May 15, 2020
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You Don't Waste a Crisis -- Unless You're Wasting Money
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by Tony Perkins
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In 2009, when America was in a deep financial crisis, our new president, Barack Obama, appointed Rahm Emanuel to be his chief-of-staff. Emanuel was known for two things: bare-knuckle politics and radical liberalism. And he knew that while America's attention was focused on recharging our economy it would be a great time to sneak in parts of the liberal agenda that otherwise might never get done. As he put it, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
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A Jiu-Jitsu Move in California
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by Tony Perkins
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It's been called a "miracle," an "awakening," and "unthinkable." Voters in California's 25th Congressional District elected Mike Garcia in a landslide --- making it the first time in 22 years that the GOP has retaken a Democrat-held seat. The media are scratching their heads, asking what happened. Isn't the blue wave in the last election supposed to be expanding, especially in liberal states like California?
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Let us not let our Freedom Atrophy
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The debate is raging throughout the country over whether the freedoms we enjoy as Americans are eroding as the lockdowns continue. On Wednesday's "Washington Watch," I share a warning about what will happen if we fail to exercise our freedoms. Let us not let our freedom atrophy.
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Today's show features: Doug Collins, U.S. Representative for the 9th district of Georgia, on a letter from Collins and 19 Republican colleagues to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on religious liberty violations in the military and the problems with the House Democrats' HEROES Act; Mike Donnelly, Senior Counsel and Director of Global Outreach for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), on a new survey showing that 40 percent of Americans are more likely to choose homeschooling or online learning after the pandemic; David Benham, Entrepreneur, Author, and Activist, on the Coronavirus lockdown situation on the ground in North Carolina; Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and the author of the upcoming book The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free, on the socialist agenda behind the 1619 Project.
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