[LANGUAGE WARNING] Watch out for shenanigans on Thursday night from CNN’s debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash! Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden — by rule — can have their microphones muted if they go over time. But who can mute Tapper and Bash when they talk over Trump and hit him with unfair and slanted questions?  Based on their reporting and analysis over the years at CNN, Republican supporters of Trump should expect Tapper and Bash to question not just his policy positions, but his judgment and even behavior.  Both had harsh reviews for Trump’s performance after the first presidential debate in 2020.  Tapper blasted Trump: “That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck….worst debate I have ever seen….it’s primarily because of President Trump.” Bash agreed: “You just took the words out of my mouth. You used some high-minded language. I’m just going to say it like it is: that was a shitshow!” On Election Night 2020, Tapper provided a nasty epitaph to Trump’s presidency: “For tens of millions of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over.” On the other hand, both have profusely praised Biden.  After Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address, Tapper prompted his colleague: “Dana Bash, what did you think? You’ve been to a lot of State of the Union addresses. Do you think that President Biden met the moment?” Bash giddily affirmed: “He certainly met the moment….[Democrats] wanted him to be a fighter and….did he deliver.” Bash can’t believe Biden isn’t trouncing Trump, even bringing Rep. Nancy Pelosi on her show to incredulously ask: “Inflation, it looks good when you look at the numbers….Wages are up….There’s a lot for President Biden to tout. So the question is about why Americans don’t seem to be giving him the credit?” Here’s a brief montage by NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino of Tapper and Bash at their worst:      The following is a small sampling of the most liberal moments of Tapper and Bash’s time at CNN, via the MRC archives:  DANA BASH   “Dumpster Fire” “Shitshow” Debate Was Trump’s Fault     CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper: “That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn’t even a debate. It was a disgrace. And it’s primarily because of President Trump, who spent the entire time interrupting not abiding by the rules he agreed to, lying, maliciously attacking the son of the Vice President.”…Correspondent Dana Bash: “You just took the words out of my mouth. You used some high-minded language. I’m just going to say it like it is: that was a shitshow!”...Tapper: “The President does not think he’s going to win this election. And he wants to bring the rest of us down with him.”— CNN’s Debate Night in America, September 29, 2020.   Biden “Met the Moment”     CNN anchor Jake Tapper: “Dana Bash, what did you think? You’ve been to a lot of State of the Union addresses. Do you think that President Biden met the moment?”CNN anchor Dana Bash: “He certainly met the moment that his members of his party, those who are really upset and worried about this coming election year and frankly, what would happen if he didn’t win another time because of their concerns about who’s on the other side of the ticket. They wanted him to be a fighter and — boy — fight, did he deliver.”— CNN’s live coverage of the State of the Union address, March 7, 2024.   Bash Takes Advice From Barbara Streisand On Not Running Anti-Biden “Cheap Fakes”      “When I say ‘it,’ it is a lot of memes and what the White House is calling ‘cheap fakes,’ which means that these — there are videos that are being put out on social media and then amplified on conservative media that in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading of President Biden and….I don’t want to let a moment go by where I can read a tweet from Barbara Streisand on the show. So, I’m going to do it, she said, ‘We must stay vigilant to the ongoing and pervasive spread of misinformation. Maybe now more than usual, in the lead up to the presidential election.’ And her argument was don’t amplify it. It is interesting given the fact that there was a famous case where somebody took a picture of her house in Malibu and she sued to not have that shown and then it turned out that people started looking at the picture more than before. So, it’s the question that I started this conversation with is how much to talk about it versus how much to just kind of ignore it and we’re trying to do both here.”— Dana Bash on CNN’s Inside Politics, June 19.    Blaming Trump Rhetoric for New Zealand Shooting     “The question is can he [President Trump] and will he do more to bring together – try to bring together people. That’s the opposite of what we saw in Charlottesville and it is the opposite of what we see when the political calendar gets close to election day. When he knows what riles up his base and the problem is riling up the base using terms like ‘invaders’ in ads that he tweets out also reaches people who are nut jobs.”