Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch.

Jim Garrity is away.

And by the way, while he is away, you should be reading the morning jolt about what he's learning while he's away. But he'll be back next week in his place today. And as Stetman of the Independent Women's Forum, and as always good to have you back. It's always great to be here. Well, let's start with something that happened over the weekend. I'm not exactly sure when this particular comment on MS now happened. But there was an event on the national

mall. I believe it was on Sunday. And in commemoration with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration

of Independence, which of course is coming up on July 4th, there was a national event talking

about the religious and specifically the Christian roots of this nation. And so there are many

people speaking and talking about how that heritage is important and how we need to honor and perhaps revitalize that heritage.

One of the speakers was House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is certainly a devout Christian.

And he was talking about how our most cherished rights don't come from government.

They come from God.

And Katie Turr over at MS Now had this reaction with her panel.

What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from

government?

They come from you, our creator, and heavenly father. Is this him

putting God over the Declaration of Independence? So she tossed it to a reporter named McKay Coppens who says,

I actually think that idea is not uncommon. The idea that we have certain inalienable rights

that come from a God can be read in a fairly benign way. And then he goes on to talk about how it possibly could be problematic. And as it's only the most famous part of the declaration,

Mike Johnson is not in conflict with the declaration here. He's actually highlighting the most

important central point here where he says, we hold these truths, this is Jefferson, not

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