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July 13, 2020
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Cancellation Nation: The Building Backlash
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First it was pancake syrup and Paw Patrol. Now, even Scrabble isn't safe. You can forget the triple word score on at least 236 "slurs" the North American players association is stripping from the group's lexicon. The goal, these gamers say, is to make the game "friendlier" for all types of people. Of course, no one has seen the official list of "potentially offensive" words -- leaving many to wonder if this new vocabulary is just W-O-K-E.
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Facebook Tags Therapy for Possible Ban
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While the rest of Big Tech openly uses its power to censor, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has stood out. Unlike his peers, he's had the refreshing sanity to reinforce free speech -- a position that hasn't exactly endeared him to the intolerant Left. Now, months into his First Amendment experiment, one of the lone holdouts on open debate is considering a policy that would silence the voices keeping some users alive.
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Hagia Sophia: From Ancient Church to Mosque
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by Lela Gilbert
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On July 10, a Turkish court announced its decision to permit President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime to convert the ancient Christian church Hagia Sophia -- the Church of the Holy Wisdom -- into a mosque. An outcry from around the world greeted the news. But within an hour, Erdogan signed an official declaration, stating that the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a Muslim place of worship is a fait accompli.
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Today's show features: Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4th district of Missouri, on her legislation expanding liability protections for churches and nonprofit organizations; Bernie Kerik, former police commissioner of New York City who was in command of the NYPD on September 11, 2001, and led the city's response, rescue, recovery, and investigative efforts, on the defund the police movement and rising NYPD retirements; Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Attorney General, on the Biden/Sanders platform stance on life, immigration, and China; David Harsanyi, senior writer for National Review and author of "First Freedom: A Ride through America's Enduring History with the Gun," on his opinion piece "The Media's War on Words."; Arielle Del Turco, FRC's Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty, on China announcing sanctions against U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, and also on the U.S. sanctions against the masterminds responsible for atrocities against the persecuted Uyghur Muslims.
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