Another gorgeous weekend in Southern California... and we'll have lots to talk about. We will give you the latest on the tornadoes in Kentucky, and the devastation there. Then we'll talk about a media whirlwind: the departure of Chris Wallace from Fox to something called CNN+, and how CNN's taking it.
Hillary Clinton weighed in with her thoughts about the 2024 election... as did a variety of Democrats, who are claiming that Trump and the Republicans are preparing an armed coup, or something. (Right now the 2022 generic ballot is a walk for Republicans, so not sure why, er, mere voting might not be enough.)
But we'll talk about that, and about the January 6 committee, and Republicans like Chris Christie (a former guest) supporting it, while Mark Meadows's recent lawsuit has exposed the committee as being both unconstitutional and in violation of its own resolution! Plus the debt ceiling, Miss Universe, and more.
Guests include:
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) - gubernatorial candidate for New York
Jerome Hudson - Breitbart Hollywood editor, on "West Side Story" crash
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This week’s portion launches the great story of Abraham, who is told to leave everything of his life behind — except his immediate family — and to leave for “the Land that I shall show you.”
There’s something interesting in the fact that Abraham is told to leave his father’s house, as if breaking away from his father’s life — but his father, in fact, began the journey, moving from Ur to Haran (in last week’s portion). His father set a positive example — why should Abraham leave him?
Some obvious answers suggest themselves — adulthood, needing to make one’s own choices, his father not going far enough, etc.
But I think there is another answer. Abraham (known for the moment as Abram) needs to establish his own household. This is not just about making one’s own choice, but really about choosing one’s own starting point. It’s starting over.
Sometimes we start over in fundamental ways even if much that surrounds us remains the same. Sometimes the journey we have to ...
The story of Noah is familiar; the details, less so.
Noah is often seen as an ambivalent figure. He was righteous -- but only for his generation. What was his deficiency?
One answer suggests itself: knowing that the world was about to be flooded, he built an Ark for the animals and for his own family -- but did not try to save anyone else or to convince them to repent and change their ways (the prophet Jonah, later, would share that reluctance).
Abraham, later, would set himself apart by arguing with God -- with the Lord Himself! -- against the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that they should be saved if there were enough righteous people to be found (there were not).
Still, Noah was good enough -- and sometimes, that really is sufficient to save the world. We don't need heroes every time -- just ordinary decency.
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