Show 130 An ABC 20 20 John Stossel special. Sick in America. John investigates government health care. 40 minuets and 9MB. Podcast rating 8 out of 10. To see the video of the show visit You Tube Sick in America. Search Stossel to find many of his videos. American Conservative University.com

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Show 129 Dennis Prager talks to Warren Farrell, former board member of NOW and best-selling author. His new book Does Feminism Discriminate against Men?: A Debate. Book description from publisher- Does feminism give a much-needed voice to women in a patriarchal world? Or is the world not really patriarchal? Has feminism begun to level the playing field in a world in which women are more often paid less at work and abused at home? Or are women paid equally for the same work and not abused more at home? Does feminism support equality in education and in the military, or does it discriminate against men by ignoring such issues as male-only draft registration and boys lagging behind in school? The only book of its kind, this volume offers a sharp, lively, and provocative debate on the impact of feminism on men. Warren Farrell—an international best-selling author and leader in both the early women’s and current men’s movements—praises feminism for opening options for women but criticizes it for demonizing men, distorting data, and undervaluing the family. In response, James P. Sterba—an acclaimed philosopher and ardent advocate of feminism—maintains that the feminist movement gives a long-neglected voice to women in a male-dominated world and that men are not an oppressed gender in today’s America. Their wide-ranging debate covers personal issues, from love, sex, dating, and rape to domestic violence, divorce, and child custody. Farrell and Sterba also look through their contrasting lenses at systemic issues, from the school system to the criminal justice system; from the media to the military; and from health care to the workplace. Podcast Rating 8 out of 10. 7.9MB and 34 minutes long.

Show 128 Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting David Boze interviews author Frank Minter. Synopsis-

Why the Left’s anti-hunting propaganda is dead wrong

Nothing is more hated-and more misunderstood-by the trendy Left than hunting. But now intrepid hunter and pro-hunting activist Frank Miniter sets the record straight. In The Politically Incorrect Guideâ„¢ to Hunting, he details the concrete benefits that hunting provides to all of us-even how it helps the environment. Speaking with wildlife biologists, hunters, farmers, anti-hunters, and victims of animal attacks, Miniter explains how banning hunting negatively affects wildlife populations and conservation.

Miniter’s fearless, politically incorrect take on hunting lays out the facts that liberal enviro-nuts don’t want you to know, including:

How a well-intentioned policy of “live and let live� with Florida alligators resulted in human deaths

Why you’re more likely to be attacked by a bear in an area where hunting is forbidden, such as a national park

Why non-lethal alternatives to hunting don’t work to control animal populations

Why even vegetarians depend on hunting for their dinner (especially those who demand organic or locally grown food)

How hunters are wildlife’s best defenders-far more effective than big-budget “green� groups

How deer cause more human deaths each year than sharks, cougars, bears, and alligators combined

Why hunting is statistically safer for kids than football, bicycling, and tennis

If you love hunting, you need to arm yourself with The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Hunting, so that the next time you encounter an anti-hunter, you’ll be equipped to shoot down politically correct myths and defend this great American sport against all attacks. Biography

Frank Miniter was a senior editor at Outdoor Life magazine and is currently the executive editor of American Hunter magazine. He has hunted on five continents and has won numerous awards for conservation and outdoor writing.

10MB and 43 minutes long. Podcast rating is a 5 out of 10.For all of Michael Medveds shows go to Michael Medveds Website to listen live for free or $4.95 per month to download all of his podcasts.

Show 127 American Solutions for Winning the Future. Newt Gingrich introduces the American Solutions conference held in September 2007. He is followed by one of the workshops titled The Fair Tax- Saying goodbye to the Income Tax. Check out the entire Audio/Video conference online with many different speakers on solutions for Americas challenges at http://www.americansolutions.com/    Topics like Green Conservatism and Hydrogen- Unlimited Energy with a clean environment, Space- The Race to the Endless Frontier or the Fair Tax- Saying goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS and many more. 17MB 75 minutes. Check out their website http://www.americansolutions.com/ Highly recommended

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Show 126 The Iranian Time Bomb. Dennis Prager  talks to Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute. His new book is The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction. 34 minutes 7.8MB. This podcast rates an 8 out of 10. Download all of Dennis Pragers shows free at: Dennis Pragers Podcast - Highly recommended

Show 125 Bill Bennett radio show.Various show clips on the following topics

Boys Adrift. Bill examines the plight of American Boys with Dr. Leonard Sax: Author of Boys Adrift - The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Men.

