Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

The end of this year’s SCOTUS term is heating up, and we are witnessing some defensive victories for conservatives. But that’s all they are: defensive wins on issues that should never even be up at the courts. While we are winning some individual cases, the general trend, thanks to the radical lower courts and passivity of SCOTUS, is moving away from us on election law, immigration, and religious liberty. These are all issues we cannot afford to lose. We must win the war, and that begins with reforming the lower courts. We also discuss the latest and greatest on immigration and criminal justice and tie the two issues together. The president needs to be tough on crime, drug trafficking, and immigration because the issues all tie together. Yet phony conservatives are leading him astray. We offer a strategy for the president to maximize his campaign agenda, assuming he wants to stick with that agenda.    Show links MS-13 brought in by DACA border surge and spreading drugs and mayhem Staggering report on crime from illegal aliens Trump must learn to use the veto A victory at the high court on election law, but how broad?   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we bringing in foreign nationals to poison our own people and use the funding for terror financing? You better believe it, according to Derek Maltz (@derekmaltz_sr), former head of the DEA’s Special Operations Division, who joins us today.  Derek draws upon his vast experience in counterterrorism and counter-narcotics to explain how the drug problem is not a health care issue, it’s a national security issue that when coupled with immigration, is completely fixable ... if only the partisan politics stopped hampering their efforts. He explains how most agents are very hard-working and patriotic, but government continues to place barriers preventing agencies from working together to uncover terror-financing networks. That, together with insane immigration problems, political correctness, and mixed signals from the top is why the counter-narcotics effort has not been as successful as it should be. If we properly integrate counter-narcotics with counterterrorism, border security, interior immigration enforcement, and local anti-crime policies, we will be safer from crime, drugs, and terrorism.       Show links Yemeni owned stores poisoning people with drugs and financing terror   Sponsored by We The People Holsters Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we cover everything from recent primaries to jailbreak, immigration, and the economy. We look at all the issues through the prism of Trump’s good instincts and the opportunity to do good, but how, because we don’t have a real conservative movement, the president drifts. Often it is conservative groups leading him astray. Our main discussion today is why despite the job market boom, GDP growth is still mediocre. We use an analogy of a topped-off tree to explain how our economy can have good periods of job growth despite the venture socialism, but ultimately our growth is permanently capped thanks to the debt, dependency, market distortions, and misallocation of resources.    Show links The problem with the primaries Tax cuts help, but GDP will not spike without freeing up economy What conservatives should do on religious liberty after court ruling Section 402 of jailbreak will place an open-ended number of hardened criminals, including criminal aliens, into home confinement   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s show, we are joined by our old co-host, CR social media director Joe Koss, to discuss how the Masterpiece court decision is nothing to celebrate beyond its very limited scope. Joe studied natural law at a Catholic law school and talks about how far we have deviated from natural law that we now celebrate minor hiccups that very temporally and partially slow down the inexorable rush to judicial Sodom & Gomorrah. When we look at other cases in the courts and the full context of this case, it’s clear we are losing religious liberty and that the courts are the problem, not the solution.  Show links Religious liberty is just as threatened after Masterpiece Cakeshop decision as before We need civil rights legislation to protect religious liberty  Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are joined today by Mark Harris for a special episode of “meet the candidates.” Harris, a Baptist pastor, did what nobody else could do this year – he defeated an incumbent establishment Republican in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. Harris discusses how he assembled the team and raised enough money to do the impossible. He also explains his agenda and how he plans to stay grounded in his district and not get sucked into the establishment swamp.  We also chat about the failings of the professional social conservative movement in combatting the assault on our values as well as the judicial supremacy that is making North Carolina irrelevant as a sovereign state. There is a moral crisis even among the professional religious groups, and it all gets back to money.  Show links Mark Harris for Congress campaign website  Trump is being lied to about what he can do on the border Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we continue blowing up the myths about crime that serve as the foundation for the jailbreak movement. We talk about how the courts are granting criminals more rights that never existed before, which contributes to an under-incarceration problem, not an over-incarceration problem. There is a crisis of morality on this issue as well as on immigration that continues to confuse even some of my colleagues in this business.  