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Well, it's a Thursday, y'all. Pleasure to be with you. A unanimous Supreme Court decision was just handed down. Was it handed down today? I think it's today, just handed down, and it concerns Catholic adoption agencies. Must they give children who they have for adoption to same-sex couples, or are they allowed to only give children to married opposite-sex couples? The Catholic doctrine, as the Jewish doctrine, as the Protestant doctrine, is that marriage is between a man and a woman. One of the things that people hate about religion is that the truly religious, not the woke, actually believe that the religion is right and the New York Times is wrong. For many Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, the New York Times is right and their religion is wrong. That's in a nutshell, or even more precise perhaps is their hearts are right and their religion, the Bible, is wrong. Hence the Bible warns, probably warns against this more than any other thing, not to follow your heart. And we live in the heart-based society. How do you feel is the big issue. If there's been a— there have been a number of consistencies in my 35 years of broadcasting. One of them is warning about a feelings-based, heart-based society. How do you feel about it, etc. Now I know same-sex couples. Indeed, my wife and I are godparents to a same-sex couple's two sons, and the kids are terrific, and we love the parents, the two men. Nevertheless, I support the decision. I know that if you went to college, what I just said is very, very complex. But it isn't. One can appreciate the reality on the ground while still holding true to one's beliefs that where possible, a child should have a mother and father. This doesn't disparage two fathers. It doesn't disparage two mothers. It doesn't disparage single mothers or single fathers. If religion does not hold out an ideal, what the hell is it useful for? Answer that one. I can't think of a more important purpose of religion than to provide ideals for society. This is the ideal family. This is the ideal way to live a life. That's, that's what religion is for. People think religion is for And I deeply appreciate this, a relationship with God. That's lovely. But if you have a relationship with God and you don't get your ideals of life from God, then the relationship is not relevant to society. For the record, that is the way my religious convictions work. What does God want from me and from my society? Are my operative questions, not how is my relationship with him. It's an interesting ultimate issues topic. What do you think the purpose of religion is? That's a very important subject. So Catholic charity says, look, we have all of these married men and women, married men to women, married women to men, who would like to adopt. They're first on our list. This is not a knock on singles. They don't give children to singles, to the best of my knowledge. Heterosexual singles, for that matter. Straight heterosexual cisgender singles. They want a married man and a woman to have first crack at a baby or a child for adoption. It's not anti-anybody. It is to hold true to a religious ideal, which the Catholic Church has not been doing much, especially under this Pope, who is a child of liberation theology in Argentina. Nevertheless, in this case, it has held fast to its biblical roots. It is astonishing to me, to be perfectly honest, that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholic Charities unanimously. It certainly takes the wind out of— knocks the wind out of the argument that a conservative court is the problem, and then we have to pack it with left-wing judges so as to undo the only institution in society the left doesn't control. When you have 4 liberal/left judges agreeing here, if religious conviction, if allowing for religious freedom means anything, then it means something in this case. You can't tell Catholic Charities that they have to redefine family if they have a child. Of course, it'd be interesting to see how, how it's depicted with all these liberal judges siding. What are they going to say? Well, they'll say they got it wrong. And we at the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR, PBS, CNN, I already said CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC, we know better. People who have not thought this issue through at all. Do they really believe that any adoption agency should be blind to this issue? You are not prepared to say all things being equal. Obviously, if you have a spectacular, to the best of your knowledge, same-sex couple and you have a dysfunctional heterosexual couple, Okay, we understand, but that's not the issue. The issue is a wonderful same-sex couple and a wonderful opposite-sex couple. Is a Catholic charity supposed to take the position it doesn't matter? My opposition to Same Sex Matter was exactly on that issue because the argument was, and I turned out to be right, unbelievably right. What I said the whole time was their argument is gender doesn't matter. Well, ladies and gentlemen, now you know what it led to. Gender— not only does gender not matter, we have gone from gender does not matter to gender does not exist. And by the way, it's inevitable. If something doesn't matter, if the existence of something doesn't matter, then maybe it doesn't exist. Can't— you can't matter less than non-existence. 1-800-DENNIS-PRAGER, 776 is the number. 877-243-7776. This is a very powerful decision on the part of the Supreme Court, and the fact that it is unanimous, I think it's somewhat of a tribute to a man about whom I've had some ambivalence, Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts. Well, I think what he has done is won the trust of the liberal/left of the court and has been able to get a number of unanimous decisions which have run in a way that we would identify generally with the conservatives. But it is amazing that this even became an issue. If you have a mother and father and you have a couple with no father or no mother, why wouldn't an adoption agency be allowed to first use the married man and woman? Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.

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You are not to be heard.

This is one of the few things we have no press President for in the United States.

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Judge Thomas, do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. We know exactly what's going on here. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed. So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court? I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall. Democrats have spent the past year pursuing an obvious contradiction, calling for more gun control while also sympathizing with the defund the police movement. They've argued simultaneously and disingenuously that law-abiding Americans don't need firearms for self-defense because of the police. At the same time, they have provided support for those who want to scale back or entirely eliminate policing. The astounding new data on gun sales shows Americans aren't buying either argument. The New York Times reported that a record number of first-time purchasers have bought guns in the past year. Half of those are women, and 40% are evenly split between Blacks and Hispanics. Household ownership percentage has spiked 7 points after years of remaining flat. Gun ownership has become even more diverse, and in many areas where police are in retreat, even more necessary. Joe Biden's gun control push will make his party look even more radical and even more out of touch. I'm Ed Morrissey.

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There was a story of a young woman, including the White Bear Lake Police Department, by the name of Avery Severson. Avery was trying to start a Turning Point USA chapter at White Bear Lake High School. She woke up one day and all of a sudden was flooded with accusations that she was sending text messages just like Hunter Biden sent. Very similar. Same language, same vocabulary. The school, of course, because she was a white conservative female, decided to try to destroy her life. Protests in the middle of class, walkouts, teachers and administrators. This reached such a high level of a boiling point that the Federal Bureau of Investigation got involved to investigate the racist messages that allegedly Avery sent. The FBI later cleared Avery's name, saying that she did not send these messages. And up until recently, I missed this story. It was a black female who actually staged the entire hoax at White Bear Lake High School. A black female made up the entire thing. A total hoax. The school district was trying to protect her name, but now the name has been leaked to the media. All the outrage, all of the attack on Avery Severson. And so those of you that see what happened to Hunter Biden, deep down you get angry about this because you know if this was your child in a New York City preparatory school, if this was your child in Riverside, California, or in Chicago, your child would be kicked out of school and your life would be ruined.

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If you want to watch the show, not just listen, go to townhall.com and click on the Town Hall TV button. Apropos of the subject that I've just been covering, the Supreme Court unanimous decision that Catholic Charities cannot be forced to give children who they have for adoption to same-sex couples, the importance of fatherhood is beautifully portrayed in the movie The streets were my father. 85% of youths in prison come from fatherless homes. Is that not sort of dispositive, as they say in the legal world, about the importance of fathers? In my video for PragerU on fathers, I note all these articles about how fathers really aren't necessary in the woke press like the New York Times. So to see this important and inspirational film about young men who went from gangs— well, from gangs to fathers, from gangs to God, as it were— go to SalemNow.com, buy a copy or copies for anyone you know, or just stream it. It's called The Streets Where My Father. It's at salemnow.com. It's very important to see inspirational movies. This is the story with the Supreme Court here, and it's, it's a quite, quite an extraordinary story. I'll be very interested to see how they, they deal with the fact that the liberal justices said that religious freedom was important. Of course they'll condemn it, but they must be scratching their heads at the New York Times where there is absolutely no difference between two members of the same sex and two members of the opposite sex because the sexes don't exist anyway. A very interesting issue arose about— actually, it was our resident Harvard heretic girl, you were mentioning to me of an all-girl school. You attended an all-girl school, right? And your friend is still at that school whom I met yesterday, 16-year-old girl. And what do they do if one of the students says, I'm a man? Well, they don't ask the student to leave. So it's not an all-girls school. You can't have it both ways. Either it's an all-girls school and the transgender male must leave, or you don't believe the transgender male is really a male. There's no third possibility, correct? It's all kabuki theater, do you understand? The whole leftist world is theater. It's the theater of the absurd. Really, what do you do? A girl at your all-girl school has announced that she is not she, but she is he. Do you take it seriously? If so, you cannot stay enrolled. But they allow them to stay enrolled, so it's not an all-girl school. That's So either it's a lie that she's a boy, or it's a lie that it's an all-girl school. This is the absurd that we have entered here that we have to believe in. But now I am reading here, Education Department extends Title IX protections to transgender students in reversal of Trump-era guidance. By the way, on every ground, virtually every ground except tweets, I profoundly miss a man who became a great president, Donald Trump. Tell you this, had he won the— and there's— and there been COVID, the amount of rioting would have dwarfed what you saw. Then you would have had close to an insurrection. I think a lot of people voted for Joe Biden so that there'd not be rioting. People don't like to confront. Education Department yesterday announced that it would expand the definition of the federal civil rights statute banning sex discrimination in federally funded education programs to include gender identity amid a national debate over whether biological males should be allowed to compete in girls' sports. So let me explain how everything in that sentence depicts what is so wrong in society. The moment federally funded money is mentioned, Ronald Reagan's famous line comes to my mind. It is, by the way, the line that turned me into a Republican. I was a Democrat until he ran for president. In fact, I voted for Jimmy Carter. That was my last Democratic vote. One might say it was my last mistake in voting, in the voting arena. His famous line, "Government is not the solution, it is the problem." People don't understand how true that is. The genocides, with one exception, in— was it Burundi? In Rwanda. Not Burundi, in Rwanda, where it was more tribal. All of the mass genocides— redundant, genocides are generally massive— were taken by governments, big governments. At college you learn that more evil was done in the name of religion than anything else. That's only because colleges don't care about truth. In fact, more evil was done by secular regimes in the same span of time than any religious regime. That's number one. Number two, it was done by governments. Without strong government, you can't rub out a race or an ethnicity or a religious group. Back to the United States, federally funded. Why are colleges federally funded at all? You know what Harvard's— what is the term again for when you have all the savings? Yes, all this money. All this money. They have a— thank you, endowment. What is the Harvard endowment? How many billions of dollars? $38 billion? No, they're the richest, but many have billions of dollars, and they— and there's still federal money. See, you have to understand, the moment that there is federal money, there's federal control. Back in a moment.

