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June 29, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Well, hello, y'all.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Victor Davis Hanson is one of the great thinkers of our time.
	He's as close to a kindred spirit as one comes in terms of understanding what is happening to our civilization.
	I read to you the cruel progressive creed undoing civilization.
	Sound familiar?
	What I'm about to read to you are things that I have been saying for years, and especially in the last year and a half.
	However, it is always good to hear it from another.
	It's human nature.
	It's like kids, parents know that kids will...
	Be more affected by another than from them, than they are of them.
	There are times actually where parents have said to me, could you speak to my son or my daughter?
	If you say it, it'll have more of an effect.
	Not because you're Dennis Prager, but because you're an outsider.
	But anyway, this is true here.
	He's both not me.
	And terrific.
	Debt is suffocating us.
	Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized.
	Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both.
	Tell me what is not true about that sentence.
	Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents or neo-Marxists or both.
	How did that happen?
	How does that happen?
	How do they get re-elected?
	They get re-elected because they promise a lot of people goodies and because they demonize Republicans.
	And it works.
	The law is optional and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology.
	The law is optional.
	Is that a great line?
	You read this piece?
	He composes pieces like this almost daily.
	The past is found guilty by the laws of the present.
	He really writes well.
	That's another fantastic line.
	The past is found guilty by the laws of the present.
	Wow.
	When could that not happen?
	When would that not be possible?
	That means nobody before us was decent, if that's what we do.
	The past is found guilty by the laws of the present.
	One of the insights I give in my Bible commentary, the Rational Bible, and I ask you for your sake, for my sake, and for the country's sake, to pre-order Deuteronomy, the third of my five volumes, the first five volumes of the Bible.
	It is coming out in September.
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	I make the point in Genesis when it says that God saved Noah, described Noah's decency as he was a righteous man in his generations.
	Why did it just say he was a righteous man?
	Because you judge people in their Otherwise, it's over.
	Nobody before us was good and we will never be decent compared to those in the future.
	The past is found guilty by the laws of the present and so it is being undone.
	The military budget is on a trajectory to be the smallest in terms of GDP allotment since World War II. Did you know that?
	Yeah?
	Why would we do that if we could pay off pension plans to teachers' unions?
	That's where we should be spending our money, not in defending the country and liberty on earth.
	As I have said often, if they really gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to those who deserve it, The American military would get it every year.
	Its careerist officers, for their own short-term interests, are now demonizing and will soon be driving away the very demographic that has suffered percentage-wise the greatest casualties in recent wars.
	And was once unquestionably the foundation of the military.
	I assume he's talking about white males.
	What is his name?
	Mally?
	Sorry?
	Millie?
	M-I-L-L-E-Y? Head of the Joint Chiefs?
	Wow.
	He wants the military, members of the military, to study white rage.
	...partner on whatever the theory is. just But I do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read.
	And the United States Military Academy is a university.
	And it is important that we train and we understand.
	And I want to understand white rage.
	And I'm white.
	And I want to understand it.
	This is the head of the Joint Chiefs.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Next.
	By the way, that point, every one of these sentences is a bombshell.
	Demonizing and alienating the very demographic that has suffered percentage-wise the greatest casualties and was once unquestionably the foundation of the military.
	Next, there is no U.S. border.
	It is an abstract construct.
	That millions will illegally cross in the next few years, ostensibly because they will become future soldiers in the progressive wars for America to come.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You do.
	You illegally...
	Well, it's fair.
	How do you illegally cross an abstract construct?
	Yeah.
	The idea of merit that built America is a dirty word, replaced by medieval tribalism of hiring and promotion by superficial appearance.
	In just five months, Joe Biden created a desert and called it progress.
	That's just the beginning.
	Okay.
	Yeah, there you go.
	He identifies as white.
	He should really be more woke than that.
	Perhaps nearly two million illegal aliens will cross the border over the calendar year.
	Most would never have attempted to do that last summer.
	Why?
	Because after January 20, 2021, they believed the border was open.
	Now meeting a border security guard ensures no detention, much less deportation.
	That line, in just five months, Joe Biden created a desert and called it progress.
	Wow!
	Who worries much about the ensuing collateral damage, squalid conditions, talking about the massive influx of people into this country illegally?
	Squalid conditions in border halfway stations.
	Cartel predation on the vulnerable.
	The overtaxing of social welfare services at the expense of American poor.
	That's correct.
	Who do you think gets hurt when you have even poorer people flock in in the millions?
	The American poor.
	Greater rates of crime and gang violence.
	The diminution in entry-level wages and less integration and dissimilation of newcomers who come en masse.
	That's why President Trump was elected, because of these truths.
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	It was the prayers of so many Christians that I could feel.
	And you're exactly right about the spiritual battle playing out.
	And I saw each and every day, like when...
	When the president got COVID-19, you'll remember they dubbed the Amy Coney Barrett nomination a super spreader event.
	Well, what some people haven't pieced together is Franklin Graham was there that day.
	They were doing the big prayer march through Washington.
	And Franklin Graham and some of the greatest pastors of our time were in the White House meeting with the president.
	So you have COVID-19, the invisible enemy, lurking in this super spreader event, while you have these pastors who represent all things good and Christians praying through D.C. And it was just such a clear juxtaposition of good.
	Being there, but evil lurking in our midst.
	But the good news is Christ can overcome all.
	And I get into that chapter by chapter.
	It's amazing.
	I want to just reemphasize this.
	So you have a press briefing.
	This is not like a regular speech.
	I just want to have people understand this.
	So you have this, you're literally sitting on top of each other because of the way the White House configuration is.
	And there's like this sliding door.
	You walk out and you have probably 30 or 40 Rather high IQ, hyper-aggressive, wannabe celebrities with masks on.
	So all you see is their eyes.
	And you walk up to this podium and you're looking down at them and they're staring at everything you do.
	And then you have probably 15 or 20 cameras.
	And you know that there's 30 or 40 million people that will watch this.
	And then you have precisely what you have to say.
	And then you have to defend things that you didn't say on behalf of a bureaucrat or on behalf of an appointee.
	And if you say one word wrong, it could derail the entire mission of the federal government in the midst of a pandemic.
	But they don't care because that's success for them.
	Yeah, that is.
	And then you have to be precise throughout the entire thing.
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	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	School board chair is a woman named Brenda Sheridan, and she's not backing down.
	Music playing.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and I continue with this gem of an overview of the condition that the progressives have put us in.
	In the U.S., Progressives Obsessed.
	This is by Victor Davis Hanson.
	Is it up at DennisPrager.com?
	It is up at DennisPrager.com.
	By the way, you can receive everything I do with the world's most pithy comments on every one of the articles.
	By my executive producer.
	Not just producer.
	Executive producer.
	Not just a martyr.
	A living martyr.
	There's always an adjective to the noun that describes him.
	He identifies as both an executive producer and living martyr.
	Among his many, many identities.
	Anyway, you can get all his comments, and you can get every show, every hour, anytime you want, without commercials at Prager Topia.
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	Progressives obsess over stop and frisk, supposedly inordinate incarceration, and racially asymmetrical arrests.
	But they have little concern for keeping the streets safe for the young, the elderly, the weak, the inner city poor, and the vulnerable from the attacks of history's archetypical predator, the young-bound young male between 50 and 40. A disproportionate number of whom I will add are black, because I watch the videos of every...
	As soon as I see an attack, On an elderly person, on a woman, etc.
	A random attack.
	It is disproportionately black males.
	And nobody wishes to address that because the left doesn't care about the victims of these black males.
	Most of the time, other black males.
	But that doesn't enhance the narrative.
	Where was it the other day there was about to be an Antifa and BLM riot?
	When a cop killed a suspect, was it Portland?
	Turned out it was a black cop and a white band.
	So they called off the demonstration and it got no attention.
	The media are evil.
	Enemy of the state?
	They are the enemy of truth.
	That's what they are.
	They report...
	Only what enhances their anti-American hate-white narrative.
	That is what they report.
	There was no reason for George Floyd to have been the national story it was.
	Why isn't there a national story about the white woman who was killed in the Capitol, unarmed, entering the Capitol?
	They don't even tell you who the police officer was.
	Do you think that that was a moral killing?
	By the way, the government will not even release hours and hours of video of what happened that day.
	Why not?
	Because increasingly corrupt human beings are running everything.
	I never spoke this way.
	We have tapes of me going back 35 years.
	I always said the big difference...
	Between America and other countries, well, one big difference, there were a number, was the relative absence of corruption.
	I can no longer say that.
	Naturally, crime spikes throughout the country, given deterrence is lost.
	Ah, deterrence.
	Deterrence.
	Isn't that the only thing that stops bad people from doing bad things?
	Deterrence?
	I'm supposed to believe, for example, I bet you that 90% of college students believe that capital punishment for murder does not deter murder.
	90%, maybe more.
	Forget whether you support or oppose the death penalty for murder.
	At least you should be intellectually honest and acknowledge, of course it deters.
	Every punishment deters.
	That's the whole point of punishment.
	Well, it's not the whole.
	The other is justice.
	But, of course it deters.
	You get caught and you get punished, so people don't do it.
	Every criminal has a balance sheet.
	They're not stupid.
	Well, what happens if I get caught?
	I'm not talking about the spontaneous eruption of anger in a person who cannot control himself.
	Talking about premeditated murder here.
	Ernest von den Haag came up with one of the most brilliant arguments I ever heard in this matter.
	I have an essay on capital punishment in my book of essays, Think a Second Time.
	If you want an introduction to my thinking, that's the book you should read.
	It's got 44 essays on 44 subjects.
	Many people have told me the essay on Capital Punishment changed their mind on the subject.
	In it, I quote Ernest Vanden Haag.
	And it is sad to me that such a great thinker is relatively unknown today.
	It is the Ernest Vanden Haag that enables civilization to continue.
	He made the following argument.
	Let us say...
	A state announced, if you commit murder on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, you will be put to death if found guilty.
	If you commit it on the other four days of the week, you will not be put to death.
	Do you think murders would take place equally randomly or not?
	Great test, eh?
	There's no doubt in my mind that Monday, Wednesday, and Friday would have a lower murder rate.
	So he writes here about deterrence.
	you Deterrence is lost.
	And that's why crime spikes naturally occur throughout the country.
	Criminals prove far better students of human nature than do the professors, lawyers, and politicians.
	Oh, God.
	That is so brilliant.
	Who would have thought the criminally minded would interpret state laxity as the timidity of a bankrupt establishment to be exploited?
