AoSHQ The Morning Report
November 30, 2023
The Democrats and the media have long maintained that the 2020 election was “the most secure election in U.S. history,” but, according to court documents, the former general registrar of Prince William County, Va., who was indicted on corruption charges last year, is alleged to have "changed election results" in the 2020 election.In Other News
"In a county where President Joe Biden received 54% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election to former President Donald Trump's 44%, an election official at the time allegedly 'altered election results"' in the state's reporting system, leading to three grand jury indictments last year,” reports Just the News, which obtained the court documents. "In September 2022, former Prince William County general registrar Michele White was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts alleging corrupt conduct as an election official and making a false statement, and one misdemeanor indictment of willful neglect of duty by an election officer. White’s jury trial is set to begin on Jan. 16, 2024, and go until Jan. 26."
The current general registrar contends that White’s actions did not alter the outcome of any elections. White abruptly resigned from her position in 2021, when the Prince William County elections board asked for her resignation.
The late World War II combat veteran and memoirist E. B. Sledge enshrined his generation of fellow Marines as “The Old Breed” in his gripping account of the hellish battle of Okinawa. Now, most of those who fought in World War II are either dead or in their nineties.
Much has been written about the disappearance of these members of the Greatest Generation—there are now over 1,000 veterans passing away per day. Of the 16 million who at one time served in the American military during World War II, only about a half-million are still alive.
Military historians, of course, lament the loss of their first-hand recollections of battle. The collective memories of these veterans were never systematically recorded and catalogued. Yet even in haphazard fashion, their stories of dropping into Sainte-Mère-Église or surviving a sinking Liberty ship in the frigid North Atlantic have offered correctives about the war otherwise impossible to attain from the data of national archives.
More worrisome, however, is that the collective ethos of the World War II generation is fading. It may not have been fully absorbed by the Baby Boomer generation and has not been fully passed on to today’s young adults, the so-called Millennials. While U.S. soldiers proved heroic and lethal in Afghanistan and Iraq, their sacrifices were never commensurately appreciated by the larger culture.
In a pivotal vote early Wednesday morning, the cabinet approved an agreement to secure the release of roughly 50 hostages who were abducted and taken into Gaza during Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught.In Other News
Despite expressing earlier opposition to the agreement, the far-right Religious Zionism party voted in favor, with only members of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit faction voting against.
An Israeli government official briefing reporters on Tuesday said the deal was expected to see the release of 50 living Israeli citizens, mostly women and children, in groups of 12-13 people per day.
In exchange, Israel has agreed to a ceasefire for at least four days for the first time since the outbreak of the war.
Today marks the beginning of the busiest period of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco as the international conference kicks into high gear. Tens ofthousands of visitors, including corporate executives, foreign dignitaries and protestors, are descending on San Francisco. President Biden and Vice-President Harris landed Tuesday, as did Chinese President Xi Jinping; Biden is expected to meet with Xi on Wednesday, reportedly at the beautiful Filoli estate in San Mateo County.In Other News
Many high-profile attendees are not expected to arrive in San Francisco until Wednesday; however, lane closures on the Bay Bridge and other roadway impacts have taken effect, with traffic backing up to Richmond during Tuesday morning’s commute.