Guests - Bruce Wolff, George Khalaf, Scott Schara
A Lamp, Not a Searchlight: Navigating an Obscure Path — Plus the ESA Fight and 120 Years of Legal Architecture
The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson brought three conversations that moved from the deeply personal to the deeply structural. A missionary pilot who found faith through chaos and chaos through faith. A pollster and educator fighting to protect 103,000 Arizona children from an out-of-state money grab. And the fifth installment of a series that may be the most systematically documented indictment of the American medical-legal complex assembled by a single grieving father.
Bruce Wolff: Evacuated from Nigeria, Trained to Fly for God, and the Psalm That Changed Everything
Bruce Wolff is a former missionary pilot, a 35-year flight instructor, the founder of Brigade Air Youth Aviation Camp, and the author of Finding Hope: Navigating an Obscure Path, Learning to Trust God When You Can Barely Understand Him. He is also, it turned out, a Tucson man — or was for 17 years — still carrying a 520 area code on his phone from Ryan Airfield, where he once flew all over the Southwest and into Mexico in support of church planting and Bible translation work.
A Life Shaped by Instability
Wolff's story opens not in the cockpit but in chaos. His family moved constantly — his mother holds the family record of 27 moves in 20 years — born in South Carolina, living in England and Africa, and arriving in Nigeria just a year before the Biafran War broke out in 1966. What is remembered today as Africa's bloodiest coup killed three million people by machete and starvation. It was fought over oil fields.
"Nigeria hasn't changed," Wolff said simply. "It's gotten worse. But what we hear in the news today is just the natural next step."
Before the family evacuated in early 1967, two assassination attempts were made on his father at the Salvation Army mission campus. A night watchman intervened on both occasions — a fact Wolff recounts with a gratitude that is clearly still fresh decades later.
His father's ALS diagnosis came when Bruce was eleven. His mother's record of 27 moves in 20 years speaks to a nomadic, frequently chaotic childhood that he acknowledges shaped everything that followed — including his own struggles with instability well into adulthood.
"I didn't begin to navigate what I call an obscure path as a willing pilgrim. I was just trying to find bearings and escape the chaos and gain some control over my life."
From Chaos to the Cockpit: Brigade Air
What brought the Wolff family to Tucson in 1995 — on what turned out to be the hottest day on record in the city's history — was missionary aviation work with United Indian Mission out of Ryan Airfield. He had trained at Moody Aviation in East Tennessee. For the next six or seven years, he flew across the Southwest and in and out of Mexico in support of missionary and church-planting operations.
The founding insight behind Brigade Air, which he launched in 2000 and flew its first camp in 2001, was a structural problem in the missions aviation world: the pipeline of trained pilots had dried up.
Since the 1940s, missions aviation had relied on ex-military and ex-airline pilots who still had years of flying left but were finished with their primary careers. By the late 1990s, both of those pipelines had collapsed. Clinton-era military reductions gutted the ex-military supply. The airline industry's shift to hub-and-spoke and regional jets changed the economics of the profession — and the culture.
"You've got a guy in the front who still lives with his mom," Wolff said. "The airline doesn't pay like it used to."
Brigade Air's solution was to start earlier — recruiting and inspiring young people who might never have considered missions aviation, introducing them to flight as a platform for service. In 21 states and five foreign countries, more than 4,000 young people have come through the program a dozen at a time. No accidents. No injuries. Not a scratch on a loaned airplane or a bruised knee on a student.
"That's God's faithfulness right there," he said.
The Book — And Why Philip Yancey Became the Deciding Vote
Wolff resisted writing his memoir for two years, despite his wife's persistent encouragement. The trigger was Philip Yancey's own memoir, Where the Light Fell, which Wolff picked up around Christmas 2021 and found uncomfortably, undeniably parallel to his own story — ultra-conservative family, missionary parents, father dying young, a childhood shaped by upheaval.
He made what he assumed was a clever escape: email Yancey, someone he had never met, and ask if the memoir was worth writing. If Yancey said yes, he'd write it. If Yancey didn't respond, he was off the hook.
"You should never try to trick your wife or God," Wolff said. "Those are just two rules I'm going to give you to live by today."
Yancey wrote back. That was the spark. Finding Hope was published in January by Fidelis Publishing — Oliver North's publishing company — and the story it tells is specifically about learning to trust God through the kind of life where trust is hardest: one shaped by instability, by loss, and by the honest acknowledgment that following God sometimes looks nothing like what you expected.