	Rather than reciprocated.
	That's a great one.
	That's right.
	Criminals are far better students of human nature than professors, lawyers, and politicians.
	Translated in the real world, the progressive mind fixates on the lone suspect shot in a police confrontation.
	The rare white-on-black crime.
	Oh, that's gutsy.
	White-on-black crime is rare.
	Much rarer than black-on-white crime.
	And almost any anomaly that, quote, proves, unquote, the deductive idea of a perennially victimized.
	We will return.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Let's bring her show.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	The fact that Hillary's been saying this big lie, so-called big lie, for four years, and then when I brought it up on social media, "Oh, Hillary conceded Trump didn't." What?
	Yes, he did.
	I read headlines from CNBC.
	"Well, Hillary didn't follow a lawsuit." Yes, she did.
	I read an article from the Associated Press.
	Well, Hillary supporters aren't violent.
	Yes, they are!
	You remember election night?
	You don't?
	You remember inauguration night?
	You don't?
	Take your head out!
	Information is there.
	I've been talking about this for a long time.
	It astounds me that people have given Hillary a pass.
	Oh, Trump is undermining our integrity.
	Trump is undermining our republic.
	You can't challenge an election like this!
	You can't file a lawsuit like this!
	Because then people will lose confidence in your...
	How many times does he have to say this?
	Over and over and over and over!
	Trump knows he's an illegitimate president.
	You can run the best campaign.
	You can even become the nominee.
	And you can have the election stolen from you.
	I know that he knows that this wasn't on the level.
	Why do you think the president is going to such great lengths to essentially prove that he beat you?
	Because he knows he didn't.
	He knows he's an illegitimate president.
	I do think that he knows that he's an illegitimate president.
	I want to reiterate, 67% of Democrats believe not just that the Russians interfered, but that the Russians changed vote tallies.
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	This is, you know, we can talk stories about the deep state, but when I realized the extent of it was when I met somebody in the White House who had the same rank as me, which is deputy assistant to the president.
	There's not a lot of us.
	There's like 42 in the whole of the U.S. government.
	And I find out that this individual, you don't get, you're not conscripted to be a dap.
	Okay, you volunteer to be a politically commissioned officer of the President of the United States.
	This guy who volunteered to work in the Trump White House utterly and completely detested his boss.
	And I mean the President.
	And the idea that you would volunteer for a position of honor, of trust at the highest level of U.S. government...
	But detest the person elected by 65 million Americans.
	That is one definition of the deep state, and that's why it's real.
	That's why you've got to see this movie, the plot against the present.
	You've got to read the book.
	This is how I got to know that the deep state is a real thing.
	So I'm not a member of the NSC, but because of the clearances and the job I had, I'd get all the invites to the NSC until McMaster pulled me off the list.
	Okay, first thing.
	The National Security Advisor removed me from this.
	Was it the same day he pulled Bannon out and all of that?
	Because he did that to everybody.
	It was actually before Steve, I think, got in trouble.
	You should be proud of that.
	Yes, I'll put that on my resume.
	You were actually the top of the list.
	As soon as McMaster came in, he's like, I've got to get rid of these five guys.
	I can tell you stories about McMaster.
	So I'd go to the NSC meetings.
	These are the highest level policymaking meetings in America.
	I mean, you know, you can have the principals, but they rarely meet the cabinet members.
	Let's see beneath principles.
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	It is rare I luxuriate in someone's writing as much as I am in this Victor Davis Hanson column.
	Every line that I've read to you is a gem of insight into our condition.
	The progressive mind fixates on the lone suspect shot in a police confrontation, the rare white on black crime, and almost any anomaly that quote "proves anomaly" and almost any anomaly that quote "proves anomaly" unquote.
	The deductive idea of the perennially criminalized, victimized.
	It cannot tolerate news or video accounts of the violence in Chicago.
	Now routine theft in San Francisco, or the street executions in New York.
	So such norms are simply cut out of the narrative.
	That's right.
	The lying media.
	Donald Trump spoke more truth in a given week than Joe Biden will have in as long as he is president.
	Or any Democrat in office.
	They fixate on his lies, quote-unquote, the way they fixate on white on black crime.
	It happens.
	But it doesn't happen nearly as much as the other way around.
	They fixated on Donald Trump's, quote-unquote, lies.
	But the Democrats' lies were much more serious, much more ubiquitous, much more consistent, as are the media's.
	Do you know that the Democrats are now denying?
	It is actually impossible.
	I would need a full-time assistant just to document the left's lies.
	So, for example, they called for defunding the police.
	Now they deny it.
	The latest is, it's the Republicans that want to defund the police.
	And the press goes along with it.
	Right?
	Now, the latest is, we never said that you shouldn't have ID. Did you see that?
	Stacey Abrams said that.
	We never said that people should not have ID when they vote.
	Is that called gaslighting?
	It should be called the Gaslight Media and the Gaslight Party.
	You remember it should be instead of D, they should have G. Gaslight.
	The Gaslight Party.
	You think we ever said that having an ID is racist?
	What are you talking about?
	Last week in Portland, Antifa and Black Lives Matter were poised to protest and riot over the police shooting of a supposed, quote, victim, unquote, of color, only to dissipate when victim, unquote, of color, only to dissipate when the victim was announced to be white and the shooter, a black officer.
	The media covers a white policeman shooting an unarmed black suspect as a teachable moment of systemic racism, but smothers the story of an officer of, quote, unknown, unquote, race.
	Who shot and killed unarmed Ashley Babbitt, attempting to climb through a window inside the Capitol building, and shows its own racist proclivities.
	Again, the correct revolutionary narrative matters.
	Ah, beautiful.
	The CRN. You know what?
	I want to adopt that.
	That's what we're bathing in.
	That's why I told you.
	Grieving Providence in graduate schools prepared me for the New York Times and the LA Times and the Washington Post and CNN. The correct revolutionary narrative.
	I want you to know, not only is it true that the truth shall set you free in a moral sense, it's true in an emotional sense.
	I know this will sound bizarre, But I actually feel endorphins right now.
	Reading such truths, I get an emotional, visceral reaction.
	The correct revolutionary narrative.
	How do I remember that?
	CRN. God, is that true?
	Yes, the correct revolutionary narrative matters.
	Not the facts or details.
	In the manner humanity must be saved even if the truth and some humans are sacrificed.
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	relieffactor.com 800-500-8384 This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first.
	And I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it.
	Or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	Otherwise...
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	And I mean dumb and Mitch McConnell is anything but dumb.
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	Instead, I think there was a mass.
	I'm going to get a little bit of a little bit.
	I'm going to get a little bit of a little bit.
	I'm going to get a little bit.
	I'm going to get a little bit of a little bit.
	I'm going to get a little bit.
	There was an article in one of the major newspapers in Norway about how Jordan Peterson, Dennis Prager, and PragerU are bringing Norwegian youth to conservatism.
	Very angry.
	I want you to know it made my day.
	If we're touching Norwegian youth to the extent that it's reported in Norway, that's an effect.
	That's good.
	I have never believed that anything that I talk about or write about is confined to one group.
	That is why my Bible commentary is read by people of every religion and no religion.
	Either the first five books, which I'm commenting on, the Torah, has something to say to everybody, or it has nothing to say to anybody.
	The idea that it's just for Jews or Christians is like saying that Shakespeare is just for the English or Beethoven is just for Germans.
	I continue with this magnificent piece.
	Correct revolutionary narrative.
	I've got to repeat it daily.
	That is a brilliant way of describing how the left and the media speak.
	Those are the quotes from the Fantastic piece by Victor Davis Hanson.
	The cruel progressive creed undoing civilization.
	That is exactly what is happening.
	Civilization is not normal.
	Chaos is normal.
	The left corresponds to chaos.
	The building of civilization is very hard.
	Was it Franklin who said, a republic if you can keep it?
	And who said that this society is only ultimately is made for people who attempt to be decent?
	Who said that one?
	John Adams?
	The video about John Adams is the PragerU video this week.
	Our motto, we teach what isn't taught, is accurate.
	Is exactly true.
	How many Americans who have graduated college, any college, can tell you anything about John Adams?
	Ever heard of him?
	God, I would love to do a test like this.
	Next time I go to a university, I might do an experiment.
	Although the students who come might be self-selecting, nevertheless, how many of you can spell Beethoven?
	I'd like to ask that.
	You guys can spell Beethoven?
	Really?
	No, no, it is not B-A-Y. Okay, Beethoven, that's right.
	Right.
	All right.
	Spell Tchaikovsky.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Very close.
	That was a funny one.
	You've got to admit.
	Spell Rachmaninoff.
	I'll get you on some composer.
	There's no question.
	Right.
	Right.
	R-A-Z-H. Yes, exactly.
	His wife divorced him when he spelled it that way.
	Anyway, it would be a fun thing.
	It would be depressing, but I would do it.
	Raise your hand if you could identify the Gulag Archipelago.
	I would ask that at a college campus.
	Who was the biggest mass murderer of the 20th century?
	How many college students would know the answer to that?
	Yes, but how many students would know that?
	The fact that you know it is one of the reasons you're here right now.
	Yes.
	Wow.
	All right, y'all.
	Yes, indeed.
	Next item for you.
	Blackouts loom in California as electricity prices are absolutely exploding.
	This is not from a right-wing source.
	This is from Real Clear Energy, one of the websites at Real Clear Politics.
	Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California, soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability.
	Both trends bode ill for the state's low- and middle-income consumers.
	Last week, the state's grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a flex alert.
	That asks the state's consumers to reduce their power use, quote, to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.
	The richest country in the world has power outages?
	You find that a scandal?
	It's because of politics.
	It's because of ideology.
	It's not even just corruption.
	It's ideology.
	The damage done by the environmentalists and their hysteria is already being felt all over the Western world.
	Oh, existential threat.
	In the name of an existential threat, people have less and less energy to heat their homes in the winter and cool their homes in the summer.
	My article today, my column today, my website, Town Hall, is about Be Safe.
	In the name of Be Safe, they're closing down the one nuclear reactor.
	It provides 10% of the energy to California.
	They're closing it down for no good reason.
	You know that the environmentalist movement is a fraud because it's not for nuclear power.
	Nuclear power is the cleanest energy, and it works.
	I would be totally supportive of going nuclear.
	Ah, but it's not safe.
	Really?
	What's not safe about it?
	It's not perfectly safe.
	Nothing is perfectly safe.
