We'll begin the show on. lighter note, reviewing an incredible weekend in sports, heralding the return of a nation to public life -- whether our politicians like it or not. We'll move on to the California oil spill, the latest in sports and entertainment, the Ohio Senate race, and the SEC's curious decision to approve racial, gender, and sexual quotas for the boards of Nasdaq companies.
Our guests:
Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) -- on the California oil spill
Jerome Hudson -- Breitbart News entertainment editor, best-selling author
Dylan Gwin -- Breitbart News sports editor
Josh Mandel -- Republican running for U.S. Senate in Ohio
Justin Danhof -- National Center for Public Policy Research on the SEC
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This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
