Rabbi Daniel Lapin

There is a real reason why airlines have become so much more punctual in keeping to their schedules than they used to be. Has global warming expanded the American continent, pushing Los Angeles and New York further apart? Amazon and the internet are not the only culprits killing off suburban shopping malls; a far more destructive force is imperiling the very existence of your local shopping mall. Is it true that atheism is growing and spreading like wildfire, consuming Bible-based Judeo-Christian faiths in its insatiable lust for secularizing the world? I am surprised you even ask! But I have the answer for you. One thing that is definitely increasing is the number of young Americans taking anti-depressant drugs. Finally, does secular liberalism make societies rot? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Men who marry moneyed maidens hoping to get their hands on her wealth deserve what they get, which most times won’t be good. But girls marrying guys with gold is quite different. Men who make money reveal much of their positive masculine desirability whereas a lady’s bank balance reveals nothing of her feminine desirability. Why do men in uniform fascinate females? Also, learn why, in 1970, AMC paid $75 Million for little more than rights to the Jeep car name. Other topics include: Yin & Yang, Grand Coulee Dam, and why weddings happen after men propose to women (not the reverse). The Beatles lied in 1967 when they sang “All You Need is Love”. The real meaning of the Biblical jewelry when he gave her gold at that desert well where Rebecca was betrothed to Isaac, sight unseen, and the future of Israel was assured. When he says, “I love you”, does he mean it the same way as when he says, “I love roast turkey”? A great Russian novelist accurately wrote “Money is coined liberty”. A financially ambitious man is far more likely to love freedom than a community activist, a politician, or a government bureaucrat. A great American novelist accurately wrote “The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably but the man who respects it has earned it.” Such a man is a far better bet for a good woman than a man who can do no more than express pretty feelings about her, which, in truth, camouflage selfish intent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many in the Bush family (sorry, I mean dynasty) with their long association with the Republican Party, admitted that they voted for Hillary Clinton in November 2016. So did dozens of other well-known journalists, pundits, policy-wonks, and political-hangers-on who had long been famous as conservative Republicans. All these intelligent people decided that Donald Trump was so terrible that Hillary and the four more years of Obamaville that she’d bring to the country would be a preferable fate for America. Some have now admitted that they were wrong. Many have not. My question: What explains how intelligent people can make really stupid decisions? I ask you to recall your own bad decisions and we'll analyze how they happen. In this show, we allow ancient Jewish wisdom to explain how easily this can happen to you, how to recognize it in yourself and how to defend against it. Now for the most valuable part of this show: the Biblical secret for overcoming procrastination and how to use it in your life. You know that one thing you have been putting off doing? That one thing which would really enhance your life if you could just get around to doing it? But you procrastinate. Well, here’s how to put procrastination behind you. Now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was wrong last week. The 737 MAX should have been promptly grounded on March 11th, 2019. Was history being written in the Ethiopian desert and off the coast of Indonesia? Sometimes history is written in just a few days. Are we witnessing the opening moves of America’s slide from #1 to #2 in commercial aviation? Why would the U.S. Justice Department launch an almost unprecedented criminal investigation of Boeing? The crashes of Lion Flight 610 and Ethiopian Flight 302 tragically killed 346 people. Could subsequent events prove even more costly? Were they really accidents or were they completely avoidable consequences of corrupt collaboration between corporate interests and government. Should it worry us that America’s new Secretary of Defense worked for Boeing for thirty years? Boeing’s stock price should tell us something profound. Like Europe’s Airbus, China is waiting to scoop up worldwide twin-engine single-aisle passenger aircraft business. What if America’s FAA has irreparably lost international prestige? Why did Boeing put two huge modern engines on a fifty year-old air frame? Why did they decide to omit information from instruction manuals about a computer system that can override the pilot? You wouldn’t buy a car that did that. Is Western defense and American security being held hostage by “The Swamp”? Also, I reveal my prediction about when the 737 MAX will again take to the skies and tell you why you will remember the first quarter of 2019 as history-making in American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Questions that will help you discover if you truly know how the world REALLY works. Letters from listeners. Two Boeing airliners tragically crash; the real reason the 737Max was grounded. Are we willing and eager to end the more than 30,000 traffic fatalities a year in the United States? It can be done, you know. How would you vote? Don’t you care about people’s lives? The machinery of human society is infinitely more complex than a nuclear power plant. How, and why the left turned the word “nationalist” into a curse. Why you risk your life if you identify as a patriotic American on a university campus. Let the Bible explain why international law is a farce and the United Nations a travesty. The New Zealand mosque massacre. The American university admission scandal. Fixing a few of the many fatal flaws in American university education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How you answer the question that entitles this show will say a lot about whether you ever will have $5 Million. What produces more happiness, fun or work? Would you accept marital advice from a man who has never lived with a woman? But you might well accept car maintenance advice from a mechanic who has never owned a car. Would you take career advice from a man who has never held a job? But you might accept investment advice from an accountant who has much less money than you. Would any mom accept advice about how many children to have, from a woman who has