	The only thing that is perfectly safe is the grave.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	After an hour, I just raised my hand, and there's me, the guy with the accent, saying, ladies, gentlemen, can I remind you what the president said yesterday about destroying the caliphate when he was in Warsaw?
	Can I remind you what the president said about Russia's threat to Europe?
	And it's like, who do these people think they are?
	They just think that...
	They don't matter, and the will of the people and who they elected is irrelevant, Amanda.
	No, it's the exact same thing that I saw.
	The best line that I got is when I got into it with somebody because I was like, well, you...
	I was trying to speak bureaucrat, and I was like, okay, fine.
	Like, I got it.
	You need orders to come from the exact person that you report to, and I got to play the little math game and the whole thing.
	I was like, we did that.
	Why aren't you doing this?
	Why are you not following this chain of command that you so worship?
	And they were like, well, I don't work for the secretary.
	I don't work for the president.
	I work for the State Department.
	And I was like, what is this?
	Hang on, hang on.
	Somebody actually said that to you?
	I work for the State Department.
	Totally earnestly.
	And I was like, what do you think this is?
	Like, a sovereign state that's just on these, like, six city blocks?
	Like, you think that this is, like, its own nation and it's determined by the will of, like, bureaucrat X? It was the craziest thing.
	And I was like, the fact that they even were willing...
	Because usually they pretend to kiss the behind of the secretary in phrase, but, you know, they don't.
	And it was just amazing because they were just out with it.
	I mean, this stuff happened all the time.
	I mean, you know that.
	Like I said, the one that really pissed me off were the fact that there was political appointees that did the same thing, that they thought their job was to clean up after the embarrassment of the campaign promises or the things the president said.
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	could thank the environmentalists and the Greens for one of the reasons for the staggering prices in gasoline.
	Shortages in gasoline.
	It has to do with COVID and fewer truck drivers.
	There are a lot of reasons.
	But the crushing of the oil industry is their intent.
	They acknowledge it.
	The grid, as this article will go on to say, the grid cannot support air conditioning in California in the year 2021. But it's supposed to support all cars by 2035?
	Does that make sense to you?
	How long will it be before they start the government of Democrats?
	Start manipulating and controlling your thermostat.
	Is there anybody listening to this program now who believes that that is science fiction?
	Do you?
	You're making your house too cold.
	The human species is divided between those who wish to control others and those who have no interest in controlling others.
	You probably know such people in your private life.
	They're called controlling, right?
	I had a controlling husband, I had a controlling wife, controlling mother, controlling father.
	And it's equally true in the macro.
	The left represents that controlling individual.
	If they cannot control others' lives, they do not sleep well.
	For those of us who have no interest in controlling others' lives, it is like explaining an orangutan.
	You mean there are people who really do wish to control my life?
	You've got to be kidding.
	Because it doesn't resonate to anything in me.
	It's like the businessman I knew many years ago told me everybody's out to cheat him.
	And then I learned that he was a cheat.
	That's how people think others are like them.
	That is the human condition.
	You don't realize you're an outlier.
	People on the left think everybody wants to control everybody.
	News flash, as they say.
	We don't.
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	2A team out with him.
	Heading for the house.
	He's got a hostage.
	You believe in God, Chuck?
	Why does a kid die, drug dealer get off, scout free?
	The only answer to that is, there isn't a God.
	You have a choice.
	You can either let the darkness overtake you, or you can be a bearer of the light.
	So just think of it as calling for backup.
	Officer down, officer.
	You're the one God's called to be a shepherd.
	Keeper, do you know who I am?
	You are the author?
	I am.
	Keeper, it's your son.
	Hurry it up!
	Time is short.
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	They're not journalists.
	And they're really in the business of personal destruction.
	That's right.
	Look, there are definitely a set of reporters in the press corps, and I can probably count them on one hand, maybe two, who are good reporters.
	And I've had one of them came up in a hushed tone, said to me on the tarmac, I come from the old school of journalism, and kind of recognize that it has changed for the worse.
	And then you have people, and you're right to call them activists, like Caitlin Collins, like Jim Acosta, who are activists.
	And I said that much from the podium.
	I said, Caitlin said to me, Why didn't you call on me?
	And I yelled back, I don't call an activist.
	Because at a certain point, we've got to call out their activism, not engage in that kind of activism, because it's destructive when you are shouted down by a Playboy reporter in the back of the room at the end of each briefing.
	and where the other reporters keep up with what's trending subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com trending now on the Mike Gellagher show the image of seeing parents dragged out of a school board meeting being arrested by the police really really ugly And I've seen a lot of ugly comments online.
	About the police officers, which I hate because I'm real pro-police and the police are sort of put in a really untenable situation.
	Can you give me your overview as a mom with kids that are in elementary, middle and high school in Loudoun County, Virginia?
	Give me your big takeaway over what happened and what you see happening moving forward in Loudoun County, Virginia.
	This is really prevalent all across our country.
	What's happening is they're trying to silence us.
	Anyone that differs in opinion needs to be silenced in their opinion.
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	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You have 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hennig!
	It is good to have you home!
	Dona!
	Dona, it's Nathan!
	Well, you don't mind my giving her your room, do you?
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	It was the prayers of so many Christians that I could feel.
	And you're exactly right about the spiritual battle playing out.
	And I saw each and every day like when...
	When the president got COVID-19, you'll remember they dubbed the Amy Coney Barrett nomination a super spreader event.
	Well, what some people haven't pieced together is Franklin Graham was there that day.
	They were doing the big prayer march through Washington, and Franklin Graham and some of the greatest pastors of our time were in the White House meeting with the president.
	So you have COVID-19, the invisible enemy, lurking in this super spreader event, while you have these pastors who represent all things good and Christians praying through D.C., and it was just such a clear juxtaposition of good.
	Being there, but evil lurking in our midst.
	But the good news is Christ can overcome all, and I get into that chapter by chapter.
	It's amazing.
	I want to just reemphasize this.
	So you have a press briefing.
	This is not like a regular speech.
	I just want to have people understand this.
	So you're literally sitting on top of each other because of the way the White House configuration is.
	And there's like this sliding door.
	You walk out, and you have probably 30 or 40 Rather high-IQ, hyper-aggressive wannabe celebrities with masks on.
	So all you see is their eyes.
	And you walk up to this podium and you're looking down at them and they're staring at everything you do.
	And then you have probably 15 or 20 cameras.
	And you know that there's 30 or 40 million people that will watch this.
	And then you have precisely what you have to say.
	And then you have to defend things that you didn't say on behalf of a bureaucrat or on behalf of an appointee.
	And if you say one word wrong, it could derail the entire mission of the federal government in the midst of a pandemic.
	But they don't care because that's success for them.
	Yeah, that is.
	And then you have to be precise throughout the entire thing.
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	School board chair is a woman named Brenda Sheridan, and she's not backing down at all.
	In fact, indeed, they're doubling down on the school board.
	She said tonight, this is how she responded apparently on Tuesday.
	She said, quote, tonight the Loudoun County School Board meeting was interrupted.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	One of the very best things you can do for yourself and our country.
	That's a big deal.
	One of the best things you can do for you and the country.
	Again, I repeat, it is a big deal.
	It's take your kids out of school.
	Because most schools, from elementary through graduate, are ruining young people's lives.
	They ruin their conscience.
	They ruin their ability to think clearly.
	They make them angry.
	They make them bitter.
	They divide them by race.
	The most racist period in my lifetime is currently taking place because entirely of the left, the single most systemically racist part of America, because it believes race is important.
	The opposite of liberalism, but liberals tend to be cowards and so they don't fight the left, even though the left represents nothing they stand for.
	It's one of the tragedies that may be, the liberal tragedy is the tragedy.
	The left is evil, but the liberal enables the left.
	That's the tragedy of the time in a nutshell.
	If liberals understood that they need to protect liberalism and thereby fight the left, The country would be in fine condition.
	But we have to tell the truth and hope that some people hearing this will in fact do that.
	Barry Weiss is an example of a liberal.
	The woman who quit the New York Times.
	A liberal who understood the left is the enemy, not the right.
	Alan Dershowitz is another example.
	Anyway, taking your kids out of school is very difficult.
	So I would like to devote this hour to having people who have decided to homeschool their children to answer a question.
	I have a lot of questions, but this is the biggest one.
	How tough is it?
	The reason people don't homeschool their children In most cases, is a fear of how time-consuming and life-altering it is.
	So therefore, I am asking you, if you have homeschooled or are homeschooling your children, how difficult, in fact, is it?
	Here's another way of putting it.
	If I were a parent and I wanted to lead somewhat of a normal life, meaning the life I have led till now, is that possible if I homeschool?
	How about homeschooling for the lazy?
	Because we're all like that.
	That's our nature.
	And I don't mean it in a bad way.
	It's not like the people who are asking this question are lazy in all of their lives.
	But they don't want to disrupt their life fully.
	And I totally understand that.
	Some people can devote the years necessary, God bless them, I might add, to the education of their children.
	So if you hesitated and then took the leap into homeschooling, how has that worked out?
	That's the question.
	You can help a lot of people with the answer.
	I don't have an answer because I didn't homeschool my children.
	But when they went to school, it was not what it was.
	Anyway, I didn't send them to regular schools, neither private nor public.
	I sent them to religious school.
	And it was a different world.
	1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776.
	I made the case in a couple of columns ago on what schools are doing to your children.
	It's hard for me to imagine that a parent could be fully cognizant of how destructive, not only destructive is the school of your child, but of their relationship with you.
	That's another selfish reason, the best sense of selfish, for you to consider taking your child out of school.
	What damage is it doing to your child's relationship to you?
	You read Abigail Schreier's book and you see, what is the percentage of increase in transgender males among girls?
	It's in the thousands of percent, right?
	It's like 20 times more than ever before, overnight?
	You think it's happening for natural reasons?
	Your daughter really believes that she is a boy and always did?
	Or do you think that it's something that is happening at school?
	It's not anti-transgender.
	It's anti-taking.
	A person who would not otherwise think in this direction.
	You think if 95% of these girls grew up in the 1950s or 60s or 70s, they would have identified as a male?
	Society has a deep effect on people.
	Deep.
	You really want your five-year-old attending Drag Queen Story Hour?
	One of the left's many destructive things is the robbing children of their sexual innocence.
	That's my take on the Garden of Eden story, is that is the human condition.
	You start out in the Garden of Eden.
	You start out innocent.
