Education Secretary Linda McMahon: “The DOE doesn’t educate one child.” So, what’s the fuss really about?

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11. 0:33Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
12. 0:35Abraham Hamilton the third here running in the studio like Eddy Kain and the five heartbeats.
13. 0:44I wish I was joking, but I'm not.
14. 0:48Well, I am grateful to be back with you. A new day, a new week.
15. 0:54Trying to turn my Bible to the right page.
16. 0:59So many things are happening all over the world.
17. 1:01So many things are happening in our country,
18. 1:04but this is the place where we endeavor to remind you
19. 1:08that what goes on in your house is far more important
20. 1:12than what goes on in the White House.
21. 1:16Abraham Hamilton III is my name.
22. 1:17I am joined by the corner contingent as usual
23. 1:25right across from me.
24. 1:30You're laughing there, Bob, because I'm pacing myself.
25. 1:32Those ones who run time.
26. 1:34Ha ha ha ha ha.
27. 1:36I'm not going to tell you what he just said.
28. 1:38It's not a not relevant to our conversation at the moment
29. 1:43Right across from me my man a hundred grand Mr. Bobby
30. 1:46Elsa
31. 1:47Who doesn't miss an opportunity to stick a little jab in when he can
32. 1:52And in the screening room produce extraordinaire often imitated but never duplicated the real J Mac ladies and gentlemen and we are ready
33. 2:02ready to rock and roll
34. 2:04with today's edition of
35. 2:07the program with all of the things that are transpiring and I
36. 2:10I was out of town when the executive order, which we said, it was likely coming when President
37. 2:22Trump signed the executive order announcing his expressed intentions to roll back to the
38. 2:28Department of Education.
39. 2:29You know, that is happening.
40. 2:31Israel has resumed their efforts to stamp out Hamas.
41. 2:38All kinds of things are happening, but none of those things are more important than what
42. 2:40happens in your home and in my home. It is just a simple truth.
43. 2:46And if we are not intentional, if we're not intentional, we can. We all have the capacity
44. 2:52to allow ourselves to be distracted and consumed with things that are transpiring that we should
45. 2:57not allow to take precedent in our lives, but it often happens.
46. 3:01And so as you are making your transition at this very moment to your full-time jobs away
47. 3:06from your part-time jobs, part-time work is where we generate incomes. All of us need to
48. 3:11whether we are employees or employers, business owners, no matter what our role is, we all
49. 3:17generate revenue for our families.
50. 3:19But that's a part-time investment, the full-time investment that we must have is in cultivating
51. 3:27outcomes.
52. 3:29Outcome cultivation is a full-time investment.
53. 3:31It is the Lord's desire that our commitment to outcome cultivation flows, flows from our
54. 3:39personal investment and our personal resolution to be disciples of Jesus Christ.
55. 3:45Personally, and I say that with no hesitation or reservation, I say that knowing full well
56. 3:52that there are people who are listening to me right now who may not yet, operative word
57. 3:57yet, operative word being yet be disciples of Jesus, disciples of Jesus Christ themselves.
58. 4:03That reality doesn't change the fact that what I'm saying is true.
59. 4:07The scripture teaches that God has said eternity
60. 4:10in the hearts of men.
61. 4:12So specifically, I wanna speak for a moment of those
62. 4:14who may not yet be believers in Jesus Christ,
63. 4:16who are listening to the program.
64. 4:18There are things that happen.
65. 4:19There is a desire and an aching of the soul
66. 4:21that transpires in each and every one of us
67. 4:23to where we recognize that we are made for something more
68. 4:27than what we can touch, tasty, and feel.
69. 4:29We know that there is something in us that drives us
70. 4:33and not merely for busyness
71. 4:37or even what the world may call success,
72. 4:39but we have this desire for meaning and significance
73. 4:43and purpose, that is because we are hardwired for eternity.
74. 4:49We are hardwired to live for something beyond the here
75. 4:54and now, and I am telling you, I describe that aching
76. 4:56of the soul as the God void,
77. 4:59that God is put in each and every one of us.
78. 5:03The scripture says it this way,
79. 5:04He has said eternity in the hearts of men,
80. 5:07even if we don't have the verbiage to articulate it.
81. 5:09If we may not have the experiences to understand it,
82. 5:12we have that aching.
83. 5:14And many of us spend our lives and spend our resources
84. 5:18and invest ourselves in all manner pursuits,
85. 5:21trying to scratch that eternal itch only to find
86. 5:25at the end of it that it is insufficient.
87. 5:30The scripture tells us sin frankly is pleasurable
88. 5:32for a season, for a season.
89. 5:36But the end of it is destruction.
90. 5:38The world and the fullness of lies that are presented, they present the highlights of central
91. 5:44pursuits, but they never show you the low lights of the consequences.
92. 5:49They never show you, you know, the man who was given his life to hormunging, who was incapable
93. 5:54of intimacy, who ends up alone for the latter part of his life, never leaves you there.
94. 6:02The lies of the culture never show you, you know, the older person who spent themselves
95. 6:05and sexual immorality, older homosexual males and things
96. 6:08and they don't show you the way that they're lives.
97. 6:11They don't show you those things.
98. 6:13They don't, they don't, they show you the highlights.
99. 6:14They don't show you the real life though.
100. 6:17And I am telling you that the God void that each of us has,
101. 6:21it will only be fully realized in a life committed
102. 6:25to Jesus Christ to where we recognize
103. 6:28that there's only one name under heaven
104. 6:29by which men must be saved.