"You know, I'm kind of a hands-on guy," Wolff said. "I like analyzing and fixing things and building things. From houses to cars to engines. And sitting and studying from a different part of the brain — I enjoyed it to a point. But I just enjoyed being outside instead of over books and papers."
The book's core, as he described it, is not triumphalism. It includes his early divorce after 20 years of marriage, the chaos he carried from his own upbringing into his adult relationships, and the slow, imperfect, still-in-progress work of learning to trust a God who does not always move the way a hands-on, fix-it man would prefer.
"What God will do with broken people is truly amazing. So I didn't give up."
Winn reflected that people often feel they need to appear more perfect than they are — that authenticity and admission of failure are somehow disqualifying in matters of faith. Wolff's simple response: "God gives forgiveness. People don't."
The Psalm, the Cockpit, and One Step at a Time
The intellectual center of the book — and the insight Wolff most wanted to share — came from a moment in Tennessee while studying aerodynamics at Moody Aviation.
Psalm 119:105 reads: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Most readers, he said, treat this as pleasant poetic repetition — two equivalent metaphors for God's guidance. But a pilot studying aerodynamics reads the same text and sees something different.
"Lamp unto feet is static," he said. "Light into path is dynamic."
In aeronautics, static stability is about something at rest; dynamic stability is about something in motion. The distinction matters. A lamp shining on your feet gives you enough light to take one step. If you take that step, you've moved — and now you have enough light for the next one. But only if you move.
"God's word is a lamp under your feet. It's shining on your feet, and you've got enough light to take one step. Well, if you do, you moved. And now you have enough light for one more step."
The path — the light into the path — is not waiting for you at the destination. It only appears behind you, in retrospect, after you have trusted enough to move. A lamp that you sit under without obeying, without moving, without trusting — never becomes a path.
"I think people go to church their whole life doing the Sunday routine. And man, they've got a lamp under their feet and they never move. They don't trust. It doesn't make a difference in their lives."
The practical implication: faith is not certainty about outcomes. It is the willingness to take the next step on what God has said, without 200-mile visibility, without perfect information, without the insurance policy of knowing how it turns out.
"If we could predict everything, you wouldn't need faith."
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George Khalaf: The Out-of-State Money Coming for Arizona's ESAs — and Why 103,000 Families Are Paying Attention
George Khalaf is a pollster, survey researcher, and candidate for Arizona State House in Legislative District 3. He is also, by his own description, a longtime fighter for educational freedom — one who has spent 16 years conducting political research in Arizona and has taken that work to help bring ESA-style programs to nearly 20 other states. He joined the show with breaking news from the ESA front that every Arizona parent should understand before the primary.
What the Ballot Measure Would Actually Do
Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program has grown from 11,000 students to 103,000 students — a tenfold expansion driven entirely by parent demand. At present enrollment, it is the largest program of its kind in the country. Nearly 20 other states have looked at the Arizona model and replicated it.
Now, out-of-state special interests have funded two ballot measures that Khalaf describes as designed to gut the program. The more aggressive of the two — the one with money behind it — would impose an income cap disqualifying any family earning over $150,000 annually.
"In Arizona, the average nurse and the average firefighter, married, no matter how many children they have, would be disqualified from this program," Khalaf said. "And because it rises at about two percent per year while inflation rises at a higher rate, the actual income level is going to decrease over time. More and more people would be kicked off."
The immediate effect of the income-cap measure alone: 25,000 children — a quarter of current participants — would lose their scholarship funding the day the measure takes effect.
The Polling Data They Don't Want You to See
Khalaf is a professional pollster. He does not guess about public opinion. He has the data.
"In every survey I have done and every survey I have seen, the overwhelming number of people in Arizona and around the country oppose income limits on programs like this. And you know who leads the charge against them? People who make less than the income limit. They say: why should we punish people who have been successful? They pay tax dollars. What's different?"
The support for parental choice in education runs across demographics and political affiliations. When the question is framed clearly — should education dollars follow the child? Should parents have the right to choose where their children are educated? — Arizonans say yes in large majorities. The progressive framing of ESAs as a giveaway to the wealthy is both empirically false and politically unpopular.
"Every survey across the political spectrum shows people believe dollars should follow the child," Khalaf said. "The people standing in their way are progressive leadership and the teachers unions."
This Is Not About Education. It's About Control.
