

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz
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In Washington, politicians are full of half-truths and hot air. They do little more than grandstanding by spouting off talking points and spin. The Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz is here to help you cut through the rhetoric and noise and explore the politically right way to think about the issues .
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May 30, 2019 • 1h 1min
Ep 422 | We Have an Afghanistan-Style Insurgency at Our Border
A briefing on immigration and how laws don’t seem to matter for illegal aliens as they do for Americans. In fact, our government not only ignores those laws but regularly helps illegal aliens with taxpayer funds to skirt them. Compare that to Americans and driving laws and tax laws.
The reality is that this is no longer an immigration issue at our border; this is an insurgency issue that requires the military. I give you exclusive data and information on the border that will show that we are dealing with the equivalent of al Qaeda at our border in the form of the cartels. The same way the Muslim Brotherhood has successfully subverted some people living in our country, the cartel culture has subverted parts of the Rio Grande Valley.
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More people die in prison than in immigration detention
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May 29, 2019 • 1h 1min
Ep 421 | Trump’s Leverage: The Veto Pen, the Bully Pulpit, and Executive Power
Trump has three leverage points that, if effectively mixed together, can change the course of history on issue like crime, immigration, budget, and the courts. Those are: the veto pen, the bully pulpit, and executive actions. But if they are left unused, his presidency will fail, even if he gets a second term.
Not only is Trump’s lurch to the left on the 1994 crime bill wrong on data, it’s bad messaging. He could use the bully pulpit to explain his previously held position that weak-on-crime laws actually hurt black people more than anyone else.
Next, our border briefing. The president could be using executive actions, the bully pulpit, and a veto threat to make this issue a national security problem that requires military intervention. This needs to happen; the president can do it; and it will refocus the public in a way that will bring the border issue to the front.
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Trump is getting bad advice, lurching to the Left on crime
The coming crime wave that Border Patrol is not catching
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May 28, 2019 • 1h 3min
Ep 420 | Why a Good Judge Is No Match for a Bad Judge
On today’s show, I explain once and for all why we will never beat the Left on judicial supremacy by simply “appointing better judges,” once we agree to legitimize their rulings.
Over the weekend, another California judge claimed to place an injunction on border wall construction. This is the perfect opportunity for Trump to finally dismantle judicial supremacy, yet instead, he legitimizes it by noting that his only option is to appeal.
Next, I use several decisions and orders from today’s Supreme Court releases to show why placing our hopes in a “conservative” Supreme Court to reverse bad lower court opinions upon appeal is a fool’s errand.
Finally, I touch on Trump going off message on crime by pursuing a talking point instead of the right policy, thereby achieving neither.
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Why Trump should refuse to give effect to this California judge's pronouncement
Coolidge Memorial Day speech in 1927
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May 24, 2019 • 1h 5min
Ep 419 | The Border Invasion Will Cause a Wave of Crime We’ve Never Seen Before
We are becoming like the Tories. Trump was our last chance to change the GOP, but instead, the GOP is changing him. I explain why the betrayal on the latest disaster spending bill is worse than you think and will reverberate for the rest of this presidency.
Next, we're joined by Jaeson Jones, our resident expert on the cartels, to brief us on the long-term effects of this border invasion. “We’ve never seen anything like this, where we now have smuggling and criminality even after they surrender to border agents,” said Jones. This is a game-changer: Cartels make the aliens indebted to them and use their resources on our soil to exact the debt out of them. “The American people will be hit with a crime wave not seen before,” warned Jones. “The American people would be stunned if they would see how the cartel moves in and out.”
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Gulf Cartel doing Mexico-style attacks on our soil
Trump missed a big opportunity with the budget bill
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May 23, 2019 • 1h 6min
Ep 418 | When Will We Stop Fighting Over Fake Fights?
We fight over fighting in Washington, but don’t fight over real meaningful outcomes.
On today’s show, I demonstrate how the two sides are awfully close together when it comes to judicial philosophy. There are now Republican judicial nominees who believe that opposing gay marriage is a violation of civil rights and the “conservative” legal movement has no problem with it.
I also discuss the controversy over Justin Amash and how both sides are missing the point.
