You're invited to pull up a chair on Lisa Harper's Back Porch, where faith meets real life. Welcome to Back Forch Theology. Each episode helps you dive deeper into God's word and discover that the gospel isn't just good news for eternity. It's great news for everyday life because God is for you and he's always been restoring our value and drawing us closer to him. With honest conversations, a few laughs and guests ranging from close friends to brilliant theologians. Back Forch theology is thoughtful, meaningful, and never stuffy.

So grab some coffee or sweet tea and join Lisa Harper on Bat Forch Theology. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there.

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I got a big show for you today coming up.

Jonathan Shanzer, Ben and Ben and Ben Belittal Blue from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Eliana Johnson from the Washington Free Beacon.

Jim Tallinn, Alaska, Senator Dan Sullivan, so much more.

But I start with the indispensable Jim Garrity.

Washington Post column is Senior Political Writer for National Review.

He writes every morning the morning jolt, which ought to be getting and reading. Jim will cover the breaking news of Christy Knoem being fired

and Mark Wayne Mullen being named after I get your first assessment of how the war with Iran

is going because that is the big story of the day. And we're five days in. By the end of the show, something terrible could happen.

But right now, six Americans have been killed.

And Iran's getting the living daylights knocked out.

And then what do you think?

Hugh, the last time we talked, the war had not yet begun.

And I was reminding your listeners of Trump's truth social statement that help was on its way.

I believe 46 days passed between that statement on truth social and the actual beginning of bombing.

In the interim, a lot of the Iranian regime managed to kill a lot of protesters, and I was frustrated by it.

It came late, but when it came,

it came in just phenomenal numbers, and the performance of the military has just been superlative

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