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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Feb 3, 2012
Free For All Friday on The Jerry Doyle Show.
Have you seen Rick Santorum’s tax returns? Neither have we.
Guess what movie trailer forced Jerry to sleep with a nightlight on and Superbowl preview; we’ve got it.
Joining us today will be Nick Gillespie from Reason Magazine (www.reason.com) to discuss the Conservative Crisis,
Ross Kaminsky (www.rossputin.com) from the American Spectator will be on to go over the latest unemployment numbers.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Feb 2, 2012
The Candidates come to Las Vegas for the Saturday Nevada Caucus and Jerry is in the heart of it!
Killer Sugar, Trump Time, The Taliban and LOT’S more on the Jerry Doyle Show.
Guests scheduled to appear are:
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer will discuss the current power vacuum in Afghanistan.
Charles Murray will be on to talk about his latest book: Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960 – 2010.
Former Representative Tom Tancredo will stop by to talk about the growing popularity of the National Popular Vote movement (www.supportpopularvote.com)
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Feb 1, 2012
The smoke has cleared in Florida and Newt has run off with his tail between his legs to start campaigning in the western states, Jerry has the Florida Primary Results covered.
Also, there is something fishy going on involving Susan G. Komen and their decision to cease providing grants to Planned Parenthood – Jerry will talk with the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, Patrick Hurd, for some answers.
Also joining us today will be Jim Geraghty from The National Review Online to discuss the lessons we can take out the Florida Primary Results.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 31, 2012
The Florida Primaries are underway and Jerry will have the latest out of the Sunshine State where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich battle it out.
The other candidates in the race have shifted their focus to other states and joining Jerry on the show today will be...
Senator Rand Paul (www.ronpaul2012.com) with an update on his fathers’ campaign and
Senator Rick Santorum (www.ricksantorum.com) will stop by to chat with Jerry about his campaign as he makes a stop in Las Vegas.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 30, 2012
Jerry's back after a couple of days off and asks the following question: "what is a Republican"?
Plus, what does the republican party have in common with the quarreling neighborhood couple? Jerry sees a troubling connection.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 25, 2012
Today on The Jerry Doyle show Jerry will point out some…..inconsistencies… with the Presidents State of The Union address last night.
Also, Gabby Giffords resigned from her position as a representative from Arizona and Jerry will break down the amazing response she received.
Joining Jerry on the show today is Reason Magazines Matt Welch (www.reason.com) to give his take on the State of the Union address last night and,
Prominent attorney Bob Massi (www.bobmassi.com ) will be on to review the latest mortgage assistance programs that are being proposed.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 24, 2012
Did you miss the cheering at the debate last night? Jerry did. What’s the appeal of Newt Gingrich? Jerry knows.
There is a lot to talk about today and Jerry will TRY and get to it all.
Along the way Jerry will be joined by author Michael Rejebian to discuss his new book; We’re With Nobody - an inside look at the dirt digging that goes into a political campaign’s oppositional research.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 23, 2012
Jerry will dissect the results of the South Carolina Primary
And will talk with Tim Carney from the Washington Examiner on the “Evangelical Voting Block”.
Plus a preview of tonight’s Republican debate in Florida.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 20, 2012
In the debate last night Newt Gingrich tried to turn the argument from his infidelity to media bias. Did Jerry buy it? **Spoiler Alert*** No, he didn’t.
Joining us will be author of “The Death of the Grown-Up”, Diana West to discuss the pass that republican media outlets are giving to Newt Gingrich’s past
David Grant from The Christian Science Monitor, will talk with Jerry about “The Prophecies of Ron Paul”
All that plus Flubs and football play off picks today on the Jerry Doyle Show!
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 18, 2012
Today Jerry will continue to track the insanity of the GOP nominees in South Carolina...
Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch joins us to talk about the growing number of private citizens going into space.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 17, 2012
Today Jerry breaks down the GOP debate from last night and finds a very serious flaw in one candidates foreign policy.
Joining Jerry will be author Marinka Peschmann to discuss her new book “WHISTLE BLOWER; How the Clinton White House Stayed in Power to Reemerge in the Obama White House and on the World Stage”. Is the Obama Administration REALLY just a third Clinton term in disguise?
ALSO….Last night Newt Gingrich said that more people have been put on food stamps by Obama than any other president, but is that true? Reason Magazine contributor Greg Beato will join us to answer that question.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Jan 16, 2012
Senator Jim DeMint will be with us to talk about the GOP primaries and to discuss his new book, "Now or Never: Saving America From Economic Collapse"
Lloyd Chapman from The American Small Business League (www.asbl.com) will be on to talk about the new cabinet level Small Business Administration post and the real world impact small business will play in the economic recovery.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Dec 20th, 2011
Brad Thor (Author of “Full Black” and others): Discussing his endorsement of Rick Santorum for President.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (Author of “Operation Dark Heart”): Discussing Ron Paul’s foreign policy.
Jack Hunter (Co-Authored “The Tea Party Goes to Washington” with Rand Paul): Official blogger for Ron Paul discussing how Paul is being ignored or attacked by the rest of the GOP party.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Dec 9, 2011
Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the new book: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about her latest at National Review:
How Taxes Drive Down Home Values…
Standard & Poor’s released the latest Case-Shiller data on house prices on Tuesday, and the results weren’t pretty. In the past five years, house prices have declined to 2003 levels, and the average home declined in price by 3.9 percent over the last year alone. National politicians are scrambling to reverse the trend. But the remedy lies in state houses and town halls.
Two weeks ago, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress cited the struggling housing market as their reason for extending an “emergency” subsidy for homebuyers. The taxpayer-backed Federal Housing Administration will continue to guarantee mortgages on houses worth as much as $729,500, something it has done for three years. No middle-class family can afford such a home. But the home-builders lobby argued that a reduction in the guarantee would mean less demand and thus lower home prices not just at the top, but throughout the market. If you can buy an “expensive” bottle of wine for cheap, why buy the cheap bottle? The same thing goes for houses: When expensive houses become cheaper, there is less demand — and thus lower prices — for even cheaper houses.
No matter how hard Washington tries, though, it can’t legislate away reality. And the reality is that even half a decade into a housing slump, Americans still have good reasons to be wary of plunking down their hard-earned cash and signing up for a long-term mortgage. These reasons are closer to, well, home, than to Washington.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/284537/how-taxes-drive-down-home-values-nicole-gelinasHR. 3– Molotov Mitchell, president of the award-winning Illuminati Pictures and the national spokesman for the Domestic Emergency Network joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest viral video…
MUST WATCH: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=374925
As President of the award-winning Illuminati Pictures, Molotov has produced over 100 music videos, commercials and short films, documented Christian and Occult subcultures, run for his life from knife-wielding voodoo priests, directed a film about building better marriages, and hosted a national television talk show on Faith TV. His major projects include “Dark Planet: Visions of America”, “Father Fearless”, “Flamethrower” and “I Invented the Internet”. As a political communications strategist, he has reached tens of millions with his internet videos, improved campaign outreach techniques and his work's been featured in the New York Times, MSNBC, Harper's Magazine, Wired, American Thinker and Fox News. As a self-described “Christian supremacist”, he has lived on the street to better understand the homeless, thoroughly studied many major world religions, he became a Christian through analytical reasoning, and staunchly opposes “casual faith”. -
Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Dec 6, 2011
Philip K. Howard, Lawyer and New York Times bestselling author joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at the Wall Street Journal:
Starting Over with Regulation - Why are government rules so complex? A guide to a radically simpler system…
Earlier this year, the Colorado Department of Human Services proposed new rules for day-care centers. Government oversight of day care seems like a good idea—you wouldn't want children cooped up in an airless basement—but this proposal went far beyond basic health and safety.
The new rules would dictate exactly how to do just about everything: how many block sets ("at least two (2) ... with a minimum of ten (10) blocks per set"), where the children can play with the blocks (on "a flat building surface" that is "not in the main traffic area") and when caregivers must wash their hands (before "eating food," "after wiping a child's nose," etc.).
This is the way regulation works in America: Regulators try to imagine every possible mistake and then dictate a solution. The complexity is astounding.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833104577070403677184174.htmlHR. 3 - Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and the author of the book Democracy Denied (in stores now) on Obama’s extreme regulatory agenda joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at TeaPartyPatriots.Org:
The REINS Act and Lloyd Rogers: A Tea Party Success Story…
The House is poised to pass a fundamental reform that would transform the country’s regulatory system and restore the basic constitutional principle that Congress is responsible for writing the laws in this country. The reform bill is called the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, and it started two years ago as an idea in the head of a remarkable 78-year-old tea party activist in Alexandria, Kentucky named Lloyd Rogers.
