Crosstalk: December 1, 2016

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.