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Transparency on Transgender Athletes, Gannett Cuts Columns, Pregnancy Centers Bombed

June 14, 2022 by GregC

Listen to “Transparency on Transgender Athletes, Gannett Cuts Columns, Pregnancy Centers Bombed” on Spreaker.

Scot Bertram of Hillsdale College and the “Political Beats” podcast is in for Jim. Scot and Greg break down a new poll showing Americans solidly opposed to biological males competing in women’s sports. They also chronicle the decision of Gannett and other newspaper publishers to scale back on opinion pages. And they hammer most of the media for ignoring violence against crisis pregnancy centers while CNN covers it disingenuously.

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Filed Under: Abortion, congress, Crime, Elections, History, Humor, Journalism, News & Politics, Sports, Transgender Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, abortion, Centers, Cheney, Gannett, media, newspapers, opinion, pregnancy, Reich, sports, transgender, violence, women

Voters Want Voter ID, Biden’s Big Tax Lie, Psaki’s Big Trump Lie

March 18, 2021 by GregC

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Jim and Greg enthusiastically welcome polling showing 75 percent of likely voters think presenting a photo ID should be required to cast a ballot. They also hammer Joe Biden for going back on his guarantee that “anybody” making less than $400,000 per year would not get a tax increase while he’s in the White House. And they blast White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for saying there’s “no question” that President Trump calling COVID the China virus is contributing to an increase in violence on Americans of Asian descent, including the recent murders in Atlanta.

 

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Filed Under: China, COVID-19, Crime, Economy, Elections, Health Care, History, Humor, News & Politics Tagged With: Asian, Donald Trump, elections, HR 1, jen Psaki, Joe Biden, lie, National Review, taxes, Three Martini Lunch, violence, Voter ID

When God Called ‘The Shot Caller’

May 28, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “When God Called ‘The Shot Caller'” on Spreaker.

From the time he was a young boy, Casey Diaz watched his father assault his mother on a regular basis.  He witnessed a triple homicide by the time he was eight.  By age eleven he was in a Los Angeles-area gang and five years later he was a gang leader on his way to prison for killing a rival gang member.

That’s the bleak beginning to Casey’s life but it also sets the stage for his dramatic transformation, which he recounts in the new book “The Shot CallerCasey’s life appeared hopeless.  He was staring at a long prison sentence that he had no qualms about serving because it was expected of gang members.  He was thoroughly unrepentant.

Then Frances Proctor walked in his prison.  Proctor was a tiny lady from a nearby Baptist church who faithfully came to pray for and evangelize the prisoners.  Corrections officers told her she would be wasting her time on Casey Diaz.

Proctor didn’t listen to them.

At first, Casey politely told Proctor he wasn’t interested in her message.

“She had the boldness of a lion.  I remember her telling me, ‘I’m going to pray for you and Jesus is going to use you,'” said Diaz, who is author of “The Shot Caller,” which tells the story of his dramatic conversion.

For the next 18 months, Proctor visited Diaz once a month and assured him each time she was praying for him.

“I would spend maybe two to four minutes with her and she was just giving me the love of Christ and talking to me,” said Diaz, who says Proctor’s intercessory prayers led to him surrendering his life to Jesus one night in his cell.

“There was something so authentic about her concern for inmates in there and for some reason she just zeroed in on my life,” said Diaz.

Listen to the full podcast to hear how Casey’s life changed after that, how he soon became a target in prison, how he connected with Proctor after getting out of prison, and what he thinks are the best ways to reduce gang violence.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Casey Diaz, Christianity, gangs, news, violence

‘The History of Jihad:’ Fourteen Centuries of Conflict

July 27, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/7-25-SPENCER-BLOG.mp3

From the response to the 9/11 attacks to the confronting of ISIS, Americans and other western leaders regularly refer to Islam as a “religion of peace,” but a new book contends the 1,400 years of Islam is a timeline awash in bloodshed and conflict.

Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer is author of the new book “The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS.”  He says there is a consistent attern of carnage since the earliest days.

“What I found is that through fourteen centuries, without any break, without any let-up, without any reformation or reconsideration, without any period of tolerance – although there are a lot of historical myths about that – Islam has been responsible for conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims for fourteen uninterrupted centuries,” said Spencer, who is quick to point out that most Muslims are not Jihadists.

“Obviously, not all Muslims are involved in this and not all of them approved of it.  Nonetheless, in every century and in in every place in the world where there have been Muslims, there have been jihadis who thought that it was one of their responsibilities before Allah to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers,” said Spencer.

History books tell us that Islam was founded in 622 A.D.  Mohammed died in 632.  By 732, at the Battle of Tours in modern-day France, Charles Martel led a decisive Frankish victory against Muslim invaders who had already swept through North Africa and Spain.

But how did those invaders get from the Arabian Peninsula to the Atlantic coast within 100 years?  Spencer says it was accomplished through violent conquest, and he contends most people who deny the violence perpetrated in the early years of Islam are arguing from a position of ignorance.