In 2009 Rogers went to meet with his congressman, U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Ky.). Both were outraged about an EPA stormwater management consent decree that cost the three northern Kentucky counties in a consolidated sewer district about a billion dollars, doubling water fees. Rogers, having studies the Constitution, didn’t understand how the EPA could double his taxes without so much as a vote in Congress.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Dec 5, 2011
Jack Abramoff, American former lobbyist and businessman convicted in 2006 of mail fraud and conspiracy, author of Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist, Jack Abramoff joins us for 2 segments at 115 Pacific today to talk about insider trading in Congress.
Senators said at a hearing Thursday that Congress should quickly pass a bill that clearly prohibits its members and their staffs from trading stock based on nonpublic information they gather on Capitol Hill.
In a two-hour hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, members and witnesses said swift action was necessary because the public’s faith in Congress is at “an all-time low.”
“When the faith ebbs, as it now has to historic lows, we must increase our efforts to ensure that people who did us the honor of sending us to Washington can be confident that our only business is their business,” committee Chairman Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) said in his opening statement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-panel-weighs-congressional-insider-trading-ban/2011/12/01/gIQAFnoYIO_story.htmlHR. 3 - Brooke Goldstein, documentary film maker, attorney, and founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project: www.thelawfareproject.org joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about her new book: Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide for Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare…
The free speech rights of authors, researchers and journalists writing on issues of public security and national concern are increasingly under attack through both violent and non-violent means. An important non-violent challenge to free speech has emerged in the form of “Islamist lawfare,” the use of the law as a weapon of war to silence and punish free speech about militant Islam, terrorism and its sources of financing.
The strategic end of Islamist Lawfare is to further the goals of the Islamist movement, one of which is to abolish public discourse critical of Islam and punish anything deemed blasphemous to its prophet, Mohammad. Another goal of Islamist lawfare is to impede the free flow of public information about the threat of Islamist terrorism, thereby limiting our ability to understand it and destroy it. In this way, Islamist lawfare takes the form of a complementary legal campaign to terrorism and asymmetric warfare.
Lawfare: The War against Free Speech written by two of America’s experts in this field– describes this phenomenon and gives practical guidance about navigating this new terrain to journalists who wish to speak truthfully about the national security threats we face.
This book is a must-read primer on the First Amendment, and should be reviewed by anyone writing about the most controversial topics of our time.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 30, 2011
Steve Malanga, , Senior Editor at City Journal, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and columnist at RealClearMarkets.com joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at realclearmarkets.com: Bankruptcy Is An Ugly Option for Cities…
Earlier this month the Harrisburg, Pa., city council threw itself on the mercy of federal bankruptcy court, hoping to find a less onerous solution to its debt woes than the workout plans proposed by the state of Pennsylvania and by the city's own mayor. Last week, a bankruptcy judge mercifully threw the case right back out of court after finding that the filing by a majority of council members was illegal.
"For Chapter 9 bankruptcy to work, all of the branches of a municipality must be on the same page," the judge explained.
The faith that council members put in the court for a better deal was misguided. It came from a mistaken notion that Chapter 9, which regulates government filings, is similar to business bankruptcy law, where judges have discretion to take control of a firm's finances, void contracts, and even push creditors to forgive debts or else risk liquidation of a company at cents on the dollar. This misconception about Chapter 9 goes well beyond the naïve Harrisburg council members.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/11/30/bankruptcy_is_an_ugly_option_for_cities_99393.htmlHR. 3 - Dr. Tony Sanders, Mercatus Center Senior Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance Member, Financial Markets Working Group, former Director and Head of Asset-backed and Mortgage-backed Securities Research at Deutsche Bank joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about global central banks are riding to the rescue of failed fiscal policies of sovereign countries.
The central banks are faced with a crisis, in part of their own making, says Mercatus Center Scholar Anthony Sanders. Sovereign countries showed little or no fiscal discipline and spent like there was no tomorrow. As long as central banks purchase the excessive debt (or manipulate interest rates to near zero), sovereign countries will show little interest in putting their fiscal houses in order.
As expected, the global central banks are riding to the rescue of failed fiscal policies of sovereign countries. We have already seen staggering interventions from our own Fed, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan. The European Central Bank (ECB) has not been as accommodating as the Fed, but that is changing rapidly as the euro borders on collapse.
But it isn't about lower interest rates anymore-they are already below 2% for 10-year sovereign debt in many countries. It is about the central banks purchasing sovereign debt that no one else wants. In other words, central banks are acting as the buyer of last resort.
Will this work? Probably in the short run. But it masks the source of the problem: too much spending and too much debt. Central banks are helping governments avoid the pain of austerity.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 28, 2011
Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, New York Times bestselling author, Senior Fellow for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about the latest developments between the US and Pakistan…
Pakistani trucks hauling supplies for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan backed up along roads leading to the border after transit routes were ordered closed following a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a phone call yesterday that the Nov. 25 attack by helicopter gunships triggered a "deep sense of rage" in the nuclear-armed nation, according to a foreign ministry statement. The incident reversed progress in repairing strained ties between the two countries, the statement said.
Pakistani TV channels showed trucks carrying shipping containers and fuel stranded near two Afghan border crossings, a traffic jam that in the past has left trucks and drivers vulnerable to attack by Islamic guerrillas. U.S. military officials have said their forces can sustain operations in Afghanistan for weeks in case of such a shutdown.
HR. 3 - Jed Babbin, Former deputy undersecretary of defense for Bush 41, columnist for RealClearPolitics.com and The American Spectator joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at the American Spectator: Newt Gingrich, Grownup
Of the Republican Eight, he is best prepared to take a 3 a.m. call to the White House.
Hillary Clinton's "3 a.m. phone call" ad could have been a devastating attack on Obama's competence and experience. It failed to have an impact on voters because it ran four years too soon.
Against the backdrop of a sleeping child, the ad's narrator says there's something going on in the world, and a phone is ringing in the White House. He asks, who do you want answering the phone? Someone who knows the military, world leaders, and is tested and ready to lead? Unfortunately for Clinton, almost no one was interested in competence or national security in the last presidential election. Voters chose someone they didn't know, who lacked any education or experience relevant to the presidency.
As Obama's third year in office ends, we know him and his aberrant worldview. But the question raised by Clinton's ad has to be asked again, this time about the eight contenders for the Republican nomination. Who among them is best qualified on national security and defense?
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 17, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Congressman Ron Paul joins us on the show at 230 Pacific today to talk about his chances at winning the 2012 GOP Republican Presidential Nomination…
Ron Paul support growing in Iowa, poll shows
Twice this week, a survey shows Paul on the rise and in second place among likely Iowa Caucusgoers, finishing within the margin of error with poll leader Herman Cain.
The Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG survey of 377 Iowa Republicans out today had Cain at 25 percent and Paul at 20 percent. Bloomberg’s Iowa poll out Tuesday had Cain at 20 percent and Paul at 19 percent.
Paul has been the first choice among at least 10 percent of Iowa Republicans since this summer, and has been between 10 and 12 percent since October.
In today’s survey, Mitt Romney came in third with 16 percent; Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry were tied for fourth with 8 percent.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 9, 2011
Jack Abramoff, American former lobbyist and businessman. Convicted in 2006 of mail fraud and conspiracy joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his new book: Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist, Jack Abramoff…
Washington, D.C. - IN THE SPAN OF 10 YEARS, Jack Abramoff became the most powerful lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Congressmen lined up to do his bidding, executives heeded his advice, and heads of governments hung on his every word. But when scandal brought him down-ultimately casting him into disgrace and even prison-this power broker said nothing.
Now a free man, Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America's Most Notorious Lobbyist is Jack Abramoff's autobiographical expos unveiling the mysterious and corrupt world of federal politics.
Branded by a TIME magazine cover as "The Man Who Bought Washington," Jack was the centerpiece of the largest DC scandal in since Watergate. Sentenced to prison, Abramoff became the poster child for why the political system needed to be cleaned up-but has the system really been fixed? In Capitol Punishment, Abramoff pulls back the curtain on K Street, revealing the dirty underbelly of America's government and offers a harsh, thorough roster of reform imperatives. There will be little applause inside the beltway.
http://www.amazon.com/Capitol-Punishment-Washington-Corruption-Notorious/dp/1936488442
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 8, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Chuck Pfarrer, Former Assault element Commander of SEAL Team Six, and author of the bestseller Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy Seal joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his new book just out today: SEAL TARGET GERONIMO: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden…
New York, NY—In a shocking new account of the Bin Laden mission by a former assault commander who trained elite SEAL teams targeting “High Value” individuals, Chuck Pfarrer’s retelling of the mission, based on first-hand accounts of those on the ground, directly contradicts key details of media reports which were based on the White House’s several different, sometimes contradictory, versions of what happened.
Based on Pfarrer’s extensive research and interviews with his former colleagues, SEAL TARGET GERONIMO: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden (St. Martin’s Press, November 8, 2011) is the only account based on the experiences of the SEALs involved in the assault as told to the author, taking readers on the helicopter flight over the wall that leads deep into the terrorist lair and describing what it looked, sounded and smelled like as the bullets flew.
