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00:00:14.000Well, it is a day on which we celebrate the valor of our soldiers, of our service people all over the world.
00:00:22.000And I want to start the show today by talking a little bit about some things you may not know about Memorial Day.
00:00:25.000Now, this is from history.com, so this information is, I think, really useful and relevant and pretty cool, actually, because most folks don't really know all that much about Memorial Day.
00:00:33.000I will admit that I didn't until fairly recently.
00:00:37.000So, did you know that Memorial Day, one of the first commemorations of a Memorial Day, was organized by recently freed slaves?
00:00:45.000So, according to History.com, as the Civil War neared its end, thousands of Union soldiers held as prisoners of war were herded into a series of hastily assembled camps in Charleston, South Carolina.
00:00:55.000Conditions at one camp, a former racetrack near the city's citadel, were so bad that more than 250 prisoners died from disease or exposure and were buried in a mass grave behind the track's grandstand.
00:01:11.000There's a very good book about one of those prison camps that was in the South that ended up with thousands of people dying in just horrific conditions, people being held outdoors without tents.
00:01:32.000colored troops, including the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, and a handful of white Charlestonians gathered in the camp to consecrate a new proper burial site for the Union dead.
00:01:41.000The group sang hymns, gave readings, and distributed flowers around the cemetery, which they dedicated to the martyrs of the racecourse.
00:01:47.000The racecourse, of course, being the place where they had held
00:01:51.000The brutality of the Civil War really cannot be overstated, and this is why it's so frustrating when people overlook the legacy of the literally hundreds of thousands of American troops who gave their lives to end the evil of slavery within American borders.
00:02:04.000It's an amazing thing, and to overlook that and to pretend that America's made no sacrifices on this score is just to be historically ignorant.
00:02:10.000Now, it doesn't mean all the problems got solved, obviously, 1865, but America's soldiers
00:02:14.000Obviously, we thank soldiers who are stationed around the globe right now.
00:02:17.000I'm sure listening to the sound of my voice, we have lots of members of the military who listen to the show.
00:02:22.000Thank God for them and thank them for listening.
00:02:45.0001868 should become a nationwide day of commemoration for more than 620,000 soldiers killed in the recently ended Civil War.
00:02:52.000On Decoration Day, as Logan dubbed it, Americans should lay flowers and decorate the graves of the war dead whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land.
00:03:02.000Logan chose May 30th because it was a rare day that didn't fall on the anniversary of a Civil War battle, because there were so many Civil War battles.
00:03:08.000Some historians think that the date was selected to ensure that flowers across the country would be in full bloom, according to History.com.
00:03:15.000After the war, Logan, who served as U.S.
00:03:17.000Congressman before resigning to join the Army, returned to politics, and he eventually served in both the House and the Senate.
00:03:22.000He ran for Vice President in 1884, unsuccessfully.
00:03:25.000And his body was laid in state at the U.S.
00:03:28.000He was just one of 33 people to have received the honor.
00:03:31.000Apparently, he adapted the idea from earlier events in the South because in April 1886, the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia resolved to commemorate the fallen once a year, which is a decision that seemed to have influenced Logan to follow suit according to his own wife.
00:03:45.000But commemorations were rarely held on one standard day.
00:03:46.000They were sort of held on a variety of days.
00:03:48.000It didn't actually become a federal holiday until 1971, because Decoration Day is what it was called.
00:03:53.000The first year, more than 27 states held some sort of ceremony, with more than 5,000 people in attendance at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
00:04:01.000By 1890, every former state of the Union had adopted it as an official holiday.
00:04:05.000But for more than 50 years, the holiday was used to commemorate those killed just in the Civil War, not in any other American conflict.
00:04:10.000And then after World War I, it was expanded out
00:04:29.000Although the term Memorial Day was used beginning in the 1880s, the holiday was officially known as Decoration Day for more than a century, and then it was changed by federal law, as we mentioned.
00:04:36.000Well, four years later, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 finally went into effect, and it moved Memorial Day from its observance on May 30th, regardless of the day of the week, to set it for the last Monday in May.
00:05:11.000I think that we should move it to whatever day May 30th is.
00:05:13.000We should move it back to its original date so that it doesn't just become another day that you have off and you take it off for a long weekend.
00:05:19.000Yes, we can enjoy Memorial Day, but obviously we should have half our brain, more than half our brain, on the reason that we are spending that day barbecuing as opposed to working.
00:07:09.000I've always found this idea really insulting.
00:07:11.000These soldiers are making a sacrifice, and the sacrifice that they are making, they are doing with full knowledge of what it is they are getting into.
