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In the first hour I am joined by my good friend Lizzy to discuss her recent work in Palestine. Lizzy just returned from the town of Beit Sahour where she was teaching music to child refugees. We talk about Her experiences in actually traveling to Palestine from the US and some of the bizarre realities of this process. I also share some of my own personal experience traveling to Palestine and my trouble when leaving Israel. We then move onto the issue of Islamophobia and discuss the realities of it and how it can subconsciously manifest itself.

If progressives believe that taxes don’t affect economic behavior, then why are they so terrified of tax havens and opposed to tax competition? Also, if they really believe their own rhetoric, why are left-leaning states cutting taxes?

Women’s march organizer, and outspoken proponent of Saudi Arbaia, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion)
For many people in the west, the traditional political compass seems broken, and “left” and “right” are almost indistinguishable in a confused political mess. The controversy surrounding the Arab-American figure now embraced by the Democratic Party, Linda Sarsour, illustrates this perfectly.

Those who grew up with the ability to block people on facebook and who were never allowed to play unsupervised have been shielded from most conflicts and have absolutely no idea how to handle them.

What the hooligans last Thursday at my lecture in Colorado were objecting to was a very different kind of invasion—a peaceful, voluntary offering of ideas they were unaware of, didn’t want to hear, and thought it was their right to prevent others from hearing. Their intent was to intimidate, to harass, to silence, to dominate. This is not conduct that a citadel of education should tolerate for an instant.

Charlie Kirk, of Turning Point USA, participates in a panel discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
“I am dangerous not to America but to the people soon to be in charge of it.”

I understand the context of their cheering and clapping when Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner said that Canada had participated in a period of “cultural genocide” — not in support of the purported government program of cultural genocide against Native Canadians, as it was termed to have taken place in Canada from the period of […]