SEAL TARGET GERONIMO tells a larger story: Pfarrer explains how the SEALs studied bin Laden and his world. He chronicles earlier SEAL missions that were integral to the success of Nepture’s Spear in a way only a former SEAL commander can.
Hr. 3 ~ Nicole Gelinas, Economist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the new book: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about her latest at the LA Times: As Baby Boomers Retire, The Times Will Be A-Changin'…
Aging members of America’s middle class worry about retirement, and for good reason. When the TV talking heads aren’t reminding us about plummeting house prices, they’re speculating about not whether but by how much politicians will cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. And the financial and economic crises of the last several years have left the country 10% poorer, obliterating $6.1 trillion in wealth, a healthy chunk of which was in retirement savings.
The country’s financial crisis came at a particularly bad time. This year, the oldest of the 78 million people born from 1946 to 1964 are turning 65 and becoming senior citizens. Because of the immense size of this baby boom generation, the number of senior citizens will more than double between now and 2050, from 40 million to 89 million. And older folks will make up an ever-larger share of the population, increasing from 13% now to 20% in 2050.
Thanks to Botox and treadmills, the boomers are aging well. But their finances aren’t. Baby boomers, like most Americans, have seen no wage gains for two decades. In 2007, families headed by younger boomers — those 45 to 54 — earned a median income of $64,200, almost exactly the same, in inflation-adjusted dollars, as families in the same age group earned in 1989. (All numbers in this article are adjusted for inflation.)
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 4, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Greg Palast, New York Times Bestselling author and investigative journalist for the BBC and The Guardian among others joins us at 1230 Pacific to talk about how Greece exploded but Goldman Sachs lit the fuse…Greece exploded but Goldman Sachs lit the fuse. To join the Euro currency and to stay in it, Greece's right wing government secretly paid Goldman nearly half a billion dollars to devise a scheme to conceal the deficit. Goldman used flim-flam with derivatives, effectively defrauding the European Central Bank, the Greek public and holders of Greek bonds.
When a new Greek government discovered and disclosed the fraud, THAT was the day on which the market for Greece's debt imploded––and investors demanded monstrous high rates after they'd been conned.
In other words, it wasn't indolent, ouzo-swilling Greeks who caused the fall of the economy, but Goldman's trickery. http://www.gregpalast.com/
Hr. 2 ~ Kevin Sorbo, Actor, producer, and director, and author best known for his leading roles on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his new book: "True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal - And How Nearly Dying Saved My Life"
On television, as the star of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demigod. He relished living the part—putting in 14-hour days on set, doing his own stunts, and relentlessly working out at the gym. Until one day it all came to an abrupt end.
Now, for the first time, Sorbo shares what viewers didn’t know: he suffered three strokes from an aneurysm in his shoulder that had been radiating blood clots throughout his body, likely for months. He was left partially blind and entirely incapacitated at just thirty-eight years old.
Appearances are everything in Hollywood, so Sorbo and the production studio hid the full details of his condition from the media. After all, how could the strongest man in the world be…fragile? To continue filming Hercules, the number-one worldwide syndicated TV series at the time, they frantically reworked scripts and revamped production to allow for the star’s severely limited involvement. But as the effects of the strokes persisted—with painful, mysterious, debilitating symptoms—and physicians could offer few answers, Sorbo grew increasingly despondent. http://www.kevinsorbo.net/
Hr. 3 ~ Robert Steven Kaplan, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and former vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about the collapse of MF Global…
MF Global Collapse Sparks Regulatory RhetoricWASHINGTON—MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s bankruptcy is a "stark reminder" of risks in the financial system and the need to push ahead with new rules for the sector, a senior Treasury Department official said Friday.
"The challenges of the current economic environment and even very recent events remind us that we need to remain vigilant and continue forward on the path of reform," Mary Miller, assistant secretary for financial markets, said in remarks at an American Bar Association conference.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 3, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Rebecca Wilkins, Senior Counsel, Federal Tax Policy, Citizens for Tax Justice (ctj.org) joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about a report she co-authored: 280 Most Profitable U.S. Corporations Shelter Half Their Profits from Taxes; Thirty Companies Paid Less Than Zero in Taxes In The Last Three Years…Washington, DC – A comprehensive new study that profiles 280 of America’s most profitable companies finds that 78 of them paid no federal income tax in at least one of the last three years. Thirty companies enjoyed a negative income tax rate over the three year period, despite combined pre-tax profits of $160 billion. These are among the findings in “Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010,” released today by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
“These 280 corporations received a total of nearly $223 billion in tax subsidies,” said Robert McIntyre, Director at Citizens for Tax Justice and the report’s lead author. “This is wasted money that could have gone to protect Medicare, create jobs and cut the deficit.”
“Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010” is the tenth comprehensive publication on corporate taxes from Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The two groups released their first major study on the federal income taxes that large, profitable American corporations pay on their U.S. pretax profits in 1984.
Hr. 3 ~ Gerald Celente, ECONOMIST, Founder of The Trends Research Institute and author of the national bestseller Trends 2000 and Trend Tracking joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest predictions…
KINGSTON, NY, 3 November 2011 — The passage below is not from a recent New York Times or Wall Street Journal reporting on “Occupy Wall Street” – it was written in 1995 by Gerald Celente. In Celente’s best-selling book Trends 2000 (Warner Books, 1997), he predicted a watershed event that lay a decade and a half in the future:
“They flooded the streets. Day and night, they marched …As the demonstrations mobilized and gained momentum; the students were joined by their uncollegiate peers – the unemployed, the underemployed, the unemployable…
No one was sure what had turned the protestors into marchers, or what had pointed them in the direction of Wall Street. All that was known for sure was that a mob of adrenaline-pumped young people funneled into the narrow streets of the Financial District …
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Nov 2, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Diana West, Syndicated columnist for the Washington Examiner and author The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about her latest at DianaWest.net: Fox Family Matters…
Khaled bin Talal, brother to Alwaleed bin Talal, Fox News' top non-Murdoch shareholder…
The ethical and legal failings of the Murdoch clan have made headlines for months with Lachlan Murdoch kicking up the most dirt in the British phone hacking scandals, much to the discomfort of the News Corp. board and shareeholders.
But what are even unconsionable, unlawful breaches of privacy next to putting bounties on the heads of Israeli soldiers to encourage their kidnappings? A close family member of another major New Corp. player has done exactly that.
Hr. 3 ~ DR. David R. Henderson, Research fellow with the Hoover Institution and associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about an article he was quoted in: The Stupidity of "Buy American"…
One sign of economic ignorance is the faith that "Buy American" is the path to prosperity. My former employer, ABC News
, did a week's worth of stories claiming that "buying American" would put Americans back to work. I'm glad I don't work there anymore."Buy American" is a dumb idea. It would not only not create prosperity, it would cost jobs and make us all poorer. David R. Henderson, an economist at the Hoover Institution, explained why.
"Almost all economists say it's nonsense," he said. "And the reason is: We should buy things where they're cheapest. That frees up more of our resources to buy other things, and other Americans get jobs producing those things."
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 31, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about how Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing Generous Salaries and Bonuses for Government Finance Agencies Staff Members…
Records Show Workers Starting at Twice the Maximum Pay Specified by the Office of Personnel Management…
Judicial Watch, the public interest organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents revealing the generous salaries and bonuses being paid to government workers in such agencies as the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The documents were obtained by Judicial Watch in response to Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests filed on July 12, 2011 with the two agencies, as well as with the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), U.S. Treasury, and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).
Hr. 3~ Peter Suderman, Associate editor of Reason magazine, 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest from Reason.com: Go Ahead, Pull the Trigger… Why the Super Committee should allow its automatic deficit-reduction mechanism to work…
History shows that Congress can’t be trusted to control spending, much less cut it. Neither can the bipartisan committees it so often creates to reduce the deficit when Congress has failed. But what about automatic spending cuts scheduled to occur when the committee process inevitably fails? Sadly, they can’t be entirely trusted either. But they might still be the best hope we have.
This summer’s long-haggled debt deal called for the creation of a bipartisan “Super Committee” tasked with finding and recommending $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. The process itself was intended to be relatively speedy, at least by Washington standards. Recommendations were due by Thanksgiving, and Congress would be required to vote up or down by the end of the year. At least, that is, if the recommendations ever arrived.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 26, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Phil Kerpen, Vice President for policy at Americans for Prosperity and the author of the book Democracy Denied (in stores now) on Obama’s extreme regulatory agenda joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his book and his latest at the Washington Examiner: The Congress-optional president… Obama’s rule by executive fiat mocks the Constitution…
Oct. 11, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had taken extraordinary measures to stall an embarrassing vote as long as possible, the Senate decisively rejected President Obama’s “jobs” plan. The same day, in Pittsburgh, Mr. Obama explained to his union allies that he would move forward regardless. “We’re not gonna wait for Congress,” Mr. Obama explained. “We can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done.” Now we know that part of what he meant was yet another mortgage bailout - one that will cost bond investors billions - via subsidized refinancing.
