Monday, July 29, 2024

​ July 29, 2024 Good morning, Welcome to the news for independent thinkers ​ Leading the News . . . ​ Biden unveils term limits for Supreme Court justices . . . President Biden on Monday proposed term limits and an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court, saying he wants to "restore trust and accountability" at the high court, which has been criticized by the left for ethics concerns and the justices' overturning of decades of precedent. The president announced support through a press release early Monday for three changes for the nation's highest bench: a constitutional amendment to permit presidents to be criminally prosecuted; 18-year term limits for justices as a president will appoint a new one every two years; and a code of ethics on the bench that requires justices to disclose gifts and recuse if they or their spouses have a conflict of interest. He will discuss his changes later Monday during an appearance in Austin, Texas. Washington Times​ ​ Biden knows it won't pass Congress this year. But the left plays the long game, understanding that putting this proposal in play means it could get picked up later when the time is right, while in the meantime working to normalize the idea. Politics Democrats privately worry Harris will lose . . . Behind the public jubilation over Vice President Harris's swift rise to become their party's likely nominee for president, Democratic lawmakers are privately anxious about her prospects of defeating former President Trump, acknowledging that she is largely untested as a candidate and faces serious challenges. "She wasn't a great candidate," one Democratic senator said of Harris's performance as a presidential candidate in 2020, when she pulled out of Democratic primary before the Iowa caucuses. The Hill​ ​ If she was a good alternative, Democrats would have eased Biden out earlier. ​ Harris' radical pastor questioned US after 9/11 . . . After President Joe Biden stepped aside on Sunday and Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, one of the first people she called was her longtime pastor, Amos Brown. At a memorial service for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks held just six days after al Qaeda murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, Brown used the occasion to point the finger at the United States in remarks that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "set a lot of people's teeth on edge" and "left politicians stunned." "America, is there anything you did to set up this climate?" Brown asked the audience. "Ohhhh—America, what did you do?" Washington Free Beacon​ ​ Kamala praised Defund the Police movement . . . "This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities," Harris said on the radio show Ebro in the Morning on June 9, 2020. "This is an important conversation and not just a conversation … [it] can't just be about talk. It has to be about forcing change." Harris's support for defunding the police and the Black Lives Matter advocates who rioted in the streets and attacked police in 2020 cast a shadow on her nascent presidential campaign's emphasis on Harris's roots as a California prosecutor. Washington Free Beacon​ ​ Harris' history of comparing DHS to racists, including equating ICE to the KKK . . . Ronald Vitiello endured an hour of statements and questions from senators during his 2018 hearing to become the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Then Sen. Kamala Harris swooped into the room, mispronounced his name and demanded to know why he once compared Democrats to the Ku Klux Klan. That, she said, was a more apt comparison for the men and women at ICE, the federal agency that handles deportations. She has also compared Border Patrol agents to slave masters. Washington Times​ ​ JD Vance's Catholic conversion is part of a young conservative movement . . . In his conversion, he is part of a cohort of rising young conservative figures who are bucking the general trend of young Americans to reject institutional religion — and many, experts say, are choosing Catholicism. Catholicism, religion analysts say, exudes the confidence and staying power of a two-millennia-old hierarchical institution — not to mention the world's biggest church — at a time when so much seems unstable. The same thirst is driving rising Catholic interest in the pre-Vatican II-style Mass, where the priest speaks in Latin, many women wear veils and conservative views on theology are common. Washington Post​ ​ Why JD Vance worries about childlessness . . . Vance sees Americans' reluctance to have children as tied to risk aversion and a culture of social isolation that threatens to weigh on U.S. economic dynamism. Since becoming Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, the Ohio Republican has come under scrutiny for criticizing people who don't have children. In 2021, he told Fox News that the U.S. is being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too." He singled out Vice President Kamala Harris. Wall Street Journal​ ​ Cracks appear in the Democrats' youth voter wall . . . The forces of American culture and politics are pushing men and women under age 30 into opposing camps. Voters under 30 have been a pillar of the Democratic coalition since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989. That pillar is showing cracks, with young men defecting from the party. Young men now favor Republican control of Congress and Trump for