It's been an incredibly strong start to the Trump administration. They are fighting all the good fights, and Democrats are on the back foot -- though they seem to think filing lawsuits will pull them through, as it did last time.
We'll talk to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy about the California high-speed rail boondoggle, and the upcoming audit of federal spending on it. It's a microcosm of failure in California governance that must be urgently fixed.
Next, we will get a recap of CPAC from our own political editor, Matthew Boyle, and review some of the progress made by the administration on key issues for conservatives, as well as on the "America First" foreign policy front.
We'll also take a look at the prospects of long-term conservative projects, such as the Convention of States. And we'll speak with an Israeli diplomat to discuss what's next in negotiations with Hamas -- after so much heartache last week.
Special guests:
Sean Duffy -- Secretary of Transportation, former member of Congress
Matt Boyle -- Breitbart News political editor, on CPAC and future prospects
Mark Meckler -- Convention of States, on conservative constitutional efforts
Anat Sultan-Dadon -- Israeli counsel general in Atlanta, on hostage deals
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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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