Thursday, March 7, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 10:51)
Liberal San Francisco Considers Murder Charges for Drug Dealers? What Has Happened? Reality Sets In as Death Toll Mounts

Some D.A.s are fighting fentanyl with murder charges. Why San Francisco will join them by LA Times (Hannah Wiley)
Ads were supposed to make Gascón’s challengers stand out. So why do they all look the same? by LA Times (Sonja Sharp)
Will Voters in San Francisco Go for a Different Kind of Mayor? by The New York Times (Heather Knight)

Part II (10:51 - 15:41)
A Sad, Telling Story in Oregon: State Reckons with Increased Death and Devastation in the Aftermath of Drug Decriminalization

Oregon Rethinks Drug Decriminalization by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

Part III (15:41 - 25:25)
‘All the Lonely People’: New Friendship App Highlights Loneliness Epidemic

Can a friendship app cure loneliness? by The Financial Times (Bethan Staton)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, March 7, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing. A daily
0:10.4	analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	Sometimes reality is really hard to deny.
0:16.2	You can try it, but reality has a way of proving itself to be real.
0:20.6	The truth has a way of pushing itself out front, proving itself to be true.
0:25.0	You can deny things for only so long.
0:27.7	And that's true when it comes to sin, it's true when it comes to human nature, it's true
0:30.8	when it comes to criminal prosecutions and criminal
0:34.0	behavior. It's also true when it comes to many drug issues and the intersection of
0:37.8	all this has to do with developments in many parts of the country but in
0:41.1	particular on the West Coast and as we're going
0:43.8	to look at today developments in California and Oregon in particular so let's go to
0:49.0	California first it just came back from California and boy were the issues interesting.
0:54.4	So were the headlines. For instance, one of the headlines that appeared in Los Angeles
0:58.0	newspaper in recent days has to do not with LA but with San Francisco.
1:01.8	Here's the headline, Liberal San Francisco to get tough on drug
1:05.8	crimes. The subhead of the article facing a crisis, the city will consider murder
1:10.8	charges for dealers in fatal opioid overdoses.
1:15.0	Hannah Wiley is the reporter in the article.
1:17.0	Just look at that.
1:18.0	Liberal San Francisco, first of all, here you have LA, in this case,
1:22.0	L.A.'s liberal paper calling San Francisco liberal.
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