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Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 7/3/18

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, each of these concepts of liberty, and in defense of our rights being given by God, are rejected by the progressive left in America today. You cannot believe in God-given rights, good and evil, right and wrong like the Golden Rule or universal truths in the 10 commandments and believe in progressivism. Our Founders put their lives on the line to do what no other nation of the face of this earth has ever done; create a nation based on the concept that we are children of God and therefore we have rights as a result. The modern leadership of the Democratic party rejects the purpose of our Independence, because the intellectual philosophy that undergirds the progressive movement rejects these notions. Later, as we see the attacks on President Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees it underscores how the left thinks and why they oppose these nominations. The country is facing a big decision to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice. The president can nominate anyone of age to the post, but it’s critical that he appoint someone that won't create legislation by a swing of their gavel. Amy Barrett has a 15 year record on Originalism similar to Thomas and Gorsuch. Brett Kavanaugh's writings on the same topic are more recent and its surprising that a sophisticated campaign to promote his nomination are going on despite his lack of a record on textualism and originalism.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 7/2/18

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, the Supreme Court has done some horrific things that have led to horrific outcomes, and yet the Left wants you to believe the Court is better than the other branches of government. Sen Susan Collins says she would not support certain potential Supreme Court nominees because they have demonstrated a disrespect for the vital principle of stare decisis. She is an absolute radical on the issue. If Collins believes in stare decisis and legal precedent, does she believe in the precedent in the Dred Scott case or Plessy v Ferguson? They were abominations. We’ve had judicial precedent in slavery and segregation in the past that lasted longer than Roe v Wade. Activist Supreme Courts in the past have justified slavery, segregation, and racism, and rather than learn the painful lessons of the past we have several current Justices who are committed to the same kind of judicial activism. Also, it turns out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t quite the girl from the Bronx that she says she is. If you’re a Marxist you need to be dishonest about your background and pretend you’re like the commoners. Later, Mark speaks with Harris Faulkner about her new book, 9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/29/18

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, as the 4th of the July drawers closer we take a look at the article V Convention of States to prevent the instrumentalities of the federal government like the Supreme Court from reshaping the Constitution. The federal government is a creation of the states and hence the states should have control, not a countercultural ideology that opposes the founders' intent in our Constitution. Then, we step back and look at the state of our government today and how it has become completely unmoored from the people through its massive size, taxes and issues with the separation of powers. What’s happened here is that a poison has been let loose into the body politic a poison known as collectivism or statism. Hegelism and Marxism have evolved today into progressivism and it completely and utterly rejects Americanism as our Founders intended. Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and others might not recognize that their thinking is Hegelian, but Bernie Sanders knows. Our Founding Fathers reject everything with the philosophy that is progressivism, this movement seeks to alter the history of the Founding. Today’s progressives look to radicals like Karl Marx and Georg Hegel for their ideological guidance. This is one of the reasons Bernie Sanders will not debate Mark on any of his media platforms because Mark knows what he knows. He knows what Mark knows. If they sat down for a discussion Mark would thoroughly and completely expose him.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/28/18

On Thursdays Mark Levin Show, Five people were murdered and one is in custody at a deadly shooting today in Annapolis Maryland at a local newspaper office, the Capital Gazette. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed President Trump for the heightened political climate. There was no word from Bratton or Nicole Wallace from MSNBC when a Bernie Sanders supporter shot Rep Steve Scalise. Their hypocrisy is disgusting. Later, here’s why the left wants to pull the fire alarm: Because they cannot stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee unless Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski help them. Senate Democrats will not support a constitutionalist nominee. They claim to stand for you, when in fact they try to confer as much power and authority as they possibly can on the Court. This is how they intend to make their gains, ultimately, in this country and they’ve been very successful. Democrats don’t believe in the Constitution, except to the extent they can advance their agenda. Finally, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in front of Congress today, responding to the actions of politically biased FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his alleged attempts to tank the Trump campaign and presidency and the DOJ's delay in presenting subpoenaed documents.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/27/18

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin show, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced that he is retiring and the pseudo media is freaking out because they fear they court will move further to the right. We must not allow the left to define the terms of this debate. The media asks would you rather have a right winger or a progressivive on the court? But this is a battle between constitutionalsists and progressives or statists. Democratic politicians will demand that the prospective justice agree with their political agenda, rather than side with the text of the Constitution itself. Constitutionalists seek to have a Supreme Court that shows fidelity to the Constitution and if these justices do not show fidelity to the Constitution, then why should we show fidelity to their opinions? Afterwards, statists use the instrumentalities of our republic against us, they want to use SCOTUS to change our country and advance their utopian ideals to destroy our society. They will not surrender until the last person has lost all of their liberties and they rewrite our constitution because they are a mix of anarchists and iron-fist proponents of government. This balkanization divides us and pumps energy into their agenda when they rip down our Constitutional republic. Religion is a problem for the progressive statists because they want to replace religion with government. We are defending our institutions from fundamental transformation. Later, the election in NY where Rep Joe Crowley lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t a political earthquake like the media is claiming. Ocasio-Cortez won because she got out her Hispanic base. Crowley lost because of demographics.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/26/18

