4-24-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Carl Schramm: Helping Cities Fix Themselves

2. Ryan Mauro: Boston Bomber's Mosque Has Muslim Brotherhood Ties

3. John LeBoutillier: How Does the Boston Attack Impact Our View of Government?

4. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.: Delving into the Minds of Terrorists to Try to Understand their Motivations

5. Doug Johnson: PC Endangering America

Helping Cities Fix Themselves

By Carl Schramm

There is no compelling narrative in our public discourse today about what to do with cities that are no longer economically viable - that are losing their populations in the wake of losing their economies. In every such place, and there are dozens of them, the talk is of recovery, restoration, often "renaissance." The alternative of seeing some of our cities as smaller, operating on a different and more diminutive scale, is never heard. Instead consultants bring bright visions that politicians and citizens know in their hearts can't be realized. So how should we think about the re-development of cities if the reality of de-development is ever to be turned around? [more...]

Boston Bomber's Mosque Has Muslim Brotherhood Ties

By Ryan Mauro

Dzhokar Tsarnaev, arrested for the terrorist bombings in Boston, attended the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) in Cambridge, a mosque with strong Muslim Brotherhood links. The ISB Cultural Center, which is at a separate location, is even run by a group that federal prosecutors said in 2008 “was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." An ISB attendee reports last seeing Tsarnaev there during Ramadan last year. It is unclear if his brother, the other bomber, also attended the mosque. The ISB has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, has had radical leadership and promotes anti-Western themes. [more...]

How Does the Boston Attack Impact Our View of Government?

By John LeBoutillier

How does the Boston attack impact our view of government? Does it change our politics, immigration reform and gun control? How does it impact our civil liberties? Watch The POLITICAL INSIDERS - Pat Caddell, Doug Schoen and John LeBoutillier - Sunday: Part 1 - Part 2 - Monday [more...]

Delving into the Minds of Terrorists to Try to Understand their Motivations

By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.

The two Chechen brothers who are suspects in the Boston bombings raise important questions of how the terrorism in the Chechen conflict appears to have ended up being played out here as well. Having interviewed over four hundred terrorists, their family members, close associates and even hostages worldwide - including those from Chechnya, I have some ideas as to how these young boys may have been radicalized. [more...]

PC Endangering America

By Doug Johnson

It is blatantly clear that the Boston Marathon bombing was an act of terrorism. Of course, the term "terrorism" isn't well received by the left because it's politically incorrect, but political correctness endangers us and only truth can protect us. Led by President "politically correct" Obama, the left wants us to be careful not to use phrases like "Radical Islam," especially when it involves such groups as Muslims. Heaven forbid that we might offend someone! No, they think that it's far better to reduce our safety and make sure no one is offended. [more... ]