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2/28/18 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

On Wednesday's Mark Levin show, Ben Ferguson of WREC in Memphis, Tennessee fills in for Mark. The media is reporting that President Trump is shockingly supporting Barack Obama’s gun control ideas. The media wants us to freak out, have a big fight on this and get nothing done. The Founding Fathers made it very clear that the 2nd amendment was nonnegotiable. Trump now wants to raise the age to buy an AR-15 from 18 to 21. This gun debate is filled with propaganda of both sides. However, when a DUI happens, we don’t blame the car or alcohol but the driver. When a bombing happens, we don’t blame the chemicals or bomb making materials but the bomber.  In a shooting we blame the guns and not the person - why the change in logic?  After that, Dick's Sporting Goods is not going to sell assault style weapons anymore. This was just a cowardly PR move and a business decision where they bowed to the peer pressure of the media. In addition, Walmart is raising the minimum age to purchase firearms in their store to 21. Many 18 year olds don’t live with their parents and should not have their rights taken away. This is not going to lower death rates in country and is 100% a move to make us feel better but has no impact. Later, Trump wants take away our guns first and then go through due process second. You can’t take away someone’s guns before due process.

2/27/18 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

On Tuesday's Mark Levin show, It’s more important than ever to discuss the foundational principles of American civil society — and we need to fight back against the Left’s constant attacks on constitutional government and individual liberty. Liberty, individualism, and the history of the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment are almost never discussed in the gun control debate. There are constant efforts under way to redefine this country and redefine what liberty means.The debate over guns isn’t a debate over guns. It’s the debate over liberty. Also, the socialist idea of Universal Basic Income is now supported by 48% of Americans. We now have more and more people who embrace socialism over capitalism. Can you imagine the economic impact of this? Can you imagine the control the government would have over the individual, who would rely almost one hundred percent for his or her sustenance from the government? Later, how is it that all great minds in history missed the fact of climate change? Only recently with the advent of the Bill Clinton and Al Gore administration that it suddenly became the case we had global warming. Over the last 40 years we have gone from global cooling to global warming to climate change and if you don’t buy into it you are a denier. The conceit of the left to believe that they have power to alter the Earth and universe is the same conceit they use to try control and alter characteristics of individual human beings. Finally, Rep Brian Mast is in a district in Florida which is Republican enough that he does not have to do what he is doing, which is trying to ban assault weapons. It is troubling but shows you what happens when people come to Washington. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota would never bring on a handicapped veteran who was in favor of the Second Amendment. The Mast interview with Camerota is disturbing because we now know there are other Republicans who are willing to defy their constituencies.

10/17/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Why has President Trump flipped on Obamacare subsidies? Just last Thursday, Trump struck a major blow against Obamacare, ending the illegal cost-sharing subsidies that were keeping the failed Democratic law afloat. On Tuesday, Trump backed a bipartisan plan to restore those subsidies, enshrining Obamacare rather than working to repeal it. If Congress passes this and the president signs it, that makes it constitutional. That also makes it outrageous because that means both political parties, both elected branches – Congress and the president – have created a massive new entitlement boondoggle that is lawful. In the meantime, the Democrats win the argument on Obamacare because the Republicans and the President are buckling. Obamacare is going to be enshrined forever because Republicans who control the House, Senate, and presidency won’t repeal it and are intent on funding it. Also, when Democrats get control they will move immediately move to socialize healthcare. The left opposes federalism and state sovereignty. After that, why are we not being loyal to the Kurds the way they are loyal to us? It doesn’t mean we have to send in troops, but the U.S. should take an active role in protecting our loyal friends. Trump needs to intervene on the Kurds’ behalf. The Kurds helped us on our way to destroying ISIS and the way we are treating them is immoral. They have been absolutely loyal to the U.S. military and have been courageous. Later, we have an industry in Hollywood that is drenched in potential sexual crimes and abuse of women. What we need is a special sexual crimes unit to investigate the entertainment industry. We have serious allegations of sexual criminality and workplace harassment. Where is the EEOC, the DOJ and the media?

