Taking a Saw To Wasteful Spending and The Top 10 Dumb Things Said This Week

02/21/25 • 67 min

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The hostage situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Kash Patel gets confirmed as FBI Director. A crazy chainsaw-wielding government employee visits CPAC. Plus, the Top 10 Dumbest Things Said This Week with Lileks.

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As EU bureaucrats continue to reel from Vice President Vance's speech last week, the adults in the room are brokering a deal to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to an end. President Trump has his envoys laying the groundwork for peace through a series of meetings that are reminiscent of Henry Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" in the Middle East during the 1970s. Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, my regular guest and personal PoliSci professor, joins me to discuss that and much more.

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