105. 6:33That Jesus Christ, the eternal son of the living God,
106. 6:36came to this earth in human form, lived a sinless life, went to the cross, not for his own sin,
107. 6:45but for sin that you and I committed, resurrected conquering death. And just as those things are historical
108. 6:54realities, atheists are now admitting that Jesus is an historical person. Just as he came, he is
109. 7:00coming again as the scripture said. The scripture prophesied his incarnation. The scripture similarly
110. 7:07prophesies his return.
111. 7:10Wisdom demands that you seek refuge in the eternal arc of safety.
112. 7:15To the Word of God we go.
113. 7:16Daniel chapter 1, I want to point out something.
114. 7:18This is a concept that is directed to us from Scripture.
115. 7:22I have spoken at length about Daniel and his friends.
116. 7:25The Scripture tells us that they were among the first of the exiles from Judah into Babylon
117. 7:33under Nebuchadnezzar.
118. 7:36The scriptures repeatedly in January chapter 1 verse 4, for example, verse 17, several other
119. 7:43portions of the scripture referred to Daniel in his phrase that Yaleid is the Hebrew word,
120. 7:47which simply means use, some translations are rendered that phrasing as children. The scriptures
121. 7:53telling us that they were adolescents when they arrived in Babylon. But they were only
122. 8:01boys in chapter 1. The remainder of the book, they were not boys any longer. They were
123. 8:06men. The entire book of Daniel is a testament to a lifetime of faithfulness to Yahweh, to where
124. 8:12though Daniel and his friends lived in Babylon, Babylon never lived in them. This is what the
125. 8:18scripture tells us. But one of the things I want to point out is that the Word of God shows us that
126. 8:22Daniel and his friends were among the youths who were exiled. They were not the only Jewish
127. 8:31exiles into Babylon. They were not the only use who were examined for fitness for Nebuchadnezzar's
128. 8:38service. But at the conclusion of the examination, and this is where we pick up in verse 17, Daniel
129. 8:46chapter 1, as for these four to use. That's where these four to use. That's Daniel, Azariah,
130. 8:51Hananiah, and Messiah. As for these four to use, God gave them knowledge and intelligence
131. 8:57in every branch of literature and wisdom,
132. 9:00Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.
133. 9:04Then at the end of the days,
134. 9:05which the king is specified for presenting them,
135. 9:08the commander of the officials presented them
136. 9:09before Nebuchadnezzar, the king talked with them,
137. 9:13and out of them all,
138. 9:14meaning all of the people that Nebuchadnezzar examined
139. 9:16for fitness and service,
140. 9:18and out of them all, not one was found
141. 9:21like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
142. 9:25So they enter the king's personal service.
143. 9:28As for every matter of wisdom and understanding
144. 9:30about which the king consulted them,
145. 9:32he found them 10 times better than all of the magi
146. 9:35and conjurers who were in all his realm.
147. 9:39Now this is what I want to specify.
148. 9:41The scripture tells us that Daniel and his friends
149. 9:43were four among a group that was larger than four.
150. 9:49However, we have no record of any other exiles
151. 9:54that accompanied Daniel and his friends.
152. 9:56Similarly saying that we resolve not to defile ourselves with the king's dainty's we refuse to defile ourselves
153. 10:05Which presents to us this
154. 10:07consideration
155. 10:11Why was it only for who refused?
156. 10:14Along the lines of what the scripture records of daniel and his friends
157. 10:19See it is wonderful and it's right to highlight man daniel standing in the lines den
158. 10:24This is later in his life approaching 80 years old if not 80 already
159. 10:27Hennania, Azeriah, and Miss Iyell.
160. 10:31That's the fiery furnace.
161. 10:32They refused to bow before Nebuchadnezzar.
162. 10:35But the Scriptures tells us that when the music played,
163. 10:38when the music was sounded, there were others
164. 10:44who were very clearly, more than likely,
165. 10:48Jews along with Daniel and his friends.
166. 10:51When the music played and was trying to face plant
167. 10:53before Nebuchadnezzar statues, the rest of them,
168. 10:56according to what the Scriptures indicate,
169. 10:57they face planted.
170. 11:01Daniel and his friends were a remnant amongst the exiles.
171. 11:05They were not the standard exiles.
172. 11:14Like for example, you look early in the same chapter one,
173. 11:18verse eight, it says Daniel made up his mind
174. 11:20that he would not defile himself
175. 11:22with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank.
176. 11:25So we sought permission from the commander of the officials
177. 11:28that he might not defile himself.
178. 11:33But the commander initially objected, verse 10.
179. 11:35And the commander of the officials said to Daniel,
180. 11:37I am afraid of my Lord the King."
181. 11:39Never gonna answer your referring to,
182. 11:40who has appointed your food and your drink.
183. 11:43Why should he see your faces looking more haggard
184. 11:46than the you's who are your own age?
185. 11:50Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.
186. 11:53What I'm saying to you is that Daniel and his friends
187. 11:55were remnant amongst the exiles,
188. 12:00which brings me to this question rhetorically for us today.
189. 12:04What kind of Christian are you gonna be?
190. 12:05What kind of follower of Messiah are you gonna be?
191. 12:07We're gonna follow Messiah, am I gonna be?
192. 12:11Are we gonna be among the ranks?
