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“The Breakfast Club” radio host Charlamagne tha God offered a nice dose of reality to “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg and her fellow panelists on Wednesday, laying out exactly why President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden was wrong. The previous day Goldberg had defended Biden’s decision to issue a of Hunter, saying, “He is the president of the United States. And it is his right, and he doesn’t have to explain to anybody. This is his right as president,” reported. She also dismissed the notion that Democrats had ceded the moral high ground because of Biden’s move, saying the party does so many good things. Charlamagne took the opposite position on his program on Tuesday, saying, “I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us they’re not. You know, whether it’s skipping the primary process when Biden stepped down and things like Biden pardoning his son. Stop acting like y’all are the pure party and Republicans aren’t.” Charlamagne on Joe Biden pardoning Hunter: “I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us they’re not. You know, whether it’s skipping the primary process when Biden stepped down and things like Biden pardoning... — Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) So by inviting him on the program Wednesday, “The View’s” producers knew there was likely to be a clash, and there was. Charlamagne reiterated and expanded on his Tuesday comments, saying, “I think all of the criticism is valid. Democrats stand on this moral high ground all the time, and, you know, they act so self-righteous. The reality is, he didn’t have to say anything in regards to whether or not his son wanted to be pardoned.” “He could have said, ‘Hey, man, I’m not focused on that right now.’ But since they were calling Trump a threat to democracy and they were saying, ‘Nobody is above the law,’ but they were speaking about him, that’s what they were running on, so when he kept saying things like, ‘Nobody is above the law. I respect the jury’s decision in regards to my son,’ he didn’t believe that. But he didn’t have to volunteer that lie to begin with,” the radio host continued. And that was as much as Goldberg could take, so she interjected: “I’m going to stop you for a second, only because you don’t know that it was a lie.” “Why can’t you say when Democrats are wrong!?” Charlamagne tha God and Whoopi Goldberg clash over Biden pardoning his son, Hunter. — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) “Do you really think he just changed his mind over Thanksgiving weekend, all of the sudden?” Charlamagne retorted. “I think he changed his mind because he got sick of watching everybody else get over,” Goldberg fired back. “At some point you get to the place where you just go, ‘So I’m just going to follow the straight and narrow always,’ because that’s what’s expected of Democrats.” “But that’s their fault. They’re the ones that go out there, and they stand on this moral high ground. They don’t have to do that,” Charlamagne reasserted. Goldberg pronounced that she was a Democrat and questioned him, “Tell me what the moral high ground is.” “The moral high ground is, ‘Nobody’s above the law. I respect what the jurors are saying,'” Charlamagne answered. Co-host then came to his defense, pointing out that Democrats “ran on” the idea of respecting institutions and arguing for the “impartiality of the Department of Justice” by pointing to its prosecution of Hunter Biden in addition to Trump. But Biden in his pardon justified his decision by saying the DOJ prosecuted his son for political reasons. contended that people (including Goldberg) treat their parties like sports teams and “refuse to be objective about anything.” Goldberg countered that Democrats are not a monolith. “Then why can’t you say when Democrats are wrong?” Charlamagne queried. She responded that she does say when her party is wrong. “You don’t think Joe Biden was wrong?” he asked, and Goldberg answered she did not. “Well, that’s ridiculous,” Charlamagne said, prompting Goldberg to shoot back, “No, you’re ridiculous.” “I didn’t say you’re ridiculous, Ms. Goldberg. I just think that’s ridiculous,” he clarified. Goldberg then asked him to come over to her, and the two hugged it out. It was a cute moment. Co-host also objected to Charlamagne’s view, but he stood his ground, reasserting, “When you are a die-hard Democrat or a die-hard Republican, you refuse to be objective about the other party.” “Why can’t we just all be objective and call it what it is?” he concluded. Amen. That’s just what Goldberg and the other ladies on “The View” needed to hear: People will care about and trust your opinion more when you’re objective. We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. .PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter's in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter's path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That's a very narrow way of assessing them," Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn't suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he'd be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter's tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter's lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor's race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival's endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King's daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters' early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan's presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan's Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs are confident they have a clear understanding of Auston Matthews' current condition and what's to come in the near future. In the first