This remarkable disregard for the rule of law and proper constitutional procedures fit a familiar pattern in this administration: What it cannot achieve legislatively it will attempt to do by regulatory fiat. Congress must actively assert its legislative prerogative or be relegated to the sidelines.
One year ago, the American people decisively rejected Mr. Obama’s big-government agenda in a landslide election. Surely, most voters thought that election would at least halt, if not reverse, the country’s profound lurch toward a larger, more intrusive and more expensive federal government.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/the-congress-optional-president
Hr. 3~ Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his new book: The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity…
For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.
As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 24, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News Channel Senior Judicial Analyst and anchor of FreedomWatch on FoxBusiness Network joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his new book: It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom…The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. In his sixth book on the Constitution and human freedom, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano asks: Where does freedom come from? How can government in America exercise power that the people have not given to it? What forces have collaborated to destroy personal freedom?
In this back-to-basics on freedom, Judge Napolitano addresses hard questions:
· Do we still have a Constitution?
· What are the limits to government power in a free society?
· Why does the government attack, rather than defend, our rights?
· If our rights are inalienable, how can the government take them away?
· Do we really own any private property?
The Judge gives a sweeping treatment of natural rights and all the philosophical, religious, and ideological principles that underscore the concept of human freedom.
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Right-When-Government-Wrong/dp/159555350
Hr. 3~ Bob Massi, Las Vegas Attorney, host of syndicated radio talk show, "A Layman's Guide to the Law" heard on KDWN-AM in Las Vegas and author of People Get Screwed All the Time: Protecting Yourself From Scams, Fraud, Identity Theft, Fine Print, and More joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about ) Unit of mortgage insurer PMI seized by regulators Officials in Arizona have ordered PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. to stop selling new policies.
Associated Press - Insurance regulators in Arizona have seized the main subsidiary of private mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc., which will begin paying claims at just 50%.
The seizure follows heavy losses at PMI since the housing market bubble burst. Two months ago, state regulators ordered the Arizona subsidiary, PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., to stop selling new policies after it came under scrutiny because it didn't have enough money on hand to meet the requirements of regulations in that state.
A statement on PMI's website says a court order, signed Thursday by an Arizona Superior Court judge, gives Arizona's Department of Insurance full possession and control of the subsidiary. Beginning Monday, PMI says claims will be paid at 50% in lieu of a moratorium on claim payments. Meanwhile, PMI said it will "continue to support our customers' ongoing policy servicing needs, and loss mitigation programs."
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 20, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies joins us at 1230 Pacific to talk about her latest from cis.org: Amnesty by Any Means…Analysis of a series of leaked memos from within the Department of Homeland Security’s highest ranks shows that the Obama administration has sought for the last year and a half to form a strategy to achieve amnesty for the illegal population without input from Congress. The goal? Ultimately, according to a June 2010 memo, the administration seeks to “reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization.” Well aware of the potential political fallout among both Congress and the American people, the administration provided internal briefs on the pros and cons of varying strategies to gain an administrative amnesty.
The course eventually decided on appears to be the now infamous June 2011 “prosecutorial discretion” memo issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. This memo, embraced by the White House a few weeks ago, sets a course that prevents the enforcement of immigration law, provides a de facto amnesty, and is effectively worker authorization for much of the current illegal population. The current course of non-enforcement is in contrast to the initial proposed strategies of proactive immigration law rewrites.
Hr. 3~ Ann Marlowe – LIVE FROM LIBYA – visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and blogs for World Affairs Joins us at 230 Pacific to tell us what she is seeing on the streets of Liba following the death of Moammar Kaddafi…
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 19, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Katherine Mangu-Ward, Managing Editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about her latest at the Washington Post: Five myths about healthy eating…
This weekend in The Washington Post, Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward laid out five myths about Americans’ poor eating habits, served with a side of skepticism about the effectiveness of political fixes. Myth number one: We need Michelle Obama to help us make the food deserts bloom:
A study published this year in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the first to measure the impact of access to fresh food on diet, followed 5,000 people for over 15 years and found something surprising: Proximity to a grocery store or supermarket doesn’t increase consumption of healthy food. That suggests that a lack of convenient leafy greens isn’t the problem. Dinner menus are the product of subtle and pervasive food cultures, which can’t be tweaked from the East Wing.
Hr. 3~ Dr. Rick Geddes, Associate Professor at Cornell University, and an Adjunct Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. He is author of Saving the Mail: How to Solve the Problems Of the U.S. Postal Service joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at RealClearMarkets.com: Reforming the Postal Service For the Internet Age…
Washington's antiquated policies, combined with rising internet use, are killing the U.S. Postal Service. Mail volumes are down over 20 percent since their highs in 2006, declines not seen since the Great Depression. First-class mail - by far the Postal Service's most profitable class - is down almost 25 percent since its 2001 peak. The Postal Service expects to lose between $9 and $10 billion this year, and was unable to meet a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury due on September 30th, which Congress deferred until November 18th.
Moreover, the composition of the mail has changed dramatically. About 90 percent of all mail is now business-originated commercial material. The Post Office's original public mission of "binding the nation together" is patently obsolete when people around the world can communicate instantly via the internet, and receive only catalogs and advertisements by mail.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 18, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Robert Scott Bell, Homeopathic practitioner and talk show host…Live Mon - Fri on NaturalNews.com from 12-2pm EST live 6 days a week joins us at 1230 Pacific to talk about new studies that highlight risks of vitamin supplements…WASHINGTON — New research is prompting a fresh look at the value of vitamin supplements, with some surprising results indicating that taking too many supplements of some could be harmful.
The research is forcing scientists to rethink the use of supplements with antioxidants, which had been seen as beneficial in preventing cancer, heart disease and other ailments.
"Everybody is confused," admitted Toren Finkel, head of the Center for Molecular Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Hr. 2~ Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and the author of the book Democracy Denied (BenBella, in stores now, released today) on Obama’s extreme regulatory agenda joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his new book…
Jerry Doyle said: “The Obama socialist juggernaut is attempting to ride roughshod over the will of the people, skirt existing laws, and sideswipe the Constitution. In Democracy Denied, Phil Kerpen masterfully articulates the challenges we face, and, most importantly, provides common sense solutions and strategies you need to know.”
Democracy Denied by Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen is a guide to understanding and defeating the radical agenda that President Barack Obama is implementing by unilateral regulatory action through his agencies and czars. Democracy Denied exposes the Obama administration's agenda that disregards the American people, Congress, and the U.S. Constitution--and offers a plan of action to stop it.
More info: www.DemocracyDenied.orgHr. 3~ Dean Clancy, Legislative Counsel and Vice President of Health Care Policy at FreedomWorks joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about an article at the Wall Street Journal: A New Spending Record, Washington had its best year ever in fiscal 2011 and an article at the New York Times: A Tea Party Panel Supports Health Care Law’s Repeal…
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 17, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Steve Malanga, Author, Senior Editor at City Journal, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and columnist at RealClearMarkets.com joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at the Wall Street Journal: How California Drives Away Jobs and Business The Golden State continues to incubate cutting-edge companies in Silicon Valley, but then the successful firms expand elsewhere to avoid the state's tax and other burdens.California has long been among America's most extensive taxers and regulators of business. But it had assets that seemed to offset its economic disincentives: a sunny climate, a world-class public university system that produced a talented local work force, sturdy infrastructure that often made doing business easier, and a record of spawning innovative companies.
No more. In surveys, executives regularly call California one of the country's most toxic business environments, while the state has become an easy target for economic development officials from other states looking to lure firms away.
Hr. 3~ Dr. Laurie Bassi, Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, is the CEO of McBassi &Company, and is the lead author of a new book: Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about her book, and recent unemployment numbers…
Companies shirk taxes while padding profits.Firms foul the planet but keep raking in revenue.Reckless greed on Wall Street goes largely unpunished.More evidence that bad guys finish first in business?No. A different story is unfolding.Noted economist Laurie Bassi and her coauthors show that despite the dispiriting headlines, we are entering a more hopeful economic age.
The authors call it the “Worthiness Era.” And in it, the good guys are poised to win. Good Company explains how this new era results from a convergence of forces, ranging from the explosion of online information-sharing to the emergence of the ethical consumer and the arrival of civic-minded Millennials. Across the globe, people are choosing the companies in their lives in the same way they choose the guests they invite into their homes. They are demanding that companies be “good company.”