never had children? There is a crucial difference between data and wisdom. Will the arrival of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars put millions out of work? Could you find as much meaning in leisure as in work? Which is more important: what you know or what you are? Finally, there exist ten measures of human greatness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A guard at the notorious San Quentin Penitentiary near San Francisco takes issue with my overly broad characterization last week. Another California corrections officer comments on my preference for fines, flogging and execution over incarceration. A Colombian family writes from Singapore, to where they moved from Malaysia, telling of how they overcame dark times and broke through to prosperity. Then, it's on to the true story of how Bernie and Arthur got fired from a small hardware store in 1978 and started Home Depot. Wasn’t that a great response to losing a job? Also, how 120 million Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese are enjoying their siestas and retirements on the work of 80 million Germans. And that is not to mention the 1.5 million Muslim immigrants they’re also supporting. If you’re trying to start a business or grow one, you have to think outside the box. You must escape the confinement of the conventional. But if you leap too far out of the box, if you’re too unconventional, you might be stepping over the legal line. Yet, if all you do is repeat what others before you have done, your business will fail. What’s one to do? Happily, there is an answer that pops out of one little verse in Deuteronomy and which Jews have used for generations to achieve financial abundance. Now, you can too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who cares what men musicians look like? We only discuss their music. But when lady musicians are dressed a little provocatively, even a little sexily, we’ll comment on their music and also on their appearance. Is this wrong? Is this “sexism” (whatever that means)? There’s a growing group of attractive young female concert pianists who no longer perform in long gowns in muted colors. Few are more noticeable than Yuja Wang, and the music critic of the Los Angeles Times certainly did notice her, which ignited a firestorm of controversy in the Washington Post. Your rabbi found it all highly entertaining and he hopes you will too. And Yuja Wang really is an amazing pianist! Also, a brief rabbinic lesson on zippers in ladies fashion. And now, from the performance to the penitentiary. You’ll never guess what is shared in common by large numbers of men who are serving life sentences but by almost no incarcerated women. Finally, learn why I would shut down every last prison and jail immediately even if it means releasing every convict. And I am tough on crime! Really. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For those of you who’ve been eagerly awaiting the day I criticize President Donald Trump, today is your day! Listen as I revile and repudiate the following phrase from the State of the Union: “All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before.” Well, I am not at all proud of that. And neither should you be. The President and his speechwriters were pandering to the high priests of Secular Fundamentalism. 98% of speech therapists are women, but well under 1% of construction industry jobs are held by women. Wives save their husbands from being hermits. Wives and moms build communities and neighborhoods. Huge numbers of wives, whose husbands earn enough, do enthusiastically quit the workforce. And these things are good for everyone other than Democrat Party (Yes! Call it that) politicians who’d rather tax two incomes. Also, hear my interview with Tom Ziglar, who just wrote a terrific new book, 'Choose To Win'. He is not only the son of the late, great Zig Ziglar, but he is also a cherished friend. We cover his book, growing up as the son of Zig, and the marriage of his parents. Secular Fundamentalism, the flip side of the Judeo-Christian Bible faiths, loathes anything with Biblical roots and nothing more than marriage and family. Their message to women is: “You don’t need a husband, all you need is the government.” Why are over 80% of women on welfare, single? Because that is exactly what radical socialists want. But there’s hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife, Susan, take a lighthearted look at movies. Before World War II, about 0.3% of movies released were what we would call “horror movies”. By 1968, over 2% of movies were horror movies, by 2000 it was 4%, and by 2015 it was 12%. By then, zombies were taking over the (entertainment) world. To date, Hollywood has produced 1,000 more zombie movies than cowboy movies. The Walking Dead? Really? When did the zombie craze really take off? It was 1962. Yes, there’s that date again. Could there be any meaningful correlation between the extirpation of Judeo-Christian Bible faith from everyday life and the rise of zombie horror taking its place? As religion’s ability to help us cope with death declined, did we turn to “zombie-porn”? Michael Jackson, the boy who never grew old, and his music video 'Thriller'. The arrival of ten-minute movies - for your phone! - brought to you by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg. If you don’t consciously “choose life”, the automatic default is death. From abortion to euthanasia, what a large crowd of people does matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to prepare your children to be able to say “No!” What are our three main appetites, & how do they differ from one other? Why do so many smart, accomplished, powerful men who know better, act so badly towards women? The Torah prohibits Jews from eating pork, yet it is just as healthy as beef. So why are pigs, and other delicious dishes like crabs, lobsters, oysters, rabbits and snails prohibited to the people of Israel? What does this have to do with self-destructive sexual promiscuity? How has not eating pork helped Jews make better financial decisions? Can people of every religious background and no religious background also benefit from these timeless truths? Being engaged is not supposed to be fun. The difference between investing and gambling. The big question to ask guys who want to date your daughter. Develop passion for the work you do. Four categories that include everything on the planet. Why executing murderers is moral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you have a few dollars, well, you didn’t MAKE that money—you TOOK it. This according to the economics professors who teach your children and help them form their worldviews. Do you patronize companies that give some of their profit to charity? I explain why they would be acting more morally by reducing the price of the goods you purchase. After all, why is it the company’s job to take additional money from you, the customer, to give to someone who is arbitrarily defined as a ‘charity recipient’. Are companies now in the redistribution business? Must be why more and more companies boast of how much they ‘give away’. Majority of students believe that corporations and businesses are under the moral obligation to fulfill the social promises rashly made by politicians. They believe that businesses have more important obligations than making money for their owners. They believe the equation Poverty = Virtue and wealth is, in itself, evidence of moral malfeasance. Where does this all end? Can we fix it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s a tough one to swallow: Morality as we know it applies to individuals, not to nations! The United Nations is nothing but an illusion. An illusion promoted by some pretty horrid people, to be sure; but an illusion nonetheless. The International Court in The Hague? Puhleez, it’s a joke. You can ignore it. Everyone else does. If you don’t like what Russia is doing (whatever that is supposed to be), then stop whining. Just make sure we have the necessary military power and the will to project it. That way you can tell them to cut it out. Otherwise you’re nothing but a buffoon. Remember one president who told us that he told Mr Putin to “just cut it out”? If you don’t like China’s progress to colonial power and world domination, well just make sure you have the power. International relations operate not on paper but on power. Spend all your political capital on imaginary climate problems, placating the whining gender/homeless/race/ kindergartens and building windmills, and you can whistle while other less stupidly encumbered nations rule the world. Just a word to the wise, it’s more fun being a citizen of a powerful nation than of a weak one. Did I always want to be a rabbi? Actually, no. What did I really want to be? How do I keep up my schedule without relaxation? What incident in history would I like to witness? What is the saddest thing I often see? These are some of the questions that Cornerstone Television asked me. To my shock, I discovered just how open and candid were my answers. You’ll hear it all and more on this show. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guess who’s building the Argentina-Chile tunnel in order to lock up the world’s supply of Lithium (ion batteries). Yes, I’m talking about your mobile phone—the one you love so much! It was in 1956 that we saw one of the first movies to depict a Christian missionary negatively. Guess who owns Kenya’s new railway. And Kenya’s port of Mombasa (which like Somalia and Yemen, was also named in Hebrew). Guess who owns Zambia’s international airport and its electrical power grid. I hope you’re seeing a pattern here because Our-Hate-America-Left does not. They are still myopically obsessed with Russia as the existential threat. Who has just built one of the longest bridges in Africa in the Congo? Hint: It wasn’t the Russians. The Congo possesses huge reserves of both uranium and natural gas. Guess who gets that now. Both Congos are more concerned about election fraud than we are. In 1900 Joseph Conrad published his wonderful novel set in the Congo, Heart of Darkness. Francis Ford Coppola based his movie Apocalypse Now on Conrad’s novel. Back then Africa was the 3rd World. When I motorcycled through Africa in 1969, it was still the 3rd World. It is no longer the 3rdWorld. It is moving rapidly toward 1st World conditions. The United States, however, is moving just as rapidly towards 3rd World conditions. The New York Times in a rare burst of candor, called Los Angeles ‘capital of the third world.” I show you ten metrics including water, transportation, corruption, public hygiene, & tribalism that confirm that we are heading towards 3rd World living. Acknowledging the problem is always the first step towards its solution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’ve read my book, Thou Shall Prosper-The Ten Commandments for Making Money, then you already know why Jews are disproportionately good with money. You’ve probably already adopted those timeless truths into your own financial life to good effect, but none of that explains why over 80 percent of American comedians of the past 80 years are Jewish. While we’re talking laughter, why are the wicked villains of television and movies characterized by their evil laugh? Was Samson really a comedian? The only one in all of the Bible? Also, why do most jokes revolve around the bedroom, the bathroom, and the church/synagogue? There is some really terrible news for South Africa. The University of Cape Town claims that "1 + 1 = 2" only according to the old, white, colonial way of thinking. Why did Wrestlemania take off so successfully in the 1980s? And we reveal the reason why a shared sense of humor is vital for couples contemplating marriage. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the semi-addictive behavior in which most of us engage to our own detriment? To what activity do most of us devote a shockingly high number of hours each week for which we get zero benefit? What is worse, this activity not only brings no benefit but it actually causes damage to us. If evil enemies wanted to harm the United States of America and render it weak both economically and militarily, they couldn’t have come up with a better plot than this one in which we willingly collaborate. Not surprisingly, those weakest members of society, the least productive and most destructive, spend most time on this harmful thing. Do you really want to promote uniformity of thought? Do you really want to eliminate all individuality and all diversity of outlook? Well, just continue doing what you’re already doing and encourage others to do the same. Is there a solution? Of course! Do you really think your rabbi would leave you dangling? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why did The Donna Reed Show help marriages while The Gilmore Girls hurt them? And how did boys start reneging on the social contract to become men back during the 1960s? Until then, boys sought to grow into men who would marry and who would cherish and protect their wives. Then, in what will turn out to be history’s most remarkable case of mass arrested development, little boys grew into big boys and big boys became 40 year-old adolescents. Men surrendered their natural authority in relationships; then they renounced responsibility. So understandably, the women had to step in; for whether in politics, business, or male/female relationships, nature abhors a vacuum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Culture is not the same as civilization. There are thousands of cultures but only one civilization. Banks & bathrooms in Beijing, Bombay, and Bangkok grew to resemble such institutions in Boston, Birmingham, and Berlin; not the other way around. Along with millions of others who voted with their feet, you and I also prefer civilization to any of the countless cultures we could have lived in. The problem is that civilization is a frighteningly fragile flower. What happens when we clip that flower off its roots? Why does it take so much more work and time to build a house than to demolish it? What does that have to do with the advantages that liberalism, progressivism, and socialism seem to possess among young voters in many countries? And why politicians and bureaucrats exempt themselves from the laws and regulations they religiously impose upon others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Numbers are your portal to progress. What happened to England when all Jews were expelled? What happened to England when they returned? Start devoting a few hours every week to improving your numerical literacy. Stop telling yourself you can’t do math. Nothing too complicated, just start on becoming more familiar with numbers than you are. In Hebrew all five verbs for counting each also mean aristocrat (count) or prominence, power, and prestige. Amazing Biblical coincidences. When you can effectively number something, you can effectively change it. Your weight, your bank balance, your number of friends, your charitable giving. Numbering everything is a key to success. Gradually grow in numerical literacy to the point you’ll get to understand statistics, probability and calculus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By far, the majority of people around you understand money as well as they understand magnetic resonance imaging. Which is to say, not much! As a not-very-successful fisherman in the cool, deep waters of British Columbia, I learned that you can’t possibly put salmon on your grill without understanding salmon. Similarly, you can’t put money in your bank without understanding money. And putting money in your bank is important. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge said, “The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” Isn’t that true for you? The spiritual nature of money and why the week should be five days long but isn’t. Why secular fundamentalists equate economic prosperity with moral depravity. Why atheists usually see profit as plunder. Why no atheistic society has ever created a vibrant economy. How this can help you in your work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Men are hardwired to want to make their wives happy. We genuinely are happier when our wives are happy. And we are miserable when our wives cry. The problem is that most of us men are pretty clueless as to how to make wives happy. And what makes it even harder is that wives never want to tell husbands how to make them happy. While not disparaging gifts, remembering important dates, and breakfast in bed, in this show we explore the other really important things that make wives happy. For maximum happiness, a newly married man should strive every day to be worthy of his wife’s admiration. When can he finally relax and just be himself? When he dies! How building a beautiful bridge resembles building a beautiful marriage—and how it differs. A man’s body will always follow the logic of his deepest convictions; he will be attracted to the woman who reflects his noblest vision of himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservatives frequently misunderstand the battleground. They try to refute beliefs with facts. Won’t work! Never has; never will. Crusaders will always defeat accountants. Believers will always defeat policy wonks. The committed will always defeat the complacent. Remember when the Moors invaded Spain? Well, one afternoon in the year 720, a brave Catholic priest bravely confronted the Moslem mob saying, “We should get together and hold a big symposium about the future of religious pluralism on the Iberian peninsula.” The Moslems removed his head, desecrated his church and converted it into a mosque. They then moved on to the next town where the same scenario was repeated. The religious believer doesn’t engage in discussion and debate with heretics. The religious believer silences, suppresses, and if necessary, does away with the heretic. Nothing but unconditional surrender is acceptable in religious warfare. Compromise is anathema. In this show I prove all the above and clearly demonstrate that at the present time, America is not torn by political incivility but it is torn by a war between two opposing and incompatible (religious) belief systems. Which side wins will determine the future of your family, your community, your country, and possibly the world. And there is a way for conservatism to win; it’s all about putting the severed flower back on the rose bush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I always thought that the fashion industry was just decadent, but apparently not. Clothing possesses a profoundly spiritual aspect. Most male birds like peacocks and cardinals are strikingly colorful while the female looks dull. However, last time I was at a charity banquet, the men were all bland and drab in black suits and white shirts while the women were resplendent in every color of the rainbow. Does the difference suggest something useful about male/female relationships? Is the Bible, man’s book about God, or God’s book about mankind? How to make a squirrel hibernate in July. The most effective way to wake up in the morning. Making your subconscious work for you. Why last week’s podcast was withdrawn. Why the euphemism of ‘sleeping’ with someone makes sense. What happens when we don’t get enough sleep. Why God just hates unisex clothing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the church of Secular Fundamentalism. Many, and probably most American cities dump their carefully collected “recyclables” into the local landfill! That’s right! After you laboriously separate your pizza boxes and beer cans from your papaya skins and T-Bone steak left-overs, after you arduously rinse out spaghetti sauce jars and baked bean cans, and after you religiously