	What is the first thing Adam and Eve knew when they ate of the Tree of Knowledge?
	That they were naked.
	That means they didn't know it until then.
	They knew it factually, but it didn't have the sense that sexuality has today.
	1-8 Prager 7-7-6 What can you advise people?
	My friends, the school year, I'm doing it now at the end of June because The school year is coming upon us.
	You have to make a very big decision.
	Also, why is it necessary?
	Let's say your kid is going into college either first year or fourth year or fifth year or sixth year depending on how much work they got done.
	How important is it that they go to college immediately after high school?
	When I started lecturing in my 20s, I told kids just a few years younger than me, what's your rush?
	You're going to live till 100. You need a BA by 21?
	Why?
	So get your BA at 24. What difference does it make?
	You're going to spend every single year of your life from the age of 4 to the age of 21 in school?
	You think you'll grow up?
	As I have said, often college is kindergarten for older kinder.
	And they want to take you kinder.
	And many professors are still kinder children.
	They've stayed in school their whole lives.
	What have you done since four years old, professor of whatever?
	Been in school.
	Ah, that's a growth opportunity.
	You've been in school your whole life.
	And I'm supposed to take advice from you?
	Do you do one damn thing that has to do with real life?
	So what is the reason...
	And especially with the vaccinations.
	Oh, I don't really think it's necessary for a 20-year-old to get vaccinated.
	No kidding!
	So do you think they're going to have the vaccination demand a year from now?
	There's a good chance they won't.
	So why send your kid to college this year?
	If enough people said, you're not telling me what I am going to do with my child's body or my child will do with it.
	I thought these were the pro-choice people, right?
	I guess a woman's body is only her body with regard to abortion.
	It's not her body with regard to vaccination.
	No, we'll tell you what to do with your body.
	Get a vaccine that is not even FDA approved yet.
	That you'll do so that they go to college next year.
	They would get 50 times more out of being a waiter or waitress next year.
	Or traveling.
	Or watching PragerU videos.
	And you know what?
	I mean it.
	That was good.
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	Some lawyer hit a little girl.
	Former cancer patient Sharon Blackwell was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
	Take this into evidence, sir.
	I need to call my wife.
	You've been accused of texting while driving.
	Before you take your daughter off life support, give God room to be God.
	You're not guaranteed another day, but you have today.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Jenna Ellis, and I apologize, but the conversation has become substantive.
	Let's just, let's go back.
	What is the moral basis?
	That's the title of your book.
	It is really vital that people understand this.
	Can you make that case in short order?
	Yeah, so our Declaration of Independence gives us the worldview statement that our founders unanimously recognized that when governments are abridging and infringing upon our rights that are God-given, then we appeal to the highest source of moral law, which is God himself.
	He is the personification of truth.
	And they said unanimously in the Declaration that we hold these truths to be self-evident.
	They went on to say that governments are instituted among men only to protect and preserve those rights.
	And so they then gave the mandate to the Constitutional Convention.
	With Articles of Confederation, we're not working.
	The Constitutional Convention derived how can we best implement a system of government whose mandate is to protect and preserve our rights that are God-given, because our rights do not come from government.
	They come from God.
	It's the government's job to protect and preserve those rights.
	That's why we have the First Amendment.
	And all of our Bill of Rights is actually a Bill of Protections.
	Congress, in case you weren't clear that you have a limited role, these are the things and the rights that are God-given that governments most frequently infringe on.
	So, like, what we're doing right now, our First Amendment speaking together about truth, that's freedom of speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, those are not given by the government.
	It is obligated by the Constitution.
	That our government protects those rights.
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	I'll pee a little bit.
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	The Wall Street Journal editorial.
	Politicians in Washington renege on their bipartisan promises all the time.
	But what are they to make of a deal in which one side admits it's pulling a bait-and-switch from the start?
	That was the astonishing news Thursday as President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal, even as they said the price of their support He's getting the rest of their agenda, too.
	There's the picture if you're watching on our YouTube channel.
	Two hours later, he said he wouldn't sign the infrastructure bill unless the Senate also passes the other $3 trillion or more.
	He has proposed in tax increases and multiple new entitlement programs.
	The journal adds most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double cross.
	but with mrs pelosi and mr biden are trying to prevent a revolt on so
	Indeed, y'all.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
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	You, not I. I'll facilitate it, but you might do it this hour.
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	You can help people this hour.
	If you have homeschooled or are homeschooling, I want the unvarnished truth.
	How tough is it?
	It is clear people have to take their kids out of America's schools.
	In about 80% of the schools of this country, they're rotten.
	They loathe this country, they loathe Western civilization, they loathe the Judeo-Christian value system, and they loathe you.
	See what happened in Loudoun County, Virginia, for example, when parents came, and then they shut down the meeting?
	They have contempt for parents.
	Unless you are a sheep that goes along...
	What is the great words of Victor Davis Hanson?
	Current revolutionary narrative?
	Was the word current?
	I think so.
	Current revolutionary narrative.
	Otherwise, you are worthless.
	All you are for the teachers' unions and the principals and the education establishment is a taxpayer to fund them.
	That is it.
	Any control you wish to exert over the values of your child is regarded with contempt, and yet you will send them to people who have contempt for you.
	You do it because the alternative seems too difficult.
	I appreciate that.
	So, I am opening the lines this hour to those who have engaged or are engaging in an alternative.
	All right.
	Let's see what you folks have to say here.
	Mark in Canyon County, Colorado.
	Hello.
	How are you, Dennis?
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	I just want to say we homeschooled four of our five kids, and we're homeschooling our last now.
	He's 12. And it dawned on me and my wife early on that if we don't raise our kids right the first time, we're going to be raising them all their lives.
	So, you often talk about a price to be paid.
	In my estimation, that's the price you pay that's the most severe.
	That, sir, is a brilliant point.
	Wow.
	Telling you the wisdom, the collective wisdom among my listeners is extraordinary.
	And I don't patronize you.
	I often say things.
	Not often, but...
	From time to time say things you don't agree with, like my attack on unconditional love.
	I just thought I'd provide you an example.
	That was wise.
	You raise him right early, you can take a vacation the rest of your life, and you have a wonderful child.
	Is there one parent of a kid who has gone woke?
	Is there one who, if they could do it over, would not figure out how to homeschool their child?
	Not one, right?
	All of a sudden, it wouldn't be that tough, because everything in life is a matter of weighing benefits versus costs.
	That's very good, Mark.
	Mark, I appreciate your call.
	And Estacada, Oregon.
	Oregon.
	The famous Mary of Estacada.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	It's actually Estacada, Oregon.
	I blew it.
	But there was no way I would know how not to blow it.
	You'd think it would be Estacada.
	Right.
	It's like the first time I came to L.A. I said Sepulveda, and it's Sepulveda.
	I have many thoughts I need to condense.
	I have three kids.
	I'm homeschooling all of them and have most of their education.
	We took a break when my oldest was in middle school.
	We put them in a charter school, but it wasn't good.
	How far advanced they were, how much they were enjoying learning, it all started to drop, and they were performing poorly, so we pulled them back out and went back to homeschooling.
	How easy is it?
	It depends on when you're beginning.
	There's so many factors.
	There's, you know, what is your personality?
	Are you a natural teacher?
	Do you not like to learn at all?
	What about your kids?
	Do they have learning disabilities?
	Do they enjoy learning?
	I worked hard from the very beginning to help them learn how to teach themselves so that my high schoolers, I have two in high school right now, homeschooling.
	That most of what they're doing is all self-taught with curriculum that is designed for self-educating, and then I check their work and we help when there's questions.
	So that's kind of homeschooling for the lazy, I guess, but there's work that goes into it initially.
	So if you pull them when they're older and start homeschooling, then it's more difficult.
	They're not used to You know, guiding themselves and disciplining themselves.
	Is there a way, you may not have an answer, but is there a way, let's say a parent says, look, I know I can't keep my kids in these indoctrination centers.
	I'm going to lose my child if I send them to a regular school.
	However, the truth is, I really don't want to devote that much time.
	I'm not a natural teacher.
	It's not my inclination.
	I wouldn't know where to begin.
	Is there an association in most cities where you could call up and say, I would love to enroll my child in homeschooling.
	Is there a group they could join?
	Most cities, at the very least, have homeschooling co-ops, but those are still a lot of work for the parents.
	But in our community, It's not particularly close.
	I'm about an hour away from Portland and about 45 minutes from where I live.
	There's what's called basic skills.
	It's a homeschool support place, I guess, institution.
	But they do everything from tutoring to assistance with helping find the best...
	Okay, I've got to let you go because we've got to have a break.
	Thank you.
	That's what needs to be developed, and I suspect it already is in big cities.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Buerca.
	After an hour, I just raised my hand, and there's me, the guy with the accent saying, "Ladies, gentlemen, can I remind you what the president said yesterday about destroying the Caliphate when he was in Warsaw?" Can I remind you what the president said about Russia's threat to Europe?
	And it's like, who do these people think they are?
	They just think that...
	They don't matter, and the will of the people and who they elected is irrelevant, Amanda.
	No, it's the exact same thing that I saw.
	The best line that I got is when I got into it with somebody because I was like, well, you...
	I was trying to speak bureaucrat, and I was like, okay, fine.
	Like, I got it.
	You need orders to come from the exact person that you report to, and I got to play the little math game and the whole thing.
	I was like, we did that.
	Why aren't you doing this?
	Why are you not following this chain of command that you so worship?
	And they were like, well, I don't work for the secretary.
	I don't work for the president.
	I work for the State Department.
	And I was like, what is this?
	Hang on, hang on.
	Somebody actually said that to you?
	I work for the State Department.
	Totally earnestly.
	And I was like, what do you think this is?
	Like, a sovereign state that's just on these, like, six city blocks?
	Like, you think that this is, like, its own nation and it's determined by the will of, like, bureaucrat X? It was the craziest thing.
	And I was like, the fact that they even were willing, because usually they pretend to kiss the...
	Behind of the secretary in phrase, but, you know, they don't.
	And it was just amazing because they were just out with it.
	I mean, this stuff happened all the time.
	I mean, you know that.
	It was, like I said, the one that really pissed me off were the fact that there was political appointees that did the same thing, that they thought their job was to clean up after the embarrassment of the campaign promises or the things the president said.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder show. - President Joe Biden.
	There's a reason why it's been harder to get African Americans initially to get vaccinated.
	Because they're used to being experimented on.
	The Tuskegee Airmen and others.