president after backing Biden and Democratic lawmakers in 2020. Women under 30 remain strongly behind Democrats for Congress and the White House. Wall Street Journal​ Support Cut to the News Please consider a small donation to Cut to the News. You may always continue to enjoy our concise news summary with stories you wouldn't otherwise see for free. But this is a reader-funded publication, and we rely on you to help us continue. Let's defeat liberal media bias together by supporting conservative and objective journalism! Readers who give $50 or more, or who pledge $12 or more a month, receive a coffee mug as a free gift. Please click here to donate. Thank you! ​ Culture A record 191 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are competing in the 2024 Olympics . . . A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity. There are 191 athletes publicly saying they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary who are participating in the Games, according to Outsports, an organization that compiles a database of openly queer Olympians. The vast majority of the athletes are women. Associated Press​ ​ Calif. School district forces students to room with Trans classmates . . . Students in a Southern California school district could be forced to choose between rooming with a transgender-identifying student or missing out on an overnight school field trip. If parents complain about their child rooming with a transgender-identifying student of the opposite biological sex, staff in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District listen to the parents' concerns, then say that the child's rooming assignment isn't the parents' choice, according to emails from 2021 and 2022 obtained by the Center for American Liberty. Daily Signal​ International Venezuela's Maduro declared winner in disputed vote . . . The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso - who is a close ally of Mr Maduro - said that with 80% of ballots counted, President Maduro had 51% of the vote, compared to 44% for his main rival. The Venezuelan opposition dismissed the CNE's announcement as fraudulent and promised to challenge the result. It said its candidate, Edmundo González, had won with 70% of the votes and insisted he was the rightful president-elect. BBC​ ​ Israeli ministers authorize Netanyahu retaliation against Hezbollah . . . Israel's security cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister to decide when and how to retaliate for a deadly rocket attack Israel and the US say was carried out by the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. Ministers met in emergency session in the wake of the strike on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday evening, which killed 12 children and teenagers from the Druze community. Hezbollah has denied responsibility. It was the deadliest cross-border incident in months of exchanges of fire between the two sides. BBC​ Money How Elon Musk broke with Biden . . . Tesla officials reached out to the White House multiple times after the inauguration, hoping to connect Biden and Musk. The Tesla boss, who said in a television interview that he voted for Biden—and has said he voted exclusively for Democrats until a few years ago—repeatedly got the cold shoulder. The reason: Biden officials didn't want to anger the powerful United Auto Workers union. Then in August 2021, Biden organized an EV event, to be anchored by him signing an executive order with a target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles. White House officials called Tesla with an apology: Musk wasn't invited. Wall Street Journal​ You should also know Countersnipers were aware of Crooks 90 minutes before assassination attempt . . . A group chat of those meant to protect Trump were aware that gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was in their midst over 90 minutes before Trump was shot at, rather than an hour as the FBI had previously claimed. When one of the three countersnipers was about to call off at the end of their shift at around 4:26pm, they noticed a man who they later confirmed to be Crooks sitting on a picnic table. 'Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know. I'm just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there,' he wrote. One of the two remaining snipers photographed Crooks multiple times and texted the pictures to the group chat. 'I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage.' Daily Mail​ ​ ​Trump gunman planned to create 'diversion' with explosives to escape, Rep. Mike McCaul says​ Guilty Pleasures Field Hockey player has part of finger amputated to compete at Olympics . . . Australian Matt Dawson, 30, badly broke a digit on his right hand after he was hit by a hockey stick during a training session in Perth two weeks ago. Doctors said his injury would take four to six months to recover, meaning he would have to miss this summer's games in France. Or, the athlete could have his finger amputated and make it to the competition. Dawson, who plays in defense for Australia, chose the latter. Sky News​ ​ Help CTTN reach more people by forwarding it to your family and friends! Click below to write your message and share the signup link by email. ​ Or, you can share it on social media. ​​​​ Got this from a friend? Subscribe here and get Cut to the News sent to your Inbox every morning. ​ Have a great day! ​ Follow us ​​​​ 2302 Gallows Road #625, Dunn Loring, VA 22027 Unsubscribe · Preferences​ ​