10-19-21 Great Guests for Your Show

1. John Lott: Study Shows Gun Permits Soared During Coronavirus Pandemic, Hit Record High Year-Over-Year Increase

2. John G. West: The Tragedy of Francis Collins's Model for Science-Faith Integration 

3. Wayne Allyn Root: The Shameful Public Lynching of Jon Gruden

4. Steve Turley: Trump and the GOP Have Already Seceded

5. James Hirsen: Joe Rogan Verbally Spars with CNN's Sanjay Gupta

6. Kenneth Rapoza: Tainted Blood Pressure Medication from India Can 'Change Someone's DNA'

7. Robert Curry: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Study Shows Gun Permits Soared During Coronavirus Pandemic, Hit Record High Year-Over-Year Increase

A new study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center and John Lott shows that the number of concealed handgun permits soared in 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic and has increased over 10% since the end of last year. According to the study, the number of concealed handgun permits surged to 21.52 million in 2020, a 48% increase since 2016 and a 10.5% increase from the same time last year. [more...]

The Tragedy of Francis Collins's Model for Science-Faith Integration 

By John G. West, VP and Sr. Fellow at the Discovery Institute

Francis Collins is Director of the National Institutes of Health. He is probably the best-known evangelical Christian in the federal science establishment. He recently announced he will be stepping down from that post by the end of 2021. Collins has been lauded for showing how a religious believer can rise to the highest levels of the scientific establishment while keeping his faith intact and while integrating his faith with his science. I do not question the sincerity of Collins's Christian faith. But I think this depiction of Collins as a someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. [more...]

The Shameful Public Lynching of Jon Gruden

By Wayne Allyn Root

The NFL has betrayed us again, this time with the God-awful firing and public lynching of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. But why should the way the NFL treated Gruden surprise anyone? After all, the NFL is always wrong about everything. Actually, it's clear the NFL's whole goal in life is to throw their own customers under the bus while courting people who have never watched NFL football and never will. [more...]

Trump and the GOP Have Already Seceded

By Steve Turley

That's the argument the far-left activists over at Salon are making. For better or worse, for right or wrong, scholars have noticed that secession is more pervasive today than ever. This secessionist trend began with the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991. The Soviet Union dissolved, and as a result, virtually overnight, Russia lost a third of its territory nations like Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Uzbekistan, and the like. Scholars argue that what happened to the Soviet Union may happen to more and more nations worldwide because the modern Cold War era that defined geopolitics for two generations has ended, and a new politic has emerged. This new politic was fast replacing the modern world with a post-modern world, where more and more populations return to their own cultures, customs, and traditions. People worldwide are going back to things like region and, yes, race and ethnicity as the basis for a new post-modern social order. [more...]

Joe Rogan Verbally Spars with CNN's Sanjay Gupta

By James Hirsen

Joe Rogan became the unfortunate target of the cancel culture crowd. His crime? Asking questions about vaccine mandates and COVID therapies... and having the gall to have expert guests appear on his show to explain their positions. After Rogan himself tested positive for COVID-19, he chose to use Ivermectin as part of a therapy to regain his health. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta made an appearance on Rogan's podcast. It was there that Rogan took the opportunity to confront the guest regarding the network's false characterization of Ivermectin, which Rogan had used to facilitate his recovery. CNN had labeled the medication a "horse dewormer." "It's a lie," Rogan said during the interview. [more...]

Tainted Blood Pressure Medication from India Can 'Change Someone's DNA'

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

The latest example of tainted medicine from an Indian lab can change a person's DNA and was flagged by the Food and Drug Administration as having a faulty process in making a key ingredient for the blood pressure medication known as Valsartan. The tainted compound in question was an impurity in azidomethyl-biphenyl-tetrazole (AZBT). It is known to damage DNA, and long-term exposure to an azido impurity in blood pressure pills can increase cancer risks. [more...]

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Robert Curry, Author of Reclaiming Common Sense

Have you seen "The Way Back," Peter Weir’s best film?  It'll be well worth your time. It offers you a thoroughly enjoyable and deeply satisfying film experience. It also offers you the opportunity to have a profound experience of what the founders were getting at when they proclaimed it is self-evident that you and I have certain unalienable rights. The people in this film risked everything to claim their right to a life in liberty, and you are there with them. [more...]