Show links Reagan’s warnings on crime DOJ study: 83% of those released by states re-offended within 9 years A vote for amnesty is a vote for MS-13 and fentanyl Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump has been outsmarting Kim Jong Un in North Korea at every turn. In this episode of “Foreign Policy Friday,” we are joined again by CR’s national security correspondent, Jordan Schachtel, to discuss Trump’s triumph over North Korea and how it is a perfect illustration of peace through strength. Using the right tools to deter threats is the best way to avoid war and to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Trump’s moves on Iran have clearly shaken Kim Jong Un to his core. We also discuss strategy moving forward and how to pressure China by using more aggressive tactics even while showing a willingness to hold the summit.    Wouldn’t it be great if Trump were to negotiate with Congress the way he does North Korea? We also discuss the Pentagon’s insane plans to sell Turkey some F-35s before we’ve even used them here at home. Jordan shows how this is another example of an out-of-control military-industrial complex that doesn’t serve us well. Israel’s military has made better use of them because they don’t have the same problems with waste.  Finally, why are we sending soldiers to die in Yemen and Somalia and then second-guessing them over “civilian casualties?”  Memorial Day should be a time for our policy-makers to reflect on how to put America first and best honor the spirit of sacrifice in our soldiers so that it doesn’t go to waste.  “Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly of the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.” “The willingness of some to give their lives so that others might live never fails to evoke in us a sense of wonder and mystery.” –Ronald Reagan, 1982, Memorial Day, Arlington National Cemetery  “It is to the spirit of those men, exhibited in all our wars, to the spirit that places the devotion to freedom and truth above the devotion to life, that the nation pays its ever enduring mark of reverence and respect. It is not that principle that leads to conflict but to tranquility. It is not that principle which is the cause of war but the only foundation for an enduring peace. There can be no peace with the forces of evil. Peace comes only through the establishment of the supremacy of the forces of good. That way lies only through sacrifice.” –Calvin Coolidge, 1923, Memorial Day, Northampton, Massachusetts Show links The importance of intercepting missiles at boost phase How to turn the tables on North Korea Trump taking the exact opposite approach to North Korea and it’s working Stupidity in Yemen and Somalia   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congressman Steve King and I seem to be the last rule-of-law conservatives standing, so we meet today to lament the state of play in the conservative movement. Steve updates us on the backwards priorities of so many who call themselves conservative. Everyone supports the Willie Horton agenda now. Everyone is supporting some form of amnesty. Steve reminds us why conservatives once stood for tough-on-crime policies and why those values should still apply today. The notion that you save money with jailbreak policies defies logic and learned experience. He also explains how the attention of members in Congress, even the good ones, is so divided that they often lack the intellectual fortitude or resources to fight back. Finally, we delve into the courts and how they are destroying our civilization, yet none of these so-called social conservative groups who were so passionately promoting jailbreak are willing to stand for true social values.   Show links Social conservative groups have been bankrupt for a long time The true danger of jailbreak Steve King’s bill mandating jail time for local officials who aid illegal aliens Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do we lose? Why is it that on issue after issue, the policy movement is headed leftward, even on issues we were winning just one generation ago? Well, evidently, we can’t go one day without our own people scoring points for the other side on the most critical issues of our time. In this episode, we delve into the House vote on a terrible Willie Horton jailbreak bill that undermines every principle Trump ever espoused on crime. We have the entirety of the fake conservative movement behind it. We explain how these groups are only effective when it comes to pushing issues on which they overlap with Soros, not when they supposedly oppose the Left’s agenda.  Show links 76.7% of those let out by state prisons re-offended within 5 years Details of the jailbreak bill How the jailbreak bill is a betrayal of Trump’s principles on crime   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel is on the ascendent and seem to be doing the right thing on a lot of fronts. In today’s blockbuster episode of "foreign policy Friday" with CR’s national security correspondent, Jordan Schachtel, we draw numerous lessons from what Israel is doing with its sovereignty, diplomacy, military, and political system. We can learn a lot from Israel, and Jordan shares his insights from the time he spent there. We focus carefully on what happened this week in Gaza and how that border situation has many similarities to ours. We also explore the emerging threats and opportunities in Latin America.  Finally, we introduce an idea of “a new UN” for freedom-loving nations that have mutual interest in protecting their sovereignty rather than the traditional global organizations that promote the violation of sovereignty. Trump had a great few weeks, and now is the time to press our advantage and completely realign our alliances to promote America first. The world is changing rapidly in terms of who promotes our interests and who doesn’t, as well as what is a threat and what is not.  We must update our military, diplomatic, and intelligence resources to reflect the reality of today’s world.    Show links Gaza, borders, and the left-wing war on sovereign nations Our moral divide is reaching a tipping point What we can learn from Israel’s immigration and border policies   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices