Mark Levin Audio Rewind - 12/31/24

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, what is liberty? We're pushing back on socialism, big government and collectivism. We need to get back to the fundamentals because there's no debate. The Conservative intellectual movement is all but dead. The mindset of the country has changed; we should have a revolution for individual liberty, not centralized government control. We are handicapped by national populists that want to help certain groups over others. Could you imagine someone telling the founders that we'd one day have the federal government controlling healthcare, childcare and higher education? John Stuart Mill taught that some modern reformers that opposed the religions of the past never considered the long-term effects of their teachings on the populace; to encroach on one's individuals liberty and support the collective group is evil because it feeds power to the state. To reiterate Isaiah Berlin’s positive liberty is the capacity to act upon one's free will, while negative liberty is freedom from external restraint on one's actions and internal constraints. Berlin theorized that the pursuit of utopia thrives on discord. People need to be engaged in these debates because to ignore these warnings is perilous. Then, Bernie Sanders' socialist policies are the perfect example of tyrannical governance, totally disregarding our negative liberty. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez misrepresents a 91% marginal tax rate (which no one ever paid, due to tax breaks) in her latest attempt to appear morally superior in her argument to tax earnings of over $10M. However, taking 70% of a family's earnings through AOC's tax plan is the real act of immorality here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

23 Feb 20191h 54min

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, free healthcare, free college, free childcare, free Universal Basic Income and now reparations are being proposed by 2020 candidates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The reason is to raise the income levels of black households. Yet in 2019 most people in this country are generations removed from slavery. Sen.Kamala Harris recently supported similar legislation rooted in race. However, Democrats rarely support school choice which actually can equalize opportunities for all people, irrespective of race. The truth is that people succeed in spite of their race and history not because of it. So spending trillions on universal basic income, Family Medical Leave, a national sales tax, wealth tax, and reparations will not improve society, it will ultimately only enslave it. These policies have no respect for individuals. Yet, the bigger story is our ballooning national debt which no one in the media cares about. Some experts expect the debt to grow to 148% of the gross domestic product. Then, CAIR is defending the ISIS bride that wants to return to America despite her lack of legal status to here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

22 Feb 20191h 56min

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, Freedom of the Press is an extension of free speech which was revolutionized by the printing press. Printers were suppressed by the colonial governments through restrictive regulation on critical speech and matters of religion. As James Madison contemplated the revolution and America's founding and came up with 12 Amendments to the new Constitution, of which 10 were ratified—becoming the Bill of Rights. These amendments only applied to the new centralized federal government, not the states. Jefferson disagreed with how libel laws would be upheld and prosecuted at the state level. The Supreme Court eventually ruled on this creating a test for libel laws that opened Pandora’s box. The Supreme Court's test has limited public officials from virtually any protection or relief from a dishonest media with no checks and balances. In effect, this creates a monopoly on truth in the media because they cannot be held accountable for lying. Quite simply this rejects the notion of liberty found in the other amendments of our Constitution. Then, why should America strive to be more like Scandinavia? Leftists like Sen Bernie Sanders point to European socialism as an example of success because they have no success to point to here in the U.S. America is the most successful country on the face of the earth in spite of the left. Sanders said that breadlines are a good thing because it means that there's actually food for poor people. Afterwards, President Trump calls the New York Times the real enemy of the people and their publisher denies it. Meanwhile, the media continues to focus on the Robert Mueller report despite no charges being filed against the president despite FBI agents like Andrew McCabe are jobless because of the mere existence of this report—which in and of itself is the problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21 Feb 20191h 54min

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, the media has finally caught up and are reporting on, what was described on this program as, a "silent coup." In March of 2017 this program deduced from the media leaks that a rogue operation within our own government was working to prevent, and then remove, a President of the United States! The fallacious basis they laid out for the investigation is unraveling as each of them turns on each other. Rod Rosenstein is a coward and a liar, Andrew McCabe is a leaker and a liar just like James Comey and FBI attorney James Baker who is under criminal investigation. Then, 16 states are suing the president over enacting a national emergency for the border wall. They will lose in court and they will lose badly. There is no violation of the separation of powers, no violation of the Constitution, and no statutory violations either. Unlike President Obama's executive overreach creating DACA, this act was authorized by Congress 43 years ago when they authorized the President of The United States to use it as part of his executive authority. Afterwards, capitalism is about individuals making decisions for themselves, it’s about individualism. Socialism is about the government making decisions for us, it’s about collectivism. How many have died at the hands of capitalism? How many police states were created by capitalism? Exactly. Later, the 25th Amendment is not under the purview of the FBI, it’s under the executive branch led by the President of The United States. Finally, Bernie Sanders is a racist and a sexist that lines up with anti-Semitic bigots, supporting Rep. Ilhan Omar's hateful stance on Israel, yet he's still running for president and the media is silent on his misgivings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

