Rick Green [00:00:07] Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the WallBuilders Show on a Friday. Love our Good News Friday programs. Chance to catch up on some of the good things that have happened over the last week or so, Tim and David Barton gathered in that good news for us. I'm Rick Green. We're glad you're on board with us. Be sure and visit our websites at wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.show. And with that, let's jump into some good news. David, where do you want to start us, man? 

Tim Barton [00:00:30] Well, it's now Rick. Let me let me interject when you're saying David where do you want to start? I think it's worth saying David. Where are you starting from? Specifically, because hey Dad, what's New York City like right now? How is it with? Have you brought your two forms of ID and Social Security number you can make his extra money shoveling snow? Like what's happening up there?

Rick Green [00:00:52] Is he out shoveling while we're doing the show? Is that how we're doing this? 

David Barton [00:00:53] I'm only here to vote, so I don't need any ID. If I was shoveling snow, I would need two forms of ID, but I'm just here to vote, so no ID required. It's really, yeah, really simple. And by the way, it is remarkably, I mean, for getting three feet of snow, they must have a lot of shovelers, so they had 40 degrees something today and it all melted, because when we got here, it was not bad at all. 

Rick Green [00:01:16] No ID needed, no shovel needed, but good news is needed. 

David Barton [00:01:21] Yeah, good news is needed and it's going to be some fun stuff coming up as getting into the 250th Fox Nation is doing some great stuff on Founding Fathers, George Washington, the nation and so I'm here to help them on the first six presidents and do some programs with Brian Kilmeade and Fox Nation for the Fox channe. So that's New York City and, you know, New York City is not the place I love coming to but, you know, there's good stuff going on up here as well. So got to acknowledge that for sure. 

Rick Green [00:01:54] It is weird though that, you know, I don't know, Tim, 80 degrees in Texas and David's got to endure snow. But at least it's not, you know, three feet of snow that you're having to walk in. So yeah, I didn't realize you were doing those, doing that with Fox. So, they're, ya know Kilmeade's done some history books. I know he loves history. They obviously want to do some things for 250th, thrilled that, WallBuilders is getting to participate in that. Will you do sort of a breakdown? You said on the presidents, that's what you're going to start with for them. 

David Barton [00:02:23] Yeah, you know, Brian and I back at the start of the Trump administration, he and I were both asked by the State Department to come talk about the Founding Fathers and foreign aid. And we did. And that's the week that they said, okay, we're done with USAID. That kind of goes out the door. It was really easy. Founding Fathers didn't believe in foreign aid at all. And so, I think there was like one example, 1830's of where they gave my 25,000 to Venezuela, maybe who had a catastrophic earthquake, and that's about it in foreign aid until you get up into post-World War II. So, it was real easy, great people over at the State Department trying to clean things up, and so they just wiped-out USAID, said that's the end of that organization. And so at that point in time, Brian and I got acquainted, both like history, both do stuff, and so he has written books on history, The Barbary Pirates, others, and wanted to do on the Founding Fathers in history and really this, I think what we're doing this week is going through the first six presidents and some of their major contributions and looking back at what brought us here. And he's got a take on it that our 250th wouldn't happen if it hadn't been for George Washington. And so, let's look at him and the guys around him. So that's kind of the spin we're doin' this week. 

Rick Green [00:03:44] Nice, all right, now Tim, the question the question is, should we count that as a good news item for David or does he get to do another good news? Like that seems like a good new item, but it's really just more of here's why I'm in New York. So I'm, I don't know. I'm lost. I'm not sure what to do here. 

Tim Barton [00:03:57] Well, also in fairness, he was going to skip right over it. I'm the one that had to point out, hey, you're somewhere special doing something unique right now. So I'm not going to count that against him. 

Rick Green [00:04:06] I think Tim's tossing back. 

Tim Barton [00:04:08] Yeah, I think it's totally fair. 

Rick Green [00:04:11] All right, there we go, DB, it's up to you, man. 

David Barton [00:04:13] Then I am starting with two tweets that came out of the Trump administration, not at the same time, they came out separately, and one says, James Hundley, you're fired. And the other one says-. 

Tim Barton [00:04:28] Now wait a second, Dad, is this like- a year or two ago right? 

David Barton [00:04:29] No it's not it's there’s....

Tim Barton [00:04:32] Nobody there's there there's no such thing as tweets anymore. Nobody tweets. I don't know what we're talking about. 