193. 12:14That we'll be able to stand and say,
194. 12:15listen, you say what you want,
195. 12:16we're not careful to answer you in this matter.
196. 12:19I see your statute, I see it's height,
197. 12:22but because I already have given my allegiance to a king,
198. 12:25to the king, I am bound to your false gods.
199. 12:29I refuse to face plant before your false gods.
200. 12:32Or will we be a part of the go along to get along gang?
201. 12:36Just a simple question.
202. 12:38You know, one of the amazing things in my development,
203. 12:41the Lord moved my pastor New Orleans
204. 12:43to start to engage with state legislators.
205. 12:46And one of the major things that we found as wickedness
206. 12:48was being purported, or being advanced,
207. 12:51and advocated to be formed into statewide policy.
208. 12:54In Louisiana, this is back in the late 90s.
209. 12:58When you arrive there, you see people advocating
210. 13:00for wicked bills, you find out they all profess to be Christians.
211. 13:03Oh yeah, I'm a Christian.
212. 13:05The people that want to fund the murder of unborn children.
213. 13:09Yeah, we have Christian.
214. 13:10The people that want to fund,
215. 13:11this was a scheme that was happening.
216. 13:12The payday loans, putting them in
217. 13:15impoverished communities.
218. 13:16So loan sharks could feast on people
219. 13:22made out of had financial literacy.
220. 13:25Oh yeah, we have Christian Christian.
221. 13:29We have to make a decision, man.
222. 13:31One of the things that we face in our country,
223. 13:33especially in the Bible about regions of our country,
224. 13:36it's not Christianity, it's a churchy entity.
225. 13:39It is a comfortable church attendance culture
226. 13:45that's not anywhere remotely close to actual discipleship
227. 13:52to where the life lived is for Christ that lived
228. 13:54before Christ died, who are committed to the King
229. 13:58so much so that we love not our own lives,
230. 14:00even unto death.
231. 14:01And I'm not saying this like something morbid,
232. 14:03spiritual, masochistic disposition.
233. 14:06We have to make a choice.
234. 14:07What type of Christ follower will we be in our country?
235. 14:13Will we be the ones that were our lives, their evidence
236. 14:17of our devotion to the king?
237. 14:18Or are we just this cultural churchy?
238. 14:23You know, we're not captured by the king of glory,
239. 14:25nor are we committed to obeying his word,
240. 14:27not merely being hearers of his word,
241. 14:29but being doers, putting into practice
242. 14:31what it is that we learn.
243. 14:32But we just develop a comfortable,
244. 14:33social club, church, cultural disposition.
245. 14:37Will we dare not allow any interference on our lives
246. 14:42lives coming from anywhere, even if it comes from Jesus.
247. 14:48My encouragement for you and for myself is to be a den,
248. 14:52and as a riah, and Hananiah, and a messiah.
249. 15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
250. 15:04Song one, beginning at verse one.
251. 15:07All the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
252. 15:11or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers,
253. 15:15but they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night.
254. 15:20They are like trees planted along the riverbank bearing fruit each season.
255. 15:25Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do, but not the wicked.
256. 15:29They are like worthless chafes scattered by the wind.
257. 15:32They will be condemned at the time of judgment.
258. 15:35Centers will have no place among the godly.
259. 15:37For the Lord watches over the path of the godly,
260. 15:39with the path of the wicked leads to destruction.
261. 15:42Hebrews 4 verse 12,
262. 15:44For the word of God is living and active,
263. 15:46sharper than any two edged sword,
264. 15:48piercing to the division of soul and of spirit,
265. 15:51of joints and of marrow,
266. 15:53and desiring the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
267. 15:56Again, Hebrews 4 verse 12.
268. 16:06Shiting light into the darkness,
269. 16:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
270. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton,
271. 16:15the third here.
272. 16:16As I alluded to in the first segment,
273. 16:20well, I didn't allude to it, I just mentioned it.
274. 16:22I was out when President Trump signed the executive order,
275. 16:29and I mean, his political instincts are something to be noted.
276. 16:35And I know people hate Trump so much,
277. 16:37so there's no objectivity, those who oppose him.
278. 16:40They cannot be objective concern, and many of them,
279. 16:42but that is a winnowing group.
280. 16:44And I'll show you how this is actually playing out
281. 16:47logistically around the country in a little bit,
282. 16:50but objectively having the scenario
283. 16:51where you have the children and the school desks
284. 16:53signing their own versions of the executive orders,
285. 16:56pretty amazing, but he announces intention
286. 17:00to dismantle the Department of Education.
287. 17:03And so what his executive order is doing
288. 17:06is reworking the DOE so that it is a very, very small version
289. 17:11a very, very small version of itself that would be more readily addressed by,
290. 17:19excuse me, by Congress, because as I've said, in order to ultimately seal the deal under
291. 17:26Department of Education, you're going to have to have congressional action. And President Trump
292. 17:30knows that and he's acknowledged that, but he also is endeavoring to do everything in his power
293. 17:37to make sure that he fulfills another one of these campaign promises. And so, on the Sunday
294. 17:44shows, uh, education secretary Linda McMahon was on the Sunday show when she was being interviewed
295. 17:49by Dana Bash and she just, she just said something that I would hope that the majority of people
296. 17:57would take note of as we're discussing this because I've seen all kinds of, of apple plexed
297. 18:03reaction.
298. 18:04Oh, yes.
299. 18:05The Department of Education called it.