season of a 4-year contract that made him the most expensive player in the NHL, 2024-25 hasn't gone as planned for the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Not only did Auston Matthews start off very slow on the offensive side of the puck, but he has been dealing with an upper-body injury since the pre-season that has caused some serious concern. Matthews ended up missing 9 games in November with a mysterious injury that went from day-to-day to week-to-week, and then to him making a trip to Germany to see a specialist. He came back and played in 12 more games before re-aggravating the same injury . As we enter the Christmas break, the extra days off should be a boon for the captain. However, his return to game action after the break is still deemed questionable. However, it's not all doom and gloom, as Sportsnet's Chris Johnston took to First Up on TSN 1050 and gave us an update on how the Maple Leafs are seeing things and their confidence level in his return to action. While it might be a mystery to the media and the fans, it sounds like the Maple Leafs have a great understanding of the situation at hand behind closed doors. However, there might be a power struggle beginning to loom between player and team. Elliotte Friedman made an interesting note on the situation yesterday and believes that Matthews wants to play through it, but the organization is hesitant at the moment. He believes that Matthews wants to not only be out there on the ice for himself, but, more importantly, as the captain and setting an example for the rest of the team. Friedman also alluded to the 4 Nations Face-Off, which will ultimately have some sway in the decision-making process. The health of Matthews is of the utmost importance, especially with how injury ravaged the team, dating back to last year's playoff matchup against Boston. It will be interesting to see how things play out, but we will have to wait until at least the 27th of December when they return to the ice and face off against the Detroit Red Wings. This article first appeared on Maple Leafs Daily and was syndicated with permission.

Here’s introducing the inkPhone duo, a smartphone concept with a regular OLED display on one side and an E Ink display on the other that appeared recently on . The front OLED display fills up the entire front which makes for zero bezel depth along all sides, save for slightly thick margins all along. The display is also shown to feature a unique slide-to-hide front camera system. Once the camera is hidden, the OLED display is uninterrupted. A similar slide-to-open feature is also available for the rear camera. Once deployed, it makes the display seem stretched to the edges. How the slide-to-open and slide-to-hide feature works is anybody’s guess. The feature has not been discussed in detail in the video, which is why you must take it with a bit of salt. Remember that such concept phones appear occasionally, only to disappear as soon as they arrive. That said, one can’t rule out the potential of dual-sided phones that are conventional on one side and sport an e-paper display on the other. We have had phones like the Yota phone that boasted a similar design. The benefits of such a design are manifold. You get the best of both worlds. While you have a regular smartphone on one side, the e-paper display on the other means it can be used as a mini e-reader device for reading e-books or other documents. Since there is zero power drawn for showing a static image, you can always have an image displayed, which can be your favorite picture, a ticket, or an important document you wish to be reminded of. Only time will tell whether the inkPhone Duo is the next wonder device or a fad. With a keen interest in tech, I make it a point to keep myself updated on the latest developments in technology and gadgets. That includes smartphones or tablet devices but stretches to even AI and self-driven automobiles, the latter being my latest fad. Besides writing, I like watching videos, reading, listening to music, or experimenting with different recipes. The motion picture is another aspect that interests me a lot, and I'll likely make a film sometime in the future.John Legend’s daughter Luna is proving that she’s an impressive negotiator. The 8-year-old showed off her skills in a new video published by Billboard on Thursday, where she interviewed her father about his latest children’s album, “My Favorite Dream.” In a hilarious exchange, Luna didn’t waste any time angling for a smartphone after Legend told her that lately, he and Chrissy Teigen – with whom he shares children Luna, Miles , Esti and Wren – have been “getting some good advice about phones and social media and how dangerous they are.” Legend continued to say that they won’t allow Luna to have a smartphone until she’s 16 years old. “How about we compromise on nine (years old),” Luna cheekily told her dad after he asked what she thought about that advice. The Grammy-winner laughed at her response, throwing his head back and applauding her adorable effort. As for Luna’s interviewing skills? They are equally as impressive. The duo are seen in the 10-minute video talking about Legend’s children’s album, on which Luna contributed to some of the album’s cover art and vocally on a track titled, “L-O-V-E.” Legend released his debut children’s album “My Favorite Dream” in August. The collection was co-produced by indie artist Sufjan Stevens. Luna at one point asked Legend “what do you love most about our family?” “I think it’s the most pure love you can have is the love you have for your family,” he responded. “When me and mommy look at you and look at your brothers and your sister, we see ourselves and we want to pour all of this knowledge and all these lessons we’ve learned in life into you, and help you become the best adults you can be.”

