First hour of the show, Kerby welcomes back Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch. They will discuss his book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). In his book, Spencer offers a bold defense of freedom of speech—the single most valuable freedom humanity has, a freedom now endangered world-wide.
In the second hour we hear from General William Boykin, Family Research Council’s executive vice president. He discusses President Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military.
He was one of the original members of the U.S. Army's Delta Force. He was privileged to ultimately command these elite warriors in combat operations. Later, Jerry Boykin commanded all the Army's Green Berets as well as the Special Warfare Center and School.
In all, Lt. Gen. Boykin spent 36 years in the army, serving his last four years as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. He is an ordained minister with a passion for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and encouraging Christians to become warriors in God's Kingdom.
Jerry and his wife Ashley enjoy spending time with their five children and growing number of grandchildren.
longstanding policies that excluded those who identify as transgender from serving in the U.S. military
on both psychological and medical grounds.
1. As of that date, the armed services stopped discharging existing service members who suffer from gender dysphoria (unhappiness with their biological sex at birth) or who seek gender reassignment surgery, and as of October 1, 2016, began providing medical services to aid in their “transition” to living as the opposite gender.
As time goes by, it’s increasingly clear that there’s something limiting and false about the “just call balls and strikes” approach to analyzing the Trump presidency. Yes, you can praise Trump when he does right and critique him when he does wrong, but at some level that small-ball approach to evaluating Trump simply fails. He does good things, and he does bad things, but he does all things against a backdrop of impulsiveness, chaos, and divisiveness that undermines sound polices even as it does immense damage to the body politic.
Take, for example, the first version of his so-called travel ban. While I agreed with the fundamental policy goals — a slight moderation on refugee admissions, general re-evaluation of security-screening procedures, and a pause on entries from specific jihadist nations — the actual implementation was so chaotic and incompetent that it not only triggered national hysteria, it undermined public support for even relatively modest immigration reforms. Trump’s administration dropped a poorly written, poorly supported policy into the public square, interpreted it as cruelly and maliciously as possible, and has been on the defensive ever since.
I guess the millions of people who were about to drop dead where they stood because Congress will now debate Obamacare repeal aren’t an issue anymore.
Squirrel!
J.R. Salzman is a writer, wounded warrior and a veteran who has served in Iraq and he took the time Wednesday morning to share his own thoughts on the ban and life in the military. It immediately began to go viral, with Salzman eventually telling folks not to expect any more responses to the thousands of replies he’s been receiving since he first posted.
Salzman laid out a passionate and logical defense of Trump’s ban. Do you agree with him? Disagree? Drop your thoughts in the comments section…
…and thank you Mr. Salzman for your service.