Podcasts about Senate House

On this week-in-review, Crystal Fincher and Shauna Sowersby discuss:

U.S. Senator, Jim Banks, joined Fort Wayne's Morning News with Kayla Blakeslee to talk about the spending bill that the house passed on Tuesday. Now the Senate will vote on it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas Public Policy Foundation Policy Director for K-12 Education, Jorge Borrego, joined the program to talk about the successful passing of the school voucher bill through the Senate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Republicans vote on Senate leader and House GOP conference chair positions. Republicans plan for the lame-duck session as Trump heads to the Hill. And election results and Trump appointments continue to impact committee compositions. Jacob Fulton has your CQ Morning Briefing for Wednesday, Nov. 13.

This week on the podcast live from the Festival of Higher Education in London, England is grappling with Labour's longer-term aspirations for higher education - we try to figure out what it wants. OfS wants to silence the “boomers”, regional access and participation planning is coming and we dive into the history of our venue for the festival, Senate House.With Vicki Stott, Chief Executive Officer at the Quality Assurance Agency, Alistair Jarvis, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Partnerships and Governance) at the University of London, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.Alex Usher's One Thought to Start Your DayHow to better understand students' sense of belongingUniversities may be a priority for reform but they are not a priority for investmentSome providers are cutting financial support for students – with OfS' blessingAccess and participation planning gains a regional dimensionBridget Phillipson has set out the government's priorities for HE reform Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A daily non-partisan, conversational breakdown of today's top news and breaking news stories This Week's Sponsors:  – Boll & Branch Bedding & Sheets – 20% Off 1st Order + Free Shipping | CODE: MONEWS – Athletic Greens  – AG1 Powder + 1 year of free Vitamin D & 5 free travel packs – Factor Meals – Ready-to-eat, chef-prepared delivered meals | 50% Off | CODE: monews50  Headlines: – Welcome to Mo News – Former President Trump Beat Kamala Harris To Take The White House (00:00) – Republicans Take The Senate (13:00) – House Is Still A Toss Up  – “Wednesday Morning Quarterbacking” (07:45) — Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

Taylor Morgan, co-host of KSL at Night and political insider, joins D2 to discuss how the races for congress are shaping out around the country.

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on some of the many primaries taking place around the country today.

On this episode: Kyle Kondik–the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics–joins the show to discuss the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump (R), Trump's choice of J.D. Vance (R) as his running mate, and how Joe Biden's (D) debate performance may affect presidential polling. Plus – more on Senate/House projections, abortion ballot measures, and how plausible it is that Biden actually steps out of the race. Follow Kyle on X: https://x.com/kkondik  Check out Sabato's latest polling and reporting: https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/  Sign up for our Newsletters: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia_Email_Updates  Stream "On the Ballot" on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you have questions, comments, or love for BP, feel free to reach out at ontheballot@ballotpedia.org or on X (formerly Twitter) @Ballotpedia. *On The Ballot is a conversational podcast featuring interviews with guests across the political spectrum. The views and opinions expressed by them are solely their own and are not representative of the views of the host or Ballotpedia as a whole.

What did you think of JD Vance's speech at the RNC last night? https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/vance-working-class-gold-star-families-honored-takeaways-from-day-3-of-rnc-5688744?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=lead-story-0-title-0 Rumor is that Joe will drop out of race cause mega donors are demanding it: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/07/18/hollywood-megadonor-tom-strickler-threatens-vulnerable-senate-dems-publicly-abandon-biden-or-you-wont-get-another-dime/ Does Biden drop out this weekend? Covid excuse will be reason? https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-top-democrats-claim-biden-will-drop-out-this-weekend-mstef/ Flags at half staff to honor Peter Courtney: https://www.koin.com/news/politics/senator-peter-courtney-flags-half-staff-mast/ OR Senate/House Republican leaders demand Kotek fire Exec Director over assassination retweet: https://oregoncatalyst.com/79157-senate-house-leaders-call-kotek-fire-director-proassassination-comment.html The fix is in: OR DOJ wont prosecute Dem party leaders for FTX donation fraud: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/07/oregon-prosecutors-wont-charge-state-democratic-party-leaders-convicted-crypto-exec-with-breaking-campaign-finance-law.html Portland Mayoral candidate and city commissioner Gonzalez gets extra security because of death threats: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/07/portland-commissioner-already-provided-247-security-receives-enhanced-protection-following-online-threat.html Kotek wants to change school funding formula to get more money, but where's it coming from? https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2024/07/after-portlands-teacher-strike-and-statewide-budget-cuts-kotek-backs-significant-changes-to-school-funding-formula.html  

Diane continues coverage of current events. Tonight's topics include more about the World Health Organizations agenda and the Abortion Bill HR12 that 211 members of the U.S. Senate/House are pushing. Like other news Diane shared, these events are snapshots of a bigger picture and she encourages listeners to be watchful and prayerful about the future.

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports New Jersey Democrats and Republicans are picking Senate and House candidates today.

Former President Donald Trump is facing "insurmountable difficulties" in obtaining a bond to satisfy the $464 million civil fraud judgment, his attorneys said Monday in a new appellate court filing, and the magnitude of which would require him to use real estate as collateral.Judge Arthur Engoron in February ordered Trump to pay $464 million in disgorgement and interest after holding him liable for doing a decade's worth of business with fraudulent financial statements that overvalued his real estate holdings and hyped his wealth. Trump was also barred from leading any New York company for three years. His sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also fined $4 million apiece and barred for two years."Defendants have faced what have proven to be insurmountable difficulties in obtaining an appeal bond for the full $464 million," according to an affirmation by Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten.While his lawyer said Trump is "financially stable" and maintains "substantial assets," the magnitude of the judgment would require him to use his real estate as collateral for the bond. So far, according to Garten's affirmation, no surety bond provider approached by Trump is willing to accept real estate as collateral, including Chubb, the insurance giant underwriting Trump's $91.6 million bond to cover the $83 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case, plus interest.Surprise, Surprise! Putin Wins Another Russian “Election” That Vladimir Putin won his “election” is not a shocker. Exit polls show he came away with 88% of the vote. That it wasn't 100% is the surprise. The “win” gives Putin six more years in power at a time when his invasion of Ukraine has the world fearing what he'll do next. Trump gave a whopper of a campaign speech over the weekend. He warned of “bloodshed” if he doesn't win in November.  He also said the January 6th Committee should be jailed and that some undocumented immigrants aren't people. It seems he's doubling down on the hate and revenge.True Crime Corner brings Courtney to the show with a story she's been researching for weeks. Wait until you hear about the Octopus Murders!Comedian and actor Alonzo Bodden will stop by. We'll ask him about winning Last Comic Standing and hosting America's Worst Driver. He may also talk about his experience donating a kidney to his brother. The cavalcade of guests won't stop!  No one knows politics the way Howie Klein does.Writer, political activist, media personality, and former record label executive, DJ and Producer, Howie Klein will swings by. You're gonna love him!  The Mark Thompson Show 3/18/24Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com#Trump #Election #Putin #BidenVsTrump #Election2024 #PoliticalAnalysis #AlonzoBodden #HowieKlein #TrueCrime #CampaignSpeculation #PoliticalRivalry #APNews #PoliticalInsights #PresidentialCandidates #CaliforniaLegislature  #LegislativePriorities #PolicyMaking #GovernmentInitiatives #CaliforniaNews #APNews #LegislativeTrends  #BidenApproval #AmericanMood #CulturalCommentary #PoliticalAnalysis #EntertainmentNews #PublicSentiment #PoliticalCritique #SocialCommentary

Rep. Adam Schiff wanted to run against Republican Steve Garvey for Senate — and got his wish on Tuesday night. George Gascón leads the pack for DA, but will face a battle in November. San Francisco voters passed measures — which Mayor London Breed supported — that will expand police powers and restrict welfare recipients. Can SF still be called a progressive city?  On Tuesday, Bitcoin's value soared past previous records, largely because federal regulators started allowing it to be traded in exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Wandering Stars” is a new novel by Tommy Orange that explores how addiction and trauma, such as the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, ripple through a family for generations.  Instead of juicing citrus or eating them out of your hand, Evan Kleiman encourages you to add them to a beautifully composed salad that includes pink radicchio. 