Despite starting the season 2-8, the Milwaukee Bucks have started to turn things around. Now with a 6-9 record, the Bucks own the No. 11 seed in the Eastern Conference. Giannis Antetokounmpo , the league’s current leading scorer, looks primed for another MVP campaign. Additionally, though he is still ways away from his season debut, Khris Middleton has been medically cleared. Middleton has missed the entire season so far as he recovers from his ankle injury. However, though they are starting to right the ship, the Bucks reportedly have interest in making a trade. More specifically, the Bucks have interest in acquiring Chicago Bulls forward Torrey Craig in a trade. Per NBA reporter Brett Siegel , the Bucks are interested in acquiring the 33-year-old. Additionally, according to Siegel, the Bucks have made Pat Connaughton and MarJon Beauchamp available for trade. “No team has shown interest in making a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks at this time. MarJon Beauchamp ($2.7 million) and Pat Connaughton ($9.4 million) are the two players the Bucks have made available in trade discussions in order to try and add talent on the wing. Veteran forward Torrey Craig from the Chicago Bulls is a player Milwaukee has shown interest in, sources said.” Milwaukee Bucks Interested in Trade For Torrey Craig How Torrey Craig Can Help the Bucks During the 2020-21 season, Craig played 18 games for the Bucks. In that time, he averaged 2.5 points and 24 rebounds over 11.2 minutes. Craig is a solid 3-and-D player and would help the Bucks tremendously on the defensive side of the ball. So far, the Bucks rank 15th-best in the NBA with a 113 DRTG. Additionally, they are allowing 112.2 points per game, which is just 14th-best in the league. The Bulls forward is in the final year of his two-year, $5.3 million contract, making him a popular trade candidate. Furthermore, he fits the Bucks’ timeline more than Chicago’s as they are in a better spot to contend for a championship right away, even given their slow start to the season. It is unclear how willing Chicago is to move on from Craig. However, given his contract situation and the Bulls’ 6-10 record, trading him is not an unrealistic possibility. The Last Word Earlier this month, Sam Amick and Eric Nehm of The Athletic wrote that the Bucks are unlikely to make any blockbuster moves. This report is in the wake of numerous trade rumors involving Antetokounpo. Amic and Nehm also wrote that the Bucks could make a trade before the deadline. Trading for Craig could be a move the Bucks make to improve the roster. “I could certainly see the Bucks doing some kind of deal, if not more than one, before the Feb. 6 deadline,” Amick and Nehm wrote. “But in terms of the big stuff that comes with their team’s calculus — Giannis, [ Damian Lillard ], Doc and Khris [Middleton] — I don’t see anything changing.” Regardless of whether a trade happens or not, the Bucks are starting to turn things around. Fortunately for them, they are in the Eastern Conference, which is much more forgiving than the West. As the season progresses, they should continue to climb the standings. Whether Craig becomes a part of this remains unknown. This article first appeared on Last Word On Sports and was syndicated with permission.