David Barton [00:04:37] That's a good point. You know, that's what they called it here, let's see. 

Tim Barton [00:04:39] Oh, do you mean somebody posted on their X-account? 

David Barton [00:04:41] X, that would be it. Oh, you're so right, it is a comment on X. Oh my, I missed that one. Boy, I whiffed on that one-. 

Tim Barton [00:04:49] Elon Musk forgives you, it's okay. 

David Barton [00:04:51] Sorry, Elon Musk, you are right. X, so one of them says, James Hundley, you're fired. And the other says, you've fired Donald Kinsella. Now, that's two really great tweets and probably nobody knows, has a clue who they are. So let me kind of back up and say, all right, James Hundley, you're fired. You're fired, Donald Kinsella. I don't know either one of those two guys. I don't know anything about them. They may be absolutely wonderful people. They may phenomenal folks. I might like them if I got to know them. I don't know them, what I like about them being fired is that one tweet of the first, well, the first time Donald Kincella asked a tweet again. Sorry, Tim. The first X post- 

Tim Barton [00:05:35] You've been saying it the whole time. It's okay. I forgive you. 

David Barton [00:05:37] I'll catch up so the first X posting from Attorney General Pam Bondi said your final Donald Kinsella. And then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blantz says James Hunley you're fired. And now the reason this is significant is both of these guys were US attorneys Hunley was the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and Kinsell is the US Attorney for the Northern District in New York. They're both prosecutors. They're, both federal prosecutors and they're both gone and they haven't served a single day. And the reason why I love this so much is because these two guys were both appointed by judges in those districts. And judges have absolutely no business appointing anyone in the Executive Branch. And so, the judges in the Eastern District of Virginia, a federal prosecutor retired there and the judges said, okay, we're appointing James Hundley as the federal prosecutor in Eastern District Virginia. And Todd Blanton says, no you're not. Huntley, you're fired. Don't know you, don't know anything about you. Well, they probably did know something. But you're even day one on the job and you're fired. I love the fact that the Trump administration is keeping separation of powers here. You do not let judges tell the administration who their people are gonna be because that's the Executive Branch. They're the ones that choose the prosecutors, not the judges. So, I love this just from a constitutional standpoint. Again, nothing against James Hunley, nothing against Donald Kinsella, everything for the fact that the judges, I mean they've got to be completely ignorant of the Constitution to even try to appoint someone in the Executive Branch, but they did, and to the credit of the Executive Branch, Pam Bondi, Attorney General, she said no way. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, no way, you're not working for us, no judges are going to tell us who we appoint and who we don't appoint. So I think that's. Absolutely phenomenally good news. 

Rick Green [00:07:32] Well, David, I thought judges- were the only good people. Like aren't they the only neutral, not biased, I don't have any allegiances to anybody? I mean they're held out to be these just I mean even as they sat there last night or night before last whenever was, two nights ago for the for the State of the Union. You know you think oh they must not have opinions on anything. It's such a scam. I totally get what you're saying is like talk about a violation of separation of powers crazy but yeah It is part of this. They're the only ones that can neutrally administer the government. 

David Barton [00:08:04] Yeah, it's crazy and you know at some point we're going to get our law schools back. I think we are but now we've got to get rid of 100 years progressive thought. One of the things that's coming up as we're working on history standards in Texas, I'll let it slide simply because I don't have the votes, but they put Marbury versus Madison case in there for students to learn about and how Marbury vs Madison is what established judicial review. Time out. Marbury versus Madison both Jefferson and Madison called that case a perversion of the law, and they totally ignored it. And now law schools in progressive era, starting back in the early 1900s, said, oh, this proves that the judges have the right to have the final say on what the other branches do. Well, when that was tried under Thomas Jefferson and Madison was the Secretary of State, they both said, absolutely no way do judges tell the executive branch what to do. And so, to your point, Rick, it's not even just judges making appointments, its judges telling the branch what to do. They said, hey, you know, this thing that happened with John Marshall, that happened at the end of Adams' term, you have to go ahead and do exactly what John Adams tried to do and was unsuccessful doing. So President Jefferson, do, we the court are telling you to do what John Adam's did not get done. And they said, you don't tell us what to do. You're the judges. You're not the ones that run the president, the executive branch. And now look, we let the executive branch have the final word on all three branches, which is nonsense under the Founding Fathers. But again, I conceded that point because I simply don't have the votes yet to be able to fix that. But at some point, we're gonna get back with law school's teaching that Marbury versus Madison was a complete aberration. It was an embarrassment to John Marshall. It was an embarrassment at the early stages of the Founding Fathers. They did not put up with it, but at least we're not quite talking about that with this story. We are talking about the executive branch pushing back in the right direction, which is really good. 