— Chief political correspondent Dana Bash discussing New Zealand shooting as aired on CNN New Day, March 15, 2019.   Taken Aback by Trump’s “Flip Comment” at Debate “Not to sound too corny, but what makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders, is that when they took over, they put their opponents in jail. To hear one presidential candidate, say — even if it was a flip comment, which it was — ‘you’re going to be in jail’ to another presidential candidate on the debate stage in the United States of America, stunning, just stunning.”— Correspondent Dana Bash during post-presidential debate coverage on CNN, October 9, 2016.   Should Trump Receive Intelligence Briefings?  “I want to ask about the idea that Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee for president. U.S. intelligence agencies are reportedly preparing to share classified briefings with him. You’re, of course, a former ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, Speaker of the House. Should Donald Trump receive intelligence briefings?”— Host Dana Bash to Rep. Nancy Pelosi on CNN’s State of the Union, March 17, 2024.   Not Even D-Day Ceremony Is Safe From Superfluous Attacks on Trump     “What you have described and what we saw from President Biden on this [D-Day] trip clearly intentionally, not just sending a message to the world that is first and foremost, his goal, but also back here in the U.S., cautioning about the fragility of democracy and it was quite a contrast from what we heard from the former President, his rival, to take the White House again, Donald Trump.”— Host Dana Bash to Rep. Nancy Pelosi on CNN’s Inside Politics, June 7, 2024.   Inflation “Looks Good,” Why Isn’t the Public Giving Biden Credit?      “I want to ask about the economy. Inflation, it looks good when you look at the numbers. Inflation is down to just 3 percent. The labor market is steadily adding jobs. Wages are up. Consumer sentiment is the highest since September of 2021. So there’s, a lot for President Biden to tout. So the question is about why Americans don’t seem to be giving him the credit. A Quinnipiac poll this week found nearly six in 10 Americans still disapprove of his handling of the economy. Why is that? And what does he have to do to turn that around?”— Host Dana Bash to Rep. Nancy Pelosi on CNN’s State of the Union, July 23, 2023.    Bash Worries that Democrats May Suffer From GOP’s  “Baseless” Attacks On DOJ     “Leigh Ann, is it your sense that Democrats who are on the front line, which is when it comes to getting majority back, whether they believe that these attacks on DOJ, these claims, baseless claims that the DOJ is behind, for example, what happened in New York is potent enough to hurt not just President Biden, but down-ballot.”— Host Dana Bash to Washington Post Live’s Leigh Ann Caldwell as aired on CNN Inside Politics with Dana Bash, June 5, 2024.    Trying to Provoke a GOP Food Fight: Did Trump “Go Too Far?” “Governor Bush, Mr. Trump has suggested that your views on immigration are influenced by your Mexican born wife. He said that, quote, ‘If my wife were from Mexico, I think I would have a soft spot for people from Mexico.’ Did Mr. Trump go too far in invoking your wife?”— CNN debate moderator Dana Bash to Gov. Jeb Bush at GOP Primary Debate, September 16, 2015   Bash to Ramaswamy: How Dare You Point Out Democratic Racism?     “You took issue with comments from Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. She reportedly said, quote, ‘We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.’ About that, you said, ‘These are the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.’ You know, I’m sure, the KKK was responsible for more than a century’s worth of horrific lynchings, rapes, murders of black people. How in any way are the views you’re talking about comparable to the views and atrocities committed by the KKK?”— Host Dana Bash to GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on CNN’s State of the Union, September 10, 2023.   Praising “Badass” Pelosi “In many ways, Nancy Pelosi is the original Badass Woman of Washington.” — November 13, 2018 tweet (from CNN’s official Twitter account) promoting correspondent Dana Bash interview with Rep. Nancy Pelosi.   Adoring AOC     “Being Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez means being a celebrity and looking like one, red lips and all. She was featured on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2020 and even shot this tutorial for Vogue on her beauty routine....You sometimes take heat for your celebrity status, for being glamorous....You embrace the power?...How do you use that power, the power of femininity, as you describe it?”