10/16/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a stunning dearth of knowledge when it comes to the Tea Party. He doubled down on his support for establishment candidates saying conservatives simply cannot win general elections. McConnell needs a history lesson on the Tea Party. Marco Rubio. Mike Lee. Rand Paul. Ted Cruz. These are but a few winning Tea Party candidates that were opposed by the establishment but are now key figures in the Republican majority. The Senate is not going to embrace conservative principles or deal with the debt unless Mitch McConnell is thrown out of office. After that Ambassador to Israel, Ron Dermer calls in to talk about the Iran deal. President Trump gave a historic speech in presenting his decertification of the deal. Trump’s speech signified that America has a President that is ready to take on Iran. This is a militant Islamic regime that wants to export its radical ideology around the world. The Iran deal was a very bad deal and put the International Community on cruise control heading over a cliff. Trump could have kicked the can down the road but has made the responsible decision in decertifying. When Israelis and Arabs are supportive of something that tells you it is pretty sound policy. Later, some think that the NFL teams are colluding against Colin Kaepernick to keep him off the field. Maybe it is because he just isn’t that good. He and other NFL players take a knee for police brutality, but there is not systemic racial violence done by police. However, there is systemic violence against the police. In 2016,118 law enforcement officers died in line of duty compared to 86 the year before. In addition, another 57,000 officers were assaulted in the line of duty and 16,000 of those sustained injuries.

10/13/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

the Democrats now stand with the Islamo-Nazi regime in Iran. They stand with a terror state that threatens to destroy our country, Israel and the surrounding Arab and Gulf states instead of with the best interests of America. How many times have you heard Democrats talk about the Constitution being a living and breathing document? Yet when it comes to the Iran deal, it’s untouchable, because Barack Obama signed it. Democrats are so filled with hate and a desire for power that even when Trump does the correct thing, they can’t accept that. It is astonishing how Obama sold out the U.S. and how the Democrat Party is in support of this. This deal was secured with the evisceration of the Treaty Clause of the Constitution. The same people who were behind securing this agreement are now claiming that the President not reject what they created. Meanwhile, Congress has 60 days to fix the Iran Deal. Will Democrats use the filibuster to protect Iran? If they do they need to be called out for it. After that, Trump ended Obamacare's illegal insurance company subsidies. Obama decided that in order to hold up Obamacare he would violate the Constitution and the ACA statute. His violation of Article 1 of the Constitution and the ACA statute was declared by a federal court, but Obama did not care and ordered the Treasury Department to issue subsidies anyway. Later, Christopher Scalia calls in to talk about his new book, “Scalia Speaks”

10/12/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

President Trump is trying to bring down the cost and increase the options for the individual in this country regarding healthcare. Trump is doing what he can from the executive branch and the Obamacare statutes give him the leeway to do so. It is precious to hear Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer attack Trump for not going through Congress, yet they were the ones that passed the statute allowing Trump to make the changes he did on Thursday. The problem with healthcare is government’s iron fist and the politicization of it by the left. What Trump is doing is a good tiny first step and one of the few steps the President can take unilaterally. However, the left is so obsessed with Obamacare that even small steps to give individuals relief from the burdens of Obamacare are opposed. After that, it looks like Trump will decertify the Iran Deal. The next step is to kill the deal, but the left does not want the President to take the next step to drop the deal. They are trying to make it sound like it will result in a catastrophe and that Trump is reckless. Trump is in no way putting America at a greater conceivable risk by pulling out of the Iran Deal. Also, the Harvey Weinstein scandal has helped bring to light to the cultural rot in Hollywood. It’s bigger than Weinstein and there has been a massive conspiracy of silence and cover-up. Weinstein and others in Hollywood are not just creating inappropriate or immoral behavior, it could easily be criminal behavior. Hollywood is an industry like anything else (coal, football, cell phones, etc.) And because the industry has been perpetuating real, legitimate criminal conduct, there should be an FBI unit created, at least temporarily, to investigate the activities taking place in Hollywood.

10/11/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

We’re starting to see signs that President Trump is buckling on his Iran deal promise. The reason? Obama holdovers in the Trump administration are reportedly threatening Trump’s promises to repeal the Iran nuclear deal, but the commander in chief should stick to his guns. It’s very important for this administration to completely scrap the deal, not just renegotiate it. Renegotiation would be a naïve and dangerous move. How many more pieces of paper must we sign with Iran before we realize that they have no intention of complying with it? We signed document after document with North Korea and that didn’t seem to work. After that, all these phony actors and actresses who claim they don’t know anything about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse of women need to be interviewed. The FBI should set up a special sex crimes unit for Hollywood to get to the bottom of it. It should all be known which, actors, and directors were colluding with Weinstein. This is the Hollywood conspiracy of silence. Weinstein's habits were such an open secret they were joked about in the past. Basic morality sounds rather incongruent when it comes to Hollywood but the law applies to them too. The big liberal media, including the New York Times which killed this story on Weinstein also had a part in this. Later, the left is destroying the Boy Scouts and have been after them for decades. Now the Boy Scouts have agreed to accept girls into their program. This change was urged by the National Organization for Women.

