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Former Pentagon official K.T. McFarland says military service was scorned during and immediately after the Vietnam War.  She says President Reagan healed the wound by speaking on Veterans Day and thanking Vietnam veterans for their service.  She says Reagan also showed his appreciation by beefing up the military.  As for the current war, McFarland says President Obama needs to carefully decide what the mission is for our troops in Afghanistan – that is far more critical than the number of troops he sends.

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South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is pushing for a Constitutional amendment that would term-limit members of Congress.  Why?  What would fundamentally change if members of the House could serve no more than six years and senators had to leave after 12 years?  How can he ever find enough members to support limiting their own Congressional careers?  Is he just doing this because Democrats are back in power?

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Iran will have deployable nuclear weapons by this time next year unless President Obama takes simple steps that would bankrupt Iran and force it to abandon its nuclear goals.  What are those simple steps?  Why won’t Obama take them?  Why do Obama and the Clintons hate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?  Would an Israeli military strike work?  What would be the fallout?  We ask Middle East expert Mike Evans, a close friend of Netanyahu.

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Iowa Rep. Steve King says Republicans misplayed Nancy Pelosi’s sudden decision to allow a pro-life amendment to the bill.  Why does he say Republicans should have just killed the whole bill instead of worrying about abortion?  What does he expect in the Senate?  And why did King stay in Washington for the health care vote instead of attending his own son’s wedding?

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Nebraska. Sen. Mike Johanns says the House health care bill has very little chance in the Senate.  Why?  Why does he think the amount of tax increases and deficit spending will derail Democratic support?  Are all Republicans aligned against it?  What is in the Senate bill anyway?

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Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, explains the fiscal horror show that is the health care bill passed by House Democrats on Saturday.  How much will taxes be raised?  Who will be stuck with the bill?  How much will this really cost?  And what will this mean for the effort to create more jobs?

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Terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel says the Obama administration and even the military are allowing this country to be paralyzed by political correctness.  She says the evidence shows that Nidal Malik Hasan was absolutely a radical islamist, but no one wants to admit the obvious because it hurts ongoing efforts to paint our enemies as something other than what they are – radical islamists who hate this country and what we stand for.  Gabriel has very tough language for Obama and our military leaders and says our military is infested with this dangerous ideology.

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California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who was also a Reagan speechwriter and special assistant, discusses the huge significance of today’s 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down.  Why is it so important to remember?  Why does Rohrabacher give Reagan so much credit for winning the Cold War?  And what does Rohrabacher say about those who say Commumism would have collapsed without pressure from Reagan?  Trust me, you don’t want to miss that answer or his analysis of President Obama’s decision not to attend today’s events in Berlin!

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Karna Small Bodman served as senior director of the National Security Council in the Reagan administration.  Why was Reagan so steadfast in his determination to defeat (rather than live with) Communism?  What is the real story of the fierce fight over Reagan’s speech at the Berlin Wall in 1987?  Does Reagan deserve much of the credit for the Berlin Wall coming down 20 years ago today, or should Mikhail Gorbachev get it?

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Former GSA Administrator Lurita Doan explains why the Democratic health plan means a massive increase in our nation’s debt.  She also discusses why Obama’s budget gimmicks will mean massive deficits in Fiscal Year 2011.  How much money could be saved if Obama kept his promise to go line by line through the federal budget?  What specifically should be cut?  And how does this tide of fiscal irresponsibility get reversed?

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