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President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, in part due to his leadership in the fight against climate change.  It’s the third Nobel Prize awarded in the past couple of years on this issue, following wins by Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  So what message is Nobel trying to send?  How much of Obama’s comments on climate change Friday are true?  What is the economic reality of the climate change agenda?  And is this prize simply intended to boost the climate change summit in Copenhagen?  We get key insights from Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnepeg.

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The Washington city council has begun consideration of a bill to legalize gay marriage in the nation’s capital.  Will it pass?  What are traditional marriage supporters doing to fight back?  Why is legalizing gay marriage about a whole lot more than the legal status of gay people?  How does it permeate the entire society?  We talk with Bishop Harry Jackson of stand4marriagedc.com.

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Iowa Rep. Steve King rips House Democratic leaders for attaching ‘hate crimes’ legislation to a must-pass defense authorization bill.  Why does King call this political extortion?  What is in the ‘hate crimes’ legislation anyway?  What kind of sexual proclivities does it protect?  What impact would it have on criminal prosecutions?  What would it mean for your right to speak out against certain behaviors?  All that, and we get King’s reaction to President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Capitol Steps take comedic aim at the most vocal critics of Obamacare.

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On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office scored the Baucus health bill at a cost of $829 billion over 10 years – below the $900 billion threshold demanded by the president.  But what do we need to know about the CBO ‘scoring’ process?  Why do the terms of the Baucus bill make the final cost projection largely irrelevant?  How much will the bill be in reality?  What will add to the total?  Can this bill be salvaged or do lawmakers need to start over?  We ask former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin.

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John Gizzi of Human Events explains why Sen. John Ensign’s sex scandal and Rep. Charlie Rangel’s tax scandal will likely bring both of them down and out of Congress.  John also discusses the president’s conundrum on Afghanistan, this year’s key governor’s races and explains why he still sees Obamacare as ‘dead on arrival’.

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Sen. Max Baucus and many Democrats are celebrating the news that the Congressional Budget Office has scored the Baucus health bill as better than deficit neutral at a price tag of $829 billion.  But what is the final tab missing and how could it impact your bottom line?  How is Medicaid involved?  Why will states end up with a huge bill that most of them can’t pay?  And who will those states target to raise money to cover these new costs?  We ask Louisiana Rep. Bill Cassidy, who has also been a practicing physician for many years.

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President Obama needs to follow the troop and strategy recommendations of Gen. Stanley McChrystal.  What is the key to victory?  What happens if Obama doesn’t make a decision soon?  And did you know the Taliban leader causing us fits over there was held at Guantanamo – until we let him go????

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Arizona Rep. John Shadegg slams the Democratic calls for health care mandates as ‘Un-American’.  Why does he say that?  What exactly would the Democrats mandate?  How much choice would you really have in the Democratic plan?  Should you be jailed or heavily fined if you don’t follow the government’s orders on health insurance?

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Is the economy on the upswing?  If so, why is it improving?  What impact have Obama policies had on the economy?  We ask Brian Wesbury, the former chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.  We also get his insight on the group at the center of the health care debate…the Congressional Budget Office.  How do those economists ‘score’ the cost of all these different bills?  Is there a political tilt?  We get answers from Mr. Wesbury.

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