	They're used to being experimented on Tuskegee Airmen and others.
	Mr. President, the Tuskegee Airmen were not experimented on.
	You're talking about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
	Those are two different things.
	And this is not the first time he's done it.
	Okay, now here's where he insults Hispanics.
	Wait for it.
	It's awful hard as well to get Latinx.
	Vaccinated as well.
	Why?
	They're worried that they'll be vaccinated and deported.
	Hispanics are reluctant to get vaccinated because they're worried that they'll get vaccinated and deported.
	All of them?
	Unbelievable.
	Now, this man has been insulting blacks and others for a very, very long time.
	You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
	It's a brilliant, I'm not joking.
	Oh, gigantic.
	You cannot go to a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.
	What does that even mean?
	Lied and said, I was arrested in South Africa trying to visit Nelson Mandela.
	This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid.
	I had the great honor of meeting him.
	False!
	I have the great honor.
	False.
	And arrested with our UN ambassador.
	False.
	False.
	This.
	Hi, everybody.
	This is one of the most important hours I've ever broadcast.
	Because if I could change your mind about sending your kids to a normal, life-crushing elementary school, high school, college, and homeschool your child instead, Especially pre-college, this would be a great thing in your life.
	It's an investment in your relationship with your child.
	It's an investment in your child's character.
	If you don't come out a worse human being from the American educational system through college and graduate school, it is a credit to you, your parents, luck.
	Or you're being drunk for four years and not being influenced.
	Those are the four possible ways in which not to become a worse human being.
	By worse, I mean in terms of your character, in terms of your happiness, in terms of your ability to think clearly.
	That is how damaging college is at this time, and so are elementary schools and high schools.
	Every one of you listening knows this is true.
	Not everyone.
	Virtually everyone.
	But 95% of you won't do anything about it.
	And I'm not saying this is a criticism.
	I'm saying it is a prediction.
	Hence this hour of those who did something about it.
	Greenville, South Carolina.
	Kevin, hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Thanks for taking my phone call today.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	Just want to mention, my wife and I, we decided to homeschool and our daughter, I did it for pure academic purpose.
	I said that she was being taught to a test, and any time we tried to challenge her, you know, engage her thinking a little bit beyond that, it was, you know, she couldn't really think outside that standardized testing that they were teaching to.
	And they were even teaching her to that standard very well to begin with.
	So we decided to homeschool her.
	Math in particular, I saw she was struggling.
	That's important to me, so I wanted to make sure she kept up, you know, with the math.
	Fast forward to the COVID time, my son in first grade, We've taken virtual learning, and we saw that that was a disaster.
	You know, kids on the chat there, being six, seven years old, were saying things that I couldn't believe that they were saying, let alone what they would say unfiltered in a school.
	school.
	So we decided to now homeschool our second child this year and going forward as well for the social side of it.
	You know, the critical race theory that we see, the just brainwashing our children to, you know, look at the racial side of everything when, you know, my wife and I, we don't think of people in a racial side.
	We don't teach our children to think that.
	So I don't know why the schools are doing that.
	So, and the time commitment of it, you know, the caveat is I'm a small business owner.
	My wife stays at home and it's always been like that.
	So it's easy for me to say that, you know, the time commitment was easy to do, but I think anybody can do it.
	You know, if they put in the work.
	Well, you had it obviously easier with one parent as a full-time parent.
	something that in general is a good idea.
	Thank you for that.
	The notion that the state should raise my child is foreign to me.
	And yet that's what you're saying.
	How many hours do you have with your child compared to what the state has?
	You think the state screws up the Postal Department?
	Look at what it has done to education.
	And it's not just the state.
	Private education is as rotten.
	There are exceptions.
	I recognize that.
	If you have an exception in your city, you don't have to homeschool.
	That is correct.
	Karen, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	How are you?
	I'm well, thank you.
	Good, good.
	The other callers kind of dealt with how hard it is as far as curriculum, and I homeschool all five of my kids, and I would just probably, like, if I was telling anybody, and the reason that my friends say, oh, I could never do that, because so many of them, most of them, say, oh, I would never want to do that, and it's usually because of the relationship with their kids already.
	In other words, he would never listen to me or she doesn't work hard enough as it is.
	I know I could never get her, you know, to do her schoolwork.
	So it's interesting that that would definitely be magnified as you got them home because you would have to deal with that.
	You know, you would have to deal with that character issue.
	And I think that's pretty much, I would say, 100% of why my friends...
	Never did it.
	Wait, I've got to let you go.
	That is fascinating.
	I never thought of that.
	I always thought of the economic issue.
	I'd have to stop working or whatever.
	The relationship with the child issue.
	I'll address that when we return.
	Thank you for raising that.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Jenna Ellis, and I apologize, but the conversation has become substantive.
	Let's just go back.
	What is the moral basis?
	That's the title of your book.
	It is really vital that people understand this.
	Can you make that case in short order?
	Yeah, so our Declaration of Independence gives us the worldview statement that our founders unanimously recognize that when governments are abridging and infringing upon our rights that are God-given, then we appeal to the highest source of moral law, which is God himself.
	He is the personification of truth.
	And they said unanimously in the Declaration that we hold these truths to be self-evident.
	They went on to say that governments are instituted among men only to protect and preserve those rights.
	And so they then gave the mandate to the Constitutional Convention.
	With Articles of Confederation, we're not working.
	The Constitutional Convention derived how can we best implement a system of government whose mandate is to protect and preserve our rights that are God-given, because our rights do not come from government.
	They come from God.
	It's the government's job to protect and preserve those rights.
	That's why we have the First Amendment.
	And all of our Bill of Rights is actually a Bill of Protections.
	Congress, in case you weren't clear that you have a limited role, these are the things and the rights that are God-given that governments most frequently infringe on.
	So, like, what we're doing right now, our First Amendment speaking together about truth, that's freedom of speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, those are not given by the government.
	It is obligated by the Constitution.
	Constitution that our government protects those rights.
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	The Wall Street Journal editorial.
	Politicians in Washington renege on their bipartisan promises all the time.
	But what are they to make of a deal in which one side admits it's pulling a bait-and-switch from the start?
	That was the Astonishing News Thursday.
	As present.
	Astonishing News Thursday.
	Astonishing News Thursday.
	And I fully, fully recognize the ambivalence people have vis-a-vis homeschooling because of the difficulties that they imagine.
	Or that in fact may not be an issue of imagination.
	I'd like to add, I was reminded by the living martyr, whatever you do, if you had your kid watch a PragerU video, it's only five minutes, before dinner, and then discussed it, that's life-changing too.
	The key is then discuss it.
	And they're on every subject.
	Except, actually, we're not teaching STEM, science, technology, engineering, or math, but otherwise it's on every subject.
	This week, it's on John Adams.
	People imagine that it's all about left-right issues.
	It's about everything.
	Some of the greatest thinkers on Earth are giving this five minutes.
	There's no reason you wouldn't do that.
	Unless you're afraid to make a demand on your child.
	I don't say this in any sarcastic way.
	I think a lot of people are afraid of their children.
	My father, may he rest in peace, was on my show very often.
	Not very often.
	Well, I guess he was on once a year on his birthday, July 18th.
	I will replay one of those hours July 18th of this year.
	And, oh...
	I don't know, every second or third year I'd say, so Dad, what's the biggest difference between now and when you grew up?
	And he grew up in the 1930s.
	So it's a long time ago.
	And every time, like clockwork, he had the same answer.
	Kids control the house, not the parents.
	That's what he would say to me on the air.
	Wow.
	That was an eye-opener.
	My father had a pretty clear view on the macro, I have to say.
	People loved that.
	People would often say to me, actually, meeting me, Hey, you know what?
	My favorite hour of you the whole year is when you have your father on.
	I got a kick out of that.
	Okay, let's go to others.
	I'm asking those of you who have homeschooled.
	Or do homeschool?
	What do you do?
	And how do you work it out?
	Auburn, Alabama.
	Francesca, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	It's Francesca.
	I actually started homeschooling when my son was really little and there weren't a lot of resources and the internet wasn't filled with all sorts of information on it.
	And that only lasted a short while, but it was fine.
	But later on, I actually homeschooled my two girls, one in elementary and one in junior high, for about four years.
	And I was able to come in and work in the morning, an early shift, and then I'd run home and we'd work for two or three hours.
	It really takes so much less time than regular classroom work.
	By the time one of my daughters got to high school, everyone wanted to know where she had gone to elementary school and junior high.
	Because she knew so much more than they did.
	Yeah.
	Yes, exactly.
	By the way, that's a very important point you made.
	I think people, even I, imagine homeschooling as 24-7 or something akin to it.
	No.
	It's about...
	Two, three, four hours a day, and you have all this extra time to go do field trips and some things if you live around town, if you live in a big city, or even if you live in a rural area, to go do things in historic areas and incorporate it into the literature and the history that you do.
	It's really...
	I can't imagine not doing it.
	It was probably the best few years of my children's education, really.
	And I assume bonding with them for you.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, and one of my girls was very difficult.
	She was not easy.
	And one time I gave her a math test, and she started doing it, and then she got to a certain problem, and she just wrote no, because she just didn't want to go any farther.
	She didn't want to push herself.
	So I figured I was probably the person who knew best how to do that as opposed to a teacher who has 35 other students who might not want to, you know, work at something.
	And you worked it through.
	Oh, yeah.
	I love it.
	I'm telling you, I knew it.
	I knew I'd learned so much from you folks this hour.
	By the way, it's something I don't even mention, but there are two things worth mentioning that I almost never mention.
	One I know I've never mentioned.
	The relationship between you and your child, thanks to homeschooling, may well improve.
	I don't know how many people are closer to their child because they went to school.
	Oh, I went to school today and learned how important it is to honor my parents.
	I'm sure.
	Yeah, if you went to a really religious Christian or Jewish school, that might be true.
	And the other is how much they learn.
	This I can't speak from experience, not of my own children, but of others' children.
	I am dazzled by how much they know.
	We know a couple well who homeschooled their children, and I remember I would say, so, oh, you know, let's get together for dinner.
	I'm sorry, we'll be with the kids in England.
	And this is the middle of the school year.
	What do you mean you'll be with the kids in England?
	Are they off?
	There's no such thing as off.
	They're off when we want to be off, and they're on when we want to be on.
	No, the whole homeschool group is going to England.
	Did you do that in high school?
	Did you do that in elementary school?
	Homeschoolers do.
	But their knowledge.
	They even know what an adverb is.
