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February 27, 2021
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Good morning!

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Bible Verse Of The Day
  • House Narrowly Passes "Equality Act"
  • Senate Parliamentarian Rules Against Minimum Wage Gambit
  • A UN Whistleblower
  • California's Priorities Are Off
  • How President Biden Is Like An Opossum
  • The Media Ignored This Part Of The Texas Power Story
  • “Change!”
  • A Reader Writes Back...
  • America The Beautiful

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY 

 

House Narrowly Passes "Equality Act" 

By Mike Huckabee

Thursday, the House narrowly passed the so-called “Equality Act.” It’s a typical “progressive” bill in that it has an innocuous name that nobody could argue with hiding its toxic contents.

The bill enshrines sexual and gender identities as protected classes on the level of race and actual gender and eviscerates the 1992 Religious Freedom Restoration Act and religious freedom protections of the First Amendment. It specifically states that if a religious organization doesn’t bend its sacred beliefs to the LGBTQ agenda, it can be sued for discrimination and the RFRA will not provide legal protection. It redefines “public accommodation” to include churches, religious homeless shelters, adoption agencies and other faith-based organizations.

It would force doctors to violate their Hippocratic Oaths by performing abortions and providing hormones and surgery to people who want to alter their genders, even if they think it’s harmful to the patient’s health. It also would codify forcing everyone to treat biological males who “identify” as women as women, which could put an end to girls’ and women’s sports, end privacy for women in intimate places such as locker rooms, and force shelters for traumatized women to accept men who claim to identify as women.

The bill was passed by the House with no committee hearings, and during the debate, even though some Democrat leaders claimed it included no hostile infringement on religious liberties, Illinois Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley gave away their real feelings by declaring that the Republicans’ religious freedom arguments were just “transphobia,” “homophobia,” and “hate.”

This now goes to the Senate, where it will need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Let’s hope all the Republicans and maybe a few Democrats care about the Constitution and the rights of women and people of faith, and reject it. If they actually pass it and Biden signs it, we’d be facing a long court battle to have the Supreme Court throw it out as unconstitutional. I’m not an attorney, but it seems to me that any law that has to include a paragraph saying in effect, “No fair citing the First Amendment” is pretty much the definition of unconstitutional.

And just so you know, these are the three House Republicans who joined with Democrats in voting to pass the “Equality” Act: Reps. Tom Reed and John Katko (both of NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA.)

Senate Parliamentarian Rules Against Minimum Wage Gambit

By Mike Huckabee

The Democrats’ plan to put a $15 minimum wage hike into a COVID-19 stimulus bill as part of a budget reconciliation measure so it only needs 51 votes has come to a halt, thanks to an unexpected roadblock: the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that it can’t be included in a budget reconciliation bill because it’s not a budget item, it’s a major legislative change, and those are subject to filibusters.

Naturally, Democrats are denying the obvious truth and refusing to remove the item from the bill. They’re urging party members to vote for it anyway and simply ignore the Parliamentarian. They don’t need no stinkin’ rules! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that critics should be happy that “progressives” aren’t demanding a minimum wage of $24 or $25 an hour.

I’m glad to hear she’s making my point for me. I’ve long said that if you’re going to completely ignore market forces, disconnect the cost of labor from what it’s worth, pull an arbitrary minimum wage out of thin air, and pretend that it has no negative effects (according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a $15 minimum wage would destroy 1.4 million jobs), then why not make it $150 an hour so that everyone can get rich? As long as we’re living in Economic Fantasyland, we might as well all have mansions.

I expect the Democrats’ next move will be to try to stack the office of Senate Parliamentarian, so there are three of them, and the two new ones who don’t know or care about the rules can outvote the one who does.

A UN Whistleblower

By Mike Huckabee

Here’s just what we need: one more reason for the US to tell the UN to pack up its overdue parking tickets and get out.

A whistleblower told the Epoch Times that, contrary to UN denials, UN human rights officials did give the names of Chinese dissidents who were set to testify in Geneva against the Communist Chinese Party’s abuses to the communist regime in Beijing. They used those names to block the dissidents from leaving China, and at least one, Cao Shunli, was detained and died while in detention.

The whistleblower also claimed that if the dissident had already left China, the person’s family would be threatened or even kidnapped and tortured. The whistleblower called the UN’s actions “criminal” and accused it of being complicit in genocide. She’s still employed by the UN, but she’s under investigation. That’s right: she’s the one who’s under investigation.

The UN denied the allegations for years, but the Epoch Times has obtained internal emails that appear to verify that it’s true and they were misleading the world. Read the entire article.

And if that’s not horrific enough, and you need another reason to boot the UN, try this: China is currently on the UN Human Rights Council.

