Today's show will consider the ongoing attacks on freedom by the left -- the attempt to persecute the opposition through the January 6 committee, and the attempt to censor Joe Rogan. I agree with former VP Pence that Trump is wrong about whether he could have overturned the election -- and just because something is theoretically permissible under the Constitution does not make it constitutional in spirit. We'll discuss...
Also, we'll talk about the Canadian truckers, the fading omicron wave, the failure of single-payer health care in California, Ambassador David Friedman's new book about his Middle East experience, and Christian Toto's new book about "woke" Hollywood!
Guests include:
Ezra Levant - founder of Rebel News and speaker at the truckers' rally
Paul Mango - former Trump HHS official who ran Operation Warp Speed
Jessica Millan Patterson - California GOP chair, on Democrats' latest failures
David Friedman - fm. Ambassador to Israel on his new book, "Sledgehammer"
Christian Toto - of HollywoodInToto.com on "Virtue Bombs"
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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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