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The Real Location of the Jewish Temple

The Real Location of the Jewish Temple

Show Summary: Tradition and preconceived notions are hard to overcome. And nowhere is this more true than Jerusalem and the location of the Jewish Temple — the one built by Solomon and later rebuilt and expanded by Herod. Scholars and centuries of tradition say the location of the Jewish Temple was the Temple Mount where the Dome of the Rock stands. What if they’re all wrong?

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Air Dates: April 8 & 9, 2017 | David Sielaff

We’re joined this week by David Sielaff, the Director of the  Associates for Scriptural Knowledge (ASK). They were founded by Dr. Ernest L Martin, who was one of the leading proponents of the true site of the Jewish Temple being located in the original City of David. Dr Martin was the author of The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot.



Whether it’s politics or or the media or academia or even religion, each of these have their “experts.” And the experts are right and everyone else is wrong. Or at least not as right. And there is an incredible amount of arrogance that comes with that puffed up sense of self, which in turn creates a mental roadblock that prevents experts from seeing alternate possibilities.

Location of the Jewish Temple: The rock under the Dome of the Rock
The rock under the Dome of the Rock. Does this look like a threshing floor to you?
The Bible says the location of the Jewish Temple was over a threshing floor. This is what a threshing floor looks like
An actual ancient threshing floor. What David bought would have looked something like this.

Take the original location of the Jewish Temple. The one built by Solomon and then later rebuilt and greatly expanded by Herod the Great. The Bible says that King David bought some property on which to build the Temple: the threshing floor floor of a Jebusite (the Jebusites had settled Jerusalem before David conquered it). Centuries of tradition place it on the so called “Temple Mount” where the Dome of the Rock now stands.

But threshing floors were flat. And smooth. Because farmers would use shovels and rakes to toss the grain up into the air to separate the grain from the chaff, you’d want a smooth surface to make the shoveling part easier. Look at the pictures here. Does the rock under the Dome look at all like it could have been a threshing floor?

Location of the Jewish Temple

The Jews would like to rebuild their Temple. But the Dome blocks them from doing so because the Dome of the Rock is the third holiest site in Islam and tearing it down would start the third world war.

But what if all those experts are wrong? What if the original location of the Jewish temple wasn’t on the Dome of the Rock at all?

Tune in this week to find out why all those “experts” could be incredibly wrong—and just think what that means for the Jewish people.

Links Mentioned

  • David Sielaff’s organization: Associates for Scriptural Knowledge – askelm.com. There is a ton of good information here not only on the location of the Jewish Temple but lots more on the intertwining of history, science, and scripture

Books

Arguments supporting original location of the Jewish Temple (not on so-called “Temple Mount”)

Academics’ Advocate

Just for Fun

 

 

The Coming Trump Effect on the EPA

The Coming Trump Effect on the EPA

Show Summary: You can expect big changes in the coming Trump administration — especially from the Obama administration and compared to what a Hillary administration might have looked like. But what will the Trump effect be on the EPA? From our vantage point, it’ll all be good. (Certainly, it can’t be any worse than what it is under Obama’s EPA!) We talk with one victim of Obama’s EPA — John Shively of the Pebble Mine — and our resident expert on the environmental movement and the EPA, Dr. Tim Ball.

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Air Dates: Nov. 19 & 20, 2016 | John Shivley & Dr. Tim Ball

In 2014 the White House, under President Obama, spent 22.2 billion dollars alone on climate change, helping to fund the very far left groups who support global warming and its affiliated organizations.  Just think what that much funding means to those far left groups and how it enables them to fight things such as the Pebble Mine.  It also means our own government endorsed and paid for lawsuits and other protests to stop economic development.

Listeners of I Spy will remember Pebble Mine was the mine near Bristol Bay in Alaska, an area that the environmentalists treasure.  Pebble Mine has over $500 billion of gold and copper just waiting to be dug up. And it’s also the mine that the EPA preemptively moved to deny even before they’d applied for a permit.