On this month's episode of Mano a Mano, co-hosts George Law-García and Martin Rivera are joined by Prof. Andrés L. Cordova, Esq., Chairman of the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (PRAC to the USCCR), as they embark on a crucial exploration of Puerto Rico's civil rights landscape.On the pod, they dissect the groundbreaking memorandum by the PRAC, shedding light on the enduring impacts of the infamous Insular Cases; cover the history of the USCCR and its role in addressing democratic deficits; and explore a path toward equality and justice.Additional Updates/ Topics Covered:- Updates on Congress and its impact on resolving Puerto Rico's territory status- Senate + House returning from recess, facing priorities like avoiding a government shutdown & passing appropriations for 2024- The challenging situation during the 2024 election year as it relates to Puerto Rico's fight for equal justice & self-determination -  The impact on legislative issues beyond basic fundingRESOURCES:-  Click here to read the memorandum from the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -  Click here to learn about the ongoing legacy of the Insular Cases TIMESTAMPS[00:02:22] Funding the federal government - Deadline approaches...[00:07:11] History of the US Commission on Civi Rigths and The Puerto Rico Advisory Committee established.[00:09:36] Unequal treatment in Puerto Rico.[00:14:24] The impact of Insular Cases.[00:16:30] Territorial status of Puerto Rico.[00:21:25] Territories and Insular Cases.[00:25:44] Insular cases and constitutional rights.[00:29:39] Statehood movement and language.[00:34:17] Constitutional and political issues.[00:36:07] Incorporation and statehood debate.[00:40:48] Puerto Rico status debate.[00:43:31] The importance of advisory boards.[00:49:32] Educating about territorial status.[00:50:15] Democratic deficit. Watch episodes of Mano a Mano on YouTube @PuertoRico51st.Interested in learning more about the statehood movement? Visit our Website: https://www.pr51st.comSign-up for Email Updates: http://www.pr51st.com/take-action/sign-up/Follow us on: Facebook - @PR51stTwitter - @PuertoRico51stInstagram - @PR51st Produced by Caandor Labs.

Somebody is lying in the Trump/Epstein story. Last week's school shooting in Iowa could be another example of a known wolf. Senate/House leaders strike funding deal. Mayorkas says the DHS is doing its job, actually. DeSantis has a closing pitch in Iowa. It's a miracle nobody died in an explosion in Fort Worth. Something may happen this year that hasn't happened since Thomas Jefferson was president. And "our side" (whatever that is) is getting better at something...

Scandals rock the Senate House, the Jonathan Majors trial is still ongoing with new information, Tory Lanez Body Guard speaks up, and 2023 is shaping up to be the year of the scandal. Hang out with Roy as he breaks down the latest on pop culture PLUS: Stick around for the main topic as he breaks down several things men of all backgrounds must do to become better going into 2024. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backtocenter/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backtocenter/support

On 15 March 44 BC, Rome's dictator strode into the Senate House of Pompey for a meeting with the city's political elite. Little did he know that this would be the final meeting of his life. In episode one of our new series on Julius Caesar's rise and fall, Rob Attar is joined by Professor Barry Strauss to describe the momentous events of a day that would transform Rome forever. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam and Ayesha come to you live from the inaugural Festival of Higher Education at London's Senate House, joined by former Labour minister and president of University of the Arts London James Purnell, CEO of Universities UK Vivienne Stern, and founder of Wonkhe Mark Leach. They discuss the problems with funding Universities face, the reliance on income from foreign students, the question of grade inflation, and the claim that the UK has too many students taking low value degrees. What should a future government do?The Power Test is a political podcast where each week Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika bring the biggest and most difficult political issues into focus and put fresh ideas to the test to see if they are capable of winning popular support and delivering real change in government.Follow @ThePowerTest on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePowerTestFollow @AyeshaHazarika: https://twitter.com/ayeshahazarikaFollow @SamFreedman: https://twitter.com/SamfrSubscribe to The Power Test substack for all the latest developments: https://thepowertest.substack.com/For more information head to thepowertest.co.uk.The Power Test is a Tempo & Talker Production: tempotalker.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Haunted libraries became famous with Ghostbusters. Our heroes investigate disturbances at the New York Public Library and encounter a ghost that tells them to shush. Surprisingly, this doesn't seem to be so far off the mark if we look at tales of haunted libraries. What stories of ghosts are there from these book-loving spaces of calm? Let's go ghost-hunting at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, three libraries in Oxford, the Senate House Library, and Raglan Castle in Wales in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/haunted-libraries/ Ghosts of Senate House blog - https://ghostsofsenatehouse.blogspot.com/ Fancy dress and Halloween talk - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-guising-to-fancy-dress-the-lore-of-costumes-at-halloween-tickets-723296939617?aff=oddtdtcreator Pre-recorded folklore talks: https://fabulousfolkloreschool.ezycourse.com/all-products?category=1035 Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Enjoyed this episode and want to show your appreciation? Buy Icy a coffee to say 'thanks' at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Request an episode: https://forms.gle/gqG7xQNLfbMg1mDv7 Get extra snippets of folklore on Instagram at https://instagram.com/icysedgwick 'Like' Fabulous Folklore on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fabulousfolklore/ Find Icy on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/icysedgwick.bsky.social Tweet Icy at https://twitter.com/IcySedgwick

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan issued a joint statement July 10 to announce an agreement on proposed legislation that will deliver the biggest property tax cut in Texas history. Both leaders met last week in Austin and, along with members of the House and Senate, have worked day and night to reach a consensus. The deal represents a significant win for providing relief to Texas property owners and reflects the commitment of Texas leaders to address the concerns of taxpayers and provide significant relief from the burden of escalating property taxes. Highlights of the billion...Article Link

Yeah, we vote every two-ish years, but I figured it was time to finally figure out how it all works, behind all the ballot papers and 'vote for me' cards.We cover:Dai's origin story of leaving a war-torn country, which a lot of families would resonate withHow Cabramatta was back in the early 80's, 90'sThe accumulation of events that eventually led to her career within politicsWhat are the basics of politics?Why do younger people tend to have a low interest in politics?What's the difference between Council and the Senate/House of Representatives election?What obstacles did Dai face when moving into a political career as an Asian-Australian?Guest: Dai Le - Independent Member for FowlerItems mentioned:Labor's Fowler parachute for Kristina KeneallyDAWNHow to Vote ComicLinkedIn Post regarding diversity1:17:35 - Trai Oc Si Mui - I asked my parents what this was in English and they had no idea. I will find out eventually and report back.TV Show/Movie: The Big Bang Theory // The Stamford Prison ExperimentDai's details can be found on her guest page on our website.Want to get in touch? Send us an email at ricenmicspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on our socials: https://linktr.ee/ricenmicspodcastMusic: aKu - The Final Blow

