10/30/2010
Logical Fallacies and Critical Thinking

What happens when government takes a right and regulates it out of existence, so no one can exercise the right? A law pending in New York City would make it almost impossible for pregnancy counseling centers to exist. Chris Slattery provides a description of events in the Big Apple.

A new thread is opened today, focusing on the United States painting itself into an energy corner with impending disaster on the horizon. The U.S. has shut its own rare earth mines down, allowing China to have exclusive control of these essential elements worldwide. When rare earth minerals are essential for high tech devices, including alternative energy, why would they do that? Eric Thede is a chemical engineering consultant for rare earth mining.

Well we’ve yapped forever about logical fallacies. Now let’s yap with a scientist, who has published a nifty manual home and private schools can use to teach critical thinking. Dr. Jason Lisle, Ph.D., (www.answersingenesis.org) is author of the book, “Discerning Truth, Exposing Errors in Evolutionary Arguments.”

As silly season draws to a end with the elections next Tuesday, John’s boralogue reviews predictions he’s been made about political trends for this decade to see how well we’re doing and whether they need some revision.

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10/23/2010
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

What lessons could be learned about today’s church by comparison with the German church’s confrontation with Nazi Germany? Quite a bit and the parallels are impressive. Eric Metaxas (www.ericmetaxas.com) is author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

What if we threw a war and nobody came? Speculation ran rampant for months about a possible Israeli attack on Iranian reactors, but surprise, it seems it might have already happened. Ken Timmerman (www.newsmax.com) joins us for a conversation, which includes the deportation of Assyrian Christians from Sweden back to Iraq.

John’s boralogue opens a new thread by examining the subject of logical fallacies. The fallacies du jour are the ad hominem and red herring arguments. John also addresses what happens to society when governments run out of money with clips and commentary.

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10/16/2010
Skipping to a Tipping Point

John’s extended boralogue unites series of seemingly unrelated stories and connects them to the origins of the progressive socialist movement which began 100 years ago. Things are now approaching a social and economic tipping point, which will determine the worldview western civilization will follow.

The logical question is whether or not we can actually dodge the “tipping bullet.” Is there a possibility that the system of checks and balances in our country between the federal and state governments may actually enable us to short circuit the runaway economic issues we’re facing right now? We’ll air relevant news clips, notably from Congressman Ron Paul and Neil Howe, author of “The Fourth Turning.”

Back to the long-running show thread outlining the danger of setting precedents in law, which violate constitutional rights and which can backfire on us. Dave Hodges joins us to discuss his op-ed piece, which delineates bad law that has come into existence as a result of the various laws passed after 9/11.

We’ll end with part of Dr. Michael Coffman’s speech in Spokane, Washington, earlier this month on Agenda 21 and how this U.N. Treaty, which has never been ratified, is destroying property rights in this country as various governments arouhd the country implement it nevertheless.

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10/09/2010
Property Rights as a Base for Free Society

John starts the show with an extended boralogue explaining why the Tea Party movement is doomed to failure unless it recognizes the core issues confronting the nation.

This dove tails directly into the next segment. When people say they believe in wealth transfer from the rich to the poor, do they really understand what they’re saying? There is a core relationship between strong private property rights protections and freedom that they have never thought of. We’ll air key clips from Dr. Michael Coffman’s (www.rescuingamericabook.com) two-hour speech, which we sponsored last week.

An essential idea to reforming government would be reducing the impact of lobbyists and increasing direct pipelines between elected officials and their constituents. But how to do that? Brent Regan (www.voxverus.com) already has a system in place.

Finally progressives often opine that knowing the religious history of the country is not important in the light of today’s events. But did the founders agree with them about their religious values? Professor Thomas Kind from Baylor University is author of “God of Liberty, A Religious History of the American Revolution.”

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10/02/2010
Education and the Road Back

We’ll do a different show from the norm today.

First, John’s extended boralogue examines parallels between the churches in the west today and those in Germany just prior to the rise of the Nazi regime. Included are audio clips from a new book about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Then by request we’ll air the speech John gave at Steeling the Mind of America in September in Denver, Colorado. The talk focuses on education as the key to the road back from the abyss into which the country is staring.

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