That time the EPA destroyed a river in Colorado because, you know, mining is bad
Remember that time the EPA destroyed a river in Colorado because, you know, mining is bad

In their ensuing lawsuit, Pebble Mine executives found that there was collusion between the EPA and environmental groups in clear violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.  This act mandates that the federal government is to get feedback on a project from all sides of the aisle.  But the EPA was not getting information and feedback from all sides of the aisle; instead, they were colluding with the environmental left, manipulating public meeting laws and so much more.  Pebble Mine executives were able to prove the collusion due to e-mails that had been passed back and forth between EPA staff and the environmental groups who were lining up by the dozens to get their share of the money to help stop the Pebble Mine work.

So we check in with John Shivley, Chairman of the Board of Pebble Partnership, to get updated on where the project stands and their more hopeful outlook given how the election turned out.  We also discuss what changes he would like to see to happen at the EPA and what reforms would benefit this development as well as future developments.

Then we talk with Dr. Tim Ball, our go-to expert on climate change nonsense and who is also very familiar with the inner workings of the EPA.  We’ll ask him what he foresees might be some changing roles of the EPA in a Trump administration.  We look at some of the policies that need to be pulled out of the EPA and those that need to be added in to make the EPA a commonsense agency.  Is it even possible? We’ll also get his take on new policies and operational changes that are needed to end some of the nonsense that is coming out of the current administration.

Just imagine the difference! After eight years of a far-left lawless Obama administration who did not follow their own rules but also never held government officials responsible (Lois Lerner still has faced any punishment), can we look for a Trump administration to do the opposite and finally hold officials accountable?  Join us this week as we take a look down the road.

Links Mentioned & Related

Opposition to the Pebble Mine

Tim Ball

Trump Wins!

Trump Wins!

Trump wins!

Wow. Here on I Spy we predicted a win, but you just never know until it happens. But what a relief. America has been spared four years (or, more likely, eight years) of ongoing Clinton scandal, of watching our country and government be put up for sale to the highest bidder, of Wall Street’s corrupting influence, and even Hillary’s foreign donors feeling like they had a seat at the table.

Instead, it is Donald Trump. President-elect Donald Trump.

If you’ve listened to I Spy Radio, you know we go after high-level guests. That takes a long time to schedule because they are in high demand. As such, we were scheduled to take this week off because of the unknown results of the election and we’re running a best of this week.

Sit back and enjoy. It isn’t the Fourth of July. But it sure feels like it. (And don’t miss the very prescient closing remarks!)

And then join us next week as we turn from our series of shows that exposed the dangers of what a Hillary administration would look like and turn to what a Donald Trump presidency will look like.

What a great day in America.

How to Destroy your Opposition—Legally | Klamath Dams & Clinton Cash

How to Destroy your Opposition—Legally | Klamath Dams & Clinton Cash

Show Summary: Nothing is ever dead for the political Left (not even voters). They just keep at it and at it and at it like a plague of ants. One of our early success stories here on I Spy Radio Show was exposing what was happening in the Klamath Basin and environmentalists’ effort to pull out four perfectly fine hydroelectric dams, under the guise of “saving fish” when what was really going on was a mass effort to push farmers off their land by depriving them of water. At the heart of the matter was the environmentalists’ blueprint: how the Left uses federal agencies and the legal system to destroy opposition and to enact their agenda. Really, it’s not unlike how Hillary Clinton uses “non-profit” laws to make herself and her cronies rich behind the scenes, all while claiming she’s doing it all for “charity.” We talk with attorney Larry Kogan about new efforts to remove the dams without Congressional approval and with Brett Smith, the artist behind the Clinton Cash graphic novel, based on the book by the same name.

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Original Air Dates: Oct. 22nd & 23rd, 2016 | Larry Kogan & Brett Smith

When we were first cutting our teeth on the I Spy Radio Show, we were introduced to what was happening in the Klamath Basin and the effort to pull out four perfectly functioning hydroelectric dams but more importantly, it revealed how environmental activists worked.  Such as, they used public meetings laws but it turned out their meetings were not at all public—at least not anyone’s normal definition of it.  In fact, people who wanted to attend the “public meeting” had to sign non-disclosure agreements and agree to the end results of the meeting, before the meeting even happened.  Talk about a rigged deal. After multiple shows on the matter, including a whistleblower on how they manipulated their “scientific claims,” the effort to remove the dams died in Congress, which should have been the end of it.