We are currently witnessing a huge tension in the Republican party. MAGA, and before that its predecessor, the Tea Party, are challenging the establishment wing of the party. All of this at a time when the next Presidential election should be a shoe in for the Republican candidate against a weak and doddery Biden, but have the Democrats gone too far in their destruction of the American Dream? Is there a way back using policy and the political system? Bob McEwen, who served five terms as a Congressman and is the Executive Director of Council for National Policy shares his insights on all this and more. Bob McEwen is Senior Advisor with the nationally recognized law firm of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald. As such he maintains offices in Cincinnati and Washington, DC. An Ohio native, Bob McEwen represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives for six terms. Prior to his Congressional service, he operated a successful Ohio Real Estate and Development firm as well as serving three terms in the Ohio General Assembly as the Senior Republican on the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee. Rep. McEwen served as Chairman of the Environmental Affairs task force of the United States delegation to the European Parliament. McEwen was selected by the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Congress as the chief spokesman for the United States in discussions with European Green Party and other Environmental Organizations. In 2005, McEwen and two others, Members of Congress, hosted the third conference of Balkan Prime Ministers for the purpose of facilitating dialogue and reconciliation in that troubled region of the world. On August 23, 1989, Congressman McEwen and United States Senator Robert Dole participated as United States observers in Warsaw, Poland to the first ever Parliamentary election of a non-Communist leader of a Soviet bloc country. Hours later, the new Prime Minister, in his first official act, received the Congressman and Senator prior to meeting with the Soviet representatives of the regime that had occupied that nation for fifty years. This action was the spark that encouraged the collapse of Soviet dominated governments throughout Eastern Europe culminating in the destruction of the Berlin Wall ten weeks later. Senator Dole and Rep. McEwen met the following day with the President and U.S. National Security team in Kennebunkport, Maine to fashion the United States response and position in support of Warsaw Pact nations seeking to break away from Soviet domination. Representative McEwen served as an official United States observer in Moscow during both the 1991 Soviet Coup attempt and to the Kremlin in January of 1992 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Mr. McEwen was elected by his colleagues to the two most coveted positions in the U. S. Congress; the Select Committee on Intelligence which oversees all of our nation's secrets, and the powerful House Committee on Rules which has jurisdiction over all legislation in the Congress. As one of only four Republicans on the thirteen member Rules Committee, Mr. McEwen managed nearly one-third of all legislation on the House floor for the Republican side of the Congressional aisle. McEwen legislation approved by the Congress included the National Strategy Act that realigned the chain of command during times of hostilities, directly from the Theater Commander to the National Command Authority in Washington. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and General Norman Schwarzkopf have credited this change with playing a major role in the success of Operation Desert Storm. He was selected by Administration and Congressional leaders to floor manage such critical national security legislation as the B-2 bomber authorization, the nuclear freeze debate, and to give the closing arguments before the vote to authorize military action by the United States in Desert Storm. Mr. McEwen has often been selected as negotiator to bring resolution to Senate/House conference committee impasses on dozens of pieces of legislation, particularly affecting Public Works, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and International Relations. Connect with Bob... WEBSITE: https://bobmcewen.com/ TWITTER http://www.twitter.com/bobmcewen/ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bob-McEwen/211135982248187 Council for National Policy... WEBSITE: https://cfnp.org/ Interview recorded 15.5.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Bob McEwen. Bob McEwen is the executive director of Council for National Policy and I had the privilege of meeting him whenever I was over there stateside at their conference in February. He's also was elected five times as member of Congress for Ohio and anyone who has won five elections deserves to be listened to. So we discuss a whole range of issues. his time as congressman, what that was like, what it means to be a conservative and a Republican in the US, those have always been the same thing but seem to be separate in many ways and we discussed that separation. And then looking at the clash between, I guess, the establishment and a more conservative orientated group in the Republican Party, the Tea Party and now Trump, and what that means. With the Democrats being so reckless, is there a way back using policies and legislation? And then we end up, of course, with the upcoming elections. And I ask Bob for his thoughts on that and where we may be 18 months on during that. So I know you'll enjoy listening to Bob as much as I do speaking with him and giving his insight on all these range of policies. And hello, Hearts of Oak. It is wonderful to have an individual who was elected to Congress at the age of 30 in 1980, won re-election five times there. And I've seen him described as a textbook Republican, opposed to abortion, gun control, high taxes, and as the Executive Director of Council for National Policy. Bob McEwen, it's wonderful to have you with us. (Bob McEwen) Peter, it's my pleasure. Thank you so much. Not at all. And the website there, Council for National Policy, is on the screen. And Counter for National Policy stands for Limited Government, Traditional Values, and Strong Concerted Defence, which which is conservative values, which we all hold dear to. If I could be ask you about yourself, your time as a congressman, that nonstop, I guess, political campaign. We don't understand that in the UK, because we have every five years, where I know you did every two years. But maybe you can let us know what made you so successful? You won time and time again. Maybe just let us into what made you successful standing for Congress. Well, you're exactly right. The United States, it's only 240 years ago, but that was a real transition into the idea that individuals would decide, set the course of their policy. We didn't have a template. We set up three tiers. We set up an individually elected leader or president, individually elected members of Congress accountable to no one else but the voters. We had a turnover every 24 months, the House of Representatives, everyone is up for re-election, And then we had an independent judiciary. That morphed into the parliamentary system, where most of the democracies of the world, when they choose a majority in the parliament, that's the person that then chooses the prime minister. So there's a coordination there. So it's really hard for people to fully grasp as to how is currently the situation. We have a Democrat president, independently elected. And yet the majority of the House of Representatives is Republican. We have a Republican speaker, and they're the ones that pass the laws. It creates for a dynamic tension, and it was designed for that purpose. The US Constitution was designed for one reason, one, only one, only one, that was to prevent tyranny, period, end of discussion. It wasn't there to be efficient. It wasn't to have a strong anything. It was there to prevent tyranny, so that even when Franklin Roosevelt could carry all but two states in an overwhelming landslide, and that he wanted to add members to the Supreme Court. He couldn't do it because the Congress stood. There's an independent tension there that prevents tyranny and that allowed freedom, and that's why this little 4% of the population of the world, more books, plays, symphonies, copyrights, inventions, and the rest of the other 96% combined. Not because those people are smarter or because they work harder. But because they're freer and the degree to which freedom accelerates is when prosperity accelerates, when you impose socialism and take away freedom you can make any place when I was young the richest city in the world was a place called Detroit Michigan and they elected some socialists that said we can put a stop to this and so currently Detroit Michigan is the poorest most corrupt city north of the Rio Grande in all of North America so it's the freedom that creates the wealth not the geography, it's the ideas. And our political system was designed for that purpose, that people would constantly have input, that the second a person thought they are entitled to it, they had to stand for re-election. So every January, a member of Congress either files for re-election or gets sworn into office, one or the other. Well, I want to get more into US politics, but I saw that you're just back from Hungary, CPAC in Hungary. I was trying to go myself, and in the end, it didn't happen. But maybe you want to just touch on that, kind of that sets in the context our European audience before we move over to the US. But what was that like over in Hungary at CPAC? Well, first of all, Peter, under the free enterprise system, the only way that I can achieve wealth, the only way that people can voluntarily reach in their pocket and hand money to me is if I do something for them that is greater, that is more beneficial than the money they have in their hand. And so we, we stay awake nights, dreaming up ways how to do something good for a person, such that they'll slam on their brakes and pull in and say, you're going to wash my car and clean the carpet and watch the windows and throughout the day. I'd much rather have that than have this $10 bill. I'd much rather have that parachute than $60. And so therefore, the freedom and creation comes from free people. So for the Soviet Union controlled two thirds of all the land mass on the planet, but they couldn't make a hairdryer, they couldn't make an automobile, they couldn't make a washing machine. They had to go steal from the ideas, so they made their airplanes look like the airplanes were created by the free people, and et cetera, et cetera. So in the idea of conservatism, that is to preserve and protect the freedom that allows for abundance. Now I said there are two ways to get money from a person. One of them is that I figure out ways to bless them, so they say, oh that, that, that, that app on my phone. Oh, I'd like to have for 99 cents, I can have that app. Well, the person that dreams that up, doesn't hope that a million people down and become a millionaire. So that's why over virtually all of the apps come from only free countries. The other ones have to steal because socialism does what? Socialism redistributes. Now that's a fancy term for stealing. So when you walk into a store and you grab things off the shelf, put them in your pocket and walk out, you are redistributing them. You redistribute them from the shelf of the owner into your pocket. Now, have you created any wealth? No, no. Have you redistributed? Yes, because the degree to which you benefit is the degree to which the other person is diminished. And under socialism, that's why they're always poor. And the more socialism that you have, the greater the poverty you have because you're stealing from the productive, therefore they're disincentivized to produce because they don't get the reward. And you reward people who didn't produce it, And why should they produce when they get it for free? And so you go into a country like Venezuela or Rhodesia or all these great abundant countries and you turn them into absolute hell holes because of a thing called socialism. Socialism and in the scriptures it was referred to as covetousness. Covetousness is when I wanna take something that someone else has. Stealing is when I actually take it. Covet is when I want to take it. And so the Ten Commandments that were put on the walls of all of our classrooms for all these years, it said we didn't have to have magnetometers because people didn't bring guns to work, because we said we shouldn't kill. And we didn't have to have locks on their bicycles because we said thou shalt not steal. But then we had the prosperity because number 10 is on every wall, thou shalt not covet. I don't want to win. So my wife, when we travel around, people often say, you know, I've been to America, I've been to America. And she would often ask them, What is the thing that startled you or surprised you or was the most surprising about America? The answer that comes back more than anything else is, well, in America, you don't have walls around your property. You don't know where your backyard stops and where the neighbour starts. Well, the reason for that is because we didn't covet. Now, when you go into Latin America, you not only have walls around everybody's property, you have cut glass over top of the property because you covet. In America, when you saw a beautiful home, you didn't say, I want to take that house. You would say, someday I want to have a home like that. Or a nice car. We were in one of the nicest countries in Central America. I was waiting to go to dinner with the attorney general. And we were standing outside, our wives went in to eat, and he just kept talking and talking, not going in the restaurant. I got frustrated. What's going on here, Wanegger? And finally, a person appeared, and he handed him some money, and we went in to eat. Well, what happened was he hired a person to watch his car while we were at the restaurant. Now that is a result of covetousness. Now when Moses was having a hard time, Jethro, his father-in-law, came to him and he said, you know, Moses, God and I've been talking here and we think you've got in over your head and you have to divide these people up into federal, state, and local government. You need to have thousands, hundreds, and tens. And Moses, here's three things you need to look for. Three things. That is, there's only two choices. Either man thinks he's God or he recognizes God. Number one is those that fear God. And I'll just tell you, you don't want to marry a person who thinks they're God. You don't want to go into business with a person who thinks they're God. And you don't want to elect a person who thinks they're God. I said Moses, those that fear God. Number two, lovers of truth. Okay, what does that mean? That means a free enterprise system in which you sign a contract and you keep your word. You look a guy in the eye and you shake your hand you honour it. If you're dishonest, if you're the Middle East, if you're much of Asia, if you're a place you have to have contracts that are six inches thick in order to go to the grocery store because that they're going to lie and cheat at every opportunity. He said therefore you want those people who fear God, lovers of truth, and, Moses, get this straight, haters of socialism. That is, if this guy's going to want what somebody else has, you don't want a person like that in power. He used the term covetousness in Exodus 18, 21. It says, fear God, lovers of truth, hating