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 13, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Nicole Gelinas, Economist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the new book: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington. (now out in paperback) joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about her latest at National Review: Governor Romney and ‘Too Big to Fail’…Mitt Romney won the debate, again. But the former Massachusetts governor’s response on financial bailouts — past and future — was a muddle. Bloomberg’s Julianna Goldman asked the question:
Governor Romney, it’s 2013, and the European debt crisis has worsened. Countries are defaulting. Europe’s largest banks are on the verge of bankruptcy. Contagion has spread to the U.S. And the global financial system is on the brink. What would you do differently than what President Bush, Henry Paulson, and Ben Bernanke
did in 2008?
Romney had a terrific opportunity here. He could have said:
As president, I’ll make sure that what happened in 2008 never has to happen again.
TARP and other bailouts are not in the past. The bailouts have done incalculable damage to the nation.
Hr. 3~ Joel Gilbert, Writer and Director of “ATOMIC JIHAD; Ahmadinejad’s Coming War For Islamic Revival And Obama’s Politics of Defeat” joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about the news surrounding Saudi Arabia and Iran…
The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.
Joel Gilbert takes the announcement by the Obama administration very skeptically because:
1. These kinds of plots have been going on for years and are never made public.
2. It’s not the MO of the Iranian Revolutionary guards to employ used car dealers or Mexican drug cartels to take care of their business.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 10, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice presidential nominee, Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee and best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts" joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at rootforamerica.com: Why the Politicians, Media, and Experts Are All Wrong About the “Occupy Wall Street Protests”"Occupy Wall Street" is becoming the big news story. But the irony is that nobody understands what is truly going on. The media, both political parties, the experts, even the protestors themselves- they've all got it wrong.
Nancy Pelosi thinks these protests are like the Tea Party protests. She couldn’t be more wrong. The Tea Parties are filled with people who have jobs and pay taxes. They want government to stop wasting taxpayer dollars and be
fiscally responsible. They are against *all *bailouts. The “Occupy Wall Street” protests are filled with leftist malcontents and rabble rousers. Since the government is bailing out banks and big corporations, they say
it’s only fair they be bailed out too. They want more money to be stolen from those that earn it, to be redistributed to themselves. They are screaming for their own personal bailout. Big difference, wouldn’t you say?
Hr. 3~ Dr. Amy Handlin, American Republican Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represents the 13th legislative district joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about her new book: Crony Capitalists in Our Backyards: Who They Are, What They Do and How to Fight Back…
In CRONY CAPITALISTS IN OUR BACKYARD: Who They Are, What They Do and How to Fight Back (October 4, 2011; Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollins; E-Book Original; ISBN 9780062123824), Amy Handlin, a Harvard educated Republican member of New Jersey's General Assembly, reveals that crony capitalism is as much of a roblem at the state and local level as it is at the federal level. Drawing on her personal experiences, Handlin paints a colorful picture of some of the political insiders who've used their positions of power to advance their own financial interests at the expense of the public welfare and she concludes with a powerful set of practical recommendations that average citizens can undertake to fight crony capitalism in their own back yards.
Crony capitalists are purveyors of junk...sweetheart deal-makers...and lobbyists for bigger government. They make a living not by selling the best products, but by cultivating political patrons who steer them contracts with no competition. They ingratiate themselves with their enablers by writing outsize campaign checks-and by drawing more gold diggers into the game.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 6, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Josh Barro, Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, co-author of "Blueprint for a Better Budget", contributor on National Review Online and realclearmarkets.com joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his piece at NationalReview.com: An Argument Against Taking Occupy Wall Street Seriously…
Yesterday, Reihan wrote that labor unions and groups like MoveOn should hesitate before getting into bed with Occupy Wall Street, given its anarchist roots. Then I went on CBC News to debate a representative of OWS, and came away convinced that Reihan is exactly right.
You should watch the video, partly because it is the most (unintentionally) hilarious TV interview I have ever done. You might say that the OWS rep blathers incoherently, but there are actually two important takeaways from his comments.
One is that, as is typical for OWS, he is unwilling to set out any actual policy goals that the movement wants—except for, and this is a direct quote, “a Glass-Steingold Tax, or whatever that is.”
The other is that the structure of his comments is broadly anarchistic—he says OWS doesn’t need policies because they will create social change by “building a model society” in Zuccotti Park, where people share food and sleeping pads according to their needs and arrive at decisions through discussion and consensus. I guess the idea is that the American people will give up capitalism once they see how wonderful it is to camp out in a park and dress up like Zombies.
Hr. 3~ Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about Citizens Against Government Waste new Congressional Ratings…Citizens Against Government Waste new Congressional Ratings… These ratings highlight the voting records of all 535 members of Congress for the last session of Congress in 2010-ranking them based on their votes in the fiscal interest of taxpayers. Categories include: Hostile, Unfriendly, Lukewarm, Friendly, Taxpayer Hero, and the coveted Taxpayer Super Hero (perfect score).
Only 6 Congressmen and 4 Senators received a perfect score and the Taxpayer Super Hero distinction. In 2010, there were 144 "Taxpayer Heroes"-62 percent greater than the 89 Taxpayer Heroes of 2009. 30 House Democrats received an abysmal rating of zero in 2010. That list includes Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.), and House Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.).
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 5, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Peter Ferrara, Author, American policy analyst and columnist joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at the American Spectator: Newt's New Contract
As previewed at the last debate, he's delivered a product "far bolder, far deeper, far more profound" than 1994's Contract, not to mention 1980's.
Last week, Newt Gingrich released his 21st Century Contract with America, composed of 10 specific legislative proposals he would enact if elected President. In the 1994 Congressional campaigns, Republicans not only rode Newt's Contract with America proposals to Republican majorities in Congress. They maintained their House majority for 12 years, after Republicans had only held a House majority for 2 of the previous 74 years.
Newt's 21st century contract is similarly a document on which the entire Republican Party can campaign next year, and win a generation of governing majorities.
Hr. 3~ Anthony Randazzo, Director of economic research for Reason Foundation joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at Reason.org: What Do the Wall Street Protestors Want?Moveon.org sent around an email early this morning praising the recent protests against the financial industry, saying "grassroots groups have shut down banks and held sit-ins to demand that giant banks pay their fair share of taxes, end the foreclosure crisis, and create jobs."
Ridiculous. Great to see that you can protest in the U.S. without getting shot (tear gas and arrests for disobeying police aside). But is that what this group is trying to prove? Those are very strange goals and they don't really make sense. This is just repeating our other work on this issue, but to sum up our critique:
1. Define "fair share" please, because that is totally an arbitrary term to use. Public banks are owned by people, it turns out, and those people also pay taxes. So first, please explain why people paying taxes twice amounts to something fair. And then provide a very objective answer for what a fair share is. Because when you try to do that, you'll find that you're suggesting that "everyone" should pay their "fair share" and that means the 50% of Americans who do not pay taxes should start to pay something. When did Moveon.org start to borrow Michelle Bachmann's talking points, its not very progressive of a tax theory for them. (I'd also demand a defense of the idea of the income tax period, but that's just piling on a bit.)
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 4, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Charles Tiefer, University of Baltimore Law Professor, Author and Commissioner of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan joins us at 130 Pacific to give us his insight into his involvement in the Commission…Panel's War-Waste Records Sealed as Work Ends By NATHAN HODGE
WASHINGTON—The internal records of a congressionally mandated panel that reported staggering estimates of wasteful U.S. wartime spending will remain sealed to the public until 2031, officials confirmed, as the panel closed its doors on Friday.
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan was established by Congress in 2008 and spent three years probing more than $206 billion the U.S. government spent on contracts and grants during a decade of conflict.
In a final, 240-page report issued in late August, the panel estimated that the U.S. had wasted or misspent between $31 billion and $60 billion contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan, a finding that spurred calls from lawmakers for reform and better oversight.
The panel ended its work on Friday, in keeping with a statutory "sunset" provision. Clark Irwin, a spokesman for the commission, said the commission's records will remain sealed at the National Archives in Washington for 20 years. "There is sensitive information there," he said.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Oct 3, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Richard Viguerie, of ConservativeHQ.com, Author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about “GOVERNMENT IS BIGGEST LAW BREAKER” New E-Pamphlet Shows Constitution Has Been Trampled, and How Americans May Reclaim It…Just in time for Constitution Day, longtime conservative activists Richard A. Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons have exposed one of the country’s dirtiest secrets: Government is the oldest, largest and most pervasive lawbreaker in America. This is described in stunning detail in the new pamphlet, The Law that Governs Government: Reclaiming the Constitution from Usurpers and Society’s Biggest Law Breaker. Viguerie and Fitzgibbons are veterans in the war against government lawbreaking, and set forth a timely and comprehensive pamphlet of principles, purpose and proposals for and about constitutional conservatives and the Tea Party (The full 60-page e-pamphlet is available atwww.ReclaimtheConstitution.com at no charge).
“Lawbreaking by government in terms of cost and the number of people victimized is of a scale unmatched by any other organization or group -- leaving nothing as a close second,” write Viguerie and Fitzgibbons.
A major marketing, PR, and advertising campaign is being launched to make the failure of most of our political leaders to follow the Constitution an important issue in the 2012 primaries and general election. To encourage others to get this message out, the e-pamphlet is not copyrighted.
Hr. 3~ Jim Minnery, CPA, former Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) accountant joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan established by Congress in 2008 that spent three years probing more than $206 billion the U.S. government spent on contracts and grants during a decade of conflict.Jim has firsthand knowledge of wasteful defense spending… In 2001 he was troubled by what he was seeing and was in trouble for trying to reconcile the money paper trail. Minnery was in a key position to see how the lack of internal controls and the lack of a paper trail cause millions of dollars to be written off without knowing where the money went. He was a CPA who had a 20 year career in the private accounting sector and a former Marine. He joined DFAS and was in its working capital fund group. He found that DFAS was writing off DISA's (Defense Systems Information Agency) cross disbursements (disbursements between agencies) and not matching it with the Treasury books and doing it without documentation.
Minnery was unable to get DFAS to show him the documentation (vouchers) for these write-offs and he was told that the paperwork was "inadvertently" discarded. Minnery went on a two-year mission from 1997 to 1999 to find the vouchers himself. He found that over $400 million was unmatched and that at least $180 million could not be reconciled. This meant that the money was spent and taken off DISA's liabilities without any paper trail on what the money was spent.
His thanks by his DFAS bosses was to be harassed and reassigned. After he had tracked down some of the money, the DFAS office in Pensacola responsible for the documentation of the write-off "solved" the problem by creating a bogus journal entry. Minnery was taken off as team leader, and the problem, according to the bureaucracy, is "solved."
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 30, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, New York Times bestselling author, Senior Fellow for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (c4ads.org) joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and another America-born militant being killed in Yemen early Friday morning by a CIA-led U.S. drone strike.Fox News has learned that two Predator drones hovering above al-Awlaki's convoy fired the Hellfire missiles which killed the terror leader. According to a senior U.S. official, the operation was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command, under the direction of the CIA.
President Obama called the strike a major "milestone" in the fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
"The death of Awlaki is a major blow to Al Qaeda's most active operational affiliate," Obama said Friday. "He took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans ... and he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda."
He said the strike is "further proof that Al Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world."
Al-Awlaki was a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network's most active branch. He was involved in several terror plots in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2010 making him the first American to be placed on the "kill or capture" list.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/30/us-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed/#ixzz1ZSLaT96PHr. 3~ John Berlau , Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at CEI (Competitive Enterprise Institute) joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at The American Spectator: Debit Durbin…But also blame Dodd-Frank and pro-retailer Republicans for those new debit card fees -- and job losses.
Read the headlines -- and your bank statement -- and weep, but don't say TAS didn't warn you.
As I detailed here in February in "Dick Durbin Is Stealing Your Free Checking," thanks to price controls on debit card transactions from the Durbin Amendment of the 2010 Dodd-Frank "financial reform" law, free checking is going the way of the dodo bird. The Durbin price controls on interchange fees -- the so-called "swipe fees" that retailers pay to bank and credit unions that process debit card transactions, go into effect this Saturday, October 1, and are already showing more dire effects than originally predicted.
Not only is free checking disappearing at a rapid pace -- a new Bankrate.com survey detailed in USA Today found that only 45% of non-interest bank checking accounts are free, down from 65% in 2010 and 76% two years ago, and that the average monthly fee for non-interest checking accounts is $4.37, up 75 percent from last year -- but ordinary Americans will soon be hit by new monthly fees for using their debit cards. And new evidence shows that the price controls may be causing thousands of job losses as well.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 29, 2011
Jonathan Emord, one of the nation’s leading free speech attorneys who has defeated the Food and Drug Administration a remarkable seven times in federal court, joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about the rising costs of healthcare…
His Latest book – “Global Censorship of Health Information”
In this book veteran constitutional lawyer Jonathan W. Emord explains the intellectual origins of freedom of speech from the Age of Enlightenment to the founding of the American republic. Today government censorship of health information worldwide relies on the same mechanisms of prior restraint that were used in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Emord shows this censorship to be a byproduct of government efforts to protect state- sponsored drug monopolies from competition. The protectionism locks out of the market information indispensable to human health to fill the coffers of drug companies and to establish drugs to be the only lawful means to prevent and treat disease when an enormous body of science reveals dietary ingredients to have disease prevention and treatment effects. Convinced that speech freedom and health are lost due to government censorship, Emord explains how litigation and legislation can be used to bring down the barriers and give the public access to information that can save lives.
Hr. 3~ Dr. Petra Beck, Political Analyst & International Economist, PHD, author of: A Rescue Plan for President Obama: 7 Steps To A Win-Win Economy joins us at 230 Pacific about the economic crisis developing in Europe…What Would It Take to Save Europe?Official Washington was gripped last weekend by euphoria, at least briefly, as people attending the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund began to talk about how much money it would take to stabilize the situation in Europe. At least one éminence grise suggested that 1.5 trillion euros should do the trick; others were more inclined to err on the side of caution, and their estimates ran as high as four trillion euros.
This is a lot of money. Germany’s annual gross domestic product is only about 2.5 trillion euros, and the combined G.D.P. of the entire euro zone is about 9.5 trillion euros. The idea is that providing a huge package of financial support would awe the markets into submission –- meaning that people would stop selling their holdings of Italian or Spanish debt, and thus stop pushing up interest rates.
Ideally, investors would also give Greece and Portugal some time to find their way to back to growth.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 28, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Wayne Jett, Managing principal and chief economist of Classical Capital LLC, a registered investment advisor joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his Book: THE FRUITS OF GRAFT Great Depressions Then and Now…Americans are badly misled about who and what caused the Great Depression, about fairness of U.S. financial markets and about actual intentions of economic policy. Now the truth is told in a stunning new book by classical economist, Wayne Jett - The Fruits of Graft: Great Depressions Then and Now. With rising unemployment and our own President urging Congress to pass a more than dubious Jobs Bill, it's more important than ever that Americans understand what the historic events of the Great Depression teach us about here and now.
With much of the productive class now failing to prosper, and with currency devaluation and federal spending each proceeding at a worrying pace, every American is searching for insight into the causes. How did the world's only super-power of 1990 morph into the economic basket case America is today - only 20 short years later?
Hr. 3~ Ann Marlowe, visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and blogs for World Affairs joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about being in Libya last month and her latest at the Wall Street Journal: The Truth About Who Fights for US…It should no more be necessary to write this article than to prove that there were Jews killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And yet the mythology refuses to die. Just last week, two well-educated and well-known writer acquaintances of mine remarked in passing on the "fact" that those who serve in the U.S. military typically have no other career options. America's soldiers, they said, were poor and black.
They don't mean this to denigrate their service—no, they mean it as a critique of American society, which turns its unemployed into cannon fodder. Especially today with high unemployment, the charge goes, hapless youths we fail to educate are embarking on a one-way trip to Afghanistan.
These allegations—most frequently leveled at the Army, the military's biggest service and the one with the highest casualty rate—are false.
In 2008, using data provided by the Defense Department, the Heritage Foundation found that only 11% of enlisted military recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth, or quintile, of American neighborhoods (as of the 2000 Census), while 25% came from the wealthiest quintile. Heritage reported that "these trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, in which 40% of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods, a number that has increased substantially over the past four years."
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 27, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Nicole Gelinas, Economist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the new book: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about her latest at NationalReview.com: Re: Re: Re: Romney Camp: Perry Wants to ‘Dismantle’ Social Security…Thanks, Andy — and you’re right that the fraud prosecution as the remedy for a Ponzi scheme comes first, and that, therefore, my definition was incomplete.
Yet the fact that Ponzi schemes are so egregious that officialdom’s only remedies are to a) shut them down immediately, b) as you note, prosecute and “incarcerate their designers, often for decades,” and c) use the funds that the scheme collected to make partial restitution, suggests that the analogy between Social Security and a Ponzi scheme is in no way apt.
The solutions are part of the definition of the problem. I’ve never heard of authorities trying to “reform” a Ponzi scheme. The fact that Social Security is salvageable with reform, then, is evidence that it is not a Ponzi scheme.
Further, another one of the hallmarks of a modern Ponzi scheme is that each victim of the scheme believes that his principal is held in a segregated, individual account, earning a return.
Hr. 3~ Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret…Photos and videos of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May in a U.S. military/Central Intelligence Agency raid in Pakistan should not be released publicly because they would reveal military and intelligence secrets and could lead to violence against U.S. personnel, the Obama administration argued in papers filed in federal court in Washington late Monday night.
The new filings from the Justice Department provide scant details about the imagery, but CIA National Clandestine Service Director John Bennett wrote that the CIA has "52 unique....photographs and/or videorecordings" depicting bin Laden during or after the May operation. Bennett did not break down the tally further, but said all the imagery is classified "TOP SECRET," meaning that disclosure of the material could lead to "exceptionally grave damage" to U.S. national security.
