August 25, 2020

August 25, 2020

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On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, School Choice vouchers have a long-fought history in the courts. The basic principle of school choice is the allocated tax dollars assigned to a student follow the student at their choice of schools, hence the term school choice. Empowering parents to send children to the best school they choose not just the government school in their neighborhood. This enhances educational opportunities for low-income earners, middle-income earners, and high-income earners regardless of where they live. Similarly, the Landmark Legal Foundation fought these battles at the national level for years. Then, Hillary Clinton said Joe Biden needs a massive legal team and their own workers to counter the intimidation from Republicans. Clinton implored Biden to not concede the election as she did on the night of her loss to Trump. Later, citizens made some of the most powerful presentations on the first night of the Republican Convention. Afterward, following the shooting in Kenosha Wisconsin, lawyers are now demanding the immediate arrest of the officers involved in the shooting of suspect Jacob Blake, without conducting an investigation. White young people wearing black, carrying umbrellas, and launching fireworks at police have been rioting and committing arson for the past two nights.

THIS IS FROM:

NY Times
Wisconsin Court Upholds Vouchers In Church Schools (1998)

Right Scoop
Hillary Clinton telegraphs how Democrats are going to try and steal the election

NY Times
Biden’s Loose Lips Could Sink His Chances

Pew Research Center
Important issues in the 2020 election

Daily Mail
New footage shows Jacob Blake brawling with cops before being shot as two white Wisconsin officers are placed on leave while police chief calls Gov. Tony Evers ‘wholly irresponsible’ for condemning law enforcement

Breitbart
Man Shot by Police in Kenosha Was Wanted for Sexual Assault

Right Scoop
Lebron James blames COPS in Kenosha shooting, says “We are scared as black people in America”

Lifezette
Rapper Ice Cube turns on Democrats: Tells blacks to ‘make them earn that vote’

You Tube
Antisemitism Goes Viral!

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Rough transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

