Archives for October 2011

In this second installment of our interview with “Suicide of A Superpower” author Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate explains why he believes America’s distancing from God over the past 50 years has resulted in the chaos we see within the American family and will eventually lead to the disintegration of the America has has existed since its Founding.  Buchanan discusses what the impact will be of further erosion of our Christian moorings, why secularists despise Christianity but are quite tolerant of Islam and what if anything can be done to reverse the trend.  Buchanan also explains the difference between freedom and equality and how the two concepts are very different.

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Can America as we’ve always known it survive until 2025?  That the question posited by former presidential candidate, White House aide and columnist Pat Buchanan in his new book “Suicide of A Superpower”.  In the first of three parts of our interview, Buchanan explains why the next 14 years will be pivotal, how we’ve shifted from a nation of ‘makers’ to a nation of ‘takers’, what it will take to get America out of our current fiscal mess and whether anyone in Washington has the will to deal with the crisis head-on.

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review are pleased to see Virginia Democrats staying as far away from President Obama as possible – and even asking him to change his schedule to keep him out of their districts.  They also groan as the latest GOP presidential debate was more feisty but still doesn’t give them great confidence that any of the candidates can beat a very beatable Obama.  And they finally find a good thing about Occupy Wall Street.

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On Friday, the Obama administration announced it was shelving the long-term insurance component of Obamacare known as CLASS because it is fiscally unsustainable.  How important is this development?  What will removing the CLASS program mean for the overall financial footing of Obamacare?  And what else could happen before the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate?  We discuss it all with Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute.

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While many Americans may be stunned to learn Israel agreed to release more than 1,000 imprisoned Palestinian militants in exchange for one captured soldier, the overwhelming majority of Israelis support the decision.  Why?  Why do they believe releasing terrorists is worth the return of one man?  What cultural attitudes about the military impact that attitude?  We ask retired Israeli Brigadier Gen. Elihu Ben-Onn, who also hopes this episode might even foster further constructive negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review celebrate the Obama administration scrapping a key part of Obamacare  – even if they still insist it’s a good idea.  We also slam Obama for claiming the Republican jobs plan is to have dirtier air, dirtier water and fewer people with health insurance.  And we speculate upon the sheer panic in the Obama bus when the president learned the truck carrying his teleprompter was stolen.

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In 2006, an Israeli Defense Forces soldier was abducted by Hamas.  Five years later, Israel has agreed to release over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners (many of them terrorists) in exchange for that soldier.  Why is Israel making this deal now?  Will this just invite more attacks on Israeli soldiers?  How do Egypt, Turkey and even Fatah factor into this?  And what other development lends more weight to the belief that Egypt became much more radical with the ousting of Hosni Mubarak?  We discuss it all with Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

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Herman Cain has surged to the front of the Republican presidential field and is making his 9-9-9 tax reform plan the centerpiece of his campaign.  So what would be the impact of this plan?  How much would this simplify and even reduce our tax bills?  How worried should we be about the installation of a national sales tax?  What happens if Cain cannot move to a fair tax system and the nation gets stuck in what is supposed to be a transitional tax code?  We discuss that and much more with Peter Sepp, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union.

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review roll their eyes at President Obama’s latest campaign trip/jobs tour to Virginia and North Carolina, but they are glad those states look much better for Republicans next year than they did in 2008.  They also rip Obama for injecting his political agenda into his Martin Luther King Memorial speech.  And they have little patience for MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry, who suggested it is racist to mention that only 53 percent of Americans pay any federal income taxes.

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House Republicans continued their efforts to repeal what they consider job-killing regulations this week.  And one debate may well be the biggest regulation fight to date.  Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert says a new clean air rule would essentially wipe out the coal industry, which generates the majority of the nation’s electricity.  What would that mean for America’s energy consumers and American businesses?  Will the Senate of President Obama go along with the repeal?  We discuss it all with Rep. Gohmert, who also offers his assessment of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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