This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall. Democrats have spent the past year pursuing an obvious contradiction: calling for more gun control while also sympathizing with the defund the police movement. They've argued simultaneously, and disingenuously, that law-abiding Americans don't need firearms for self-defense because of the police. At the same time, They have provided support for those who want to scale back or entirely eliminate policing. The astounding new data on gun sales shows Americans aren't buying either argument. The New York Times reported that a record number of first-time purchasers have bought guns in the past year. Half of those are women, and 40% are evenly split between Blacks and Hispanics. Household ownership percentage has spiked 7 points after years of remaining flat. Gun ownership has become even more diverse, and in many areas where police are in retreat, even more necessary. Joe Biden's gun control push will make his party look even more radical and even more out of touch. I'm Ed Morrissey.

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There was a story of a young woman, including the White Bear Lake Police Department. By the name of Avery Severson. Avery was trying to start a Turning Point USA chapter at White Bear Lake High School. She woke up one day and all of a sudden was flooded with accusations that she was sending text messages just like Hunter Biden sent. Very similar, same language, same vocabulary. The school, of course, because she was a white conservative female, decided to try to destroy her life. Protests in the middle of class, walkouts, teachers and administrators. This reached such a high level of a boiling point that the Federal Bureau of Investigation got involved to investigate the racist messages that allegedly Avery sent. The FBI later cleared Avery's name, saying that She did not send these messages. And up until recently, I missed this story. It was a black female who actually staged the entire hoax at White Bear Lake High School. A black female made up the entire thing, a total hoax. The school district was trying to protect her name, but now the name has been leaked to the media. All the outrage, all of the attack on Avery Severson. And so those of you that see what happened to Hunter Biden, deep down you get angry about this because, you know, if this was your child in a New York City preparatory school, if this was your child in Riverside, California, or in Chicago, your child would be kicked out of school and your life would be ruined.

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Of all of these dealings, whether it's the more than $1 billion from the National Bank of Communist China to Hunter Biden's company, whether it is the $80,000+ every month from Burisma, whether it is what, is it $3 million from the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow? For all of these services, what were they buying? Let me ask the naive question. Was there some product? Was something manufactured? Was there engineering services? What are we talking about for these millions and millions and sometimes billions of dollars? Or was this just buying connections, John?

Yeah.

Education Department yesterday announced it would expand the definition of the federal civil rights statute banning sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, which means virtually every college. To include gender identity. So that means a biological male who declares himself to be a female must be allowed to compete in women's sports. There you go. And now you understand why conservatives fear governmental interference almost always. It never ends. The income tax began at 1%. That was the income tax. They had to pass an amendment to the Constitution to have income tax because it was not considered to be consistent with a free country where you just took away people's income. And they passed the amendment. Well, 1%. Well, 2%. Well, 10%. How about 20? 20% is very low. Let's go to 30. Let's go to 40. Let's go to 50. I pay more than 50% between California and federal. In other words, half of my income is given to the government and it's— see, the reason I sleep so well is that it's used wisely. This gives me great, great peace of mind to know that I work half the year for California and the United States government. When Barry Goldwater opposed civil rights legislation, and I remind people Barry Goldwater ran for President of the United States, deeply conservative Republican. Barry Goldwater was from Arizona where he helped found the Arizona NAACP. He was so committed to civil rights for all races that he was a founder of the NAACP in Arizona. Very few people know that because it doesn't comport with the picture they like to paint of the man. He opposed civil rights legislation. I was a very young child and thought he was wrong, and he was right and I was wrong, as it turns out. Not because I have any sympathy for discriminating on the basis of race. That is pure racism. By the way, that pure racism is only advocated on the left today. Did you know that Chapman College in California has a Black graduation now, joining Columbia and many other places. Anyway, I have decided to call Columbia University, in light of my wokeness, Indigenous Peoples' University. If they had any courage of conviction, they would drop their name, which is named after Columbus, at Columbia University. But they won't. They'll drop Columbus Day, but they won't drop Columbia University. So Chapman College is the latest to have— did you see the list of graduations? Was there a transgender? There was an LGBTQ graduation, a black graduation, and some others. So they do believe in discriminating on the basis of race. That's among the many theoretical ironies. But Goldwater was right because he understood all this will do, that America will come to realize you don't, that not serving a black in a restaurant is despicable and stupid. Or stupid and despicable, I'm not sure which order it goes. And it would have died anyway without government coercion, because once you let the government in, it's like the 1% income tax. It metastasizes. Perfect word, because that's the word used for cancer. That's what has happened. It never, it never stops growing. Now the government will subsidize daycare. Government will feed your child lunch and breakfast at school. The state will do everything. You have to do nothing. You can play video games or whatever you decide to do. 1-800-Prager-776, relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384. It's a magnificent product. They've been advertising on my show now for years. It's obvious that in any circumstance, if you see or read or hear an ad a lot, it means they're selling a lot of their product. Why would people buy a painkiller if it didn't work? It works. In fact, they tell you if it doesn't work in 3 weeks Just cancel your order and there's a 3-week price of $20 at relieffactor.com. 800-500-8384.

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The thing that strikes me first is not how awful of a person Hunter Biden is. I think that's been rather established and it goes on and on and on. He uses the N-word. He uses the N-word. Well, of course, we know there's very little to no outrage at all from the activist press. What I find to be very interesting about this whole story is how Hunter Biden and his lawyer going back using very racially charged language, including a meme between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, again saying the N-word. They never thought any of this would become public, by the way. What is done in darkness will always come to light.

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And I just want to say as bluntly and loudly as I can, folks, there is hope. God is the hope of these people. And if you care about the society, even if you don't believe in God, you've got to notice this is the pattern. These men find God. They get healed, their lives are changed. Who wouldn't be for that? Who wouldn't be for that? So, Lee, I'm just grateful to you for making this film. When did you get the idea to make this? Because I just love this.

We had played the separate stories on the air and the response on secular stations were— our show is on secular stations. Heck, we followed Dr. Drew in Los Angeles and there wasn't a complaint with these men using the word Jesus. This is the strength, right? It's their story. It's not us proselytizing. It's us getting out of the way and showing the power of Christ through another person. And so that's how it happened. We were broadcasting these as podcasts. And then one day I said, this should be our first film. Let's get the cameras on these guys. And it was that simple. And the next thing you know, we had a, we had a beautiful hour and 10-minute film that I promise you, it'll make you weep and bring it to your friends who are on the fence as religious folks, on the fence either as Christians or on the fence in their life. Because so many Americans are on the fence spiritually, economically, and you can have all the money in the world and be poor, and you can have not a lot of money at all and be rich. And this is the greatest Christian notion of them all. And this film proves it. These men, as Carlos Colón said, The second 10 years of his sentence when he found the Lord were the best 10 years of his life, and he was in jail.

I want to remind you that I am indeed going to Israel with you in October. Don't put off a trip that could be the trip of your lifetime, to mention the wonderful people you will be with. And my colleague Mike Gallagher and I will be there with you. There's a banner at my website, Stand with Israel banner, talking to you about the government getting involved in everything. And now they can tell colleges you have to have biological males who identify identify as a female compete in girls' sports. As I reported to you, New Zealand is probably sending a transgender weightlifter in the heavyweight division in female weightlifting to the Olympics, if they take place. What is the story? I feel bad for Japan. 80% of the Japanese don't want their own Olympics. That's what they— going to cost them $800 million in taxes. Well, I always feel for the competitors. They work so hard. So I have compassion for the competitors. I can't stand the International Olympic Committee. It's been sort of a negative force throughout its history. But the athletes, it's, you know, let people, leave people alone. You don't want to go to the Olympics, don't go to the Olympics. You're scared that you'll drop dead. Don't go. I'd go if I had any interest in the Olympics. I'd go. I would have gone last year because I'm taking ivermectin, vitamin D, zinc, and hydroxychloroquine. That's right, I put my pills where my mouth is. How's that, hey? Great saying. Ecclesiastes 6:3. He who puts his pills where his mouth is sees the light. Yeah, how many Americans can spell Ecclesiastes, let alone identify it? Anyway, I would have, I would have gone, I would have I did whatever I could. I went to rallies in the middle of the lockdown. I lived a normal life. You know, I'm a dad. I have two sons. And I know that— I think a big part of being a father is— because I know this with my own father, may he rest in peace. And I'm curious about you. I'm going to ask the living martyr, and you know, I never ask to have an answer I want to hear. I'm curious. I know that consciously and somewhat subconsciously, the question, what would my father do, plays a significant role in my life. Does it in yours? See, that's fascinating. That is truly fascinating. So we, the two of us, have that. What— and it's a healthy thing to have. A lot of people don't have that. They don't respect their father, or they don't have a father, or, or what, what have you. And whenever I think of what my father would do, I think it would be the sort of the attitude, screw him, don't live in a china closet. It's famous words to my mother whenever she wanted me to put a jacket on in cold weather. If he wants to get sick, let him get sick. That was basically my father's view. It's cold out, you don't want to wear a sweater or a jacket? Get sick. And then I didn't get sick. Pretty much the body knows when it's cold and it wants a jacket. Government tells you everything now, everything. No, if you realize, no American would have believed 10 years ago, let alone 50, the government will, will stop funding your university if you do not allow men who identify as women to compete against women in women's sports. We have entered the realm of the absurd. This is not a rights issue, it's a fairness issue. It's not fair to biological females. So what's going to happen if it happens more and more? And the answer is, it'll happen more and more. That's what happens. Who's going to report the girls who have lost their dreams of winning a scholarship in track? We have a video at PragerU of a girl who— who exactly happened to her. In Connecticut, where transgender females hold virtually every track record now in high school in Connecticut. That is, males identifying as females. They lost when they were males, so they decided to win as females. Ta-da! There you go. These, these people are narcissists. They are the quintessence of selfishness, of self-centeredness. And they're made out to be paragons of human rights virtues. You're a male who identifies as a female? Fine. I've got no issue with you. You have no right to compete against girls, however, in sports. That's the point. But not now. Not with this woke administration. So, just as of yesterday, everything that could go wrong, all the controls of the federal government over colleges, are now manifested in this manner. I'm Dennis Prager. The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor pain-free studio. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. 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You know how many ways Trump is being vindicated these days? Have you noticed? You are, right? You're paying attention. Oh, I miss Trump, and I don't think he's going anywhere. And in fact, maybe he's going to run again in 2024. I don't know. I hope he does. I hope he does. If he doesn't run, I hope he is in the ear of whoever is going to run as a Republican, because we need him. We need this. We need him back so badly. Over and over and over, he's being vindicated. How about 8 anti-Trump narratives that the media is finally forced to admit they were wrong about all along? I mean, the park. You got the park.