"All of the responsive records are the product of a highly sensitive, overseas operation that was conducted under the direction of the CIA," Bennett wrote, arguing that disclosure of the information would reveal "intelligence activities and/or methods." He called the photos "gruesome," and said they depict the gunshot wound to bin Laden's head. It is unclear whether his descriptions referred to all the images and videos, or just some of them.
The motion for summary judgment and supporting declarations ask U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg to rule for the government in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought in May by Judicial Watch. The conservative watchdog group sued the Defense Department after it failed to comply with the group's request for the bin Laden imagery. The suit was broadened in June to name the CIA as a defendant.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 23, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Jeffrey Lord, editor to the American Spectator and former aide to Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan joins us at 1230 Pacific to recap last night’s GOP debate in Florida and his latest at the American Spectator: Rick Perry Loses…The other week, Perry seemed to score. The new guy, not the caricature he was portrayed to be.
Tonight, his Achilles heel comes clear. Illegal immigration, specifically in-state tuition.
Oh my. How in the world is this explainable to American parents who have had to work their fingers to the bone (the polite expression) to pay for their kids' tuition? What, the obvious question will be, is the difference between state-paid tuition… and state paid health care?
This is rapidly becoming Perry's version of RomneyCare.
Which brings this back to Michele Bachmann's stellar answer about choosing a running mate who understood what it meant to be a constitutional conservative.
And a question: Is Newt increasingly seen as the Adult In the Room?
More to the point: Is Mitt Romney winning the last man standing contest?
Stay tuned. It's only September, a full 11 months to the winner's date with GOP Convention destiny.
Hr. 2~ Robert Steven Kaplan, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and former vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about all things economy and his book: What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential…Great leadership is not about having all the answers—it is, more often, about having the courage to ask the critical questions.
It sometimes seems as though the best leaders are naturally blessed with a knack for having the right answers. These executives appear to have been born with superb instincts, natural charisma, great insight, excellent organizational skills, and an ability to inspire others. They also appear very sure of themselves, as though leading and managing comes quite easily to them.
The reality is far more complicated. The truth is that successful leaders, no matter how talented, go through periods of confusion and uncertainty—even, on occasion, grasping for answers and feeling fundamentally alone and apprehensive.A key difference between those who reach their potential and those who do not is how they deal with these periods of struggle. According to Robert Steven Kaplan, the challenge lies not in avoiding these difficult periods, but in knowing how to step back and ask the right questions—questions that help you gain insight, diagnose problems, regroup, and move forward.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 22, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for immigration studies joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest research at Cis.org: : Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas? - A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011…
Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has pointed to job growth in Texas during the current economic downturn as one of his main accomplishments. But analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data collected by the Census Bureau show that immigrants (legal and illegal) have been the primary beneficiaries of this growth since 2007, not native-born workers. This is true even though the native-born accounted for the vast majority of growth in the working-age population (age 16 to 65) in Texas. Thus, they should have received the lion’s share of the increase in employment. As a result, the share of working-age natives in Texas holding a job has declined in a manner very similar to the nation a whole.
Among the findings:
Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).
In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).
Hr. 3~ Bill Wilson, ALG President (Americans for Limited Government) joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at GetLiberty.org:
On Sept. 21, the Federal Reserve announced its latest plan to “[t]o support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate”.
Dubbed Operation Twist after the famous 1960’s dance, this time the Fed plans to sell $400 billion of short-term U.S. treasuries of up to three-year maturities, and exchange them for $400 billion of long-term debt, with maturities of six to thirty years.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the plan is to “put downward pressure on longer-term interest rates and help make broader financial conditions more accommodative.” Which, according to Fed head Ben Bernanke and the Fed’s Open Market Committee, is apparently supposed to help the economy. How?
You’d have to ask the Fed. But, interest rates are already low and have been for some time. For example, the Federal Funds Rate — the interest rate that the Fed and other banks lend to each other at — has been near-zero since December 2008.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 21, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Dr. Richard Ebeling, Professor of Economics at Northwood University, Midland Michigan and author of In Defense of Capitalism joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about America’s lost decade…U.S. Economy: A Lost Decade Into The Great Middle Class Poverty?
nasdaq.com - In yet another sign that the Great Recession cuts deep and long--the number of Americans living below the official poverty line reached 46.2 million, the highest in 52 years since the Census Bureau started tracking the figures in 1959. The overall poverty rate also climbed to a 17-year high at 15.1%, which means 1 in 6 Americans are living below poverty line largely due to the high unemployment and underemployment rate. The official poverty line for 2010 is defined as an annual income of $22,314 for a family of four, and $11,139 for an individual.
The Census Bureau's annual report released on Tuesday, Sept. 13 gives a very grim snapshot of American households in 2010. As the U.S. economy expanded 3% in 2010, and corporations reported good profits, the gains are not trickling down to workers. The median household income in 2010 dropped to $49,445, which is virtually unchanged from the level in 1997. Overall, household income has fallen by 6.4% since the recession began in December 2007. (Ok, who was the one declared that the recession "officially" ended in June 2009?)
Hr. 3~ Tim Cavanaugh, Columnist at Reason magazine and Reason.com joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest in the October issue of reason: ‘We Were Headed Towards This Fiscal Cliff Long Before Barack Obama Took the Wheel’
Rep. Jeff Flake talks about Republican corruption, federal spending, the PATRIOT Act, immigration, and the virtues of divided government.
The Republican Party seems especially schizophrenic these days. Is it the big-government party of George W. Bush, a Tea Party–infused force for smaller government, or something else?
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has represented Arizona’s 6th Congressional District since 2001, is one indicator of how the party might look this decade. A former head of the free market Goldwater Institute, Flake has taken a pro-immigration, pro-trade, anti-spending, limited-government path that contrasts sharply with the GOP mainstream. But Flake has consistently won re-election with double-digit margins and is now within striking distance of the U.S. Senate.
Flake’s campaign against “earmarking,” or larding up bills with giveaways for legislators’ home districts, brought national attention to the issue and inspired some important rule changes. He has been a lonely voice in the House calling for an end to the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba. And in a state where officials are notorious for cracking down on both documented and undocumented immigrants, Flake has consistently argued for reducing obstacles to legal immigration and establishing more-effective guest worker programs.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 20, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Rachel Alexander, Editor of the Intellectual Conservative, bankruptcy attorney and TownHall.com columnist joins us at 1230 Pacific to talk about her article at TownHall.com: Agenda 21: Conspiracy Theory or Real Threat?Americans are so focused on Congress and Obama at the federal level of government right now that most are overlooking the socialism creeping in at the local level through Agenda 21. It is easy to overlook local government since people are saturated with too much information in the internet age. Compounding this is the fact that Agenda 21 is a dull topic, and it becomes understandable how it has been able to fly mostly under the radar since 1992, slowly working its way into our cities and counties.
Agenda 21, which reportedly means an agenda for the 21st century, is a United Nations program launched in 1992 for the vague purpose of achieving global "sustainable development." Congress never approved Agenda 21, although Presidents Obama, Clinton and George H.W. Bush have all signed Executive Orders implementing it. 178 other world leaders agreed to it in 1992 at the Rio Summit. Since then, the U.N. has mostly bypassed national governments, using Agenda 21’s International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (“ICLEI”) to make agreements directly with local governments. ICLEI's U.S. presence has grown to include agreements with over 600 cities, towns and counties here, which are now copying the land use plans prescribed in Agenda 21.
Hr. 3 ~ Mike Gunther, Hollywood writer and director joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his new film starring Bruce Willis: Setup
A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back what is rightfully his. When he finally comes face to face with his longtime friend he will be forced to make a life changing choice. Written by Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager
Bringing an incredible array of diverse talents to the screen after designing action sequences for some of Hollywood's top blockbusters, Writer/Director Mike Gunther has used action to bring in over 2 billion dollars at the box office and emerged as one of the industry's most exciting "go to" creative forces.
In 2005 he formed a production company, Gunny Entertainment, with longtime writing and producing partner Mike Behrman to develop an extensive slate of projects ranging from television to feature films.
Mike Gunther is currently directing "Setup" from a Gunther/Behrman penned script, scheduled for a 2011 worldwide theatrical release.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sep 15, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show:
Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, New York Times bestselling author, Senior Fellow for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his retirement from the Army Reserve/National Guard marked today in a small ceremony on Capitol Hill, hosted by Representative Walter Jones (R/NC).
From Anthony Shaffer: Just a quick note. My retirement from the Army Reserve/National Guard was marked today in a small ceremony on Capitol Hill, hosted by Representative Walter Jones (R/NC). I have retired with 30 and a half years of service...it has been an incredible honor to serve - and, frankly, despite the bad times, it has been amazingly fun - and often even productive! I look forward to continuing to serve our nation through my work at the Center for Advanced Studies (CADS).
http://www.c4ads.org/
Hr. 3 ~ Matt Welch, Author, editor in chief of Reason magazine joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about GOP debates and his latest from Reason.com: Ron Paul's Reagan - Dr. No's Texas tussle with Rick Perry papers over some interesting libertarian disenchantment with the Great Communicator…Rarely does a single political commercial reveal as much about a presidential campaign as the ad unveiled this week by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Here is audio-visual near-proof of a crucial difference between Paul '12 and the rEVOLution of '08: This time the libertarian Republican is in it to win it. The production values are upper tier, the choice to attack Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicates a candidate trying to elbow his way past other grassroots-pleasing types, and the Reagan-good, Gore-bad message of bedrock conservative principle is plainly tuned to tickle the ears of mainstream Republicans.
But there's a fascinating gap in the ad's chronology, one that is a good deal more complex than the choice at the commercial's end between "Al Gore's Texas cheerleader, or the one who stood with Reagan." Ron Paul, like many small-l libertarians, was indeed an early and enthusiastic supporter of Ronald Reagan's presidential ambitions...in 1976. By 1988, when Rick Perry was still a Democrat who supported and endorsed the-then Blue Doggish Al Gore, the initial libertarian enthusiasm for "Reagan's message of smaller government and lower taxes" had disintegrated into acute alienation over the Great Communicator's tangible record of growing government, debt, and foreign entanglements.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 14, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Peter Ferrara, Author, American policy analyst and columnist joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at the American Spectator: Braindead on Arrival…
Bad ideas in 2009 are even worse when cynically and wrecklessly reintroduced in 2011. Luckily, there's a GOP plan.
If President Obama's jobs plan is such a good idea, then why did he wait until the third year of his presidency to propose it?
Oh wait, he didn't actually. The so-called jobs plan Obama is trying to con the nation with now is the same plan of government spending, tax credits, and temporary measures he passed in his trillion dollar stimulus bill in his first month in office in February 2009, only half as large. And one half the effect of zero is still zero.
But not to worry, because President Obama's job's plan is not about your job, or the jobs of your friends and neighbors, or the jobs of your sons and daughters… It is about his job, and pinning the blame on the Republicans for the economy if they don't pass his silly "jobs" plan. Obama's American Jobs Act is not an economic plan, but a political plan for his reelection.
Hr. 3 ~ Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and the author of the forthcoming book Democracy Denied joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at National Review Online: Will Congress Stop the NLRB? We need legislation to confirm that employers can decide where to conduct business.
The Obama administration appears intent on using back-door means to accomplish every element of the extreme legislative agenda that the American people decisively rejected in the 2010 midterm election. Nearly every agency has been in on the act, but perhaps the most egregious behavior has been that of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is pursuing not just what was in the failed “card check” legislation, but a frontal assault on the right to work in America. This week, we’ll find out which members of Congress are willing to stand up to this rogue agency.
In a chilling April 20, 2011, complaint, the NLRB’s acting (not Senate-confirmed) general counsel, Lafe Solomon, asked the board to order Boeing to move the second production facility of its 787 Dreamliner — already built in South Carolina at a multibillion-dollar cost — to union-friendly Washington. The case is currently before an NLRB administrative-law judge; the NLRB itself will hear the case on appeal, and the federal court system will handle further appeals.
This came during a protracted negotiation between Boeing and the machinists’ union, which had been demanding a seat on the board of directors and a so-called neutrality agreement that would allow them to use card check to unionize more Boeing employees.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 13, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Peter Suderman, associate editor of Reason magazine & 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow joins us at 1230 Pacific to talk about last night’s GOP debate, and his latest articles on Rick Perry's Political Savvy…Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry an idiot? Reason contributor and former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett made a minor news splash for saying as much about the newly announced GOP presidential contender. I've never spoken to Perry, and while I've followed a number of his state's recent health care and budget policy fights, I've done so from afar, so I'm hesitant to judge too strongly. But The Economist's Erica Greider has had a front-row seat, covering Perry from Austin since 2007, and interviewing him several times. And she has a somewhat different opinion about the governor's intelligence:
To the first critique, that Perry is a moron, I would respond that he has been governor for more than ten years now and he has actually made very few political missteps. The HPV vaccine order (which was overturned several months later) was probably the biggest. The other controversy that has caused him the most headache in Texas was the Trans-Texas Corridor, his plan to build a network of new roads, including a new interstate that would cut a swathe up the state. This would have been largely financed by toll roads, with the proceeds going to private contrators. The project was wildly controversial, partly because it would have yielded a number of eminent domain actions, and it was officially killed last year.
Hr. 3 ~ Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association and author of the NYT bestseller, The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his latest at the Huffington Post: We Can Handle the Truth: Our Government Is a Jobs Killer…
There was a moment in President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday night when Candidate Obama returned to the limelight. Unfortunately, it was short-lived. Behind all the passion and eloquence that Obama was able to muster for one of the biggest speeches of his presidency, there was the same old stuff.
And Americans should expect the same old results.While it's not quite accurate to say that Obama double-downed on the failed economic policies of his administration -- his $447 billion jobs proposal is half the 2009 stimulus -- there was absolutely nothing to suggest that Obama is prepared to change course. All the lofty rhetoric couldn't mask the president's continued commitment to Keynesian economics and willful ignorance of the needs of job creators.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 12, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Jed Babbin, Former deputy undersecretary of defense for Bush 41 and is now a columnist for RealClearPolitics.com and The American Spectator joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about his latest at the American Spectator: Quo Vadis, Mars? - The War on Terror: why haven't we won it yet?The most remarkable thing about the war we are in is that we haven't won it yet.
This war didn't begin on 9/11: it began in August 1996 when the London newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi published Osama bin Laden's fatwa against America. Now is it ten years and one day after 9/11. U.S. forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for nearly a decade, in Iraq for more than eight years and even longer in countless other corners of the world where special operations and CIA paramilitary forces work covertly.
Whether you count this as a fifteen-year war or begin your accounting on 9/11, it is the longest war in U.S. history. Although bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and many other enemies are dead, we have not won the war and victory not only isn't ours: we haven't even defined what it would be.
Where do we go from here? What path does the god of war dictate we travel if we do not heed his warnings? Quo vadis, Mars?
Hr. 3 ~ Michael Tanner, Senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution joins us at 230 Pacific to talk about his article at National Review Online: Yes, It Is a Ponzi Scheme…
Texas governor Rick Perry is being criticized for calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Even Mitt Romney is reportedly preparing to attack him for holding such a radical view. But if anything, Perry was being too kind.
The original Ponzi scheme was the brainchild of Charles Ponzi. Starting in 1916, the poor but enterprising Italian immigrant convinced people to allow him to invest their money. However, Ponzi never actually made any investments. He simply took the money he was given by later investors and gave it to his early investors, providing those early investors with a handsome profit. He then used these satisfied early investors as advertisements to get more investors. Unfortunately, in order to keep paying previous investors, Ponzi had to continue finding more and more new investors. Eventually, he couldn’t expand the number of new investors fast enough, and the scheme collapsed. Ponzi was convicted of fraud and sent to prison.
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Today's Topics on the Jerry Doyle Show - Sept 9, 2011
Today on the Jerry Doyle Show: Joel Gilbert, Writer and Director of “ATOMIC JIHAD; Ahmadinejad’s Coming War For Islamic Revival And Obama’s Politics of Defeat” joins us at 1230 Pacific to answer the question many in the media have been asking: Did America overreact to 911?
Did America overreact to 911? Joel Gilberts answer: of course the media is not asking the right questions, never has, and Americans lack a basic understanding of why we were attacked, and why our response played into the hands of Al Qaeda. In fact, the "Arab Spring" or as I call it "The Revolt of Islam" is a successful direct result of 911.
Hr. 2 ~ Nicole Gelinas, Economist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the new book: After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington joins us at 130 Pacific to talk about Obama’s Jobs speech last night and her latest from the New York Post: Liberty Misspent…
Political use of rebuild bondsTo see how thoroughly New York’s pre-9/11 culture infected the city’s “recovery,” look at what happened to the Liberty Bonds that the feds awarded us for rebuilding.
After the attacks, President George W. Bush and Congress delivered $20.5 billion in aid -- including up to $8 billion in Liberty Bonds to build real estate.
No government (federal, state or local) guaranteed the bonds’ repayment. But the bonds are exempt from all taxes. Since the investors who buy the bonds don’t have to pay such levies, they don’t mind making lower interest -- saving the companies money.
The feds gave up $1.2 billion in tax revenue for this purpose; the city and state gave up less but still tens of millions.
(Tax-exempt bonds weren’t the best vehicle for rebuilding, by the way; the Port Authority, which bears much of these costs, can already borrow tax-exempt. But our senators didn’t ask for the same amount of aid in another form.)