20 Feb 20191h 56min

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, Rich Zeoli from WPHT fills in for Mark. Was former FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe's discussion of the 25th Amendment a joke? If he and the others in his cabal loved America so much why did they circumvent all of her laws? The 25th Amendment was created for the cabinet in the event of the death, incapacitation, or extremely ill health of the President—not for rogue FBI officials to circumvent an election they disagreed with. The FBI wasn't created to stop campaigns, candidates or sitting presidents. The only part of our government that is charged with removing a president is the US Congress through the Constitutional process of impeachment. Yet McCabe threw Rod Rosenstein under the bus several times in his 60 minutes interview continually saying he offered to wear a wire on several occasions to secretly record the President inside the White House. Then, Actor Jussie Smollett continues denying any involvement in what is now beginning to look like a hoax attack that may have been staged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19 Feb 20191h 54min

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Brian Mudd from WJNO fills in for Mark. President Trump declares a National Emergency for the border wall because we need to start with border security. Trump had modernized and fixed 654 miles of wall so far which covers a third of the border and there's 280 miles of the border that is desperately in need of a barrier and or repairs to existing fences. The number one priority is a 55 mile stretch along the Rio Grande River. The current continuing resolution expires just before the next election and Trump's Art of The Deal secured enough funding to cover the most precarious part of the border. If Trump wins in court defending the National Emergency he won't need to negotiate with Congress anymore, if he doesn't then we'll be taking up this issue again just prior to the 2019 elections. Then, Socialism is simply a system of shared misery for a fifth of the U.S standard of living. Whichever veneer they use, 21st Century Socialists, Democratic Socialists, and their comrades fail to realize that their system crumbles without capitalism fueling it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

16 Feb 20191h 55min

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, Rich Zeoli from WPHT fills in for Mark. Make no mistake we're living in a police state! Former Assistant Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe considered a soft coup on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, by leaking information they know to be false to their accomplices in the media. When Mark Levin said they spied on Trump— he was right! Although the media labeled Mark Levin as a conspiracy theorist, it turns out that his analysis was spot on in March 2017. The Barack Obama hold-overs in the FBI used surveillance on the campaign. By spying on Trump the rogue FBI and DOJ officials tried to legitimized their investigation. They debated coercing cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to undo the legitimate election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Today CNN posed the question: "was it a coup or a concern?" The real concern is that the media is not concerned that any of these subversions occurred at all. Despite no evidence of conspiring with Russia, this bias against President occurred for eight days, yet no one has paid the price for the perversions of justice displayed in this failed coup. Later, ABC News in Chicago is reporting that police are investigating whether Jussie Smollett staged his alleged MAGA attack with help of other actors from the TV show "Empire." Afterwards, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the border crisis is a manufactured emergency and that future Democratic Presidents might tackle gun control as a national emergency. Of course Pelosi is wrong on this as she usually is, and her limitations on the border barrier compromise bill only helps foreigners entering illegally—not We The People of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

15 Feb 20191h 55min

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, Fox News Contributor Dan Bongino fills in. The budget compromise is not a good deal and President Trump knows this. While this may have been a bad deal, it’s certainly the best deal he can get right now and Trump has a new section of the wall to prove it. Trump has moved the needle from zero miles of fencing and zero dollars for it to today he is poised to get 55 miles of border barrier and $1.375 Billion to pay for it, with no legislative cap on bed space at border detention facilities. It's no wonder why Trump's approval rating is now at a 23-month high. The Democrats on the house side are doing whatever they can to hurt Trump and they don't care if you get hurt in the process. Their only goal is regaining power in the swamp that Trump's residency has threatened since winning his 2016 election. Then, the Senate Intelligence committee has found the same results as the House Intelligence committee —no collusion, or obstruction by Trump toward the Russians. The Skolkovo project reveals that the real collusion was with the Hillary Clinton and the Democrats supporting Russian weapons technology like the hypersonic missile. Robert Mueller is investigating a hoax and its damaging the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 Feb 20191h 56min