00:07:18.000That's what makes the sacrifice worth making.
00:07:20.000That's what makes the sacrifice so incredible.
00:07:21.000They're making more of a sacrifice than I have.
00:07:23.000They're making more of a sacrifice than virtually anyone in my generation has.
00:07:27.000I mean, the number of people in my generation joining the military is still extraordinarily low.
00:07:38.000And to rob them of the volition of that choice by suggesting that when American soldiers die, they die in vain.
00:07:44.000Or that when American soldiers die, they are victims of the evil American corporate hierarchy.
00:07:48.000It's also a great time to remember that for all of the leftist talk about how America has been a terrible force in the world, how America is responsible for slavery and imperialism and colonialism,
00:08:13.000Wherever American troops have set their boots, the world is a better place.
00:08:17.000Wherever American troops have kept their boots, the world is certainly a better place.
00:08:21.000If you don't believe me, just look at Iraq.
00:08:23.000There's a lot of talk about how Iraq is a worse place because we intervened.
00:08:26.000No, Iraq is a worse place because we pulled out.
00:08:28.000When American troops entered Iraq, Iraq was run by the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, where women were being forcibly imprisoned and raped and tortured by Saddam Hussein's son.
00:08:39.000He was gassing his own people, the Kurds.
00:08:41.000And when we went in, we broke a lot of stuff, and a lot of people died, and that is awful.
00:08:45.000But there is no question that the place got a lot worse when America pulled out.
00:08:49.000Where American troops set their boots, things get better, which is why, still, the vast majority of oppressed people on planet Earth
00:08:56.000If they could, would look to the arrival of the American flag in their land as an opportunity to cut back repression and to fight repression as opposed to imperialism, colonialism, look at these evil Americans and all the rest.
00:09:10.000Again, the reality is that America has freed Europe not once but twice.
00:09:14.000America has freed the world of the Soviet menace.
00:09:19.000That is due to the sacrifice of American soldiers.
00:09:22.000Our history is long and glorious with regards to our military interventions.
00:09:25.000And that is certainly true, including wars like Vietnam, which was not a war fought for American imperial interests.
00:09:31.000It was a war fought to preserve South Vietnam's independence.
00:09:35.000It was a war fought to preserve the democracy of Vietnam and to move toward a better democracy in Vietnam and save them from the repression and evil of the Viet Cong administration, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including in Cambodia, just across the border.
00:10:01.000Because America overran Germany, along with her allies, and then proceeded to turn Germany into a thriving Western democracy.
00:10:09.000And the same thing is true in Japan, which was a complete imperialist dictatorship.
00:10:13.000And then America came in with our troops, and we occupied the place, and there are still troops in Japan.
00:10:18.000South Korea is only free because of American troops, because of American materiel, and American men and women willing to sacrifice their lives in order to make South Koreans free.
00:10:27.000The reason they're not all living under the gulag conditions of Kim Jong-un is because of the strength and power of America's military might.
00:10:33.000This is why whenever there's an attempt by folks on the left to cut back
00:10:39.000America's military, the case being that a strong, virile military scares people.
00:10:43.000It makes the world a scarier, worse place.
00:10:46.000The answer is every time we do that, that is immediately followed by some sort of terrorist attack or brutal attack on Americans, and then we have to build up our military again.
00:10:53.000Bill Clinton spent years cutting back the American military, and then there was the attack of 9-11, and then we had to rebuild the American military.
00:10:59.000The threat either is stopped there or it comes here.
00:11:02.000By 1941, by the time of America's entry into World War II and Pearl Harbor, the American military, the standing American military, was smaller than the standing military of the Philippines.
00:11:13.000America had the 16th largest military on planet Earth in 1941.
00:11:33.000There's this weird idea that's risen in both isolationist circles and leftist circles.
00:11:37.000This is sort of where a lot of Ron Paul foreign policy fans run directly into the arms of Bernie Sanders foreign policy fans.
00:11:44.000That America's presence on the world stage is unnecessary, that if we withdraw nothing bad happens, that it's not in America's interest to be quote-unquote global policemen.
00:12:02.000And then we have to be active on those threats.
00:12:04.000Because just like with policing, if you are not proactively policing a particular area, it goes to hell in a handbasket and soon those areas spread.
00:12:11.000Broken windows theory doesn't just apply to domestic crime, it also applies to foreign policy.
00:12:16.000Which again, does not mean that America has to compromise our own safety and security and the use of our military force for every small humanitarian mission.