Rick Green [00:10:07] Yeah, good stuff. Tim, I promise I'm coming to you for your piece of good news, but one more dig on the, on the on the courts, because in the same way, like you're saying, David, where they just, you know, start taking all this power, they even, they even taking upon themselves to modify the constitution and to find the powers of everybody else. And Robert's even said in the Obamacare case that the powers of Congress under the commerce clause are well established to be, you know, these broad powers or whatever. And the question is always well established by whom but by them, they think they get to decide these things. It's just, it's over the top, but of course it is coming back around. We're starting to see, you know, some, some trimming of their power and some good justices like Alito and Thomas pushing really hard to get them back in their box. So, but anyway, good, good stuff from the executive pushing back. Tim, go ahead, man. 

Tim Barton [00:10:53] Yeah, I was gonna say one thing worth adding to this, too, is, you know, we've talked often about like the ninth and 10th Amendment, the 10th Amendment being like the state's rights kind of amendment thought. Where the 10 Amendment says whatever is not explicitly given to the federal government and the Constitution, it belongs to the state. States have that power and authority. And one of the things we have lamented is that far-far too few states actually have done things to protect their sovereignty to some extent saying wait a second federal government you don't have the authority to come in and do some of these things there should be limitations but just like we have seen the lack of response from states to assert their own position and authority we've really seen that lack in the Legislative Branch when I mean we're grueling to your point when Obamacare came down and they say Well, you know, the way this was written, it's not really constitutional. But if you do it as a tax, it is. So, we're just gonna consider it a tax and therefore this legislature stands. You're going, wait a second, that this is literally like judges amending a piece of legislation without going through the legislative process. That this wasn't assigned to a committee, that there wasn't some floor amendment. This literally was just judges making legislation from events. And so, judges have become the Legislative Branch. Of course, the Judicial Branch. And now, even trying to be the Executive Branch in some degree, we have not seen the branches protect their own sovereignty of jurisdiction, saying, wait a second, this is our authority. You have no authority in this. And this is one of, again, the many remarkable things we've seen from the Trump administration is they have actually worked to protect their jurisdiction to some extent and even encourage the other branches to operate inside of their defined jurisdiction as outlined in the Constitution. And so there really is a lot of good things coming from that. 

Rick Green [00:12:43] It's exactly what you described, Tim. It's one branch has to push back like if they if they step onto your turf step onto that, you know, territory that you're supposed to be governing and making the decisions on you got to push back and we're finally starting to see a little bit more of that Okay, so let's get a piece of good news from Tim before we go to break. 

Tim Barton [00:12:56] Well, this one deals with something we all saw at the State of the Union with the chance of USA! USA! It is the men's gold. champion Olympic winning men's hockey team. And the article highlights that I'm referencing. The article title is a little long, but it's " American Jacob Slavin, fueled by Faith, Helps Lead USA to Historic Olympic Gold". And what the article does is it's kind of introduced people to Jacob if they don't know him. He is a professional hockey player in the NHL for 11 years and it kind of goes through some of his accolades. But what's so cool, when they start with him, they get into some other people on the gold medal team that are people of faith as well. But what is so fun about Jacob, I didn't know this. I don't follow hockey all that closely. Being in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Dallas Stars are doing really well. I will track them, but I am, I'm not a fair-weather fan. I'm just saying a disengaged individual that if our team is going to, you know, some kind of big deal playoffs, I'm kind of a casual observer fan on the outside. So, I don't know most of these guys that are on the Olympic gold medal winning team that are on Team USA, but Jacob Slavin apparently is outspoken in his faith. This article is highlighting on his social media. It has his life verse listed on his social media, all of his platforms, and it's Galatians 1:10. Galatian 1:10 is where Paul is asking the question, am I trying to win the approval of man or of God? I was trying to when the approval man, I wouldn't be a servant of God. He was interviewed by a reporter from Colorado and he was explaining that his whole life, he's trying to do things to honor God, to point people to faith. He said "hockey is just a tool that I get to use as a platform to glorify Him." And goes on with some of the detail. The reason I bring it up guys is one of the things not just it's so cool that we won gold and we haven't done that since "The Miracle" back when I was a child. Rick, you, Dad, you, probably remember that. I don't remember any of this is a kid. I just remember the Disney movie that came out a decade or two ago that told the story of "The Miracle" the men's team winning against the Russians and all this kind of surrounding stuff. What is cool is not just that we have once again won a gold medal in America. But it is cool that the people that are on this team are overwhelmingly, not just pro-America, but even pro-God to some extent. Now, I'm not suggesting that all of our kids should model their lives after all the behavior of these men. That's not what I'm saying. But when you have people that becoming far more open about expressing their belief in God and acknowledging God and even putting Bible verses on their social media profile, identifying this as their life verse. Guys, it's just so cool. The article goes through to list several other players on the US, again, gold medal winning hockey team, but it's really great that in the midst of us celebrating these men that did something really special for our nation, the fact that faith is a very forward part of many of these interviews and expressions is just so cool to see. 