300. 18:07Oh my gosh.
301. 18:09There's Trump anti education.
302. 18:10Oh, and, and, and, and, you know, you guys know me.
303. 18:12So I just, I tried to patiently and even so,
304. 18:16practically walk through, okay, do you know when the Department of Education began?
305. 18:21Do you understand what it does?
306. 18:23Do you understand what it doesn't perform?
307. 18:25What its tasks are, what its duties are on things of that nature.
308. 18:29And so when people start to get information in many instances, I won't say all, but in
309. 18:34many instances, it begins to change their understanding of the scenario.
310. 18:41So Linda McMahon is being interviewed and she said something that you would think it
311. 18:47would be common knowledge, especially amongst those who would wax the most apoplectic over
312. 18:52the Department of Education's termination ultimately.
313. 18:57Lord willing, may it be so.
314. 18:59But I want you to listen to and watch this clip.
315. 19:01It's not very long.
316. 19:02It's about a minute or so, a little over a minute where Education Secretary Linda McMahon is
317. 19:08speaking about what's really happening and how things are being transitioned away from
318. 19:13the Department of Education just simply explains the DOE doesn't educate one child, listen to
319. 19:18and watch clip number four, clip four, go.
320. 19:21I think the president was very clear.
321. 19:23The outward facing programs that are going to be affecting students are there's not going
322. 19:27to be any defunding for those programs.
323. 19:29When he talked about student loans, that would be going to the small business administration.
324. 19:35also then the programs for students with disabilities or more than likely rest in HHS,
325. 19:42which by the way is where they began.
326. 19:44I think we are looking at putting things in different departments where they can operate
327. 19:51very efficiently as we look and how we can shut down the Department of Education.
328. 19:55They not operate efficiently now?
329. 19:58Not as well as they should be.
330. 20:01As a matter of fact, the president campaigned on the fact that he wanted to close down the
331. 20:05Department of Education and what we saw with our scores recently with the NAIP, which is our
332. 20:10country's report card.
333. 20:12It's unacceptable where education is in our country today.
334. 20:17And so the Department of Education does not educate one child.
335. 20:21It does not establish any curriculum in any states.
336. 20:24It doesn't hire teachers.
337. 20:25It doesn't establish programs.
338. 20:28what it is is more of a pass through of funding, which is appropriated by Congress, by the way.
339. 20:34And so we want to make sure that that funding continues in the departments where it needs
340. 20:39to be, but at the same time, give states the opportunities to be innovative and creative
341. 20:44with their teaching.
342. 20:49Did you get all of that?
343. 20:52The Department of Education does not educate one child.
344. 20:56Let's just stop right there.
345. 21:00How many of the people that you know who might be expressing concern, and I know we
346. 21:05all travel in different circles, who might express concern about the Department of Education,
347. 21:12how many of those hooks do you know, whether or not they know whether what Secretary McManus
348. 21:20said is true, the Department of Education doesn't educate one child.
349. 21:24Because you see the name of the Department of Education.
350. 21:26So most people think, well, clearly, surely they're involved in, no, not really.
351. 21:33It's a pastor of funding and oh by the way they create you know policy hooks
352. 21:40That if you want this money, then you must do if you want this money, then you must do
353. 21:47Department of Education doesn't educate one child. It is a pass through of funding. Okay
354. 21:57Take a few steps further back. So she referred to this assessment by its acronym nape
355. 22:02what nape is and I've shared these statistics with the right on this program, it is the National
356. 22:08Assessment of Educational Progress, right? By the standards that the Department of Education
357. 22:21utilizes our citizens have been overwhelmingly failed since the Department of Education's
358. 22:32creation. See, if we had people who were primarily solely and exclusively committed to the development
359. 22:43of our children, the conversation concerning this DOE should begin in end with the babies
360. 22:50can't read.
361. 22:56The children are not being served well.
362. 23:00According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress Statistics, I've shared them with you
363. 23:04on this program.
364. 23:06We're not even talking about mastery levels of reading in mathematics arithmetic.
365. 23:11We're talking about proficiency in the metrics across the board show that while we spend the
366. 23:21most money per child, now don't conflate spending money per child with the money actually getting
367. 23:28to educate the child in any other nation in the world, yet the performance has been deplorable.
368. 23:40So then that should cause, and this is today, the Bashes question, which Bobby got quite a
369. 23:45kick out of is it is it not operating efficiently now?
370. 23:51And this is probably why I shouldn't say that they do allow me on some television shows.
371. 23:58But you know, I would ask they know where do you have children?
372. 24:03Where do you educate your children?
373. 24:05This is what this will be one of my first questions that any reporter who asked me anything
374. 24:09about why I support the Department of Education closing.
375. 24:12My first question will be back to them.
376. 24:14Do you have children?
377. 24:15Where do you educate your children?
378. 24:19invariably all of the people on the television show. All of the people doing all of this complaining.
379. 24:26Almost every one of these legislators who are in Capitol Hill talking all of this nonsense.
380. 24:30Ah, the public, public, public, public, public, public, public. Where do you educate your children?
381. 24:40Y'all know why I'm laughing. Bobby, you tell me, where do these people that are protesting the
382. 24:44loudest, where do they educate their children? Private and parochial. Two P's. But I noticed one
383. 24:53One people's missing, public.
384. 24:54And I would just simply ask the question, why don't you educate your children in the
385. 25:07places where the majority of the DOE funding is dedicated?
