11-10-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Guy Nohra: The Election is Over... The Responsibility to Lead Isn't

2. Todd Sheets: The Way Forward

3. Judd Dunning: Reagan Lost 26 Seats in 1982... Two Years Later He Won 49 States

4. John Lott: Newsom's Death Penalty Decision Puts Justice on Death Row

5. Kenneth Rapoza: After U.S. Restrictions, Chinese Connected Vehicles Face Growing Scrutiny in Europe

6. Michele Steeb: The Homelessness Crisis No One Wants to Confront

7. Kerry Lutz: Are ChatGPT and Claude the AOL and CompuServe of the 2020's?

The Election is Over... The Responsibility to Lead Isn't

By Guy Paul Nohra, Author of Not On Our Watch, Former Nevada Gubernatorial Candidate

What the midterms tell us about listening, accountability and the country we share.

What I learned from my gubernatorial run in 2022 is that the insiders are quick to criticize the political consultants and the quality of candidates... and that any analysis will take weeks to yield helpful information. When it comes to elections, the only constituency that matters are the voters. I witnessed and fought in the civil war in Lebanon. I've seen firsthand what happens when divisions deepen, trust in leaders breaks down and people begin seeing their neighbors as enemies. The discourse is moving towards division, and the internet and social media are amplifying our divisions. We are losing something fundamental that I learned from becoming an American - the ability to disagree, listen and still respect one another... and when that happens, the consequences extend far beyond an election. Working across the aisle isn't surrender; it's part of governing a country of more than 340 million people who don't all think alike and who are becoming more polarized by the day. [more...]

The Way Forward

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

The Republicans need to support President Trump, who has put key building blocks for success in place, while becoming more proactive in offering constructive development strategies that can help him lead the country through one of the most important two-year periods in recent history. What are the broad strokes of such an effort? 1. Stay the course on Super Intelligence; 2. Develop a coherent strategy for Iran, explain it to the American people, and stick to it; 3. Resist the urge to play games with monetary policy, tariffs and immigration; 4. Clean up the administration's act by ending grift, law-fare, and public investments in private businesses; and 5. Continue to stand up to the worst impulses of the far left, but otherwise make a genuine effort to follow through on the president's post-campaign offer to work with the Democrats. [more...]

Reagan Lost 26 Seats in 1982... Two Years Later He Won 49 States

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Newsmax Columnist

Reagan's 1984 began in the wreckage of November 1982. Trump broke the establishment's grip once. After January 3rd, the veto pen becomes the most important tool in Washington. Force every proposed entitlement to face the arithmetic. If House Democrats want to spend the next two years on impeachment instead of gas prices, let them. They can impeach with a bare majority. Donald Trump lost the House in 2018 and came back to win the White House and the popular vote in 2024. Midterms punish the party in power; they do not repeal a movement. The next two years decide whether it ever gets that grip back. 2028 begins now. [more...]

Newsom's Death Penalty Decision Puts Justice on Death Row

By John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center

Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted every death sentence in the state, following Joe Biden's lead just before leaving office. The action covers all 548 people on California's death row. Newsom said he "morally" cannot kill them – even those he called the "worst of the worst" – and that the death penalty "cannot be fairly applied and has resulted in the conviction of innocent people." Without the credible threat of execution, prosecutors lose a powerful tool to encourage defendants to negotiate. Accused mass murderers repeatedly choose life without parole to avoid the risk of death. The debate should weigh not only the lives of convicted murderers but also the innocent lives the death penalty saves. The willingness of even the most brutal killers to accept life in prison rather than face execution shows how much they fear that punishment. Removing the death penalty would discard a tool that can both save innocent lives and reduce the cost of bringing murderers to justice. [more...]

After U.S. Restrictions, Chinese Connected Vehicles Face Growing Scrutiny in Europe

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

In one month, between mid-September and mid-October, Chinese technology attached to new cars – mostly EVs, but not all – were called out in two European countries for essentially being data vacuums for China. In some cases, the data is collected for the companies to understand how the driver uses their product, and to make adjustments over time. But in other cases, they were used as on-board recording devices. [more...]

The Homelessness Crisis No One Wants to Confront

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

Are We Ending Homelessness or Funding its Endless Management?

Recently, I had the great opportunity to appear on Michael Levine's podcast. We tackled uncomfortable truths about America's homelessness crisis and why decades of government spending have failed to deliver the lasting solutions those suffering on our streets desperately need. At the heart of our conversation is a truth every American should confront: Our homelessness system is not designed to END homelessness. It is designed to FUND its endless management. It's time to redefine success. Housed is not restored. We need solutions that restore lives through recovery, accountability, and lasting independence. Please listen and share - especially with policymakers whose decisions will determine whether we continue funding failure or finally invest in lasting solutions. [more...]

Are ChatGPT and Claude the AOL and CompuServe of the 2020's?

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

The companies that introduce us to a revolutionary technology aren’t necessarily the ones that survive it.

What if ChatGPT and Claude are destined to become the AOL and CompuServe of our generation? Not because artificial intelligence is going away, but because the way we're currently using it may be little more than a temporary stop on the road to something much bigger. And if history is any guide, the companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars to dominate AI today may not be the ones collecting the profits tomorrow. [more...]