Former President Donald Trump delivered a rousing CPAC address on Saturday, and it was as clear an argument for a Republican campaign in 2024 as you're ever going to see -- from anybody. We'll have clips.
But our focus this Sunday will be the ongoing California winter storm disaster. Thousands of people -- mostly Trump voters -- have been stuck in mountain town for days. And where's Gov. Gavin Newsom?
Well, he did declare a state of emergency last Wednesday -- a week AFTER the blizzards struck. In Florida, whose governor is a frequent Newsom target, they declare an emergency BEFORE a storm arrives.
Then Newsom... promptly skipped town. No one knows where he is, and no one seems to have an answer. The mainstream media aren't interested -- no one wants to ruin Democrats' 2024 backup plan.
Still, Democrats aren't failing on EVERY front... at least, that is what one China expert thinks. Despite Biden being owned by the Chinese, he is pursuing a Trump-like policy, cheating his benefactors, it seems.
We'll talk about all of that -- and more. Our confirmed guests are:
- Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) - on Newsom's absence in the storm
- Alan Tonelson - on Biden's policy toward China
- Former CA GOP leader Melissa Melendez - on Newsom gone AWOL
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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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