386. 25:10Y'all know why.
387. 25:15This is one of the most, and this is in my view, another example of the Trump administration
388. 25:22causing his political opponents to step on the Wylie Coyote rig.
389. 25:32You remember old cartoon, Wylie Coyote,
390. 25:34he's hot in the trap to pursue old bug,
391. 25:38when he's running in the road runner,
392. 25:39that's right, the road runner.
393. 25:40Meet me, he's hot in the trap over the road runner,
394. 25:43and then there's a rake before him,
395. 25:44and he just steps on the way up with the rake.
396. 25:47The rake smacks him in the face.
397. 25:51All of these people talking about,
398. 25:55there's a pipeline to prison from the schools.
399. 25:57Where does that pipeline come through?
400. 26:01The public education system.
401. 26:04So this is one of those areas,
402. 26:09and I am passionate about this issue primarily,
403. 26:17because one of the lies that too many Christians
404. 26:20in our nation have consumed is that we don't understand
405. 26:23the centrality of mind cultivation to discipleship.
406. 26:28See, when Jesus was questioned,
407. 26:29what is the greatest commandment?
408. 26:30And this is Matthew records this in Matthew 22.
409. 26:34He says, you shall love, he said, actually,
410. 26:36he's not one is two, you shall love the Lord with all
411. 26:37your heart so mind, quoting from Deuteronomy,
412. 26:41chapter six, by the way, the Jewish ma, right?
413. 26:44He said, in the second, it's like,
414. 26:46I love your neighbor as yourself.
415. 26:47Notice that you are to love the Lord with your mind,
416. 26:50with your mind.
417. 26:53Mind cultivation is central to discipleship, central to it.
418. 27:05But for so long, we have been consumed by the propaganda.
419. 27:11I'm gonna pull this quote up
420. 27:13because I refer to it, I actually discussed this
421. 27:15when we were in Arkansas not too long ago,
422. 27:22that we've seeded the ground of mind cultivation to the world
423. 27:25and yet we're wondering why,
424. 27:27how do we have so many anti-American young people
425. 27:29and why all these things happening?
426. 27:31Because their minds have been cultivated,
427. 27:35i.e. been discipled in a particular trajectory.
428. 27:38And let me just let you in that trajectory
429. 27:39is not largely reading, writing, and arithmetic
430. 27:42because if we're investing trillions of dollars
431. 27:44into this system, but we recognize the scores
432. 27:46indicating that the basic educational skills are not being developed, and what is our money
433. 27:51going to all? Let alone the coffers. And I know we have good people in different places who may not
434. 27:59understand all of the various iterations of the systems that we're involved in and they're committed
435. 28:03for genuine purposes, but that doesn't change the fact that you have some administrative and
436. 28:08organizational leadership levels that they know is going on. And that by and large, it serves as kind
437. 28:14of a back scratching money laundering entity really to support democratic causes in government
438. 28:21and to cultivate a populace that is left leaning. Well, you're teaching activism.
439. 28:29Justice Stephen Breyer in the 2022 Carson versus making case literally says the secret part,
440. 28:36the quiet part out loud in his dissent. This would be on page 12 of his dissent. Many of you may
441. 28:41recall I covered this case at length. This is a Supreme Court case that came from Maine to where
442. 28:46the issue was whether or not in the state of Maine was lots of rural areas, whether or not they should have some type of
443. 28:55voucher system and this my purpose here is not to discuss the
444. 28:59pros and cons of the voucher system because I frankly don't believe
445. 29:04that we as citizens have a right to force our
446. 29:07neighbors to pay for our children's education. All right
447. 29:12But just as Stephen Breyer
448. 29:15Contrasted public schools from private schools because he said Christian schools in Maine had the audacity to actually teach children to believe in
449. 29:27The doctrine that they were conveying
450. 29:30But he said this quote by contrast public schools including those in Maine seek first and foremost
451. 29:35This is Justice Stephen Breyer one of nine at the time US Supreme Court justices
452. 29:40He's now retired replaced by Justice Katanji Brown Jackson who I remind you did not know or refused to acknowledge
453. 29:45knowledge what a woman was and yet was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
454. 29:49Go ahead and put that hat on and see if it fits.
455. 29:52But back to Justice Stephen Breyer said, quote, by contrast,
456. 29:55public schools, including those in Maine, seek first and foremost,
457. 30:00first and foremost to provide a primarily civic education.
458. 30:05We have said that in doing so, they comprise, here's a key words, guys,
459. 30:09a most vital civic institution for the preservation of a democratic system of
460. 30:15government and the primary vehicle for transmitting the values on which our society rests."
461. 30:23You see, ladies and gentlemen, where have those trillions of dollars gone since 1980 through
462. 30:31the Department of Education?
463. 30:32Justice Stephen Breyer told you, see, they sold you the public advertising pitch was reading,
464. 30:38writing, and arithmetic.
465. 30:39But the true under the hood commitment was a value transmission vehicle.
466. 30:46thought they were about reading, writing, and arithmetic. That's why you have an
467. 30:50entire public school system in Maryland, for example, where children can't read
468. 30:55at grade level. Because investment wasn't about reading, it's a values
469. 31:01transmission system. Now I'll ask you another question. If you have a system that
470. 31:06intentionally excludes the knowledge of God, yet you are transmitting values, what
471. 31:10is it I would ask that is being transmitted? Anybody want to take that on for me?