 Econ 101 Made Easy. Bill unravels some of the mysteries of economics with, Amity Shlaes, Author: The Forgotten Man:A New History of the Great Depression; Syndicated columnist tor Bloomberg; visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

 Why Study Warfare?Bill turns back time and pursues historical lessons of war, with Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics and Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution.

“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wallâ€?Bill Bennett explores Ronald Reagan’s historical words with his speech writer, Peter Robinson, Author, How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution. To check out Bill Bennetts radio show check out Bill Bennett radio segments Or his website http://www.bennettmornings.com/ Bennett is a great writer but less than exciting talk show host. Listen live or sign up for his podcasts for $4.95 per mo.

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Show 124 The Broken Hearth- Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family. Audio book excerpt disk 1.

Bestselling author William Bennett addresses the central social issue of our time—the decline of the family—in a book as intellectually provocative and politically controversial as his landmark The Death of Outrage.

Our recent economic prosperity has masked the devastation of the American family, which is now under siege as never before. From the dramatic rise in illegitimacy, divorce, and single parenthood to the call for the recognition of gay marriages, the traditional nuclear family is being radically challenged and undermined, along with the moral and legal consensus that once supported it.

Now in The Broken Hearth, William Bennett, America’s foremost conservative spokesperson on matters of family values, presents a strong, well-reasoned, and informed defense of the traditional family. Interweaving history, anthropology, law, social science, and the teachings of Western religions, he argues that marriage between a man and a woman and the creation of a permanent, loving, and nurturing environment for children is a great historical achievement, one that should not be lightly abandoned in favor of more “progressive� arrangements. Bennett displays his ability to combine fearless conviction, acute insight, and respect for his adversaries in thorough, balanced, and enlightening discussions of single parenthood, cohabitation, gay marriage, and other trends that are undercutting the ideal of the family as the essential foundation of society.

Looking closely at the concerns and questions that divide America, Bennett provides a powerful affirmation of family life and the values and benefits it bestows on individuals and on society as a whole. 76 minuets and 17MB. Purchase audio book from Amazon

Show 123 World War IV Medved interviews author Norman Podhoretz about his new book, World War IV The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. From the publisher-

 For almost half a century—as a magazine editor and as the author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of articles—Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central political and intellectual debates in this country. Now, in this beautifully written and powerfully argued book, he takes on the most controversial issue of our time—the war against the global network of terrorists that attacked us on 9/11.
 
In World War IV, Podhoretz makes the first serious effort to set 9/11 itself, the battles that have followed it in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war of ideas that it has provoked at home into a broad historical context. Through a brilliant telling of this epic story, Podhoretz shows that the global war against Islamofascism is as vital and necessary as the two world wars and the cold war (“World War III�) by which it was preceded. He also lays out a compelling case in defense of the Bush Doctrine, contending that its new military strategy of preemption and its new political strategy of democratization represent the only viable way to fight and win the special kind of war into which we were suddenly plunged.
 
Different in certain respects though the Islamofascists are from their totalitarian predecessors, this new enemy is equally dedicated to the destruction of the freedoms for which America stands and by which it lives. But it took the blatant aggression of 9/11 to make most Americans realize that war had long since been declared on us and that the time had come to fight back. Past administrations, both Republican and Democratic, had failed to respond with appropriate force to attacks by Muslim terrorists on American citizens in various countries, and even the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 was treated as a criminal act rather than an act of war. All this changed after 9/11, when the whole country rallied around President Bush’s decision to bring the war to the enemy’s home ground in the Middle East.
 
