Date: March 7, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
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Tonight, President Biden will deliver his State of the Union address. Before Jim opened the phone lines for listeners to weigh in on that topic, he brought forth information on the following stories:
The U.C. Santa Barbara Black Studies Department has organized what’s being called, “A Day of Interruption.” It’s taking place today with subsequent “work slowdowns” to protest steps that the administrators recently took to support Jewish students and to quell anti-semitic protests on campus.
According to Axios, more than half (65%) of voters think that the nation is heading in the wrong direction. That’s according to a poll the New York Times and Siena College published Saturday.
The GOP led House passed the Laken Riley Act. This bill would require the detention of illegal immigrants who commit certain crimes. It would allow states to sue the Biden administration for not enforcing parole. It’s designed to prevent another murder like the one of Laken Riley by ending the “catch and release” of illegal aliens, increasing immigration enforcement, detaining and removing criminal aliens, reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy and ending Biden’s abuse of parole authority and securing the U.S. border. It now moves to the U.S. Senate.
President Biden ordered protective fencing installed around the U.S. Capitol in advance of tonight’s State of the Union address. It’s apparently designed to keep “bad actors” from infiltrating the security perimeter. So why can’t we have such protection at the nation’s border?
One of the individuals that will be in the box with the president’s wife during tonight’s State of the Union address will be Kate Cox, the Texas woman who traveled to another state to kill her disabled, late-term baby.
Former President Trump will be offering live, play-by-play commentary on President Biden’s State of the Union address.
During the remainder of the program, listeners were asked to call in and answer the following question: The state of the union is…