472. 31:15Anybody want to take?
473. 31:17Look it up for yourself.
474. 31:18Carson versus Macon, decided June 21st, 2022.
475. 31:22And the dissent on page 12 is when Justice Stephen Breyer
476. 31:25says the quiet part out loud and he put it in writing.
477. 31:32The public schools comprise the most vital civic institution
478. 31:35for the preservation of a democratic system of government
479. 31:37and the primary vehicle.
480. 31:40The primary vehicle for transmitting the values
481. 31:44on which our society rests.
482. 31:47So you ask yourself, why are people up in arms about the Department of Education closing?
483. 31:53Because they don't want to see their primary value transmission system shut down.
484. 31:58See, they recognize that the easiest way to get a country filled with a bunch of regressive
485. 32:03gressives with minds full of mush, with anti-Christ humanism, being standardized
486. 32:09to where you actually shop. That can't tell you the number of circumstances where you have young people.
487. 32:13Do you have any friends or Republicans? Oh, I would dare not do so.
488. 32:16Because Republicans are evil.
489. 32:18Where did they get those ideas from?
490. 32:21Where do you get those ideas from?
491. 32:25Values transmission has been the business they've been in.
492. 32:29You could put in a bumper sticker.
493. 32:31Since 1980, transmitting values upon which our society rests.
494. 32:39The stated goal has never been the actual goal.
495. 32:42The stated goal was to advertise the scheme to make you
496. 32:44and I comfortable with yielding our tax dollars,
497. 32:47to spend more than any other nation in the world
498. 32:50because they're getting the results that they actually desire.
499. 32:54because value transmission was the business.
500. 33:01How much control, unfortunately, the executive office does have to direct a lot of these
501. 33:07procedures in terms of amnesty and what they can do, even though Congress needs to step
502. 33:11it up and we know constitutionally they should be making sure that the law reflects the American
503. 33:16position, but law enforcement is the executive branch.
504. 33:20And if you're not enforcing the law, then the law is merely just on paper.
505. 33:25Jenna Ellis in the morning, weekdays at 7c on American Family Radio.
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508. 34:01Sexual Temptation.
509. 34:03This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian World View.
510. 34:07The Bible says, be of sober spirit.
511. 34:09Be watchful.
512. 34:11Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion,
513. 34:15seeking someone to devour.
514. 34:17One of the devil's favorite means of destruction
515. 34:20is corrupting God's gift and design of sex for one man,
516. 34:24one woman marriage into a litany of perversions,
517. 34:27fornication, adultery, lust, pornography, and more.
518. 34:32Consistent victory in this never-ending war calls
519. 34:35for transformation of the heart and comprehensive
520. 34:38preparation and plans of action.
521. 34:41Here are most recent programs on the Biblical Battle plan
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524. 34:50and then join us this weekend for another topic
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530. 35:11Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
531. 35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
532. 35:18The third here have a lot of ground on one of care.
533. 35:20I want to cover in this segment.
534. 35:21We're already in the final segment,
535. 35:23but let's buckle out seat belts and let's roll.
536. 35:25So today, the Trump administration appeared before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals due to
537. 35:37district court judges James, James Bozeburg's efforts.
538. 35:41We talked about this, I guess, week before last, when he tried to order the Trump administration
539. 35:46to turn the planes around that were headed for El Salvador carrying trinde aragwa members
540. 35:53and MS-13 members, and the Trump seems to say,
541. 35:57oh, too late, they're gone.
542. 35:58So the Trump administration is arguing on appeal
543. 36:05that the Alien Enemies Act from 1798 gives them the authority,
544. 36:09the sole and exclusive authority to determine
545. 36:12how to deal with illegal aliens and deporting them.
546. 36:15And so in response to President Trump alluding to James Bowlesburg's ruling,
547. 36:27being an unconstitutional one and in exceeding his judicial authority and jurisdiction that
548. 36:35there should be some consideration of impeachment for rogue judges to which Chief Justice John
549. 36:40Roberts, he was all in fits over it, you know, and he issued a statement and I've heard,
550. 36:50you know, other attorneys trying to, he's defending the integrity of the bench and I'm
551. 36:54just like, what? Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement saying, quote, for more
552. 37:01than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response
553. 37:06to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. End quote. All right. John Roberts is saying
554. 37:12Chief Justice Roberts is saying that, you know, the appropriate response to a judicial decision
555. 37:17is not to scream impeachment for decisions you don't like. Now, I agree with that statement
556. 37:23as a statement. But I disagree with that statement in its application to what President Trump
557. 37:29did concerning this Alien Enemies Act. And this is why. And this is, you know, you talk
558. 37:35about making America great. Let's make, let's make the constitutional literacy great again.
559. 37:39Let's make civics great again. Let's make everyday American citizens understand it what
560. 37:44the Constitution says, what our rights are, understand it that we do not have three co-equal
561. 37:48branches of government. We have a system of checks and balances through three branches of
562. 37:52government. The reason why I object to the language of co-equality because it is a lie
563. 37:57to infer that they're equally potent because they're not. Not all powers have the same
564. 38:04strength. It's a system of checks and balances, but not all powers have the same strength. All
565. 38:10it takes is a simple reading of the Constitution. Article one is longer than article three.
566. 38:16Article one includes more things, more powers than article three. Article two is not as long
567. 38:22as article one, but it is longer than article three.
