It's going to be a rough show today as we address the dark side of socialism where governments beat the heck out of certain classes of people to pay for the all goodies the politicians want to give away Some evangelicals promoting social justice maintain that the purpose of government is providing income equity notably by wealth transfer This is done by appeal to moral arguments and caring for those less fortunate However they parhumpf the idea that this is accomplished at the point of a gun OK we'll show you Attorney Michael Minns www minnslaw com is author of

It's time to do a Middle East update and patch together what seem to be a lot of moving blips on the geopolitical radar First J D Gordon from U S News and World Report www protectamericatoday com and www usnews com joins the program for a backgrounder on Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani The world's media seem to be describing him as a moderate but he may actually be a wolf in sheep's clothing His background might be a good clue as to what he's up to Then Bill Koenig www watch org in the White House press corps

John's boralogue starts the program with a review of how close we may or may not be to an international currency crisis So far it's a ways off Many politicians have wish lists of goodies they want to provide their constituents This weekend's show spends time examining the political myth lists since many seem to be evaporating as we watch First off the latest IPCC report on global warming was rolled out by the media along with trumpets and drums in one more attempt to resurrect the concept of anthropogenic global warming even though the IPCC's data seem to be

John's boralogue starts the program by applying the classic template test to the Starbucks decision not to allowed armed persons in their stores in order to see how that might work in other cases Recently we did a round table on change agents and how they function in government board meetings to steer audiences to pre-determined outcomes and also to deal with dissenters This last week week a concerned parent was pitched out of a school board meeting and arrested for objecting to how the meeting was being conducted Arnold Ahlert from Front Page Magazine www frontpagemag com is the

Dr Os Guinness is author of The Global Public Square Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity Dr Guinness is our first guest where he maintains that freedom of thought speech and conscience are under fire and that freedom itself stands or falls with these traditional rights What can we learn from disasters It's ironic how those preparing for possible disasters are often demeaned as extremist preppers especially when the country is awash pardon the pun examples of floods and other disasters where the prepared fared much better than those who weren't Notice the recent floods

What do change agents do This is not an idle question because all sorts of agendas are being imported into local communities by well-funded foundations sponsoring change agents to create change in those communities oftentimes over the wishes of the people living there How do change agents work when they come town and what can be done about it Perhaps today's program will solve a lot of those questions Karen Shoen from Agenders www agenda today com and Steve Goss are joining us today for a lengthy but informative change agents round table on defeating the consensus process John's boralogue

Today's program is the last in our summer thread Toward a Militarized Police State John's boralogue follows last week's program on the Common Core educational curriculum with an examination of what junior high students knew years ago versus how poorly they're doing today on far less challenging subjects Then columnist James Simpson joins us for an eye-opening revelation of exactly how SWAT teams are being used nowadays A SWAT raid in Texas a couple of weeks ago on a acre community garden yielded nothing but vegetables not the marijuana they were supposed to find Even so innocent men and women

Due to listener requests today's program features an extensive round table conversation on the controversial Common Core Curriculum which has been touted so much by President Obama Our participants will analyze what it is what it will do and why it's just one more step in the wake of Goals No Child Left Behind Race to the Top and other programs designed to eliminate traditional education and drive the radical transformation of American schools into affective programs designed not to educate but to shape students' attitudes values and beliefs Participants are Jane Robbins J D from the American Principles Project

John's brief boralogue starts the show with a quick recap of events in Egypt Then we move directly to ask the question What does the Muslim Brotherhood want from the United States Former FBI agent and counter-terrorism expert John Guandolo www understandingthethreat com is author of Raising a Jihadi Generation He believes intelligence agencies in this country are willfully naive about the actual Brotherhood goals of establishing sharia law in this country despite their statements to the contrary Then onto another installment of our summer thread Towards a Militarized Police State Is all of this electronic surveillance really making us

John's boralogue narrates the process whereby shifting definitions effectively alter legislation such as the Civil Rights Act from the noble goals of its framers to something they never envisioned We're opening a new thread today on change agentry and its origins in communist ideology Former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl is author of Bringing Down America based on his s experience as an FBI infiltrator in the Weather Underground Unfortunately Larry passed away in July shortly before we had hoped to have him on the show Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media worked extensively with Larry Grathwohl and Cliff joins us