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Stories That Need More Coverage: Unsustainable Debt, China’s Ambitions, Persecution of Christians & More

May 9, 2025 by GregC

Listen to “The Stories That Need More Coverage: Our Debt, China’s Ambitions, Persecution of Christians & More” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg for a special edition of the 3 Martini Lunch, as they spotlight some of the most underreported stories of 2025. Which critical issues are the media ignoring entirely? And when the stories are covered, what vital context is missing? Today, Jim and Greg each offer three key examples where the press is failing the public.

First, Jim sounds the alarm on the national debt and the media’s refusal to grapple with the long-term consequences of unsustainable entitlement spending. With Democrats now opposing cuts proposed by DOGE, the press is fixated on the political drama while ignoring the looming fiscal disaster. Meanwhile, Greg blasts the media for siding with illegals in deportation cases while downplaying or completely ignoring the violent crimes committed by individuals living in the U.S. illegally.

Next, Jim flags the lack of serious reporting on China’s growing aggression in the South China Sea, warning that the threat is real but getting very little coverage or condemnation. Greg turns to California, where wildfire victims are still waiting on government permits to rebuild their homes, just as he and Jim predicted would happen months ago.

Finally, Jim asks why more Americans aren’t demanding that U.S. colleges prioritize American students over international applicants. And Greg calls out the media’s near-total silence on the brutal persecution and killings of Christians in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and other parts of the world.

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Fixing the Cost of College: Make Schools Back up Loans, GOP Needs a Plan, The Enrollment Cliff

April 12, 2024 by GregC

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President Biden is once again touting his unconstitutional efforts to transfer the student loan debt from those who took out the loans to the taxpayers who did not. It’s not just illegal, it’s immoral. And there are much better ways to address the problem. Today, Jim and Greg examine three different areas worthy of much more attention.

First, they cheer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for arguing that colleges and universities should back up the cost of student loans if their graduates are not able to find jobs with high enough salaries to pay them back. He says it’s not only right because the schools benefit immensely from student loans but it would also force schools to focus on subjects in which their students can find good jobs.

Next, they also welcome their friend Inez Stepman’s idea of taxing the endowments of colleges and universities, instead of allowing schools to treat them like hedge funds. Beyond that, they implore Republicans to come up with a coherent message other than opposition to what Biden is doing. Americans are furious about Biden’s shifting of this debt onto the rest of taxpayers, but without an actual plan to address the problem, Republicans are not doing taxpayers or themselves any favors.

Finally, they note the coming higher education “enrollment cliff,” as the number of high school graduates is expected to drop considerably in the next few years. Will that refocus the priorities of these universities? And how will greater interest in trade schools impact all of this?

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Fetterman’s Curious Encounter, FBI’s Terrorism Warning, Politico Dissects DeSantis’ Boots

October 31, 2023 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they react to an odd encounter Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman had with one of his voters – a voter who was shoved outside by a staffer after demanding an answer about a Middle East ceasefire.

They also wince as FBI Director Christopher Wray warns of Hamas-inspired terrorist attacks against Americans – similar to the ISIS-inspired attacks from several years ago. And Jim breaks down how anti-Semites convince themselves that the demonization of Jews justifies any horrible deed in their minds.

Finally, they hammer Politico for running a ridiculous story investigating whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likely places lifts into his boots to appear slightly taller. And Jim explains how this type of “journalism” has made our country and our politics dumber.

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‘It Leads to A Trail of Corpses’

October 11, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/10-10-kengor-blog.mp3

Free college, free health care, and government-defined income levels are all increasingly popular notions among the political left in the United States, but they are also raising concerns among opponents that some of the basic tenets of communism are alive and well in the United States.

This month marks 100 years since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that led to the creation of the Soviet Union and the murders of tens of millions of people.  After a century of economic and humanitarian horrors, the growing embrace of socialist and communist principles in the political and academic realm is clear.