10/10/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Wealthy NFL players have abused their positions. They get on their knee for a minute and cause all this tumult and go home thinking they have done something great. They have really done zero to participate in the social justice cause. NFL surrogates keep saying it is not against the flag or the National Anthem but against police officers. But we don’t have systemic police abuse in this country, there is no evidence for this claim in any reputable survey. Nobody is saying police departments are perfect, but neither are football players. The football players are not united because of civil rights, but because of the NFL players union. The union and players have decided to take on the fans and are just in it for themselves. After that, apparently the pervasions of Harvey Weinstein have been known for decades by various journalists, the NY Times and big names in Hollywood. Hollywood is filled with frauds and fakes who pretend to stand for women’s rights. Are there more men and women like Weinstein in Hollywood? This is a massive cover up in the Hollywood community. Why would Hillary Clinton, the Obama’s and the National Organization for Women wait 5 days to condemn this? Because Progressivism is a poison and a drive for power and control. They will cut a guy like Harvey Weinstein loose, but they would rather not. Later, there is a lot of talk about cleaning out the Republican Establishment in primaries. We may be able to slow down the regression by electing conservatives but we are not going to save the Republic by doing this. Our Republic has been degraded so much that in order reverse course a Convention of States is needed. Many issues like private property, the 17th Amendment, and federal spending can only be reined in by Article V. The Convention of States needs to become the primary focus of constitutional conservatives.

10/9/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

It's Columbus Day, but not in Los Angeles where they are celebrating the city’s first Indigenous People’s Day. Yes this is another point of history where we are supposed to espouse the left, because all these people in our past were not as great as Al Sharpton, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi. The left is busy defacing monuments of Columbus and others, because according to them America is a terrible place and leftists are the only perfect people. The truth is that we don’t know what Indigenous People’s Day means as research is showing that the first Americans may have been descended from people out of Southeast Asia, particular Australia. The city of Los Angeles doesn’t know what indigenous means either. The goal is to trash the country and trash America's Founding. The left believes that what Christopher Columbus did in discovering America must be destroyed and ripped out from the history books. The people who are attacking Columbus Day know exactly what they are doing. It is the Marxist left and social justice warriors that are behind this. They want to destroy Americanism. Also, all of us should celebrate Columbus Day, because what Columbus brought to this country was a modern world, so we could live the way we live today. It was not paradise before Columbus came, not in the least. The pre-Columbus world was harsh. For example, the Aztec's practiced human sacrifice and treated conquered tribes lethally. In addition, what Mike Pence did by leaving the NFL game because of the protest was courageous. He has exposed the NFL players. People are accusing Pence of making a choreographed move, yet the NFL players taking a knee is choreographed. Protests by NFL players have lost all substance. They have taken their celebrity status and abused it with their protest. If you are really a social justice warrior prove it. What most sportscasters and mouth pieces don’t understand is that the regular working people who watch the NFL do not support the players taking a knee. Later, Bob Corker was happy to eviscerate the Treaty Clause of the Constitution with the Iran deal. The Treaty Clause requires two-thirds of Senators to agree to ratify treaties. Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 75 that if we were to have legal arrangements with another country, more than one man should be involved.

1: 10/9/17-Mark Levin Audio Rewind

It's Columbus Day, but not in Los Angeles where they are celebrating the city’s first Indigenous People’s Day. Yes this is another point of history where we are supposed to espouse the left, because all these people in our past were not as great as Al Sharpton, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi. The left is busy defacing monuments of Columbus and others, because according to them America is a terrible place and leftists are the only perfect people. The truth is that we don’t know what Indigenous People’s Day means as research is showing that the first Americans may have been descended from people out of Southeast Asia, particular Australia. The city of Los Angeles doesn’t know what indigenous means either. The goal is to trash the country and trash America's Founding. The left believes that what Christopher Columbus did in discovering America must be destroyed and ripped out from the history books. The people who are attacking Columbus Day know exactly what they are doing. It is the Marxist left and social justice warriors that are behind this. They want to destroy Americanism. Also, all of us should celebrate Columbus Day, because what Columbus brought to this country was a modern world, so we could live the way we live today. It was not paradise before Columbus came, not in the least. The pre-Columbus world was harsh. For example, the Aztec's practiced human sacrifice and treated conquered tribes lethally. In addition, what Mike Pence did by leaving the NFL game because of the protest was courageous. He has exposed the NFL players. People are accusing Pence of making a choreographed move, yet the NFL players taking a knee is choreographed. Protests by NFL players have lost all substance. They have taken their celebrity status and abused it with their protest. If you are really a social justice warrior prove it. What most sportscasters and mouth pieces don’t understand is that the regular working people who watch the NFL do not support the players taking a knee. Later, Bob Corker was happy to eviscerate the Treaty Clause of the Constitution with the Iran deal. The Treaty Clause requires two-thirds of Senators to agree to ratify treaties. Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 75 that if we were to have legal arrangements with another country, more than one man should be involved.