12-1-22 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Dick Morris: GOP Must Halt Dems' Outrageous Budget Plans

2. John Lott: Gun Confiscation is Not the Solution to Mass Shootings

3. Scott Powell: Reversal of XI's Fortunes a Warning for Tyrants

4. Kenneth Rapoza: China's Zero COVID Revolt

5. Daniel Greenfield: This is How You Take Over a School System

6. John Ellis: The Decline of Higher Education

GOP Must Halt Dems' Outrageous Budget Plans

By Dick Morris

Trump hits back at McConnell.

It's outrageous that outgoing leadership in the House chamber - including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. - is angling to control the budgetary items for the next fiscal year, despite only possessing power for another 30-plus days. Even worse is that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., should be condemned for letting the Democrats get this far with next year's negotiations. It's absolutely outrageous! The people of this country voted for the Republicans to run the House of Representatives in 2023. [more...]

Gun Confiscation is Not the Solution to Mass Shootings

By John Lott

We should prioritize mental health treatment.

Gun control advocates would have us believe that confiscating people's guns is the solution to all problems. Without so much as a hearing, red-flag laws allow judges in many states to confiscate people's guns due to mere suspicion of mental health distress. A third party need only complain that a gun owner is a danger to himself or others. After reviewing a single written complaint, all a judge needs is "reasonable suspicion." No mental health experts are involved in the evaluation or in treating the person. These laws were supposed to stop the recent mass murders in Colorado Springs and Chesapeake, Virginia, respectively, on Nov. 19 and 23. But why design a law that only takes away a person's guns when there are so many other ways for people to harm themselves or others? [more...]

Reversal of XI's Fortunes a Warning for Tyrants

By Scott Powell

Just a month ago it appeared to many that Communist China was more invincible than ever with Xi Jinping appearing to have tightened his control, securing another extended term at the 20th Party Congress. And while some in the media described his status as "a new Chinese emperor for life" or "Mao Zedong reincarnated," everything has suddenly changed with China experiencing more widespread anti-government protests than those associated with Tiananmen Square in 1989. The simmering grievances against excessive COVID testing and quarantine requirements have now intensified into bold and outspoken opposition against Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. [more...]

China's Zero COVID Revolt

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

This past week's protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian pandemic restrictions further highlight the wanton human rights abuses that routinely take place in the world’s No. 2 economy. Zero COVID is more than just an inconvenience to unknown Chinese people thousands of miles away. China’s pandemic management has shut down supply chains around the globe. American businesses should be protesting against Zero COVID as much as the Chinese. Only they have more power than the average Chinese to do so. They can protest by moving supply chains out of China, a country that has become an unreliable partner to American multinationals and a geopolitical risk as well. [more...]

This is How You Take Over a School System

By Daniel Greenfield

Powered by parent groups, takeovers of school boards are a rising trend. What's interesting here is the coordination between a governor and school board members to create systemic change. The Left does this all the time. Everything is coordinated from the top down. Conservative school board members, however, are often on their own in supposed 'red' states. This is just the beginning, but it’s an interesting model. [more...]

The Decline of Higher Education

By John M. Ellis

In the '50s and '60s, academic-freedom disputes routinely took a particular shape. In a small town, somewhere in the heartland, there would be a college campus on which a young academic loudly voiced his opinions on controversial matters - mostly political, but sometimes also on sexual morality, or even on legalizing drugs. This would offend the sensitivities of some local townspeople. If we fast forward to the present, one feature of what's happening on the campuses looks similar: that crucial analytical function is still getting stifled whenever it offends an equally shallow local moralism. But there's a startling difference: the actors have changed places. It's now the professors who do what the small-minded small-town worthies used to do, shutting down analysis whenever it offends them, which is often. In fact, they do it on a vastly larger scale. [more...]