Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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Getting Crushed in an Election for the Other Side’s Beliefs! Ep. 278 Sep 14, 2018

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“Republicans have always had a rare gift for paying the political price associated with revolutionary change without actually accomplishing anything revolutionary. They're savaged for actions they were intimidated out of taking.” ~John Hayward.

In this episode, I explain how we are getting sold out on every issue in the budget battle and we are also facing a catastrophic loss at the ballot box. The two issues are quite intertwined, and I describe how Republicans managed to pull off the worst stewardship of government of all time – suffer all the liabilities of power but get none of the benefits. They are stoking the opposition beyond anything we’ve seen while doing nothing to energize their base or reclaim lost voters in the middle.

I go over the health care, immigration, budget, and spending betrayals and how the current budget setup is a triple play. The soft bigotry of low expectations and complacency from those who call themselves movement conservatives is taking a toll.

If you are looking for a thematic podcast that encapsulates our mission statement, this is the one for you.

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The gory details of the budget bill

House committee seeks to limit judicial power but party will never fully embrace it

Politicians doubling down on the causes of border surge

My strategy in 2016 for successful repeal of Obamacare

How Republicans sabotaged us on health care

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No Lessons Learned 17 Years After 9/11 Ep. 277 Sep 12, 2018

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Not only have we failed to learn the lessons of 9/11, we have done the exact opposite of what prudence should have dictated regarding immigration and border policy.

Today I am joined by Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd), senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Bensman draws upon his experience in intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety to discuss the threat of Middle Easterners at our southern border.

Bensman believes the threat of granting asylum to Middle Easterners at our border is being ignored by much of the political class. It remains our Achilles heel because “terrorists are unlikely to come here with a bomb; they will come with a good story.” We are admitting a number of Middle Easterners at our border through our broken asylum system. Todd believes that we have a problem with a migrant trail just like in Europe. He explains the pipeline through Latin America and how there is a well-established process for bringing in Middle Easterners.

The moral of the story? Why are we not focusing more on the border, visas, and Latin American relations since 9/11 rather than Middle Eastern civil wars? When will we learn the lessons of 9/11?

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ISIS plot against American ambassador … in Suriname?

9/11 plotters had visas approved even AFTER the attack

Somali smuggler brought at least 50 migrants through the border

How broken asylum policies allow us to bring in an Al-Shabab member

Todd’s PJ Media articles

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How Can Our Political Class Be So Wrong on So Many Issues? Ep. 276 Sep 10, 2018

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When it comes to the most important issues of our time, the political elites are not just missing their shots, they are tossing one airball after another. The entire premise that many policies and political fights are built upon is absolutely erroneous.

I begin the show continuing our ongoing discussion about the true origins of judicial supremacy and how it is a political fiction that was completely rejected by our Founders. I shed new insight on how Madison and others were certain that the other branches of government have just as much say in constitutional interpretation as the judiciary does. Yet we have an entire Supreme Court fight built upon a lie that the court is the final word on every matter, absent a constitutional amendment. Both sides, including conservative legal elites, buy into this fallacy.

Next, I discuss the upcoming wasteful spending on a drug crisis that Congress has completely misdiagnosed. The true crisis is illicit drugs from open borders, Medicaid expansion, and the war on legitimate pain patients.

Also, Trump is finally coming around to our point of view on the budget. So where is the “conservative movement” backing him?

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Medicaid is the big culprit in prescription overdose crisis

But open borders letting in illicit drugs are still the main problem

It's budget or bust for Trump, but where is the cavalry?

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The Judicial Supremacists are Disciples of Dred Scott, not Abraham Lincoln Ep. 275 Sep 07, 2018

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In this episode, I continue the long-running discussion on the true role of the judiciary and who has the final say in constitutional interpretation. I demonstrate the absurdity of how everyone on both sides seems to think the courts are king. It creates a self-fulfilling political crisis with each judicial nomination. I show how this is not the way our Founders created the system, nor does it have to continue being this way.

My solution is to return jurisdiction over the most partisan political issues in the federal courts to state courts. I explain why this is still in line with the founding view and the practice in our early years and give three reasons why it is superior to the status quo.

I then re-enact the Lincoln-Douglas debates to demonstrate once and for all why the judicial supremacists are disciples of Dred Scott and constitutional supremacists are disciples of Lincoln.

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Top 9 observations on the worthless Kavanaugh hearings

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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We’re All Missing the 800-Pound Gorilla in the SCOTUS Confirmation Fight Ep. 274 Sep 05, 2018

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What is the point of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing if we never learn anything about his constitutional thoughts but at the same time view the courts as the final say on the Constitution?

In this episode, I discuss why the hearings are a shame, why we have no guarantees Kavanaugh will be a Clarence Thomas, and why we are all missing the point about the role of the courts. I lay out in our history lesson why there is no way our Founders intended to make the courts the final say on the Constitution.