covetousness. And so the purpose of the conservative political action committee is to support conservative values, which respect private ownership, as opposed to socialism, which promises that, you know, if a thief comes and takes something, we say that that guy's bad, he's a thief. If he runs for office and he gets a mob to come and take it, that's called socialism. And so if you vote for me, you don't have to go in and steal your car insurance. I'll just, we'll just make the car insurance do it, etc. So the political action committee. The opportune conservatives get together periodically and all these folks and all all these various issues, encourage one another. And this most recent one was in Budapest. And that was an opportunity because the prime minister there is fighting the tides of socialism in Europe. And he welcomed us with opened arms. We were pleased and happy to be there. I love Budapest. I've been there many, many times. It is a beautiful city and a country that strives for freedom looking after its own identity. But you mentioned socialism and I know you have travelled over to Eastern Europe before during the fall of communism and that's something which you've been passionate about, freedom for those in Eastern Europe and Russia. Tell us about those trips, why would an American go all the way over there to speak on freedom? Well, it's the constant fight. There's a desire to control other people, and under free enterprise, you can be honoured by inventing something, or creating something, or writing something, or building something. That's why in free countries, we honour those people. Under socialist countries, the only way that you get power is that you take it. When you do that, you have to control people. For example, in the Baltics, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, periodically, they would go through and they would just take the largest farmers, people that were successful, and they would ship them off to Siberia, or they would disappear in one way or another. There's this constant lack of freedom. That is that you're at the mercy of what the state decides to do. That's a horrible thing, and that's a fight that is there all the time. We are experiencing right now at this moment, and it ebbs and flows, in the 1930s, it swept almost completely encompassed Europe, as you know, the National Socialist Party went all the way from the Atlantic Ocean, all the way to the Soviet border. It took Americans and Canadians and Brits and Australians landing at Normandy to begin to punch that back. Now we have this competition, always, as Anne Rand says, that you can vote socialism in, but you have to fight, shoot your way out. And so what we see is this constant effort to have, when people get their choice, when they have a freedom, they have the opportunity. They always choose freedom. But that's why totalitarians, and we are sympathetic to them, we have come through a time of the last 40 years of tremendous, tremendous explosion of growth and prosperity. And now we see it trying again. They always have a new idea. Sometimes it was racism. Other times it was religion. And now it's environment. And so the reason that I have to tell you what kind of house to live in, and how far you can travel and what kind of car you can drive and what kind of is is not because I'm a communist and you're not or because I'm a Nazi and you're not it's because I'm an environmentalist and you must do what I say. There's always an excuse for why people want to control other people and that gets back to a concept spiritual as to whether or not people should be allowed to do that and that's why when you abandon God, the God part then it's just a a matter of the most powerful against the weakest. When you do the God part, that is that every person has a unique skill and talent and creation because of Almighty God, that makes it such that you do not have a right as a group to come in and tell people what to do. So that's why Moses was correct when he had God first, then the freedom of the political system, and then the economic system of not coveting. Absolutely, a relationship with God gives everyone value an equal purpose and merit and gives that responsibility. And Peter, without God, people will literally tell you that the rocks and stones and the weeds are more important. The bugs take priority. Now, you only do that, if you tell me that, see, if you tell me every, the fork in the road, the fork in the road for every political decision comes from this question. If you believe that man created God. Or you believe that God created man. And when I sit there and listen to you tell me how I should eat bugs because you think I should, because you don't want me to produce the oil, the gas that's there in abundance, then I can also tell you where you stand on God. You think that you're God. You do not believe in God. You believe that you're the supreme and you're going to dictate to other people. So our freedom is dependent upon that. And I love the libertarians, they're wonderful people, but they think that it's innate in people to do what's right. History has shown us that that's not correct, that there is a godly standard that we must abide by. As you do that, there's abundance and peace and prosperity. The degree to which you abandon it is which you have death, destruction, and poverty. With that clash we are now seeing, what does it mean to be a conservative, and I guess a Republican, in the US? Is it different now than during your time in Congress? Well, I probably, and that's a very good question. I haven't given it that much thought and so as I as I analyse it I tend to think not, There's always this desire for people to control other folks. Yeah, this socialist is national socialism It's this Union of Socialist Republics and the USSR and if see the same thing in China There's always this idea that I'm going to control what you can see and what you and if you don't agree with me then I'll shut you off, I'll burn your books. Only the left burns books. Only the left, you know, we don't fear. And let me just explain why that is, Peter. If you and I are in, if I walk into the room where you are, and I say that room is 25 feet wide, and somebody else says, I think it's 20, I think it's, another guy says, I think it's 30, I think it's 29, we can all sit there and we say, oh, isn't that wonderful? We can all debate it, and we can write white papers, and we can sit around the faculty lounge and talk about it, and everybody's content until someone comes in and measures it. And when they measure it, here's what the measurement does. The measurement is the truth and it reveals error. So a person comes in and measures it and find out it's only 18 feet wide. That means that everybody in the room knows what I said was wrong. And here's the person that said it was 25, the person said it was 30, the person said it was 32. They all hate the person who said it was 18, because that's truth. Error hates truth. Now, conservatives don't fear. We have the truth, so therefore we can let a thousand liberal speakers come and speak. We don't care, but they can't let one. They can't let one conservative get up and speak, because the truth will reveal the error. Let me just hit it again. Let's suppose that you're prosecuting a fellow for stealing an automatic teller machine out of the bank drive-in. And so you're in the court and the defence counsel says, why, he wouldn't do such a thing, why he loves his mother and he was off having dinner with his sister and here's the receipts from the restaurant. You don't care what she says because when you're finished, you're going to show the security camera of him driving his pickup up to the ATM. You see him put the chain around the ATM. You see his face on the camera as you lean over the camera and the fingerprints and the truth will overcome the error such that, here's the point, the only way they can succeed is to prevent the presentation of truth. Your Honour, I object. Your Honour, I object. I object because the truth will overcome the error. That's why they have to shout. That's why they have to burn books. That's why they have to cancel people. That's why they have to deny them access to TikTok. That's why they have to tell that Donald Trump can't speak on television. Because the truth overcomes the error. Therefore, they have to band together. And in the course of this, has that changed? It's always been that way, but I'm increasingly optimistic that people are beginning to see it. And the thing is that truth always wins, because the whack-a-mole, you just can't whack it enough times. And you might succeed for a while. And, you know, Adolf could have his book burning sessions all across Europe, but eventually it comes through. And then he had the Soviet Union, but eventually with technology, people could see the truth. And so now, what the Chinese have done is they've begun to infiltrate the various communication systems so that they can shut off people from Twitter and they can shut off people from Facebook but they constantly have to go down and shut down truth because truth overcomes error. We and conservatives, we do not fear that. You say anything you want to say because when you're finished work, all you have to say is, here's the measurement, it's 18 feet, here it is. And truth eventually wins, and that's why I'm optimistic about the future. But I repeat, there's always and always will be a battle. Well, on truth, it's a question that's been in my mind over the last three years. What is truth? When Pilate asked Jesus. I think traditionally, if you look back in history, generations have been able to understand that and answer that. And we now live in a society where actually people don't know what truth is. Truth is subjective, it's no longer objective. How does it, and we are having the same battle in the UK, in Europe, as I know you're having in the US on that. Where does the conservative movement, the Republican Party, how does it fit into that confusion and chaos, I guess, of what is truth, what is right and wrong. And that is the question of the age, that absolutely it is, and that's why God told Moses, the first thing is settle that, because there's only two definitions of truth. One is what I think is true, and the other is what God says is true. Those are the only two options. And so those that don't want to do what God says, then they talk about my truth. And my truth says that a man is a woman. And the absurdity of that is naturally overwhelming, such that in the first chapter of Romans, when they folks went after, they set themselves up as God, and they said, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And so Paul said, no, we need to get back to God. We need, there has to be a standard. So I am privileged to be a part of the Turning Point USA, and Charlie Kirk went around to these college campuses where these indoctrination things were going on from all the professors, and he would just set up a card table and share truth. And of course, that's very distressing because truth overcomes error. And so as people began to see the truth, and they began to read and discuss and talk about the fact that socialism has never worked. And if socialism worked, by now it would have found a spot where it did. And so when they can see it doesn't work. The next thing, Peter, here's the interesting thing. When they began to think with truth economically, then they began to think truth politically, and then they began to ask questions spiritually, because it's a value system. It's a God made us and we have rights, and all of those things are anathema to socialism. And so now, all across America, and now starting around the world, in high schools elsewhere, are starting these Turning Point USA faith, because there were so many young people asking about these spiritual, that the woke churches, the woke effort had gotten into the pulpits by saying that we don't want to offend anyone. Well, you know, if Jesus Christ could have gone around without offending a person, he probably would have tried it. The idea that truth offends, it's not the person that offends, truth. And evil will be offended by truth. And so what we've seen is that there is this great uprising of folks that it begins to follow across the board, of a worldview, and it gets back to that first one, Either I'm God. Or he's God. And every one of us face that decision at some time in our lifetime. I love being at Counter for National Policy in February and listening to the conversation, I think with James Lindsay and Charlie Kirk. That was a phenomenal insight. But tell us, because Counter for National Policy is maybe a more traditional conservative group. You've got Turning Point and what they're doing with American Fest, and I watched at their conference in December or targeting or going after the younger vote, the younger group. It's interesting to see those alliances, because it's not either or. It's groups working with certain areas of society, others working with others. Tell us about that kind of connection, because as I said, I was blown away by that conversation with Charlie and James. Well, what happened was that the conservative movement in America was successful once in 1964 in nominating a nominee for president, and then it was overwhelmingly stomped. The Republican leadership said, I cannot support this person, and so Barry Goldwater was tremendously defeated. When Ronald Reagan made another attempt, then they felt that they were going to try to do the same thing. That is, the liberals of both parties would team up to prevent him from restoring, because he was anti-communist. And deep down inside, the communists had penetrated most of these folks, just as you see the Chinese penetrating Africa and elsewhere. And so in the beginning of the first year of the Reagan administration, a handful of folks got together to help get him to get elected and said, what we need to do is you don't have to change what you're doing if you're a national defence group, or if you're an agriculture group, or if you're a pro-life group, or if you're an education group. But periodically we should get together and say what can we agree upon. And they formed a group called the Council for National Policy, and it meets three times a year. I emphasize that one of the things that gets people's attention is that we don't do anything. But it's like the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce doesn't sell shoes, and doesn't sell cars, and doesn't sell houses, but it has people that do. That's what CMP does. It has people that do everything, even though CMP does nothing. What we do is we bring people together to encourage one another and what happens when, for example, the CRT, the critical race theory, there were many people that didn't realize that that was rather significant. I thought that was just a left-wing racist policy in college campuses. And when we began to probe deeper, we found out that they had penetrated the seminaries of most of the major religions and to begin to teach, to supplant the scriptures with race in many of our pulpits, and then the educational books as well, and across the board in the military, until now we have a head of the U.S. Military that says the number one threat to America is not the the Chinese threat and the nuclear threat, the number one threat is white nationalism. Now you would think how in the world, you could ask any kid on the street corner watching the guns shooting, what's the number one threat? Number one. Nevertheless, CMP was able to bring that to the