do all this and place each in its designated container, your city picks it up and dumps it all into exactly the same landfill into which they put your baby’s dirty diapers and the avocado pits from yesterday’s guacamole. China is tired of being the trash dump for North America. “Recycling” is impossibly expensive and hopelessly uneconomical, in other words, if you did manufacture plastic or glass bottles out of trash produced by your city, nobody would purchase your products as they’d cost so much more than freshly manufactured equivalents. How companies lie when they tell you their products contain 30% recycled material. The religion of Secular Fundamentalism has its saints and its sinners like most other religions. It should cost no more than $5/ month to get rid of your household trash; check your city bill now! Meanwhile, continue being forced to participate in the sacred sacraments of the official government religion of Secular Fundamentalism and genuflect in your kitchen before the blue cylindrical shaped idol that you piously feed with carefully selected tidbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Americans in favor of abortion knew some truths about the abortion industry, would they change their minds? Is that fear causing suppression of the new Gosnell movie, “Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer”? Kermit Gosnell was a cruel and callous murderer operating an abortion mill staffed by unqualified teenagers. Why wasn’t he subject to the health inspections that even dentists and nail salons endure? How could he kill babies and adults in disgustingly filthy surroundings for so long? Susan joins me to discuss the movie and why, even if you don’t want to, you should see it. We also talk about why women who starve themselves because they wrongly think they are fat, are appropriately treated medically, but men who think they are women are indulged. What does “therefore choose life” actually mean in the Bible. Does revoking Roe v. Wade make abortion illegal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're all fallible outside our areas of expertise, even famous heart-surgeons, and billionaires. The only way the government can give some people money is by first taking it from others. It does so by imposing confiscatory rates of taxation and by printing money. Why both activities leave you with less of your own money. Many intelligent and accomplished people who lack all wisdom have been predicting the end of work since 1801; tech advances will put millions out of work. Why they always have been wrong and always will be wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virtually all political debate, conflict, and hostility today is between the state religion of the American government and ruling classes, namely Secular Progressive Fundamentalism and the more conservative outlook springing from the Bible-based Judeo-Christian tradition. This religion, SPF, has also been embraced by the European Economic Union and by almost all universities and educational systems. They worship the small ‘g’ of government. On the other side is arrayed a loose alliance of citizens ranging from those who do not subscribe to any religion but resent the way that the Left forces its faith down their throats all the way to fervent Christian and Jewish Bible believers who turn to the big ‘G’ of God. The passage of time and events is making almost everyone become more fervent devotees of whatever side of the great cultural divide on which they have placed themselves. Secular Progressive Fundamentalism views the Biblically-based Judeo-Christian system as a terrible obstacle to progressive hegemony. I view it as quite vital for the survival of civilization. One of the most significant differences is that the SPF religion treats feelings as far more important than facts and the heart far more important than the head. Find out what I discover when asking people I meet, “Where in the Bible do we find the verse, ‘And you shall surely follow your hearts!’? How SPF and it’s listen-to-your-heart doctrine can really harm your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t be overwhelmed by today’s events in your business, family, or our politics. Seek understanding of the original causes. A tyrannical state, through hysterically emotional courtrooms, ruthlessly ambitious and corrupt prosecutors, and political-wind-sniffing judges, frequently destroys the lives of law-abiding American citizens. Sarah Good and 4 other innocent women were executed in Massachusetts 1692 for being witches! With no conviction ever, Ray Buckey spent 5 years of his life in jail in the Mc Martin preschool case in Southern California during the 1980s. Members of the Amirault family of Massachusetts spent even longer in jail for crimes they never committed in the shamefully notorious Fells Acres Day Care Center case in the same decade. In 1987, Judge Robert Bork had his career and reputation severely damaged by U.S. senators led by Ted Kennedy preaching sanctimoniously to Judge Bork and denouncing him for imperiling the lives of women. This, less than 20 years after Kennedy had killed Mary Jo Kopechne. In 1991 Judge Clarence Thomas was subjected to what he called a ‘high tech lynching’ with senators destroying his reputation on the unsubstantiated accusations of one woman. What happened to Brett Kavanaugh on September 27th, 2018 was not unprecedented. The trampling of the constitution by very bad people in power has been going on for a very long time. Whether in business, families, or politics, watch the trend rather than just the event. A Powerful Permanent Principle: Seek out original causes of today’s disturbing events and above all, reduce the size and power of government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I do want to get married. I just haven’t found the right girl yet” he said to me. In this show you’ll hear what I said to him. You will probably never guess when the right time is to start your child’s moral education. These are two of the questions I discuss in this show which is a speech I delivered in Dallas last Sunday. I speculate on why I sound different when I speak to a live audience from how I usually sound on this show. Some of the other questions I answer are these: why God chose Abraham. The surprising reason that Hitler and his Nazi war machine invaded Russia in summer 1941 instead of finishing off England. Did Hitler really never hear about Napoleon’s ill-fated attempt to do the same thing in 1812? Can a multi-divorced person become a good marriage therapist? The surprising four areas of human