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Archives for April 2019

Fighting the Scourge of Child Sex Trafficking

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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and while child abuse sadly takes on many forms, one of the areas of greatest concern is sexual abuse, including child sex trafficking.

Beulah’s Place founder Andi Buerger literally suffered from sex trafficking her entire childhood – from when she was six months old until she was seventeen years old.  Her immediate family were often the perpetrators.  Today, Buerger runs a home for adult teen women with the goal of keeping them away from traffickers and others predators and pointing them on the right path in life.

In this powerful interview, Buerger details the abuse she suffered, how “God intervened” to turn her life around and the changes she’s seeing in the young women she serves.  Buerger also explains how sex trafficking is happening in virtually every community in the U.S. and often right under our noses.  She offers tips on how to spot a possible abusive relationship and what to do when you suspect illegal activity but cannot prove it.

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Tiger Roars Again, Pelosi vs. Socialists, Omar & 9/11

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David French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America have a strong difference of opinion about Tiger Woods, but both are impressed by the comeback Woods pulled off to recover from debilitating injuries and win a fifth Masters green jacket.  They also enjoy watching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to downplay how socialists and socialists policies are surging among Democrats but David warns conservatives not to pop too much popcorn as they watch.  And David explains why we may have hit “peak stupid” on Twitter as the left tries to pretend Ilhan Omar’s comments were something other than a flippant diminishing of 9/11 and that any criticism of her comments amounts to incitement.

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Rosenstein Backs Barr, Mitch Rejects Cuccinelli, Comey’s Lame Spying Response

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein confirming that Attorney General Bill Barr is conducting due diligence in redacting classified information and grand jury information before releasing the Mueller report and that Barr’s letter to Congress accurately captured the conclusions in the report.  They also scold Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for letting his personal animosity against former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli obstruct President Trump from possibly making a great choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security.  And they react to former FBI Director Jim Comey’s pathetic claim that conducting electronic surveillance isn’t really spying.

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McCarthy Previews Barr Probe, Assange Prosecution

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Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy is urging partisans on both sides to calm down and lower expectations of what Attorney General Bill Barr is likely to find about how the 2016 probe of the Trump campaign got started and says Americans might be shocked at how tough it is to hold Julian Assange accountable for his alleged crimes against the U.S.

This week, Attorney General Barr told House and Senate lawmakers he did plan to investigate how government officials in the intelligence and law enforcement decided to launch a probe into possible conspiring between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 elections.

Barr also admitted the government was “spying” on the Trump campaign, an assertion that was already well-established but Democrats still howled that Barr is simply doing Trump’s bidding.

In the podcast, McCarthy explains what the Barr investigation is likely to include, why Americans should neither assume that the attorney general is executing a political vendetta on behalf of Trump nor that lots of figures who investigated Trump will wind up facing charges.

However, McCarthy is scratching his head over how many Trump critics are apoplectic about Barr suggesting that the government was “spying” on the Trump campaign when we’ve known about electronic surveillance and human intelligence efforts for months. He says Democrats are being “hysterical” in response to Barr’s testimony.

“As a prosecutor for twenty years, in my cases the government informants were always called spies by the defense lawyers and we always called them informants. They always called them snitches, and we always called them witnesses for the state. Nobody in the jury every fainted when any of these terms were used,” said McCarthy.

He also explains why despite the big headlines over Julian Assange’s arrest, that the Wikileaks boss is unlikely to face much prison time in the U.S. – and may never see a courtroom in this country at all.

Listen to the full podcast here.

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Why Netanyahu Won Again

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On Tuesday, Israeli voters once again decided to keep Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, rewarding him and his coalition partners for a decade of strong economic growth and national security, but also suggesting a new party will be a major player in Israeli politics over the coming years.

Netanyahu’s Likud party actually tied the upstart Blue and White party, by winning 35 seats apiece in the 120-seat Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset.  But when adding in like-minded parties, Netanyahu’s coalition is expected to control 65 seats in the new government.

So why is Netanyahu still popular after ten years in office, even while facing corruption charges?

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies President Clifford May says Israeli voters credit Netanyahu for turning their economy around and rightly so.

“He, as finance minister and as prime minister, is more responsible than anyone else for Israel making a transition from essentially a democratic socialist government to a capitalist economy,” said May.

May says Netanyahu’s strong defense of Israel against hostile neighbors like Hamas and Syria are also appreciated by the Israeli people, although he says the Blue and White party also fielded a candidate – retired Gen. Benny Gantz – who has strong national security credentials.

Listen to the full podcast as May discusses what Netanyahu’s win means for U.S.-Israeli relations and how the politics in Israel have shifted greatly in just a few years.

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Assange Arrested, Massive Avenatti Indictment, Virginia Dems Apologize to Northam

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America celebrate the arrest of the founder of Wikileaks leader Julian Assange, the man responsible for the largest publication of classified material in history that risked compromising American troops and operations. They also remember all the times the media pushed disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti as a serious candidate for 2020 after Avenatti was indicted on 36 charges of tax dodging, perjury, and theft from clients. And they wonder what lessons have really been learned in Virginia after Democrats in the state apologize for rushing to judgment on Ralph Northam.

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Victory for Bibi, Barr to Probe Russia Probe, America’s Tax Illiteracy

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America congratulate Benjamin Netanyahu on winning his fifth election for Prime Minister of Israel and hope the warm relations between the country and the US will continue. They also look forward to the investigation into how the Russian probe began after Attorney General William Barr promised an inquiry into the matter while testifying before Congress. And they worry about poor Republican messaging after most of the country thinks the tax cuts hurt them because they got a small refund this year, despite the significant decrease in money being withheld from paychecks in the first place.

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Why Is The Border Crisis Getting So Much Worse?

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Just a few weeks ago, a fierce debate raged over President Trump’s call for a national emergency to direct billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall along strategic points of the U.S. Mexico border, and while the controversy over Trump’s action persists, all sides now agree there is a humanitarian urgency as the number of people attempting to enter the U.S. continues to swell.

According to government statistics, some 58,000 border apprehensions occurred in January.  There were 76,000 in February and the figures for March could reach 100,000.

And the surge is taxing the already stretched manpower and resources along our southern border.

“The system has broken down because it’s so overwhelmed by the number of people we see entering the United States illegally,” said Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies.

“The border patrol just doesn’t have the facilities to process those individuals in a timely manner.  We lack the detention facilities to hold them and [Health and Human Services], which is supposed to take custody of unaccompanied alien children within 48 hours, is now out of space as well,” said Arthur.

Arthur says one of the reasons for so many people being allowed into the U.S. despite coming illegally is because the Obama administration loosened the terms by which the migrants can ask for protection based on claims of “credible fear” if they return to their home countries.

As a result, 97,000 people in the past year claim credible fear as opposed to 5,000 per year when Obama took office.  Those 97,000 claims are then processed by just a few hundred case officers and immigration judges.

Listen to the full podcast to learn about other factors triggering this wave of humanity across the southern border, what President Trump can do to address it and what actions have to come from Congress.

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Terror Attack Foiled, Good Polls for Bad Virginians, Reid Suit Rejected

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America breathe a sigh of relief after an ISIS-inspired terror plot targeting Maryland’s National Harbor was stopped. They also take a look at the recent polls in Virginia and speculate as to how state Democrats are mired in horrible scandals yet the voters want none of them out of office. And they not exactly surprised to learn that former Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid was caught in multiple falsehoods in claiming a fitness company’s negligence was responsible for his bizarre facial injury four years ago.  Reid’s case has been thrown out.

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