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15 important constitutional questions we should have answered by Kavanaugh but won't

Feckless Republicans rolled by mob rule

The ultimate solution to judicial tyranny

Putting Kavanaugh in perspective

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Where Have All the Visionaries Gone? Ep. 273 Sep 04, 2018

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This special episode takes us back in time to commemorate two important days in September that have been overshadowed by the vacuous Labor Day. I reminisce about the importance of V-J Day and Constitution Day.

The sacrifices of our grandparents in the Pacific during WWII are unimaginable, even compared to the European front. I commemorate their sacrifice, their vision, and valor and ruminate about what we can learn from their grit and determination.

I also ponder the upcoming 231st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Once again, they had a vision. It wasn’t just about defeating the British. I go back to the under-appreciated challenges of formulating a new government and tie them into our challenges today as Congress returns without an important vision to tackle the issues of our time.

On immigration, where is the vision to protect our country? On foreign policy and national defense, where is the vision to prioritize our needs, neutralize the threats, and end the self-immolation?

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Fire the Swamp

A vision on immigration

An illegal alien drunk-driving incident that is awfully common

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Republicans Are Monkeying Up Their Electoral Mandate Ep. 272 Aug 30, 2018

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Tuesday night’s elections should serve as another reminder of the impact of Trump’s endorsement. Where we succeed in getting him to endorse the right candidates, we usually win. But all too often, we fail to get him to support the right candidates and we are now electing more bad guys to the House than ever before.

I also discuss the importance of Ron DeSantis’ run for governor of Florida and what he stands for. He understands policy and he understands winning issues. I go through some of 25 winning immigration ideas that can change the arc and landscape of the election, but Republicans won’t budge.

I show how the progressives in this country are incapable of serious debate because rather than caring about the rule of law, it’s all about identity. I give some examples in some of the latest immigration and jailbreak news.

Finally, I report on Jeff Sessions joining the lawsuit against Harvard for the school's hard-core racism against Americans of Asian heritage in pursuit of discriminatory affirmative action.

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25 no-brainer immigration ideas that can be passed now

DOJ to side with plaintiffs against Harvard affirmative action

CIS report on how sanctuaries cover for dangerous criminal aliens and stifle debate

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Deaths Like Mollie Tibbetts' Are Preventable Ep. 271 Aug 28, 2018

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Americans have a right to own guns, but there is no affirmative right for foreign nationals to immigrate and have government accommodate them to commit identity theft.

In this episode, I'm joined by the inimitable Jessica Vaughan to discuss why people like the alleged murderer of Mollie Tibbetts would never be in the country if we truly clamped down on identity theft. She shows how the employer likely knew more than he’s letting on and how the agriculture industry in general is harboring illegal aliens. A concerted government effort to combat identity theft, something it should do anyway, would have prevented this murderer from coming to the country and would likely deter all illegal immigration. Yet government encourages identity theft.

I also discuss the cultural and criminal problems created by farming interests that bring in so many migrants from violent countries under the worst conditions.

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6 ways to combat identity theft

No difference between the parties on immigration

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The GOP Senate is Worse Than You Think Ep. 270 Aug 27, 2018

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In this episode, I discuss how the Senate GOP is essentially indistinguishable from the Left. Senate Republicans make House Republicans look like the Founders. They just passed a budget bill increasing spending, funding Obamacare, funding the Central American invasion, and funding abortions – in addition to increasing spending to unprecedented levels for all the agencies that shouldn’t even exist.

I also discuss how Republicans have completely adopted the Democrat view of health care – the most important fiscal policy issue.

Worse, we have no movement to elect conservatives to the Senate. The roster of candidates will make things worse, and Trump is endorsing RINOs. Now the media is pushing the Arizona governor to pick a RINO to fill McCain’s seat. Conservatives need to raise hell over this.

Finally, I delve into the good news on jailbreak and show that when conservatives really speak up to Trump, he listens. This iteration of jailbreak is dead for now, but we need to watch out in the long term. These people want to abolish bail and prison. The moral of the story is that we must get to Trump before the bad guys do. This is true on every issue.

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What GOP senators just did

Court says president can ease firing of his own employees

California set to abolish bail

Trump opposes prison bill

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We Can't Choose Our Native-born, but We Can Choose Our Immigrants Ep. 269 Aug 23, 2018

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Between 1.3 million criminal aliens, endless Islamist immigrants tied to terror, and MS-13 gang members, we have needlessly imported aliens who are harming our country when our tradition has been to bring in only those with good moral character.

In this show, I address recent immigration news, particularly the illegal alien alleged murderer of Mollie Tibbetts, to show how almost every illegal alien crime, by definition, is avoidable. I discuss E-Verify and identity theft and how easy it would be to detect these individuals, yet government until recently has been doing the opposite. We coddle those who engage in identity theft in order to promote amnesty.

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What we can learn from the deportation of the 95-year-old Nazi

Central American alien “minors” are widely involved with MS-13

DACA recipient planned bomb attacks on ICE

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