Hello, America. Mark Levin, I’m thrilled you’re tuning in. This shows a little different than most. I won’t regurgitate to you what you watched or listened to last night. There are some but some things that took place last night that I want to discuss. But before we do, you’ve been hearing a lot about school choice. Vouchers. You’ve been hearing about the parochial schools, private schools, other types of schools. Do you know the history of this? Tim Scott brought it up and everybody was very excited that he brought a present United States embraces, as I’ve discussed this with the president myself. This was a brutal legal battle slugged out from state courtrooms all the way up repeatedly to the United States Supreme Court. Over a period of 30 years. That paved the way for school choice. A brutal barrack, fought in state courtrooms, fought in state supreme courts and then fought in the United States Supreme Court. How do I know? Because, among others, Landmark Legal Foundation. And its president, Pete Hutchison. We’re involved in virtually every single one of those court battles. Here’s an example. This is from The New York Times, June 11, 1998. In the most significant legal decision yet on the growing use of school vouchers, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the city of Milwaukee could spend taxpayer money to send pupils to parochial or other religious schools. In other words, the money. Vouchers would follow the student. And Landmark was representing a Democrat representative in Milwaukee in a poor neighborhood. Polly Williams. And among others, defending. The School Choice Program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Voting fortitude to overturn a lower court ruling, the state’s high court said the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program did not violate Wisconsin’s existing ban on spending state money for religious seminaries or the First Amendment’s separation of church and state. The court said the program has a secular purpose and will not have the primary effect of advancing religion. Civil libertarians upset at what they considered a radical departure in court interpretation of the First Amendment and teachers unions lamenting the ruling as a blow to public schools, vowed on appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Some legal scholars said the decision could form the basis of a test case for the Supreme Court and the extent to which government can support parental choice and using public money to buy areligious school education. Despite the way the propagandists at The New York Times wrote this, it’s not about buying a religious education. It’s about giving poor kids opportunities. The Wisconsin court said the U.S. Supreme Court decisions make clear that the Constitution was not violated every time money previously in the possession of a state is conveyed to a religious institution and by the rules of the Milwaukee Parental School Choice Program begun in 1990, the first of the country’s voucher programs. Families below a certain income level can send their children to the school of their choice, public or private kindergarten through 12th grade with the tuition paid by the state government. About fifteen hundred and it goes on in detail for other states Ohio, Arizona, Vermont, Maine have cases similar to Milwaukee’s pending in their state courts. So this was the canary in the coal mine. This was the biggie. The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. This was the big one. So Americans United for Separation of Church and State and basically an atheist organization. Left wing religious organizations lined up against it. The NAFTA and the NEA lined up against it. The ACLU. The NAACP. Lined up against him. And we want. Landmark Legal Foundation, Institute for Justice. We won. David beat Goliath. It was a 68 page ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. So it’s appealed to the United States Supreme Court. And it was a brutal battle. Brutal. November 9, 1988, 22 years ago, as explained school reform news, the Heartland Foundation. The United States Supreme Court rejected arguments from one of the most powerful special interest alliances ever assembled in court. The National Education Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, People for the American Way National School Boards Association. Other organizations which argue the Milwaukee School Choice Program violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment. As it was revised three years ago, and that would have been 2001, when it was expanded to include religious schools and up to 15percent of the city’s hundred and five thousand students. The Milwaukee Parental School Program provides a voucher of up to 5000 dollars directly to the student whose parents then select one of the city’s 84 private or religious schools, where the voucher can be used for tuition. 60100 low income children that year enrolled in the program out of an eligible population of fifteen thousand. Pete Hutchison, general counsel, then now the president of Landmark Legal Foundation, I’m so proud of him in the group. The court’s decision today removes the last hurdle from Milwaukee’s most disadvantaged children to reach thelifeline of a quality education. This is a victory for countless low income Americans who are frustrated and ill served by the giant public school monopoly. He said. Landmark has successfully defended the Milwaukee parental school program since 1990, when it was first approved by the GOP led legislature. It’s being championed by Wisconsin State Representative Annette Polly Williams, State Senator Gary George and Governor Tommy Thompson. And after a prolonged court battle, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in June that the program did not violate the Constitution. And then the United States Supreme Court. Refuse to take it up. We were also involved in the Cleveland case, which did go up to the Supreme Court and in 2002 was upheld by the Supreme Court and Landmark helped build the foundational constitutional arguments. For all these cases so that thousands and thousands of low income children would have an opportunity to go to schools other than the government facility down the street. The amount of brainpower, the amount of hours, the time and there sources spent. Fighting to allow school choice in this country. For over a decade. It was massive, significant. And I could not be prouder of landmark legal and other legal groups that did that. So when I heard Tim Scott mention it, saying that he is champion school choice. I can tell you that I never heard from Tim Scott during any of that period. Maybe it’s because he was too young. I don’t know his age. I’ve invited Tim Scott on my TV shows and my radio show multiple times in the past. And he has. Refused to come on. Sometimes they don’t even answer us. The only time he asked to come on through his staff was when he had a book out and I said no. And I said no. So I thought Tim Scott gave a beautiful speech. And I think he is a remarkable man for what he he went through and what he’s become. But I will say this. Senator Scott, if you truly believe in school choice, at least every now and then, a little tip of the hat. To the individuals who made it happen, it didn’t happen when you were in the house, it didn’t happen when you were in the Senate. That road was built through blood, sweat and tears by very small, underfinanced legal foundations, including mine. And I couldn’t be prouder of them. And maybe one of these days you can come on the program and we can both talk about it. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