00:12:25.000It does mean that when we can, we should, and it also means that morality has a heavy part to play in America's foreign policy.
00:12:32.000It has always had a heavy part to play in America's foreign policy.
00:12:35.000There's this realist idea out there that morality doesn't play any role in what we do on foreign policy.
00:12:41.000And obviously the American people do not disagree, do not agree with that.
00:12:44.000The American people believe that there is still room for virtue in American foreign policy, which is why we have this really divided mind about foreign policy that I think we need to figure out because otherwise we're putting our own soldiers in unwinnable situations.
00:13:11.000And then whatever American administration is in power, Republican, Democrat, doesn't matter.
00:13:15.000They say, okay, we'll respond to that by doing something.
00:13:18.000And then within five weeks, the American people say, we really shouldn't be in there.
00:13:22.000You know, there's no reason for us to be in there in the first place.
00:13:25.000Foreign policy should be conducted along the lines of a long-range attempt to figure out exactly what is in America's interest.
00:13:33.000If we can do that, then we can ensure that we are using our military in the best possible way and that our military members signed up for the right gig.
00:13:40.000But on this Memorial Day, it's time to stop and say thank you to all of the members of the military who laid down their lives so that we could spend today having fun, and that I could do my podcast, and that I could spend time with my family, and that you could do whatever it is that you're doing today.
00:13:52.000This is a free and wonderful country because of the power and might of the American military, the greatest force for freedom in the history of mankind.
00:14:01.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of foreign policy, there's a lot of hubbub over the weekend and today about President Trump and North Korea.
00:14:08.000Obviously, last week, President Trump pulled out of the summit with North Korea.
00:14:10.000Now there are rumors that the summit is going to be back on with North Korea.
00:14:14.000This is a negotiation tactic by President Trump.
00:14:16.000I don't think that President Trump should be giving us constant updates on whether there's going to be a summit with North Korea.
00:14:21.000I think the reason for that is that if he continues to give us these constant updates about what's going on with North Korea, it makes it seem as though he is desperate to have this meeting with North Korea.
00:14:29.000America should never be desperate to have a meeting with anybody.
00:14:32.000We're the most powerful country on the face of the earth and in the history of the world.
00:14:35.000There's no reason we should be desperate to meet with a tin pot dictator.
00:14:38.000It is his job to come to us with something to give up so that we can reinstate him in the community of nations.
00:14:45.000President Trump is saying that North Korea blew it on the summit and basically this is right.
00:14:50.000Based on the recent statement of North Korea, I have decided to terminate the planned summit in Singapore on June 12th.
00:15:01.000While many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead, potentially, I believe that this is a tremendous setback.
00:15:11.000For North Korea, and indeed, a setback for the world.
00:15:15.000Okay, well, this is a negotiation tactic by President Trump.
00:15:18.000Democrats, however, are celebrating the fact that the summit fell apart.
00:15:36.000So he can go back to his crappy, his crappily run country with its exploded nuclear mountain?
00:15:43.000I think it's a good thing for Kim Jong-un.
00:15:48.000Here you had a thug, a person who killed his own family members, a person who runs a police state, being legitimized by the President of the United States.
00:16:15.000Kim Jong Un is happy about any of this.
00:16:17.000That's not going to stop Democrats from claiming that Kim Jong-un is happy about all this because their opposition to Trump is much stronger than their opposition to Kim Jong-un.
00:16:24.000You'd figure that with a nuclear-armed evil dictator, we might all be able to get at least a little bit on the same page as far as who's the bad guy in the narrative, but apparently Democrats are unable to do that.
00:16:33.000Speaking of which, there was a lot of talk before the election about President Trump and Russia, Russia collusion, and President Trump is going to be
00:16:41.000Giving up power over American foreign policy to the Russians and all of the rest of this.
00:16:45.000Well, that obviously has not happened.
00:16:47.000President Trump has been quite harsh with the Russians.
00:16:49.000He's imposed a lot of sanctions that the Obama administration did not.
00:16:53.000The Ukrainian government was thanking President Trump just last week for arming them properly or more properly.
00:16:59.000Well, now it has come up that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, that was shot down, indeed, by a group connected with Russia.
00:17:09.000At the time, Russia denied any involvement in the crash that killed all those aboard.
00:17:12.000A news conference in the Netherlands last week, Wilbert Polissen of the Dutch National Police announced that after investigators had scrutinized the images, it was determined that the missile originated from Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from the city of Kursk in Western Russia.
00:17:26.000The missile was part of the Russian Armed Forces.
00:17:28.000Fred Westerbeke, who's chief prosecutor of the National Prosecutor's Office of the Netherlands, according to Mediaite, also noted that at the time the plane went down, the area was controlled by Russian separatists.
00:17:37.000He said that this raises questions such as to whether the brigade was actively involved in downing MH17.
00:17:42.000It's an important question, which the Joint Investigation Team are still investigating.
00:17:46.000Russia continues to deny any involvement, of course.
00:17:48.000The Russian Defense Ministry announced, quote, both in its first hours after the tragedy,
00:17:52.000Vladimir Putin is an evil human being.
00:17:54.000That was 300 dead for no reason other than Russian militarism.
00:17:56.000President Trump has stood up to the Russians.
00:17:58.000This is the part of the quid pro quo I don't understand.
00:18:15.000If the idea was that the Russians were going to elect Trump so that they would get back something from Trump, I'm waiting for the thing that they are getting back from Trump.
00:18:22.000I'm just not seeing the evidence of this.
00:18:25.000I just don't see the evidence of this.
00:18:26.000And all the Democrats who are complaining about Russian interference in the election, I'd like to see them be half as upset when Russia actually kills journalists or when Russia invades sovereign countries as they did to Crimea and President Obama did nothing, or when they took control of Syria and President Obama facilitated all of that.
00:18:42.000In other words, it's Democrats playing politics with foreign policy.
00:18:45.000And I just, I find it abhorrent that they are so attached to the idea that Republicans are the bad guys.
00:18:51.000They can't even get together on some pretty obvious matters here.
00:19:10.000So President Obama, according to Newsweek, took a light swing at his successor during a tech conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
00:19:16.000He said his eight years in office were scandal-free.
00:19:18.000He says, I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about.
00:19:22.000And then he said, actually, if you look at the history of the modern presidency, coming out of the modern presidency without anybody going to jail is really good.
00:19:46.000That was the excuse used by James Comey and the FBI not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for maliciously setting up a private server to hide her emails and putting 33,000 emails on there and then destroying all of them.
00:19:57.000And so that was not malicious intent, according to James Comey.
00:20:00.000And so what Obama says is, maybe we had scandals.
00:20:03.000I mean, maybe we did some scandalous stuff, but we never meant to do scandalous stuff.
00:20:09.000His administration was certainly not scandal-free.
00:20:11.000Benghazi was a major scandal, despite what Democrats would say.
00:20:14.000Hey, this was a scandal in which the State Department repeatedly refused requests by Ambassador Chris Stevens for additional security in Benghazi.
00:20:21.000No troops were forthcoming in the middle of a 17-hour attack.
00:20:25.000In the middle of a huge attack in Benghazi, a 13-hour attack in Benghazi, and nothing came.
00:20:32.000And then there was a cover-up by the Obama administration claiming it had nothing to do with lack of security or Libyan policy in the first place.
00:20:38.000Instead, what it really had to do with was a video made by some anonymous YouTube guy nobody had ever heard of.
00:20:45.000There's Fast and Furious, in which the Obama administration greenlit the movement of killing weapons, as they would say, down to Mexican drug cartels, which were then used in the murder of U.S.
00:20:55.000You remember that the Obama administration was involved in the IRS scandal, in which Obama's IRS suspiciously started targeting only conservative 501c3 groups.
00:21:03.000And they claimed, no, no, no, we never would do that.
00:21:05.000Of course, that's exactly what happened.
00:21:07.000The Obama administration was repeatedly involved in deep levels of corruption.
00:21:11.000No one was prosecuted because the DOJ was run by Barack Obama's wingman, Eric Holder.
00:21:41.000Whenever a Democrat gets involved in a scandal, the coverage is less
00:21:45.000Blanket, shall we say, than the coverage of a Republican when a Republican is involved in a similar scandal, right?
00:21:52.000Do you even remember the name of that New York Attorney General who had to resign because he was calling girlfriends his slaves and then sexually abusing them?
00:22:01.000Do you remember that guy allegedly sexually abusing them?
00:22:44.000It's not played this way by the New York Post, but this is obviously the hidden story here.
00:22:51.000In May 1961, an elderly woman in Paris heard a knock at the door of her six-story walk-up apartment.
00:22:57.000It was only the most powerful man in the world.
00:23:00.000The President of the United States was going door-to-door hoping to find the call girl he had discreetly arranged to meet.
00:23:05.000John F. Kennedy, it turned out, used a fake excuse about a doctor's visit to attend a long-arranged dalliance while in Paris for a crucial summit, only to wind up in the wrong building, knocking on the doors of random Parisians who were left with the surprise of their lives.
00:23:16.000The tale of this ill-advised but ultimately successful liaison is recorded in Madame Cloud, Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power by William Stadime.
00:23:25.000Madame Cloud, born Fernand Grudet in 1923 in Angers, France, was one of the world's most successful madams.
00:23:31.000Starting in 1957, she ran an exclusive
00:23:33.000High class prostitution ring that offered a very specific type of woman.
00:23:37.000Tall, supermodel, gorgeous, classy, and upscale, or at least trained to appear so, to the world's richest and most powerful men.
00:23:43.000The young women who worked for her were known as Cloud Girls, which became a well-known and powerful brand.
00:23:47.000She scouted them carefully, paid for plastic surgery if needed, and ultimately hoped to marry them off to aristocracy.
00:23:52.000A date with a Cloud Girl was one of those pinnacle Paris experiences, right, Stadium?
00:23:56.000Like staying at the Ritz, or a dinner at Maxime's, or wearing a Lanvin suit, an apotheosis of luxury that the French can do better than any other nationality.
00:24:03.000According to Stadium, Madame Cloud's client list included the world's most successful men,
00:24:07.000Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Sammy Davis Jr., former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, three generations of Gettys, Marlon Brando, Groucho Marx.
00:24:16.000If you're rich, famous, and male in the 20th century, Chancellor Madame Cloud knew what you liked in bed and provided exactly that for Kennedy.
00:24:22.000His desired liaison required almost as much detailed preparation as an actual political summit.
00:24:27.000After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961, Kennedy thought a meeting in Europe with French and Soviet leaders Charles de Gaulle and Nikita Khrushchev, respectively, could serve as a reset for his presidency.
00:24:37.000He decided that he and First Lady Jackie Kennedy would embark on their first official European tour.
00:24:41.000This would be the trip where Jackie so entranced the French, Kennedy famously introduced himself as the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.
00:24:56.000If JFK had a type, it was a wholesome, snooty, proper, preppy girl whose flaunted untouchability he could violate.
00:25:01.000Girls like Jacqueline Beauvier, writes Stadium, who notes that Kennedy learned about Madam Cloud from Sinatra.
00:25:06.000Here was a madam who specialized in exactly what JFK was after.
00:25:09.000The liaison was apparently arranged between Madam Cloud and Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary.
00:25:15.000When Salinger first proposed the arrangement, Cloud turned him down, fearing the many things that could go wrong if the president's visit to a prostitute went haywire.
00:25:22.000But Salinger convinced Cloud that any problems could work in her favor, a scandal would make her a legend to the sex-comfortable French, and that a successful dalliance would bring her to the attention of the world's most powerful men.
00:25:31.000So Salinger, who's, again, this is JFK's private secretary, exhorted the madam, quote, rise to the occasion.
00:25:45.000Weighing risks and rewards like the shrewd banker she might have otherwise been, Cloud decided to go for it.
00:25:50.000So, Kennedy wanted to hook up with a French actress who looked like Jackie Kennedy, and apparently that didn't work, so instead he decided to go to a whore.
00:26:20.000They knew about everything that was going on with JFK.
00:26:23.000Hey, the plan was apparently for Malroux, this French culture minister, to play tour guide to the first lady while the president visited French historical sites.
00:26:32.000But then Kennedy begged off, claiming a flare-up of his bad back and saying he needed to visit a French pain specialist.
00:26:38.000But instead, he had brought his Dr. Feelgood, Max Jacobson, for cover, and they headed off to find his mystery lover, only to wind up at the wrong apartment.
00:26:46.000So again, is it possible the press didn't know about this?
00:28:00.000She's the white lady who said that she was black, and then she ended up working for the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, and then it turned out that she was actually just a white girl from Kansas.
00:28:08.000Well, now it turns out that according to KHQ, which is a local station, Dolezal has legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016 because she's a screwed-up human being, is accused of first-degree theft by welfare fraud, perjury in the second degree, and false verification for public assistance.
00:28:25.000Her potential punishment under RCW 74.08.331 could include up to 15 years in prison.
00:28:32.000Because Dolezal changed her name, we'll be referring to her as Nkechi Diallo.
00:28:35.000According to court documents, Diallo illegally received almost $9,000 in food assistance and illegally received $100 in child care assistance.
00:28:43.000Total restitution, according to documentation, is nearly $9,000, allegedly stolen from August 2015 through November 2017.
00:28:53.000The investigation into Diallo's alleged theft started in March 2017, when a DSHS Office of Fraud and Accountability investigator received information that Diallo had written a book that got published.