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Did you deliberately make a virus that you wanted to do harm to the world and then it leaked out Well, why would the Chinese want to make a virus that equally kills them?

Did this man say that? Did he really say that? You know who the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world is? Don't take me, take the Washington Post. Quote.

Howdy, howdy everybody. Fred in Cleveland, Ohio. Hello.

Hey, Dennis.

Hi.

Where your evidence came from that segregation would have ended on its own, because it took federal troops and 4 federal acts of Congress to end segregation. And if it had taken 2 decades or 3 decades to end on its own, then that's 2 or 3 decades of people who would have been denied the opportunity to vote. They would have been denied equal opportunity. They would have been denied their part of the American dream.

It's a very fair question. I don't know how long it would have taken in the South to integrate. My suspicion is, in the light of the way things developed, that it was not government coercion in most cases. In some cases, it certainly was. I know that anti-Semitism decreased in the United States dramatically without government intervention, and I think that the same thing would have held true for anti-Black sentiment?

It would have taken a generation or two. People would have been denied opportunities for two or three generations.

Yeah, well, if you're right, then laws were necessary. It's a very fair question. I don't think it would have taken 30 years for Southerners to sit at the same counter as a Black at a restaurant. It's a very fair question, you're right. So all I'm asking, which is the great conservative-liberal, not just conservative-left divide— we see the price, and liberals never ask what is the price. Never. They just go forward. This feels right, let's do it. Whether it's a lockdown or masks or laws forcing people to do the right thing. By the way, this is the right thing to end segregation, and yet it's the left, supported by liberals, that has re-segregated America. Black graduations are the norm now at left-wing universities, which is redundant. Virtually every university is left-wing. A price was paid. That's all I'm saying. I supported it much of my life. I now see the price paid that Barry Goldwater prophetically predicted. The government intrudes in everything in life. That the government could force colleges— force them to have biological males compete in female sports is the logical conclusion It's the endgame in what began as a noble enterprise. For the left, there is no end. There are only beginnings. That's the problem. Whether it's the 1% income tax or it's anti-discrimination laws, it never ends. We shall return. I'm Dennis Prager.

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So, John, uh, just a few days ago Minutes ago you had this story, emails by Hunter Biden that they were going to, quote unquote, conquer a turbulent world, lobbying the Italian regional president, the French ambassador, targeting sovereign wealth funds to make money for themselves when his daddy was vice president. But moments ago, a far bigger story about the federal authorities having subpoenaed Hunter Biden. During the 2016 election. I've dipped into it in the seconds I had before the show. Just one of these sentences that struck me: of the $27,778 that were paid every month to the company, portions were kicked back to an American Ukrainian who helped them land the job. Tell us what your readers— we're posting it right now— the minimum they need to know.

Yeah, listen, I think the most important thing about this story is it undercuts the primary argument that the Democrats had for impeaching President Trump. Remember what the argument was when they impeached him over Ukraine? The president abused his power because he asked for an investigation into Burisma Biden in Ukraine, and Hunter Biden had not done anything wrong. That was the line that Joe Biden Down the line, everybody said it. Now we know in the summer and spring of 2016, Hunter Biden and his lawyers and his accountant and his corporate executives knew he had failed to pay taxes. Not on just any money, the Burisma money. He was getting about $1 million of Burisma money in 2014 and 2015. He's the vice president's son. He doesn't pay taxes on it.

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This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.

You have the right to remain silent.

Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I do.

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. We know exactly what's going on here. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall. Democrats have spent the past year pursuing an obvious contradiction, calling for more gun control while also sympathizing with the defund the police movement. They've argued simultaneously and disingenuously that law-abiding Americans don't need firearms for self-defense because of the police. At the same time, they have provided support for those who want to scale back or entirely eliminate policing. The astounding new data on gun sales shows Americans aren't buying either argument. The New York Times reported that a record number of first-time purchasers have bought guns in the past year. Half of those are women, and 40% are evenly split between Blacks and Hispanics. Household ownership percentage has spiked 7 points after years of remaining flat. Gun ownership has become even more diverse, and in many areas where police are in retreat, even more necessary. Joe Biden's gun control push will make his party look even more radical and even more out of touch. I'm Ed Morrissey.

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There was a story of a young woman, including the White Bear Lake Police Department, by the name of Avery Severson. Avery was trying to start a Turning Point USA chapter at White Bear Lake High School. She woke up one day and all of a sudden was flooded with accusations that she was sending text messages just like Hunter Biden sent. Very similar, same language, same vocabulary. The school, of course, because she was a white conservative female, decided to try to destroy her life. Protests in the middle of class, walkouts, teachers and administrators. This reached such a high level of a boiling point that the Federal Bureau of Investigation got involved to investigate the racist messages that allegedly Avery sent. The FBI later cleared Avery's name, saying that She did not send these messages. And up until recently, I missed this story. It was a black female who actually staged the entire hoax at White Bear Lake High School. A black female made up the entire thing, a total hoax. The school district was trying to protect her name, but now the name has been leaked to the media. All the outrage, all of the attack on Avery Severson. And so those of you that see what happened to Hunter Biden, deep down you get angry about this because you know if this was your child in a New York City preparatory school, if this was your child in Riverside, California, or in Chicago, your child would be kicked out of school and your life would be ruined.

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Of all of these dealings, whether it's the more than $1 billion from the National Bank of Communist China to Hunter Biden's company, whether it is the $80,000+ every month from Burisma, whether it is— what is it— $3 million from the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow, for all of these services, what were they buying? Let me ask the naive question. Was there some product? Was something manufactured? Was there engineering services? What are we talking about for these millions and millions and sometimes billions of dollars? Or was this just buying connections, John?

Yeah, mostly buying connections. Listen, the earlier story you mentioned that came out a couple of days ago, Hunter Biden gets invited to a state dinner by his father. He chums up with the French ambassador, and 2 days later or a week later, he's calling the French ambassador. It was so good to meet you at the dinner. I got a business deal in France I need help with. I got a partner in France who needs help. That's what Hunter Biden was. He was a Rolodex dialer of high and powerful people.

And welcome everybody. I'm Dennis Prager. Purpose of my program is to clarify life. Okay, got that out of the way. I'm going to welcome you. Like you to hear the Navy Chief of Operations speaking to Congress, Admiral Michael Gilday.

Admiral Gilday, I have to ask you about something first. That I'm concerned about. Many people are, and a lot of people in the civilian world. I sent you a letter with 2 dozen people on it concerned that you had recently added several books to the Navy's professional reading list promoting critical race theory. And one of these books is Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, and it argues that the entire American system is corrupted from top to bottom by racial prejudice prejudices which account for all differences in outcomes in our society. And one sentence out of that book says, the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. Now, I understand that this is a voluntary reading list, but how does exposing our sailors to the idea that they are either oppressors or oppressed and that we actively discriminate to make up for past discrimination, improve our Navy's readiness and lethality for great power competition?

Sir, initially you mentioned critical race theory. I'm not a theorist. I'm the Chief of Naval Operations. What I can tell you is factually, based on a substantial amount of time talking to sailors in the fleet, there's racism in the Navy just like there's racism in our country. And the way we're going to get after it is to be honest about it, not to sweep it under the rug, and to talk about it. And that's what we're doing. And that's one of the reasons that book is on the list. Doesn't mean I have any expectation that anybody believe or support everything that, that Mr. Kendi states in his book. I don't support everything that Kendi says. But the key point here is the sailors in our Navy have to be able to to think critically. They have to be able to look outwardly at China and Russia, and they have to understand what those societies— why those societies are a potential danger to the United States. Inwardly, we have to understand ourselves, and we have to understand critically that we value diversity. And I think—

okay, Admiral, I agree that we should have a robust and great discussion And any racism should be uprooted and taken away. I absolutely agree and I endorse that. But should we have future discrimination? Do you— you don't endorse that particular statement, do you?

Sir, I have to look at the context of it. I'm not trying to be evasive, but I don't— as I mentioned, I don't support everything that Kendi asserts. I don't believe everything I read.

