4-12-18 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Stumo: China Treats U.S. Like a Colony... Luckily Trump is Fighting Back

2. Karen Tiber Leland: How to Decide Whether to Self-Publish Your Book or Not

3. Daniel Greenfield: From Steele to Mueller, the Cost of Overturning the 2016 Election

4. Bruce Thornton: Free Speech and Censorship

5. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Mark Zuckerberg Exposed

China Treats U.S. Like a Colony... Luckily Trump is Fighting Back

By Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America

The president understated his case. Yes, we have a big global trade deficit, it has cost millions of jobs, and China’s share is by far the largest with any country. Yes, China’s brazen technology theft is jaw-dropping. But the bigger story may be that we are already a natural resource colony for China as well as a quaint tourist destination. A short economic history of imperialism is in order. [more...]

How to Decide Whether to Self-Publish Your Book or Not

By Karen Tiber Leland

At least once a week, some highly motivated CEO, C-suite executive, coach, or entrepreneur calls me up and asks, "Should I self-publish my business book?" Unfortunately, there's no one right answer to that question. To begin with, it's critical to understand the current landscape of publishing options. In today's publishing world, there are three main options to get your book from brain to bookshelf: Traditional, Self-publishing, and Hybrid publishing. [more...]

From Steele to Mueller, the Cost of Overturning the 2016 Election

By Daniel Greenfield

The raids of Michael Cohen’s hotel room, home and office are just this week’s Watergate. Political operatives have now seized privileged communications between the President of the United States and his lawyer. Despite fairytales about a clean process, these communications will be harvested by the counterparts of Peter Strzok, who unlike him are still on the case at the FBI; some of it will appear in the Washington Post and the New York Times, and some will be passed along to other political allies. That’s what happened at every juncture of Watergate 2.0. And it only follows that it will happen again. [more...]

Free Speech and Censorship

By Bruce Thornton

In these contentious times, various forms of censorship or discouragement of free speech are continually being fiercely debated. National Review Online writer Kevin Williamson, hired by the Atlantic for his scorched-earth attacks on Donald Trump, was fired after one column because of his scorched-earth attacks on women who’ve had abortions. Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham’s show has been boycotted by nearly 20 corporate advertisers because of her tweet mildly tweaking David Hogg about his failure to get into some universities. Hogg, of course, is the 17-year-old survivor of the recent mass shooting at a Florida high school who has become a petulant catspaw for the anti-gun lobby. Meanwhile, revelations of private data being sold or left vulnerable by Facebook, and the continuing censorship of political views by that platform along with YouTube and Google, have heated up calls for subjecting social media to government regulations. [more...]

Mark Zuckerberg Exposed

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

While Mark Zuckerberg takes full responsibility for the mistakes he made, stating, “It was my mistake and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here. It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,” there is absolutely no excuse as the executive of this company for letting this type of breach to happen. When it comes to doing business with anybody, you can NEVER take somebody at their word; take action and cover all of your bases to prevent harm from being done in the first place. [more...]

NY Times Admits Pro-Trump 'Killing the Deep State' Bestseller

The New York Times grudgingly acknowledged Thursday what the book world has known for weeks: conservative author Jerome Corsi's widely-acclaimed Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump is a bona fide bestseller.

Under mounting pressure, the paper agreed to list the book at No. 15 on its combined print and e-book bestseller list. Meanwhile Killing the Deep State has climbed to the No. 1 spot on several Amazon categories and is already a top 10 bestseller with Barnes & Noble.

Despite this, the Times is still refusing to include it on its more prestigious hardcover nonfiction list despite the fact that it has sold many more copies than books that have been included, according to Nielsen BookScan, the industry's nationally-recognized sales tracking service.

Corsi's book describes "deep state" efforts at agencies like the FBI, Department of Justice, and NSA aimed at destroying Trump's presidency. Killing the Deep State is published by Humanix. When Newsmax reached out to The New York Times to ask why it is snubbing the book, our query was met with a terse "no comment." In an interview with NewsmaxTV, Corsi said that he's not entirely surprised at his book's exclusion from the Times list.

"They don't want any book that will support President Trump, who they detest, to be on The New York Times bestseller list. Even if the book legitimately outsells most of the other books. It's completely disgraceful and dishonest.” [more...]