fore to say, see how CRT has aggressed. Now we have the same thing with the government and environment, ESG society, where they're trying to give ratings to corporations who fit their global agenda. Of course, the global agenda is not slavery. They don't say that. That's rather people would be repulsed at that. They say climate, and everybody's in favour of climate. Therefore, if you do these ESG, if you do these certain things, if you spend money with, communist groups in China and oppose freedom folks in Hungary or the US, then you get this higher rate and ostensibly, it's because it had to do with the environment. That's where CMP brings people together for the educational purposes. Why? Because truth overcomes error. We let everybody present, but we see that truth wins and that's what we're up to at the moment and delighted about it. I love bumping into so many of my guests who I'd seen virtually. And then I met in the flesh, in the person. So that was one of my highlights coming away from CNP. But maybe I'll ask you about the kind of tension in the Republican Party with the clash of, I guess, a more establishment grouping and a more conservative-oriented grouping, which is the Tea Party and now Trump. In the UK, we don't really have that. We have the so-called Conservative Party resting on old laurels. We don't really have that agitator making them think of what actually it is to be conservative, but you have that in the US. Maybe let us know a little bit more about that, because it's always good to be reminded, I think, of what you're there for and what your principles are. Well, this might not be 100% correct, but part of it, I think, has to do with the fact that when people are really concerned about something that doesn't fit in, they can form their own party. If they just suddenly, one day, they're fine, but six months later, Brexit takes over the whole country because policies. Now, in America, we have a thing called the Electoral College, which says this, no one can become president, no one can become the leader of the country if they don't carry half of the country. Now, that provision meant such that you have a two-party system, because the second you have a third party or a fourth party, you're out of the ballgame. That electoral college has kept a two-party system. Now, you say, well, what's the point of bringing that up? Well, that's because then you have the tensions at the edges. When a Brexit comes along in America, it has to fit into one of the two parties, and the party begins to move in one direction or another. That's simply the way it works, quite frankly, I think it's ingenious, it's wonderful. I think it's virtually divine inspired, because the poor folks under the parliamentary system in Israel or in Italy, it was 60 governments in 48 years and things, I don't have the full affection for that. The poor folks in Israel, I've gone for four years was virtually, they finally righted it recently. In America, you have to have a 50%, which means that when you have these tensions, you're always going to have these tensions, that there's always be at the margin, what is the new issue? Those that want to sit on their laurels can sit there, but they will constantly be in competition with the new idea. It seems to have worked well and will continue to, but I repeat, it's because you cannot have, you can sell a party in a parliamentary system that might get only seven or eight votes in the parliament and you can't sell that in America because brother if you can't win, we're not interested in hearing from you. I love it. Can I ask you about legislation, obviously your time on Capitol Hill in Congress and I kind of look at what the Democrats are doing being so reckless in so many ways. And I wonder, is there a way back using policies and legislation? Oh, yes, there always is. The Democrat Party tends to be more socialist. What is a socialist? A socialist is a person that says, if you vote for me, I will take what that person has and give it to you. That's just all there is to it. Now, when you do that, you destroy things. When they take over New York, they turn it into a mess. Periodically, fortunately, Giuliani and Bloomberg came back and put it back on the rails. Twelve years ago, it was the safest, cleanest, largest city in the world. Of course, they bring in the Democrats and immediately they do, I'm going to tax those people, we're going to steal from the productive, we're going to run them out, and it's back into the hellhole that it was 20 years ago. Socialism only fails every time. The Democrats, well, they run for office trying to do that. You question periodically that they'll destroy the economy and then you have to go back and reproduce and build things. We just hope that they don't do any permanent harm, but as you know, freedom, when Donald Donald Trump became president the the entire nation was energy independent within 18 months see freedom works. Okay, and of course when when when Biden came in we were dependent within five months Because he shut down all the pipelines and increased it and shut down the drilling and things, So it doesn't take long to screw things up. It usually takes longer to try to repair them, But nevertheless they can be repaired. So Margaret Thatcher came in the country was just in a mess It was the IMF had taken over control of the pound sterling, everybody felt that Britain was finished. When she left 11 years later, had the fourth largest economy on the planet. Freedom works every time, socialism fails every day. Yeah, strong leadership is essential. I'm intrigued watching over in the States, the different US states that actually want freedom and the ones that don't. The transfer going back and forward. I think I'm talking to a friend who lived in Florida, and he said, actually, house prices are off the scale. You can't even rent a car anymore. The huge demand, similar in Texas. There seems to be a migration of people going from states that you're punished for your freedom moving towards those states that actually, they want their freedom. It seems to be a bigger and bigger divide happening in the US from those who actually want freedom and those who want to be subjugated. Well, that's the specialness of the federalist system, that we have individual states and they can do their own policies. I would just take Florida, for example, in that Florida is just bursting at the seams in every area, and surpluses in the budgets in the city councils and people are happy and everything, they're expanding and building. It's just a wonderful place, but the governor only won by 30,000 votes, 30,000. The fellow that he beat was as loony as you wouldn't trust him to run a lemonade stand. He's a thug, literally, he's in jail now, I believe. Had he won instead of DeSantis, then he would have said, socialists always want control. So they're going to tell you that you have to have to take this jab and you have to cover your mouth and you have to cover your paper, toilet paper on your nose is going to keep you safe and put up the plastic and put it and they would have shut down the churches. Now it didn't shut down, shut down the Planned Parenthood headquarters and didn't shut down the gay bars, but shut down the churches and all the things that they, and that's what they do in California. That's what they do in New York. And so what do you see? You see New York and California in a state of collapse, and you see the free states, the Republican states, they're prospering. I just saw today that to rent a U-Haul to go from Los Angeles to Dallas is 10 times what it costs to rent a U-Haul to go from Dallas to Los Angeles. Everybody that they'll pay you to take them to California because everybody there is leaving And then you can't get your hands on one. So it, like I say, freedom works. Will Democrats wake up, because I remember when I was in California for the first time, in April last year, and then I went again in June, I realized why I didn't really want to go to the West Coast. But you had people talking who lived just outside LA, and they said, well, this is why we live outside. But the crime and the destruction of the cities actually moves and spreads. And I wonder, will Democrat voters actually get it sometime? Well, let's pray that they do. I mean, they do this intentionally. When Giuliani became mayor, there were these people that would come out, they're called squeegee people, and they would come and sprinkle dust on your windshield and sprinkle water on it, and then they'd hold their hand out. If you gave them some money, then they would wash your window, and otherwise, you had dirt on your window, or they key you when you drove off. He said, we're not going to do that. I want those people arrested. The second they step off the sidewalk, they're jaywalking, we're going to arrest them, and we're going to fingerprint and mugshot them, and find out who, here's the principle. Here's the principle that Democrats seem to not grasp. That is a lawbreaker, is a lawbreaker, period. They want to focus on the big law. No, no. It's only a handful of people that do this. And so the very first guy that they took for doing that, he had 25 warrants. He went away forever. Why? Because he's a lawbreaker. He's a thief. And so the next thing that they did was Giuliani said, we're not going to have people, or jumping the turnstile to get on the subway. If you jump the turnstile and you don't pay, then you're going to be arrested. And what do you do when you're arrested? You're going to get a fingerprint and a mugshot. And so they did that. The very first day they saw the first guy they caught, they had fingerprints of five murders. Now they had the five fingerprints were clear. They didn't know who they belonged to. But when they mugshot and fingerprinted this guy, they found that the guy who voted jumping the turnstile was a murderer and they put him away. And so when you look at what happened, that crime didn't diminish, crime collapsed. Because when you take the one to 3% of the troublemakers and you put them behind bars where they can't behave, that the rest of the people can prosper. Now what happened when de Blasio came in, when the new Democrat came in, first Democrat mayor in 16 years? They said, look how clean and nice and everything is, let's just screw it up as fast as possible. So what he said was, we are not going to enforce the law. Get this, we're not going to enforce the law for those jumping the turnstile. That means that every thug can go in there and can sleep on the subway 24 hours a day. He can rob the people when they come on. They don't have to get on. Now people don't want to ride the subway, the places of mess, where you have the fights. They said, we want to do more than that. We want to allow people to urinate on the sidewalk and to defecate in the middle of the street and to sleep. So then we will not arrest them for doing that. And so now you walk up and down the streets, you see it covered with people that are just hanging out doing those. And they said, oh, furthermore, people should be allowed to steal. And so as long as they don't steal more than 1,000 at a whack, as long as they take 950, we'll allow them to do that. And so now when you go into some of the stores, they're all boarded up, or they're empty, or they're behind bars. You have to have someone come to open it up. Now, your question was, will they see it? People voted for that. People voted in New York 4 to 1, 4 to 1, 80% voted to do that. They voted for these incompetent folks. So I'm probably not as good a politician as I should be, because it just doesn't make any sense to me. Could I end off just with asking you about Sleepy Joe and the elections coming up, and I had the privilege of being on the front row at CMP and listening to Governor Ron DeSantis, and I love what he's doing in Florida. I also love what Donald Trump has done as a wrecking ball in tearing up the whole system and doing things differently. But when you look as someone who, has their finger on the pulse, what are your thoughts of how the next, I don't know, is it 18 months will transpire? What are your thoughts as you look into that? We don't have any of those big figures in the UK, so that's why it's intriguing looking over to the US. Well, Now, the difficulty we face is when you're on the left, you never say, look what a great job I did in education. Didn't we do a wonderful job in cleaning up the streets, and oh, aren't people so nice and safe now? Look at how efficiently we handled the border. And didn't we do a marvellous job in bringing the price of gasoline down to 28% of what it was 10 years ago. They can't point to anything. So what they do is they scream, he's a racist, he's a bigot, he's a murderer, he's a he's a and all they do is just vomit on anyone who wants to get into office. And one of the reasons that I am so strongly in favour of of Donald Trump at this point is because almost anybody else has, does not have the rhinoceros hide to stand against the abuse that they will shovel at anyone because they said McCain was a maverick and he listened to people and he worked across the aisle until he got nominated. Second he got nominated, the New York Times ran articles just like they did against Kavanaugh of these women that claimed that they had affairs with him and when they checked it out they weren't even close. They were just making this stuff up just like they're doing doing with Trump, with this woman that claims she couldn't even tell in the court, she couldn't tell within three years of when this events took place. Within three years. So they're going to do that to people. And Donald Trump has the backbone for the benefit of our country and for freedom to take it. And as we've seen, he can bring peace and prosperity. People don't remember that prior to 2016, this entire world was in the hands of the Chinese. We were doing everything that they asked. We were giving them every privilege. The President of the United States signed waivers so that the chips in our military equipment and in our fighter jets would come from China. They were able to control everything. We were sleepwalking over a cliff. One man. Donald Trump came along and said hey, this isn't the brightest thing in the world, He went to the Mercedes and says you can't build an, you can't build a car without their approval what kind you Germans are stronger than that and in the entire world began to break out of a stupor and those people who had put all of their money New York and Silicon Valley all of their money in China, became furious because those factories began with the withdrawal the stock market in China went down 47 percent, half of its wealth was diminished. In the United States, the stock went up 55 percent. America began to grow and prosper and those that hate freedom in America were furious and they were and they continue to be. But I don't think the world's going to go back to sleep and all we need is a person strong enough to do it and we can go back to peace so the countries aren't overrunning each other as they are in Ukraine, where we go back to peace again where there's stability, and we have a strong surgence of freedom, which I anticipate we're going to have shortly. Well, Bob, it is an honour speaking with you, someone who has their finger on the pulse and is involved in such an influential organization like the CNP, so I appreciate your time today and sharing your thoughts. Well, it was indeed an honour to be with you as always, and we're honoured to have you whenever you can be with us, Peter. All the best.

