which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
have nothing to show for it. you haveve n no close friends. your family is in tatters of your two surviving children. one is a drug addict and theher other you re only living.daught daughter has been arrested repeatedlyer hasee and has also wound up in rehab. she blames her compulsions withhe fact you took showers with her as a child. you ve never been charged for doing that. s that y but everyone around you knows that you did. at this point, your wife thinkss so little of you that shekeep w demanded you keep working despite the fact she knew perfectlyor she k well thau had dementia. in retrospect, your life has. life amounted to a very sad story.ado and saddest of all, it sry almot over weeks from now youth will turn 80 . this is the point inis is your journey where a decent man turns inward. old age is the pause that god gives us to reflect on whate we ve done and what we ve left. undone. ifd e all, to ponder where we might be going next. ho you re joe biden, you would pon
sadly caved to the radical leftc of this party. and now, sadly, the people of west virginia, they will pay o the price for him caving literally through higher taxesr and higher inflation and a much longer recession that needed a lower quality of life, all in the name of green renewable . ergy we re going to expose h the shameful hard left turn from the west virginiaa senator . by the way, tonight we have an interesting question. why is mayor muriel bowser, washington, d.c. finally now asking for the national guardrdn and their assistance? we ll give you that answer coming up. all right. but first tonight, our topgh ,story of the day. i wish it was not true, butst after two straight quarters ofh, negative growth, we w are officially in a recession in 2020. this is the very definition of recession. lookdeniti, that according to cc and cnbc and the l.a. times and the new york times and nancy pelosime and prettyst much every notable economist and pretty much everyone else on ea
the economy while denying his reckless spendingg led tori record prices. quote the idea t that it caused inflation is bizarre. if it s my fault, why is itwh the other major industrial? why is it the case that in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher? you asked yourself i m not being a wise guy at the end of the quote peter doocy pressing the white house on that whopperm of a claim. he says that inflation is worse everywhere but here that s, not true . u.s. says worse inflation in germany, france, japan, canada, india, italy, saudisa arabia, which i think what we are saying is that when we talk about inflation, it is a global thing and it is not just about the united states. this is something that everyone is feeling becauseth of comingts out of once 1% once in a lifetime pandemic because of the war that russia has started in ukraine. th and after blabbinge away to the ap, it seems like those close to the president didn tan want him to do