— Host Dana Bash on CNN’s Being...AOC, August 9, 2021.   JAKE TAPPER   Trump Era of  “Cruelty” and “Meanness” Is “Coming to an End”      “It has also been a time of extreme divisions. Many of the divisions caused and exacerbated by President Trump himself....It has been a time where truth and fact were treated with disdain. It is a time of cruelty where official inhumanities such as child separation became the official shameful policy of the United States. But now the Trump presidency is coming to an end, to an end, with so many squandered opportunities and ruined potential, but also an era of just plain meanness. It must be said to paraphrase President Ford, for tens of millions of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over.”— Host Jake Tapper on CNN election coverage, November 7, 2020.   When Did Airing “Untrue Things” Stop CNN Before? “We’re not carrying his [Donald Trump] remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”— Host Jake Tapper on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, June 13, 2023.   If He’s “Fighting for Facts and Truth Everyday” at CNN, Then He’s Been Losing “One of the important things in journalism that we can do is remember that we are fighting for the legitimacy of journalism and fighting for facts and truth everyday, everytime we step up to the bat — step up to the plate and it is important that we get it right. Because we are, I think, in a way that I haven’t been in my 55 years, really fighting for the soul of journalism and fighting for trust.”— CNN anchor Jake Tapper at “The Vocation of Journalists in a Time of Testing: Lessons from David Carr. Jake Tapper, Erik Wemple, Claire Giangrave, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Amanda Ripley, John Carr” live stream event at Georgetown University, June 18, 2024.   Boffo Review for Biden Convention Speech     “I’ve heard Joe Biden give, I don’t know, dozens, hundreds of speeches over the years. I have to say this was one of the best, if not the best performance I’ve ever seen.”— Host Jake Tapper on CNN’s live coverage of the Democratic National Convention, August 20, 2020.   Hailing a Republican (Jeff Flake) For Standing Up to Trump “You know Joe McCarthy started in the late forties his crusade of indecency and smears and lies. And you know President Trump and Joe McCarthy are very different historical figures, but there is something similar....People are gonna look back at this era and say what were you doing with all – it’s not McCarthyism but it’s something else – all this indecency and all these lies, what did you do during that time?” — CNN host Jake Tapper discussing former Sen. Jeff Flake’s denunciations of Trump as aired on CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, October 24, 2017.   Tapper Questions Disabled Vet’s “Commitment” After No Impeachment Vote     “Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know what his — I don’t know about his commitment to it here in the United States.”— CNN anchor Jake Tapper during live impeachment coverage, January 13, 2021.

The Senate adjourned Thursday and won’t be back in the office for another two weeks, leaving the issue of drafting women unresolved over the July 4 break. That’s a pretty big deal, at least in broader America. In D.C., it’s just business as usual and is explained matter-of-factly. The House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act on Friday, June 14, with no requirement to enroll women in the Selective Service System (the system used in a draft). The next week, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the bill but slipped the infrastructure for drafting women into the mix. Now, the bills go “to conference,” where the committees and staff from the House and Senate will work out their differences. ‘This is an issue where voters — regardless of what part of the country they come from or what party they belong to — are not OK with this.’ The move “has raised some hackles among members of the far-right,” a particularly inept New York Post reporter claimed Thursday, but it appears the Democrats’ strange compulsion to draft women is creating discomfort more broadly than that. And it is a Democratic project. While the committee process is classified, Blaze News has learned multiple Senate Democrats have introduced the idea in committee before along partisan lines without GOP support. Their Democratic colleagues outside the committee who are up for re-election sang a less enthusiastic tune when reporters caught up with them. Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Bob Casey (Penn.) claimed to be unfamiliar with the proposal. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is in a particularly close race against Republican Tim Sheehy, told the Washington Examiner he would “have to take a look at it.” “It’s basic human instinct,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told Blaze News. “You don’t send women to fight so long as able-bodied men exist to fight. It's a fundamental notion. You don’t even have to get to a moral question on this; it's a survival question. This isn't what human beings want to do when you want to survive.” And while no Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Commitee were reportedly “in favor,” it passed out of committee 22-3, with one of the nays from the Democratic chairman, who said he opposed breaking budget-cap limits. The markup is classified, but members can say how they voted and will when they want to score political points. “You’ve got a number of Republicans who are opposed to this,” Lee told Blaze News, “but some of those Republicans who have expressed opposition to it also voted to advance it out of committee, so the question is how much fight will you see out of them between now and when it hits the floor?" And not all Republicans are even opposed to the idea. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) said drafting women is about “opportunity.” "This is not about combat,” she told reporters. "It is about their opportunity to serve.” Defenders of the system say it isn’t technically a draft, and that’s true — the United States hasn’t had a draft since the Vietnam War, and reinstating it would require an additional act of Congress. But it’s only true until the United States decides it’s time to draft people again. Then the promises of not drafting women become a promise not to draft women into combat roles, which becomes simply drafting women into combat roles. It’s creating the infrastructure for doing exactly what politicians claim they won’t do. Unlikely, to say the least. When “it’s the law,” Lee said, “we create the expectation that women will be drafted. It will lead to a draft of women next time we have a draft.” After July 4, Republicans are going to have to figure out how hard they’re willing to fight a whole lot of modern feminist tropes too many politicians accept unthinkingly. On the other side, Democrats are going to have to decide just how important it is to them to draft women and whether it’s worth putting vulnerable colleagues like Brown and Tester in the hot seat. And even once vacation is over, the summer timeline isn’t long. While committee staffers will be hard at work throughout, the actual House and Senate committees are only scheduled to be in session a combined 11 days before breaking for the long August recess. That leaves time for those against drafting women to get their message out there. "Once public attention gets put on it, things change,” Lee told Blaze News, “because people realize the juice isn't worth the squeeze when people are upset. ... This is an issue where voters — regardless of what part of the country they come from or what party they belong to — are not OK with this.” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who led the resistance three years ago when Congress last proposed drafting women, was a little blunter. “If Republicans even think about drafting women,” he told Blaze News, “every ounce of my being will be directed at destroying what’s left of the party." Washington Examiner: Senate Democrats dodge whether to expand draft to women Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. The fire rises: The Weekly Dish: My problem with IVF — and ours Blogger Andrew Sullivan was arguably the most influential journalist in America’s long slide toward gay marriage. That makes it all the more interesting when he comes out against IVF: And that’s the rub for me. In many cases, you’re creating new lives only to destroy them as waste. In many others, you don’t destroy them; you merely use them to beat the odds. They are quite simply a means to an end, violating a basic norm of inviolable human dignity. And these “means” are your own offspring. IVF literally requires a mother to play Sophie’s Choice several times over. And it’s harder to put these discarded humans out of your mind the way you can recover from an abortion, once the fetus has been dispensed with. Because they are still alive! By freezing them, you are conceding that they can one day change from a human being to a human person, with all the profound ramifications of that. And you may already have in front of you a growing IVF-created child who now has several siblings alive, just frozen in perpetual darkness. That’s what brings it home to me. There are now more than 600,000 future human beings sitting in “cryogenic nurseries” waiting for the light to come on — millions of brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, consigned indefinitely to living in vitro. Yes, the embryo has no memory, no sentience when frozen, no mind or will yet. There is no suffering. But the lack of suffering does not mean there is no sadness. Or no humanity.