During this week's episode of NAPS Chat, Bob Levi discusses the imminent introduction of a Senate companion to H.R. 3005, the Postal Police Reform Act, by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL); the May 17 House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce hearing, at which Postmaster General DeJoy testified; and the Postal Regulatory Commission's ongoing "Public Inquiry" into the USPS Sorting and Processing Center initiative.

On April 5, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission voted to make several substantive changes to the federal sentencing guidelines.  If approved (or not acted upon) by Congress, some of the most significant amendments in recent memory will go into effect on Nov. 1, 2023.   These changes will effect anyone currently pending sentencing in federal court, and anyone currently serving a sentence in the federal Bureau of Prisons.   In this episode, we are joined by my genious pal, Mark Allenbaugh, to give you the scoop on the two biggest amendments, and talk about a couple of others, including the one that didn't pass:  the big white whale that is acquitted conduct (see Ep. 36, with Mark Allenbaugh and Prof. Doug Berman). IN THIS EPISODE:  USSG amendment to allow for 2 level reduction for having no criminal history and reducing impact of “status” points for criminal history (point assessment for being on probation, parole or supervised release) when committing a new offense; Amendment expanding the criteria/eligibility for Compassionate Release; Commission punting on acquitted conduct and predictions about what the Supreme Court might do with this issue; What you can do RIGHT now to make use of these changes, even though they do not go into effect until Nov. 1, 2023; What you can do to ensure the contested compassionate release provisions do not get vetoed by Congress. LINKS AND OTHER INFO:  Ep. 36:  Acquitted conduct episode:  PRESUMED GUILTY: Using Acquitted, Dismissed, and Uncharged Conduct to Increase Sentences. - Doug Passon Law The Sentencing Commission's detailed report on all amendments:  https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/amendment-process/reader-friendly-amendments/20230405_prelim-RF.pdf 18 USC § 3661 (Referred to by Allenbaugh during this episode): No limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence. Proof that the BOP is inept at handling Covid: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/capstone-review-federal-bureau-prisons-response-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic WRITING YOUR CONGRESS-PEOPLE IN SUPPORT OF COMPASSIONATE RELEASE AMENDMENTS: We mentioned that the CR amendments was the only one passed without unanimous consent. It was split on party lines (4 Dems in favor, 3 Repubs opposed).  Therefore, it would be useful for you to reach out to your Senate/House members to voice your support for the changes. You could also reach out to some criminal justice-friendly congresspeople as well (see below for a few suggestions).  Here is some suggested language for your email or calls: Dear ___ I am writing to voice my support for the United States Sentencing Commission's recent amendments to the Compassionate Release Guidlines.  I believe in second chances for those who deserve it.  I believe that prison has diminishing returns.  I believe that every human is capable of redemption.  I believe that changes in the law and other new factors warrant a second look at sentencings that are often too long.  I know this amendment may be objectionable to some, but it's hard to understand why.  The First Step Act was legislation passed during the Trump Adminstration with overwhelming BI-PARTISAN support.  The Compassionate Release amendments, merely implement the policies expressed in the First Step Act. I hope you continue to lend your bi-partisan support to this much needed criminal justice reform. Sincerely (Jane Q. Voter in your District)   Here are some CJ-friendly congress-folk: COREY BOOKER: https://www.booker.senate.gov/contact/write-to-cory JAN SHAKOWSKY: https://schakowsky.house.gov/zip_authentication?form=/contact/email-me JOEL OSSOF:  https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/contact-us/message/ DICK DURBIN: https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/contact-us/message/ CORI BUSH:  https://bush.house.gov/contact/email-me -------------- Last, but not least, WTF is "OLD EBBIT"??????? I have a confession to make.  I had no fuckin' idea what Allenbaugh was talking about when he twice mentioned the “Old Ebbit”.  I was too ashamed to expose my ignorance, and so I had to do some googlin'.   Old Ebbitt Grill | Washington, DC Restaurant & Bar  