But now we find out that it’s actually very much alive and efforts are in the works with two new deals having been put into place, which again happened out of the public eye. Attorney Lawrence Kogan (koganlawgroup.com) walks us through the latest updates of how the environmental activists believe they have found the go around to take out the dams without bothering to get consent from a Congress that has already said no.  And it’s not just Oregon that is being slammed with this new effort, because the activists are going to use the very same method being used in Oregon to take out dams in Washington and Idaho.  Even worse:  if Hillary gets into office and can weaponize any of these agencies for her open-border, globalist government, we haven’t seen anything yet.

Clinton Cash

Clinton Cash graphic novel by Peter Schweizer, Chuck Dixon, and Brett SmithThen we talk with Brett Smith, the illustrator/artist for the graphic novel, Clinton Cash based on the book by Peter Schweizer.  Brett talks to us about how the right has missed opportunities to engage with youth and how the graphic novel version of Clinton Cash is designed to wake up the next generation to how the Clintons and politicians like them get around bothersome laws to enrich themselves, their donors, and their political operatives. Check out an excerpt via Breitbart: Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel’ Ad Shows How Hillary Clinton Helped Transfer U.S. Uranium to Russia and see for yourself.  Don’t miss our conversation with Brett and how this book is waking up the youth and that people like Brett refuse to surrender the culture war to the Left.

Because despite people like the Clintons, no one should be able to buy democracy.

Links Mentioned

Related Links

  • Interested in issues like the effort to pull out four perfectly fine hydroelectric dams on the Klamath? Check out Larry’s non-profit organization, The Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development at www.itssd.org
  • Are you part of the grassroots effort to fight the dams? This is happening elsewhere. See This West is Our West — a regional networking site of coalition groups
What Hillary doesn’t Want you to Hear about Immigrant Vetting

What Hillary doesn’t Want you to Hear about Immigrant Vetting

Show Summary: Despite doing everything possible to not call the recent terrorist attacks “terrorist attacks,” Hillary is suddenly saying she thinks we need immigrant vetting. Not that she’ll turn any away, mind you, just that we need better vetting. We talk to two experts who know about this: Jeff Schwilk, a border security expert, and Kamal Saleem, a former cultural jihadist. If anyone knows about proper vetting for immigrants from Islamic nations, it’s Kamal—and he lets us know what a real vetting program would take.

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Air Dates: Sept # & #, 2016 | Guest(s)

Suddenly, after Trump begins to surge and recent bombings (that Hillary didn’t think should be called bombings) Hillary now is calling for better immigrant vetting.  Naturally, she did not say that immigrant vetting needs to focus on immigrants from Islamic countries but how realistic can vetting be while she still wants borders kept open and easy to cross and with no calls for fewer immigrants or refugees.

Maybe she wants to immigrant vetting from those ever-dangerous Scandanavian countries. You know, to keep the Vikings out.

But it’s typical of progressives like Hillary Clinton. They pretend that they can close their eyes and ears and wish it all better. Like, if you don’t call it a bombing (doing so would be irresponsible) then it really isn’t a bombing. This kind of world, that the progressives like to create, that makes the rest of us feel as if we’re living in Alice’s Wonderland, where up is down and down is up.

So, this week we wanted to take a closer look at what would it take to have an actual immigrant vetting system that could weed out those who want to do America harm.

To start we go to San Diego and welcome back border security expert Jeff Schwilk, who reveals what the federal government is now doing to save sanctuary cities.  Tune in to hear the newest turn of a phrase and progressive repackaging with the introduction of “Welcoming Cities”.  He discusses how they’re being brought into communities under the citizen’s radar and trying to put them in place without a vote taking place.

Then we talk with Kamal Saleem, and what he feels the U.S. must do to vet refugees that are coming into our country.  He walks us through what a real immigrant vetting process would entail. And it is very exciting to hear what a real program would look like, why it can be effective, and why the FBI are missing the recent jihadists in our mists—even when people have called them to say we think this guy is radicalized.