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Cinnamon Bread is a sweet, quick bread that features a flavor combination of cinnamon and sugar that’s topped with a creamy vanilla glaze! A SWEET QUICK BREAD RECIPE This soft and simple Cinnamon Bread is perfect to serve at brunches, as dessert, or even breakfast! It’s super quick to put together and tastes amazing warm or room temperature! I absolutely love to make quick breads. They are so easy, no yeast is involved and anyone can make them with the simplest of ingredients! Also did I mention the house smells incredible while this is baking?! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:  Is the cinnamon flavor of this Cinnamon Bread really strong No, actually this bread has a mild cinnamon flavor. It’s not bold or overpowering. It doesn’t make you feel like you bit into a cinnamon stick. However, you can totally amps up the cinnamon flavor by simply adding more cinnamon. How do I know when the Cinnamon Sugar Bread is done? The best way to tell the bread is done is by doing a toothpick test. Stick a toothpick into the bread at the top, if it comes out clean with a few crumbs then it’s done. If it comes out with batter, then it will need at least a few more minutes to bake. Is the cinnamon and sugar on the top supposed to stay mostly dry? Great question. Yes, if it stays mostly dry it is totally fine. Also, know that some will fall down on the edges of the bread making the edges look darker or burnt, but it’s not actually burnt, it’s simply darker because of the cinnamon and sugar and how those look when baked. So keep that in mind when making this bread. How do you store leftovers of this quick bread? Save any leftovers in an airtight container and keep it at room temperature for up to 3-4 days. INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (SEE RECIPE CARD BELOW FOR THE FULL RECIPE) granulated sugar ground cinnamon all purpose flour light brown sugar large egg whole milk vegetable oil vanilla extract HOW TO MAKE CINNAMON BREAD Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a 9×5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. NoteL The parchment paper just helps with easier removal after it is done baking. If you don’t want to use parchment paper, just spray well with nonstick cooking spray (I prefer the kind that has flour in it – like Baker’s Joy). In a small bowl, add the granulated sugar and cinnamon then stir together. Set aside. In a bowl, add all purpose flour, brown sugar and baking powder and stir well to combine. Then make a well (a large dip) in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the egg, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Stir together until combined well. Pour half of the batter into the prepared loaf pan, then sprinkle ¾ of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of the batter. Add the rest of the batter over the cinnamon sugar mixture, and then sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top. Bake for about 60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool before slicing and serving. CRAVING MORE RECIPES?  Cinnamon Streusel Muffins Cinnamon Roll Cake Cinnamon Whipped Cream Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits Banana Pumpkin Bread Cowboy Bread Zucchini Bread English Muffin Bread Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Strawberry Bread Apple Bread The Best Banana Bread Print Cinnamon Bread Cinnamon Bread is a sweet, quick bread that features a flavor combination of cinnamon and sugar that's topped with a creamy vanilla glaze! Course BreadsCuisine American Prep Time 10 minutes minutesCook Time 1 hour hourTotal Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes Servings 8 servings Calories 435kcal Author Brandie @ The Country Cook IngredientsFor the cinnamon sugar mixture:⅔ cup granulated sugar1 Tablespoon ground cinnamonFor the bread:2 cups all purpose flour1 cup light brown sugar packed2 large egg⅔ cup whole milk½ cup vegetable oil1 teaspoon vanilla extract InstructionsPreheat the oven to 350℉ and line a 9×5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. NoteL The parchment paper just helps with easier removal after it is done baking. If you don’t want to use parchment paper, just spray well with nonstick cooking spray (I prefer the kind that has flour in it – like Baker’s Joy).In a small bowl, add the granulated sugar and cinnamon then stir together. Set aside.In a bowl, add all purpose flour, brown sugar and baking powder and stir well to combine.Then make a well (a large dip) in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the egg, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Stir together until combined well.Pour half of the batter into the prepared loaf pan, then sprinkle ¾ of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of the batter.Add the rest of the batter over the cinnamon sugar mixture, and then sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top.Bake for about 60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.Allow to cool before slicing and serving. Notes Please refer to my FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) and ingredient list above for other substitutions or for the answers to the most common questions. NutritionCalories: 435kcal | Carbohydrates: 69g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Sodium: 32mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 44g