00:29:03.000The investigator said he'd heard Diallo say she was getting public assistance, but also knew a typical public publishing contract included payments of $10,000 to $20,000.
00:29:09.000The investigator conducted a review of Diallo's records and found she'd been reporting her income was usually less than $500 a month in child support payments.
00:29:17.000At one point, when asked as to how she was paying her bills, she reported barely, with help from friends and gifts.
00:29:22.000However, between August 2015 and September 2017, she had installed nearly $84,000 into her account, and she did not report this to the Department of Social and Health Services.
00:29:39.000Rachel Dolezal is a mentally ill person.
00:29:41.000She's a white girl who believes that she's black, and she has lived a really dissolute life.
00:29:45.000I mean, her life has been just a mess.
00:29:48.000Why is it that if I say that Rachel Dolezal is mentally ill, this is treated as common knowledge, but if I say that a man who believes he is a woman is mentally ill, this is treated as crazy?
00:31:11.000I would never want to do anything like that.
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00:31:27.000So, in other news, over in Parkland, Texas, this is an amazing story.
00:31:31.000According to thelocal10.com, several parents of victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Scott Peterson, who stood outside the school for several minutes while bullets rang out, had done his job, their children might not have lost their lives.
00:31:58.000A report that recently surfaced has some victims' families calling for a nude investigation of Peterson for a case he handled four years to the day prior to the massacre.
00:32:06.000The case involved two 17-year-old students bullying a 14-year-old freshman, with one holding down the younger boy by his ankles, while the other kicked the victim, grabbed his genitals, and then took the victim's own baseball bat and began shoving it against his buttocks, simulating rape through the boy's clothes.
00:32:19.000One of those assailants, the boy who allegedly held down the victim, was Scott Israel's son, the sheriff of Broward County.
00:32:26.000Brett, defense attorney Alex Ariza, who represents shooting victim Anthony Borges, who was shot five times in the Valentine's Day massacre but survived, said the case could have led to felony charges.
00:32:35.000He could have been charged with a lewd and lascivious.
00:32:36.000And I'm being conservative, said Ariza.
00:32:39.000Peterson claimed in the report it was a simple battery under the board's discipline matrix, and he decided to give both of the boys attacks a three day suspension.
00:33:17.000Obviously, it means that there was some sort of relationship between Scott Israel, the sheriff of Broward County, and Deputy Peterson.
00:33:24.000One of the boy's father says, listen, if Deputy Peterson had been made to answer for this, maybe he would have been replaced by a more competent deputy.
00:33:31.000If this wouldn't have been the sheriff's son, would his sexual assaults have been reduced to a simple battery?
00:33:35.000Apparently, Peterson noted in his report, the victim's parents were notified of the discipline and did not request additional law enforcement action.
00:33:49.000And Scott Israel, remember, has been defended by a bunch of the people in Parkland who wish to put blame on the NRA for what happened in Parkland.
00:33:56.000The reality is this is a law enforcement screw-up in every possible way, and corruption in local law enforcement is not relegated to issues of race.
00:34:04.000Very often it is relegated also to issues, it includes issues, of personal corruption, of relationships between people who then use those relationships in order to forward their own ambitions or to protect people who they know.
00:34:19.000Okay, meanwhile, ESPN continues to lose subscribers.
00:34:23.000The reason I bring this up is because I think so much of our sports debate now, whether it's the NFL kneeling controversy, which, you know, I don't know why you would kneel for the flag.
00:34:30.000I think there are better ways to protest.
00:34:32.000The entire NFL kneeling controversy has been driven by media coverage.
00:34:35.000If players were not getting media coverage for kneeling, then they wouldn't be doing it.
00:34:39.000And part of that is the insane politicization that has taken place over at ESPN.
00:34:53.000When I was a kid, I would get up at six o'clock in the morning because before the internet was really great with clips.
00:34:58.000is to get up at six o'clock in the morning every morning and run into the den and turn on ESPN and watch SportsCenter hoping to catch my White Sox highlights.
00:35:05.000And now you can watch eight hours of ESPN without ever getting a sports highlight.
00:35:09.000Instead, ESPN has become entirely talk radio combative back and forth between liberals and leftists.
00:35:15.000There's no one on the right ever on ESPN.
00:36:47.000So according to the Wall Street Journal, executives at the sports media giant wanted to seek out new audiences by spicing up shows with opinionated analysis and debate, including on SportsCenter, its struggling news and highlights franchise.
00:36:57.000Except that the struggle at SportsCenter has largely been occasioned by the politics of SportsCenter.