development that enable us to become fully integrated people. How Bible study resembles landing a jet fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isn’t technology wonderful? Sure; it’s given us marvelous medicines, instantaneous communication, & spectacular entertainment. But it’s also given us hackers who can steal our identities, bosses who expect responses from us at midnight, and a cornucopia of pornography. In other words, technology increases the possibility of good but it also amplifies the bad. Good societies use it to spread information and participation while rogue regimes use it to repress and control. Technology can assist good educators while it allows bad educators to distract their students. When did technology begin? What word in the Bible provides tech’s moral edict? Have there been periods of faster and also slower technological transformation? What you need to know about the next ten years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why you could have once watched me demolishing a huge ants nest. Why an utterly chaste nun in Florida contracts an STD while hedonistic people in California seem to cavort concupiscently with impunity? How even untrue ideas spread across groups of people and through entire societies with almost virus-like effectiveness. How a Belgian rogue plagiarized a brilliant South African scholar. If the Internet and telephone systems are the country’s nervous system, what is its digestive system? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why a large white llama wandered around the Lapin family’s dinner table. Why movements and organizations with no attractive young women involved are doomed. Does the animal rights movement attract young women? Are circuses, dolphin shows, and even zoos unethical? Who caused the changes in packaging for animal crackers? You don’t own your pet; you are a guardian to your animal companion. Admittedly it’s a sad choice but would you kill six bunny rabbits (or chimpanzees) in order to save the life of one child? Not everyone agrees. You do not have to accept my definition of ethics. The very real political peril caused by the animal rights movement. Toilet paper is unethical, really! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The powerful attractions that most of us feel towards both physical intimacy and money are really no more than the two components of the force of attraction. Both the pleasure of sensual fulfillment and the pleasure of acquiring money are attained only with the participation of another person. Do you know anyone who doesn’t want to have more money? Do you know anyone who doesn’t want to have a joyous marriage and fulfilling family life? There may be one or two outliers, but almost everyone we know, and we bet this is true for you as well, would like more income and great relationships. Just like making delicious omelets or performing delicate brain surgery, knowing exactly what you’re doing makes a successful outcome more likely. And key to that is wrapping yourself around the shocking idea that male-female relationships and money are really just two sides of the same coin. How the Obama years indoctrinated millions of good people with bad ideas and infected them with destructive life strategies from which escape is almost impossible. But there is one trapdoor. In seeking marriage and money, most of us tend to separate the searches. We might go to the business section of the bookstore for one and the relationship section for the other. When the two do intersect, they are often at odds with each other. Will getting married interfere with my work? Will my work make my spouse resentful? Unify, resolve and connect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never mind Harry Potter, but is making money ‘stinking sorcery’? Hey Kids! It’s easy to describe the hard work your dad does if he’s a bus driver, a fireman, or a pilot. But what if he’s a mortgage broker, a recruiter, or an investment banker? Does he make money by just talking on the phone all day? Sounds like fun. LeBron James plays basketball and Ron Johnson built the Apple stores in all the malls. Each made about $30M a year. Why did so many people say Ron Jonson was overpaid at Apple while everybody thought LeBron James earned every penny of his pay? The spirituality of money. Why did Los Angelinos destroy Jewish-owned stores in the Watts Riots of 1965 and then Korean-owned stores in the Rodney King riots of 1992? What did Boeing’s Alan Mulally have that Ford so desperately needed? 3 effective spiritual strategies for increasing your financial revenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’ve spoken about the kinds of men that women should seek and avoid but now, the reverse. Do you know why, in the romance department, Cinderella is a little more true-to-life than Aladdin? Guys, should you worry if your wife’s boss is rich and good-looking? How about if he’s just rich? What do you do if your wife decides she doesn’t want to work but would rather stay home with your babies? What about if she does want to work but wants you to stay home with the babies? Are her looks important? Matrimonial misery versus connubial contentment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How a country’s economy controls its military abilities. The most important rule you’ve heard today: Reality is more accurately depicted by a video than by a snapshot. Hitler wasn’t a lunatic-at least not at first. His willingness to make war against England was quite logical. This show explains why. It also explains why China could one day become a real threat to America while Russia’s population and economy make it all but incapable of seriously imperiling any American interests. Genuine education vs inflated qualifications and meaningless degrees in pseudo-subjects. Why citizens of Israel produce far more wealth than those of United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, S. Korea and Taiwan. Why many Americans fail to feel the boundary between verbal altercation and physical violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China threatens American military interests in South China Sea & American economic interests internationally. Iranian nuclear aggressiveness threatens American interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. The illegal invasion of America by Middle Easterners, North Africans, and South and Central Americans threatens to overwhelm hospital emergency rooms, the welfare system, and the criminal justice system. Yet to the Left, none of these threats matter. Why is Russia the only danger they scream about