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Out of the midst of apparent chaos, order is being created. Sudan which ten years ago was embroiled in a bitter civil war with what became South Sudan had long harbored terrorists with a fierce hatred of the West and Israel.

Days ago in a deal brokered by the Trump Administration, Sudan's government lay aside decades of nursed grievances and set up a victims' compensation fund for the Al Qaeda bombings of the US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. $335 million was transferred to US controlled banks, as part of having international sanctions lifted.

In addition, Khartoum has recognized the State of Israel, making it the third Arab country in the last few months to cease its simmering state of violence with the Jewish State. Join us as we discuss the rampant progress in the region and the growing power of the young people who have grown bored with their grandparents' hatreds and preoccupations. 

Our beloved Co-Hosts discuss Hunter Biden's laptop, Rick James's views on cocaine and the complex questions raised about the First Amendment, information dissemination and what if anything qualifies as censorship. 

Join James and Christopher for a feisty debate about the limitations or lack thereof of governmental authority and how clear the view is from Flyover Country. Welcome to the Hashtag-Free Zone! 

Our beloved Co-Hosts discuss Hunter Biden's laptop, Rick James's views on cocaine and the complex questions raised about the First Amendment, information dissemination and what if anything qualifies as censorship. 

Join James and Christopher for a feisty debate about the limitations or lack thereof of governmental authority and how clear the view is from Flyover Country. Welcome to the Hashtag-Free Zone! 

Rik Mehta is running against Cory Booker (D, Thebes) for his US Senate seat. The people of New Jersey are suffering through an economic crisis created by Governor Murphy, who is sitting on billions of dollars in relief money he refuses to distribute, all while prosecuting and persecuting honest, hardworking citizens who want to go back to work and send their kids to school.

Cory Booker as a US Senator could and should encourage Gov. Murphy to disburse those FEDERAL funds, but he has not bothered to do so. Further, he takes his Senate seat for granted, acts as if it is his own personal platform from which he casually smears and insults excellent candidates for the Supreme Court, and in an election year thinks so little of his constituents that he agreed to a debate with Rik Mehta but for the last five weeks has ignored every call from the Mehta campaign to schedule that debate.

Have a listen while Rik Mehta joins the hosts of Messy Times to discuss his serious policy proposals to improve New Jersey and American lives and liberties. From rational school choice, expanding freedom of economic opportunity and addressing the root causes of skyrocketing healthcare costs, Rik Mehta has a clear vision for improving our nation, a nation which he cherishes as the son of legal immigrants.

Avid Messy Timers know that your gracious co-hosts love nothing so much as sound public policy which provides clear rules and a level playing field for all Americans to pursue their ambitions free of government meddling. Few things enrage those same co-hosts as much as when corporations pay lobbyists to get laws passed for the sole purpose of restricting competition. State licensing laws about haircutting licenses, for example, have led to heavily armed SWAT teams crashing into a storefront because they were looking for unlicensed barbers.

That sort of nonsense has been happening in many States for years, all of it designed to protect vested interests and always with the horrible outcome of squashing people on the low end of the economic ladder from getting ahead. You don't need the drama and danger of a SWAT raid to have your life ruined. The Institute for Justice represents countless Americans who've been persecuted by these insane, unjustified and unjust laws that do nothing but harm hard-working individuals, like the young woman in Texas who set up a hair braiding business, only to be arrested in handcuffs and thrown in jail because she hadn't spent $25,000 and a year of her life in a full-time cosmetology school which - for the icing on the irony cake - does not even teach hair braiding. 

Justin Pearson, the lead lawyer in IJ's Florida office joins Messy Times for a discussion of these abusive laws and what is being done to end them. There are often hundreds of licenses required in a given State. Learn what IJ is going in its fight for Constitutional order, and what you can do to stop these governmental abuses of formerly free Americans. 

https://gbdeclaration.org/ Sign the Great Barrington Declaration. It's pretty great.

Kamala and Joe have told us a lot of things by what they refuse to say: They won't commit to their Leftwing base's fanatic need to add Justices to the Supreme Court, changing it from the 9 Justices we've had for 150 years,  We're supposed to elect them and they'll tell us AFTER the election what their policy is! Last time we heard that was when Nancy Pelosi told Americans that we had to pass ObamaCare "so we could find out what's in it!" Do you remember that doctor you were going to be allowed to keep and the health plan you loved that you were also going to be allowed to keep? A distant memory, right? Cast your mind back...