Man, oh, Manischewitz, do I have a lot to cover today? Let’s start with Hillary. I know it’s painful on Showtime’s the circus here in part is what she had to say about the election results come one go. So we’ve got to have a massive legal operation. I know the Biden campaign is working on that. We have to have poll workers. And I urge people who are able to be a poll worker. We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places. This is a big organizational challenge. But at least we know more about what they’re going to do. And, you know, Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances, because I think this is going to drag out. And eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch. All right. That’s Broom Hilda. And let me tell you something. This is exactly what I’ve been telling you are going to do. And this full blurts it out. In simple. Small words. So even left this can understand she just stated exactly what I told you they’re up to. Biden is not going to concede. If they’re behind, they’re going to sue and they’re going to attack Trump. Over the post office, they’ll say when it’s really the states that are incapable of handling this. It is a disaster. The president’s exactly right. I don’t know how many more times I can say it here, where the point of the spear. I keep saying over and over and over again. And if the president decides that there’s a lot of hanky panky going on and he brings cases here and there, they’re going to accuse him of being a dictator who will not accept the outcome of the election and will not leave the Oval Office. Ladies and. This is the plot. This is sabotage. They don’t care about the country. They don’t care about the constitution. They don’t care about the vote and the people. They want power. By hook or by crook. Remember, they talked about getting rid of the Electoral College. And now they figured out flood the system, flood the system, cloud and pivots, flood the system, crashed the system. Blame the victim. Blame your opponent. Then grab control. Hillary Clinton, an old Alinskyite. No college Marxist. Play it again, Mr. Producer. Go. So we’ve got to have a massive legal operation. I know the Biden campaign is working on that. We have to have poll workers and I urge people who are able to be a poll worker. We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places. This is a big organizational challenge. But at least we know more about what they’re going to do. And, you know, Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out. And eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch. She is a tyrant. And a trader by the definition that. Either Pelosi has given out in the past. People who are trying to overthrow your government, that’s what this is, fundamental transformation. That’s what that is. The 110 page manifesto. That’s what that is. Overthrowing the electoral system. Oh, we’re throwing the checks and balances in the Constitution. Dispiriting the American people. It’s shocking. There it is in broad daylight. Has anybody heard this played on television? I haven’t. Have you, Mr. Producer? She just laid it out. We already knew it. But now literally comes out of the horse’s mouth. May I say, with all due respect. Absolutely incredible. This is the plot. This is the plan. So we have to vote in even bigger numbers. But in some kind of a cushion. This is why the Democrats are demanding that all states have mail in ballots. This is why they’re demanding that the Democrat state put it in place. This is why Nevada, under cover of darkness just a few weeks ago, did exactly this. They have no experience with massive mail and voting with every single citizen. And we’ve seen what’s happened in states. We’ve heard the media say week after week the states have done this for a long time. And so we look at the states. It’s a disaster. And in the state of Washington, that’s had it among the longest. They’ve said it only works pretty well here because we’ve done it for 10years. But we’re gonna go from about 33 million mail in votes. To about 80 million. To crash the system. Not so much the post office, the states. The states aren’t setup for this. Just last week, Pennsylvania said hello. Are we allowed to count ballots three days after the election? I don’t know how many more examples we need. And yes, the post office. You really expect we already know over 8 percent, almost 9 percent of all ballots that were cast in mail in voting in the last election were duds. That’s a big percentage. And so Hillary is saying, we know this is going to happen. We’re flooding the system. Just make sure we win in the end and blame Trump. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 3