“People aren’t really aware of this history.  This is one of the reasons why I wrote this book.  The Islamic advance was incredibly swift.  And not only did they get all the way to the Atlantic and to Spain within 100 years of the death of Mohammed, but they also went in the other direction, conquered one of the great powers of the day in Persia and went into India,” said Spencer.

Spencer says his book is the first work in the English language to detail the jihad against India, which he calls “an extraordinary and bloody story.”

In addition to those who don’t know the history, Spencer says others believe a false version of history.

“I think a lot of people take for granted the idea that there was some kind of mass conversion to Islam, that people were converting to it because they were convinced that it was true and that this is what was responsible for the Islamization of the Middle East and North Africa.  That’s actually not the case.  It was all done by conquest,” he said.

Spencer further asserts that ISIS is not the exception or some radical departure from Islam over the centuries.  He claims ISIS looks much like jihadists throughout the past fourteen centuries.

“I show in the book there are movements like that all through Islamic history.  Many of them were responsible for the conquest of Spain and its 700-year occupation by Islamic forces.  Many of them have also been responsible for jihad warfare elsewhere.  There was nothing new that ISIS did, nothing different.  It was exactly the same in its beliefs as jihadis throughout history,” said Spencer.

Jihadists also played a key role in the first major military engagement of the United States when President Thomas Jefferson was forced to confront the Barbary Pirates off the coast of North Africa.

“They were jihadis, as I show in the book.  Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote a report to Congress about how the Moroccan ambassador had explained that they were fighting them because it was explained in the Quran and they felt they had a divine responsibility to do so,” said Spencer.

That conflict is also how U.S. Marines became known as “leathernecks.”

“They’re leathernecks because they wore leather collars that would prevent them from being beheaded.  The (Marine Corps) song with the ‘shores of Tripoli’ was all about them facing the jihadis,” said Spencer.

In multiple speeches, President Obama stated Muslims have been a vital fabric of the United States from our very beginning.  Spencer says other than being our first opponent in war, Obama’s assertions do not hold up.

“In terms that Obama’s claim that Muslims were in the United States and were involved in it since the founding; that’s complete historical fiction and has no basis in fact whatsoever,” said Spencer.

Today, Spencer believes the U.S. and other western nations make a habit of whitewashing the ugly history of jihadism.

“The West in general has had a drastically wrongheaded response to this threat and that’s primarily been characterized by simple denial.  They just proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace and leave it at that.  The most notorious example of that is George W. Bush right after 9/11,” said Spencer.

But if jihad is historical Islam, why do most Muslims not engage in it?

“Jihad is risky.  You can get killed.  You can get maimed.  You can have all sorts of disasters happen to you.  That takes a certain amount of courage.  Not everybody is going to do it.  Also, there are people simply not religious enough to care,” said Spencer, who suggests others do their work more surreptitiously these days.

“There are also people waiting and biding their time, working in other ways.  The Muslim Brotherhood and other groups of its kind are working to achieve the same ends as jihad terrorists, which is Islamic (Sharia) law ruling the world but through different means: through elections, through civilizational change and so on,” said Spencer.

And while a majority of Muslims do not engage in jihad and many do not even condone it, Spencer says they could do much more to condemn it.  He says those who do speak out against jihadists like ISIS get a tepid following at best.

“A few years back when ISIS was in it’s heyday, every now and again we’d see Muslims against ISIS rallies.  Invariably, they only attracted about 25-50 Muslims.  Whereas, rallies against cartoons of Mohammed drew 800,000 people in Chechnya, hundreds of thousands in Pakistan and Iran,” said Spencer.

Spencer says the first step in the solution is to call out jihadists for what they are.

“The first thing we need to do is to speak honestly about this problem, call upon Muslim groups in the West to renounce the aspects of Islam, including jihad warfare, that are at variance with the constitutional principles of the United States and, in general, the principles of western free nations,” said Spencer.

He says the U.S. and our western allies must take a stand because the past fourteen centuries show that the problem won’t go away on its own.

“Everywhere there have been large numbers of Muslims, there has been conflict.  Here again, it’s not all Muslims or every Muslim but there are always some among the Muslims who believe they need to wage jihad against unbelievers.  Why do we think we’re going to be exempt from this and that it’s not going to happen to us?” said Spencer.  “It is.”

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: accommodation, confrontation, Islam, Mohammed, news, Terrorism, United States, violence

Awards: Underreported Stories, Overreported Stories, Best Stories of 2017

December 28, 2017 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America focus squarely on the media in this episode of the Three Martini Lunch awards.  They begin by discussing two massive stories that media either ignore or are severely downplaying – one overseas and one here in the U.S.  Then they switch gears to reveal which stories received far too much coverage in 2017.  Finally, they choose what they see as the best stories of the past year.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: awards, best story, congress, courts, Economy, military, National Review, overreported, radical Islam, Three Martini Lunch, underreported, violence

Weiner Faces Justice, Turks Beat Protesters in U.S., Lieberman for FBI?

May 19, 2017 by GregC

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America react to disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner pleading guilty to sending obscene material to a minor and discuss how his character might have played a key role in the final days of the 2016 campaign.  They also discuss the ugly beating of Kurdish protesters by the security for Turkish President Erdogan this week in Washington.  And they scratch their heads over why Joe Lieberman is at the top of any list to lead the FBI.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Erdogan, FBI, Lieberman, Martini, National Review, sexting, Turkey, violence, Weiner

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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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: college, colleges, Constitution, electoral, liberals, Martini, National, protests, Review, violence

‘Believe Me, This Is Going to Get Worse’

October 21, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/10-21-verney-blog.mp3

Democrats are engaged in damage control in the wake of undercover videos from Project Veritas showing party operatives admitting to stoking violence at Trump rallies and being open to engaging in mass voter fraud, and the group says these videos are just the tip of the iceberg.

On Monday, Project Veritas released a video depicting the recently-fired Scott Foval of the Democrat-linked Americans United for Change admitting to inciting violence at Trump events, including a riot in Chicago that injured police officers and another that shut down a road near a Trump rally in Arizona.  Foval was quickly fired.

Tuesday, a follow-up video depicted Foval bragging about Democrats busing in voters from other precincts to influence elections and at least entertaining other forms of voter fraud this year.  Longtime Democratic operative Robert Creamer resigned as head of Democracy Partners that same day.  Creamer, who is married to Chicago-area Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., also served time years ago on a felony fraud conviction.

“In the first video, we see that they’re actually doing the things that are despicable.  In the second video, we have them talking prospectively about what they’re going to do on Election Day.  We have to be vigilant, go out and see if we can catch them on Election Day doing those things,” said Project Veritas Executive Director Russ Verney.

“But since they’ve already delivered on their violence at rallies, we have no reason to believe that they don’t intend to bus people around and commit other voter fraud,” added Verney.

In addition to dismissing Foval and Creamer, Democrats have pointed the finger of blame at Project Veritas and founder James O’Keefe.  Media, such as the New York Times, usually refer to Project Veritas as “a conservative group led by the activist James O’Keefe that has been heavily criticized as using deceptive editing.”

Verney rejects the left’s effort to dismiss the videos by attacking Project Veritas and O’Keefe.

“Nobody has pointed to anything in either of the videos that’s untrue or that they challenge the veracity of.  We’ve got them in their own words admitting to their own underhanded acts to subvert the Trump campaign and to commit voter fraud,” said Verney.

As for the suggestion that “deceptive editing” created this controversy, Verney says that is patently false.

“They attack the messenger instead of the message.  You say that it’s heavily edited and imply that we’ve done something nefarious with the editing, but they can’t point to anything within the videos that are nefarious.  They are the actual words of the targets in their own context.  We allow the people to fully hang themselves in these videos,” said Verney.

Verney especially gets a kick out of broadcast media promoting the “deceptive editing” defense.

“Every video you watch on ABC, Fox, whatever, is edited.  We would have to post hundreds of hours of video if you want it unedited,” he said.

But while Democrats try to wash their hands of the controversy by kicking Creamer and Foval to the curb this cycle, Verney doesn’t necessarily buy that they’re really off the stage.

“As they say in the video, ‘We don’t talk about things that we talk about.’  All this is a wink and a nod.  So whether or not they’re actually fired or just moved to another company is yet to be seen,” said Verney.

Even if the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton campaign and private groups really did cut ties with Creamer and Foval, Verney is confident the tactics aren’t changing.

“Regardless of whether or not those individuals are still in their positions, the organizations that they’re with are still in position and still carrying on, still committing the same kind of tactics as when Bob Creamer was the head of the operation or Scott Foval.  They’ve still got plenty of other replacements out there doing the same things,” said Verney.

However, Verney warns Democrats that there damage control efforts are not over yet.

“They’ve fired two of the top people so far.  The only thing that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary campaign can do is try to attack the messenger.  They can’t deal with the message.  And believe me, this is going to get worse,” said Verney, referring to more Project Veritas videos that are on the way.

He didn’t say exactly what the forthcoming videos would show, but he did mention that as many as eight undercover reporters infiltrated various parts of the Democratic Party apparatus and discovered more evidence of illegal communicating and collaborating between organizations that are forbidden by law from working together.

“They gained the confidence of the highest level of Democratic operatives in multiple organizations: Americans United for Change, the Foval Group, Democracy Partners.  They sat in and listened to conference calls where the campaign, the White House, the Democratic National Committee and the Super PAC were all on the conference call with these operatives making their plans,” said Verney.

He says that’s proof of the Democrats flagrantly violating the law.

“The Hillary Super PAC is involved in this coordination, which makes the whole thing totally illegal.  This is a dark money conspiracy, where these organizations are prohibited from prior coordination with each other if they’re spending money to promote the Hillary election or the Trump defeat.  They cannot coordinate.  We’ve exposed exactly how they coordinate with each other in violation of the law,” said Verney.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: democrats, fraud, news, Project, Veritas, violence, voter

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