568. 38:26There are more enumerated powers, enumerated to the big word that simply means listed.
569. 38:30And according to the Constitution, whatever powers are not enumerated within the Constitution,
570. 38:35they are inherently reserved to the states or the people.
571. 38:39That would be our 10th Amendment, ladies and gentlemen.
572. 38:41So when you see, wait a minute, we have several people like on this program, we have me, I
573. 38:48have a role to play, we have Bobby has a role to play, Jeff has a role to play, we all
574. 38:54tribute to this program, but to say that each of the roles are equally potent would be a
575. 38:59fundamental misunderstanding of the roles for the job. We have a diffusion of authority,
576. 39:06but not co-equality amongst the federal branches. The branch is a federal government. This is
577. 39:12basic. So in the effort of making civics, great again, constitutional literacy great again,
578. 39:21our colleague here at AFA Action, Philip Dureggi, who was senior counsel for AFA Center for Judicial
579. 39:28renewal, he just so happened to just pin an op ed for the Washington times on this point.
580. 39:35And he simply said that Chief Justice John Roberts is either lying when he says that President
581. 39:41Trump's response to judicial decision is not appropriate or he's ignorant in his op ed for
582. 39:47the Washington Times, uh, Philip Dereggi wrote who was an attorney for AFA action.
583. 39:51He said, quote, some say Congress cannot impeach judges for their rulings in cases.
584. 39:55History says otherwise.
585. 39:57The first federal judge impeached and removed from office was Judge John Pickering in 1804
586. 40:03for ruling a case that defied the law.
587. 40:05Let me pause for a second.
588. 40:07All right.
589. 40:09First of all, we need to understand impeachment is not the same as being removed from office,
590. 40:15but the first judge impeached under the constitutional laws concerning impeachment was a judge who rendered
591. 40:22a ruling that violated the Constitution.
592. 40:25Now what point am I driving at here?
593. 40:26Well, here's seat belts for this one.
594. 40:29Now the court, the US Supreme Court, which is constitutionally created, and the Article
595. 40:333 Federal Courts, which are subject to, or should I say subordinate to, the US Supreme
596. 40:39Court, okay?
597. 40:46Mano, mano, mano, mano, mano, mano, mano.
598. 40:49They have to operate within constitutional parameters, okay?
599. 40:53The court does not have the lawful authority to violate the Constitution.
600. 40:58Now what's the bigger point I'm driving at?
601. 41:00law was never meant to be exclusively understood to be the province of the bench.
602. 41:07The president has a responsibility to understand the Constitution and function within constitutional
603. 41:11parameters.
604. 41:13Congress has a responsibility to understand the Constitution and to function within constitutional
605. 41:17parameters.
606. 41:18And the courts have a responsibility of understanding the Constitution and functioning within constitutional
607. 41:22parameters.
608. 41:24In practice, the entirety of the federal government has a role to play in the creation and the
609. 41:30maintenance of constitutional law. The courts serve as an umpire calling balls and strikes,
610. 41:40but they are not the sole and exclusive arbiters of what is and what is not constitutional.
611. 41:47Our populace needs to be re-ingrachiated to this as a common feature. The citizens shouldn't
612. 41:54be able to know when this action is pursued or an action is taken, whether or not that
613. 41:58is constitutional. Back to Philip Derege's op-ed in Washington Times.
614. 42:08the articles charged, that Pickering ruled said Act of Congress not regarding, but with intent
615. 42:16to evade the same, and that he ruled contrary to his trust and duty as a judge of the said
616. 42:22district against the law of the United States and to the manifest injury of their revenue.
617. 42:31Simply put, Judge John Pickering was impeached and removed from office because an article
618. 42:39School of Impeachment was erected in the House of Representatives that tried Judge Pickering
619. 42:45for violating the Constitution in his ruling.
620. 42:48The United States Senate concurred with the Articles of Impeachment and removed Judge John
621. 42:54Pickering from office because his ruling violated the U.S. Constitution.
622. 43:00To its Philip Jereggi continues, quote, the same generation that drafted and ratified the
623. 43:05impeachment and removal clauses knew them best and used them to remove Pickering for his
624. 43:10radical rulings, the same can be done today."
625. 43:15So for Judge John Roberts to suggest, oh well, you don't express your disagreement with the
626. 43:21judges' rulings by raising the issue of impeachment, says who win.
627. 43:25Now, I agree that you don't conclude for merely transient political purposes, but when
628. 43:32you have rock grip foundational, constitutional parameters and provisions that are being
629. 43:37expressly flaunted and violated.
630. 43:41We the people have something to say about that.
631. 43:44We don't have to sit passively by and let the
632. 43:48Founders Constitution that clearly was created to avoid
633. 43:51having the American citizen subjected to a
634. 43:55monarchial tyrant, a tyrant that's a monarch.
635. 43:59You think the founders are going to exchange a
636. 44:01monarchial tyrant or tyrannical monarch for a
637. 44:04tyrannical oligarchy of lawyers and black robes?
638. 44:08This is foolishness, man.
639. 44:11But what often happens with an ignorant populace,
640. 44:15we have people who don't have the political will
641. 44:17to function within their constitutional responsibilities.
642. 44:19What we need is a Congress that will serve
643. 44:22in their Article III responsibility
644. 44:23and hold as a check and balance on the judiciary
645. 44:27to say, okay, you guys took an oath
646. 44:29to protect and to defend the Constitution.
