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The Right Ideas, Bernie’s Budget Committee, Disgusting Don Lemon

January 14, 2021 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they explore some of the ideas on China that ought to unite conservatives, moderates, and even some Democrats. They also shudder as Bernie Sanders is about to become chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and plans to use the reconciliation process a lot to avoid Senate filibusters. And they unload on Don Lemon for demonizing all Trump voters because some repulsive figures supported him too.

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Filed Under: Abortion, China, congress, COVID-19, Economy, Elections, Health Care, History, Humor, Journalism, News & Politics Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, budget, China, conservative, Don Lemon, ideas, National Review, Senate, spending, Three Martini Lunch, Trump

What We’re Politically Thankful For

November 27, 2019 by GregC

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As America pauses for Thanksgiving Day this week, join Jim and Greg as they each list three things for which they are politically thankful.  They both start out discussing encouraging signs in the judicial world.  Then Jim explains which Democratic presidential candidates he’s thankful for and which figure he’s thankful for doing just about everything the wrong way. Greg discusses the political figure he thinks is setting a good example for conservatives to follow while in office and which groups he finds encouraging in a time of great cynicism and polarization.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, bureaucrats, conservative, democrats, freedom, investigations, judges, leaders, Three Martini Lunch

Rough Night for Republicans, Conservative Proposals Win, Kamala’s Crazy School Plan

November 6, 2019 by GregC

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It was a long night, but we’re here and we’re glad you could join us!  Today, Jim and Greg unpack disappointing election results as Democrats win control of the Virginia legislature and Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin appears headed to defeat.  But they perk up as they see conservative policy ideas like protecting taxpayers, rejecting sanctuary city status, and tapping the brakes on affirmative action winning in moderate to liberal parts of the country. And they have zero use for a Kamala Harris proposal that would keep create a 10-hour school day (8 a.m.-6 p.m.) so it lines up with the work schedule of parents.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: conservative, days, democrats, ideas, Kamala Harris, Kentucky, National Review, Republicans, school, Three Martini Lunch, Virginia

DeMint Offers Conservative Ideas to Improve America

October 11, 2019 by GregC

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In the second half of our interview with Conservative Partnership Institute Chairman Jim DeMint, the former U.S. senator and co-author of “Conservative: What to Keep,” DeMint explains how conservatives want to help people who are struggling without making them dependent upon government.

He also walks us through a number of conservative policy ideas and innovations to improve our nation, including Education Savings Accounts and converting vehicles to run on natural gas.

Listen to the full podcast as DeMint also tells Greg Corombos why there isn’t much appetite for policy innovation in Congress these days and how people can come together around possible policy solutions in an era when the partisan divide seems wider than ever.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: conservative, DeMint, dependence, education, energy, gas, government, news

What Conservatives Want to Keep, Part 1

October 9, 2019 by GregC

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Whether a member of the House or Senate, Jim DeMint was known as one of the most conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill. But what does it mean to be conservative? That’s what DeMint and colleague Rachel Bovard address in their new book “Conservative: What to Keep.”

In an interview with Greg Corombos, DeMint explains that conservative means keeping what works best for people.

“It’s keeping our covenants, keeping our faith. It’s keeping our differences, keeping our republic, which is the decentralized idea that our founders. (It also means) keeping our traditions and keeping our land of opportunities which is all about free market economics,” said DeMint.

Listen to the first part of the conversation in the this podcast as DeMint also discusses why progressives see religion as a threat to their political agenda, how politics is becoming a religion to many, and how to defend capitalism at a time when it is constantly labeled a system of greed and selfishness.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: capitalism, conservative, faith, news, politics, religion

Rahm Bills Smollett, ‘Economist’ Clueless on Conservatism, Foxx’s ‘Colloquial’ Recusal

March 29, 2019 by GregC

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Rob Long of National Review Online and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for sending Jussie Smollett a bill for more than $130,000 to cover the costs of the police to investigate his hate crime hoax.  They also shake their heads as the supposedly moderate “Economist” magazine labels Ben Shapiro a “sage of the alt-right” but then changes it to call him a “radical conservative.”  And they have a lot of fun with the news that Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx didn’t really recuse herself from the Smollett case in the legal sense, just in the “colloquial” sense.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: alt-right, Ben Shapiro, bill, conservative, Economist, Jussie Smollett, National Review, Rahm Emanuel, Three Martini Lunch

‘The Media Are Being So Hypocritical’

April 5, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/4-5-gainor-blog.mp3

Mainstream media are blasting Sinclair Broadcast Group for having anchors at its affiliates all record the same promotional video but a conservative media watchdog says there’s nothing nefarious about the message and the bigger outlets are exposing their hostility for any sources that are not blatantly liberal.

