Spending the Week in Court

The whole country has been watching the Supreme Court’s hearings on Obamacare, but there were other important Supreme Court rulings this week that were virtually ignored by the press.

First up is attorney James Mason from Home School Legal Defense (www.hslda.org). The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a home school family where a social worker forced entry into their home on minimal probable cause.

Then constitutional attorney Jonathan Emord (www.restoretherepublic.co) examines the Supreme Court’s favorable decision in the case of the Sackett family in Priest Lake, Idaho. The Sacketts were building a house on property they purchased when the EPA arbitrarily declared their property a wetland, demanded they dismantle the construction, cease use of the property and fined them $37,000 a day until they complied with no venue for an appeals hearing. Unfortunately this is not an isolated case.

The Pope was in Cuba last week. Why does the world media have a fetish about mass murderer Che Guevara, Castro’s henchman? Yale Professor Carlos Eire grew up in the same Cuban neighborhood as Che. He is author of the “Waiting for Snow in Havana,” which won the National Book Award in 2003.

John’s boralogue answers critical emails regarding the debate with Ronald Sider on last week’s show.

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Time for a lively debate on the program. The “Ryan budget” made its debut in Congress and with it the inevitable debate. Many seem to think that a combination of taxing the rich and a few spending cuts can bring the deficit/debt problem under control. This is naiveté in the light of the numbers. But what to cut? Some propose caring for those less fortunate is paramount in fixing the deficit. Is this even possible given the level of indebtedness? Ronald Sider from Evangelicals for Social Action (www.evangelicalsforsocialaction.org) is author of “Fixing the Moral Deficit, A Balanced Way to Balance the Budget.”

If there is one group that has been badly cheated by America’s failing public education system, it’s the African-American community. Merisa Parson Davis (www.merisadavis.com) is author of the book, “Bill Cosby is Right,” and she’s got hard-hitting controversial ideas about fixing the problem. She’s also Dr. Cosby’s cousin.

John’s boralogue examines a series of news articles from the week that are silent indicators of where global politics are headed.

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Small People Making a Large Difference

We’ll devote a lot of time today examining abortion and infanticide to see how individuals have managed to make a difference in saving the lives of tiny ones.

First, what is the “Save the Storks” campaign all about? David Pomerantz (www.savethestorks.com) joins the show as first guest today.

Then we’ll check on the outcome of the Bethlehem Bible College conference last week, which rotated around the plight of Palestinians and the reasons Christians are leaving the Middle East. Dexter van Zile from CAMERA (www.camera.org) is just back from the conference.

Returning to subject of infanticide, Dr. Jim Garrow. Ph.D., (www.pinkpagoda.org) is a Nobel laureate and runner-up for the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Barack Obama. As a Canadian businessman running schools in China, he began rescuing Chinese babies from infanticide and making arrangements to have them adopted. It’s an indication of what one man can do in the face of a massive moral problem.

John’s boralogue examines the worldview foundations underlying the values collisions playing out in political arenas, while explaining the fundamental differences between them.

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If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?

We’ll put politics on hold this week in order to examine several religious issues.

God vs. No-God seems to be the ongoing theological debate. When Christians say, “God created the universe,” atheists will invariably respond by asking, “Who created God?” But is that even a valid question once we arrive outside space-time where God is? What does exist in eternity? Dr. Edgar Andrews, Ph.D., (www.whomadegod.org) from the University of London is a scientist and international expert on large molecules, who once debated Richard Dawkins. He joins us to discuss his new book, “Who Made God?”

The we’ll examine the issue of the New Calvinism and its theological and sociological trends both as a religious movement and a sociological one. Dr. Robert Congdon (www.congdonministries.org) joins the show for a spirited interview.

John’s boralogue examines the growing gulf between topics on the mainline talk shows versus the real issues that will drive our lives for the next 70 months.

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To Attack or Not Attack: An Iranian Winter?

Notice the long-running speculation about an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is ramping up to a fevered media pitch. John’s extended boralogue kicks off with a thorough update on the Iranian situation.

Then we’ll be joined by former CIA Director James Woolsey, current head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (www.defenddemocracies.org), who furthers that analysis.

This week former Colorado Senator Gary Hart penned an op ed piece in the Huffington Post comparing Islamic intolerance for Christians with the religious right in America. John comments on the senator’s ideas and then James Heiser comes on board from the New American (www.thenewamerican.com) to discuss the philosophical underpinnings for such a piece.

We’ll hear the latest exchange between Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and then swing over to that good old favorite, the ongoing controversy about man-made global warming. The media have ignored a major scandal where leaked emails stolen from global warming skeptics turned out to be bogus. Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute (www.heartland.org), is the last guest on the program today.

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What Exactly is an Economic Collapse?

Some economists warn that local, state and federal governments are on a course to economic collapse if we don’t change immediately. But what does “economic collapse” really mean? Does life quit? Do governments cease to exist? Dr. David Barker, Ph.D., (www.barkerecon.com) is a former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank.

In the last part of the program we’ll update listeners on the Iran and Middle East situation with a some words from intelligence expert Joseph de Courcy.

Then we’ll move to examine the growing tensions between state and federal governments via a look at the U.S. Supreme Court case on Arizona SB1070, which allows Arizona law officers to enforce federal law. This is just the beginning of a tend toward an extended series of future legal conflicts as states attempt to extract themselves from federal policies for various reasons. Attorney Gary Kreep from the United States Justice Foundation (www.usjf.net) joins the program.

Why is it so many politicos chafe at the U.S. Constitution and would prefer something else? They’re always talking about “human rights” instead of constitutional rights but what are these rights? John’s boralogue examines the whole issue of human rights to see if they’re all they’re alleged to be.

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Political Correctness is Killing Us

Today’s program rotates around the effects of political correctness as new values are colliding with older values in trying enforce conformity to the new norms.

Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media (www.aim.org / www.religiousleftexposed.com) engages in a conversation about Catholic hospitals being forced to provide contraception to employees, speculating on whether or not the church made a deal with the devil when it took government funds in the first place.

Then Tim Graham from the Media Research Center (www.mrc.org) follows Cliff for a comparison of the media’s handling of two recent similar controversies to examine whether bias is present or not.

Political correctness is strangling our ability to have reasoned debate in this country, which means it must be opposed at all points because it is a threat to freedom of speech. Peter Feaman (www.thenextnightmare.com) is author of “The Next Nightmare, How Political Correctness Will Destroy America.”

John’s extended boralogue analyzes the fundamental principles around which political correctness rotates and why we can’t win because the rules are confusing and rigged against us. The biggest problem with PC thought is that the catalog of what is right and wrong is ever changing and we have to keep updating our “PC definition database” so we don’t accidentally transgress.

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