President Obama says the school year and school day both need to be lengthened if our students are going to surpass students in other industrialized nations. Is this a good idea? Is more time in the classroom the answer or do we need better teachers? Can we afford the cost of longer school years? Will teachers and students get burned out? And is this something that should be ordered from Washington? We ask Marcus Winters of the Manhattan Institute.
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Three different terrorist plots have been foiled this week and at least five radical Islamists have been arrested in connection with those plots. Is this a coincidence or is jihadism on the rise here? What’s causing the rise if there is one? How can it be stopped? We ask Dr. Walid Phares, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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Why did the Senate vote to kill expanded offshore drilling for oil and natural gas? How much domestic energy is left untapped because of politics and regulations? What kind of energy future are we looking at if Democrats get their way? We ask former Virginia Gov. George Allen.
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Is there really a Middle East peace process right now? How is Obama treating Iran with more respect than Israel? Will Israel really strike Iran’s nuclear facilities? What is the timeline for such an attack? Now that more evidence has emerged against Iran, will the West really clamp down? Does Iran fear further sanctions? Does it fear the U.S. military? We get interesting and surprising answers fromn longtime Middle East expert Mike Evans, author of “Atomic Iran”.
Is President Obama strengthening America’s position on the world stage by apologizing for past American policies and making unilateral concessions on issues like missile defense? Or is he weakening us without any guarantee of getting something in return from the international community? We ask K.T. McFarland, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for President Reagan.
Fresh off the back-to-school controversy and the New Jersey kids being taught songs worshiping President Obama, here comes the Department of Energy on a mission to ‘educate’ kids in 6,000 schools on the issue of climate change. That’s because Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the American public is acting like teenagers because we don’t obey the government when it comes to their directives on how we should be fighting climate change. So is this indoctrination or are conservatives just getting bent out of shape? We ask Connie Mackey, who served as director of student correspondence for President Reagan.
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Former Clinton administration official Larry Haas says if Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities, most of the international community will express public outrage. However, he says a recent summit in London proved to him that leaders throughout the world – even in the Middle East – will privately breathe a major sigh of relief that the world’s top sponsor of terrorism does not have an active nuclear weapons program. Will Israel have to strike or does diplomacy have a chance? And what does Haas say about former Carter administration official Zibignew Brzezinski’s suggestion that the U.S. should stop an Israeli strike – even to the point of shooting down Israeli planes?
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The ‘compromise’ health care legislation from Sen. Max Baucus provides large sums of money to pay for elective abortions through government subsidies. Oh, but that’s not all. The National Right to Life Committee says the Baucus bill will greatly endanger America’s seniors. Does Baucus admit his bill uses your tax dollars to pay for abortions? How would his plan result in poorer health care for the elderly? We ask Douglas Johnson, legislative director at the National Right to Life Committee.
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Just two weeks after President Obama’s back-to-school controversy, the issue of indoctrinating America’s school kids is back in the headlines. This time it’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu in the spotlight. He says the American public is acting like teenagers because we don’t follow the government’s orders for helping to fight climate change. So the Department of Energy is heading to 6,000 schools to make sure kids know all about climate change and how to fight it. Is this a legitimate civic function or is the Obama administration cramming a political and economic agenda down the throats of kids? We ask Connie Mackey, former director of student correspondence for President Reagan.
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Iowa Rep. Steve King slams House Democrats for aggressively pushing legislation trying to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Why do Dems want to change the law? What has been the result of gay marriage in King’s home state of Iowa? Why does does he say the preservation of traditional marriage alone is indispensible to America’s future? And how does he see this as part of a larger political agenda?
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