When Reality Becomes Real

When reality sets in, politicians panic, because that’s when politics-as-usual disintegrates in the face of an onrushing crisis.

During the endgame of inflationary policy, revenues fall and governments respond by pushing tax rates to the firewall, causing revenues to plummet even further; a lesson governments like the state of California never seem to learn. Tom Giovanetti from the Institute for Policy Innovation (www.ipi.org) explains why soak-the-rich schemes always fail, while impoverishing the middle class at the same time.

Then we’ll pursue the current monetary situation in Europe with David McAlvany from the McAlvany Weekly Commentary (www.mcalvany.com).

Naomi Schaefer Riley was canned off the “Chronicle of Higher Education” blog after she made politically incorrect statements about race studies programs at universities. Academia is becoming the most closed-minded environment in the western world. We’ll discuss the implications of this as well as Naomi’s subsequent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “The Academic Mob Rules.”

We’ve often spoken how the consensus process (Delphi Technique) involves the use of change agent facilitators. When the process starts, the outcome is predetermined, but the participants don’t know that. Mesa County, Colorado, just discovered this the hard way. We’ll run clips from a Colorado radio program to demonstrate the point.

John’s boralogue points out that there really was never any doubt where everything would wind up once the Euro crisis began, placing us at the leading edge of much bigger storms to come. Once on a tax-inflate-spend money train, governments can’t get off the wild ride until the train finally goes off a trestle. Today we’ll give you a road map of the exciting journey upon which we find ourselves.

The War on Free Speech

We hear many progressives including Supreme Court justices say we should emulate the European Union when considering rights in lieu of our own constitution. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg even said she wouldn’t recommend our constitution for a new country. But if one checks on Europe, we see that those rights, especially freedom of speech are rapidly dying. Karen Lugo is co-director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (www.townhall.com and www.nationalreview.com) and founder of the Libertas-West Project.

Two worldviews are slugging it out in the West; the first based in Judeo-Christianity and capitalism, the other based in secular socialism. C.S. Lewis was a staunch opponent of the type of statism today’s secularists are proposing. David Theroux, founder of the Independent Institute (www.independent.org and www.lewissociety.org), makes his debut on the program.

John’s boralogue does a brief analysis of how Europe got itself into the economic predicament in which it finds itself. We’ll be doing a more in-depth analysis next week.

Environmental Fascism

Theoretically governments are supposed to save the planet for future generations. But we now have to ask if we are being forced to save ourselves from those who are saving the planet. Julie MacDonald is former Deputy Undersecretary of the Interior (www.bestscience.org) and she debuts on the program to explain why so many governmental agencies are running rough shod over American citizens with little concern. Environmentalism has become a big-money game with only passing relation to saving the environment.

It seems the United Nations is getting ready to try to impose its control of the Internet by revising an existing international telecommunications treaty. Bartlett Cleland from the Institute for Policy Innovation (www.ipi.org) joins us.

Then in the last part of the program we’ll air clips from congressional hearings this week on persecution of Christians in China, especially noting the plight of Chinese human rights attorney and activist Chen Guangcheng.

John’s boralogue responds to a recent (offensive to many) speech by gay atheist activist Dan Savage to a group of high school journalism students, which has gone viral in some sectors. We’ll examine statements he made from a worldview perspective.

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The Long Progressive History of Globalism

While some people may have to guard their investments in these rough economic waters, others don’t have investments and live paycheck to paycheck. What will they do in the storms to come? John’s boralogue examines the necessity of allowing God to guide and provide during rough times whether you’re rich or poor.

Then we’ll do a Middle East update plus an examination of why the western media whitewash the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East.

After that it’s time to review the principles of change agentry, which leads into a history of the 100-year movement towards global government. Carl Teichrib from Forcing Change (www.forcingchange.org) returns to the program.

Lastly we’ll further our discussion about logic and critical thinking by explaining the difference between first and second level propositions and why presuppositional apologetics is important in defending one’s worldview. Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lyle, Ph.D., (www.icr.org) is author of “Ultimate Proof of Creation” and “Stargazer’s Guide to the Night Sky.”

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The Anti-Humanism Behind Environmentalism

Progressives have had a hard time establishing a basis for their constant appeals to morality due to the constantly changing basis on which it stands. James Kalb (www.jimkalb.com) is author of “The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command.”

Despite the claim that we’re saving nature for future generations, there is a long-standing dark side to environmentalism, which breathes malevolent hostility towards humanity in general. This philosophy of anti-humanism was responsible for much of the genocide which took place in the 20th Century. Dr. Robert Zubrin, Ph.D., is author of “Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism.”

John’s boralogue describes why the Obama administration’s proposal for a “Buffet Rule” is a conversion from taxing income to taxing capital. This chokes efforts of businesses to expand and create jobs, and is the equivalent of being forced to eat one’s seed corn, leaving nothing to start the following year’s crop. We’ll demonstrate this by examining the disparity between Warren Buffet’s tax recommendations for you and me versus what he actually does.

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