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6:30 Editor-in-chief of Breitbart News ALEX MARLOW, author of BREAKING THE LAW
ABOUT BREAKING THE LAW
Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and two-time New York Times bestselling author of Breaking the News and Breaking Biden, returns with his third book: BREAKING THE LAW: EXPOSING THE WEAPONIZATION OF AMERICA’S LEGAL SYSTEM AGAINST DONALD TRUMP (Threshold Editions; Hardcover; On-sale August 5, 2025), a fearless and thoroughly researched exposé on the new political battleground: the American legal system. In this urgent and gripping book, Marlow turns his sharp investigative lens to the legal cases targeting President Donald Trump-and what they mean for the future of the conservative movement and the rule of law in America.
BREAKING THE LAW reveals how legal institutions are being repurposed as political weapons. Marlow not only exposes the players and tactics behind this unprecedented campaign but also makes bold predictions about where this trend is heading-and what conservatives must do to fight back. Hailed “a must read” by President Trump, Marlow’s book is both timely and timeless. It’s the first major retrospective on the 2024 election and how the legal war on Trump influenced voters, media narratives, and the conservative base. This is Alex Marlow at his most uncompromising and clear-eyed.
With the same meticulous reporting and narrative drive that defined his previous works, BREAKING THE LAW offers a provocative and authoritative response to one of the most consequential legal and political stories of our time.
ABOUT ALEX MARLOW
Alexander Marlow is the New York Times bestselling author of BREAKING THE NEWS and BREAKING BIDEN. He serves as editor in chief of Breitbart News Network, where he started as Andrew Breitbart’s first employee at the age of twenty-one. He is also a national talk radio host and podcaster. Alex has been on the cover of Time and Newsweek, named in Forbes’s 30 Under 30, and called “perhaps the most significant media figure in America.”
6:45 Sherry Fisher from Elizabeth, PA (My Aunt) reports on how western Pennsylvania is coping the day after the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works Plant exploded, killing 2 and injuring 10. Elizabeth is just a few miles from the coke plant on the Monongahela River, and “as the crow flies” is only a mile from the plant.
7:10 Dr. John Lott, Economist and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center
More on John: https://crimeresearch.org/about/
CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime.
Hey, Experts – Admit What You Got So Wrong on Trump’s Tariffs
By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Economists across the political spectrum predicted that President Trump’s trade negotiations would end in disaster. Now that his Aug. 1 deadline has passed without the sky falling – and with multiple advantageous deals completed – it’s time to seriously re-evaluate the flawed arguments the experts made against his strategy. Many, it turns out, made basic errors in economic reasoning. On the left, Nobel laureate and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz declared in January that Trump’s policy was “very bad for America and for the world,” while University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers called it “impressively destructive.” On the right, prominent free-market advocates like George Mason’s Donald Boudreaux also voiced strong opposition. Yet their arguments against tariffs revealed a fundamental misunderstanding: They decried tariffs as uniquely harmful, while ignoring that the same logic applies to all taxes. [more…]
7:35 Former State Senator Herman Baertschiger and I dig into the changes at Pacificorp/Pacific Power, and the heavy lobbying done on the legislature…what did all that lobbying produce?
8:15 Mike O’Neil, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Landmark Legal Foundation www.LandmarkLegal.org and we discuss the takeover of DC Police by the Trump administration and a bit on the latest Epstein grand jury release news, too.
Michael O’Neill commented:
By invoking the Home Rule Act, President Trump has taken decisive action to restore safety and sanity in our capital city. No longer will Washington, DC tolerate crime and lawlessness. The President has legal and constitutional authority to temporarily assert federal control over the Washington Metro Police Department and to direct his federal law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. Ensuring order by apprehending and prosecuting criminals will make our capital the envy of the world and make certain that residents and visitors have a safe place to live and visit.
While the President has temporary authority to act, Congress will need to step up and make sure DC’s laws give authority to prosecutors, judges, and juries to make punish those who threaten the safety of our capital.