All right, fine. So I have first First of all, I want to salute this guy from Iowa, this congressman. Really well done. Number 2, the dishonesty here, you could choke on it. I don't support everything the book that I recommend says, okay? Do you have any of Larry Elder's books on your list? Do you have any of Tom Sowell's books on your list? How come you only have blacks who hate this country? Liars. Ibram X. Kendi is as big a liar as any propagandist for any totalitarian regime. He's an intellectual fraud. He's a hate-filled human being. It's a hate-filled book, Admiral. That's what it is. The only thing it has in common with books is that it's bound and has paper. It's a hate manifesto. The armed forces are in fact within the realm of the human being being a flawed creature among the least discriminatory places in the country, and it has been known as such. People of every race get along generally terrifically in the armed forces. You're screwing it up, Admiral, because you want to be woke. You want to be liked by the New York Times. You should resign. Anybody who gives cadets or midshipmen or officers in the Navy Ibram X. Kendi is filling their minds with crap. And I wouldn't even mind if you did, if you filled their minds with anybody else. You don't want to expand the dialogue. That's a fraud. Where's Larry Elder or Tom Sowell? Or Jason Ridley— O'Reilly, sorry. Jason O'Reilly, correct? Our man, our terrific guy. I mean, I could give you so many— Jack or John McWhorter. I mean, the number of terrific black intellectuals. Who's the great economist who just passed away? Walter Williams. Is any one of their books on the list, Admiral? That's what I wish the congressman from Iowa had asked him. I'd like to see the whole list. Well, I don't agree with everything. Well, yes, but the central thesis is discriminate. The central thesis is that the only reason that there is inequality of outcome is because there is systemic racism. Do you believe that, sir? Do you believe that the disproportionate number of males in physics is because we discriminate against females in physics? Oh, there's a brilliant young female physicist. I have no desire to promote her. Do you actually think that that operates in physics? If you're a brilliant female physicist, you're going to go so far right now that you will be a living example of the laws of physics. Insofar as very fast projectiles are concerned. This is what the armed forces are coming to, ladies and gentlemen. Oh God, they lie to themselves. It's so, so sad. Oh, we want to expand their thinking. You're full of crap. Admiral, I hate to say this. This is not like me. I never spoke this way, but the left is destroying the country, folks. So everything in my verbal arsenal will be used. They're destroying the country. Do you understand that? Liberals, you vote for people destroying the country. You liberals love the country, you vote for people who hate it. Because you have been brainwashed into believing we conservatives are your enemy. That's, that's the issue in this country. The naive, foolish liberal who doesn't believe almost anything the left says. What exactly do we conservatives say that you differ with that makes it impossible to vote for a Republican? Give me an example. And don't, don't say Don't say Donald Trump, okay? There were plenty of Republicans before Donald Trump you didn't vote for. What was the problem there? Was Mitt Romney too right-wing and incendiary for you? In the book of incendiary politicians, he doesn't appear. What a disgrace, this Admiral. What a disgrace. But always remember this: when anybody says, oh, we want to expand their minds with Ibram X. Kendi or with Ta-Nehisi Coates or these other America-hating intellectual frauds, then just say, okay, we're all for that. Where are all the brilliant conservative black writers on your list? Name one. They don't even know they exist. Last week, a student— where was this? At Boston University? Was that the—

You talked about the importance of finding racism.

Wait, wait, wait, we have to explain who's asking whom. A student's asking a question to Ibram X. Kendi.

But unless I missed it, which is possible, I didn't hear your personal definition.

Is there one that you would offer us?

Like, how do you define racism?

Sure. So racism, I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas. Sure. A collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas. And anti-racism is a pretty simple, using the same terms, anti-racism is a collection of anti-racist policies leading to racial— anybody want to take a guess? Equity that are substantiated by anti-racist ideas. And an example— I, I agree with him. I have no problem with that as one of the definitions. If there are racist policies leading to inequities, I'd like to know what they are. What is the racist policy that has disproportionately fewer Black astronomers? I'd like to know what it is. Disproportionately fewer Black violinists in major orchestras. They have blind auditions.

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Secret Service agent. It was always there. I mean, but here are some things that apparently are not lies. Illegal border crossing attempts reaching a new high under Joe Biden, 180,000 in the month of May. Federal law enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border stopped over 180,000 people who tried to enter the country illegally last month. It's the highest number in more than two decades. You're doing great, border czar. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is snapping now at reporters openly. It took a Univision reporter to get under the skin of the thin-skinned Vice President Kamala Harris. This is classic. This is good.

I said I'm gonna go to the border and I— When are you going to the border, Vice President? The administration has asked— I'm not finished. I've said I'm going to the border.

She loves that, I'm not finished. Remember when she did that to Mike Pence? I'm not finished. Is there ever been a more unlikable politician in the history of the United States of America? She's cringeworthy and she just keeps getting worse. So we know that they're messing up. We know the border is a catastrophe under Biden. How about the economy? The US economy's Inflation rate is the highest in 13 years. Prices surging. Consumers are seeing higher prices for most of our purchases. Things like vehicles, cars and trucks leapt 7.3% from the previous month. Inflation is here. What do they want to do? Spend more. I miss Trump. Boy, do I miss—

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Would you give us an update on where we stand on dates and deadlines and all that kind of stuff?

Well, I'll tell you, we have a lot of, as usual for Governor Newsom out here, a lot of unclarity. They have not set the recall election date yet. Our best guess, Hugh, is that it's going to be in November. And in the meantime, as I think you know, Newsom has been touting for a while that, you know, June 15th he was going to fully reopen the state. But as we learned just last Friday, he's decided he's going to keep the state of emergency. And, you know, once again, it's Newsom changing his mind, showing his true colors to try to retain power at any cost out here.

Now, the, the amazing thing to people who live across the United States, they know generally there will be a recall such as took Gray Davis out and put Arnold in. It's an unusual circumstance. But what is different now from then is not being able to know when the election is. How do they get away with that, Mayor Faulkner?

Well, look, you hit the nail on the head. And what you saw is the Democratically controlled legislature a year or so ago, decided to change the rules. Look, at some point they know they have a deadline. It's actually coming up. Our best guess is, as I said, that they're going to set it for November. But, you know, for us, it doesn't matter. I will tell you, Californians are angry. They are frustrated. That's why 2 million Californians signed this recall petition for a governor that is failing and not just failing on the pandemic, Hugh, but really failing on all of the major issues out here in California in terms of homelessness, affordability, rising crime. So look, we're ready. We're ready for the elections tomorrow.

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Hi, how you doing, Dennis? Longtime fan of the show.

Thank you.

So I've got a little bit of an issue with the comments that you were making about Admiral Gilday, and my concern— and, and this is kind of in context of having served in the military now for about 18 years— what are the critical problems in your opinion that the military is facing as we go forward, and what kind of skill sets do service members need in order to collaborate and work to overcome those hurdles?

Well, why aren't the answers self-evident? You need competent, honest, courageous people like you always did.

It's more than that, Dennis. The issue is is that you need diversity of thought and you need people that can think laterally and lack groupthink. Additionally, so what context do you have for—

do you think the left encourages groupthink or individual think?

It's not a political issue, Dennis.

What is it?

It's an issue of diversity of thought.

And wait, what does that mean, diversity of thought? So would you like to have fascists in the armed forces? That'll give you more diversity.

It's, it's not, it has nothing to do with that. The decision—

then you're not making sense. Okay, I'm asking you a question. Answer me or I will politely get rid of you. You want diversity of thought? I'm asking you a question. If you do not answer, I will say goodbye. I will answer you, you will answer me. Those are the rules that I establish. You don't like it, don't call me. If you want diversity of thought, would you like Ku Klux Klan thought, fascist thought, and anti-Semitic thought, or do you just want diversity? I think it's a stupid comment you made. That's what I'm saying, because you don't really want diversity of thought. You want thought you agree with.

You want thought that doesn't fall out of alignment with the uniform code of military justice.

Okay, all right. Okay, listen, appreciate your call, I do, but I don't know what you're talking about. This mantra of diversity, the irony is, of course, diversity of thought is exactly what is lacking at the university.

The—

and it is lacking in the Admiral's statement. That's what I asked. Is there one black conservative on the list? Why are only black radicals on the list of reading material? Okay, it is what it is. Let's see there. Clinton, Washington. Kenneth, hello.

Good morning, Dennis. I served proudly in the United States Navy. For 4 years aboard a wonderful ship with many Black shipmates. My Lieutenant Commander was Black. At no time did we ever think one of us were better than another. We really got along. This diversity thing to me is beyond my imagination when we had a collision at sea, all of us went to our duty station when we had general quarters and we saved each other's lives. But we did not do it because one was white or one was black.

That's exactly right. I know that. If anything, the armed forces— I mean, look, especially if you go into a war zone, your, your buddy is, is your, is your link to life. And your buddy could be any race, any ethnicity, any religion, any no religion. That is correct. Minneapolis, Joe. Hello, Dennis.

Yep, I am not opposed to living.

Are you speaking into a phone or a speaker, Joe? Joe, I'm sorry, are you speaking into a phone or a speaker?

I'm— no, I don't have a speaker on. I, I'm listening to my phone.

Okay, it's a little muffled. It's muffled, but I can hear you.

Okay, I'll try to be quick then. Um, anyway, as an owner-operator delivery driver, I get to listen to you almost every day and have been for many years. And so I do believe that I only flew years ago. It has a lot to do with you and your program, so I thank you for that. I was listening to the comments of the Admiral, and I find them terrifying because, quite frankly, As an auto parts delivery driver, we need the leaders in our military to be a lot smarter than me. And quite frankly, the things that he was saying were so foolish.

Listen, you're an auto parts delivery driver. Let me just say this. I, like William Buckley, would— and I would put my hand on the Bible to prove to people that I mean this. I would trade in auto parts delivery drivers for professors to teach our kids any day. And at the rate the military leadership is going into wokeness, I would happily have you serve in that position. We need wisdom and courage, and what we now have is flakes. The answers to this congressman's questions were depressing. Ibram X. Kendi— well, I don't agree with everything, right? Like we should have discrimination? He advocates discrimination to remedy past discrimination. Is there any other country that has that? Germany had an anti-Semitism that overwhelmed the anti-Black racism in the United States. There were no death camps for Blacks in the United States. Okay? Two-thirds of European Jewry were wiped out. Two-thirds of the babies. No, in fact, 100% of the babies, basically. A Jewish baby was wiped out. Are they, are they in Germany saying, well, what, what we need today in light of that is reverse discrimination? We'll discriminate against Germans who are not Jewish. Would Jews want that? Are they clamoring for it in Germany? The answer to discrimination is no discrimination. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion, has long recommended this precious metal. Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7694. 800-221-7694. AmericanFederal.com. AmericanFederal.com. Not one mistake.

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Did you deliberately make a virus that you wanted to do harm to the world and then it leaked out? Well, why would the Chinese want to make a virus that equally kills them?

Did this man say that? Did he really say that? You know who the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world is? Don't take me, take the Washington Post. Quote: 'Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world?' asked the Washington Post, August 3rd, 2016. It continued: 'Most people probably assume the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may have indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, Mao's Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people, easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded. What did Dr. Fauci say? Why would the Chinese develop a virus that would equally kill them? Are you kidding? Dr. Fauci, have you heard of Tiananmen Square? We still don't know how many people were killed. Some say thousands.