Rick Green [00:16:11] Good stuff. And, and man, what a great display of, of just grit and strength and, and patriotism and all those things. And you know, I, I don't remember watching it as a kid. Definitely remember the movie and definitely remember the, you know, it being a positive, like in the middle of the, you know Reagan's really just beginning to take on the, you know talk about the Soviet Union, the way that he did. And, so it was a big deal for them to win that. And then of course, Reagan ends up getting elected president and, and, and comes in and implements a lot of things that he was saying after that. So, it did help with the patriotism come back. 

David Barton [00:16:49] It is a great movie for those who haven't seen the movie. I mean the movie really is great. Made, you know a number of years ago, but it has a real patriotic tone and it's kind of like you get done with it and you go, that was really good I like that. And it's a really heartwarming movie. It's just a great story And it great acting so it's worth seeing if you haven't seeing "The Miracle" after what just happened over in Italy, it's worth going back and seeing what happened forty-six years ago. How special that was when it was college players taking on the pros of the world and how America won it. It's a great movie.

Rick Green [00:17:30] And how poetic, 46 years later on the same day to, to win gold again. I guess another communist... Oh, no, I'm sorry. They're socialist country. Sorry, I shouldn't, shouldn't say that about Canada, our neighbors. Okay, quick break. We'll be right back. We got more good news. When we return, you're listening to the WallBuilders Show. 

Rick Green [00:18:52] Welcome back to the WallBuilders Show. Thanks for staying with us on this Good News Friday. Back over to David for another piece of good news. 