Call us at Messy Times stupid, but we think the voters should hear what your plans are BEFORE we vote for you. They're hoping enough people hate Orange Man Bad enough to overlook this blatant madness, because frustrated Marxists can never (honestly) convince enough Americans to vote for their nonsense, so rely on legislating from the bench.

Mike Pence asked Kamala about the Green New Deal 11 times during their "debate" and she refused to answer, despite being one of the original co-sponsors of this woolly-headed idiocy in the Senate. They're going to retrofit your home or building whether you like it or not, take away your cars, ban air travel and make a cheeseburger cost $300.

https://gbdeclaration.org/ Sign the Great Barrington Declaration. It's pretty great.

Kamala and Joe have told us a lot of things by what they refuse to say: They won't commit to their Leftwing base's fanatic need to add Justices to the Supreme Court, changing it from the 9 Justices we've had for 150 years,  We're supposed to elect them and they'll tell us AFTER the election what their policy is! Last time we heard that was when Nancy Pelosi told Americans that we had to pass ObamaCare "so we could find out what's in it!" Do you remember that doctor you were going to be allowed to keep and the health plan you loved that you were also going to be allowed to keep? A distant memory, right? Cast your mind back...

Call us at Messy Times stupid, but we think the voters should hear what your plans are BEFORE we vote for you. They're hoping enough people hate Orange Man Bad enough to overlook this blatant madness, because frustrated Marxists can never (honestly) convince enough Americans to vote for their nonsense, so rely on legislating from the bench.

Mike Pence asked Kamala about the Green New Deal 11 times during their "debate" and she refused to answer, despite being one of the original co-sponsors of this woolly-headed idiocy in the Senate. They're going to retrofit your home or building whether you like it or not, take away your cars, ban air travel and make a cheeseburger cost $300.

So many boondoggles, lies and screams from the Swamp that it's hard to keep track. Not only do Nancy Pelosi and every other Shutdown Democrat not give one mosquito's fart in a hurricane about the average American thrown out of work, but when given the chance to deliver a useful piece of legislation to the President's desk for signature which would immediately start sending much needed checks to out of work Americans, Nancy Pelosi's Democrats will not deliver that relief for American workers. 

She refuses to provide much needed help to struggling Americans. Her definition of "stimulus" includes releasing violent convicts from jail, already-broke States like New York and California getting bailed out of decades of bad choices, and, let's see, oh, right, people who are breaking the law by being in this country illegally also get some of that borrowed cheddar our great-grandchildren will have to pay off.

Instead of feeding starving American children, Nancy wants to invoke the 25th Amendment which makes one wonder: If we are weeks away from an election all the Media assure us will usher in The Harris Regency, why is Nancy bothering to try to remove Trump at the 11th hour?

Every American should sign the Great Barrington Declaration.  https://gbdeclaration.org/  End these fascist, pointless shutdowns. Be free again. If everyone opened up their businesses, houses of worship and schools immediately, what would these fools drunk on power like Governors Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy and Cuomo DO about it? Enough of this nonsense. A free, functioning economy doesn't need to steal from the unborn. 

The grating new  mantra of some of our fellow citizens is "Follow the science." In this episode, we delve into the history of mantras, the ability of a seemingly simple sentence to take on a whole range of often insane meanings, and why the repeated abuse of a few simple words is both driving Americans apart and - when used correctly - is the key to our survival.

Plenty of art is designed to provoke a response. One might even suggest that the more impassioned a response a piece of art elicits, the more effective is the work. Judging by the mass destruction of public art this summer across American cities by spoiled brats in the throes of cancel culture, apparently today's youth are more sensitive to art's power than their elders are or were. 

If given a thousand guesses as to what piece of art had been destroyed during 2020's Marxist Summer of Destruction and Inchoate Demands, your friends at Messy Times would never have come up with this example.

On June 30th, 55-year-old Dr. Sean Morrison of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, stole and destroyed a bronze sculpture of Christopher Columbus, which was sitting in a niche in his co-op lobby, having been placed there by a neighbor and fellow co-op owner, John Cartafalsa, a 91-year-old WW2 veteran and retired attorney. The statue had been there for 30 years, so what drove Dr. Morrison to steal a neighbor's statue and destroy it?

We'll find out on December 8th when he faces trial for petit larceny, but what he has said to date is the combination of George Floyd's death in May and seeing patients die of the Wuhan Virus made him angry at Christopher Columbus. We hope he is forced to explain to the rest of us who fail to see any connection between those three things what made him destroy an elderly WW2 veteran's statue, which had been given to him in 1957 when he graduated from law school by Sicilian family members.