Pope Francis Questions the Existence of Hell

By Robert M. Whaples

An atheist journalist has reported that Pope Francis questions the very existence of hell.  If Francis actually holds this heretical position, he must resign from the papacy.  Francis needs to clearly and emphatically reiterate Church dogma, just as he has spoken clearly and emphatically on so many eternal issues and issues of our times.  

One of his clearest teachings is in Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home, where he proclaims three messages central to the Christian faith: First, that our planet has been given to us because (as the Catechism puts it) "God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life" -- accordingly we cannot plunder the earth but must be stewards of it.  The second message of Laudato Si' is that we must order our world to help the poor.  The third message is that the rich are at risk because Mammon relentlessly draws them away from God.  

How can we arrange our affairs to protect the planet, care for the poor, and avoid the material temptations of the world?  These are prudential questions.  Economists can help answer the first two of these questions as they have learned much about how to protect the environment from plunder and how to raise the poor from destitution.  They have learned that creating and enforcing property rights is crucial for saving the environment and that economic freedoms are essential for elevating the poor.  Solving the third problem is probably the hardest and it's here that economists can learn from the lessons the Church teaches about the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell. 

About Robert: Editor of the Independent Institute’s new book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society, ROBERT M. WHAPLES is a research fellow at the Independent Institute, co-editor and managing editor for The Independent Review, professor of economics at Wake Forest University, and book review editor and former director for EH.Net.

4-10-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. James Hirsen: Tech Oligarchs Censor the Right

2. Jerome Corsi: Trump Will Prosecute Obama, Hillary

3. Lowell Ponte: A Cashless America Could Soon be Gunless

4. Sally Pipes: Expanding Affordable Health Care in the States, the Legal Way

5. John LeBoutillier: 2018 Midterm Defeat Will be Even Worse than Republicans Let On

6. Daniel Greenfield: The Michael Cohen Raid

Tech Oligarchs Censor the Right

By James Hirsen

Control over free expression, which is held by a few tech oligarchs, is unprecedented at any time in human history: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The three have now shown themselves to be untrustworthy with data. They have proven to be biased, and of late have made it clear that they are willing to utilize the same kind of censorship that authoritarian regimes impose. The ability of conservatives to reach people through the use of social media is being slowly and steadily diminished by the implemented policies of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. This is occurring under the guise of eliminating false information. Videos, posts, and other expressions are routinely being taken down, accounts are surreptitiously being limited in scope, and in some cases users are even being exiled from the Internet. [more...]

Trump Will Prosecute Obama, Hillary

By Jerome Corsi

The conspiracy to bring down President Donald Trump runs so deep that former President Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will both face justice. Trump will launch a counterattack against the deep state, and I think the ultimate results are going to be Donald Trump will win. My book shows exactly how Donald Trump will win... he is going after Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Before we're done, I think he's going to charge both with treason, and I think both will be brought before military tribunals. [more...]

A Cashless America Could Soon be Gunless

By Lowell Ponte

Cashlessness in surprising ways gives vast power to government. Days ago, for example, liberal Democrat New York State Comptroller Thomas J. DiNapoli, who controls where the state invests its $209.1 billion pension fund, sent out a letter. It went to institutions behind our credit cards – Visa, MasterCard, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, American Express, Discover Financial Services, and others. DiNapoli suggested that these companies look into implementing ways to block credit card purchases of firearms, ammunition, and gun accessories. The implied threat was clear: stop extending credit to gun and ammo buyers, or risk having New York State investment money taken away from your bank or credit company because the left wants to ban guns. [more...]

Expanding Affordable Health Care in the States, the Legal Way

By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute

In March, the Trump administration saved Obamacare in Idaho. It was a hard decision for administration officials who harbor no love for the health law. But it was the right call. Idaho officials wanted to help residents who have been harmed by Obamacare’s premium-inflating regulations, so they planned to allow insurers to sell health plans that don’t comply with those rules and mandates. Idaho officials shouldn’t let this setback dissuade them from pursuing affordable coverage. Consumers are suffering - double-digit premium increases on the Obamacare exchanges have become the norm. In 2018, premiums for all plans on the state’s marketplace increased 27 percent, on average. For popular silver plans, premiums rose an average of 40 percent. [more...]

2018 Midterm Defeat Will be Even Worse than Republicans Let On

By John LeBoutillier

There are seven months before the November midterm elections; and the media and political observers are frothing over the coming “blue wave.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week in a Q&A in Kentucky forecast “a Category 3, 4 or 5” coming at the GOP in November. So, let us look at this question: Will the Democrats win back control of one or both houses of Congress? And is the “blue wave” so big that it might hurt GOP control of state houses and governorships? Seven months is still too far way to predict anything, but there are preliminary indications that should deeply worry Republicans. [more...]

The Michael Cohen Raid

By Daniel Greenfield

We have multiple stories out claiming that the Michael Cohen raid was about Stormy Daniels. Here's what WaPo is currently claiming: "Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations, according to a person familiar with the case." Like a lot of anonymously sourced material in Team Coup media, this could turn out to be garbage. But it seems fairly credible and in keeping with Mueller's tactics. Find a string, pull on it; if you can't pull on it personally, pass it along to someone who can. This is the sort of thing that federal prosecutors do... and it's why they have such high conviction rates even when they don't have actual evidence. [more...]

4-4-18 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Stumo: China Retaliatory Tariffs: The Age of Appeasement Must End

2. Karen Tiber Leland: Your CEO Brand

3. Daniel Greenfield: Why President Trump is Right to Call Out the Troops

4. Lowell Ponte: Government is Hazardous to Your Health

5. Bruce Thornton: Why We Need John Bolton as NSA

China Retaliatory Tariffs: The Age of Appeasement Must End

By Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America

We strongly support the Trump administration’s shift from naive “free trade” to the realpolitik “strategic trade” practiced by most industrial nations. Strategic trade will lead to industrial recovery, better jobs and prosperity in the U.S. Challenges will arise as we transition from trade appeasement to protecting national economic interests. Other countries will engage in counter-moves that the U.S. must then address effectively. America must use both its leverage and creative domestic policy effectively to protect our workers, farmers and ranchers as these moves and counter-moves continue into the future. The U.S. cannot tolerate China’s weaponized trade and investment practices. We cannot back down after the first retaliatory announcement. [more...]

Your CEO Brand

By Karen Tiber Leland

According to one study from Burson-Marsteller, 48 percent of a company's reputation can be attributed to the standing of its CEO. For better or worse, having an active CEO brand is no longer an option. And while there is a growing understanding of the importance of creating a CEO brand, many leaders still aren't maximizing their personal brands to benefit their businesses. [more...]

Why President Trump is Right to Call Out the Troops

By Daniel Greenfield

The United States has 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, 39,000 in Japan, 34,805 in Germany, 23,000 in South Korea, and around 5,200 in Iraq. Our military protects the borders of countless nations... except our own. In 1919, we had 18,500 soldiers on the border. “Twice a day every foot of the border line is patrolled by cavalrymen and infantrymen,” the New York Times noted. A hundred years later, President Trump’s proposal to use the military to secure the border is controversial even though Marines fighting drug cartels have come under fire from drug smugglers. [more...]

Government is Hazardous to Your Health

By Lowell Ponte

Everything associated with government should wear a warning label reminding us that "GOVERNMENT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. The health risk from government is vastly greater than that from a trace chemical that might affect you if you drank 10,000 cups of coffee at once, which is how they test these risks on laboratory animals. Such labels could give Americans a far better understanding of the hazard caused by an oversized government always eager to increase your tax or regulatory burden and endanger your health, so Uncle Sam can grow even fatter. [more...]

Why We Need John Bolton as NSA

By Bruce Thornton

Last week ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden signed a letter with a “bipartisan group of 115 national security leaders” that counsels the Trump administration and new National Security Advisor John Bolton not to jettison the nuclear deal with Iran. Hayden’s justification for this advice illustrates all the stale ideas and unexamined assumptions about foreign affairs that have brought us to this crisis in the first place - and why we need the return to realism we are likely to see with Bolton at the helm. [more...]

4-3-18 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Lowell Ponte: California’s Illegal Alien Voting Law IS Secession

2. Jeff Ferry: The China Endgame - Let’s Build USA 2025

3. James Hirsen: Media Ignores Election Law Violations Related to Facebook’s Obama Campaign Connection

4. Tudor Dixon: We Must Teach Students about the Holocaust

5. Sally Pipes: Take Single-Payer Health Care Proposals Seriously

6. Howard Comen: An Open Letter to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

California’s Illegal Alien Voting Law IS Secession

By Lowell Ponte

Mark the date April 1, 2018, April Fool’s Day, as the day Civil War 2.0 began. On that day the State of California began to automatically register illegal aliens to vote who have driver licenses. This new law immunizes illegals against any state criminal penalty for registering and voting. Leftist scholars say that our states control their voting criteria and can legally register non-citizens to vote in state, county, and local elections. Allowing citizens of other countries to vote in California would illegally “dilute” the votes not only of Californians but those of all American citizens by giving foreigners political power in selecting American lawmakers and Presidents. [more...]

The China Endgame - Let’s Build USA 2025

By Jeff Ferry

President Trump has just made what could be the biggest gamble of his presidency: he’s betting that he can make a significant difference in the U.S. economy by taking action against Chinese mercantilism. As usual, the hordes of commentators in the liberal media, conservative establishment, and the economics profession have misunderstood his goals and objectives. There is a never-ending cacophony of noise about “trade wars.” It’s a pointless distraction. The Trump administration is not interested in a “trade war” with China or anybody else. It is interested in cutting our imports from China to boost the U.S. economy. [more...]

Media Ignores Election Law Violations Related to Facebook’s Obama Campaign Connection

By James Hirsen

When it publicly became known that Cambridge Analytica, a firm that worked for the Trump campaign, harvested data from 50 million Facebook users, the news triggered intense reactions from a broad range of Democrats and others of a liberal persuasion. Curiously, there was no such similar anger expressed when former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was supplied Facebook data to use for political purposes. The media quickly glommed on to the Cambridge Analytica story, using it as one more opportunity to excuse Hillary Clinton for her embarrassing presidential campaign loss. Virtually ignored by the mainstream media, however, was and still is the manner in which the Obama campaign extensively utilized social network data in previous election cycles. [more...]

We Must Teach Students about the Holocaust

By Tudor Dixon, CEO of Lumen Student News providing unbiased news to America’s middle and high school students

Over the last several years, there have been numerous incidents of anti-Semitism in schools and on college campuses. Sadly, this list could go on and on. These are likely not the result of anti-Semitism, but instead, of ignorance - an ignorance borne from a lack of awareness and education. Schools today struggle to talk about the Holocaust. Some contend it’s because of time constraints. Others say they don’t want to traumatize children. There is no bliss in ignorance. [more...]

Take Single-Payer Health Care Proposals Seriously

By Sally Pipes

Advocates of pure single-payer health care proposals for the United States are in a stronger position than ever, and those proposals would create a system much different from Medicare Advantage for all. Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, has delivered those messages in her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care. Pipes wrote the book to explain why she believes that the single-payer health care movement is still a contender, and why she believes that shifting to a single-payer health care system would be a disaster. [more...]

An Open Letter to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

By Howard Comen

Bloomberg recently reported that you met with a group of rabbis and priests in New York in a rare interfaith gesture. I wonder if your efforts reflect a new generational change recognizing the fact that we are all “One Race, just different shades.” In 2018, though the foundation for a shift from interfaith war to interfaith cooperation still exists, the world just does not seem to see what the three wise men saw from the heavens. Instead, the world remains stuck in a trench war mentality pitting faith against special interest: my God is better, more powerful, than your God. The world has once again become a Tower of Babel with faiths trying to climb over faiths to capture their share of heaven. I rejoice in the possibility that your gesture could see a return to the three wise men standing on that bridge to heaven once again. Might such a meeting, a divine dialogue, open the eyes of the world? [more...]

NY Times Bans 'Killing the Deep State' From Bestseller List

Jerome Corsi's red-hot new book Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump is a runaway bestseller — but you'd never know that from reading The New York Times. "Killing the Deep State" debuted last week at No. 10 on the non-fiction hardcover list compiled by Nielsen BookScan, the book industry's only nationally recognized sales tracking list. And yet, the influential New York Times Book Review inexplicably has not listed “Deep State" on its hardcover bestseller list, despite the fact it outsold many of the books that did make its list.

Jerome Corsi's new book Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump, the latest work by The New York Times bestselling author, is still continuing its ascent. Killing the Deep State became a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon its first day of release, quickly climbing to the top of the e-commerce giant's bestseller lists. Bookscan's list has Killing the Deep State at No. 10, up against other major political powerhouse works.

In Killing the Deep State, Corsi unmasks the powerful players who pull the real strings in Washington. Corsi, author of the New York Times bestsellers “The Obama Nation” and “Unfit for Command,” takes no prisoners as he rips the veil off the Deep State and the powerful agencies behind them - the FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA, and the Federal Reserve. And he reveals clearly and precisely how no government agency, department or official inside Washington - including the president - is immune from its powerful grip. [more...]

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