00:37:03.000Again, I can watch 45 minutes of SportsCenter without seeing a single baseball highlight.
00:37:07.000They've decided which sports they want to cover, and it's usually the NFL and the NBA.
00:37:11.000There's very little coverage of the MLB.
00:37:12.000I've done full articles on this over at Daily Wire about the discrepancy in coverage, and that's because they're going after different demographics.
00:37:19.000The reality is that demographically speaking, the disproportionate share of people who watch NBA and NFL are... NFL tends to be pretty proportionate across the spectrum.
00:37:28.000NBA fans tend to be disproportionately African-American, and MLB fans tend to be disproportionately white.
00:37:34.000ESPN has decided that because a lot of viewers of the NBA watch more sports program, it's not a stupid decision, they'll focus more on the NBA.
00:37:41.000But in doing so, in completely cutting the MLB out and the hockey, for example, I mean, they've cut a lot of their baseball coverage.
00:37:46.000Baseball Tonight is barely on anymore.
00:37:48.000They've cut out a lot of the audience they used to have, like legacy subscribers.
00:38:10.000And this, of course, is absolutely true.
00:38:12.000Linda Cohn, who's one of the most prominent female anchors, in April 2017, she gave a radio interview and she said ESPN's politics were pushing away viewers and the network had overpaid for NBA rights.
00:38:21.000So Skipper, of course, called her to yell at her.
00:38:24.000Why ESPN found itself torn up by the nation's partisan politics traces back to its fundamental business challenge.
00:38:29.000Its status as cable TV's most expensive channel had become a liability.
00:38:32.000Consumers grew fed up with their monthly cable prices, big cable distributors began offering discounted packages that didn't include the network, and consumers started opting for these.
00:38:40.000So there's obviously a cost-cutting problem.
00:38:44.000But that doesn't answer the real question, which is, was the answer to that to completely counter-program along the lines of stuff that nobody wanted to see?
00:39:20.000So, we're going to do Federalist Paper 29, which we didn't do last week, and we'll do Federalist Paper 30 for this week.
00:39:25.000So, Federalist Paper 29 is by Alexander Hamilton, and this is the concluding Federalist Paper about whether there should be a standing army in the United States that is run by the federal government.
00:39:34.000So, Alexander Hamilton says yes, and then he says that if the standing army starts to make trouble, the states will stand up to them.
00:39:40.000So, for all the talk about you don't need militias, you don't need armed citizens,
00:39:44.000Hamilton repeatedly and throughout the Federalist Papers claims that the best insurance against an overreaching federal government will be states that are able to call upon their citizens to defend themselves against federal overreach.
00:39:54.000Critics, according to Hamilton, said the federal army would be chief law enforcement mechanism, and they said that there was no provision for posse comitatus.
00:40:00.000So there are a lot of people who said, well, instead of the federal government having its own law enforcement body, why don't they just call on the states to help them enforce the law?
00:40:08.000Now, ironically enough, there was a push by the states against Posse Comitatus after the Civil War, because they said, we're not going to be the levers of the federal government.
00:40:15.000But at the time, there were a lot of people saying, we don't need the federal government to be quite so overreaching.
00:40:19.000We'll just have the state enforce some of this law.
00:40:22.000Well, Hamilton says that Congress could create such mechanisms, but in reality, a lot of these fears were justified.
00:40:28.000Because as the federal government grew, there was a serious move to grow the federal law enforcement bodies.
00:40:34.000Virtually every branch of the federal executive now has some sort of law enforcement agency attached to it with guns and with bulletproof vests and the whole deal.
00:40:44.000And that's because in the end, the government is essentially a group of people with guns, okay?
00:40:48.000The government is a body that is made for force.
00:40:57.000Here is his guarantee against federal tyranny.
00:40:59.000He says, What shadow of danger can there be from men who are daily mingling with the rest of their countrymen and who participate with them in the same feelings, sentiments, habits, and interests?
00:41:07.000What reasonable cause of apprehension can be inferred from a power in the Union to prescribe regulations for the militia and to command its services when necessary, while the particular states are to have the sole and exclusive appointment of the officers?
00:41:18.000If it were possible, seriously, to indulge a jealousy of the militia upon any conceivable establishment under the federal government, the circumstance of the officers being in the appointment of the state ought at once to extinguish it.
00:41:28.000So the idea was that there would be the state militia that would be called up by the federal government as supplementary forces.
00:41:34.000There'd be this corps of experts at the federal government level, and they would be the expert military, and then the states would supplement that with the National Guard, for example.
