Today's Issues continues on AFR with your hosts Tim Wildman
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your.
>> Steve Jordahl: Host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on American Family radio. We got 24 and a half more minutes of the program today. I'm Tim with Wesley and Ray, and we thank you for listening. And then in studio with us now is Steve Paisley. Jordow.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, good morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey. before we get into the news, that you're going to present us with Steve Wesley.
Preborn offers ultrasounds to moms who are considering abortion
you want to talk about.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, I would. Each year, we have a handful of ministries that we partner with and share our platform because we believe strongly in what they do. And in addition to that, they're doing something a little bit more unique day to day than we are doing, but they're doing Christian ministry. And one of those is PreBorn. Preborn offers ultrasounds to moms who are considering abortion or are unsure or in shock of what, are surprised that they're pregnant and they're just not knowing what to do. And so PreBorn offers free ultrasounds. But their ultrasounds that are free are because of listener supporters who donate finances, that donate their money in order to cover the cost for those that are, in that situation. And so for Your gift of $28 provides one woman seeking an abortion a free ultrasound and giving the mom an opportunity to choose life for her baby. And $140 provides five free ultrasound sessions reaching five women with the message of life. And you can call in at 877-616-2396 or you can visit our, [email protected] to donate or financially support the effort of preborn. Most of our audience, if you've been listening to us for any length of time, y' all know that we do this annually. And this is our week where we pause and we emphasize and give a commercial to preborn. And we ask you to go financially support the work that they're doing. They have saved tens of thousands of women's lives. And there's around, 10,000 women have made a commitment to Christ because in addition to providing free ultrasounds, they have a, process in which they share the gospel and disciple and minister to them as well. So please go to afr.net there you can donate or calling at 877-616-2396. And you can help us partner with preborn in saving the lives of babies, Unborn babies.
The Bible teaches that human life begins at conception, Ray Jackson says
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, this is, Pro Life month. January always is. We here at AFA and AFR are, pro life because God is pro life and the Bible is pro life. So, Ray, can you. Can you document that for me?
>> Tim Wildmon: How about Psalm 139, knit together in my mother's womb, fearfully and wonderfully made. That, before David says, before I was born, Lord, when I was in the womb, you put together the parts of my unborn body. You connected them, you made them, you made me what I am in my mother's womb. Jeremiah 1:5 says that, before I was born, Lord, you called me from the womb. Nothing could be clearer in the Bible that authentic human life begins at the moment of conception. And when we kill preborn babies, we are killing life made in the image of. So you're entirely right. The Bible is pro life because God is pro life.
>> Tim Wildmon: So the Bible supports biological, biology and biology, which we all learned in seventh grade, right. That life begins at conception. so you're telling me, Ray, that you believe, or the Bible teaches you believe what? The Bible teaches that human life, given to us by God, begins at conception.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's exactly right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: Begins at that very moment. And the people who talk about it being just part of the woman's tissue, you know. No, no. This is, from the moment of conception, biologically speaking. That is an independent human life. Yes, it is tiny. Yes. In the beginning, it is microscopic. Yes. It depends on the mother for its nourishment, the gestational period. But when you kill an unborn baby, you are taking life made in the image of God and thank God for preborn and all those wonderful organizations that are doing whatever they need to do to preserve life protected and to help moms make wise decisions to decide on the side of life, not death.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we're asking you to make a financial donation to PreBorn of any amount to help them. Because when they. We partner with them here at afr and when they reach out and have the young ladies who are pregnant come in and see the baby on the ultrasound, they come in voluntarily and they see the baby on the ultrasound. most of the time, it changes their mind about going through with the abortion, and they decide to give their baby up for adoption, for example. So, Wesley, what's the. What's the phone number and website to make a donation? is there a particular amount we're asking for? How many are just, just a donation of any size?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, well, we're at. Well, a couple things. The date started yesterday, so. Yesterday, January 19th through January 30th. January 19th through January 30th is when we're partnering with, with PreBorn to promote and advertise what they're doing on American Family Radio. And you can call in at 877.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let me just say one thing. $28 provides one woman seeking an abortion a free ultrasound.
>> Tim Wildmon: So if you want to know, how can I pay? How much does it cost to pay for one free ultrasound that could potentially save the life of an unborn baby, the answer is $28. Okay, so if you want to make a donation of $28 to PreBorn, because you heard it here on AFR, Wesley's about to give you the phone number.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Here, 877-616-2396 or visit afr.net get the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Phone number one more time, please.
>> Wesley Wildmon: 877-616-2396 or afr.net afr.net you can make.
>> Tim Wildmon: That donation online for $28. Steve, what do you got going on?