David Barton [00:18:58] Well, actually, this one I'm going to leave the United States for a while, and this is, I guess, maybe kind of different, but I think... I think there's some nations across the world that are really, really significant. I think Israel's a very significant nation. I think significant not only biblically, but also because of having that friend in the Middle East, having that stable ally there in such an unhealthy part of the country, or a part of world where there are so many problems. I think that we've talked about some other nations that we think are really kind of key. And I really believe that Europe has lost its brain in so many ways. They have gotten so progressive. They went so far over the cliff with all the climate change and with all of the global warming. They were evangelists for that even before America was. And they've just, they've lost their mind in so much ways with immigration. I was over there the two times, and this has to be, oh man, 15 years ago maybe. I was invited over to do military bases in Germany for America military bases and also military base in England. And both times I was there is when Muslims tried to one time blow up the British airport, another time tried to blow up the British subway and there were polls taken both times of Muslims living in the nation and about one fourth of Muslims said, yeah, we'd be happy to blow up the nation we're living in. We'd be to blow Great Britain and the cab drivers and I really like talking to the cab drivers because they're the common everyday people and they're not going to say much bad unless you can get them really talking and we did. And they said man this this immigration stuff the EU telling us that we can't screen immigrants that we have to take anybody that comes this is so bad and we're letting in people who hate us and who want to blow us up we can keep them out. And we were in Poland at the time several times in Poland and Poland said, we don't care what the EU says, we're not goin part of it, we're gonna do what's best for Poland, not best for the EU. And so, with all this stuff that's gone, Great Britain has just lost their brains. Just in the last couple weeks, there was a guy who got beat up because he was, I think, pro-life, then they arrested the guy who'd got beat-up, not the guys who attacked him because you shouldn't have been pro-live. Being pro-live triggered everybody, and it's just crazy, they're arresting people. Because they think they're silently praying in certain places in Great Britain for silently, and they can't even tell they're praying, but it looked like you were silently praying, so you're arrested. I mean, Great Britain has just gone off the rails in so many ways, and that's why this is a very positive story from Great Britain, because I think if Great Britain goes under, Europe's in serious, serious trouble. I think that is the one country that still had some common sense now they've lost a lot of it with the EU, but. Here's what happened; Robert Lowe is a current member of parliament, and he has just announced a new political party called Restore Britain. And it's gone through, and it really, it sounds like Trump. He says, what's necessary will be incredibly painful, but for the first time in a long time, voters will have a genuine alternative, which is truthful with them about what has to be done. He said the first priority is to control our country and who comes to our country, who stays in our country. Restore Britain will not just stop mass immigration, we'll reverse it. Every single illegal immigrant will be securely detained and then deported. If you're in this country without permission, you'll be removed and for the foreseeable future, far more people will be leaving Britain than arrive in Britain. If you are unable to speak English, if you live in social housing, if you claim benefits, if you refuse to work. If you fail to integrate, if you commit crimes or even actively hate our way of life and wish to do us harm, you will leave or be made to leave. And it just goes through all this stuff that says restore Britain, we'll celebrate our Christian heritage, the identity that built and shaped this country. That means we'll defend our culture. This means resisting the relentless creep of radical Islam. That means, we'll ban the burka. We'll outlaw Sharia law. We'll our cousin marriages. We'll reimpose our Christian based rule of law. And we will not deny a biological reality. We will not indulge this madness. Men will be banned from women's sports category and absolutely and on he goes. I mean, this is not what you're seeing in Great Britain and any of the political parties right now. But here's what I like about it, is not just starting a political party, Great Britain has a population of under 70 million. When he posted this new party and said, here's we do, here's our platform, they got 35.5 million likes and supports. Now, if that's indicative of what's actually there, and I don't know that just liking something doesn't mean that you're gonna vote for it or anything else. But that's the first genuine hope that I've actually seen in a number of years in Britain that maybe there is a sleeping majority there that's had it with the stupidity and says, hey, we wanna come back. We wanna be part of the Christian Western civilization again, and I hope that's case and I hope this works really well because we just cannot afford for Britain to go under. There's just too much in Europe that depends on Great Britain being a strong ally and a strong partner. So that's my good news. It's good for America secondary tertiary. But it'd be great for Europe, which would be good for America. 

Rick Green [00:24:12] Yeah, I got to say David, it was probably only 34,999,999 Britain Brits because I liked it. I loved it. I mean that video, that guy out on the farm talking through saying all those things you're talking. I mean, it, it so good. It was so refreshing. I was thinking we need to do everything he's talking about doing. He's like a, he's like, a mild manner Trump. Right? A mild-mannered Churchill. I mean it was just everything you just read. And it's like, oh, like an eight minute, maybe 10-minute video, but he just summarizes all the policy needed to turn Britain around and it's so, so good. And I am so glad that it went viral. And I think you're right. There's something churning right now, not just for us here in America, but in Great Britain as well. Hey, Tim, you got a quick one to, to close us out for good news today?

Tim Barton [00:25:01] Yes, this comes from the Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy who announced, I think this was a last Friday, when he said this, he said that from now on if you get your CDL, your commercial driver’s license, that those tests from now, on will only be done in English. Why does that matter? Because one of the things we've seen is, right, some of these crazy states that are giving out their CDL licenses whether it be New York, California, etc. The people that can't read English, don't speak English and there been some really tragic accidents and wrecks loss of American life. Because of some of the people that were driving down the wrong way on the highway or etc. Whatever else. This should have been like from the beginning the way it was. I don't know why there were options to take your CDL license and other languages. It seems crazy, but it's great that we have a government right now that is saying, you know what? If you're driving on American roads, you need to speak some English. You need to be able to read these signs in English. So really good news from the Department of Transportation. 

Rick Green [00:26:08] Love it. Yeah. Back to these common-sense things. In fact, I remember President Trump saying a couple of times in the State of the Union earlier this week when he was, he was like, I can't believe we're having to say this if you'd said this 15 years ago, people would thought you were crazy, but here we are. We got to say it. So yeah, that's one of those for sure. All right, guys. Thanks for the good news. We'll have a lot more good news next week. Everybody make sure you check out our websites today, wallbuilders.com for all of our main information and different events coming up and everything except the radio program and then wallbuilders.show is the easy place to go and download the program or share it with your friends and family. Have a great weekend. Thanks for listening to the WallBuilders Show .