The chief of the FDA, it’s all over. The media admits to overstating the plaza effect on the virus. The FDA is a monstrous bureaucracy. A monstrous bureaucracy that has say many lives and has cost many lives. Same with NIH. Same with Dr. Fowler, she’s operation. Now we have television stations that are running wild with what the FDA chief says. My interview with one of the top epidemiologists in the world, a professor at Yale, a P D and an M.D. who’s written extensively over 300 peer-reviewed articles. And when he speaks about hydrochloroquine, you can hear a pin drop. None of the news. None of the newsroom’s CNN, MSNBC, even Fox gave a damn what the guy had to say. But now the FDA chief comes out and says, you know, maybe we overstated our plasma. It’s all over the place. Well, why did you investigate the FDA chief, with respect to hydroxide, chloroquine? Rather than politicizing the issue. As a Democrat talking point, one of these newsrooms do it because they gutless. That’s why. Because they gutless. And so people die. That’s why they don’t do it. We’re gonna get into the convention. Hang in there. I mean, by the time I come on the air, you’ve heard most of it already in the in the second day is coming, but there’s still some propitious issues that I want to discuss. But first, there’s an op ed by another trumpet, a very detestable human being by the name of Bret Stephens. And he has this op ed in the New York Slimes. Biden’s loose lips could sink his chances. We elect presidents to lead, not defer. He’s getting nervous. He’s getting nervous. He says if Joe Biden isn’t careful, Donald Trump might have a new nickname for him, shut down, Joe. Or maybe shut down Joe. Those monikers came to mind after the former vice president’s biggest blunder, the campaign thus far. And it’s a whopper. It is a massive blunder. And the Trump campaign needs to run like hell with this, says on referring to Biden’s comment in his interview last week with ABC David Muir that if scientists advised him to shut down the country again to contain a winter surge of coal at 19 and the flu, quote, I would shut it down. I’d listen to the scientists, unquote. It’s the sort of remark that surely plays well with voters who already support him. It might even have national majority support, but it doesn’t help with the voters. Biden seeks to avoid antagonizing and swing districts. Few stories bring that reality into sharper focus than Simon Romero’s report in Monday’s New York Times. New Mexico’s neck and neck congressional race between first term Democratic incumbent representative tourists small and Yvette Harrell. By the way, you’ve at Herald the Republic is fabulous. And this race was stolen from her two years ago. Oh, mail in voting. Mexico is trying to democratic in recent years. A June poll had Biden with a comfortable lead in the state. But Romero reports red hot anger in the district over the restrictive coronavirus policies of the Democratic governor. Duhon Grisham. That have helped keep case counts low at a painful economic price. There’s open defiance by sheriff’s business owners and many others of Miss Lujan Grisham policies. Turnout in the GOP primary surged by more than 40 percent over 2016, as against a Democratic increase of 5 percent. The strategy of running hard to the right by vowing loyalty to Mr. Trump by blasting Democrats for clubs associated with the pandemic. Romero ads could be working from his hero, who lost the 2018 race by fewer than 4000 votes. She had won on Election Day. But, you know, they’re counting afterwards. What’s happening and tour as a small district, which is 20, 22, 16, went for Trump by a 10 point margin, isn’t going to decide the presidential race even in New Mexico. But it offers a taste of a powerful current of anxiety and resentment. But listen to him. That Trump has positioned himself to exploit. Trump is and exploiting anything, pointing things out that are true from factual. That’s not explanation. But Biden doesn’t seem to grasp the anxiety is from people hanging on by their fingernails, if they’re still hanging on at all the jobs, businesses, livelihoods and homes on account of a pandemic whose toll on lives and health can be weighed against the costs of fighting it. In the hierarchy of fears, what is covered19 to a healthy 35 year old restaurant tier excuse me restaurant tour next to the prospect of losing everything except a meager government check. The resentment goes justice deep among those who feel talked down to by people whose own track record is experts leave something to be desired. Remember when on February 29, the surgeon general tweeted, Seriously, people stopped buying masks? Remember when the most urgent national need was for more ventilators until those fears proved largely unfounded? Remember when the scientists who hypocritically failed to abide by the sort of strictures they demanded of the public? Course he does. A member. Remember Foulkes? He told you not to wear a mask. Remember when Fauci said. It’s no more or worse than a flu. He says none of this failures of science per say or an excuse for reckless personal behavior. Certainly no justification for Trump’s appalling management of the crisis. I told you it had never Trump his absolute head case, but it is a failure by people who claim to speak with unassailable authority in the name of science. And loose talk of nationwide shutdowns plays into the fears of voters who feel they have been both impoverished and patronized doesn’t play into their fears. It’s a reality. The danger by now courts is twofold. Is promising to hand over his decision making authority to unelected people who, whatever their education, expertise or virtues, haven’t gain the trust of fence sitting voters. And he’s proposing to resort to a strategy that as a Wall Street Journal reporter. Greg. Yep. Reported on Monday, is now being viewed by some economists and even health experts as, quote, an overt or overly blunt and economically costly tool, unquote, that could have been avoided in favor of, quote, alternative strategies that could slow the spread of the epidemic at much less cost. Did I not have the expert, the professor, the doctor from Yale, a different doctor on my program on life, liberty and living three, three and a half, four months ago saying exactly this, Mr. Minister. He wrote a piece. We brought him on the program. He said none at all. This isn’t the way to do this. And he was right. All of this creates a dangerous opening for Trump. Voters won’t necessarily turn to Biden if they feel he will merely rubber stamp the same set of policies that they wanted to avoid in the first place. Democracies elect leaders to lead, not defer. To occasionally buck conventional wisdom, not parrot it. Biden is advised at sea. He’s scared. He’s advising Biden. Just like that to dunk debate. Don’t debate your screw up. Don’t debate. Don’t talk like this. You’re going to lose the election. What do you mean you want to shut down everything? Save it for after the election. Keep your mouth shut. Keep him in the basement. Put a bag over his head. Biden’s advisers may suppose they’re on a glide path to election against a manifestly flawed and failed incumbent, but they face an opponent who fights best when he’s cornered. Who will take the same ruthless political advantage of Biden’s line that George W. Bush’s campaign did of George Kerry’s calamitous classic about the Iraq war? Actually did vote for the 87billion before I voted against it. The Hippocratic oath for the Biden campaign should be first do no harm. Well, that’s too late, dummy, because they nominated Biden and all he can do is harm. The next time Biden is asked about lockdowns. He might cite a line from John F. Kennedy Scientists long can establish the objectives of the research, but society in extending support to science must take into account its own needs. That’s a line to win over wavering voters. Bret Stephens Bret, why don’t you leave the New York Slimes as you left The Wall Street Journal and just work for about. You can be a speechwriter for him, but remember. Three letter, four letter words. Put the lines where the breaks are in the word. Nice big fonts, maybe 24 36 font one card at a time. And haven’t practiced five or six times. But this is precisely. Why Joe Biden is not public. This is precisely where the Praetorian Guard media are protecting him. This is precisely why nobody gets to ask him about a 110 page Marxist manifesto. And then if the guy gets up and gives a good speech reading off a teleprompter. My God. Was he outstanding head alight in a dark and evil on a good and the schmuck? An anonymous rich guy. Biden. He’s the Robert Frost of our era. Nobody’s ever. He’s unbelievable. The harmony and the rhythm and the speed. Oh, it’s poetry in motion. Unbelievable. This Biden. We have a question. Science. Doctors say no. See informants. That’s why Joe Biden won’t come out. When 90 percent of the population that can work is working, some people taking jobs well below their prior jobs or professions. Some people taking on more than one job. Part time jobs. People doing anything. To make a buck and take care of themselves and their family. Joe Biden is listening to scientists showed that Biden isn’t listening to doctors. Joe Biden is hiding from the American people. Which is a disgrace. You want to be elected president, United States, you have a duty to make yourself available to the people. But he won’t do it. Because he’s not qualified to be president. He cannot handle the job. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