>> Steve Jordahl: I was just gonna say before we get to it, Ray, there is a seat on the Supreme Court for you because one of our justices was kind of confused on the biology thing you about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: so if, you know, if it was up to me, that was a Biden appointee, John Katanji Jackson, Brown Jackson.
>> Tim Wildmon: She was the one who famously or infamously said she didn't know what a female was.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right. it wasn't sure.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She's not a doctor or a biologist.
>> Tim Wildmon: Biologist, yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I'm just like saying, you know, do you know what a tornado is? No, because I'm not a meteorologist. That's about as stupid saying. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: So anyway, if you, if you're not doing anything, in your spare time, I got a Supreme Court seat for you there. Ray, Sounds good. Okay, let's go.
Steve Martin calls into question sincerity of some anti-ICE protests
All right, I want to call into question the sincerity of our opponents when it comes to some of this, ice, protests. Are they really, in favor of, or opposed to ICE because of principle? Are they principled on this? I'm going to say maybe not. I'm going to play you a cut these just a little couple data points from this is a, a podcast. and I got two data points that I want to talk about. Let's listen real quick, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: To cut 16, Obama's ICE chief gets an award for 920,000 removals. Trump's ICE chief is called the Nazi. Obama deported in 2012, 409,000 people. Trump in 2025, 290,000 people.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So it's A good reminder, we've covered that occasionally on the program as a reset button, but. That's right. That's a good time. I don't know if we can revisit that enough. The fact that President Obama deported more in his term than Trump did his first term.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, and his, his chief of deportation got an award from. From Obama. He got the 2515 Presidential Rank Award for distinguished service. You know who his, His, director, of vice was?
>> Tim Wildmon: Who?
>> Steve Jordahl: Tom Holman.
>> Wesley Wildmon: that's right. I didn't know that. I forgot about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. I wonder if Trump. You know, Trump's like, so he likes celebrities sometimes. Right. I wonder if he could recruit if Ice needs an image remake. I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm not saying they do. You could call up Vanilla Ice, you know, and. Because he does. He does.
>> Wesley Wildmon: you know, that would be as. That would be a stunt.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, I'm just saying he's probably looking for work.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's been a while since you said it, isn't it? Huh?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't think Tom Holman.
>> Tim Wildmon: Maybe Vanilla Ice would team up with Lee Greenwood. They could do like a duo.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, but I don't think. I think you'd get in the way of Tom Holman.
>> Tim Wildmon: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: I would have my first concert. You know where I'd have. Where? If I were Vanilla Ice and I was taking over Minneapolis, Greenland.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, there you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's good.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would have my. And I would call it World tour. Yeah, but.
>> Steve Jordahl: But it wouldn't be world, U.S. tour.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, world tour. One night only.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Greene lamp, Minneapolis.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway. All right, go ahead, Steve. Sorry to interrupt.
>> Steve Jordahl: No, that's okay. The same guy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, it's Tom Holman.
>> Steve Jordahl: Tom Holman, who is being called a Nazi by the demonstrators now because of the deportations, was given an award and was lauded by the left. So I'm kind of calling into question their sincerity.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, I understand. Well, also, you remember. Well, I won't get into that next story. Go ahead, get into that. I'll be ranting seven minutes from now.
>> Steve Jordahl: We might have the time.
Germany says remote starting your car in the winter is environmental pollution
Let's, let's. You know, we got a storm coming up here, this weekend. You guys have been talking about that. Toyota has, Germany is demanding, Has demanded and gotten concessions from Toyota that their remote start on their cars is disabled by software. So Toyota went in and disabled the remote start on their cars in Germany because Germany says remote starting your car in the winter when it's cold so you can get warmed up is an unnecessary, pollution. it's getting put.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Are you telling me that the Toyota Corporation can, remotely shut down everybody's Toyota car?
>> Steve Jordahl: They can shut down the feature that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Remote starts it, you know, without physically touching it?
>> Steve Jordahl: Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like I said, remotely through, like the Internet or.
>> Steve Jordahl: Let me read this to you. This is from Yahoo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yahoo News. Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: dead phone batteries during emergencies are dangerous. But frozen windshields on winter mornings, they say, apparently that's a luxury German authorities won't let you solve anymore. Your Lexus, well, this is. And Lexus is Toyota remote start just got remotely murdered, they say by regulators who decided warming up your car counts as environmental terrorism. Toyota spokesman Ralph Mueller confirmed the parking preheating feature previously free. my Toyota Lexus link is now deactivated on combustion engine vehicles across Germany. The reason legislators consider remote engine warmup unnecessary running that creates avoidable exhaust pollution.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Whoever did that is the devil of the devil of the devil. I said whoever did that. Yes. Are you kidding me?
