Herod because they were warned not to in a dream. Joseph was also warned to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt in a dream, which he promptly did, leaving secretly at night. They weren’t exactly fleeing violence, war, or persecution, but obeying God’s warning. Therefore, the Holy Family still wouldn’t be considered refugees. Their flight was immediately justified because King Herod sent soldiers to kill all the male children under the age of two in Bethlehem after he realized that the wise men weren’t coming back.
When King Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph and told him to take Mary and Jesus back to the land of Israel, which he did. They went back to Judea at first, but Joseph was again warned not to linger there, so the Holy Family settled in Galilee. Galilee was a part of Israel, though it was technically a different province and ruled by a different leader. Judeans considered Galileeans to be lesser Jews and kind of like the country cousins. Even though the Holy Family didn’t settle back in Judea, they still weren’t refugees.
All of the places in which Joseph, Mary, and Jesus lived were a part of the Roman Empire. It’s comparable today to fleeing California for Texas. State borders were crossed, but technically, they never left territory controlled by the larger Roman Empire.
The Left’s distortion and manipulation of the Nativity story isn’t new. The group He Gets Us posted this ad in 2022.
In a well-written piece for The Conservative Woman discussing the UK desecration, Gavin Ashenden writes:
One of the strangest perversions of contemporary Christianity is the assumption that it is primarily about inclusion, and only secondarily (if at all) about truth, judgement, repentance or salvation.
Almost every diocesan press release – from London to Southwark to Manchester – and a great deal of Anglican commentary repeats this incantation: Christianity equals inclusion. Exclusion, we are told, is the supreme sin.
This is not merely odd: it is ignorant.
The Jesus of the New Testament bears little resemblance to the Jesus with whom much of the Church of England now appears to be in relationship.
The Nativity story is not a parable that justifies modern-day illegal immigration. Jesus wasn’t a refugee by any definition of the word, and He didn’t come to be used as a political cudgel to justify the whims of leftists.
Jesus came to be a light in the darkness. God the Son came to Earth in the form of a tiny, helpless infant to save us all. His loving sacrifice started in the cradle and was made perfect through the cross. He did not come as a king riding on a great white steed. He came quietly on that silent night in a lowly stable — not to change the temporal politics of that time, but to change the course of history and live out God’s plan.
The false narratives established by modern-day churches are distractions. Thankfully, the real story of the miracle of Christ’s birth will outshine all of those who seek to distort it.
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SHORT CUTS
Dumb & Dumber
“I don’t know anyone who justified his death.” —Don Lemon on Charlie Kirk
“The person that I heard that justified his death was him.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch on Charlie Kirk
Shot/Chaser
“I’ve never been for a shutdown in terms of just getting our way.” —Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)
“Let’s be clear: You voted to keep the government shut down.” —Fox News host Maria Bartiromo
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
“Donald Trump has been engaged in a deliberate and dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.” —Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blaming Trump for the Brown University shooting
Tone-Deaf
“Of course, I’m going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay? So — and first, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills! They beat the Patriots today. It’s a big deal.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
“The director general of ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation] has warned about a range of threats, be it … the rise of right-wing extremist groups…” —Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after innocent Jewish civilians were attacked by Islamists
Never Forget?
“The [Bondi Beach] victims include … a Holocaust survivor who died protecting his wife. He survived the German fascists of the last century but not the Islamofascists of this one.” —Nate Jackson
Credit Where It’s Due
“Absolute horror. … It’s beyond belief what happened to him, and that should never happen to anybody. I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable. That’s not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like what his wife [Erika] said at the service at the memorial they had was exactly right. … I’m Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus, and I believe in ‘do unto others,’ and I believe in forgiveness, and what she said, to me, was beautiful. … She forgave his assassin. And I think that is admirable.” —filmmaker Rob Reiner in a final interview responding to a question by Piers Morgan about the murder of Charlie Kirk
If You Can’t Say Something Nice…
“A Trump-supporting relative last night told me he was getting tired of the President and wished he’d just disappear a bit. This is the sort of stuff that exhausts people who like the man.” —Erick Erickson after Trump suggested that Rob and Michele Reiner were killed due to their Trump Derangement Syndrome
For the Record
“The uglier our public vocabulary becomes, the more normal the ugliness seems; the more normal it seems, the more it crowds out non-ugly alternatives. What once felt like a wrenching breach of decorum now reads simply as the price of admission to modern discourse.” —Jeff Jacoby
“Conservatives have uniformly condemned Candace Owens for her delusional conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but Owens’s psychological disconnect with reality started long before Charlie’s murder. It seems Owens is manifesting organic mental illness, decompensation pathology.” —Mark Alexander
And Last…
“Let it be known, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.” —War Secretary Pete Hegseth after the murder of three Americans in Syria
TODAY’S MEME
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| ON THIS DAY in 1773, “radicals” from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This iconic event, in protest of oppressive British taxation and tyrannical rule, became known as the Boston Tea Party. |
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