Archives for September 2009

California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher didn’t shout anything at President Obama two weeks ago, but he has no trouble calling Obama a liar.  Rohrabacher says Obama was lying about taxpayer-funded abortions and health care for illegals in the speech and it doesn’t stop there.  Rohrabacher is ripping Obama for following up the speech to Congress by essentially telling Hispanics in Congress that he plans to legalize all the illegals in this country – and then he can give them health care.  He says his state of California is the perfect example of why illegal immigrants should not be coddled.   But he says the blame belongs with both parties and both Obama and George W. Bush.

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On Tuesday, we learned that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is urging President Obama to deploy thousands of additional troops in order to carry out a more effective strategy in Afghanistan.  Is the assessment right?  What are the conditions right now in Afghanistan?  How should we define victory?  We ask South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson.  And we also get his thoughts on Iran.  What does he make of President Obama’s decision to scrap missile defense in eastern Europe?  And should the U.S. be willing to shoot down any Israeli war planes if Israel tries to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, as suggested by Jimmy Carter’s former national security adviser?

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As President Obama and other world leaders urge the world to pursue a new ‘green’ economy, data from a nation where it’s been tried shows renewable energy is a exactly the wrong approach to take in order to boost the economy.  Dr Gabriel Calzada says his home country of Spain has been pursuing a ‘green jobs’ economy for over a decade.  He says the results of a comprehensive study show the ‘green’ effort is a huge job killer.  How many jobs were lost for every ‘green’ job created?  How much has the Spanish government essentially spent to create each green job?  Could the results improve as technology advances?  Why does Dr. Calzada see renewable energy as an economic plan that is doomed wherever is will be tried?

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Earlier this year, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from power by constitutional means for trying to usurp power and stay in office longer than permitted by law.  President Obama has sided with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in demanding that Zelaya be put back in power.  Now Obama is baffling observers even more by saying that he does not see the upcoming elections in Honduras as legitimate – even though Zelaya would not be eligible to run anyway.  So why is Obama so insistent upon reinstating a man who would be a lame duck anyway?  Why won’t he recognize the upcoming elections as legitimate?  What message does this send to other Latin American democracies?  Why is this position getting almost no media attention?  We ask former Pentagon official and Washington Times senior editorial writer James Robbins.

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President Obama says he does not intend to rush into a new strategy in Afghanistan, but Gen. Stanley McChrystal says we need to implement a new strategy with many more troops soon – or else the mission will end in failure.  So what is Obama waiting for?  How important is it for him to be decisive and clear about our mission in Afghanistan?  What strategy will be most effective?  We ask retired U.S. Air Force General Tom McInerney.

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On Sunday, President Obama insisted that forcing people to buy health insurance and issuing heavy fines on those who don’t is not a tax increase.  But what does the actual Baucus bill call it?  What does the president risk by fighting this semantic battle?  What else is taxed in the Baucus plan?  And is a co-op really any different than the public option?  We ask Ryan Ellis, director of tax policy at Americans for Tax Reform.

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Terrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discusses the arrests of three alleged Muslim radicals were reportedly planning a coordinated strike in this country.  What sort of attack might they have been planning?  Why might the arrests have come too soon?  What do we know about these suspects?

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Remember the hundreds of thousands of Iranians protesting the fraudulent elections back in June?  Did you know they are still going on?  What is driving the ongoing demonstrations?  Just how brutally are many of the protesters being treated by Iranian forces?  What kind of verbage can we expect at thge United Nations this week from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?  And how emboldened is the Iranian regime by the Obama administration’s decision to scrap a missile defense shield in Europe?  We ask Alireza Jafarzadeh, the man who first warned the west of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.  He is also the author of ‘The Iran Threat’.

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Two Florida educators narrowly escaped jail time this week.  Their crime?  Praying on school grounds an an event that didn’t even involve students.  So how these men end up in court?  What was the ACLU argument against them?  Why does the ACLU hate Christianity?  Was the decision good or bad for the cause of religious freedom and expression?  We ask Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel.

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The Capitol Steps – Washington’s premier political parody troupe – examines the military ambitions of Russia.

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