California's Priorities Are Off

By Mike Huckabee

California has so many serious, pressing problems that residents are fleeing the state in droves, but fortunately, their “progressive” leaders have prioritized what’s most important. Two Democrat legislators have introduced a bill that would fine department stores $1,000 if they have separate toy and clothing sections for boys and girls.

Sponsor Evan Low, who is chair (I don’t risk a fine by saying “chairman”) of the Assembly’s LGBTQ Caucus, said, “The policy behind this bill is not only important in regards to addressing perceived societal norms but also ensuring that prejudice and judgment does not play a prominent role in our children’s lives. I look forward to working on this issue in the future.”

I look forward to a future when people who do idiotic things like this are voted out of legislatures and work in places where they can’t do any more damage. Let’s hope Californians finally wake up to how many of the problems they’re fleeing are directly connected to the people they keep electing.

In a related story, Hasbro is rebranding “Mr. Potato Head” to “Potato Head,” because we wouldn’t want to place a gender label on a root vegetable. Will future non-gendered “Potato Head” play sets come with two sets of interchangeable genitals that can be swapped out depending on what gender the potato identifies with at any given moment?

How President Biden Is Like An Opossum

By Mike Huckabee

Something I admit I never thought of: How President Biden is like an opossum.

One big difference, though: possums are actually helpful to have around.

The Media Ignored This Part Of The Texas Power Story

By Mike Huckabee

While leftists were rushing to exploit the winter storm blackouts in Texas for political purposes, the media largely ignored how quickly Texans rallied to help each other and the role that churches played. Also, the fact that Texas got all the power restored within five days, while blackouts in blue states like California have been going on for years, without the excuse of historic winter storms.

“Change!”

By Mike Huckabee

Under Trump, separating minors at the border from adults who might harm them was called “ripping children from their parents’ arms” and “putting kids in cages.” Under Biden, the same policy is now called “putting children into ‘influx care facilities,’” or as Peter Doocy of Fox News put it, “kids in containers.”

Read the linked story to see how White House spokesperson Jen Psaki tries to spin this as a totally, totally different thing, but refuses to let reporters in to see whether the “containers” are the same as the alleged “cages.” You know, for “security” reasons.

The reason we need these facilities is because we’re seeing a surge of illegal immigration due to the idea that Biden is throwing open the border and rolling out the red carpet by undoing all of Trump’s border security measures. More than 78,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border in January alone. Psaki claims that separating children from the people claiming to be their parents was “immoral,” and this is different because we’re seeing so many unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally. Because creating a situation that encourages people to send their children across the border alone illegally during a pandemic is in no way immoral.

Former Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan accused the Biden Administration of hypocrisy, false narratives and outright lies in claiming that the detention facilities were medical facilities because of COVID. He said they’re “needed because this administration is now encouraging, incentivizing, and facilitating illegal entry in the United States and the numbers have skyrocketed.”

Incidentally, and I never get tired of pointing this out: the photos of “cages” that blew up on Twitter and caused so much outrage toward Trump were actually photos of detention facilities built under Obama.

A Reader Writes Back...

Governor Huckabee - Your newsletter is the BEST read every day. You start the day by lifting us up with a Bible quote, fill us in on current events (adding humor which always makes me smile), and close out highlighting America's great treasures. Don't change a thing!

America The Beautiful

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  • Judy Radley

    02/27/2021 11:13 AM

    How do we know that the Democrats aren't putting the unaccompanied minors in these 'influx centers' on purpose so that they then can use these children for their own sick pedophilia and acting on it? Also using them for medical experiments and harvesting them for child labor, sex slaves for the Harvey Weinsteins and Jeffrey Epsteins and Obamas, and Bill and Hillary Clintons and even for the 'creepy Joe Bidens', and indoctrinating them into the 'liberal, socialist' brainwashing tanks to convince them these sick feelings are normal? And remember, these are also the same people who are for abortion, even killing a baby who is already born?