I'm Dennis Prager, and it's my weekly Thursday visit with Julie Hartman. I have dubbed her Though the title will only work for another year, which is very funny. The Harvard Heretic. She's a student at Harvard. Do they use the term rising? Is this a new thing? Are you a rising senior?

Yes, people say that.

So are you a risen junior?

I very well could be.

That would be— I think you should start that. What am I?

That would be very unique.

I'm a risen junior. But if you're a rising senior, what happens? Oh, so you, you drop rising once it starts. That's it. There you go. So rising— are they dropping the terms at Harvard? Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior— for some reason they're deemed sexist?

No, they're not doing that at Harvard, although I have a friend who goes to UChicago and she solely refers to it as first year, second year, third year.

What was wrong with sophomore, junior? I know freshman has the horrible term "mun" in it.

I don't know. I didn't know that it was political. I just thought it was a colloquialism at these different schools.

Everything's political.

True.

So Julie, what is on your mind today?

Well, what's on my mind today is I want to talk about something that has been on my mind for a very long time. And there is an epidemic I've noticed among high school students, both at elite private schools and elite public schools, where students— it's a huge scam— where students fake that they have a learning disability, or they pay off a doctor to get extra time on their exams. Usually, they use it to get extra time on the SAT or the ACT, although now it's gotten to the point where these students can get extra time just on their everyday exams, their math class, their English class. And I really want to talk about it because I think it, I think it touches on an issue that we talk, or you talk about a lot on this show. And it's the huge disparity between the affluent and the non-affluent in this country, not just in terms of the material things that they have, but in the way that they behave. And I don't think there's a greater example of that than what we're seeing at these high schools. I was actually reading a Wall Street Journal article about it, and they cited the fact that at certain public schools in Scarsdale and Weston, Connecticut, in, you know, affluent parts of Massachusetts, over a third of the student body at some of these schools get extra time on exams. Now, how does that work? Do all of these students have learning disabilities? Of course not. But they're doing it to game the system. And I am by no means saying that this is just a liberal thing. But the, the point that I do want to make is that what I've noticed is that a lot of these liberals, they'll wag their fingers and they'll preach about social justice, but then they don't practice it in their own lives. How is, how is this equality of opportunity? It's not.

It's fine.

I did not know this, so this is a revelation to me. Uh, I'm not surprised in the least. I want to ask another question, obviously related to this. I oppose extra time for students with disabilities. I oppose it. And I'll give an example. Would, would any of you listening to my show right now want a person in medical school to have extra time on an exam because of a disability? And would you want that person to be your surgeon? If extra time doesn't matter, everyone should have extra time. I, I, I, I, it doesn't— am I wrong? I mean, seriously, I might be wrong. What do you think?

Well, I think the real issue— look, I have an older sister with very severe autism. I am incredibly sympathetic to people people who genuinely have learning disabilities and they need extra time. But what bothers me is— and this is the biggest part of the scandal— in high school, when students get extra time on the SAT, they are not obligated to report it to colleges because apparently it is a HIPAA violation. So that is what gives fuel to the scam, that people know that college admissions officers won't know that they got extra time. So now everyone is just pulling any card they have to get extra time. And the thing that, that is very absurd to me is, look, I applied to college 3 years ago. On that application, there is nothing they don't ask you. They ask you how much money your parents make, what religion you are, your gender identification, religion. You know, you have to pour your heart out on these essays about these intimate things, but they don't ask about if you get extra time on a test. I mean, that matters.

All right, all right, we're going to continue. Julie Hartman, is it juliehartman.com, right? Julie Hartman. Oh, Julie Dash.

Yes.

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Of all of these dealings, whether it's the more than $1 billion from the National Bank of Communist China to Hunter Biden's company, whether it is the $80,000+ every month from Burisma, whether it is what Is it $3 million from the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow for all of these services? What, what, what were they buying? Let me ask the naive question. Was there some product? Was something manufactured? Was there engineering services? What are we talking about for these millions and millions and sometimes billions of dollars? Or was this just Buying connections, John.

Yeah, mostly buying connections. Listen, the earlier story you mentioned that came out a couple of days ago, Hunter Biden gets invited to a state dinner by his father. He chums up with the French ambassador, and 2 days later or a week later, he's calling the French ambassador. It was so good to meet you at the dinner. I got a business deal in France I need help with. I got a partner in France who needs help. That's what Hunter Biden was. He was a Rolodex dialer of high and powerful people. And for that, he got paid. Now, that's most of the things he did was connections. You know, Burisma clearly hired him to try to get the stain of their criminal investigations away from them. And we're going to break some new news next week that will show exactly what Hunter Biden was doing, what he was directing to try to make those criminal investigations go away. His private law firm. So he goes in. This is something very important that most people haven't picked up on. He gets to be a board member. As soon as he's a board member, one of the first things he does is He hires himself as a private lawyer through his firm, Boies Schiller, and he gets another quarter million dollars kicked to his law firm, which, by the way, comes back to him. He gets the payments for it.

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Secret Service agent. It was always there. I mean, but here are some things that apparently are not lies. Illegal border crossing attempts reaching a new high under Joe Biden— 180,000 in the month of May. Federal law enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border stopped over 180,000 people who tried to enter the country illegally last month. It's the highest number in more than two decades. You're doing great, border czar. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is snapping now at reporters openly. It took a Univision reporter to get under the skin of the thin-skinned Vice President Kamala Harris. This is classic. This is good.

I said I'm gonna go to the border and I— When are you going to the border, Vice President? The administration has asked— I'm not finished.

It's— Each Thursday I have this young woman whom I have dubbed the Harvard Heretic. She's a student at Harvard and she has come out as conservative. She explained her evolution a number of weeks ago and I won't repeat it right now. And I've asked her what she wanted to talk about today on her Thursday weekly broadcast, as it were, and it's two things. One is the cheating going on, which you hold is widespread with regard to people claiming disabilities to get extra time on exams. And then I said I was just opposed to extra time. First of all, it's inevitable you will have cheating. First of all, the word disability is extremely subjective. I knew that there were kids who took tests better than I did. Did I have a disability? I'm not being cute. Compared to them, I did. But that's the nature of life. So go on.

Well, I think there are two solutions 2 ways of going about it. And what I was saying before the break is that what fuels the scam is that people who get extra time on exams are not obligated to notify the colleges because it's a HIPAA violation. And I was saying that is absurd because on every single part of your application to college, they ask you the most personal details about your background.

Why is it a HIPAA violation to ask if you've been vaccinated?

Well, it's a good point. I agree with you. I agree. So they ask everything else about you, but they don't want to know if you got extra time. And so my point in bringing that up is to say, I believe, I strongly believe, that if you had to report that you got extra time on an exam, we would weed out a lot of these people who are faking it because they would go, well, wait a minute, You know, you for your whole life didn't need extra time, then suddenly, poof, in 10th grade you need extra time. So that's the first thing. The second thing, Dennis, to your point, is perhaps what we do is we completely eliminate extra time, and, and those people who have a documented learning disability are judged based on that disability. So if they get a lower SAT score, the colleges will know that it's because of, of that disadvantage. The fact that they don't have to report it to colleges, that is the biggest fraud of all, because that's right, they can do it in secret.

That's mind-blowing, isn't it? And the other thing, you have a great solution. That, that's exactly right. Okay, go ahead.

I was, I was gonna say, and the other thing that I also wanted to talk about, and it's very related to the extra time scam, is that also in the, in these elite environments at these affluent public or private schools, I've noticed that a lot of people are starting their own charities. It honestly is a bit comical. In 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th— or not 12th grade, but in those 3 grades in order to get into college. And suddenly in 9th grade, people realize that they have a passion for something and they start a charity, like opening an orphanage in a third-world country or a climate change charity, and they declare themselves— I'm not kidding— the CEO of their own charity. You're 16 years old and you're the CEO of your own organization. And then, poof, the second they get into college, it's miraculous. The charity all of a sudden goes away. It ceases to exist. I mean, and obviously, it's incredibly dishonest because a lot of the motivation is to get into college. You are using someone else's lack of privilege to further your own. But also, I think, why, why are colleges rewarding this? Why are high school college counselors or teachers rewarding this? There are people a mile from my high school on Skid Row who need help. There are people in our own communities who need help. Why are, why are we allowing these high school students to start charities in third world countries? Let's take care of our own people first.

Well, I wonder if they were CEO of helping the homeless in their own community, why would that be looked at by the colleges less impressive?

Well, I mean, I'm very much in favor of it.

No, I know, but you, they assume that the college will value an an orphanage in Guatemala, more than a skid row in their neighborhood?

Because they want to go big. Homelessness in LA is not big, it's not glit— not that, you know, an affliction in the Third World is glitzy, per se, but it makes you seem even more important that you're going across the world, that's the scope of your organization.

Did you know kids who did this?

Oh my god, did I know kids who did this?

Everyone!

So many people did it.

Really, that— it's actually funny. I would love to hear the names of these. What, what they came up with? Well, is it like— is it named after them? Like, you know, the Judd Taylor, uh, orphanage in Honduras?

No, they have absurd, absurd names.

The Worldwide—

it's like Love for Lullabies. Singing lullabies to, you know, underprivileged dogs who are out on the street in Guatemala. It's just, it's totally absurd. It's comical.

I personally would like to meet the CEO of the Lullaby Group.

It's comical. But the reason why it relates to the extra time—

But how did you get into Harvard without saying you had a disability or running a charity?

I don't know, Dennis. I did it the right way. I was just the on the straight path.

It's, it's beyond belief. Your solution, I love that you have to just tell the college, I took extra time.

Oh, completely. That would, that would eliminate so much of it.

That's correct. What does that have to do with the HIPAA violation? It's ridiculous. Not something you told your doctor, it's something you told the, the school. In order to get more time.

So I agree with you.

All right, let's see. Ah, all right, we'll take calls when we get back. It's very— it's just very distressing, the amount of cheating in general. Look, there are consequences to no fixed moral standard, ladies and gentlemen. There are consequences. Although I went to religious school, a lot of kids cheated on tests. I ran an anti-cheating campaign. It's very hard to get people to do the right thing. Have you noticed?

