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Townhall Review Commentary brings together political commentary and analysis from Salem Media's leading conservative talk-radio hosts.
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Carol Platt Liebau: The Democrats Are Being Consumed
2w ago00:01:00Tap to summarizeUntil now, hard-left influencer Hasan Piker was perhaps best known for appearing to use an electric shock collar on his dog during a livestream. Now he's making news again—for addressing the College Democrats of America convention dressed as Mao Zedong. Piker has called Mao "one of the great leaders of this world." Yet Mao's policies are widely estimated to have caused the deaths of between 40 and 70 million people. Had Piker shown up dressed as Hitler, the outrage would have been immediate—and rightly so. Mao deserves no better. Piker’s appearance, and his denunciation of mainstream Democrats for compromising with so-called fascists, reflects the extremist rhetoric gaining ground on the left. Unless Democrats of good faith confront that radical fringe, their party risks losing itself. Let's hope it's not already too late.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ed Morrissey: Hochul and the Left Take on Nuns Again
3w ago00:01:00Tap to summarize New York has recently created their version of Canada’s assisted suicide regimen, and it has put religious providers squarely in its crosshairs. Several groups have banded together to stop the Medical Aid in Dying legislation as it forces them to participate in suicide. Hochul tried to deny this, claiming faith-based providers can opt out of the program. Catholic nuns discovered, however, that the law requires all providers to coordinate assisted suicide in their facilities and to give access to doctors performing it. Starting next month, any healthcare provider who declines to prescribe suicide pills could still have to tell terminally ill patients about their “right” to kill themselves, help them meet the requirements for obtaining suicide pills, and direct them to a provider willing to prescribe the lethal drugs. The death cult on the Left continues to expand its reach and its authoritarianism. We need to stand with the Catholic sisters – again – and fight for life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hugh Hewitt: Watching What’s Left of the Iranian Regime
3w ago00:01:00Tap to summarizePresident Trump was a guest on my program last week. He put the number of Iranians massacred by the regime over two days in January at 52,000! —so we know the ruthlessness of the men in charge in Iran. In light of that, it is entirely understandable that the Iranian people are reticent to take to the streets again. And this has become clear: the current public faces of the rump regime in don’t have any authority over the killers with the guns. Eli Lake is among the most respected national security reporters in the U.S. He explained to me last week how the history of regime collapses tells us we ought to be watching for splits within the ranks of those men with guns. That’s how revolutions against dictators begin and then gain momentum—when a cadre see the end game and don’t want to be on the wrong side when everything falls apart. Watch closely. It only takes a few people to crack the whole of the IRGC tyranny.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Carol Platt Liebau: Islamism Assertive in America
4w ago00:01:00Tap to summarizeA new Pew Research Center survey contains a shocking finding: Nearly half of Muslim Americans view Hamas favorably. That's right—Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for murdering at least 46 Americans and taking others hostage on October 7, 2023. Overall, 44 percent of Muslim American respondents expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas. This disturbing trend coincides with an increasingly assertive Islamist presence across the United States. In parts of Brooklyn, amplified calls to prayer now ring out from mosques beginning at 5 a.m.. They include the declaration, “There is no god but Allah.” Religious liberty is a cherished American freedom. But it’s time to realize that many Islamists view such public displays not simply as religious expression, but as symbols of cultural and political ascendancy, here in America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Seth Leibsohn: Iran's Third Assassination Plot on Donald Trump
4w ago00:01:00Tap to summarizeThe late philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that the power of toxic ideologies, like fascism and communism—once they take hold—can prove impossible to reform. Now add apocalyptic theocracy to that fascism and you have a rough understanding of Iran’s leadership. The West, and hopefully many in the Trump administration, are learning that now. As the Wall Street Journal and others reported, Iranian leadership plotted its third assassination on President Donald Trump last week. This, after the United States had already decimated Iran’s military. Federal courts have previously identified two other plots to assassinate Donald Trump, as well as several of his former cabinet officials. While many Americans recoil at notions of regime change in Iran, Iranian leadership has no such compunction about trying to affect regime change in America—and via assassination. And: It appears almost nothing will shake Iran’s fascist theocracy into moderation or civility. This is who and what we are fighting in Iran. Let’s complete the job and help make gentler the life of this world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hugh Hewitt: The Lesson From Graham Platner