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	The Wall Street Journal editorial.
	Politicians in Washington renege on their bipartisan promises all the time.
	But what are they to make of a deal in which one side admits it's pulling a bait and switch from the start?
	That was the astonishing news Thursday as President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal.
	Even as they said the price of their support is getting the rest of their agenda too.
	There's the picture if you're watching on our YouTube channel.
	Two hours later.
	He said he wouldn't sign the infrastructure bill unless the Senate also passes the other three trillion or more.
	He has proposed in tax increases and multiple new entitlement programs.
	The journal adds most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double cross.
	But with Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Biden are trying to prevent a revolt on the left.
	So they are now holding a bipartisan deal hostage to the left's demand.
	That is political blackmail aimed at Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who are part of the bipartisan Senate gang of ten.
	Unless they sign on to all of the progressive tax and spend agenda, they won't get their bipartisan deal, and Mr. Biden and progressives will blame them for the failure.
	I think Mitch McConnell should say, namas, we are not doing this.
	Unless and until we get a commitment.
	That Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden signed that this is it.
	We're not going to give you half now.
	And for a hamburger today, we will gladly pay you another trillion dollars in tax hikes Tuesday.
	That's a non-starter.
	That's a non-starter.
	And I don't know what the five bipartisan senators say, but they ought to come out together at the Hill and say, that's not what we agreed to.
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	Surprise.
	Sharon and I.
	Sharon and you what?
	Things just happened.
	My girlfriend and my best friend.
	You got 30 days to grow up, son.
	Nathan Hennig.
	It is good to have you home.
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	That's it.
	We'll be right back.
	As a service to the United States of America, as a service to you, I will do this regularly.
	Thank you.
	You have to know how achievable homeschooling is.
	A few hours a day, and they have completed their day.
	They can play.
	They can go to a museum.
	They can learn an instrument.
	They can learn a foreign language.
	They can jog.
	They can work out.
	They can have fun with friends.
	Do you know how much time is wasted?
	This is largely a rhetorical question, nevertheless.
	Do you know how much time is wasted in the average school?
	Just to get to school.
	And the amount of time wasted, I am anti-homework, okay?
	I am among those who fall on that side of the spectrum.
	Your child's life should not be consumed with school.
	Ironically, it isn't with homeschooling.
	They learn more.
	They're better adjusted.
	They're happier.
	They don't learn to hate this country, or themselves, or another race.
	Pretty big advantages, no?
	Listen, Tom, Bill, Terry, Tove, don't hang up, any of you.
	Gina, Janet, Dina, Miriam.
	Let me summarize at least.
	Because obviously I can't take all calls.
	It's one of the painful parts of being a talk show host.
	Tom has eight kids, Los Alamitos.
	That's a lot of kids.
	100% worth it.
	Kids turned out great.
	Yeah, for that alone, it's worth the investment.
	Bill in Orlando, Florida.
	Wife homeschooled.
	Son was behind a grade level.
	His skills soared.
	That's right.
	That's what happens.
	Terry Amarillo, Texas.
	Homeschooled two kids and academics were done by noon.
	Was easier and more enjoyable.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly right.
	It was done by noon.
	That's right.
	Tove in Decatur, Texas.
	Parents worry about lack of socialization for homeschool kids, but his six kids bonded deeply.
	All right, but not everybody has six kids, but they bond with other kids.
	So people should know that.
	There's no reason not to.
	And especially if you join in any way a church or synagogue in your area, then usually there are other families and the kids can meet them, meet other kids.
	Anyway, it's good for kids to be around adults.
	Something we should devote another hour to.
	Kids have so little exposure to adults.
	Unfortunately, I don't consider many teachers today adults.
	Oh, look at that.
	Janet in Phoenix manages a homeschool resource center.
	Got to talk to you next time I do this.
	All right, everybody.
	Please, for your sake, don't say I didn't warn you when one day your kid comes home with contempt.
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	2-8 team out with him.
	Headed for the house.
	He's got a hostage.
	You believe in God?
	The only answer to that is, there isn't a god.
	You have a choice.
	You can either let the darkness overtake you, or you can be a bearer of the light.
	So just think of it as calling for backup.
	Officer down, officer.
	You're the one God's called to be a shepherd.
	Keeper, do you know who I am?
	You are the author?
	I am.
	I don't know you.
	Keeper, it's your son.
	Hurry it up.
	Time is short.
	Time is short.
	They're not journalists.
	And they're really in the business of personal destruction.
	That's right.
	Look, there are definitely a set of reporters in the press corps, and I could probably count them on one hand, maybe two, who are good reporters.
	And I've had one of them came up and, you know, in a hushed tone said to me on the tarmac, I come from the old school of journalism and kind of recognize that it has changed for the worse.
	And then you have people and you're right to call them activists like Caitlin Collins, like Jim Acosta, who are activists.
	And I said that much from the podium.
	I said, Caitlin said to me, hey, Why didn't you call on me?
	And I yelled back, I don't call an activist.
	Because at a certain point, we've got to call out their activism, not engage in that kind of activism, because it's destructive when you are shouted down by a Playboy reporter in the back of the room at the end of each briefing.
	and where the other reporters keep up with what's trending subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com trending now on the Mike Dellegris show the image of seeing parents dragged out of a school board meeting being arrested by the police really really ugly And I've seen a lot of ugly comments online.
	About the police officers, which I hate because I'm real pro-police, and the police are sort of put in a really untenable situation.
	Can you give me your overview as a mom with kids that are in elementary, middle, and high school in Loudoun County, Virginia?
	Give me your big takeaway over what happened and what you see happening moving forward in Loudoun County, Virginia.
	This is really prevalent all across our country.
	What's happening is they're trying to silence us.
	Anyone that differs in opinion needs to be silenced in their opinion.
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	It was the prayers of so many Christians that I could feel.
	And you're exactly right about the spiritual battle playing out.
	And I saw it each and every day.
	When the president got COVID-19, you'll remember they dubbed the Amy Coney Barrett nomination a super spreader event.
	Well, what some people haven't pieced together is Franklin Graham was there that day.
	They were doing the big prayer march through Washington, and Franklin Graham and some of the greatest pastors of our time were in the White House meeting with the president.
	So you have COVID-19, the invisible enemy, lurking in this super spreader event, while you have these pastors who represent all things good and Christians praying through DC.
	And it was just such a clear juxtaposition of good being there, but evil lurking in our midst.
	But the good news is Christ can overcome all.
	And I get into that chapter by chapter.
	I want to just reemphasize this.
	So you have a press briefing.
	This is not like a regular speech.
	I just want to have people understand this.
	So you have this, you're literally sitting on top of each other because of the way the White House configuration is.
	And there's like this sliding door.
	You walk out and you have probably 30 or 40 Rather high-IQ, hyper-aggressive wannabe celebrities with masks on.
	So all you see is their eyes.
	And you walk up to this podium and you're looking down at them and they're staring at everything you do.
	And then you have probably 15 or 20 cameras.
	And you know that there's 30 or 40 million people that will watch this.
	And then you have precisely what you have to say.
	And then you have to defend things that you didn't say on behalf of a bureaucrat or on behalf of an appointee.
	And if you say one word wrong, it could derail the entire mission of the federal government in the midst of a pandemic.
	But they don't care because that's success for them.
	Yeah, that is.
	And then you have to be precise throughout the entire thing.
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	School board chair is a woman named Brenda Sheridan, and she's not backing down at all.
	In fact, indeed, they're doubling down on the school board.
	She said, tonight, this is how she responded, apparently, on Tuesday.
	She said, quote, tonight the Loudoun County School Board meeting was interrupted.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	The Ultimate Issues Hour is of extraordinary importance.
	Each Tuesday, the third hour of my show, is dedicated to some huge issue of life.
	Where else do you get this?
	You didn't get it at college.
	You didn't get it in high school or elementary school.
	When did they discuss the big issues?
	Right?
	And by the way, another term for big issues is wisdom.
	Other than being able to spell it, I think the only time the average young American has used the word wisdom is if they've had a wisdom tooth extracted.
	Other than that, I really don't know when else the term would be used, and yet it is more important than anything else.
	You cannot do good on earth if you are not wise.
	You can have the kindest heart in the world, but without wisdom, you're doomed.
	And therefore, so is the world.
	So, the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	I have a challenge for you.
	Today is challenging.
	A lot of you will not agree with me, which is not here or there, but is healthy.
	And the subject is simple.
	The answer may not be, but I will give you my answer.
	Sometimes I pose a question, wait for you to react, and then give you my opinion.
	This time, you get my opinion immediately.
	What is the purpose of religion?
	That's the question of the hour.
	Even that isn't often asked, because it's assumed.
	I think most people in this society would answer to have a relationship with God.
	Christians might say a relationship with Christ or Jesus, but basically, given the position of Jesus in the Christian Trinity, we can say a relationship with God for whomever.
	That is not my answer.
	My answer is to learn what God wants me to do.
	I have two fundamental answers to the question, what is the purpose of religion?
	To learn what God wants me to do and to learn how to make good people, because that is the most important question any society can ask.
	How do you make good people?
	Good people.
	Since we don't start out good.
	By the way, that we don't start out good is wisdom.
	And since wisdom is not inculcated in our schooling, vast numbers of people in the West think people are basically good.
	A notion of such colossal foolishness as to border on the destructive.
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	What is the purpose of religion?
	I gave you mine.
	Do you agree?
	Do you maintain a relationship with God?
	Which, by the way, I admit, and I'm not saying this with any pride or boasting or anything like that, I don't fully understand the notion.
	My relationship to God is, let me know what you want me to do.
	That's my relationship.
	I find it very fulfilling.
	Others have a much more intimate relationship.
	My father had a much more intimate relationship with God, with whom he spoke lovingly every night.
	He told me.
	And my brother often.
	And I can't say I do that.
	Maybe I would be a person with even a richer life if I could say that I had this relationship with God.
	Nevertheless, whether you do or not, that's really between you and God.
	What is between you and society...
	Is the part that I care.
	Namely, I want to know what God wants me to do.
	I often, before a lecture, not always.
	I sometimes forget to.
	But I often, before a lecture, will make a very tiny prayer.
	God, please make sure that I say what you want me to say.
	And it's a very good little prayer.
	Because I'm not giving lectures or broadcasting to you now for my sake.
	I have a higher calling than that.
	And that's how I conduct my life, or try to conduct my life.