    Are these minors actually ways for the Democrats to hold them ransom until the parents pay enormous amounts so the Dems. can use it to 'influence' elections and 'The Lincoln Project' to recruit more to accept that the abnormal is normal? And of course, the illegals' children are minors so they can't have a voice, and they also can commit crimes the Dems. tell them to do, 'or else!', and not be charged because 'they are minors'. This is what crime bosses do, have minors do their crimes, and then the minors can't be charged, and the crime bosses get away with it free and clear. Could the Warren Buffets, Bill Gates', Bezos', Pelosis', Schumers', Cuomos', Bidens', Clintons', Obamas', Winfreys', Goldbergs', Musks?, Zuckerburgs', Dr. Faucis', Old & Sick perverts, et al, those rich 1%'ers, all have 'pedophilia' in common, because 'money can buy anything'? And have you noticed they are all mostly white and privileged? And embrace the whole transgender thing too? Maybe they want living and breathing sex objects instead of the blow up kind? And what is better than to have actual camps or 'influx centers', to do their picking from? I know I sound harsh, but they do not seem to care about children, otherwise they would NOT BE for abortions and sex trafficking, and allowing gangs and criminals to have their way with society and NOT be punished for it! What else do THEIR actions show and prove?
    I think the gang members that recruit others from the unaccompanied minors 'influx centers' is the MS-13 gang employed by the Democrats, leading it all up by Czar King Barack Obama and Queen Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden is the Jester who is the mouthpiece to allow all this to happen under the guise of 'Democrats Caring for Minorities' BS and why Antifa and BLM was formed, and why they can riot, loot, kill, murder, rape, and get away with it all. And why the Democrats bail them out, because they are the REAL Gang Leaders behind it all. Isn't it all making sense now....?
    The Dems. are using, again, Gangs and Minorities as their own shields to deflect 'like Teflon', crimes that they themselves are financing. And that is why the Dems. really hate the Trump Supporters, because we are not fooled nor gullible to believe their manipulations, but those who are are the gullible and foolish are the media, social media, etc., but may be it isn't really they're being gullible and foolish, but because they are all 'in it together', like the media always says, 'we are all in this together'. Is that their truth-telling disguised as 'concern'? Is it their true colors showing and they are actually telling the world what they are really doing, but they are disguising it as 'concern'? Isn't that always the Dems. rally cheer, They Care!? BS in a big way is really their base.

  • David Clark

    02/27/2021 11:10 AM

    Has anyone published a study of the effect of illegal immigrants on prevailing wages? It's the supply of labor I'm getting at.

  • Joseph Orsini

    02/27/2021 11:05 AM

    RETIREES' impacts resulting from the proposed $15/hour minimum wage seems to be completely absent from discussions. This substantial increase will result in substantial increase in cost of living, which will NOT be matched by increase in Social Security or pension retirements. The result is further strain on seniors, who are not in any position to compensate for higher costs.

  • Vickie Fiorentino

    02/27/2021 11:04 AM

    They are doing more for anyone who is NOT AMERICAN! We have got to stop this...please give a list of those who are up for another term so that we might financially help those conservatives who NEED to defeat them!

  • Marlene Helfrick

    02/27/2021 10:48 AM

    When Biden was video taped signing all those EOs did anyone notice there was no writing on the pages? That poor senile old fool will be blamed for whatever gets written above his signature. I believe Pelosi planned this to get rid of Biden at the earliest opportunity.

  • Donna R Bagsall

    02/27/2021 10:19 AM

    Thanks for sharing truth! All the hate and lies can be very dishearting and depressing.
    Keep up the good work Mike.

  • Carolyn Bishop

    02/27/2021 10:17 AM

    Thank you for keeping us informed through your daily edition. I just wish everyone could read it. The condition of our leadership in America is heart wrenching.

  • Anne Turner

    02/27/2021 10:08 AM

    I have faith that this bill will not pass the Senate. Surely, my Senator Manchin, will vote against it. If he doesn’t I think he would be toast in WV. It is interesting how WV, almost a wholly Dem State in the past has changed. The Dem party left the people. Further, I cannot believe the Supreme Court would not find against it. The ramifications are huge. Some doctors of faith would give up their profession. Others would not go o medical school. Can you imagine a pediatrician called on to give hormones to a little child. Surely sanity will prevail.

  • Harold E Call

    02/27/2021 10:01 AM

    Carlsbad Caverns are beautiful. Nancy Pelosi, not so much.

  • DEBORAH MOORE

    02/27/2021 09:52 AM

    Dear Mr. Huckabee,
    I always look forward to reading your daily news updates. I know they are based on truth and facts and something I can trust. But I must admit the best part are your side comments oozing such sarcastic humor that they make me laugh. Keep it up. Love them.

  • William Fuhrer

    02/27/2021 09:31 AM

    When I saw the Georgia candidates I thought they had a snowball chance in hell of winning. But then I thought Oregon and Seattle would have returned LAW and ORDER to their states

  • Alan P Gross

    02/27/2021 09:30 AM

    Great comparison! President Biden IS Like An Opossum - just one minor correction - an opossum is not a rodent. It is a Marsupial and it CAN be cute - until it opens its mouth - much like sleepy Joe...

  • William Fuhrer

    02/27/2021 09:26 AM

    With California's strict environmental standard I would think that one piece of the useless pork will not get off the ground. With tech companies fleeing from California...

  • Bruce Vanderhoef

    02/27/2021 09:24 AM

    Mike, thank you for helping me cut down on calories. About the time I'm ready for breakfast, I see the photo of Nancy Pelosi......

  • John Falcone

    02/27/2021 08:53 AM

    Your posts are always appreciated and spot on.