8-24-21 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Nick Adams: Reagan and Trump on Afghanistan

2. Judd Dunning: Biden's Vietnam 2.0

3. John Lott: Our $28 Trillion National Debt is Coming Due

4. Kenneth Rapoza: China Solar Moves to Asia

5. Steve Turley: Why the Taliban Won

6. James Hirsen: Travis Tritt's Quarter Notes

7. Daniel Greenfield: Our Mistaken Ideas About Human Rights Failed Us in Afghanistan

Reagan and Trump on Afghanistan

In his new book, TRUMP AND REAGAN: Defenders of America, internationally renowned speaker, Nick Adams, analyzes the two greatest modern-day presidents - and their records in defending America. He says neither Trump nor Reagan would ever have allowed what has happened in Afghanistan. They had identical views on the military - non-interventionist and keeping the peace through strength - a style and substance of leadership non-existent in the Biden White House, but desperately needed. [more...]

Biden's Vietnam 2.0

By Judd Dunning

Afghanistan. Welcome to Biden's Vietnam 2.0, America. Ask yourself why America leads as the world's reluctant interventionist? It's because we fight for freedom. We shouldn't bail on human beings just because Democrats want to be home repressing their own people and spending trillions on pork rather than protecting basic human freedom. Contrary to Oliver Stone, Howard Zinn and all the 1619 proponents, we are not nation-builders or Monroe Doctrine throwback freaks. Beloved Old Glory was torn down as Biden instructed our $700 million dollar embassy to be abandoned and its staff to destroy all American flags so as not to be "misused in propaganda efforts." The U.S. abandoned our embassy. The Taliban now "sit amongst extreme wealth in the Kabul presidential palace." [more...]

Our $28 Trillion National Debt is Coming Due

By Dr. John Lott

Last September, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted the federal debt wouldn’t hit $29 trillion until 2028. Just short of a year later, the national debt stands at $28.6 trillion and is set to surpass $29 trillion within weeks. Since Congress hasn't yet enacted all its new spending proposals, the CBO debt estimates don't yet include them. The $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill still has to pass the House, and a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill will add to the current budget. The proposed 2022 budget will likely be more than $6 trillion (up from $4.8 trillion in 2020). [more...]

China Solar Moves to Asia

By Kenneth Rapoza, Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

China solar companies were whacked with high tariffs due to their "dumping" products in the U.S. from 2005 to around 2011. It killed the U.S. industry. But 100% tariffs brought it back. Then Trump slapped an additional 20% on all solar panels made anywhere in the world, not just in China. Thanks to cheap labor, weak enviro rules, and currencies worth peanuts, the 20% is not a big deal for American importers. So, China, in order to avoid the 100% tariffs on them, is moving part of their solar business to southeast Asia. And now Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysian-made solar panels are flooding the market at a time when the Biden administration wants to turn off the oil and gas spigot. [more...]

Why the Taliban Won

By Steve Turley

On August 15th, 2021, the world changed. As American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Taliban stunned the world by seizing the capital city of Kabul in mere days. Scenes of tens of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul airport desperate to flee their country shocked viewers around the globe. The hope of a pro-Western Afghan democratic republic crumbled in the blink of an eye. How did the Taliban do this? [more...]

Travis Tritt's Quarter Notes

By James Hirsen

Travis Tritt recently shared his perspective on some of the current vaccination policies that are being implemented within the entertainment industry and in certain municipalities. "In light of recently announced policies and mandates from some entertainment companies, promoters, and local municipalities which would discriminate against specific concert attendees who are not vaccinated, I feel compelled to make a statement," Tritt said in a press release provided to the media. Although not specifically singled out by Tritt, the largest concert promoters in the country recently announced some unprecedented medical mandate requirements for concert attendees. [more...]

Our Mistaken Ideas About Human Rights Failed Us in Afghanistan

By Daniel Greenfield

Human rights are not a government, they're a culture. America was founded on that simple premise. The Declaration of Independence's conviction in the equality of men, individual rights, and governments gaining their authority from the consent of the governed was based on "self-evident" truths. These truths are "self-evident" to Americans in the way that they're not self-evident to the average Afghan, Pakistani, Iraqi, Russian, South African or Chinese citizen. They have their own truths that are equally "self-evident" to them based on their own worldview and culture. [more...]