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These statistics are astonishing. I'll say it again, 85% of kids in prison, youths in prison, 85% don't have a father in the home. 70% of Black Americans don't have a father in the home. Your film, The Streets Were My Father, available at SalemNow.com, shows that in the cases of 3 hardcore men who were in lives of crime, who didn't have fathers, Jesus managed to get to them and they managed to accept God their father. So talk about that for a minute.

No, and that's why we did the movie. I mean, hopelessness without hope is nihilism. Each of these three men encountered God through either personal testimonials. One heard the testimony of a Latin Kings gang leader who had almost had his head cut off. And that guy was teaching and preaching at the prison church. And Leslie Williams said, if God can save him, God can save me. I want more out of my life than this. God had spared me, he said, of being killed. Most of my friends in their 30s were dead or here in prison. I wanted more out of life. What could be a more universal cry than Leslie Williams? At the end of the film, he breaks down talking about the father he never had, but that he had a father now, and it was God the Father. By the way, none of these men, Eric, talked about the cops. None of them talked about systemic racism. None of them talked about any of the things that you hear on the television. It was fathers, fathers, fathers. It was gangs, gangs, gangs. And it was God, God, God. And these are their testimonies.

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Yeah, that's exactly, exactly what you said Sue just said. Hi everybody, I want you to know that I got my job at, uh, in radio running a charity for, uh, folks in Chad, but very few people heard of Chad, so it was a, uh, they thought I was talking about the parts of the ballot in Florida. Remember the Chads, or are you too young?

I'm too young.

Yeah. God, it's amazing to talk to somebody for whom the— uh, actually, it's a while ago. I mean, now that I think of it, huh? Yeah, it's 20 years ago. You would have to be really— it's true, you'd have to be 30 or more to really remember that. The, um, the, the Bush-Gore Hanging on a Chad. You should look it up. You'll get a big kick out of it, how they decided the Florida vote. Anyway, Julie Hartman is at julie-hartman.com. She now has a way for you to contact her. I think the world of her, which is why she's on each week. I've not done this before.

4.

Thank you.

You're welcome. So she's talking about the, uh, the number of people who take extra time because they say they have a disability, but they don't tell the college, and she thinks they should. And then there is the issue of founding a charity in high school to make it sound impressive. All right, Westchester County, New York.

Sue.

Hello, Sue.

Hi, Dennis. Hi, Julie. I'm finding this conversation fascinating because I'm living it in Westchester County. It's worse. It's way worse than Julie is even saying. Um, I've had— I have a couple of kids that have had, you know, they received disability accommodations early on, first and third grade. And were denied extra time when it came to the SAT, but their classmates who were all of a sudden diagnosed as sophomores and juniors got accommodations and extra time.

Who were diagnosed as what?

Huge.

As, as sophomores and juniors, I believe she said. So late in their career.

I thought that was a diagnosis.

No, no, no, no, no. Timing. No.

So wait, time-wise, why, why were they given this time?

Well, they, they claim they have all of a sudden, um, testing anxiety, or yes, I don't know, they go to a psychologist, they pay $5,000 to $10,000, they pay thousands of dollars, and they get— they buy a diagnosis and it's going through. Whereas my child, who was diagnosed in third grade with auditory processing and, um, different forms of dyslexia, was denied by the ACT since third grade.

So it's inevitable It's inevitable once you start, once you start the issue. I'm very glad you called. I'm sorry about your kid. Testing anxiety. Well, I must admit I never had it because I didn't give a hoot about my grades. It's one of the reasons I'm a happy man. Julie-Hartman.com.

Is that the end of it?

Yeah.

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I'm gonna go to the border. And when are you going to the border, Vice President? Administration has asked— I'm not finished. I've said I'm going to the border.

She loves that, I'm not finished. Remember when she did that to Mike Pence? I'm not finished. Is there a— has there ever been a more unlikable politician in the history of the United States of America? This is— she's cringeworthy, and she just keeps getting worse. So we know that they're messing up the— we know the border is a catastrophe under Biden. How about the economy? The U.S. economy's inflation rate is the highest in 13 years. Prices surging. Consumers are seeing higher prices for most of our purchases. Things like vehicles, cars and trucks, leapt 7.3% from the previous month. Inflation is here. What do they want to do? Spend more. I miss Trump. Boy, do I miss—

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Would you give us an update on where we stand on dates and deadlines and all that kind of stuff?

Well, I'll tell you, we have a lot of— as usual for Governor Newsom out here— a lot of unclarity. They have not set the recall election date yet. Our best guess, Hugh, is that it's going to be in November. And in the meantime, as I think you know, Newsom has been touting for a while that, you know, on June 15th he was going to fully reopen the state. But as we learned just last Friday, he's decided he's going to keep the state of emergency. And, you know, once again, it's Newsom changing his mind, showing his true colors to try to retain power at any cost out here.

Now, the, the amazing thing to people who live across the United States, they know generally there will be a recall such as took Gray Davis out and put Arnold in. It's an unusual circumstance. But what is different now from then is not being able to know when the election is. How do they get away with that, Mayor Faulkner?

Well, look, you hit the nail on the head. And what you saw is the Democratically controlled legislature a year or so ago decided to change the rules. Look, at some point they know they have a deadline. It's actually coming up. Our best guess is, as I said, that they're going to set it for November. But, you know, for us, it doesn't matter. I will tell you, Californians are angry. They are frustrated. That's why 2 million Californians signed this recall petition for a governor that is failing and not just failing on the pandemic, Hugh, but really failing on all of the major issues out here in California in terms of homelessness, affordability, rising crime. So, look, we're ready. We're ready for the elections tomorrow.

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The thing that strikes me first is not how awful of a person Hunter Biden is. I think that's been rather established and it goes on and on and on. He uses the N-word. He uses the N-word. Well, of course, we know there's very little to no outrage at all from the activist press. What I find to be very interesting about this whole story is how Hunter Biden and his lawyer going back using very racially charged language, including a meme between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, again saying the N-word. They never thought any of this would become public, by the way. What is done in darkness will always come to light.

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And I just want to say as bluntly and loudly as I can, folks, there is hope. God is the hope of these people. And if you care about the society, even if you don't believe in God, you've got to notice this is the pattern. These men find God They get healed, their lives are changed. Who wouldn't be for that? Who wouldn't be for that? So Lee, I'm just grateful to you for making this film. When did you get the idea to make this? 'Cause I just love this.

We had played the separate stories on the air and the response on secular stations were, our show is on secular stations. Heck, we followed Dr. Drew in Los Angeles and there wasn't a complaint with these men using the word Jesus. Jesus. This is the strength, right? It's their story. It's not us proselytizing. It's us getting out of the way and showing the power of Christ through another person. And so that's how it happened. We were broadcasting these as podcasts, and then one day I said, this should be our first film. Uh, let's get the cameras on these guys. And it was that simple. And the next thing you know, we had a, we had a beautiful hour and 10 minute film that I promise you, uh, it'll make you weep. And bring it to your friends who are on the fence as religious folks, on the fence either as Christians, or on the fence in their life. Because so many Americans are on the fence spiritually, economically. And you can have all the money in the world and be poor, and you can have not a lot of money at all and be rich. And this is the greatest Christian notion of them all, and this film proves it. These men, as Carlos Colón said, The second 10 years of his sentence, when he found the Lord, were the best 10 years of his life, and he was in jail.

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Hello everybody, you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, and I want to welcome you on behalf of the gentle Gentile Giant and the Living Martyr, my comrades on a daily basis. And it means a great deal to them that I welcome you in their names. It was nice, yes. You know, I just had Julie Hartman on, the Harvard girl who I have great respect for, obviously. I put her on every week. I've never done that before. And she had such a brilliant solution to the issue of the cheating that is done in high schools when students say, I need extra time for an exam. All you need to do basically to end it is you have to tell the admissions committee at any college you apply to that you did take extra time on your exam. But who knows if that would even be allowed. Incidentally, my anger at colleges is I never— my contempt is greater than ever in forcing young people to get vaccinations. I can't tell you, they have gone over into the world of evil. Young people do not need this vaccination. There is no reason for them to get it in the vast majority of instances, and I believe statistically We will find out that there was more danger for a young person in taking the vaccination than in dying from COVID What if that is true? What if that turns out to be true? Will you then understand how despicable colleges are? And that there were colleges that did not require faculty to get the vaccination who are twice their age? I guess sometimes if the person is 60, there are 60-year-old professors, they're 3 times their age and they don't have to get it. Sometimes they do. It's very important that people listen to shows like mine, not just mine, I'm not claiming that at all, but shows like this are very important. You need to know what is going on. During the break, the technical director of this show, a man named McConnell— he insists we call him Mr. McConnell, so I will— Mr. McConnell asked me, is there—