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Andy Field, ABC News joins to share his take on the US election & what is going on with the Senate/House. With the victory of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, Democrats are celebrating retaining control of the Senate. Control of the House still leans Republican, but the majority looks to be slim as divisions arise within the party. In Maricopa County AZ, protesters at an election office demanded “the military step in” and redo the election. Many in the group echoed Trump's claim that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud. A protestor claimed Jan. 6 rioters are being “tortured in cages,” and more. The Fresno County Democratic Party filed a complaint based on comments made by Mayor Jerry Dyer at the Nov. 3 Fresno City Council meeting that he had spoken to all the supervisors, and they had agreed to support a study on whether to replace PG&E with a municipal utility. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors on Friday issued a statement denying that supervisors violated the Brown Act when they attended a news conference to discuss community concerns about Pacific Gas & Electric. A Colorado Springs father has stirred up a backlash among rock climbers after claiming his 8-year-old son became the youngest person to climb El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andy Field, ABC News joins to share his take on the US election & what is going on with the Senate/House. With the victory of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, Democrats are celebrating retaining control of the Senate. Control of the House still leans Republican, but the majority looks to be slim as divisions arise within the party. In Maricopa County AZ, protesters at an election office demanded “the military step in” and redo the election. Many in the group echoed Trump's claim that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud. A protestor claimed Jan. 6 rioters are being “tortured in cages,” and more. The Fresno County Democratic Party filed a complaint based on comments made by Mayor Jerry Dyer at the Nov. 3 Fresno City Council meeting that he had spoken to all the supervisors, and they had agreed to support a study on whether to replace PG&E with a municipal utility. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors on Friday issued a statement denying that supervisors violated the Brown Act when they attended a news conference to discuss community concerns about Pacific Gas & Electric. A Colorado Springs father has stirred up a backlash among rock climbers after claiming his 8-year-old son became the youngest person to climb El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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While C-SPAN provides extensive coverage of Campaign 2022 debates, the C-SPAN podcast "The Weekly" provides a Top Ten List from Senate, House, Governor, and Mayor debates in campaign seasons past. Last week: Top Ten Moments from Candidates. This week: Part II -- Top Ten Moments from Moderators. You may remember some. You may be hearing some for the first time. But either way, it's a chance to hear Alex Trebek get booed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick: Think of your favorite moments from a campaign debate. OK, got it? You probably have in mind something that happened during a presidential or vice-presidential debate, right? But what about a Senate, House, Governor, or Mayor debate? Drawing a blank? No worries ... the C-SPAN podcast "The Weekly" has you covered. Because -- YES! -- it's that time of year: Time to watch C-SPAN's coverage of Campaign 2022 debates. Which also makes it time to download and listen to Top Ten list of Most Memorable Moments from a Senate, House, Governor, or Mayor debate -- all seen on C-SPAN. And now in one easy place to enjoy -- "The Weekly" podcast. Even better: this is merely Part I. The following week: Part II. Ten more. "The Weekly" podcast that week will be: Top Ten Most Memorable Moments Involving the Moderators of Senate/House/Gov/Mayor Debates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's show rundown: An interesting thing is going on...Trump has picked a lot of people running in the Senate / House. Mitch McConnell has not, he is not picking people the RNC will support. This feels like the RNC is NOT going to support any of the Trump picks. This means Trump may have to support these people, only he can support them because he is a major fundraiser. Chuck has been watching CNBD and MSNBC faithfully these past couple weeks, and according to those sources they are painting Trump as Hitler. They HAVE to indict Trump now, and our team believes they will. When they accused Trump of being a Russian asset, the FBI guy who did this, left the FBI - Tim Thibault - you know the guy who covered up the Hunter Biden laptop. Student Debt - some trucker driving a truck at Walmart is having to pick up the cost of someone who went to an Ivy League school learning about some environmental whack job thing that is unemployable. This is the oldest trick in the book, the Left comes to your door, and says you got big pot holes out here, we will fix them if you vote for us. How is Biden getting the authority to do this student debt bill?

