☕️ AWOL ☙ Sunday, January 7, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

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Good morning, loyal C&C subscriber family, it’s Sunday! Michelle and I are mildly recovering from last night’s wedding celebration. The wedding was terrific; two fantastic, faithful kids from great families, and it was so heartwarming to see a normal pre-pandemic wedding service, dinner and reception. I’m feeling great but just a tad bleary-eyed.

Your roundup today is one literally unbelievable headline after another: the Pentagon’s top official went missing for four days and nobody noticed (my guess is he’s jab injured); DOJ prosecutes stale spy story featuring Hunter Biden-style charges; roundup of school bus crashes raises questions; another school bus mystery adds to the baffling conundrum and raises even bigger questions; and the terrifying (but non-fatal) Alaska Airlines exit row door that decided to depart the airplane in mid-flight.