647. 44:32And if you violate that oath,
648. 44:34we have a constitutional obligation
649. 44:36to check and balance you.
650. 44:41My point here is broader than just the technical details
651. 44:46of the Boseberg versus Trump phenomenon.
652. 44:49It's to expand the conversation to invite us
653. 44:52to expect of our Congress, wait a minute.
654. 44:54Y'all are supposed to be sitting there
655. 44:56just passively accepting anything the court does?
656. 45:01Not advocating for anarchy and chaos,
657. 45:05but what I'm advocating for is constitutional literacy.
658. 45:09And with that constitutional literacy
659. 45:11and expanded the courage of convictions to say,
660. 45:13wait a minute. We have a duty as executive branch to evaluate Judge Bullburg's ruling.
661. 45:21We as a Congress have a responsibility to evaluate Judge Bullburg's ruling. We're not
662. 45:27trying to, you know, micromanage every little thing that the judiciary does, but wait a
663. 45:31minute. Is there not a clear distinction in the separation of powers and what is, and
664. 45:37this is a technical legal term, just dishable? What's not just dishable? What is that line
665. 45:42in beginning where does it end? This is a conversation we need to have, guys. This is
666. 45:49a conversation that we need to have. And for far too long, we've had the combination of
667. 45:56certainly a feckless Congress, but a feckless Congress has been enabled by an injured populace.
668. 46:00And we haven't demanded sufficiently, hey, Congress, y'all have an Article 3 obligation
669. 46:08to evaluate the constitutionality or the lack thereof that's coming from our Article 3 branch.
670. 46:14In fact, all Article 3 courts, and I've said this before, but I want to reiterate it now,
671. 46:19all Article 3 courts serve at the behest of Congress.
672. 46:22They've all been created by Congress.
673. 46:26I'm not advocating for this, but Congress has the authority to literally shut down Judge
674. 46:30Boberg's court and reconstitute a brand new court.
675. 46:41It's crazy, man.
676. 46:42I have so many other things I want to get to, but I want to get to something that was encouraging
677. 46:48that I saw as well.
678. 46:49Well, this is encouraging too.
679. 46:50I didn't mean that.
680. 46:52But cue my shock face.
681. 46:56Progressive Snow White was not very popular at the box office.
682. 46:59That's surprise, no one.
683. 47:03In fact, it is the lowest totaling opening weekend for a live action remake of a Disney
684. 47:09hit in the history of Disney.
685. 47:12The lowest.
686. 47:14You know, leave that where it is.
687. 47:20Here's the encouragement I wanted to share with you.
688. 47:22Western Kentucky University student Cameron Shaw is the director of the Baptist Campus
689. 47:27Ministry.
690. 47:28Young folks, in some instances, in some ways, are really having a different trajectory.
691. 47:33There's a new phenomenon that is a trend that I do hope that catches on even further.
692. 47:38It's called Gospel Chalk.
693. 47:40The Baptist Campus Ministry at Western Kentucky University took on a project to draft,
694. 47:46to write the entirety of the Gospel of John on the University sidewalks,
695. 47:50all 879 verses of it listened to and watched this clip on this phenomenon
696. 47:56on that appears to be gaining steam on college campuses
697. 48:00around our country.
698. 48:01Clip number two, go.
699. 48:03We decided to chalk the entire gospel of John
700. 48:08on Western Kentucky University's campus
701. 48:10right down the middle on sidewalks.
702. 48:12We got the idea from other universities across the country.
703. 48:17We hope to kind of continue a chain
704. 48:19that other colleges can do as well,
705. 48:23Especially since I've been a freshman in 2021,
706. 48:27it feels like there has been quite a shift
707. 48:30in views of Christianity,
708. 48:31and especially on college campuses.
709. 48:34I know we at the BCM, we have seen an uptick
710. 48:38of students almost every single year,
711. 48:40especially freshmen that are just deeply involved
712. 48:43and interested in the gospel,
713. 48:45and in what faith is and who Jesus is.
714. 48:47Looking at Asbury, also in Kentucky,
715. 48:50just a few years ago,
716. 48:51this kind of a Bible that's going on.
717. 48:54I personally definitely see a openness to Christianity.
718. 48:59Maybe some others might feel differently,
719. 49:01different part of the country.
720. 49:04But I do see in more of an openness to the faith in general,
721. 49:09just some, you know, how we would put it,
722. 49:11some seeds being planted.
723. 49:14That's pretty cool guys.
724. 49:15I was encouraged by that.
725. 49:18Around the country, around the country.
726. 49:21Young folks are drafting the entire gospel of John on the sidewalks.
727. 49:28It's called chalk, chalk gospel, chalk gospel.
728. 49:32And I pray that the Lord continues to draw our younger people.
729. 49:35Man, God is still in the business of drawing men and women to himself.
730. 49:40Now, I alluded to something else.
731. 49:42I won't have time to fully develop it.
732. 49:43But if trends continue as they are currently, we're going to continue to see a massive reshaping
733. 49:50of what's happening in our country because if by the 2030 census current trends hold,
734. 49:55you're going to see a reduction in congressional seats and electoral college votes for states
735. 49:59like oh I don't know California, New York, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Illinois,
736. 50:04why? Because people are fleeing those states and they're moving south Texas, Florida. They're
737. 50:09also moving the states like Utah and Idaho and North Carolina. If those trends hold,
738. 50:17The view and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
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