Khalaf was direct about what he believes is the actual motivation behind the ballot measures.
"The progressive left wants to ensure that parents don't educate their children — especially Christian parents and Christian conservative parents. They want to be able to control and raise the next generation in their ideology."
The classroom-to-administration spending ratio in Arizona is deeply distorted in many districts. Some districts are sending less than 50 percent of their education dollars to the classroom — some as low as the low 40s. Administrative salaries at some districts have reached CEO-level compensation even as student populations shrink and test scores fall.
"The teachers unions are standing in the way of mandating that 60 percent of dollars go to the classroom," Khalaf said. "If they cared about the education of children, they would support that. They don't."
The Special Needs Dimension
One aspect of the ESA fight that Khalaf emphasized and that receives too little attention: special needs families.
Families of children with disabilities frequently maintain year-over-year balances in their ESA accounts, building them up over time to access the specialized therapies and educational interventions their children need — treatments that far exceed what any single-year benefit would cover. The ballot measure is specifically designed to prevent this kind of multi-year accumulation.
"They want to take the money away from them because they find it offensive that parents should be in charge of the children's education."
The Grassroots Response Already Building
The out-of-state interests behind the ballot measure have millions of dollars. What Khalaf and the ESA defense are counting on is something money has trouble replicating: 103,000 families with a personal, concrete, specific story about what the ESA program has meant for their children.
"I've never seen so much activity from rank-and-file people. These aren't political people. Mostly these are just normal moms and dads who have very busy lives, who are motivated because now their children's future could be at risk because of the political game."
The goal, before the measures reach the ballot, is to block them from qualifying — by challenging signature validity and legal standing. But if they make it to November, the defense will rest on those 103,000 stories.
George Khalaf's campaign website is georgekhalaf.com.
Scott Schara: Part Five — The 120-Year Trap: 14 Steps That Led Us Here
This is the fifth installment of a continuing series. Scott Schara is the Wisconsin father, researcher, author, and founder whose 19-year-old daughter Grace — who had Down syndrome — died in a Wisconsin hospital in October 2021 after a doctor placed an illegal, unauthorized DNR on her chart and staff refused to resuscitate her. His book, Is the Government Legally Killing Us?, is available at ouramazinggrace.net.
After 4,000 hours of research since Grace's death, Schara distilled what he found into a numbered list of 14 legislative and institutional steps taken over the past 120 years to construct a medical-legal system that is, in his documented assessment, designed to hasten death and do so with full legal immunity. The 14 items, traced chronologically:
#1 — 1905: Jacobson v. Massachusetts
Already covered in prior segments, but repeated here as the foundation. Pastor Jacobson refused the smallpox vaccine and presented documented evidence that it would not stop disease spread and could cause additional harm. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for the state, embedding the principle of collectivism into American constitutional law with this language: The rights of the individual in respect to his liberty may, at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.
"Great dangers" becomes the key phrase. When the government can unilaterally declare a great danger, it can implement "reasonable regulations." Schara identifies this as the legal template for the Patriot Act, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and every public health emergency that follows.
"So they can make a SIOP like 9/11 or COVID and call it a great danger. And that allows them to implement reasonable regulations."
#2 — 1910: The Flexner Report
The Carnegie family hired Abraham Flexner to write a report on American medical education. The result was the systematic elimination of every medical modality except allopathic — conventional — medicine. Chiropractic, osteopathic, naturopathic, and homeopathic medicine were labeled quackery. Within 15 years of the report's publication, half of all American medical schools had closed. The Rockefeller family funded the surviving ones, all training exclusively in allopathic medicine.
"All other modalities were thrown under the bus. They evolved as a species. We can trust the science now. And of course, the science they're peddling is false information."
This is the origin point of modern Big Pharma, the pharmaceutical model that treats symptoms rather than causes, and the cultural conditioning to trust the white coat.
#3 — 1933: Fiat Currency and the Suspension of the Constitution
This is, in Schara's assessment, the single most consequential item on the list.
Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4th, 1933 — the last year a presidential inauguration was held in March before the 20th Amendment moved the date to January. Five days later, on March 9th, he declared the Great Depression a national banking emergency via Proclamation 2040. Under a previously enacted law — the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act — the designation of a national emergency had previously applied only to foreign nationals. The 1933 amendment extended it to all U.S. citizens.
The result: all citizens became, legally, the enemy. Gold was required to be surrendered to the government under criminal penalties. Business transactions required licensing and insurance. And most critically — the Constitution was suspended.