Today's show rundown: An interesting thing is going on...Trump has picked a lot of people running in the Senate / House. Mitch McConnell has not, he is not picking people the RNC will support. This feels like the RNC is NOT going to support any of the Trump picks. This means Trump may have to support these people, only he can support them because he is a major fundraiser. Chuck has been watching CNBD and MSNBC faithfully these past couple weeks, and according to those sources they are painting Trump as Hitler. They HAVE to indict Trump now, and our team believes they will. When they accused Trump of being a Russian asset, the FBI guy who did this, left the FBI - Tim Thibault - you know the guy who covered up the Hunter Biden laptop. Student Debt - some trucker driving a truck at Walmart is having to pick up the cost of someone who went to an Ivy League school learning about some environmental whack job thing that is unemployable. This is the oldest trick in the book, the Left comes to your door, and says you got big pot holes out here, we will fix them if you vote for us. How is Biden getting the authority to do this student debt bill?

This Week in Oklahoma Politics, KOSU's Michael Cross talks with Republican Political Consultant Neva Hill and Civil Rights Attorney Ryan Kiesel about the outlawing of abortion in Oklahoma after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its decision on Roe v. Wade, Congressman Markwayne Mullin coming in with a sizeable lead over former House Speaker T.W. Shannon heading into a Runoff election in the race for U.S. Senate and State Representative Avery Frix and former State Senator Josh Brecheen taking the top spots in the Republican primary for Congressional District Two. The trio also discusses primary wins by Governor Stitt and State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister in the gubernatorial race and Gentner Drummond beating incumbent John O'Connor in the state Attorney General primary.

HOUR 1U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/20/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court/roe-wade-overturned-supreme-court?smid=url-shareTwo major changes in gun rights from a U.S. Supreme Court decision and soon-to-be Senate/House bill / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/senate-supreme-court-guns.html?Charles Steigleman (whose show airs at 5 PM tonight)Hannah Cox on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act / https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/s2992/Gregory Conley with the American Vaping Association / https://vaping.org/author/gregoryconley/HOUR 2Juul ban will hurt big tobacco / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/FDA-juul-ban-in-US?Mars reveals $45 Billion / (FT) https://www.ft.com/content/302b67a6-5979-49f6-aa55-f288d5baee60John Hinkley (who tried to assassinate President Reagan) is attempting to perform music at venues in U.S. / (Twitter) https://twitter.com/JohnHinckley20/status/1539640610264535041?s=20&t=2f7oeYqAEe2ADDC2V29pngAdam Holz from Plugged In reviews the movie "Elvis" / https://www.pluggedin.com/Dave Stieren from Governor Mike Dunleavy's officeCharles and Tom talk about the new U.S. Supreme Court decision on guns and abortion (ending Roe v Wade)

Show Notes In the tradition of our annual holiday episodes, I've gone a little wild with the title of today's episode. Today, I'll read you a Christmas Ballad titled “It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was first published in the 1870s  and which floats around with several variant titles. Before that, though, I'll share a mini biography of its author, English journalist, poet, dramatist, and novelist George R. Sims. But first! let's take a quick trip around the world in George R. Sims's lifetime: Around the World Feb 11 1847 - Thomas Edison is Born 1848 marked the beginning of several revolutions against European monarchies, notably in Sicily, France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire April 10 1848 - Chartists gather across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament  for a demonstration in which they planned to march en masse to deliver a petition, but police had them trapped and the event ended with a fizzle rather than a bang Jul 4 1855 - Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" Is Published 1868 - Elizabeth Blackwell establishes a Women's Medical College Nov 17 1877 - Charles Darwin received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University During Darwin's honorary degree ceremony, a prankster dangled this stuffed monkey dressed in academic robes from the gallery of the Senate House, which 'excited some mirth'. April 1888- February 1891 the Whitechapel Murders were committed by an unidentified person who came to be known as Jack the Ripper Sep 23 1889 - Nintendo Founded to produce handmade hanafuda cards 1899 - Kate Chopin Publishes "The Awakening" Sep 8 1903 - The American Federation Of Labor Grants A Charter To Granite Quarry Workers Feb 2 1914 the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin, "Making a Living," is released Jan 11 1922 - Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip administered the first dose of their newly developed Insulin Injection to 14yo diabetic, Leonard Thompson George R. Sims Bio George R. Sims was born 2 September 1847 to father, George Sims, and mother, Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson Sims. He would be the first of the couple's six children. Between them, they raised their children with the London theater and progressive politics. Louisa was a president of the Women's Provident League and her father, Chartist leader John Dinmore Stevenson, lived with the family. Sims began writing for in school, where he quickly began to publish poetry and journalism in The College Gazette and later  The Welcome Guest, Fun, Weekly Dispatch, and The Referee. For The Referee, he wrote a popular column of miscellany called 'Mustard and Cress' under the pseudonym 'Dagonet' from 1877 until he died. And it is under that pseudonym that he reported, from 1888-1891 on the Whitechapel Murders.  His best-known ballad is “It Is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was often parodied during his lifetime but which struck me as having strong ‘eat the rich' vibes in a Christmas season marked by the exploitation of wage workers here in the US.  [transition music] Click here to read the poem! [transition music] Thank you for listening! I hope you all have a happy Christmas Eve. Keep an eye on our feed for a second holiday episode from Eleanor.  Take care! Resources https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/86dc0be7-20fa-36d2-8606-be3459167766 Music This episode featured "Deck the Halls (brass arrangement)" performed by Michel Rondeau.

Republican-backed elections bills clear Texas Senate, House committees after marathon hearings; Donald Trump spins tales of rigged election, papers over Jan. 6 riot, hints at 2024 comeback at CPAC; American Airlines had a bad week; Man arrested in killing of 87-year-old woman in her east Oak Cliff home

Reporter at Complete Colorado, Sherrie Peif, talks about the first draft of Colorado's new state Senate House map, and how this could pit over 20 incumbents against each other.

Reporter at Complete Colorado, Sherrie Peif, talks about the first draft of Colorado's new state Senate House map, and how this could pit over 20 incumbents against each other.

This viewpoint will reveal how Senate House, notable for the “strangely semi-traditional, undecided modernism” that puzzled Pevsner, provided inspiration for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Thomas More's Utopia was first published 500 years ago. Its central idea, of a perfect but impossible place, has since become part of our mental furniture. But what does this very amusing (though also rather stern) book mean? It has sometimes been seen as a satire on the inevitable conformity of political equality but may rather offer a portrait of a magnificently just society. Utopia's links both with London and with the civic culture of Renaissance Europe more generally will be explained. Focussing on its significance at the time when it was written, with reflections on its remarkably varied legacy. This is part of the Being Human festival and is complemented by an exhibition at the University of London's Senate House which runs until December 2016, Utopia and Dystopia. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/thomas-mores-magnificent-utopiaGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege