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Filibusters and Suicidal Universities - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven oh six fifty five Karrosit talks station at being
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday at this time something I always look forward to
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  Speaker 1: help me sleep a little easier at night, knowing full
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  Speaker 1: well that Jack Adidan is going to be giving us
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  Speaker 1: the Big Picture every Wednesday at seven oh five seven
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  Speaker 1: oh six time frame, and we are at that point
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  Speaker 1: in time. Welcome back, my friend. Always love having you
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  Speaker 1: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: You only get about two hours of sleep, but at
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  Speaker 2: least it's easy, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick, so restless and worry full sleep, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Oh you got to fill four hours with a time. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I got Jack Adidan for at least twenty minutes on
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday. There. That takes the weight off my shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Jack. There you go one quick urgent point before we
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  Speaker 2: get to the topic suicidal universities, and you run does
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  Speaker 2: the FCC Let me say, damnable on your show, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: damn right, they do all right, good, It is damnable.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats are holding up funding not for the hated Ice,
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  Speaker 2: which was fully funded by big beautiful Bill. No, Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are withholding funds for a month then counting and paychecks
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  Speaker 2: for airport security, the Coast Guard, FEMA, the entire Department
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  Speaker 2: of Homeland Security in the middle of a war, a
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  Speaker 2: war that, in compliance with the War Powers Act, the
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  Speaker 2: House and the Senate last week voted not to stop,
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  Speaker 2: at least for now. What are Democrats demanding to avoid
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  Speaker 2: a filibuster on the funding of Homeland Security that ICE
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  Speaker 2: be reformed. They don't mention that no reforms are requested
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  Speaker 2: by thirty nine states because those states already signed agreements
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate with ICE on deportation detainers. They hand over
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  Speaker 2: deportees over de ICE peacefully, and even in never Trump
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  Speaker 2: states like Minnesota, which refuse to turn over the worst
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  Speaker 2: of the worst, excuse me, I'm back Brian protesters in
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  Speaker 2: the face of ICE agents, people who sometimes use a
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  Speaker 2: car to drive the isations. Even in anti America Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: DHS has already caved in to many Democratic demands. Tom
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  Speaker 2: Holman's quietly scaled back the initial surge. President Trump's fired
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  Speaker 2: DHS supermodel Christy Nome. He's now trying to replace her
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  Speaker 2: with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who should thrill DEI Democrats
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  Speaker 2: because he's the only Native American in the US Senate
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  Speaker 2: apart from Elizabeth Warren. Mullen is Jerck B. Warren is
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  Speaker 2: a fraud, as all Democrats are, because rather than accept
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  Speaker 2: good faith concessions, Democrats only grow more ravetous. These political
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  Speaker 2: worst of the worst don't want to protect America from
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  Speaker 2: illegal migrants. Democrats invited tens of millions of them to
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  Speaker 2: invade Americamerica so they could become a new base of
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  Speaker 2: voters for Democrats, totally dependent on big government, which is
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  Speaker 2: why Democrats also oppose voter id the Save America Bill.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we have to do right now? Well,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people may disagree, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: in Congress, but it's some things Democrats surely will do
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  Speaker 2: as soon as they regain Congress. Do a way with
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  Speaker 2: Senate filibusters. As you know, counselor philibusters are not a
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  Speaker 2: part of the Constitution these reason our founders required super
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  Speaker 2: majorities only for things like treaties and impeachment convictions. It's
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  Speaker 2: because the founders wanted legislators to legislate with simple Senate majorities,
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  Speaker 2: not sixty votes. Thanks to the filibuster threat, our current
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  Speaker 2: Congress has passed nothing but the one big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 2: Filibusters work only when we have political parties that will
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  Speaker 2: willing to compromise, willing to work together. Today's top down
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are beyond that. They care only about sabotaging Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: f Trump and regaining power. Folks, the model of this
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  Speaker 2: segment is power corrupts. The new Democrats are corrupt to
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  Speaker 2: the core and filibusters. Now, do we have Tom Brian
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  Speaker 2: to discuss the universities in America and Iran?
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  Speaker 1: Of course we do. I would just say that I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this morning as so far as the filibuster is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to get rid of it soon. A
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  Speaker 1: Senate Majority leader John Thune said they don't have the
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  Speaker 1: votes for that. His quote was, the votes aren't there
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  Speaker 1: one to nuke the filibuster, in other words, to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it. And the votes aren't there for a
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  Speaker 1: talking filibuster. It's just a reality. I'm the person who
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  Speaker 1: has to deliver. Sometimes they're not so good news that
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  Speaker 1: the math doesn't add up. But those are the facts
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  Speaker 1: and there's no getting around it.
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  Speaker 2: So well the facts for now. But we can get
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  Speaker 2: in touch with our representatives in this case, our senators
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that they change their minds. Look, they
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  Speaker 2: changed their minds before. Oh yeah, Democrats and establishment, Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: and Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: He did a one eighty on FIZA. He used to
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  Speaker 1: be against renewing it. Now it's up for renewal and
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  Speaker 1: he's all in favor of renewing it. So even Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want eighty from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as far as the philibuster goes, he has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to say, But senators do Democrats. Senator Harry Reid made
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  Speaker 2: an exception for the confirmation of federal judges, which is
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  Speaker 2: why we have so many Democrat operators on the lower
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  Speaker 2: federal benches. Then uniting Republicans for once, Mitch McConnell expanded
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  Speaker 2: that philibuster exception to include Supreme Court justices. Although you
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  Speaker 2: know the problem. It's not a problem in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: but as a working matter, Democrats, when you put them
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  Speaker 2: on the Supreme Court, they all vote one way. When
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  Speaker 2: you put Republicans on the Supreme Court, it's a crapshoot.
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  Speaker 2: Take Amy Coney Barrett. She doesn't even support consistently the
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  Speaker 2: First Amendment. We had a Democrat, Anthony Kennedy, who could
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  Speaker 2: always be counted on to support the First Amendment. That
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  Speaker 2: was his one exception. But with Republicans, we'll just have
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  Speaker 2: to see expanding the court though, when democrats do it,
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  Speaker 2: when they take power, you're just going to get more
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  Speaker 2: Democrat robots. Anyway, you want to go on to.
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  Speaker 1: University, absolutely, go ahead, We got time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We mentioned last week how self destructive Iranian university
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  Speaker 2: students were back in nineteen seventy nine Jimmy Carter's time,
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  Speaker 2: when they helped kick out the Shah and replaced him
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  Speaker 2: with Iyatola Polmani, the first one. As one observer gleefully noted, quote,
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  Speaker 2: a fibrant array of left wing parties, from liberal to Marxist,
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  Speaker 2: played a role in the Iranian revolution. Okay, However, almost
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  Speaker 2: immediately women Gaze any opponents of Radici Islam realized what
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  Speaker 2: they had done, that it was suicidal. But it was
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  Speaker 2: too late, because what Iran's repentant students lacked then and
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  Speaker 2: now is not just freedom. They lacked what made freedom
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  Speaker 2: possible here in America. In seventeen seventy six, the right
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  Speaker 2: to bear arms. Iran has no second Amendment. Our founders
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  Speaker 2: added that amendment to the Constitution. Because the revolutionary war
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  Speaker 2: was not just about General Washington. His continental army was
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  Speaker 2: mostly comprised of local militias, and volunteers who brought their
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  Speaker 2: own guns beyond Washington's army. A lot of the fighting
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  Speaker 2: was guerrilla warfare, waged by militias and by ordinary Americans
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  Speaker 2: on their own. One of my heroes as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: listeners my age, we're a little older than you or
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  Speaker 2: Brian may remember him from a Walt Disney TV series,
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  Speaker 2: Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. He pounced on the British
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  Speaker 2: and said North Carolina with his dreaded irregular militia. One
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest challenges we now face in Iran is
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  Speaker 2: how to distribute arms that have been outlawed there for decades.