"The Constitution has been legally suspended since March 9th of 1933. We are still under that delusion today."
This is Schara's Hegelian dialectic in action: they created the Great Depression (problem), produced chaos and fear (reaction), and the population voted in the New Deal as the solution — making citizens legally responsible for implementing their own subjugation. The same template was used for 9/11 and the Patriot Act, and for COVID and the vaccine mandates.
#4 — 1935: Social Security
With the population now trusting the president for delivering the New Deal, Social Security gets established. The government will now manage citizens' retirement finances. This sets the table for Medicare three decades later — and for what Schara calls "the scam of Social Security," which comes to fruition in item #11.
#5 — 1965: Medicare
Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30th, 1965. The cultural precondition was World War II, which had moved women into the workforce at scale for the first time. With women working, elderly parents could no longer be cared for at home by their families — the traditional model that had governed multigenerational households for all of human history. Medicare, and the nursing home industry that emerged immediately after, were the institutional replacements.
"Before Medicare, there were no nursing homes. Parents moved in with the family and the family had the responsibility to take care of the parents. That's the way it was."
#6 — 1980: The Department of Health and Human Services
The creation of HHS is, in Schara's framework, a critical institutional stake in the ground — the bureaucratic infrastructure that will later be given authority to declare public health emergencies and, through those declarations, assume control over health policy for the entire country.
#7 — 1984: The Chevron Doctrine
The Chevron Doctrine — a Supreme Court ruling giving federal agencies broad deference in interpreting the statutes they administer — allowed agencies like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to make policy with the force of law without going through Congress. The doctrine was formally overturned by the Supreme Court in July 2024.
But overturning it on paper did not dismantle 40 years of institutional infrastructure built on top of it.
"Just because something's overturned doesn't mean it changed. The mechanisms to implement this are still there. The standards of care model is alive and well."
Schara spent $36,000 hiring a nationally recognized attorney to assess the litigation prospects after Chevron was overturned. The attorney's conclusion: the entry fee to sue would be a million dollars, and the odds of winning would be close to zero — because everything built under Chevron is still operating as if Chevron is the law.
#8 — 1980s: Standards of Care
The Chevron Doctrine enabled what Schara calls the most functionally lethal item on the list for everyday Americans: the standards of care regime administered by CMS through reimbursement policies.
His own encounter with this system: in 2018, when he was diagnosed with heart disease, a nurse told him he needed to take a statin. The reason, she explained, was that their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates were tied to the percentage of their patient population following the standard of care. If enough patients like him refused, the practice would have to fire them to protect its reimbursement.
"I'm not on Medicare and Medicaid," he said to the nurse. It didn't matter.
"That's how they control health care in the entire country. Through reimbursement rates."
The standard of care for heart disease — the number one cause of death in America at 700,000 deaths annually — is the statin. Statins, he says, citing peer-reviewed research, cause heart disease and cause dementia. The standard of care for cancer — 600,000 deaths annually, the number two cause — is chemotherapy, which carries a five-year survival rate of 2.1 percent.
"If you survive five years and one day, you're in a class of 2.1 percent. Ninety-seven point nine percent of your classmates are already dead."
#9 — 1986: The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
Ronald Reagan signed this act on November 14th, 1986, eliminating downstream liability for vaccine manufacturers for all vaccine injuries and deaths. This is the legislation that Katie Asher — whose son Houston was vaccine-injured as an infant — referenced in an earlier segment: manufacturers were facing liability 200 times their profit margin before the law passed.
"Through that act they eliminate downstream liability for all vaccine injuries and deaths for the vaccine manufacturers. And remember, every time I say the word vaccine, it's in quotes — because this is all part of the psyop to believe we can beat disease with vaccines."
#10 — 1980s-1990s: The Public Health Emergency Framework
Catherine Watt and Sasha Latypova have, in Schara's assessment, done the most comprehensive legal research on this period — documenting hundreds of laws passed through the 1980s and 1990s that collectively gave the HHS secretary unilateral authority to declare a public health emergency.
Once that declaration is made, the entire machinery activates: the FDA creates countermeasures, those countermeasures receive emergency use authorization, and the PREP Act (item #12) provides immunity from liability to every health care provider who uses them.
