P-P-Podcast Day
Plus the Week in Headlines
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It’s Saturday, which can only mean one thing—the usual podcast doubleheader, starting with Ricochet, where James, Charles and I reflect on the shooting at Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis (especially James, who lives just a couple blocks from the school), and then discuss the latest developments among the “National Conservatives” who are meeting again next week in Washington with Will Chamberlain, who is one of the potentates and organizers of NatCon 2025.
As usual, listen right here, or over at Ricochet:
Then it’s on to the Three Whisky Happy Hour, where John Yoo, freshly back from his smuggling trip to Korea, hosts this episode for the first time ever from . . . McDonald’s. Did you really need to be told that? Or maybe you are asking: What took so long? I’m just going to assert that this is the first ever Ricochet-family podcast to be hosted at a McDonalds.
Anyway, as John noshed on newly restored cheesy breakfast bagels, we walk through the serial disgraces of politicians and the media following the latest school shooting in Minnesota, along with what to make of Trump’s attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook (a lot more to be made of this than you think, and once again the media is not telling you); likewise Trump’s flag-burning executive order really needs to be followed up with a constitutional amendment, though don’t be surprised if this is yet another issue where the current Supreme Court might well reverse precedent; and finally, what do we make of the John Bolton controversy? Both more and less than you might think.
Listen here (ad-free I think), or over at Ricochet:
We still haven’t got our 3WHH YouTube channel up and running right so we can livestream our podcasts, but here’s the video for those who like to take us in through visual media:
Finally, the Week in Headlines, which I have decided to make a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce-free zone:
Lucretia, in your comment on prayer you did not go far enough. This is not a criticism, only an attempt to add to your comment. We pray in the face of evil, because we know we cannot battle evil on our own. We need help, and look to G-d to provide that help.
Sadly, we, mere mortals, will never understand why someone "transitioning" would think that progress to another gender would be best routed to that new gender by the killing of innocent children. All we know with any certainty is that what happened in Minneapolis was an expression on pure evil. What we need as human beings is some assurance, call it faith, that manichean evil is not the way of the world. We need to know, as a matter of faith, that G-d will triumph in the end. So we pray. And we hope we are not alone in a fight we do not understand and seemingly can never win.
Pray for the innocent children, the parents, and their kin suffering through this Satanic evil.
Waking up on time being racist seems like it is patronizing non-whites by saying that they are too lazy to get to work on time.