>> Steve Jordahl: I kid you not. Okay, pass that over to my.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, listen, I do, I do know, that I, I, think you have to consent to it, but you do. I do know of cars that have pollution. Well, yeah, yeah, a few of them do. I'm talking about. They do have remote, control.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, a remote start.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, most, most of them do now.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I didn't know, I didn't know that. I didn't know that a company could shut down automobile. That seems like a. Well, think violation of privacy.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is. Well, you. There is no such thing in, in many countries these days.
>> Tim Wildmon: I can understand a law. I can, I wouldn't agree with it, but I could understand a law saying you can't idle your car, warm it up to get ready to go somewhere because of our environmental whatever.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't agree with that at all.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm just saying I could see how that might be a law that was passed. But to say that, a company, you have a. You have an automobile which you own, paid for, so the company didn't own it anymore. You own it because you paid them for it. so it's your car and you're telling me that company still maintains your right to shut your car down?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Because basically you're renting the ability to, remote start your car. I have an app on my phone.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think that would work in America.
>> Steve Jordahl: Nope, I have an app on my phone, that can control one of my cars.
>> Tim Wildmon: My wife does too.
>> Steve Jordahl: And I, I could lock the doors. In fact, my wife has called me. I can't find my keys. Can you unlock the car? And I can. I'm in Tupelo.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, but that's your car and that's your decision. But if you're telling me that's. No, that's in the hands of the company in Germany.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, well, let's talk about this in two levels. Technologically, you can see how this would happen because, it's an Internet connection. Correct. So you can see how somebody could get in the middle of that without my permission. That could happen. And in fact, it does. When I went, I used to own a Saab, car.
>> Tim Wildmon: A what?
>> Steve Jordahl: Saab S A, A B. It's a Swedish.
>> Tim Wildmon: Swedish.
>> Steve Jordahl: Swedish sports car, basically. And I, I love that car. But every time I took it in to have a tune, up or anything done on it, it cost like thousands of dollars because they had to download the software from Sweden on the Internet.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. And a mechanic wouldn't be able to.
>> Steve Jordahl: They. Well, even without that, they could do it, but they, they'd have to, get to Sweden and download it takes forever and it's very expensive. and, but that's, that's the thing is that Saab has control over the updates. And at least in Germany, they have control over your car.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
Nikechi Iza pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion
All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, the fraud, that's in, in Minnesota is not being held in Minnesota. I've got a story out of Michigan. This is a. There's, a Nigerian professor. There's Nigerian prince. He's a prince. He's part of Aquinas College and his name is Nikechi Iza. I'll spell that because I'm not sure how to pronounce it. N, K, E, C, H Y. Last name Eza, E, Z E, H. He is founder and CEO of the Learning Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative. And he pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud and tax evasion in a scheme that forced the non profit to shut down after dozens of years because he worked. he was pleaded guilty to stealing $1.4 million from the grant, the nonprofit preschool in Grand Rapids. So more fraud?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's just outright theft. And Steven, how is it fraud?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, theft is fraud. I suppose in a way it's a different legal charge, but yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, in Minnesota they stole from the federal government.
>> Steve Jordahl: Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: The federal government gave Minnesota a bunch of tax of our tax money and Said, hey, take care of children in your state. You know, teach them to read, write and arithmetic and daycare and all this stuff, which I don't necessarily agree is the problem of the federal government, to take care of people, from cradle to grave. But nonetheless, they sent it. And then Minnesota, Somalia. The Democrats, Kahoot, were in cahoots with the Somali, and Somalis there who had, who had fake, daycares. They didn't really have kids in them. That's what was the fraud was all about.
>> Steve Jordahl: And this is kind of the same thing here. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion because they created nearly $500,000 and $1.4 million in fake invoices.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, there you go.
>> Steve Jordahl: As well as they created fake daycare businesses to siphon off hundreds of thousands of dollars.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, well, when you look.
>> Wesley Wildmon: At that, when you look at stories like that, you just get exhausted thinking about the hard work that they went through to cheat. And you go, just, just give them eight to five.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Just get a job.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Because of the hours and the time.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then nobody was getting rich. 1.5 million. He admitted to.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right, that'.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, he was very lucrative. He had a good thing going there.
>> Wesley Wildmon: fake, fake invoices.
>> Tim Wildmon: Just stealing from the government, stealing from the taxpayer.
Democrats in Virginia are ramming through changes to election procedures
Okay, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: the Democrats have been in charge of the, governor's office and the legislature in Virginia now for a week and they are ramming through all kinds of changes. One of the changes that they have put in is that they have made hand counting ballots for elections. They're illegal. In other words, if you have a close election, I don't see how you can do that. But anyway, they pass a law that says you can't, you have. Can't handle the machine.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, listen, Virginia had a reprieve there for four years with Governor Youngkin and also the, Lieutenant Governor and I think the Ag. Yeah, Republicans. So.