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  Speaker 2: So even though I'm not a gun owner like you,
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  Speaker 2: Brian and our friends John and Tom, I'm awfully glad
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  Speaker 2: that we all have the right and the means to
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  Speaker 2: defend ourselves now. The Persian people, look through history, have
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  Speaker 2: always been brilliant. How did Iranian universities turn suicidal? By
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  Speaker 2: following the pattern of American universities, Starting with the most prestigious,
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  Speaker 2: they became incubators and weapons for Marxism, sworn enemies of
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  Speaker 2: Western values dating back to our friends the ancient Greeks.
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  Speaker 2: Marxists suppose individual rights defending instead the collective, the theocracy,
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  Speaker 2: the big state. They oppose unfettered thought, defending instead leftist
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  Speaker 2: orthodoxy regarding the economy, climate, gender, anything that promotes elite dictatorship.
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  Speaker 2: For helping Greeks think for themselves. Athens condemned Socrates to
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  Speaker 2: drink hemlock. On the other side of the world to
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  Speaker 2: suppress dissent, the first emperor of a unified China, Chin
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  Speaker 2: Chi Huang, burned books and buried four hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: scholars alive. Twenty two centuries later, Maoseedung's Cultural Revolution kept
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  Speaker 2: the flames burning, as had Nazi Germany, but censorship actually
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  Speaker 2: led to Hitler's undoing. In nineteen seventeen, the Max Planck
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  Speaker 2: Institute for Physics opened in Berlin. Its first director was
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  Speaker 2: a Jew who, in nineteen oh five had rethought our
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  Speaker 2: whole notion of space and time until Albert Einstein had
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  Speaker 2: to flee from Germany with the rise of the Nazis.
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  Speaker 2: Hitler dismissed as Jewish science Einstein's insights in to adam splitting,
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  Speaker 2: so the Nazis, thank goodness, never got the atomic bomb.
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  Speaker 2: American universities today teach all kinds of things Harvard offers
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  Speaker 2: more than three thousand, seven hundred courses everything from physics
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  Speaker 2: to immigrant justice. That's a four credit course. Brian I
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  Speaker 2: could entertain everybody with a laundry list of other woke
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  Speaker 2: offerings and an even longer list of conservative thinkers who
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  Speaker 2: were censored for being politically incorrect. Don't take my word
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  Speaker 2: for it. A survey by the student newspaper, The Harvard
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  Speaker 2: Crimson found that only one percent of faculty described their
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  Speaker 2: political beliefs as very conservative. A former Yale professor, Robert Bork,
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  Speaker 2: was blackballed from joining the US Supreme Court by Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty seven, not because he was unqualified. Pork
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  Speaker 2: had already served as Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and
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  Speaker 2: judge on the US US Court of Appeals. JUDJH. Bork
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  Speaker 2: was universally recognized as one of America's most brilliant legal minds.