	But I think that when you tell a non-believer the purpose of religion is to have a relationship with God, I don't know if it is quite as persuasive for them to take religion seriously, or even to contemplate taking it seriously, as I want to know how to lead a better life.
	That's pretty good.
	Because I don't think I could figure it out on my own.
	Why would I? Everything comes with an instruction manual except how to live.
	Right?
	You get a camera.
	The instruction manual is 400 pages.
	Where's your instruction manual for life?
	I have one.
	It's the Bible.
	And my religion.
	For no religion is the Bible the only part of their religion, even for the Protestant who believes in Sola Scriptura.
	Right?
	You don't need an instruction manual?
	There is nothing you buy that doesn't...
	I buy lighters for my cigars.
	The lighter comes with an instruction manual.
	Now let me tell you folks, it doesn't really need one.
	You press the obvious lever and fire comes out.
	There's a hole on the bottom in which you put butane.
	You now know how to use a lighter.
	But it comes with an instruction manual.
	And life isn't.
	So what is the purpose of religion?
	To give me an instruction manual.
	And it's a good challenge to the secular person.
	What's your instruction manual?
	To which they will say, presumably, I don't need one.
	I know, I know, basically, you know, good from evil or whatever.
	Really, you don't need one.
	Life is that simple that you don't need an instruction manual.
	Well, now you see the results, my dear friends, of not having an instruction manual.
	Well-educated secular people say men give birth.
	These are gigantic fools.
	Gigantic.
	It's a foolishness, the likes of which we have not had in the history of the Western world, outside of perhaps belief in witchcraft.
	You have to be secular to say something so stupid.
	Not all secular people are stupid, but you have to be secular.
	Because you have no instruction manual.
	You don't believe that God made male and female.
	You believe in non-binary.
	It's a spectrum.
	By the way, there's no spectrum in the rest of the animal kingdom.
	How come there's a spectrum in the human kingdom?
	I thought we're animals.
	Why doesn't the male-female distinction, which applies to dogs, right?
	How do you know a dog's sex?
	Whoa!
	How do you know?
	Why are you imposing gender identity on your dog?
	That is not a stupid question.
	It's based on the stupid premise that we impose gender identity.
	Anyway, What's the purpose of religion?
	To give me an instruction manual so I will learn wisdom and learn how to lead a better life.
	Because I don't have that much confidence in me without it.
	And I'm pretty bright.
	And I have a good heart.
	And it still ain't enough.
	So, that's my belief of its purpose.
	Relationship with God is a bonus, but not a purpose.
	That's my view.
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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Ileana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contained the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first.
	And I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it.
	Or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	thing and i mean dumb and mitch mcconnell is anything but dumb keep up with what's trending subscribe on youtube and at rumble.com trending now on the charlie kirk show instead i think there was a massive story recently on whether or not donald trump had his pants on backwards or forwards or the cicada that fell on joe biden's neck
	These were the major stories of the last couple of months.
	It's crazy.
	And I mean, we've gotten to a point where 79% of independents, this was midway through Trump's presidency, of independents, these are not Republicans, said that they believe that the press intentionally makes up fake stories and intentionally reports them.
	So the good news is people recognize it.
	Edelman Trust Barometer gauges the trust of different institutions.
	They found the media is at their lowest point of trust.
	So the American people are wise to this.
	They do see the headlines.
	They are smart.
	When you get to a point where big media colludes with big tech, that's where it becomes highly problematic.
	There was a poll out recently that I think it was one in six Biden voters.
	We'll see you next time.
	Hi, everybody.
	I want to remind you, it's a perfect hour to do so, that I'm taking you, or I'll be with you in Israel in October.
	And the banner, Stand With Israel Tour, is on my website, DennisPrager.com.
	It's a wonderful, wonderful trip.
	The question of this particular Ultimate Issues Hour is, what is the purpose of religion?
	I believe it is to...
	Know what God wants from me, and provide me with a wisdom instruction manual for life.
	The secular world has no instruction manual, so it ends up with pretty silly, ultimately incredibly dangerous instructions.
	If you don't get your instructions from the Bible, you'll get your instructions from your college.
	Your high school, your elementary school.
	The non-biblical world is a stupid world.
	I knew this when I was at Columbia, and I wrote an essay many years ago.
	It's on the internet, How I Found God at Columbia.
	Did I do a preview video on that?
	No, so I don't know where I am.
	Oh yeah, I actually went back to Columbia a few years ago to give it.
	Remember they didn't allow us to...
	To stream it live?
	The censors at Columbia?
	That told me as much as I needed to know about Columbia.
	Which is somewhat of a phony institution since they're anti-Columbus Day, but they keep the name Columbia.
	It's such obvious hypocrisy is way too mild a term for that fact.
	No Columbus Day for the country, but we're staying named after Columbus.
	Anyway, a lot of people will answer to have a relationship with God, and I have nothing against that, obviously.
	I think it could be beautiful.
	I don't think in those terms.
	I think in terms of the instruction manual.
	What does God want from me?
	All right!
	Let's go to your calls here.
	And J.R. in Columbus.
	Oh, another unwoke city.
	Yes, sir.
	I'm kind of funny what you just said.
	I'm sorry?
	Oh, shoot.
	Can you hear me, sir?
	I can now, yep.
	Sorry.
	By the way, my two children are under the age of 20, and they don't need a five-stage manual to work a lighter.
	That is not a problem.
	You know, the joke is, I read it.
	Because I often think...
	No, no, I'll tell you why, actually.
	You'll find this interesting.
	Because one of my hobbies is these lighters.
	I smoke cigar or pipe every day.
	Anyway, I read it because I often think, is there something even better I could do with the lighter?
	And, you know...
	For example, you fill it with the butane, putting it on minimal flame.
	Okay, this is something no one cares about, so I will leave it.
	Anyway, go on.
	Okay.
	Well, I use it to start campfires out in Wyoming.
	But anyway, so I may be very naive here, Dennis.
	I believe that the Ten Commandments, I love you.
	I love what you said.
	That's all I ask of people.
	Believe.
	I ask people to believe very little.
	God created the world and gave us ten commandments.
	And have a great day.
	I'm not saying you can't believe more than that.
	That's what I want people to believe.
	And if you watch my videos on the Ten Commandments at PragerU and tens of millions of people have, you will see the case that I make that if just those Ten Commandments were universally or nearly universally obeyed, the world would be close to paradise.
	J.R. is my man.
	That's right.
	But that's why you need religion.
	It gives you a God-based code.
	Otherwise, look at the chaos.
	Good is evil, and evil is good.
	Just as the prophet Hosea warned, people will call good evil and evil good.
	We are living in that time now, and nearly all of them are secular.
	And it's come from the most secular institution of all, the university.
	All right, Brenda in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Brenda.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	I have a strong belief that the breakdown of our society is the lack of being beholden to something higher than you, some higher power.
	Being accountable to somebody or something or, you know, for lack of the fathers in the home, lack of God in the family.
	Right.
	Accountable is the key word.
	You're exactly right.
	People are accountable.
	They're accountable to the Twitter feed.
	Right.
	They're accountable to the woke gods.
	That's right.
	That's all they care about.
	Well, bless you.
	That's correct.
	We're consonant in our view of that.
	And Robin in Brick, New Jersey.
	Hello, Robin.
	Hi, Dennis.
	I'm a Christian, long-time listener, first-time caller.
	Two things.
	Yes, being religious as a Christian, the New Testament talks about being, this is true religion to be feeding widows and orphans.
	goes back to Old Testament law.
	And so, yes, to me, being religious is to follow a moral code, but as defined by God, the God of the Bible.
	So, um...
	And second, I think all people are religious, and this is I think maybe where we differ, but I think all people, even humanists, are religious by nature, being made in the image of God, but they would maybe deny that, but they show it, the law of God, written on their hearts to some degree.
	And their God may not be the God of the Bible, if they're an atheist or agnostic as humanists, but their moral code may be their own feelings guiding them.
	So they do show a sense of religiosity.
	They are religious by nature, from a biblical perspective, being made in the image of God, but they deny that suppressed knowledge of God.
	Right, but you would argue that religion is necessary.
	Religion is necessary, and I think even the, let's say, the humanists, the atheists, the agnostic, would live out their own what they think is morally right code, even though it's not God.
	Right, okay, but that's the chaos that we're living in.
	The opposite of God's order is chaos.
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	It was the prayers of so many Christians that I could feel.
	And you're exactly right about the spiritual battle playing out.
	And I saw each and every day.
	When the president got COVID-19, you'll remember they dubbed the Amy Coney Barrett nomination a super spreader event.
	Well, what some people haven't pieced together is Franklin Graham was there that day.
	They were doing the big prayer march through Washington, and Franklin Graham and some of the greatest pastors of our time were in the White House meeting with the president.
	So you have COVID-19, the invisible enemy, lurking in this super spreader event, while you have these pastors who represent all things good and Christians praying through DC.
	And it was just such a clear juxtaposition of good being there, but evil lurking in our midst.
	But the good news is Christ can overcome all.
	And I get into that chapter by chapter.
	I want to just reemphasize this.
	So you have a press briefing.
	This is not like a regular speech.
	I just want to have people understand this.
	So you have this, you're literally sitting on top of each other because of the way the White House configuration is.
	And there's like this sliding door.
	You walk out and you have probably 30 or 40 people Rather high IQ, hyper-aggressive, wannabe celebrities with masks on.
	So all you see is their eyes.
	And you walk up to this podium and you're looking down at them and they're staring at everything you do.
	And then you have probably 15 or 20 cameras.
	And you know that there's 30 or 40 million people that will watch this.
	And then you have precisely what you have to say.
	And then you have to defend things that you didn't say on behalf of a bureaucrat or on behalf of an appointee.
	And if you say one word wrong, it could derail the entire mission of the federal government in the midst of a pandemic.
	But they don't care because that's success for them.
	Yeah, that is.
	And then you have to be precise throughout the entire thing.
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	Well, this is the ultimate issues hour. - Burp.
	Some say issues.
	I'm among them.
	But knowing that this show is heard in different parts of the world, I thought I would say issues for those who do.
	Because if there's one thing we believe in in this show, it is being inclusive.
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	On the Dennis Prager Show.
	The subject of today's Ultimate Issues Hour, the third hour every Tuesday, is the Ultimate Issues Hour, is what's the purpose of religion?
	My answer is to learn what God wants from me and how to make a better world and get a wisdom manual, which is what the Bible is.
	It's a wisdom manual.