The successes and the setbacks that have followed are vividly portrayed by Podhoretz, who goes on to argue that, just as in the two great struggles against totalitarianism in the twentieth century, the key to victory in World War IV will be a willingness to endure occasional reverses without losing sight of what we are fighting against, what we are fighting for, and why we have to win.8.5MB and 37 minutes long. For all of Michael Medveds shows go to https://www.michaelmedved.com/site to listen live for free or $4.95 per month to download all of his podcasts.- Highly recommended! 

Show 122 Dead Certain The Presidency of George W. Bush. Michael Medved interviews author Robert Draper.

From the Publisher- In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration. Virtually every page of this book crackles with scenes, anecdotes, and dialogue that will surprise even long- time observers of George W. Bush.

With unprecedented access to all the key figures of this administration—from six one-on-one sessions with the president, to Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Karl Rove, and perhaps 200 other players, some well-known, some not—Draper has achieved what no other journalist or contemporary historian has done thus far: he has told the story of the Bush White House from the inside, with a special emphasis on how the very personality of this strong-willed president has affected the outcome of events.

Bush loyalists and the growing number of Bush detractors will all find much to savor in this riveting political page-turner. We begin with a revealing lunch at the White House where a testy, hot dog-chomping president finally unburdens himself to the inquisitive reporter, a fellow Texan who well understands the manly argot that courses through this administration.

We revisit the primaries of election-year 2000, in which the character of the candidate and indeed the future of the Republican Party were forged in the scalding South Carolina battle with Senator John McCain. We proceed forward to witness intimately the confusion and the eloquence that followed the September 11 attacks, then the feckless attempts to provide electricity to a darkened Baghdad, the high- and lowlights of the 2004 re-election bid, the startling and fruitless attempt to “spend capital� by overhauling the Social Security system, the inept response to Katrina, the downward spiraling and increasingly divisive war in Iraq.

Though the headlines may be familiar, the details, the utterly inside account of how events transpired will come as fresh reportage to even the most devoted followers of mainstream media coverage. In this most press- wary of administrations, Robert Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all on the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. In so doing, he allows us to witness in complete granularity the personal force of a president determined to achieve big things, who remained an optimist in the face of a sometimes harsh unpopularity, who confronted the history of his time with what can surely be described as dead certainty. 37 minutes 8.6MB. Podcast rating 6 out of 10. For all of Michael Medveds shows go to Michael Medveds Website to listen live for free or $4.95 per month to download all of his podcasts.- Highly recommended! 

Show 120  50 Rules Kids Wont Learn in School. Dennis Prager and Peter Weizebeck interview author Charles Sykes, radio and television host at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. His new book is 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education. 16MB and 70 Minutes long. Download all of Dennis Pragers shows free at: Dennis Pragers Podcasts For all of Michael Medveds shows go to Michael Medveds Website to listen live for free or $4.95 per month to download all of his podcasts.

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Show 119 Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA. Dennis Prager interviews author Tim Weiner.  For book Synopsis See ACU show 118. 1.7MB and 33 minutes. Download all of Dennis Pragers shows free at: Dennis Pragers Podcast - A Highly recommended podcast.

Show 118 Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA. Hugh Hewitt interviews author Tim Weiner.  Book Synopsis from the publisher- For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.â€?
Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA—and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll.
Tim Weiner’s past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as “impressively reported� and “immensely entertaining� in The New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal called it “truly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage.� Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. The ACU has no recommendations on this one- your on your own. 15MB 60 minutes. Podcast rating 6 out of 10. To download all of Hugh Hewitts shows visit his website at Hugh Hewitt

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Show 117  The Language of God A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief By Francis S. Collins From Simon Schuster publishers- Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world’s leading scientists. He works at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture.

Dr. Collins believes that faith in God and faith in science can coexist within a person and be harmonious. In The Language of God he makes his case for God and for science. He has heard every argument against faith from scientists, and he can refute them. He has also heard the needless rejection of scientific truths by some people of faith, and he can counter that, too. He explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes readers for a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry, and biology can all fit together with belief in God and the Bible. The Language of God is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of faith: Why are we here? How did we get here? What does life mean?

From ACU- Podcast rating 7 out of 10.   16MB  70 minutes long. Buy the book from Amazon

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