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We do the last broadcast hour of the week, always with Dr. Larry Arne, President of Hillsdale

College, or one of his colleagues. Dr. Arne, a good Friday to you.

We're taping this on Wednesday, and I tell people that only because given the situation

in Iran, anything could happen on Wednesday night and Thursday night, so I just want them

to be aware of that.

Let's start with Iran.

What do you make of what has happened there, the largest massacre since Baba

Yarr in 1941 when the Nazis advanced through Poland? I mean, just gunned down, random people.

And it beat Tiananmen Square. What's that say to you? Well, do you mean her in hell? I have a friend,

I won't say his name, who's an Iranian immigrant

guy in Silicon Valley. And he says Iran is a wonderful country and the people don't like these

mullahs. You know, there are a lot of professional people there, a lot of educated people there,

a lot of modern people there, and old people there,

because that regime's been in place, what, since 1979, they remember when Iran was in

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