hysterically? Why was Russia no threat during the Obama years? Why did Justice and the FBI indict 12 lower level Russian hackers who will never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom exactly a few hours before President Trump met Mr. Putin in Finland? The American intelligence community spied on candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and reported to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Of course, President Trump doesn’t trust them. Why should he? Why other countries’ “human-rights abuses” are none of America’s business. Thomas Friedman embarrasses me by promoting globalism and environmentalism in the New York Times by using Hebrew words! Yes, NATO is becoming an anachronism. They wouldn’t help us if we came to blows with China. And does NATO really need a new building in Brussels, as large as the Pentagon? Your rabbi explains what is REALLY going on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does America really care about little children? For more than 8 days, the world held its breath over the plight of 12 young boys stranded in a cave in Northern Thailand. Why no equivalent empathy for the more than 50 young American boys murdered by their mothers’ boyfriends in only the first half of 2018? Why no attempt to rescue the thousands of young children at mortal peril from their mothers’ live-in boyfriends? Why no comparable concern for the many children at risk of being killed in drive-by shootings? So we obviously don’t care about kids. Why was Thailand different? If Black Lives Matter, why is it okay that fully 36% of all American abortions were had by black women—only 13% of all females? The true but rare explanation. High class doesn't mean 'rich'; it's living wisely that will make you and your children grow rich. Low class doesn't mean poor-it's living, for now, that condemns you & your kids to poverty. There are low-class wealthy folks & high class poor but they don't stay that way for long. When Russia and the Soviet Union posed an existential threat to the west, liberals, progressives, and secularists excused it and blamed the U.S. Now that the threat is China and no longer Russia, they are obsessed about the dangers of President Trump cozying up to Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why did the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the banks of the Mississippi in St Louis become The Gateway Arch National Park? Is it because the Louisiana Purchase was really a horrid event? The Left wants to progress constantly. Socialism wants change for its own sake. What would America have to look like for progressives to want to preserve? If America acceded to all of the Left’s demands, would they then become conservatives? Community Organizer & Activist are not job titles that Lewis and Clark would have understood. Politicians! Please stop changing our world and promising us Utopia. We just need you to preserve the framework of predictability in our lives. Jews and Christians both believe in a perfect Messianic tomorrow. So do progressives; but there’s a big difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You two have lovely hearts!” she told us. But she couldn’t have known that. What’s more, it’s irrelevant. What mainly matters for people to be able to live & function together, is not our hearts and thoughts but how we behave. The motives of muggers & murderers don’t matter. Their behavior does. The reasons robbers rob and rapists rape is largely irrelevant. But since you ask, I do happen to know why young men commit these hideous crimes. The answer is simple: Because they wanted to. Being able to resist our wants and desires takes character and GIC’s abandoned teaching character half a century ago. Successful management of the Imperial Roman Empire, the Nazi’s 3rd Reich, and Islamic Jihad. 90% of violent crime committed by which 13% of the population? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is America headed up or down? Is our discontent with our leaders because we see them working in their own interest, not in ours or just because we are deplorables? Is our distrust in the FBI, the IRS, the Veterans Admin., the USPS, and Amtrak because of rampant bureaucratic & political corruption or just because we are paranoid? Does our gloom and pessimism obscure all the wonderful indicators of progress—teachers now getting paid well, even the poor have smartphones and air-conditioning, inequality going down, life-expectancy up, and increasing numbers of young people choosing selfless careers in government. The great Roman Empire is now nothing but ruins. Why America is not similarly headed to inevitable oblivion. Don’t forget the cobra eggs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt.” I didn’t realize that when the great English adventure writer Rider Haggard wrote those words, he was quoting the German 18th century philosopher Hegel, of whom in general, I don’t think much but who did write these good words, “No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.” Anyway, a husband and wife see far more of one another than a valet sees of his boss so with all that familiarity, how can they avoid developing contempt for one another? The answer goes far beyond bathroom privacy and sexual restraint and provides an indispensable guide to marital happiness and durability. But it isn’t easy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this show, I enjoy a conversation with several listeners of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show. The only thing about hosting my shows on terrestrial radio that I miss is the conversation with callers. Otherwise, I prefer the up-and-coming podcast format. A few weeks ago I solicited advice from tech-savvy listeners about how to incorporate your calls and today’s show is the result of their generous guidance. We talk with callers about marital infidelity in marriages with higher earning wives, maintaining contact with business associates, the collective effect of pornography on the economy and other unexpected questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most adults who have lived a little of life, and who’ve survived its inevitable heartaches and tears, deeply desire to save their children from pain. Chief among their legitimate concerns is premature sexualization. What a blessing it would be if children could avoid the intense emotional roller coaster ride of serial infatuations. (And don’t for a moment surrender responsibility by fallaciously claiming that such heartbreak is ‘just part of growing up’. It isn’t.) How about if kids could grow up seeing