is—

can I envision a point would be so little hope for the country that I would give up fighting. And I said, there's no, there's no, it's not possible. See, what animates me is not hope. It's a very important discussion. I'm not going to go into it in depth now. I will at another time, but it's a very important discussion. It is not hope that keeps me fighting for America. It is duty. That's it. I am morally bound to fight for this country that gave me so much and gave so many so much and is the beacon of hope for the world in terms of liberty. And without America, liberty will die on earth because liberty is not the natural human inclination. Take— being taken care of is— everyone who votes for the Democrats believes that the role of the state is to take care of people, not to enable people to take care of themselves. Okay, that is it. You know what, that's a really great way of putting the left-right difference. The role of the government for the left, including liberals, is to take care of people. The role of the government on the right is to enable people to take care of themselves. Do we have that? I, I— that is really important, and it was the first government ever set up that way. The only purpose of government is to help you, to enable you to be free. Yes, well, that was it. He said that he likes my line about the soldiers on D-Day. Yes, that's where I have the duty from. My sense of duty to this country is from the D-Day graves. I'm more than 3 times older than some of those guys buried there. I've lived 3 of their lifetimes. I have children, I have grandchildren, I have friends. I have, I have a life that they were all deprived of fighting for this country. And I'm going to ask if I have hope that they have hope storming Normandy Beach? I've got more hope than they did. Let me put you that— let me put it that way. People ask the wrong questions. They ask, are you optimistic? Let's say I'm optimistic. Let's say I'm pessimistic. What difference does it make? Let me give an analogy. Okay, let me come up with it. I'm good at analogies. I gotta come up with one here. Let's see here. Yeah, you, you, okay. A dear friend of mine just had triple bypass open-heart surgery. Okay, 70% blockage of his aorta. So whether he was optimistic or pessimistic did not play any role in his decision to get the surgery, correct? I have to get the surgery. Life is filled with have-tos whether you're optimistic or pessimistic. That's where my great "so what" idea comes in. So what? And by the way, optimism and pessimism both give you excuses not to fight. Why fight if you're an optimist? Things will turn out well. Why fight if you're a pessimist? Things will turn out lousy. People ask the wrong questions. Do you have hope? Are you an optimist? Are you a pessimist? I get this— there is no speech I give— I'm speaking this weekend in Utah, and I can predict now somebody is going to ask me if I'm optimistic or pessimistic. It is the most common question that I get. And I like it because it gives me a chance to tell them I am not animated by either optimism or pessimism. I'm animated by duty. Duty to the dead at Normandy, duty to the founders of this country, duty to my father who served in the armed forces, and duty to God. God doesn't want me to sit back with the greatest experiment in a Bible-based country as this was. This is a Bible-based country. Did you know that? Of course you didn't know it. Most of you don't know it anyway, especially if you went to college. Oh, it was founded to be a secular society. I get these letters all the time. Talking about letters, so Julie, this terrific young woman who I have on every Thursday and had on last hour. It's been going through my mail, and I want to thank one listener for giving me more data to support my supposition that the— it is a gigantic lie that white supremacists are a threat to this country. Merrick Garland's statement, you know, that I couldn't get it out of my mind, folks. I report a lot of things in the course of a show, and I read a ton more that I don't get to report. So if something stays with me, it's either really terrific or really awful. You have Merrick Garland's despicable statement, Attorney General of the United States.

Motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the white race.

Yeah, he doesn't name any. So I want to thank— I don't remember who it is, but it was sent to me, the list, by Julie as she was reading the mail. And there's a whole list of everyone that has claimed to be a white supremacist organization. So I looked through the first half dozen. They have almost no members. Many of them are just in the past tense. It is a lie. Of Goebbels-like proportions. It takes a lot for me to say that. I'm not sure I ever said that. To say what Merrick Garland said— Merrick Garland said something that is a big lie in the fascist notion of big lie, that white supremacist organizations are the great threat to this country. Name them and tell me how many they have. By the way, Merrick, Did you ever meet one?

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And I just want to say, as bluntly and loudly as I can. Folks, there is hope. God is the hope of these people. And if you care about the society, even if you don't believe in God, you've got to notice this is the pattern. These men find God, they get healed, their lives are changed. Who wouldn't be for that? Who wouldn't be for that? So Lee, I'm just grateful to you for making this film. When did you get the idea to make this? Because I just love this.

We had played the separate stories on the air and the response on secular stations. Our show is on secular stations. Heck, we followed Dr. Drew in Los Angeles, and there wasn't a complaint with these men using the word Jesus. This is the strength, right? It's their story. It's not us proselytizing. It's us getting out of the way and showing the power of Christ through another person. And so that's how it happened. We were broadcasting these as podcasts. And then one day I said, this should be our first film. Let's get the cameras on these guys. And it was that simple. And the next thing you know, we had a beautiful hour and 10-minute film that I promise you, it'll make you weep and bring it to your friends who are on the fence as religious folks, on the fence either as Christians or on the fence in their life. To be poor and you can have not a lot of money at all and be rich. And this is the greatest Christian notion of them all. And this film proves it. These men, as Carlos Colon said, the second 10 years of his sentence when he found the Lord were the best 10 years of his life, and he was in jail.

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You know how many ways Trump is being vindicated these days? Have you noticed? You are, right? You're paying attention. Oh, I miss Trump, and I don't think he's going anywhere. And in fact, maybe he's going to run again in 2024. I don't know. I hope he does. I hope he does. If he doesn't run, I hope he is in the ear of whoever is going to run as a Republican 'cause we need him. We need this. We need him back so badly. Over and over and over, he's being vindicated. How about 8 anti-Trump narratives that the media is finally forced to admit they were wrong about all along? I mean, the park. You got the park.

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I want to know a difference between voting Democrat and Republican. This is from the Washington Examiner. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order prohibiting universities in his state from requiring students to vaccinate themselves or wear masks while on campus. The vaccine works, and we encourage Arizonans to 'take it,' the Republican governor said after signing the executive order. 'But it is a choice, and we need to keep it that way.' Wow, that's right, pro-choice. Amazing. The left is pro-choice on third trimester abortion. Pro-choice on abortion, but it's not pro-choice on young people who have a virtually zero risk of dying from COVID from taking vaccinations, getting vaccinated. And here's the truly sick, sick part: even if they had the virus, Since when are you not immune if you have had the virus? Well, wow is right. Dan in Hopkins, Minnesota wants to know— I haven't talked about the audit in Arizona yet because I want to see what happens. That's why I'm gonna talk about things generally when when they are not clear to me. So that's the answer. Thank you for calling, Dan, and now you can rest for a while. I will talk about it. Let's see, uh, Joy in Clearwater, Florida. Hello.

Hi, thanks Thanks for taking my call. Um, the young lady who was speaking about test accommodations, if a student's receiving test accommodations in a school, they typically have to have an IEP or a 504 plan, and those plans are guided by federal laws, so I don't know how they could just get a note from a doctor saying, oh, they've got dyslexia. A doctor wouldn't be a person to diagnose that anyway. I'm an ESE teacher.

So you're a what teacher?

I'm an ESE teacher, a special needs teacher at a center school in Clearwater, Florida.

Right. So your doctor is not the one who decides if you have a disability?

Uh, for us, typically no. No, they might be able to decide if you have a medical problem. Say, I know you have a stepson with autism, if he were to take medication, different things like that, but as far as cognitive functioning goes, that's usually, we have people at the school district who administer different tests to see whether it's from an occupational therapy or physical therapy standpoint, from a speech and language standpoint, from a—

to infer from what you say, and this is just a clarification question for me, that it's very difficult to cheat to get a disability extension in your test-taking?

For a public— for a school, yes, I would believe that it would be because you cannot provide any accommodations that a student would normally not have in a classroom. So if that student is not— and let's say it's either a district accommodation or a state testing accommodation— if the student isn't allowed extra time on lessons, they wouldn't be allowed extra time on a test. And to go to the point of not allowing any accommodations at all, the one problem just off the top of my head I would I see with that is that if it were someone who was vision impaired and needed all their materials in Braille and might need extra time, I think that would be a reasonable accommodation. But, and for the parent who called and said that her children had had, I think in 1st and 3rd grade accommodations—

I lost you. Okay. Anyway, it was a very valuable call. Every time these things are allowed— and look, a student using Braille, I totally understand, would need extra time— but these things open themselves up to abuse on a scale that makes you question the efficacy of the whole enterprise. It's just an— there's a certain inevitability about that in life. What doctor is going to refuse— some doctors will, but many doctors will not refuse a family's request if a child If they say, you know, he really— he, she— there's real difficulty in exam taking, things get blurry, or they don't read as fast, or what have you. It just, it does open the gates of that. Talking about doctors, Tucker Carlson had a woman on whose son and husband both very physically fit, are both in a hospital after taking the vaccination against COVID, and both have blood clots. And I think in both cases that went to the brain. I, I was not— it was not clear to me what the prognosis is for either the husband or the son. This is a terrible tragedy, obviously. Obviously, and nobody claims it's the norm. What is— what was of interest is this: the son got his symptoms, uh, very shortly after the— obviously shortly after the— I don't remember the time frame, however— after getting the vaccination. And the doctor, the family doctor, the pediatrician she said. Said to him, no, it can't be the vaccine. He got a blood clot. A healthy young man got a blood clot after getting the vaccine, but it wasn't the vaccine. The— she said the pediatrician who had obviously treated the son, I guess, all his life, or much of his life at least, reassured them. Why would he say that? Why, really, why would he say that unless he has this non-medical preoccupation with getting people vaccinated and not getting the word out that there are dangers? I'm not saying people shouldn't take it. Neither is Tucker Carlson. I do think young people should not take it. Well, I will go on record as saying that. As far as I understand, the risks of the vaccine are at least as great as the risk of dying from COVID in which case don't take the vaccine. The damage done to the young generation by the left in this country is incalculable. The Dennis Prager Show. Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion, has long recommended this precious metal Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7694. 800-221-7694. AmericanFederal.com. AmericanFederal.com. Not one mistake.

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Fauci, have you heard of I'm Dennis Prager and delighted to have Jack Phillips. Whom you know from the cake issue in Colorado, baking a cake for various functions which his Christian faith does not celebrate. He's gone to the Supreme Court, and he has a book out about his experiences and his outlook. And that is Jack Phillips. The book is The Cost of My The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court. And his lawyer, Ryan Bangert of the Alliance Defending Freedom, is on as well. Gentlemen, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.

Thank you, Mr. Prager. It's an honor to be here.

Thank you. It's an honor to have you. It's a great title, actually, The Cost of My Faith. Yeah, it makes me think that that if people have faith and they haven't paid any price, you wonder how serious is their faith.

Yeah, but, uh, you know, we've been going through this for almost 9 years now, and I think my faith is much more serious and personal to me than it was 10 years ago.

So let's, let's begin the The first issue that arose was, uh, was it a gay wedding?

Yeah, two men came in asking me to create a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding, and when I told them— tried to tell them in just a couple seconds before they flipped me off, swore at me, and flew out of my store within 20 seconds— I wanted to explain to them that it's a cake that I couldn't create because a wedding cake has an inherent message. And that I couldn't celebrate that, but that I'd be glad to sell them anything else in my shop or do other custom work. But that was the first cake, yeah.

Did that— is that the one that went to the Supreme Court?

