4-8-25 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Todd Sheets: Tariffs and Trade – Liberation or Damnation Day?

2. Robert Spencer: Muslim Vows to ‘Bomb Every Synagogue in Toronto’

3. Greg Rabidoux: Elon and his Big Bull-DOGERS Get Graded

4. Scott Powell: Protesters are Wrong - DOGE, Tariffs, and Law & Order Should be Applauded

5. Daniel Greenfield: Gov. Workers Can’t Figure Out How to Work in an Office Anymore

6. John Lott: A Nonlethal Firearm Alternative?

7. James Hirsen: With AI, Are We Summoning a Demon?

Tariffs and Trade – Liberation or Damnation Day?

By Todd Sheets , Author of 2008: What Really Happened

The Trump administration announced sweeping tariff changes designed to significantly re-order the global trading system. The administration has hailed these changes as the dawn of a new Golden Age for working class Americans. Opponents from both the left and the right have attacked the changes as: inflationary, unnecessarily disruptive to a full employment economy, and a gross violation of the free trade ethos that has long dominated economic thinking. But Trump’s tariff proposals are not a repeat of the mistakes of the past. Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has shifted from relatively balanced trade to trillion-dollar deficits. As manufacturing has shifted overseas, it has depressed working class incomes and turned this into an important issue that strikes at the very core of the American Dream. Government policies have some influence on trade, but the real underlying driver is the millions of daily purchase decisions made by consumers who are understandably looking to get the best value for their hard-earned dollars. [more...]

Muslim Vows to ‘Bomb Every Synagogue in Toronto’

By Robert Spencer, Author of Antisemitism: History and Myth

Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ narrative hardest hit.

The news was distressing, but unfortunately unsurprising in this age of rising Jew-hatred: the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that “a Toronto man” was “convicted for threatening to plant bombs in every local synagogue and kill as many Jews as he could.” It will come as no surprise to perceptive readers that the would-be mass murderer of Jews is an “Afghanistan-born shwarma restaurant owner” named Waisuddin Akbari, who appears to have brought his propensity for jihad with him to Canada from Afghanistan. This is ironic in the extreme, as the Canadian government isn’t doing anything in particular to combat the rising antisemitism in Canada, but it does have an “Islamophobia czar,” Amira Elghawaby, whose job is apparently to make sure that no one in the Great White North is daring to think anything negative about Islam, no matter how “Allahu akbar”-screamers plow cars into pedestrians, or randomly stab people on the street, or blow up buildings around the world. [more...]

Elon and his Big Bull-DOGERS Get Graded

By Greg Rabidoux, Award-Winning Filmmaker, Author & Cultural Commentator

Elon and his MUSKeteers get an early report card from voters. Hint: It's not all about being more efficient.

Our government is not a private company; so, tackling its makeover as if it were just another company, Mr. Musk and his team just purchased and now need to strip it down for parts may not be the answer. Can we also make our government more effective and show measurable outcomes for taxpayer investments while increasing efficiency? Unlike a private company, you can't just slash your way to success, people also need to be persuaded. Far too many Americans see and hear mostly about the pain and not the gain. The stock market is plummeting, savings are shrinking, and Musk is laying off people. In other words, too many voters may be hearing about micro-improvements while seeing some big, scary changes in front of them and their future. But if reasonable minds can agree these are all good things, then why are Americans giving Elon and his DOGE MUSKeteers such mixed grades? The short answer is many folks who are giving DOGE an "F" are very likely the same folks either firebombing Tesla cars, so the land of reason is not where they live or even visit. But the longer answer is that a number of more reasonable people find it hard to give DOGE straight A's either. [more...]

Protesters are Wrong - DOGE, Tariffs, and Law & Order Should be Applauded

By Scott Powell, Author of Rediscovering America

There was once a time when a new U.S. presidential administration would be granted a “honeymoon period” to set an agenda and establish new policies. Not so for President Donald Trump. Instead, the knives were being drawn even before his first inauguration in 2017, and guns were being drawn before his second term electoral victory in November 2024. But behind these battle lines, Trump’s enemies are losing the war. Protests against Elon Musk and Donald Trump reveal the false and disingenuous nature of this "hands off" movement. In protest movements, it is important to differentiate between the ringleaders - those who want radical change and destruction - and the rank-and-file sign-carriers, who get used by the ringleaders to project numbers and the image of popular support. [more...]

Gov. Workers Can’t Figure Out How to Work in an Office Anymore

By Daniel Greenfield, Author of Domestic Enemies

"'Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down': Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly"

Biden promised that federal workers would have to go back to work. But he lied or perhaps forgot about it 5 minutes later. In reality, his administration needed the backing of government worker unions. And since no one actually prepared for the dreadful day when they would have to go back to an office, they’re all eating rats off card tables while scrounging for toilet paper... and the Wi-Fi keeps going down. That, and the whole workplace is useless anyway. [more...]

A Nonlethal Firearm Alternative?

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Self-defense requires certainty, not wishful thinking.

If you listen to conservative radio and podcast hosts, you’ve likely repeatedly heard many Byrna advertisements promoting less-lethal alternatives to firearms. But Byrna’s claims ignore key realities. The company’s ads assume that using a gun always results in death, but that isn’t remotely accurate. In 95% of defensive gun uses, simply displaying a firearm stops an attack without firing a shot. Only a tiny fraction of 1% of defensive gun use results in a fatality or wounding. The vast majority of defensive gun uses are a less-than-lethal alternative. [more...]

With AI, Are We Summoning a Demon?

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

It seems as though a lot of prominent tech experts are feeling uneasy about the possibility of AI going awry. Some have even called for a pause in AI development. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, experienced what he called a "very strange extreme [AI] vertigo." Casey Newton, former senior editor of The Verge, discovered that certain individuals who are working with AI are having nightmares about it. Something dark seems to be hovering around some of those who are involved with AI’s development. Many of us have come to realize that technology is in no way a replacement for the people in our lives. Yet many users of AI are routinely involved with replacement people in the form of AI models that produce human-like characteristics. [more...]