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6:35 Melissa Henson, vice president, Parents Television and Media Council
BIO: https://www.parentstv.org/leadership/melissa-henson-1
On X: @ThePTC
The Parents Television and Media Council is a nonpartisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment – (www.parentstv.org).
Millions of students across the country will soon be returning to school – and increasingly, they will be facing a new reality: phone-free schools!
According to the Parents Television and Media Council’s recent report, Smartphones Out of the Classroom: What States Are Doing NOW To Confront These Digital Distractions, most states have already or are in the process of implementing state-wide policies to restrict children and teens access to personal devices during the school day.
Given the significant mental health challenges America’s young people are facing – challenges that even the U.S. Surgeon General has tied to cellphone use – these measures are long overdue. A recent study revealed that giving a smartphone to a child under the age of 13 puts them at increased risk for suicide and other mental health harms.
Would you like to speak with PTC VP Melissa Henson about what kids should expect as they return to classrooms?
Related:
It’s Time To Remove Cell Phones From The Classroom
How Big Tech Hijacked the Classroom – and Our Kids are Paying the Price
The Parents Television and Media Council® (www.parentstv.org®) is a non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment. Visit the new PTC Watchdog Blog at http://www.parentstv.org/blog/. Follow the PTC on Twitter: @ThePTC
7:10 Dr. Carole Lieberman MD MPH America’s Psychiatrist Says Trump Executive Order is the Solution to Homelessness!
Democrats Come Out in Support of Mass Homeless-ness After Trump’s Executive Order Aims to Clean up the Streets
How Trump’s executive order could criminalize homelessness: ‘Terrifying’
Homeless people can be removed from streets by cities, states in new Trump executive order
Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. known world-wide as America’s Psychiatrist and the Terrorist Therapist, is the host of Dr. Carole’s Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books – 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships.
Trump Demands Homeless People Move Out of Washington, DC ‘Immediately’
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. known world-wide as America’s Psychiatrist and the Terrorist Therapist, is the host of Dr. Carole’s Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books – 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships.
Why ask Dr. Carole?
Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. knows homelessness! Why? Because she’s a board certified psychiatrist – clinical and forensic – with a lot of experience in homelessness – their needs and treatment. She was trained in psychiatry – and was Chief Resident – at NYU-Bellevue, where she saw a tsunami of homeless people in the emergency room. She also consulted to Manhattan Psychiatric Hospital in NYC and Metropolitan State Hospital in Los Angeles.
Why is Trump’s Bold Move to Get the Homeless Off the Streets a Good Solution?
It’s about time that someone endorsed a bold solution, such as President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.”Most of the homeless are mentally ill and/or addicted to substances. So, when politicians make weak attempts at solving this problem – such as by putting them in hotels temporarily, or sending social workers to give them pep talks about getting help or getting clean, it never works.
The homelessness problem started when the state psychiatric hospitals were forced to close. The plan was to give patients the ‘least restrictive environment’, meaning, let them go free and hope that they go to community mental health clinics for treatment. However, this didn’t work and could never work because when patients are schizophrenic or bipolar, and go off their medicine, they are floridly psychotic – and can’t find their way to a clinic. Similarly, when people abuse drugs and alcohol – many of them self-medicating, in the hopes of stopping their psychotic symptoms – they are looking for their next ‘fix’, not for a mental health clinic.
So, the best help we can give them is to hospitalize them involuntarily if they are a danger to self, or a danger to others, or gravely disabled. However, the problem is that most acute hospitals do not have the room for all these patients, and sending them out to the streets after 3 days of medication, won’t fix the problem. They need longterm care, which means we need to bring back the state mental hospitals! They were not really like “Cuckoo’s Nest” and are far safer than the streets!
