Jim brought listeners up-to-date with what's happening in the news with this Wednesday edition of the 'Round-Up'. Stories included:
--After memorializing Fidel Castro, U.N. member states consider, 'The Question of
Palestine'.
--Islamic State claims responsibility for brutal terrorist attack at Ohio State
University.
--House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fends off challenge to her leadership reign by
defeating Democrat opponent Tim Ryan of Ohio.
--President-elect Donald Trump tabs Congressman Tom Price to be Secretary of
Health and Human Services.
--Planned Parenthood outraged at the nomination of Price.
--Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio threatens violence if Trump tries to defund Planned
Parenthood.
--Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross confirmed their nominations to lead the U.S.
Treasury and Commerce Departments respectively.
--The federal debt moved above the 19.9 trillion mark for the first time as of the
close of business November 22.
--Trump nominated Elaine Chao to hold the post of Transportation Secretary.
--Governor Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, accepts nomination to the post
of ambassador to the United Nations.
--Trump selects Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education.
--Trump tweeted that he plans to move completely out of his personal businesses to
concentrate on running the nation.
--Carrier (air conditioner company) reaches an agreement with President-elect
Trump to keep 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis.
--Trump can recast the direction of the federal court from the earliest days of
his administration.
--Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania presidential recount efforts underway.
--The Department of Health and Human Services is raiding some of its accounts to
cover a shortfall in housing those who are illegally coming over the border.
--During a recent speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gave the opinion
that religious freedom might be in greater danger than the right to free speech.
--Washington Republican State Senator Doug Ericksen is working on a bill that
would create a new type of crime known as 'economic terrorism'.
--Google Maps temporarily re-named President-elect Donald Trump's headquarters
'Dump Tower'.
--The Judiciary Committee is pushing a human tracking chip law. (HR4919)
--Globalists demanding the surrender of vast new powers over taxation and
national policy to the United Nations.
--Hampshire College in Massachusetts will no longer fly the American flag.
--The Obama administration is warning Americans not to cast blame on Muslims after
the Ohio State attack.
--Representative Peter King of New York said the Ohio State attack has all the
indicators of terrorism.
--Ohio State attack causes some to call for more gun control in spite of the fact
that the suspect struck with a knife.
--An appeals court upholds a lower court ruling siding with the New York School
District that instructed a teacher to cleanse Christianity from her classroom.
--The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the case of Kansas parents concerning
state science standards that are promoting atheism.
--Abortionist LeRoy Carhart will no longer be performing abortions at a facility
in Germantown, Maryland.
--Although black Americans make up 13.3% of the population, they are responsible
for 35% of the total reported abortions.
--A pro-family group is assailing the jeweler known as Zales for normalizing sin
due to an ad featuring a lesbian wedding.