But why are these ideas still popular given communism’s track record of bloody failure?

“Education, education, education.  Or maybe I should say miseducation, miseducation, miseducation or ignorance, ignorance, ignorance.  It all kind of goes together,” said Grove City College Political Science Professor Paul Kengor, who is also the author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism: The Killingest Idea Ever.”

“This is the natural byproduct of our K-12 public schools, our government schools, and especially our universities failing to teach people the horrors of communism,” said Kengor.

He says academia at all levels dropped the ball on the atrocities of the past 100 years and beyond.

“They’ve done a bang-up job teaching the evils of Nazism and fascism.  But for the 100th anniversary of Bolshevism and the Communist Revolution, which is what we’re at right now in October 2017.  Everybody should be able to say, ‘Oh yeah, they killed a hundred million people, didn’t they?'” said Kengor.

Kengor says parents need to stop sending their kids to expensive schools only for their kids to be indoctrinated by ’60s radicals who are sympathetic to communism.

“If you took Johnny or Susie, who you spent the first 18 years of his or her life teaching them the right things and then you send them off to that secular college, that liberal insane asylum, and handed twenty to thirty to forty thousand dollars a year of your life savings and at Christmas-time came back with their own definitions of marriage and gender and telling you why you’re a fascist for not supporting government funding of Planned Parenthood, you helped make this possible.  You should not send your kids to these colleges,” said Kengor.

He says knowingly sending your kids to schools to embrace socialist and communist ideas is doing exactly what radicals like Lenin would have wanted you to do.

“These are academic indoctrination centers and if you send your kids to these schools, you are going to be paying for them to have their minds destroyed.

“Vladimir Lenin said, and I quote this in the book, ‘Give me four years with a child and the seed that I plant will never be removed,” said Kengor.

In the book, Kengor says the education on communism is so bad that a survey a few years back showed roughly a quarter of Americans thought George W. Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin.

He points out Stalin’s death toll even dwarfs that of Adolf Hitler.

“I’m sure that the vast majority of Americans think that Hitler killed more people than Stalin, when in fact Stalin killed – by some accounts, including Alexander Yakovlev – he said Stalin alone killed 60-70 million people.  Hitler killed about 10 million.

“Stalin’s not even the greatest killer.  Mao is,” said Kengor referring to communist Chinese despot Mao Zedong.

“This is a frightful dangerous ideology.  People don’t know that because we fail to educate them,” added Kengor.

Defenders of Marxism and communism suggest bad leaders are responsible for the genocide rather than the ideology itself.  Kengor says the record is clear.

“People have done it right.  That’s what it comes down to.  What other ideology or system that has been tried by so many different people on every different continent and every different ethnic group and nationality, and yet everywhere it goes it leads to a trail of corpses,” said Kengor.

He says genocide is a necessary aspect of communism, and the proof is right there in “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

“Like Marx and Engels themselves said, ‘Despotism will of course be necessary in implementing this,” said Kengor.

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‘Women Are the Ones Who Lose’

February 14, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/2-14-mcguire-blog.mp3

The effort to blur and even erase gender distinctions is a decades-long effort by liberal activists to achieve equality but the effort is only serving to endanger the very women the movement supposedly champions.

That’s the premise of “Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female” by journalist and Catholic Association Senior Fellow Ashley McGuire.

She says the movement has far larger goals than winning restroom and locker room accommodation for people who believe they are a different sex than their anatomy would indicate.

“The endgame is being pushed by an elite segment of society that thinks that equality only will come when we all seem truly identical or when we ‘liberate’ ourselves from this idea of sex and gender,” said McGuire.  “Women are the ones who lose in a world where it’s scandalous to even use the word ‘woman’ as a category.”

While many social conservatives see the transgender movement bursting onto the scene in just the past few years, McGuire says the larger effort has been unfolding for decades.

“Radical left-wing feminists pushed this idea that we’re very gendered, that we’ve been socialized to be a certain way, that these are superficial things and that sex is something very random and we just need to get ourselves out of these male and female boxes for women to be equal like men.  We’re just starting to see some of the most extreme manifestations of it now, a few decades later,” said McGuire.

In her book, McGuire highlights stories such as a schoolteacher removing Legos from her classroom because boys were far more likely to play with them than girls and high schools removing Homecoming king and queen from the lexicon in favor of ‘royalty.’

Target stores have stopped labeling toys for boys and girls and there is even a push to stop dividing boys and girls clothes into different sections of the stores.

“What we’re seeing now is society actually actively encouraging confusion.  That’s the kind of things parents have to resist, whether they’re getting it in their consumer choices or whether it’s actually being taught in their schools,” said McGuire.  “This idea that toys and clothes have to be gender neutral or else you’re doing some sort of harm to your children is completely false,” said McGuire.

But it’s not just kids who deal with the consequences of the effort to eradicate gender and sex.  McGuire says adult women are paying the price, including those serving in the military.  She says women in the service can now be forced to the front lines of combat if they meet the physical requirements.

In 2016, the issue took on a greater dimension, when Congress very nearly required all women to register with Selective Service, which could one day make them eligible for non-voluntary service, possibly even in combat.

“It’s ironic to me that we’re suddenly talking about taking away choice for women, a choice as to whether they’re going to be put into some of the most dangerous situations possible,” said McGuire.

“The Marines just had their boot camp go co-ed and now they’re going to be putting men and women into the same sleeping quarters.  That raises all sorts of risk for sexual assault, lawsuits, rape and things like that,” said McGuire.

College campuses also continue to pursue policies that are marketed as progressive but that McGuire believes puts women at great risk, especially in residential housing.

“Something like 80 percent of rapes (on campus) happen in college dorms.  A lot smaller percentage than you think happen in fraternities and sororities or off-campus housing.  That shouldn’t surprise us because most of these dorms are co-ed,” said McGuire.

“The idea being that men and women are no different.  We can put them in the same building where they’re going to sleep and shower.  Often they’re showering and bathing in the same bathroom.  Some (colleges) are already implementing co-ed dorm rooms but at the same time wondering why women are being raped left and right,” aid McGuire.

So what do feminists have to say in response to this effort endangering women?  McGuire says the left is very good at silencing opposing views.

“They’re trying to stifle any sort of dissent on the issue.  I think there are very few people speaking out against it,” said McGuire.

She also says it took awhile for many people to see how the movement could impact them and their children.

“This all seemed like something that didn’t affect people in a very personal way.  Increasingly, I think people are starting to see, whether it’s someone like me – a mother to a couple of young children – faced with the prospect that my kids might be taught in their school curriculum as young as kindergarten about gender being a malleable construct,” said McGuire.

McGuire says there are some groups on the left that believe ending gender and sex distinction is harmful to women so the fight against the cultural tide will lead to “strange bedfellows.”

She also says studies show that equality for women is being achieved without blowing up our cultural foundation.  Citing research showing that CEO’s with daughters are likely to offer better salaries and opportunities to women, McGuire says things are moving in the right direction and a radical redefinition of humanity is not needed.

“That’s the direction we should be going.  We should be exploring what our differences are, how our differences contribute in mutually beneficial ways, and trying to establish an equality based on that, not on this fake and unrealistic idea that if we make everything identical that’s when we’ll have achieved equality,” said McGuire.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/10/16

November 10, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-11-10-16.mp3

Greg Corombos of Radio America and David French of National Review applaud Democrats for suddenly recognizing and appreciating things like federalism, freedom of dissent, and the separation of powers now that Republicans are headed back to the White House.  They also slam the anti-Trump protesters for blocking traffic and engaging in violence and the colleges offering safe spaces, counseling, and even crayons and Play-Doh to students bothered by Trump’s win.  And they discuss the liberal calls for abolishing the Electoral College.

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