Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Oren, joined me this morning to discuss Israel’s war of survival and the expectation that it will soon include a front on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon as the IDF throws everything it has at Hezbollah:
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined me this AM:
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HH: Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida joins me. Good morning, Governor. Welcome back.
RD: Good morning. How are you doing?
HH: Good. Yesterday, Loper Bright was on the docket at the Supreme Court. You’re one of the few people I don’t have to really brief about Chevron deference. How important is it that Chevron deference be overturned, Governor?
RD: Well, I think it would restore the proper structure of the Constitution. What the Supreme Court has essentially greenlit over many, many decades is the idea that the executive branch, and then now what’s turned into a permanent fourth branch of government with the bureaucracy, that they basically can make law. And they get to implement laws in ways that Congress may never have intended, but the Court should just step out of it and say that the executive bureaucrats are experts, and let that happen. And that has caused a huge amount of power to flow to the unelected bureaucracy. So reversing Chevron deference, I think, restores a proper sense of checks and balances.
With a hat tip to the host’s “X” feed, please consider this tweet. It is a bit graphic to quote, but it is the story of an Israeli that lost his son in the October 7 attack, only to later discover his son’s severed head, in a freezer in Gaza, for sale. There is no justification for such barbarity. If the very worst of the charges thrown Israel’s way were true, which they are not, it would not be sufficient excuse for such actions. Such behavior is so inhuman that one is tempted to call the perpetrators “animals,” but even animals are not this savage.
The whispers began early last year. But as this judicial year progresses, the whispers are becoming a drum beat of reporting and opinion pieces indicating that this may be the year that SCOTUS pulls the pins out from under the administrative state. What was once simply a burgeoning bureaucracy has, particularly since the Obama administration, become a dictatorial powerhouse. The dictatorial tendencies set loose by Obama’s “pen and phone” governance had its steep, but still linear, growth curve turned into an exponential rocket ship by the pandemic. If unchecked, we might end up a DINO (Democracy in name only) sooner rather than later.
The Georgia prosecutions of Trump have been a bit comical since the indictments came down – clearly baseless and political in nature. When Chief Prosecutor Fani Willis was found to be operating with questionably personal ethics, the irony produced a good chuckle. But Sunday Ms. Willis took to the pulpit of one of the oldest Black churches in Atlanta to discuss the matter and it ceased to be funny. Yes, she played the race card, and that is what big and little media outlets focused on. But the real issue was her abuse of God’s grace.
Childish? Not anymore. It has long been a staple of American domestic politics, particularly from the left, to accuse the opposition of things that you yourself are guilty of. For example, the latest accusation that Trump would be a dictator when both the Obama and Biden administrations have come far closer to that mark with their “Pen and phone” governance than the Trump administration dreamed of. But this political tactic has now risen to the level of “international court.“
Thousands of demonstrators converged opposite the White House on Saturday to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a pro-Palestinian march through central London as part of a global day of action against the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Palestinians in 75 years.
People in the U.S. capital held aloft signs questioning President Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate because of his staunch support for Israel in the nearly 100-day war against Hamas. Some of the signs read: “No votes for Genocide Joe,” “Biden has blood on his hands” and “Let Gaza live.”
Genocide? Genocide?! You have got to be kidding me. This is such a perversion of language and morality as to be truly frightening.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
I do not know what woe awaits this nonsense, but I do know it is inevitable.
With a hat-tip to the producer the host does not have here is the news:
US federal employees across nearly two dozen agencies plan to walk off the job Tuesday to protest the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war, according to organizers of the dissent effort who spoke to Al-Monitor.
The group — calling itself Feds United for Peace — consists of dozens of government employees who will be observing a “Day of Mourning” to mark 100 days of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The organizers, who are choosing to remain anonymous, say they expect “easily hundreds” of others to join in their walkout after securing commitments from individuals at 22 federal agencies.
This is a massive sign of an administration out-of-control.
Hugh is back today, Friday, January 19th, 2024, discussing the news of the day and talking with:
Sonny Bunch, movie critic, The Bulwark.
Tarzana Joe, HHS poet laureate.
Ben Domenech, editor-at-large, The Spectator.
Sarah Bedford, political and investigative reporter, Washington Examiner.
Dr. Larry Arnn, president, Hillsdale College.
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