9-18-14 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Prof. Paul Merkley: Understanding Islam's Confidence

2. Bill Shireman: Why the Biggest Climate March in History Will Build the Movement against Climate Protection

3. Kyle Olson: Principal Confiscates American Flags from Student Vehicles in School Parking Lot – on 9/11

4. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Wage Wars

5. Joseph Klein: Netanyahu's ISIS Moral Clarity

Understanding Islam's Confidence

By Prof. Paul Merkley

From the beginning, Muslims have taken the view that the Prophet Muhammad's message contains everything that Allah has given us to know about everything. It is far too easy for the Muslim tour guide to dazzle a flock of Christian tourists with descriptions of the magnificence that plays around them. The lesson that serious Christians should be absorbing is usually lost. It is about Islam's absolute and unqualified confidence in its unqualified right to explain other people’s religion to them. [more...]

Why the Biggest Climate March in History Will Build the Movement against Climate Protection

By Bill Shireman

This Sunday in New York, hundreds of thousands of climate activists will take to the streets to rejuvenate grassroots, media, and political support with "the biggest climate march in history." They may succeed - but not in the way they hope. The march is proving to be a grassroots bonanza for climate "skeptics," who are already leveraging the event to boost their movement, according to Future 500's analysis of activism in the lead up to the march. [more...]

Principal Confiscates American Flags from Student Vehicles in School Parking Lot – on 9/11

By Kyle Olson

A number of students at Woodruff High School decided to remember the September 11th terrorist attacks by flying American flags on their trucks in the school parking lot. That move violated a school policy banning students from drawing an "unusual amount of attention to oneself." The four students came to school on 9/11 with large American flags mounted on posts in their truck beds. [Principal Aaron] Fulmer removed the flags from their trucks and returned them at the end of the school day. Fulmer wanted them removed from the students’ vehicles. He was just enforcing a "long-standing district policy," he says. [more...]

Wage Wars

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

A series of protests partially funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sought to highlight the difficulty of low-wage workers. Workers across the country gathered over Labor Day demanding that they be paid no less than $15 per hour. President Obama, the man whose job is to make America a competitive economy globally, publicly sided against business owners when he stated, "America deserves a raise." Such a statement by the President of the United States shows that even he does not understand why the U.S. economy is flawed or how economics works. [more...]

Netanyahu's ISIS Moral Clarity

By Joseph Klein

Confronted with pure evil in the form of ISIS, President Barack Obama treats the jihadists as if they represented an isolated threat that can be dealt with on its own. ISIS (or ISIL as the U.S. government calls it, or the Islamic State as the jihadists now call themselves) has no relationship to Islam, according to the president and his Secretary of State John Kerry. Unlike President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees the threat and its animating ideology without rose-colored glasses. Addressing a conference of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Prime Minister Netanyahu described the repugnant vision as one of global supremacism. [more...]