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7:35 Richard Emmons, publisher and Editor of the OREGON EAGLE paper and site – https://oregoneagle.com/category/news/
Front page story on the Oregon Eagle detailing how Portland spending up to 97,000 dollars per homeless resident in service.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – WHERE PAST MEETS PRESENT www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Omar’s Restaurant
By Dennis Powers
Omer and Hazel Hill had run Hill’s Café at Klamath Junction, near Ashland and at the point where the Ashland-Klamath Falls Highway (known today as Highway 66, or the Green Springs Highway) met the Pacific Highway (later known as Highway 99, and the forerunner of Interstate 5). The area is now under the waters of Emigrant Lake, when the lake in 1960 greatly expanded with extensive dam construction for the TIG (Talent Irrigation District).
The Hills moved to Ashland in 1945, where they built Omar’s on the once Berkeley Hot Springs site. During the excavation process, they discovered numerous mastodon bones since the restaurant was built over a spri
- The Hills planned to call the restaurant Omer’s, but the delivered neon sign incorrectly spelled it O-M-A-R, instead of O-M-E-R. Rather than replace it, the Hills accepted the new spelling. Subsequent owners continued the Arabic-sounding name by painting a camel on the outer wall that resembled the one on Camel cigarette packages.
Omer Hill had gained “top-caliber experience” working with the Harvey railroad houses (restaurants), the Brown Derby, and Savoy Hotel in Hollywood before running Hill’s Café. This background experience with dinner houses in California soon made the Ashland restaurant one of Southern Oregon’s favorite dining spots.
In the early 1950s, owing to the Elks Club and a few other locations serving only beer and wine (plus closing early), Ashland’s mayor encouraged Omer to open a cocktail lounge at the restaurant. Even Southern Oregon College backed the idea, as its president, Elmo Stevenson, worried about students driving to Hornbrook in the mountains south of the Oregon border to imbibe. This was a dangerous drive, no matter how sober someone was, so the lounge opened. And business boomed. When the Hill’s retired in 1957, Omar’s new owners continued the quality and service traditions that they had established.
The change since then—whether from population growth, technology (TV, cellphones, and the Internet), or tourism has been considerable. The Hills built “Omar’s Steak & Chicken House” in 1946 “in the country” along South Highway 99. Southern Oregon University and Ashland’s city limits have grown considerably around its prime location at the junction of Highway 66 and Siskiyou Boulevard; and “anyone who has spent much time in Ashland–students, visitors and residents–has walked through its doors.”
Omar’s has also experienced its share of transitions. There have been a variety of owners and partnerships over the last eight decades. After the Hills and another owner, Rolar Yondorf with others bought Omar’s in 1974, where Rolar was the chef; after 27 years there Yondorf left in 2001 to partner up with Brian Porter and Tim Tolman to renovate Medford’s historic train station into the popular Porters-Dining at the Depot. Unfortunately, Porters closed and in 2025, The Old Spaghetti Factory recently opened in the facilities.
By 2016, there were three Omar’s owners: Bruce Dwight had been there since 1978; James Williams, who had started out at Omar’s when he was in high school but rejoined in 1998; and Jennifer Sink, after managing restaurants, who came in 2003 and worked in a variety of positions. When Bruce Dwight and James Williams retired, Jennifer Sink became the sole owner, having bought into the partnership ten years ago; Jennifer is still the sole owner and its sole proprietor.
Locals have voted Omar’s as the “Best Steaks & Seafood” restaurant since 1992 in Sneak Preview’s annual “Best of Ashland” poll, except for an odd year or two. The lounge fills when the main dining room overflows. The red, rolled-and-tucked upholstery is still there, while the old, historical photos and mementos picture the decades that have since passed. And it is the longest continuously operating restaurant from Portland Oregon to Redding California
“It is a step back in time,” as one reviewer wrote, and although “change is certain, good things last.”
Sources: Lance Cooper, Mail Tribune Lifestyles: “Essentially Ashland,” May 16, 2005; Nancy J. Bringhurst, “As It Was: Omar’s–Ashland’s first public bar,” Mail Tribune, August 2, 2017; see Omar’s Website: “About” at its website.
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