We have Monday’s top news! What was it like to survive the Mumbai terrorist attacks? What should be the reaction in India and Pakistan? Why is Barack Obama picking Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? Who else is on his national security team? How long have we officially been in a recession? How did stocks react to that news? We have all the answers as we discuss the biggest stories for Monday, December 1, 2008.
Is Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state a bad idea given their campaign differences or is he right to say their disagreements were relatively minor? Can Obama and Bush’s secretary of defense actually find common ground on Iraq? And is Obama alienating the most liberal wing of his party by naming a lot of Clinton administration figures? We ask Christina Bellantoni, White House Correspondent for The Washington Times.
Terror gripped Mumbai, India, for days as a small group of islamist radicals stormed hotels, held many people hostage and killed dozens before the horrific episode was over. Who did this? Wht was this predictable? And what now? We ask Karna Small Bodman, former Senior Director of the National Security Council in the Reagan administration. Her 2007 fictional thriller “Checkmate” predicted this group perpetrating terrorism in India.
On Monday, President-Elect Barack Obama nominated Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as his choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security. What is her track record as governor on border security and cracking down on illegal immigration? What was her approach to bolstering America’s national security? And what can we expect on this from from the Obama administration and a heavily Democratic Congress? We ask Al Garza, Executive Director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Is there a precedent for the terrorist tactics that played out in Mumbai, India, last week? Why were the actions of a few so effective in killing many people? What lessons should be learned on how to respond to this type of attack? And how high is the tension between India and Pakistan in the wake of all this? We ask these questions to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Following World War II, the Cold War immediately dominated the attention of Americans and our leaders in Washington. But in fighting off communism, several sympathizers were discovered working within the ranks of our own government. Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy was at the center of this political storm. But how did the ‘Red Scare” originate? How did McCarthy become the most prominent name associate with the effort to expose and remove communists from high-ranking positions? And were there really a lot of communists working in the government or was McCarthy really leading a witch hunt? Those are the some of the questions we tackle as we visit with M. Stanton Evans, author of “Blacklisted By History.”
In the second half of our interview with author M. Stanton Evans, we hear his insights on the Army-McCarthy hearings, where McCarthy stands in history and what Evans believes should be the legacy of Joe McCarthy.
For the second straight year, a team from Mississippi State University won a nationwide competition aimed at designing the most fuel-efficient engine for the next generation of vehicles. So what was the winning design? How does it work? Could it really be mass-produced by American automakers over the next few years? We ask Dustin Black, team leader for the back-to-back champions from Mississippi State.
On this Thanksgiving Day, we pause and give thanks to God for His immeasurable blessings in our lives. We also take a break from the frenetic news cycle to examine the history and traditions of Thanksgiving. In our first segment, we look back at the bold and life-threatening decision of the pilgrims to leave England and begin life anew in colonies and what they found when they arrived.
We chronicle the story of the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts back in the 1620s. What was the story behind that first feast? And how did it continue to the point of starting a movement to create a national holiday?
