A spectacular Sunday in Southern California, and we have a great live show for you this weekend. We'll start with the sad news about the terrible shooting at a Chinese New Year party near L.A. -- and the suspect is no white supremacist.
Then we'll turn to the news that the DOJ searched Joe Biden's house on Friday and found more classified material -- and that there may be even more out there! This, after the White House assured us that the searching was done!
We've got a debt ceiling fight, and the White House doesn't want to negotiate -- after it pushed through nearly $2 trillion in spending last month, suddenly, the debt ceiling is a crisis. Joe Manchin has other ideas. Will this time be different?
We've got ongoing flood recovery in California, left-wing riots in Atlanta, and reparations in devastated San Francisco. So much to talk about today... looking forward to sharing ideas with you and with our crew of special guests.
Special guests:
Emma-Jo Morris - Breitbart News political editor
Richie Greenberg - San Francisco activist and commentator
Nir Ziso - founder of the Global Architect Institute, on life as a "simulation"
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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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