That is. And then that was argued December of 2017, and then June of 2018 they released their 7-2 favorable favorable opinion in our favor, and rebuked at the same time the Colorado Civil Rights Commission because of their open hostility towards me and my faith, and their unequal treatment of other cake shops.

So, I have read, and I don't know if this is true, were these two men, or one of them at least, a customer of yours prior to this?

I don't think so. I didn't recognize either of them.

Okay, fine. So I, I, I, I was—

yeah, I've heard that too. I couldn't say one way or the other.

All right, so far—

well, look, if you don't know, they weren't familiar customers, either one of them, right? I didn't recognize them when they came in.

Why did they pick your store?

Um, they were sent to my store, um, by a really nice restaurant that would refer people people to us all the time. So I think they came in fully expecting to get a wedding cake, and they were just as surprised that I couldn't create it as I was at the way that they left, swearing and flipping me off and then suing me.

What did you explain to them?

Um, the conversation was 29 words. I explained that and the cost of my faith. But, um, one gentleman said, you know, we're here to look wedding cakes. The other one said, it's for our wedding. And I said, you know, my mind, I'm thinking, that's not a cake that I can create. How am I going to explain this to them? We've had this come up a couple other times, so I'll, you know, just be as gentle and gracious as I can. I said, sorry guys, I don't do cakes for same-sex weddings. There was no conversation from them. They just kind of stared at me like they either didn't hear what I just said or heard what I said and couldn't believe that I would say it. And I said, oh, I make you birthday cakes, I'll do shower cakes, I'll do cookies and brownies, but I just don't do cakes for same-sex weddings. That's all. And then they stormed out of my shop. But I would like to have had more time to explain that it's because of my faith, and that I would gladly serve them, but a wedding cake is a message in and of itself. If you think about it, you're at a hotel room and you got a conference to go to, and you go down to the conference room, you open up a door, and you look across the room and you see a cake sitting on the table in the corner, you know immediately that it's a wedding that's being celebrated, a marriage is taking place. And it's not a business meeting. You know instinctively that that wedding cake says, as a message in and of itself, it's a wedding. So, um, I can't create a cake that celebrates, expresses a message that goes against my faith.

And it's often portrayed as And I want to verify that my defense of you is accurate. It is often portrayed that you did not make a cake for gays, but—

Right.

That's not correct, correct?

That's correct. That's what it's always portrayed, that I turn away gays, but it wouldn't matter if you asked me for that cake, I wouldn't create it. If my mom asked me for that cake, I wouldn't create it. But there are also—

And you make cakes for gays. I mean, it's—

I do. We were just in our trial in March. A gay man came and testified on our behalf that I've always treated him fairly.

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Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. I'm speaking to a man who probably did not expect to be a national figure. Most people who bake cakes for a living did did not expect to be national figures. He certainly didn't seek it. But man plans, God— or is it, yes, man plans, God laughs. Yes. The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court, Jack Phillips. With the bake shop in Colorado and also Ryan Bangert of the terrific group Alliance Defending Freedom which took his case to the Supreme Court. So the first case was a couple that wanted you to bake a cake for their gay wedding, their same-sex wedding. It's very important that people understand you had no issue with baking cakes for gay people or anybody else. I find it interesting that a gay testified on your behalf. This I learned just now from you. You want to just tell us a little about that?

Yeah, a radio station came into our shop a few years ago and wanted to do a broadcast here through the entire day. And the first person that came into the shop that day said, you know, "Hi, my name is Mike and I'm a gay man and I just came to see what's going on here." "Hey Mike, how are you doing? What can I get for you?" And we talked a little bit, he bought some brownies, whatever, and left. But then he came back later in the afternoon and they were— they had open mics on the radio, and so he got on the mic and talked a little bit, and come to find out later he was a gay activist, and we've since become friends. Close enough that he, like I say, he argued for us, testified for us.

That is remarkable. That's to his credit and to your credit. I think, yes, I think that's very important. The issue is the— you couldn't honor an act you don't believe in. By the way, I don't believe in same-sex marriage. Marriage as such either. I want same-sex partners to have the same rights every other group does, but I do believe, in my case as a believing Jew, but we share most of the Bible, and I believe God wants marriage to be between a man and a woman. And I have incredibly close friends who are same-sex couples. I'm the godfather to the parents of one same-sex couple's children. But, and they know my position, which is that the ideal that God wants is man and woman to marry. I don't know why that's exactly a hate-filled statement. It is not in the least. And anyway, I just wanted you to know that I am coming from a sympathetic position in this regard. So what's the next story? You just lost another case. Case, correct?

Correct. So, um, the day that the Supreme Court granted our case was a crazy, chaotic day. Lots of phone calls, media, press interviews, that kind of thing. I had a call for somebody requesting 38 wedding cakes to be delivered to 38 states. I had somebody else call and wanted a cake, a wedding cake, to celebrate a wedding between 3 people and a computer. So just good calls. But I also had a call that day for from somebody who called and requested a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside, and it was to celebrate a gender transition. And so we tried to explain to this person also that we would sell other custom cakes to them, you know, come in the shop, you can buy anything here, we treat you the same as anybody else, but that's a cake, it expresses a message that I can't create for you. And so that person took us to court through the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. And then the commission took up the case 3 weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in our first case, even though the Supreme Court rebuked the commission, like I said, for their unequal treatment of me and their hostility towards me and my faith. But then that case was dismissed, and so the person who requested the cake is now suing me in civil court, and that's the decision that came down yesterday.

The judge ruled— Oh, oh, oh, really? Interesting. Oh, it's a civil suit.

Yeah, so this one, it's the same cake, same thing. And the person who's suing me, we went through mediation, and during the mediation, face to face, myself, the attorney who's suing me, and the mediator, the attorney said that, you know, if you win this case or if it's dismissed for any reason, I'll call you the next day with another cake and we'll start all over again. And then swore to that in court. And, uh, now we've lost the case, and so that won't happen right away, but the case will go forward, and Alliance Defending Freedom—

So how much are you being sued for in the civil case?

Uh, the civil case was for $100,000 and court costs, legal fees, penalties, but the judge dismissed that part of it, but it can come back now at the appeal, so I understand.

So, so you have—

You can ask the attorneys about that. They know better.

All right, so I will ask the attorney. So, uh, Mr. Bangert, let me ask you, if what was dismissed in— would we call it criminal court? What, what is the— what is the other type of court to a civil court?

You bet. Now, the entire case was brought in civil court, and there were two separate claims that were brought by the plaintiffs here. One was a an advertising case. Really, it was brought under the consumer protection statute in Colorado. That was the claim that carried those really large potential damages, as well as attorney's fees. That was all dismissed by the judge. The remaining claim, and the claim that the judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff on, is under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which incidentally was the same statute statute that the Colorado Commission tried to enforce against Jack the first time around when it came to the same-sex wedding cake. And so that statute carries a penalty of $500 per violation. And so what the court ultimately said in its order was that Jack has to pay the plaintiff a $500 penalty for refusing to create this cake. which, which, uh, that's ultimately the judgment of the court.

And again, that was a civil court?

That's a civil court, exactly. It's not—

so there were no charges being brought against Jack from the Colorado Human Rights Commission?

Uh, the Human Rights Commission dismissed all of it initially. It was brought there, and the, the commission dismissed all of the claims because they, they just assumed it was a hopeless, hopeless case, Chase? Well, it's always difficult to know exactly what's going on inside there.

Okay, that's fair.

They— yeah, they left the case though.

All right, so then if it's a civil case, this one can't go to the Supreme Court?

Well, it could, and here's how. Because we, we argued at the trial court level that the application of this law to force Jack to speak a message that violates his conscience, actually violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution. And we're going to take that case up on appeal, first through the Colorado Court of Appeals. It could ultimately go to the Colorado Supreme Court.

All right, hold on a second. I want to remind everybody the book is up at DennisPrager.com, The Cost of My Faith.

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All right, everybody. Dennis Prager, Jack Phillips. The most famous baker in the United States. How do you feel, Jack, with that fact?

You know, I've heard that before, and it's pretty crazy because this is a very small shop, right? My wife and I own it. My mom used to work here. My daughter works here. My granddaughters are here all the time. And, and yeah, it's pretty crazy.

Um, well, you can remember, you should be You could remember the saying that I said. It's an old Jewish saying: man plans, God laughs. You are truly a representative of that. Yeah. You thought you'd have this quiet, sweet life, and it didn't turn out that way. So very quickly, back to your lawyer with ADF, Alliance Defending Freedom, which I support personally. Personally and on radio.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

Well, it's earned. You guys are fighters. So the latest is the transgender cake. And again, not a problem of serving anyone who's transgender, but celebrating something he doesn't believe in. And of course, it's people who just want to get him in trouble because 99% of bakeries would be happy to make such a cake. Uh, well, you know, with one color on the outside and one color on the inside. I think it was pink on the outside, blue on the inside. That was the way I think Jack described it. So this was— so there's a civil, uh, suit, and it was upheld in the, in the first court. Is that correct?

[Speaker] So that's right, Dennis. So what we just got was the opinion of the district court, and the district court ruled that Jack violated the Anti-Discrimination Act there in Colorado. We just got that decision yesterday. And what the court found was that despite the fact that Jack serves everyone, he couldn't refuse to create this cake because of the message it communicates. The court found that was a violation of the Anti-Discrimination Act, simply refusing to create a case.

What is the left's position on this? Is there any action— again, we're talking about actions, not people— so is there any action that a baker would not have to bake for? I mean, they talk about white supremacists as if they are ubiquitous in the the country. You know, anywhere you go you'll find one. So if somebody had to bake a cake for a white supremacist rally, would they be obligated according to the left?

No, they wouldn't.

In fact, that very thing— and not quite that thing, but something very similar happened in Colorado. Several cake shops were asked to create cakes with blatantly anti-LGBT messages. And the commission said, nope, they don't have to create those cakes because it would offend their sensibilities. But that rule doesn't apply to Jack.

All right, there you go. Listen, both of you, good luck, folks. It's a great book, The Cost of My Faith by Jack Phillips, up at my website. I'll see you tomorrow.