>> Steve Jordahl: But now they have,
>> Tim Wildmon: It's going back blue again.
>> Steve Jordahl: I haven't counted, I have not counted the bullet, points. But there's more than 20 new laws, including, a new 10% tax bracket for anyone, anyone making over a million dollars a year. a new personal property tax on landscape equipment. They banned gas powered leaf blowers.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah, I got to get rid of those.
>> Steve Jordahl: They've made it illegal to approach anybody in an abortion clinic. They've extended the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days. Now you can, after election day, they have to count the ballots. So there's just a whole raft of things that they're doing. You know, they really, the Democrats were very upset with President Trump at his second term because he came in ready to go and he just. The big beautiful bill and a whole bunch of other things.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He had flooded the zone.
>> Steve Jordahl: He did, he flooded the zone. And the Trump derangement syndrome went wild because he was so quick and effective at doing so many things. Well, this is the shoe on the other foot. Democrats are doing the same thing in Virginia because they now have the power to do it. So again, I kind of question, the consistency there.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm still stuck on the gasoline operated blower.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're saying if you have a gasoline operated.
>> Steve Jordahl: No more gas powered, leaf blowers.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, what are you gonna do?
>> Steve Jordahl: These are bills.
>> Tim Wildmon: I tell you what I'm doing, I'm moving. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: These are bills.
>> Tim Wildmon: Take away my.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, like out of all the things that need to be enforced, by the way, we've, we've come so far as a country. We don't even have really. We're not even, from a police and legal standpoint. We're not even, what do you call it? Like, we're reacting to things. Okay, so out of all, as opposed to patrolling. Ah, so out of all the things you can react to, we're gonna react to a gasoline blower. That's, we're gonna write a ticket for it.
>> Tim Wildmon: How does that saying go? You can have my gasoline powered leaf blowers.
>> Steve Jordahl: They have also, ah, introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing. In other words.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what, Steve? We have a lot of listeners in Virginia and you're only bringing them down.
>> Steve Jordahl: Sorry.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. They know it's going to be a lefty.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me just do litany, a lefty.
>> Tim Wildmon: Agenda there on the new, with the new administration.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Do I have time for one more, Please?
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, I got one more story. It's not a very new story.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Imagine this. You're outside and you're blowing off your carport and you just, and you're, you're an average citizen that doesn't keep up with the changing of year to year.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's legal changes, politics.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And, and the, I don't know what's worse.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sheriff deputy shows up.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He shows up and he, and he goes, you know, I really don't want to have to do this like, give me your blower. But give me your.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Put the blower down. Now the blowers got to be. Put the blower Down.
Tim Ferriss: Climate terrorism is what it is
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I'm going to ask a question here in the name of what would you, would you take away citizens right to have a gasoline operated Because
>> Steve Jordahl: Climate justice.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, you know it's. But you have climate terrorism is what it is. Climate terrorism.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: But you have cars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but that's different.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why is that different? Yeah, you gotta stop, we gotta go. You have probably have half a million cars in Virginia that use gasoline.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You can't enforce that. You can you come up and the person with their hundred dollar bleep.
>> Steve Jordahl: What I hear y' all saying, what you can do.
>> Tim Wildmon: What I hear y' all saying, is that you had no good answer to what I've just asked because there is none. And I'm not saying y' all are at fault with your answer. I'm saying this is. You got automobile half a million, I don't know how many automobiles in Virginia. I'm guessing maybe a half a million that run on gasoline.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me see that story.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you're telling me they're worried about.
>> Wesley Wildmon: A blower state, A leaf blower.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well that, you got a point, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: I mean it's not. It has no effect on the environment and zero. It may make them feel good. but I don't know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, this seems to be a state.
>> Tim Wildmon: There are electric blowers. Oh yeah. Statewide ban on what?
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's what we're talking about. Gas powered leaf blowers.
>> Steve Jordahl: Of course, you know the gas, the electric power leaf blowers have to get their power from the electric outlet, which gets its power from, well, coal.
>> Tim Wildmon: How about this? There's no such thing as global warming. How about that one?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
>> Steve Jordahl: It.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm talking about man made global warming. If there's global warming, it may be out there. It's called, it's caused by nature. It's not.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's a storm coming, Tim.
>> Steve Jordahl: We should be talking about this big yellow thing out. The sun is responsible for most of it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, we're going to wish we had global warming.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, there's some worse stuff in here.
>> Tim Wildmon: We could have got to that on Saturday.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Guaranteed illegal aliens free education.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do they call them illegal aliens? Yes, free education. I just think we need to hand out a gas blower to every illegal alien. I think we need to do that in the name of compassion. That's right. We'll be back tomorrow. See you then.