"Once a public health emergency is determined unilaterally by the HHS secretary, the country has to respond. The FDA puts together countermeasures. We know what happened during COVID — ventilators and remdesivir. Once those countermeasures are in place, the medical people who use them have immunity from liability. Even though ventilators killed 90 percent of the people who were on them. Even though remdesivir killed 75 percent."
The additional layer: during a public health emergency, the country is under military control. This is the legal basis on which Schara was removed from the hospital by armed guards.
#11 — 1997: The Social Security-Medicare Merger
What Schara traces to the Clinton era: the merger of Social Security and Medicare such that taking Social Security automatically enrolls you in Medicare. Once people are receiving Social Security — which they have paid into their entire working lives — they are automatically inside the Medicare system, which then becomes the vehicle through which the standards of care are applied to them.
"People get into that mindset: okay, I'm on Medicare and I don't have a choice because I'm relying on my Social Security."
His practical guidance: being enrolled in Medicare does not obligate you to use it for everything. Use it for objective physical repairs — a knee replacement, an MRI confirming a structural problem. Don't use it for a cancer diagnosis, where the standard of care will be chemotherapy. Get a second opinion from outside the system.
#12 — 2005: The PREP Act
The PREP Act — passed between Thanksgiving and Christmas as a rider inside a defense appropriations bill — gives immunity from liability to health care providers following FDA-approved countermeasures during a public health emergency. It was passed in 2005, years before COVID.
The naming pattern is consistent across Schara's entire list: laws designed to harm are named to sound protective. The CARES Act. The PREP Act. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. He offered an acronym he learned decades ago that he applies to all of them: BOHEKA — Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
#13 — 2010: Obamacare
Obamacare was sold to the American public on the premise of protecting people with preexisting conditions from insurance denial. Sarah Palin, mocked at the time for saying the law contained "death panels," was correct.
"Section 1553. Read it. It legalizes euthanasia."
Canada's widely criticized Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program came after ours.
Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the chief architects of the Affordable Care Act, wrote: Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
The statin — the standard of care for heart disease — causes dementia. Once a patient develops dementia as a result of the standard of care, they fall into the category that, per the Obamacare architect, does not qualify for guaranteed health services.
"That's the satanic principle of collectivism. Non-contributing members of society don't deserve medical care."
#14 — 2012: The Modernization of the Smith-Mundt Act
The Smith-Mundt Act was originally enacted in 1948 to allow the U.S. government to use propaganda against foreign nationals in service of national security. What it explicitly prohibited was the government using that same propaganda apparatus against its own citizens.
In 2012, the act was "modernized" — a term Schara calls a euphemism for repeal. After modernization, the government could legally use propaganda against American citizens.
The first time this became personally relevant to him was through his connection to the Brooks Jackson lawsuit. Jackson, a Pfizer employee, filed a False Claims Act case on January 8th, 2021 — the mechanism by which citizens report government vendors who are stealing from the taxpayer.
Jackson had seen that Pfizer was not conducting the required testing for the COVID vaccine. She brought the case forward. Pfizer's defense: a contract with the Department of Defense called an Other Transaction Authority Agreement, which classified the product as a prototype weapon countermeasure under military contract — not a vaccine, and therefore not subject to standard testing requirements.
The U.S. government then entered the case on Pfizer's side — against its own whistleblower.
The last hearing Schara had tracked, on December 3rd, 2025, featured the Department of Justice arguing that the government's mere desire to dismiss the case constituted sufficient legal cause for dismissal. The DOJ stated explicitly: The government has determined that it doesn't want these cases to go forward.
"They don't want the public to know that they were lied to directly. That's why. Every day, three times, ten times, twenty times a day: safe and effective, safe and effective. Because the Smith-Mundt Act gave them protection. No one will ever be held to account for that lie."
The fourteen-item framework is not Scott Schara's conclusion. It is his evidence. Every item is documented. Every law is public record. Every court case is accessible. The 4,000 hours of research that produced this list are the years he has spent honoring the daughter who was taken from him through a system that, item by item, was built for exactly that purpose.
Next week: programming the population — how the system got all of us to buy into it.
Scott Schara's book, Is the Government Legally Killing Us?, is available at ouramazinggrace.net. One hundred percent of proceeds go to Grace's Foundation.
Winn Tucson airs Monday through Friday, 9 to 11 a.m., on KVOI 1030 The Voice. Monday, May 25th — Memorial Day — will be a Best Of broadcast. The series continues Thursday, May 28th at 10 a.m.
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George Khalaf for LD-3: georgekhalaf.com