	The majority of the well-educated think they don't need a manual, so they end up believing drivel.
	Do you realize how much dangerous nonsense comes from the secular university?
	Are you willing to put two and two together?
	That there is no wisdom in the secular world?
	That doesn't mean there are no wise secular people.
	There are.
	And there are stupid religious people.
	I know that.
	But there's no wisdom in the secular world.
	Name me a secular institution that provides wisdom.
	Your kid's high school?
	College?
	Graduate school?
	New York Times?
	CNN? Tell me.
	Okie doke!
	So, by the way, I did also contrast that there are many people who will say that the purpose of religion is to have a relationship with God, and I think that's beautiful.
	I don't think in those terms.
	What does God want from me is the way I think of religion.
	Okie dokie, let's see.
	And Steve in Los Angeles, thank you for calling.
	Yeah, you're granting that wisdom is a necessity.
	The problem is, how do you determine the authority for that wisdom?
	In other words, What do you choose to believe in?
	You talk about the Western approach, and you call it Judeo-Christian.
	However, what establishes the authority of the culture there?
	There's other religions.
	What makes you think that it arises from that source?
	I mean, it may be perfectly true that the Bible, as you refer to it, It's an authority in terms of wisdom, but how do you establish the authority that it does constitute?
	Well, to the extent that I understand your question, I would answer that it has earned my belief in its authority.
	Yeah, but that's your belief.
	You use the term belief.
	Yes, so then you asked me why I believe.
	Well, you have to derive it from a natural setting to begin with.
	No, it's not true.
	Look, you ask me how I, Dennis, derive it.
	I derive it from its track record.
	Well, that's you.
	Are you the authority?
	No, I am simply the conveyor of logic.
	If I am unpersuasive to you, if you believe that the non-Western world has produced as moral a universe as the Western, then my argument is pointless.
	Well, you got Nazi Germany, that's considered to be a part of the Western world.
	No, only geographically, not culturally.
	Well, that's your decision.
	No, no, okay, okay.
	If you think that Nazi Germany is based on the Bible...
	I can only wish you a good day.
	I think that you're called up to argue and not to dialogue.
	Dwight Eisenhower, excuse me, Franklin Roosevelt, a deep liberal, spoke regularly about protecting Christian civilization against the Nazis.
	Nobody in the West thought that Nazism was the product of the West.
	It loathed the West.
	They said so.
	Okay?
	But if we're going to argue that Nazism is Western, then other than geography, then I guess Celebi?
	All right.
	I appreciate your calling.
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	Americans are recognizing that we cannot sit back.
	We can't say we're comfortable in the four walls of our church.
	We have to be active participants in civil society.
	And this whole myth of separation of church and state, by the way, is something that Christians should absolutely not.
	Be lied to about and they should not perpetuate that myth.
	Thomas Jefferson only meant that the authorities that are established are different.
	They're separate.
	That doesn't mean, just like, you know, the family authority is very different from civil government authority.
	That's all that he meant by that.
	it doesn't mean that Christians can abdicate our role and responsibility to be moral arbiters of truth within the context of civil society, because what our founders recognized is that the greatest system of government would be predicated on the truth of the eternal immutable word because what our founders recognized is that the greatest system of government would be predicated on the truth of the eternal immutable word of God, which is that truth is self-evident, and that the mandate for the Constitution is that we can And that's why we are a Christian nation.
	And you write about this in your book.
	I don't remember the title.
	Tell my audience.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	In other words, you don't just say, hey, this is what the Word of God says, because there are people in America who say, I don't care what the Word of God says.
	I'm not a Christian.
	The Constitution and our laws and our system of government are, you say, inextricably intertwined with morality.
	There's no such thing as somehow separating church and state on that level.
	Right.
	Right.
	And you can make the argument for America being a Christian nation based solely on our founding documents and our Constitution itself.
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	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half century long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
	Yes, it is the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show, third hour Tuesday.
	What is the purpose of religion?
	And my answer is to tell me what God wants of me and of society and to provide an instruction manual which gives me wisdom.
	The reason the Western world abolished slavery, gave women rights, Created democracies, things that didn't happen anywhere else, is because of this tradition.
	It took a long time, because changing people is a very, very long process.
	But it created it, and now that we have rejected these religious origins, we are losing everything good about our society.
	If there is a greater arrogance than that of the secular left, I don't know where it'd be found on planet Earth.
	These people have no wisdom and think they're great.
	It's an amazing...
	And get a degree from college.
	And if it's a prestigious college, then why would you need a Bible?
	You got a degree from Ivy League school.
	All right.
	Oh, yes.
	I contrasted the answer, by the way, with another answer, which I often hear from people, which is lovely and not my answer.
	The purpose of religion is to have a relationship with God, which, as I say, is a bonus, but not the purpose.
	Others may differ.
	Aaron in Rancho Cucamonga, California, the home of the Quakes.
	That's for sure, the home of the Quakes.
	Thank you, Dennis, for taking my call.
	I'm a big, big fan of yours.
	Thank you.
	And a bucket list dream of mine is to perhaps have a My Father Nicaraguan cigar with you one of these days.
	Some of the group of guys that I smoke with.
	But I'll park them back.
	Wait a minute, wait.
	I want to revel in your bucket list.
	I think that that's great.
	I love it.
	Do you have a My Father Nicaraguan on your own?
	Or is that just a bucket list with me?
	No, no.
	I have my father's in my humidor right now, and one of them has your name on it, and you need to come down as fast as you can.
	I have one on my own, and I have one with my friends, too.
	You're making me smile.
	This is great.
	It is.
	It is.
	It's a delight to hear from you.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Thank you so much.
	It's an honor to hear that.
	I wanted to just humbly, and then I underscore humbly, challenge...
	The whole purpose for religion, I think, it might be a false dichotomy of sorts.
	In other words, in the Torah, in Deuteronomy, the Lord, Jehovah, talks about His people being His portion, the people He delights in.
	It's echoed in Hosea when it says that the Lord sings over His people.
	He rejoices over His people.
	Even in Ezekiel, you have a whole motif of a marriage between God and his people.
	I would urge your listeners to read Ezekiel chapter 16. It brings chills to my neck whenever I read it, and he's painting a picture of him raising Israel, God's people, and it's consummated in the marriage when he makes love to her.
	And all these are just allusions to the dynamic of an intimate fellowship relationship with him and his people.
	And that's reciprocated also from his people to himself.
	When you read the prophets, especially David, and Psalms, God is someone who rejoices in this.
	He calls him his exceeding joy in Psalm 43, is his portion above all portions in Psalm 75 and such.
	So there's this love drama being played out in history between God and his people.
	And I think the commands of God, the do's and the don'ts, are a function.
	They flow out of that relationship.
	So in other words, it's not an either-or.
	The function of religion is a relationship.
	But there is an interplay between the commands and that relationship.
	Okay.
	Everything you said.
	Forgive me, everything you said is excellent, truly excellent.
	So I'll put you on the spot.
	Which of the two is more important, the relationship or the obedience?
	Well, I would appeal to a very famous rabbi, the name of Jesus of Nazareth, and he kind of answers that question in John 17, when he says that the purpose of life, he says, And this is everlasting life, that they know you, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom you've sent.
	In other words, he's using the word know in an intimate sense, like Abraham knew Sarah and she conceived.
	So when Jesus Christ uses the word know God, it's not one sense of intellectual cognizance and awareness of God, but there's a deep abiding relationship of intimacy.
	And that's actually the meaning of life, is to know the true and living God.
	And the commands flow out of that.
	I'm not sure if I answered your question.
	Could you restate the question?
	Yeah.
	What is, of the two, granting both are critical.
	Which is more important, relationship or obedience?
	Well, the rabbi I just mentioned, he says, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments.
	In other words, the keeping of the commandments are a demonstration of your love for God.
	Right, so if you don't live a godly life, and we all understand even people who lead godly lives sin, obviously, that's a given.
	But nevertheless, within logical parameters, if you don't lead a life commensurate with God's will, you really don't love Him and you really don't have a relationship with Him.
	Absolutely, absolutely.
	Okay, alright, listen, we're not that, as you knew.
	Anyway, nobody who has a humidor with my father Nicaraguan cigars and my name on it can be that far from my own theology.
	Check that out, folks.
	Amos 6.3.
	I made that up.
	There's nothing in Amos 6.3 that would corroborate what I just said.
	This is the sort of person that I adore.
	The man who just called.
	Whether it's through love and relationship or whatever it is through, I just want people to do what God wants, and you will have a much, much better world.
	We'll be back.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade, and Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars, because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges.
	Agree or disagree?
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first, and I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it, or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	And I mean dumb, and Mitch McConnell is anything but dumb.
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	All right.
	I I'm Dennis Prager.
	This has been a very powerful hour.
	What is the purpose of religion?
	I can't believe.
	I don't know if I... I'm sure I know I've touched on the issue.
	I don't know if I've ever done it for an hour.
	I believe it is to know what God wants from me and to try to do it and give me a wisdom instruction manual.
	On how to lead life.
	Others will say, like the last very eloquent caller, that that is part of it, and the other part is a relationship with God.
	That's not my forte.
	My relationship is, what do you want me to do?
	That's the primacy of my relationship.
	I do think of God every day in those terms.
	It's been a good thing for me.
	It's been a rock.
	Fearing God is an extremely important part of it.
	Because then you don't fear people.
	So let me read some of your answers, so don't hang up.
	Otherwise, I can't read what you wrote.
	Or excuse me, what you said to the screener.
	So, Henry in Ithaca, New York.
	That's right.
	Nice to be on in Ithaca.
	This is relatively new.
	The purpose of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, and religion serves that purpose.
	I wish I had the time.
	I've never fully understood what, and better than that, I'd like those who say it is to glorify God to explain what that is, other than living as God wants, how we glorify God.
	I think that's how we glorify God.
	But okay.
	Anyway.
	Brent has an interesting answer.
	In L.A., California, religion allows humanity to identify the devil.
	That is so interesting.
	I have, for the first time in my life, started to believe there is the diabolic.
	I have seen it in this past year and a half.
	And Marshall in Detroit.
	The purpose of the behavior manual is to make us more like God and overcome imperfections.
	Well, I'm on board with that.
	Religion provides a pathway to lead us back to God's presence.
	Brian in Orange County, California.
	Bob in Greenville, South Carolina.
	Also, the glorify God answer.
	I'll have to get that clear.
	Edgar, Kevin, and Mark.
	I thank you for your calls as well.

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