00:41:41.000In reality, obviously, the army has grown way beyond these bounds.
00:41:44.000The military has grown way beyond these bounds for both good and for ill in some cases.
00:41:48.000So Alexander, mostly for good, I think.
00:41:50.000But in terms of threats to state rights that don't involve actual horrible racism and Jim Crow and slavery, it's not great the federal government has the capacity to override everybody.
00:42:00.000Okay, so time for Federalist Paper number 30.
00:42:03.000So Federalist 30, now Hamilton shifts topics.
00:42:06.000And Hamilton, instead of talking about the standing military, he's going to talk about why the federal government should be able to levy taxes directly.
00:42:13.000So under the Articles of Confederation, which preceded the formation of the Constitution of the United States, the federal government requested money from the state government.
00:42:21.000So they would say, we need this much money from you, Connecticut, and Connecticut would have to turn in the money.
00:42:26.000Connecticut wouldn't turn in the money.
00:42:27.000So Alexander Hamilton says, listen, we can't run a federal government along these bases.
00:42:32.000He says national credit will be destroyed if we can't levy taxes to support issuance of bonds, for example, when we are in the middle of a war.
00:42:39.000He says money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic, as that which sustains its life in motion and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
00:42:49.000A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.
00:42:59.000From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must ensue.
00:43:02.000Either the people must be subjected to continual plunder as a substitute for a more eligible motive supplying the public wants, or the government must sink into fatal atrophy.
00:43:09.000So, either the government's going to come in and steal your money on an occasional basis, or they're going to collapse.
00:43:14.000Or the federal government will collapse, as it seemed to be doing under the Articles of Confederation.
00:43:18.000And then, he makes the argument that we need a system
00:43:22.000That allows the federal government to tax directly the citizens of the United States.
00:43:29.000The income tax was not constitutional until the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which happened in the early 20th century.
00:43:35.000Up until then, most taxes were through the form of property taxes on the state level, import taxes on the federal level, and the government was able to run on that basis.
00:43:48.000The government was able to run on the basis of that
00:43:51.000Now, I've advocated for a national sales tax.
00:43:53.000I think Hamilton probably would have advocated for the same.
00:43:56.000But that is not just because I think tariffs are generally bad policy, and using them as a way to garner revenue seems like a mistake.
00:44:04.000If we don't have the power to tax, then we're going to fall into a national debt from which we'll never be able to recover.
00:44:09.000Embedded in this message is a simple message for us.
00:44:12.000We now have $20 trillion in national debt.
00:44:16.000The only reason anyone is buying our bonds is because they expect us to pay that off.
00:44:20.000The only reason they expect us to pay it off is at some point they assume that we will massively tax our own citizenry, which means we better get our debt under control, or as Hamilton says, we're going to have to tax the living bejesus out of the entire American public.
00:45:51.000It's one of the reasons his approval ratings are going up.
00:45:52.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:45:58.000Okay, so, Dr. David Hansen, who's created the eerily lifelike Sophia robot, has now revealed his vision for a future of androids in a new research paper.
00:46:08.000He says that humans are already making love to sex robots in 2018, but soon they'll be able to marry their amorous androids as well.
00:46:16.000So androids will get the same civil rights as humans by the year 2045, which includes the right to marry, own land, and vote in general elections.
00:46:23.000Good luck with the voting in general elections, although they can't do worse than most people are doing with their votes.
00:46:28.000So his new paper suggests that people will be marrying robots.
00:46:31.000Here's my problem with the whole marrying of robots idea.
00:46:33.000Presumably these robots will be unable to procreate.
00:46:52.000Now, maybe AI develops to the point where robots have lifelike intelligence, but they certainly don't have the ability to procreate, and the notion that you're going to marry a piece of machinery because it pleases you.
00:47:06.000As soon as you said that marriage was between any two individuals who loved each other, as opposed to an institution about the bearing and rearing of children, you were immediately running down the path to people marrying whatever it was that they pleased.
00:47:17.000Also, you do have to ask the question whether you can actually get proper consent from a sex robot.
00:47:21.000Uh, you know, if we're going to be in the area of consent, it seems to me that, you know, animals can't give consent.
00:47:26.000I guess the idea with the robot is the robot isn't alive, so who cares?
00:47:29.000I mean, you're just, you know, presumably having sex with a chair, essentially.
00:47:32.000But at a certain point, there will be serious moral issues with you having sex with an android if the android achieves a certain level of intelligence.
00:47:39.000And this is something that people who are participating in this sort of activity ought to consider.