The controversy began when the liberal sports site Deadspin edited a mashup of all the affiliates stating the same commitment to check facts before going on the air with any news stories.

Comedian and HBO host John Oliver said the video showed Sinclair and its affiliates to be a “brainwashed cult.”  CNN and MSNBC spent considerable air time denouncing the supposed group think, as did some of the broadcast networks.  That’s a decision that has Media Research Center Vice President for Culture and Business Dan Gainor fuming.

“This is a story that particularly annoys me because the media are being so hypocritical.

“These are, in many cases, journalists representing syndicated outlets: ABC, CBS, and NBC syndicate every day three to four hours of morning news, a half hour of evening news and several hours of entertainment coverage every day to their member stations,” said Gainor.

He says the mainstream reporters are getting bent out of shape over a very minor difference from their own operations.

“The only difference between that content appearing in one location or another and what Sinclar did is that Sinclair had it read by multiple people using the same script.  The broadcast networks just use the same show,” said Gainor.

So if the common promo is not worthy of such outrage, why are the big media outlets turning their guns against Sinclair?

“The broadcast networks and the lefty cable networks all think that Sinclair must be stopped.  They’re out to stop Sinclair from buying Tribune.  This is a blatant political play on behalf of the allegedly neutral journalists,” said Gainor.

Gainor also says Sinclair has a reputation for being in the tank for President Trump because it won’t cover him the way the liberal outlets do.

“Sinclair doesn’t lean as far to the left as they do.  Sinclair has been accused of being pro-Trump, but in the land of liberal media…not attacking Trump every second of the day is to the networks, by comparison, pro-Trump,” said Gainor.

Gainor says the bias in the mainstream media is obvious.  He points to CBS morning host Gayle King chiding Sinclair even though she has given “tens of thousands of dollars” to Democratic organizations.  He also says the most virulent anti-Trump reporters get rewarded, including lesser known figures like April Ryan and Brian Karem.

“No one ever heard of them prior to (anti-Trump statements in the White House Briefing Room), then as soon as that happened, they were hired by CNN,” said Gainor.

He says it’s nothing new, pointing out that 50 years ago CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam War unwinnable and even media icons like Edward R. Murrow were “huge, die hard liberals.”

Gainor says independent journalism is facing rough waters right now.

“It’s very tough.  Journalism in general hasn’t been doing well financially for many years,” said Gainor.

He says the industry took a big hit when the dot com bubble burst and suffered badly in the wake of the 2008 economic downturn.  He says that crisis also deepened the bias.

“The 2008-2009 stock market collapse caused a nationwide recession.  In journalism it caused a nationwide depression.  Journalists lost their jobs by the thousands and they haven’t really come back.  So the journalists all want to save their jobs and attack anyone who disagrees with them,” said Gainor.

Gainor says it is vital to our nation and our politics for independent and conservative media to have a place in the arena.  He says there are two key ways for that to happen.

“We need top donors to get involved to fund more conservative outlets.  There’s new outlets opening up all the time.  That’s an opportunity.  But outlets are only as good as the people who staff them.  So I strongly encourage young conservatives to go into journalism,” said Gainor.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: conservative, independent media, liberal, mainstream media, news, Sinclair

‘Phyllis Schlalfly Was Right’

April 3, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/4-3-mitchell-blog.mp3

A prominent conservative, female attorney in Washington is ruffling feathers in the modern women’s movement by suggesting victory has been achieved on the issues that drove activism in the first place, but she says abortion activists have since hijacked the movement and any dissent is considered treasonous.

In a recent column for the the New York Times, Cleta Mitchell says the original women’s movement was not about abortion but about giving men and women a level playing field.

“[Abortion] wasn’t the genesis of the women’s movement.  It was really to identify laws that treated women and men differently,” said Mitchell, who is a partner in the Washington firm of Foley & Lardner.  She has been prominent in many politically-charged cases.  Her clients include individuals and groups targeted by the IRS while seeking tax-exempt status.

Mitchell points out that U.S. law evolved from English common law, which inflicted inequities such as not allowing women to inherit property.  For many years, the law excluded women from certain professions or precluded them from serving on juries.  In the 19th century, women were often not allowed to speak in public.  More recent issues focused on equal opportunity and pay.

Mitchell says women should be eager to point out they won all those debates.

“Fortunately, we were successful.  Those laws were eradicated.  There is no disparate treatment of women under the law in the United States today.  Period,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell was active in the women’s movement in the 1970’s, but within a few years, she could see the emphasis changing to embrace abortion.

“I began to see that happening towards the end of the time I was active in the women’s movement, where I began to see that it was morphing at that time into the abortion issue.  We were also being confronted with things like gay rights.  I didn’t have any interest in those things because I thought that wasn’t what represented most American women and the challenges women faced,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell says that morphing continued until abortion rights became the foundation for the movement.

“The women’s movement refuses to declare victory mainly because it has morphed into a giant lobby for abortion.  It’s not within the construct of Roe v. Wade.  It is abortion on demand with no restrictions,” said Mitchell.

In addition to the rhetoric, Mitchell says the proof is in who are considered leaders of the women’s movement today.

“Today, that is really Cecille Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood.  That’s who they look to as a key leader as well as (avowed communist) Angela Davis.  And they bring Gloria Steinem out of mothballs,” said Mitchell, who also denounced the women’s march in January as well as the aggressive speeches from Davis, Madonna and Ashley Judd.

She says the past 45 years have proven a conservative icon 100 percent correct.

“The truth of the matter is Phyllis Schlafly was right.  In the final analysis, Phyllis was absolutely right.  I’m glad I was able to tell her that many, many times before she died last year.  She said that it wasn’t possible to have an Equal Rights Amendment and the women’s movement without it morphing into something we didn’t want to have happen,” said Mitchell.

“Phyllis was right that it was the natural progression that it would be taken over by the left wing, which it was,” said Mitchell.

So instead of empowering all women, Mitchell says abortion quickly became a wedge issue by which liberal women would shun their conservative counterparts.

“I think that conservative, professional women are virtually invisible within the ranks of what would be the women’s movement.  If you are a pro-life, conservative professional woman, you’re really a pariah,” said Mitchell, who recounted how women at a conference sponsored in part by her firm turned on her after learning of her legal work on behalf of conservative clients.

“When they found out who my clients were, one of them looked at me and said, ‘Does that mean that you know Tom DeLay?'”

“I said, ‘Yes, I know Tom Delay.’  He was House Majority Leader at the time.”

“They said, ‘Well, you can’t be friends with him.'”

“I said, ‘As a matter of fact I am friends with him and I think he’s a fine legislator and I help him every chance I can.'”

These women just looked at me and instantly turned away.  One of them said, ‘What are your views on abortion?'”

“I said, ‘I’m pro-life,’ and they said, ‘How can you be pro-life and pro-woman?’  These women just pounced on me,” said Mitchell.

In some cruel irony, Mitchell says it’s often liberal, pro-choice women who stunt the career growth of women who don’t agree with them politically.

“There is no daylight if you are a pro-life, conservative professional woman.  You are not welcome in the ranks of the women who put together networks and events to promote themselves,” said Mitchell.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: abortion, conservative, issues, Mitchell, movement, news, pariah, women

Three Martini Lunch 3/1/17

March 1, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-3-1-17.mp3

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America found a lot to like in Pres. Trump’s speech, from conservative principles to powerful moments to a calm but determined delivery.  They also point areas where Trump is embracing big government: including infrastructure, family leave, and health reform.  And they have fun with the very awkward Democratic response.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/30/16

November 30, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-11-30-16.mp3

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America have only good martinis Wednesday.  They are very bullish about many of the Trump cabinet selections.  They enjoy watching the left prove out radical it is by how it responds to a simple Trump tweet.  And we love watching Senate Democrats regret scrapping the filibuster for political appointments.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: burning, cabinet, conservative, Dems, filibuster, flag, Martini, National, Review, Senate, Trump, tweet

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