The Daily Signal - Google Maps Targets Pro-Life Center, True Cost of Inflation, Schumer Blasts Antisemitism | Nov. 29

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, November 29th. Here are today's headlines. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in his speech Wednesday, there's been a spike in anti-Semitism fueled by pro-Hamas dog whistles at pro-Palestinian protests. CBS News reported that Schumer, who's Jewish, blasted fellow Democrats for their response to the October 7th massacre in Israel perpetrated by Hamas. Many of the people who express these sentiments in America aren't neo-Nazis or card-carrying clan members or Islamist extremists. There are in many cases people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their

Starting point is 00:00:55 ideological fellow travelers. Not long ago, many of us marched together for black and brown lives. We stood against anti-Asian hatred. We protested bigotry against the LGBTQ community. for reproductive justice out of the recognition that injustice against one oppressed group is injustice against all. But apparently, Mr. President, in the eyes of some, this principle does not extend to the Jewish people. According to the New York Post, in his speech, Schumer recounted the murder of his great-grandmother and extended family in Ukraine in 1941 at the hands of the Nazis. He compared Adolf

Starting point is 00:01:39 Hitler's anti-Jewish propaganda slogans to those being used in modern-day protests. In particular, Schumer blasted the chant from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, used recently by Representative Rashida Talib, a Michigan Democrat. The chant is a call to action to make a Palestinian state that occupies the land from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. This would eradicate the state of Israel. inflation continues to cost the average American dearly. According to government data reported by CBS News,

Starting point is 00:02:16 the average American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January 2021. Inflation remains one of the primary reasons Americans are pessimistic about the economy, as many face serious financial distress. According to a recent analysis by Heritage Foundation economics analyst E.J. Antony, this year's Thanksgiving was the most expensive in our history, thanks to the policies of President Joe Biden and the Congress. Antony wrote that by perpetuating multi-trillion dollar deficits and printing money to pay for increased government spending, the federal government created what he calls a cornucopia of disaster. According to Antony, that cornucopia includes 40-year high inflation, a banking crisis, massive losses across retirement plans and pension funds, plummeting home ownership affordability,

Starting point is 00:03:16 a collapse of savings, an explosion of consumer debt, and falling earnings after they're adjusted for inflation. President Joe Biden's policies are costing Americans in countless ways, some obvious and many others hidden. American households are paying at least $14,000 in hidden regulatory costs every year. That's according to Wayne Cruz, a fellow in regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Cruz spoke about a new CEI report called 10,000 commandments, a snapshot of the federal regulatory state, which was released on Wednesday. Cruz calculated the costs of regulation on the entire economy as being over $1.9 trillion. The report notes that Biden has launched many, quote, whole-of-government interventions, most notably on climate change and to root out what the administration claims is inequity from our economy. These newer interventions contributed substantially to the already high regulatory costs burdening the American people.

Starting point is 00:04:24 The mapping app, Google Maps, removed directions to a Washington, D.C. Pro-Life Pregnancy Center and instead offered online. searchers options that included a local Planned Parenthood abortion facility. This comes from an exclusive report by the Daily Signals Mary Margaret O'Lean. Users who attempted to search for the Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center on Monday, on their smartphones or their computer desktops, found that Google Maps didn't offer directions to the location. Instead, the app suggested two different locations, a pro-life pregnancy center across the River in Maryland, and the Planned Parenthood Carol White Hill Moses Center, an abortion facility.

Starting point is 00:05:05 The Daily Signal reached out to Google on Monday around 11 a.m. for response. Shortly afterward, the Pregnancy Center's location became available on the app. Google confirmed to the Daily Signal that the Pregnancy Center's location had, in fact, been removed. A spokeswoman for Google said that the Crisis Pregnancy Center had been incorrectly removed and that it had been reinstated. The pregnancy center's clinic director, Janet During, told the daily signal that she hopes the center was removed by mistake, but said she couldn't help but wonder if it was on purpose. Suicides hit a record high in 2022. According to information released by the National Center for Health Statistics, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal, nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in America last year. The suicide rate of 14.3 deaths per 100,000 people reached its highest level since 1941, the journal noted. Suicide numbers generally spiked during and following the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns.

Starting point is 00:06:13 In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell to the lowest level since 1996. It's risen slightly from 76.4 years to 77.5 in 2022. Of all age demographics, men 75 and older had the highest suicide rate. The numbers came in at nearly 44 per 100,000. That's double the rate for young people aged 15 to 24. The report also found that suicide rates for American Indians and Alaska natives are almost double the rates for other groups. And that'll do it for today's episode.

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The Daily Signal - Google Maps Targets Pro-Life Center, True Cost of Inflation, Schumer Blasts Antisemitism | Nov. 29

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