4w ago00:01:00Tap to summarizeGraham Platner ended his bid to represent the people of Maine in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday night. He would have done well to begin his consideration with earnest engagement with the Bible. Really. Specifically, the Gospel of Luke, chapter 8, verse 17, where it says: “For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” Now more than ever, every candidate must be warned again about this truth and then again and again. Indeed, it’s inevitable for every candidate in every race in which any opponent has the means to dig deep. Every would-be candidate ought to subject himself or herself first to the gauntlet of self-scrutiny and then to a gauntlet of “friendly” professionals who specialize in digging up “opposition research.” If an unflattering story exists, it can be found, and it will be found. And it will be on every front page. Platner’s saga is already a tale worth telling. “Nothing that is secret will not be revealed.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Seth Leibsohn: Ignorance and the Challenge of the 21st Century Citizen
Jul 1300:01:00Tap to summarizeTalking politics with your average young male these days, chances are you will hear all kinds of odd theories coming from the Pied Pipers of Podcastistan. You will hear them mentioning “experts” nobody heard of until about 10 minutes ago or until they were discovered by these podcasters because of their contrary, and often, conspiratorial thinking. Young men, especially, are attracted to this novel “wisdom,” and they are so prone because, as they will tell you, mainstream institutions have been untruthful over the years. But because some institutions that we used to rely on and respect have been taken over by partisanship and been wrong doesn’t mean that all normative thinking and scholarship is a lie or cannot be trusted, or that people nobody have ever heard of are the replacements of true wisdom. We dismiss and ignore this fallacious thinking at our collective peril. The task of the serious is to be able to discern truth from fiction and greatness from mediocrity. In these critical times, that task has never been more important than now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ed Morrissey: By Their Tattoos And Ideology Shall Ye Know Them
Jul 1000:01:00Tap to summarizeWhat happens when the Left plucks a ‘working class man’ from obscurity and pushes him for high office? In an era of Democratic desperation, mainstream media creates narratives to protect him, even at the expense of their stated values. Graham Platner’s rise and fall stains all the institutions of the Left. Democrats and the media tried to bury or downplay Platner’s checkered past, including his Nazi SS tattoo, his record of disturbing public comments and his moral depravity. Don’t be fooled by the sudden shift in media coverage. Everything that outlets like Axios and the New York Times reports as “news” today had been reported weeks and months ago by independent media. The Times cooked its own report in early June to protect Platner. Every elite media outlet perpetuated the “working class” lie about a man who lives off his wealthy parents. The insistence by Democrats and media to make excuses for Platner exposes the corruption of both. The Nazi tattoo told us all we needed to know.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hugh Hewitt: The Supreme Court at 250
Jul 900:01:00Tap to summarizeTeaching Constitutional Law is a joy. Every semester since 1996, my students hear that Con Law ought to be their most interesting class during their three years of law school. This year the Court issued 67 majority opinions. Because district court judge issue bolts-from-out-of-the-blue on a regular basis, there’s a perception abroad that the judiciary becoming politicized. Our highest court, however, is an enormous force for stability in the country that just turned 250 years old. The most significant of this term’s cases may well turn out to be NRSC v. the FEC, which held that the provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act restricting the amount of money a party can spend in direct coordination with a candidate’s campaign, those restrictions were unconstitutional, and that breathes much-needed life into the two major political parties which indeed need the lift. The Supreme Court has gone about its work successfully and will be back at it in October. The “republic of laws not men” carries on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Seth Leibsohn: Socialism Rising
Jul 800:01:00Tap to summarizeA specter is taking over the Democratic party and haunting America...Marxist and Islamic Socialism. A new crop of Democratic party candidates truly stand for and believe in the worst and most dangerous ideologies of the past. These candidates are winning nominations and likely winning races for mayor, for Congress, and for Senate—from Los Angeles to Washington, DC; from Colorado to Michigan. Even a cursory look at their platforms and speeches reveals admissions of support for Marx and Mao and Stalin, and Islamist organizations from Hamas to Hezbollah. This juggernaut of alien and anti-American ideology has a motor, and it has momentum; even the Democratic front-runner for President and the Democrat’s former nominee, Kamala Harris, is in regular consultation with one of its leaders, seeking favor and advice from Zohran Mamdani. The toxic ideology, from which millions died, and fled from in Europe, Asia, Lebanon, and Iran, cannot be replanted here. But just now, due to enfeeblement or sympathy, no force within the Democratic party can stop it. The job must be left to us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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