sexuality, not as a smash-and-grab raid for the goodies in the window, but as a first step towards love, commitment and marriage? Maybe if we helped them understand the tight relationship between sex and money they’d be better equipped to face temptation. Let’s help them see that unrestrained sexual indulgence erodes the self-discipline necessary for economic success. The Bible just happens to be a superb textbook for really getting this link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you really believe that all children born ought to have equal opportunities for successful lives? Really? And how far exactly do you want the government to go in order to guarantee this? How should we guarantee the child of a drug-addicted homeless woman the same shot at success as a homeschooled child from a caring intact family? Should parents be able to bequeath their assets to their children or is the death tax a moral attempt to provide all children the same shot at success? Does a religious upbringing confer an unfair advantage on some children? Why isn’t it just a little immoral to care so much more about one’s own children than about all the other children in society? Why was Russia the first country to recognize the new State of Israel in May 1948? Politics is nothing more than the practical application of our most deeply held moral values. Is it wrong for prestigious universities to provide priority admission to children of alumni? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Mediterranean oceanfront countries with similar population densities, similar limited access, similar lack of natural resources. Yet, Malta and Gibraltar are thriving, happy places that attract throngs of tourists while Gaza is a dangerous and oppressive hell hole. Why? (Clue: It has nothing to do with Israel) Should countries that start wars and then lose them also lose territory? How helpful is the United Nations? When groups of people succeed or when they fail, the causes are seldom external. It is nearly always due to internal culture. Kids who succeed at school usually do so because they come from a family culture that esteems education. Whether young people grow into productive citizens building successful, independent lives or whether they become indolent, pleasure-seeking parasites depends only on culture. Why have Biblically-based countries and cultures been more successful than the rest? Is the victim always virtuous or can you sometimes blame the victim? Why are the Arabs in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Dubai more successful than those in Gaza and the West Bank? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s an unexpected reversal: It’s not so much that civilization developed water-borne sewerage systems as much as it’s that the cultural values of cleanliness that made it imperative for certain cultures to distance themselves from their body waste that made civilization possible. Toilets and sewage systems are more important than banks and art galleries and have to come first. Cultures that sexualize the public area lose economic vitality. Why premature sexualization of youngsters dooms them to poverty. How a certain ‘redheaded slut’ contributed to the economic and military decline. How they got enough water into New York in the 1840s. Why it takes 3 or more people to sustain 2 elderly people even if the old-timers have retirement plans and pensions. What distinguishes humans who are creators from humans who are consumers. Why a prominent Stanford professor who got it all stupendously wrong fifty years ago is still teaching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True systems like mathematics and physics have no internal contradictions. No law about addition or subtraction contradicts any other law about multiplication or division. No law about gravity or optics contradicts another law about motion or electricity. Yet, repeatedly, the system known variously as liberalism/leftism/progressivism/secular fundamentalism/socialism reveals internal contradictions. These intrinsic fault lines prove the failure of the unproven axioms known as liberalism/leftism/etc. It is clear that it is no coherent system. It clearly possesses no integrity at all. Women-only organizations, yes; men-only clubs, no? Really? A vacation resort for women only. Makes sense, but why not one for men? Germany wants all immigrants but also wants to be pro-Israel. What if your immigrants hate Israel? Why did so-called black leadership like Jesse Jackson support O.J. Simpson but not Bill Cosby? Should it be illegal to deny the Holocaust? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep down, do you harbor a horrible little suspicion that accepting most migrants or refugees, (whatever you want to call citizens of other countries who want to live in America) is more moral than building a wall or stopping them at the border in any other way? Deep down do you suspect that it is more moral to help beggars in Bombay and derelicts in Djibouti than helping your own sister? Do any of the 535 legislators on Capitol Hill know of any moral framework defending national integrity? Does any State Dept. bureaucrat know of any moral framework validating border control? It sure doesn’t look like it, does it? And if you don’t believe in the morality of it, how can you accomplish it? No decent person can succeed at any enterprise that deep in his heart he considers morally reprehensible. Deep down they and their European counterparts believe that any South American has the right to live in Texas or Arizona and they believe that any MENA (Middle East North Africa) resident has the right to reside in France, Italy, Germany or anywhere else in Europe. Yet, there is one moral response to uninvited immigrants; one blindingly clear and compelling approach to the problem that is entirely moral and which your rabbi imparts in this episode detailing what happened when they poured into his house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 vital questions to ask the man wanting to marry (or date) your daughter. One sure giveaway that he’s a loser. Hint: It has to do with his mom. A scary interview with an intensive care hospital nurse. If civilization was left up to women, we’d still be living in grass huts. What sexist male pig said that? It’s also true that there are more female fetuses aborted than male. By their feminists moms! Why so many LUGS (lesbians until graduation) but not so many HUGS. Participation prizes-a national disgrace. Why Bible says “Man must leave his father & mother… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices