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Just days after the burial of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the race to replace him in Congress is underway.  The first to enter the ring is Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.  How strong of a candidate will she be?  Who else might join the race?  Will there be any Kennedys?  How about members of the House?  Who will run on the Republican side?  Will state Democrats change the succession law again in order to make sure they have a Democrat voting on the health care bill?  How do they defend this obvious hypocrisy?  We ask Erin McPike, political reporter for Congress Daily.

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Combat veteran and author Bing West has just returned from Afghanistan.  Are we in a position to win there?  Do our troops even know what the major goals are?  What does President Obama need to do if he doesn’t want the American people to lose resolve for the mission in Afghanistan?  Is the Karzai government competent?  How much corruption is going on in his government?  Can an Iraq-like counterinsurgency work there?  We ask Bing West, author of “The Strongest Tribe”.

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Brian Wesbury, former chief economist for the Joint Economic of Congress, says the Obama stimulus plan is not doing much to help the economy but it will do a lot of harm as the deficits pile up in the coming years.  He also says health and energy legislation will burden Americans down the road.  So who does he credit for the economic improvement?

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John Gizzi of Human Events discusses Obama’s latest push to pass his version of health care reform, and why the unions are demanding a public option.  Find out why he also sees Afghanistan as Obama’s Vietnam and why he thinks the GOP has a legitimate shot at winning the Massachusetts senate seat.

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Earlier this year, the D.C. city council voted overwhelmingly to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere.  Council members also made it clear they plan to legalize gay marriage in the district as well.  Should this just happen or should it be up to D.C. voters to determine what the definition of marriage ought to be in their city?  How would residents likely vote if the issue does get on the ballot?  What is the status of the effort to get this issue on the November ballot?  What sorts of hateful threats are being aimed at those standing up for traditional marriage?  And how do supporters of traditional marriage explain why this vote is so important?

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President Obama will address a Joint Session of Congress next Wednesday to offer his newest pitch for his brand of health reform.  Will he actually seek more common ground or just change the sales pitch for the package the American people seem to be rejecting?  How well do the American people really understand the plans Democrats have for our health care system?  Why is the Obama administration being so alarmist about the return of the H1N1 virus?  Is there a connection to the health reform debate?  We ask Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute and one of the foremost health policy experts in the nation.

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Terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel discusses the real reasons behind the release of Lockerbie bomber AbdelBaset Ali al-Megrahi.  What are we learning about British priorities and what might we learn about the Obama administration?  She also discusses the despicable 40-year reign of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his constant support of anti-western Islamic radicals.  And we learn the latest in the case of 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, the teenage runaway who says her father plans to kill her for converting to Christianity from Islam.

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For the past few days, we’ve seen the raging California wildfires.  We see them every year, but are they just a fact of nature or are certain groups making them worse?  How does government regulation make these fires worse?  What is the proof of that?  What about environmental groups and their agendas?  What would make forest fires less frequent and more manageable?  We ask R.J. Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Former CIA operative Wayne Simmons explains what torture is, what it isn’t and how we should classify the methods used by our interrogators.  Are they torturing detainees or are they not even close to the brutal tactics perpetrated against us by our enemies past and present?  Why is ‘waterboarding’ now far more humane than it was back when the Japanese were doing it to us back in World War II?  What is the bottom line on how such a public probe will impact national security?

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Dr. Eric Novack of Americans for Prosperity says Obamacare would require you to buy a health care policy whether you want one or not…same thing for business owners and their workers.  What else would you be forced to pay for?  What happens to you if you refused to buy a government-approved plan?  What did President Obama think about this approach less than two years ago?  And why are so many drugmakers and health insurance companies really supporting the president’s plan?

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