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Grassley pushing new entitlements
Another liberal Trump nominee
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May 22, 2019 • 60min
Ep 417 | The Burden of Open Borders Falling on Local Officials
Guess who will pay for the mistakes of our federal government regarding the border crisis? The local communities. Sheriff Leon Wilmot has been in the Yuma County Sheriff’s Department for 32 years and has been the elected sheriff since 2013. He joins us today to update us on how his county is being slammed with a migration bigger than the size of the native population. The local shelters and health care resources are strained doing the job of the federal government.
The bottom line, according to Wilmot, is that absent any deterrent to law-breakers, they will keep coming. Drugs are coming in both at the points of entry and in the desert.
Also, the sheriff gives us the truth about the threat of contagious diseases that the federal government refuses to talk about.
“We don’t need politicians to come down here for a photo op,” said Wilmot. “We need them to fix the problem.”
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The frontline effects of the border crisis are felt around the nation’s capital
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May 21, 2019 • 1h 1min
Ep 416 | Where Do We Escape for Our Asylum?
Central Americans come here to escape poverty and benefit from our welfare system. Where can Americans seek asylum when their communities are overrun by MS-13?
On today’s show, I discuss what is happening in some Maryland communities with MS-13 activity growing out of control as more illegal alien teens settle in the D.C. region.
I also show how illegal aliens are sapping our health care system and hospitals and nobody is asking who will pick up the tab. Instead, the media is concerned about how many illegal aliens die of natural causes while in ICE custody rather than about how many murders by illegal aliens ICE is able to prevent.
Finally, I focus on health care. The legislative proposals targeting “surprise billing” in the ERs are a total lie and will make matters worse because we are not addressing the core problems in health care.
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Russians at our border
AAPS letter opposing price controls on surprise billing
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May 20, 2019 • 1h 4min
Ep 415 | Top Veteran Immigration Officer: Why Is Government Not Shutting Down the Flow at the Border?
Today we are joined by a very special guest. Dan Vara is a practicing immigration lawyer who has 22 years of experience in the old INS and eventually in ICE.
“The laws are there, the rules are there, the people are there; they need to be allowed to do their jobs,” says Vara. He was one of the top officials dealing both with the Nicaraguan asylum influx in 1989 and the Hatians and Cubans in the 1990s. He believes there is no reason existing law can’t be marshalled the way it was then. It’s all politics, in his view.
What about the concerns of foreign terrorists, health, and espionage? Vara explains that, contrary to what the government is telling us, we are not properly vetting them out even at points of entry.
Vara also explains how so many at the DHS are experiencing morale problems because there is more incentive for them to be lenient on illegal immigrants rather than enforce the law for fear of lawsuits.
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How the Haitian migration was shut down in the 1990s
How the Nicaraguan migration was shut down in 1989
Yes, illegal aliens are being dumped into our communities
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May 17, 2019 • 50min
Ep 414 | America the Dumping Ground
Is Trump being convinced by Jared Kushner to live in an alternative universe? While they focus on the visa system, America has become a dumping ground. While they focus on what Congress can do on non-emergency issues, they ignore what they can do executively on emergency issues.
Today, I round out the week by analyzing the politics of the Kushner immigration plan and why it is distracting from the real problems.
Finally, now is the time to get rid of DACA. That is Trump’s biggest point of leverage. He lost another court case today, but what the judges actually said proves the point that, even according to their convoluted thinking, he can still get rid of it within 90 days … if he wants to.
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Illegal alien charged with killing 12 Texans
Ron DeSantis says no to sending migrants to his state
What Trump should do instead of focusing on the Kushner plan
State Department to fund Taliban travel expenses
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May 16, 2019 • 1h 3min
Ep 413 | Conservatives Have a Movement of Personalities, Not Ideas
Look at any major issue, whether it’s the judicial crisis, immigration, health care, or foreign policy, and you will notice that we don’t have a movement of ideas to drive a narrative. We have a movement of personalities to comment on the status quo.
I discuss some of the news of the day on abortion and the courts. If we had a movement of ideas, we’d be well on our way to defeating judicial supremacy, and some of the latest news on abortion proves this point.
I also update you on jailbreak, the border, Republicans trying to renew the New START treaty, and even how our government is funding the Taliban while claiming to fight it.
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Virginia judge reverses his own radical opinion 8 days later
This is the type of people we are locking up in federal prison on drug charges who will get jailbreak
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