Right now, Kamal is touring cities in Michigan and other states to overflow crowds. Don’t miss what Kamal is seeing in many states about the hope and excitement the Trump campaign is bringing to Evangelicals and to small churches.

Links Mentioned

Links on Borders, Welcoming Cities (Segments 1 & 2)

Islamic Terrorism & Immigrant Vetting (Segments 3–6)

Hillary Falls, Fails – and Fading Fast?

Hillary Falls, Fails – and Fading Fast?

Show Summary: In a near complete reversal of fortune from six months ago, it’s Hillary’s gaffes that are sinking her while Trump’s presidential tone and policies have him on the rise. Hillary falls, fails—is she fading fast? It’s all politics this week as we take a look at this reversal of fortunes, including a deeper look at the failed policies of Democrats that have chained the Black community.

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Air Dates: Sept 17 & 18, 2016 | Brendan Kirby & Burgess Owens

This week: We welcome back two great guests who focus on the actions—and, ironically, her words—that are now catching up with Hillary as her poll numbers go down while Trump’s are on the rise.  Last weekend began with Bill’s comment about “those coal people” followed by Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” flub, and then finished with Hillary clearly having a health “episode” that was so bad that even the mainstream media couldn’t longer ignore it. Meanwhile, Trump appears to solidifying policy positions that the media is struggling to poke holes into, other than their usual “it’s Republican so it has to be bad” spin.

Hillary Falls, Fails — and Fading Fast?

Hillary falls. HillarysHealth. Hillary dragged to van
The now infamous video the media couldn’t ignore

We talk Brendan Kirby, Senior Political Reporter for Laura Ingraham’s LifeZette, about his thoughts on Hillary’s recent flubs and how it’s impacting her race against Trump. It was not a good week for the Hillary. Bill kicked things off with his “Coal people” comment, Hillary followed up with her “basket of deplorables” comment, and then literally collapsed on Sunday. Talk about a metaphor for her campaign.

While Hillary falls, Trump hasn’t been standing still with all of his policy speeches.  We take a look at his newest policy regarding child and senior care proposal and if it has merit—especially when compared to Hillary’s proposal.  And think Maine is insignificant?  We take a look at why a small corner in this small Northeastern State could end up winning the election for Trump.

Then we talk with Burgess Owens, who played for the NFL New York Jets before winning the Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1980. Burgess is a real leader in the Black community who is trying to wake up and shake up people to the long-term damage liberal Democrat policies have caused. The author of Liberalism: Or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps, we get his take on what it was like to turn on football games and see players take a knee during the national anthem.  We’ll get his take on the culture of the NFL and the real motives behind why they’re doing it, as well as what it will do to their teams.  Burgess discusses the divisiveness that President Obama’s presidency has brought to race relations.  And don’t miss Burgess’s thoughts on the dialogue that Trump is opening up throughout his campaign and what it’s impact will be for the future.

Links Mentioned

Brendan Kirby is a senior political writer at Laura Ingraham’s Lifezette. The following were specifically mentioned during the show but you can find all of his articles by going here.

Burgess Owens’ book Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps, can be found on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

  • Check out Burgess Owens in this Fox News snippet via Twitter: “If we’re Christians we need to stop voting for Democrat atheists”

Related Links

  • Is the Black community in America revolting against Hillary and Democrat policies? Check out this snippet.

 

The Fingerprints of Cultural Jihad

The Fingerprints of Cultural Jihad

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Show Summary: Kamal Saleem, a former cultural jihadist, explains how events like the Orlando shooting and Dallas bear the fingerprints of jihad and the radical elements of Islam. (Cultural jihad is, just as it sounds, a jihad against American culture, Western ideology, liberty and freedom, and of course Christianity.) Foreign nations are funding fundamental Islamic schools; Obama’s signals to jihadists, and much more. Note: This is Part I of a two-part show.

Air Dates: July 9 & 10, 2016 | Kamal Saleem

We welcome back Kamal Saleem, a former Muslim and cultural jihadist for a two-part show on the continuing spread of Islamic terrorism.  Recruited by the Muslim Brotherhood he was sent to training camps starting at the young age of 7, to learn to kill “infidels” and cultural infiltration techniques.  Commissioned by a member of the Saudi royal family in the 1980’s he came to America to destroy our western civilization, but instead due to a chance car accident, where he was helped through recovery by the very people he’d been sent to destroy, he converted to Christianity. Kamal is now president of Koome Ministries, the mission of which is to “see Ishmael redeemed.”

On this week’s show, you’ll learn how cultural jihadists and their techniques are inciting anger and divisiveness, terrorizing Americans, and subverting our culture and unique heritage, through the acts of violence and far more subtle techniques.

Cultural jihad in America, the Orlando shootingKamal picks apart the Orlando shooter and how his murder-spree was a prime example of how the Islamic holy month of Ramadan played an important role in his decision to unleash horror in Orlando, in a fulfillment of Islamic beliefs.  We also discuss the horrendous Dallas killings of so many police officers. How does this tie into the jihadists’ desires to incite anger and divisiveness?  Is this the type of fear and dissent being spread by cultural jihad? Is Obama actually fanning the flames of cultural jihadists’ goals?

And don’t miss how one foreign country is setting up schools for Islamists right here in America – and how much U.S. taxpayers are paying for them!

Next week Part II: How moderate Muslims are converted to become radical Islamic terrorists.

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List of USA Attendees to Bilderberg 2016

List of USA Attendees to Bilderberg 2016

The following is a list of USA attendees to Bilderberg 2016. Some will be no surprise at all (Sen. Lindsey Graham) but take note of the attendees from the mass media. They’re there as attendees and representatives to support and promote the effort of supreme globalism, to usurp America’s and all countries’ sovereignty.

While Bilderberg has garnered conspiracy-theory status, it’s rather odd—don’t you think—that if the elite are meeting just to “foster dialogue” then why is whatever dialogue happens secret?

According to author Daniel Estulin, the Bilderberg Group is an annual meeting of the world’s elite and most powerful to “debate the future of the world.” Regular attendees include “top figures from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), IMF, World Bank, Trilateral Commission… the Federal Reserve, [and the] Bank of England.”

List of USA Attendees to Bilderberg 2016

Name Position Company
Roger C. Altman Executive Chairman Evercore
Sam Altman President Y Combinator
Anne Applebaum Columnist Washington Post Legatum Institute
William J. Burns President Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
David M. Cote Chairman & CEO Honeywell
Richard Engel Chief Foreign Correspondent NBC News
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. President & CEO TIAA
Niall Ferguson Professor of History Harvard University
Lindsey Graham Senator South Carolina
Mellody Hobson President Ariel Investment
Reid Hoffman Co-Founder & Executive Chairman LinkedIn
Kenneth M. Jacobs Chairman & CEO Lazard
James A. Johnson Chairman Johnson Capital Partners
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Senior Managing Director Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Alex Karp CEO Palantir Technologies
Henry A. Kissinger Chairman Kissinger Associates
Klaus Kleinfeld Chairman & CEO Alcoa
Henry R. Kravis Co-Chairman & Co-CEO Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Marie-Josée Kravis Senior Fellow Hudson Institute
Richard Levin CEO Coursera
Divesh Makan CEO ICONIQ Capital
Scott Malcomson Author; President Monere Ltd.
Megan McArdle Columnist Bloomberg View
John Micklethwait Editor-in-Chief Bloomberg LP
Craig J. Mundie Principal Mundie & Associates
Charles A. Murray W.H. Brady Scholar American Enterprise Institute
Peggy Noonan Author, Columnist The Wall Street Journal
David H. Petraeus Chairman KKR Global Institute
Robert E. Rubin Co-Chair Council on Foreign Relations
Eric E. Schmidt Executive Chairman Alphabet Inc.
Peter A. Thiel President Thiel Capital

You can see the full list of attendees to Bilderberg 2016, here.

Politics – Plus Lessons Reagan might give Trump

Politics – Plus Lessons Reagan might give Trump

Show Summary: Yes, it’s all politics this week — but wait! There’s more! We talk over some key issues near and dear to Donald Trump’s campaign with Brendan Kirby, political editor of Lifezette: Trump converting Ds to Rs, illegal immigration, and dismantling bloated, ineffective federal agencies—like the TSA. Then we talk with Michael Reagan, author, speaker, columnist, and the oldest son of Ronald Reagan, about his newest book, “Lessons my Father Taught Me,” and hear about some lessons Reagan might give Trump.

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Air Dates: June 4th & 5th, 2016 | Brendan Kirby & Michael Reagan

We have a very fun show for you this week! Politics, lessons from Reagan, and lots more.

We’ll kick things off with Brendan Kirby, a senior political reporter for LifeZette, Laura Ingraham’s news, life, and pop-culture site (think life + gazette).  Brendan had three timely and interesting articles that directly tie in with Trump’s election, such as all those Democrats who are moving to Republicans—does this really put blue states in play? The flood of illegal immigrants in the past year—especially concerning on the heels of the riots in Southern California and the new report of smugglers bringing Middle East terrorists across America’s southern border.  We also discuss bloated government agencies like the TSA and the long lines at airports. We’ll get a peek privatization of airport security.

Lessons Reagan might give Trump

Michael Reagan on lessons Reagan might give TrumpThen we welcome bestselling author, and oldest son of Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan who has a new book out Lessons My Father Taught Me.  This is a very intriguing look into the life lessons President Reagan passed on to his son, including many sneak peeks into Reagan’s life: raising his children, Reagan’s experience with his own father, Jack, and much more.

Tune in to learn who was really behind Ronald Reagan losing his job as host of the popular “General Electric Theater” and the pressure brought on GE to cut Reagan loose—but also how Reagan turned a failure into a success. And of course we just couldn’t let Michael Reagan go without hearing his thoughts on today’s politics, Trump’s candidacy, lessons Reagan would want to pass on to the Republican candidate, and how the Republican party is no longer the party of Reagan.

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Related Links

Unity – A Nation at Risk

Unity – A Nation at Risk

Show Summary: It’s Memorial Day Weekend! Did you know this national holiday was anything but unifying when it first began as “Decoration Day?” We get the details, the history of Memorial Day, and some fun stories. Speaking of unifying, the NY Conservative Party, which, as you can imagine had a lot of Cruz supporters. So how did they come around to endorsing Donald Trump for president? Tune in Saturday or Sunday to hear!

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Air Dates: May 27 & 28, 2016 | Mike Long & Dr. Bonner Cohen

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This weekend is Memorial Day. While Americans unite in our thanks to our fallen heroes, it turns out that Memorial Day didn’t start out as unifying at all.

In America today, it seems as if we’re constantly divided, perhaps because we are in a constant state of re-election and campaigning.  It used to be that when people got elected, we’d forget about politics for a couple years and expect them to just go in and do their jobs.  But it’s not that way anymore.  Everything is political because so much is tied to big government, whether it’s business or environmental or health care or what have you.

So with this constant state of campaigning—including our current President’s messaging that so often tied to something political—issues and people can get things ramped up and things can turn ugly during a primary season.

Gettysburg 50th Anniversary
Old foes unite at Gettysburg 50th. Won’t it be nice when Trump and Cruz Supporters unite?

With the primaries basically over, and as the angry-emotional dust settles, we now have to get down to the business of unifying our party and our country.  And so I Spy searches for the answers and examples of how that happens.

Our first guest, Michael Long, Chairman of the New York Conservative Party, gives us the first set of answers regarding how as a party they co-endorsed, with the Republican Party, Trump as their candidate.  How did this happen? Their party had Cruz supporters, but now they came out “overwhelmingly” to support the Trump endorsement.  Listen to hear how that happened and find out his thoughts of what he expects a Trump Presidency to look like and how it could be conservative even if Trump is not the conservative they’d like—and how it will benefit all America.

Memorial Day - old enemies reunite in 1913 at the 50th Anniversary of GettysburgThen we turn to scholar Dr. Bonner Cohen to take us through the founding and origination of Memorial Day.  We discuss how divided our country was right after the Civil War when Memorial Day was first called “Declaration Day” for the fallen Union soldiers.  Listen to hear Dr. Cohen walk us through the history of Memorial Day, some fascinating stories surrounding Memorial Day, and how it’s become a holiday that unites all Americans.

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Memorial Day and Related Links