Welcome back, after a Super Bowl hiatus! It's Presidents' Day weekend, and whether you're driving to the mountains or the coast, you'll enjoy this live, and urgent, edition of the show.
We'll discuss events abroad, including the death of Putin opponent Alexei Navalny -- and Tucker Carlson's interview of Putin, in that context. (I thought the interview was valuable, but let's discuss.)
We'll also talk about another Tucker interview -- this one with Mike Benz, who has argued that the U.S. intelligence agencies have turned tools used to foment foreign uprisings against domestic opposition.
We'l turn to domestic politics as well -- Trump's dramatic trials, the South Carolina Republican primary, and the new revelations that Jim Biden, the president's brother, traded on his name for a failed firm.
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Special guests:
Marshall Poe -- Russia scholar, on Putin, Navalny, and Tucker
Lee Smith -- on U.S. intelligence manipulating our elections
Frances Martel -- on Russia, Argentina, and the Middle East
Ken Klukowski -- Breitbart News legal affairs editor, on Trump
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This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