Well, so many places to go and so many things to do in the next hour. We’ll dip in to a bit of the convention that took place last night. And what I asked Mr. Producer to do so I could go through them today is none of the politicians. The citizens. I thought that was the genius. In last night’s convention, I also thought the opening video with Jon Voight narrating was terrific. And if you love this country, if you’re proud of your country. You did have little tingling going up your leg. What did he say? Chris Matthews Whatever it was a shiver going up your leg. Because was about Americanism and patriotism and the greatness of the American people on the great things that we’ve achieved and can achieve. We didn’t give voice to the rioters. We denounced the rioters. We didn’t give voice to the arsonist. We denounce the arsonists. Didn’t give voice to the Marxists. We denounced the Marxist. Just like the. So many of us believe and embrace this kind of mentality. Now, Pew has done a study of the top issues for voters this election cycle. It just came out very recently. And I’m reading with one eye because I’m partially unable to see in one eye. The economy is seventy nine percent. Health care, 68 percent. Supreme Court appointments. 64 percent. The Corona virus outbreak 62 percent. Violent crime 59 percent. So let’s stop right there. The economy, 79 percent. Everybody knows that Joe Biden has no idea about the private sector economic growth. Capital investment R and D. Any of it. He’s a disaster, he’s demonstrated that his entire life. So the president. Should be favored with the top issue in the country, the economy, and so what Joe Biden says that he would shut down. The whole country, if Anthony felt she told him to. If Burks told him to. The head of the FDA told him to, you know, the same people don’t wear a mask to a. People need to keep that in mind. Third, Supreme Court appointments, 64 percent. We know the president wants to put on the court constitutionalists, the Corona virus outbreak. I know with a slobbering media that Democrats have been able to sort of push this narrative, but I don’t think there’s another person who, as president United States would could have done everything Donald Trump has done and is doing. I really don’t. And violent crime. Violent crime, a top issue among the American people. It didn’t even come up during the Democratic convention. Supreme Court appointments, to the best of my knowledge, didn’t even come up during the Democratic convention. They won’t release a list of who itis that Biden would put on the court because you would be repulsed by it. Repulsed. By the way, the last of the top issues on the list is abortion. So some of you ladies in the suburbs may be very upset about that, but I thought you’d want to know. The economy. There’s only one candidate who’s trying to open up the economy. And that’s Trump. I put I put a liner out there’s a couple of months ago that’s been picked up here and there. Donald Trump is for jobs. Joe Biden is from moms. Even the president contacted me and told me he’d like that one. But there you go. I’ll be right back.