Restoring America with Grace Reilly

Thomas Sowell said the welfare system pays people to fail. Dennis Prager asked where all the leftist hospitals are. Milton Friedman said a society that chooses equality over freedom ends up with neither. Today, I play clips from Sowell, Prager, Friedman, and a Laura Ingraham conversation with Mark Meadows, and I build the case for why limited government is a moral question and not only an economic one. I get into why pouring money into failing schools makes them worse, how government programs crowd out the church and private charity, and why the system young people call capitalism is already shot through with government intervention.

Mailing abortion pills has been a federal crime since 1873 because of The Comstock Act. Even with this being the law, thousands of pills still arrive by mail across the country, including in pro-life states. In 2025, more than 300,000 unborn babies were killed by mail-order abortion drugs, and at least 1 in 4 abortions now happen with no in-person care. Restoration of America Foundation Founder and CEO, Doug Truax, delivered an excellent speech at The Ohio March for Life earlier this month. He breaks down the issue, explains the Comstock Act, and provides hope for babies and mothers.

Trump proclaimed Columbus Day with no mention of Indigenous Peoples' Day, and Paul Kengor says Italian Americans noticed. This is a Weekend Spectator conversation from The American Spectator and Restoration of America. Kengor walks through how Columbus Day started in 1892 after a mob lynched 11 Italian immigrants in New Orleans, tells the story of his own family's stowaway journey from Calabria and the Klan on their lawn, and explains why the left treats Columbus as a symbol to tear down Western civilization. Grace asks what young people are hearing in school, and they finish on Italian Heritage Month.Special Guest: Paul Kengor.

James Talarico called capitalism one of three "oppressive systems." Now his Texas Senate campaign says he's a "proud capitalist." In this episode, I play the 2020 climate forum where he talked about "dismantling" those systems and compared Texas oil and gas to "cassette tapes in the 1980s." I walk through his record on Texas's 2021 election law and on parents and gender identity, and his campaign's claim that he "missed the mark." I ask why a Trail Blazers broadcaster loses his job over posts from his teens while politicians get a pass, and how Abigail Spanberger ran the same moderate bait and switch in Virginia. Texas votes November 3. Believe what the record shows.

Today, I react to Willy Rice's Fox News interview and Ike Wingate's Newsmax monologue on why so many Christians sit out elections. I also read what Lucas Miles and Josh Howerton are saying, plus a Charlie Kirk quote that's been going around, and I answer the two excuses I hear most: "I don't get into politics" and "there are no good candidates." Politics was never morally neutral, and there will never be a perfect candidate. If you've felt checked out, I hope this changes your mind. The numbers are on our side. The question is whether we're willing.