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s “travel ban” executive order was constitutional. Trump had every right to list the countries in the immigration pause for national security purposes. And the Muslim countries with the largest Muslim populations weren’t even on the list. It left out 92 percent of the world’s Muslims, which rejects the Left’s arguments about racism. Trump was right about the power of the presidency and about the constitution despite the attacks he endured for months. It’s unlikely that the media will apologize to him for such treatment. Then, Supreme court decision on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers free speech case. The left claims to defend free speech yet opposes today's decision. California mandates that these religiously affiliated crisis pregnancy centers prominently post information on how abortions could be obtained or face a fine. Pro-life groups opposed the law and won a victory today when the Supreme Court found that this violates the centers' rights to free speech. People of faith would have no rights if the left used their interpretation of the Constitution on each of these cases. To the left individual liberty is defiance. Later, protectionism redistributes income from the to the consumer to the government. These tariffs will eventually lead us to a recession. Ronald Reagan imposed tariffs sparingly but was no protectionist. Herbert Hoover turned a recession into a depression in part because of protectionism.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/25/18

On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Mark will be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and it’s all thanks to you. This program wouldn’t have the ratings it has without Levinites listing on AM, FM, satellite, the Mark Levin app, and podcast. This vote isn’t about Mark but about us, our principles, our values, and our beliefs. Also, President Obama and Jeh Johnson had detention centers and separated children from their illegal alien parents, yet nobody compared them to Hitler like what is being done to President Trump. Johnson has said that we can’t have catch and release, except that is exactly what Democrats want – utter and complete lawlessness. The media never attacked the Obama administration or demanded to see their detention centers, which proves this entire debate is a fraud. Later, driving up the cost of things like steel and aluminum hurts manufacturers, which hurts consumers and everyone else downstream. The price of production goes up, which causes the price of the product to go up, meaning you pay more. This is exactly why tariffs are a bad idea. Finally, San Francisco was once a beautiful city until left wing kooks got a hold of it, and now it’s filled with homeless camps. This is just another example of what happens when progressives have full control.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/22/18

On Friday’s Mark Levin show, In 1962, “The Image” by Daniel Boorstin introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported. This is relevant today because we are surrounded by the pseudo-media, the pseudo-reporters and their fake news. We live in world of progressive who tells us what the news is and decides what to omit. All this week the media have been focused on a pseudo-event – the immigration debate. There are much more horrific things going on in the world than this event. But this pseudo-event serves the purpose of the media and the democrats to advance their agenda. The media have inserted ideological progressivism into their news reporting. They create their own progressive reality and they push it out as news. Then, some of the photos used in the coverage of children at the border were actually from Obama-era detention centers--not recent. But that doesn’t matter, does it? Now the media is trashing all Trump voters for being bad guys and kidnapping kids. In fact, the Time Magazine cover portraying a little girl facing Trump is in fact of a girl that was not separated from her mother. Moreover her father claims that the mother took off with the little girl leaving other children behind to falsely claim asylum in order to gain entry to the us, suspecting that they'd be released after being processed. Later, the Supreme Court Ruled that states can charge sales tax on goods sold on the internet from other states. This is not “fair” and flies in the face of conservatism and capitalism. This disincentivizes doing business across state lines as it may require small business owners to file sales tax in 45 states. And tariffs lead to higher prices which will lead to a recession, because prices are being inflated artificially. George W. Bush tried this protectionist strategy and the US lost 200,000 jobs in 10 months. So let's stop the populist B.S.! Its un-American to effectively subsidize certain industries and not others. This "fairness" is destructive economically and threatens mobility.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/21/18

On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, When you have the biggest political party in the country that insists on fundamentally transforming America, especially through the tools of immigration, and when you have a Republican Party that is shifty and unprincipled, is it too late? Is it too late to secure the border and to have a lawful immigration system? Rather than the Democrat party responding to the will of the people, the Democrat party has decided to change the people through immigration so they respond to the will of the Democrat party. And many Republicans are on board, because they buy into this notion that it’s humane to destroy your own country. Also, what does this mean for American children when the government advances open-ended immigration instead of assimilation? The Democrats make the case that family separation is akin to camps in Nazi Germany, despite the fact that children are always separated from their parents when their parents are arrested. Later, SCOTUS hands a court victory to the Trump Administration citing that the SEC infringed upon powers assigned to the president in the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause regarding the appointments of certain federal posts. This echoes the argument made by Law Professor Calabresi and Mark about Special Counsel Mueller's appointment being unconstitutional based on that same precedent. Then, damning testimony from Michael Daniel former cyber-security chief under Obama testified that he was given a stand-down order regarding combating the Russian threat against the 2016 campaign. Finally, Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer passed away today. He was a brilliant man that put a lot of effort into writing his columns. Mark really respected Krauthammer despite his critique of President Reagan during the 1980 campaign, and he never tried to sabotage Reagan and eventually embraced his presidency and philosophy.

Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 6/20/18

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, In order to protect children, President Trump signed an executive order requiring illegal immigrant families to stay together despite unlawfully entering the U.S. The grotesque demagogues in the media and in the Democrat party insisted on this, but there are two problems 1) we have a court order in place saying you can't detain minors for less than 20 days and 2) this isn't enough for the left, they want open borders. The open-borders groups still won’t be satisfied and will demand that the administration effectively return to President Obama’s catch-and-release policy. This is their plot. This is the plan to eviscerate any notion of a border. The media, Hollywood, and the Democrats are all of the same mind set - they hate America. The President’s executive order will be challenged by the left, its ethnic front groups, and leftist ideologues like Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow crying into her hands. But where were they when Barack Obama was doing the same thing? Trump and Jeff Sessions are dealing with left wing policies that are inhumane and the media never said a thing until now when Trump is in office. And there were no executive orders from Obama either! The media makes no mention of who is responsible for these children being at the border in the first place. Finally, China’s industrial policy seeks to steal the ‘crown jewels’ of American technology and intellectual property. This is why we can’t have free trade with China.