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  Speaker 2: But Bork was a judicial conservative. He did not believe
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  Speaker 2: in courts making up new law, and he could have
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  Speaker 2: argued the likes of Sonya Sotomayor and Katanji Brown Jackson
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  Speaker 2: under the table. Worst of all, Bork eviscerated leftist universities,
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  Speaker 2: including his school and mine Yale that surrendered to anti American,
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  Speaker 2: anti Western radicals in the nineteen sixties. Bork's book Slouching
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  Speaker 2: toward Gomorrah hurls this thunderbolt quote when the use of
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties generation listened to often leftist faculty members,
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  Speaker 2: we had our invasion of the barbarians, only they are
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  Speaker 2: now tenured barbarians, and Bork went on to write, modern
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  Speaker 2: liberalism is what fascism looks like when it has captured
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  Speaker 2: significant institutions, most notably universities. The danger of university bias,
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  Speaker 2: Brian is not just that it spreads lies. It's that
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  Speaker 2: bias censors truth. Bias stands opposed to debate, which is
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  Speaker 2: required to arrive at truth. As we've discussed many times,
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  Speaker 2: the supposed best and brightester being not educated but credentialed,
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  Speaker 2: and even disciplines that used to be meritocracies they had
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  Speaker 2: to be medicine architecture, they're now being forced to lower
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  Speaker 2: their standards, so folks walk quickly past new buildings designed
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  Speaker 2: by dei architects. They may collapse to talitarian regimes like
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  Speaker 2: Nazi Germany, China and Iran thankfully cripple themselves by suppressing
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  Speaker 2: the truth, and even in the land of the Free
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  Speaker 2: and the home of the brave, during this two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, our independence from top
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  Speaker 2: down government and censorship, even in America, we must fight
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  Speaker 2: every day for freedom, because if it's up to democrats,
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  Speaker 2: we won't fight for the people of a run and
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  Speaker 2: we won't fight for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say now, I say that that course
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned over at Harvard University is going to set
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  Speaker 1: you back three thousand, seven hundred dollars per credit hour.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, of that it's paid by tankspayers.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven hundred dollars per credit hour. Oh, and I
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  Speaker 1: just I going back to my college teaching and all
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  Speaker 1: the courses I took. I recall a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: left wing activism began in the late sixties. At Berkeley was
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  Speaker 1: a hotbed for it, with the Student for Democrats Society,
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  Speaker 1: in the free speech movement, Mario Savio marching around campus
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  Speaker 1: and leading protests. And I don't know if that's where
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  Speaker 1: the fire started for all this left wing ism on
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  Speaker 1: college campuses. But you know, sadly, Jack, you know it
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  Speaker 1: as well as I do. You can't find really with
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  Speaker 1: the exception of Hillsdale College, a university you can count
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  Speaker 1: on to at least be neutral in terms of teaching
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  Speaker 1: its students. It's all left wing propaganda and indoctrination up
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  Speaker 1: with woke ideologues that come out with these worthless degrees,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what they do except take to
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  Speaker 1: the streets and get paid by the George Soroses of
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  Speaker 1: the world to be activists.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you gotta have a degree. Gotta have what
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  Speaker 2: do you, Brian? Have you heard? Democrat claims that Mark
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Mullen, the Senator is unqualified to head Homeland Security
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  Speaker 2: because he has only an associate degree in construction technology,
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  Speaker 2: not a bachelor's degree. Mullen left school early. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care if he didn't go at all, but he did
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  Speaker 2: leave school early to care for his dying father and
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  Speaker 2: then take over the family plumbing business. Yeah, he turned
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  Speaker 2: into four thriving businesses. Right. I wish more people in
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  Speaker 2: Washington were as uneducated as Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, demonstrably qualified. A skill said that few people on
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats side of the aisle actually have the ability
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  Speaker 1: to work and think and in earn a living for
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  Speaker 1: his family. And become successful. Maybe I overlooked at Jack,
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  Speaker 1: other than where is it in the Constitution that running
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  Speaker 1: for a political office on a national level requires a degree?
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  Speaker 1: I thought there was just an age cutoff. You had
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  Speaker 1: to be a minimum age of what twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: in the Constitution or something. That's it. Any US citizen.
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  Speaker 2: Luckley William F. Buckley Junior used to say he'd rather
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  Speaker 2: be governed by one hundred names out of the Boston
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  Speaker 2: phone Book than by anybody from Harvard.
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  Speaker 1: Words you can live by, like yours, Jack, Avid, and
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  Speaker 1: always a pleasure having you on the show. Love what
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  Speaker 1: you have to say. Every week we'll hear from Jack,
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  Speaker 1: big picture, looking forward all right in the next week,
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  Speaker 1: Jack with another conversation, and as always, best of health
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  Speaker 1: and love to you and your much better half.
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  Speaker 2: And Paula, thanks so much, of course, I admit it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jack. Seven twenty two to fifty five koc DE
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