Today's broadcast is marked by mourning -- first for the victims of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, twenty-one years ago, and then for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, whose life and legacy we will examine in depth.
We will also talk about happier things -- such as the astonishing success of the film My Son Hunter, about the president's troubled son and the media's 2020 cover-up of his corrupt business dealings abroad, which implicated his father.
We will also discuss the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a formerly respected civil rights organization that has lately become a left-wing activist shop, engaged in the censorship of conservative views. They're now in a bit of trouble.
And finally, I'll offer my own thoughts on the failure of Democrat governments to deliver basic necessities such as water and electricity. They seem to place redistributive ideology and patronage above their basic responsibilities.
Special guests:
Frank Siller -- of the Tunnel 2 Towers organization, on the 9/11 anniversary
Oliver J.J. Lane -- Breitbart London editor, on the passing of the Queen
Robert Davi -- director of My Son Hunter, on the film's message and success
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It's finally June -- and it's also my final show from California (for now). Yes, I'm moving to D.C., where my wife has taken a senior economic role in the Trump administration. (Never were the words "better half" more accurate.)
But let's take the time to look back -- just a little bit -- and to look ahead.
With:
John Carney -- Breitbart News financial editor, on the U.S. economy
Jamie Paige -- Westside Current reporter, on L.A.'s homeless debacle
Frances Martel -- Breitbart News foreign editor, on Trump's diplomacy
Jon Fleischman -- Flash Report founder, on the state of California politics
Blake Mallen -- Pacific Palisades fire survivor and entrepreneur
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This week'd portion begins the book of Numbers. Interestingly, the Hebrew name for the book is "In the Desert," not "Numbers." The portion, which happens to be my bar mitzvah portion, focuses almost as much on the names of the princes of each tribe as the number of soldiers it fielded. It also focuses on the configuration of the tribal camps around the central Tabernacle and the Levites.
So why "Numbers" instead of "Names" or "Places"? The numbers are, to be sure, a unique feature of the opening of this Biblical book -- but they are not the focus of the rest of the narrative. The Hebrew focuses on the place where the events in the book take place, because essentially this is the narrative of the Israelites' wanderings from Egypt to Israel, across 40 years. We move from the giving of the Torah and the construction of the Tabernacle in Exodus and Leviticus, to the final valediction of Moses in Deuteronomy -- Bamidbar is the story of wandering that happened in between.
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This week's portion begins with the laws of the Sabbath and the Sabbatical year, and the Jubilee year that restores all land to its original (tribal) owners. It also explores laws of property and labor that will apply in the Land of Israel, and the laws of vows and inheritance.
The Israelites are presented -- not for the last time -- with the essential moral choice that they must face, and the rewards for choosing well, along with the consequences for choosing poorly.
We learn that doing good things will earn God's protection from enemies. That does not mean that victims of terror, God forbid, were sinful. But it does mean that we can respond to evil by committing ourselves to a higher path.
