Let’s face it. Kids can be a mixed bag. They can make you deliriously happy and they can make you miserable. They certainly have a big impact on your happiness.

Russia is taking over Ukraine, town by town. We and our allies have imposed harsh sanctions, but it’s hard to watch. Yes, freedom may overcome tyranny. But it doesn’t happen overnight. People can be victims of tyranny for a long time before freedom prevails… In Australia, a family can’t visit their dying wife and mother. They’re all vaccinated. Doesn’t matter, say public health officials. This is cruel and stupid. Bad combo.

Dennis talks to Michael Richman, MD, cardiovascular surgeon and founder and Chief medical officer for PaladinMDs.com, a medical advocacy service. Topics covered include: cardiovascular health and the state of modern medicine.

The only reason the arc of history has bent toward the good in the last 100 years is because of the United States. If not for us, the arc of history would have bent toward Hitler and Stalin… Dennis talks to Amala Ekpunobi, co-host of the Will and Amala podcast for PragerU. She presents the new PragerU video, “How to End Systemic Racism.”

Putin ratchets up the violence as his army advances further into Ukraine. Nobody knows where or when this ends… Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, told college students to take off their masks. They don’t work. They’re just theatre…

Mark Davis guest hosts for Dennis… Mark continues his evaluation of the President’s lackluster SOTU… Ukraine certainly has a right to defend its borders. But why are we so concerned about their borders and not so concerned with ours?… We are a war-weary nation. Most Americans do not want to be dragged into another conflict. Arm the Ukrainians, yes. Fight for them, no

Mark Davis guest hosts for Dennis…The Dems appear to be allergic to market forces. Every solution, they say, is available through government. Just the opposite is true… Should we impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine?…

Mark Davis guest hosts for Dennis… Mark grades the President’s State of the Union speech. He doesn’t give it high marks… When has the government ever made anything “more affordable”?…There’s a 40-mile convoy of Russian trucks outside of Kiev. Should we bomb it? This isn’t Iraq in the early ‘90s… Callers weigh in about the SOTU.

Dennis builds on a topic he started last hour: the damage a lying media does to a society. We need to be able to trust our media to give us unbiased news. But now we can’t. As a consequence, people are confused about a clear cut moral issue — Russia vs. Ukraine.

There have been so many lies told by the media that it’s hard for some to trust what the media says about Russia and Ukraine. This just points out how much harm a fabricating media does to a society. The Russia and Ukraine situation is as black and white as it gets in a complex world. Russia bad guys. Ukraine good guys… Dennis talks to Will Witt, host of the Will and Amala podcast for PragerU.

Dennis talks to Joel Alperson, businessman, friend and partner in Dennis’s Rational Bible Series. Today Dennis’s new book, The Rational Passover Haggadah, debuts… Has Putin put his family in the nuclear bunker? Has he gone mad? Or is he just diabolical? Or is he just fulfilling a long term strategy?

Putin has done something remarkable. He has united Europe. Ukraine is now admired. Russia despised… What are Russians fighting and dying for in Ukraine?… Has Putin rendered the takeover of Taiwan by China less likely?