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.
Join us!
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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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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An interesting weekend -- one of the last of Daylight Savings Time -- in which there is much to celebrate, much to contemplate, and a bit to worry about.
The Gaza peace deal is shaky, but holding, after the living hostages returned; the shutdown is still going on, with no end in sight; the China trade war is heating up; and the confrontation with Venezuela continues to escalate.
The "No Kings" protest was a dud, despite the media's attempt to inflate it. What I find fascinating is that the Democrats have basically stolen the rhetoric and the imagery of the Tea Party protests, circa 2009. They claim they are defending the Constitution -- just like the Tea Party did.
On the one hand, this is good. How wonderful to have a political system in which both sides, bitterly opposed though they are, articulate differences through the Constitution -- and not, as in so many other countries, outside it.
On the other, this is sheer hypocrisy for the Democrats. Not only did they malign the Tea Party as ...
