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Air Date: May 20, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Barber

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Air Date: May 20, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Barber

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Matt Barber is an attorney focusing on constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action and serves as Associate Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law.

According to Matt, DOJ Pride is a taxpayer funded organization within the Department of Justice that appears geared toward pushing the talking points of the radical homosexual lobby. The new DOJ Pride brochure that was sent to all DOJ managers contains a number of "do's" and "don't's". One of the don't's that is being communicated explains that Department of Justice employees are not to judge or remain silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender lifestyles.

Matt also brought his thoughts to another controversial topic. The U.S. Department of Education plans to replace gender-specific terms such as "mother" and "father" with the gender-inclusive/neutral replacement terms "parent 1" and "parent 2".


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Air Date: May 17, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason & Gordon Morris

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Air Date: May 17, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason & Gordon Morris

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Vic Eliason presented the following news stories and Gordon Morris opened the phone lines for comments from listeners.

--Blue Fin tuna caught just off the California coast are testing positive for radiation due to Japan nuclear disaster.
--A major conference on German/Muslim relations ends in failure.
--A 13 year old slashes friend's throat after argument over a video game.
--Families of Navy Seals killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan cite a number of grievances including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who disparaged the memories of the deceased men in Arabic.
--A Federal judge issues a ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed if Muslims threaten violence due to being upset over the message.
--A British politician compares disabled children to the runt in a litter of lambs.
--The IRS tells a pro-life ministry to promote all aspects of abortion.
--Vermont to become the 3rd state to legalize assisted suicide.
--A Federal bill (HR-1681) coming forth would penalize adoption agencies that prioritize heterosexual couples.
--North Carolina abortion clinic shut down by the state following an investigation that revealed that abortionists were incorrectly administering abortion drugs to clients.
--President Obama invites Planned Parenthood to Mother's Day event then sends out a tweet about his free, no co-pay birth control.

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Air Date: May 16, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Scott Wheeler

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Air Date: May 16, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Scott Wheeler

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Scott Wheeler is an investigative journalist and documentary film maker who has focused on domestic and international security issues.

President Obama took action fairly quickly regarding the unrest in Libya. He started arming rebels who, while they hated Muammar Qaddafi, some of them were Al Qaeda terrorists. So while Scott didn't point to this situation as rising to the level of a scandal, he admitted that we ended up arming terrorists that attacked our embassy in Benghazi.

But why help bring down Qaddafi when he was cooperating with the United States? Perhaps we were given a hint as Vic noted that in his writings, Scott indicates that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta "let the cat out of the bag" when he was questioned by Jeff Sessions about the lack of congressional authority regarding the Libyan conflict.

This kind of behavior from President Obama is quite precedent setting especially when one looks at Benghazi. This time it was American lives that were lost and Scott believes the President actively engaged in promoting lies to lawmakers and the international community.

Is there enough evidence to merely impeach the President or is there enough for an actual conviction? Will Democrats attempt to stonewall and protect the President or will they "jump ship" in light of the evidence? You decide as Scott Wheeler brings great information for consideration on this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: May 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Connelly

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Air Date: May 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Connelly

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Michael Connelly is a constitutional attorney, a U.S. Army Veteran and executive director of the United States Justice Foundation, a non-profit public interest legal organization dedicated to instruct, inform and educate the public, and to litigate the significant legal issues confronting America.

Michael described how the IRS was allegedly targeting conservative groups--any group with "Tea Party", "patriots" or "limited government" in their name, those who oppose the Obama administration, as well as those who were pro-Israel. This effort was allegedly designed to prevent certain groups from obtaining 501(c)(4) status prior to the election.

Michael also revealed that the I.R.S. is alleged to have turned over information of such groups to a left-wing non-profit group and they were releasing this information to the public.

In a related story, Michael explained how President Obama's Department of Justice was allegedly involved in secret monitoring of Associated Press phone records in order to find out where an information leak was coming from.

Are these impeachable offenses? Are such incidents taking attention away from the Benghazi scandal? How about "Fast and Furious"? Get the answers to these questions and more as well as discovering what you can do to make a difference when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: May 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jimmy DeYoung

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Air Date: May 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jimmy DeYoung

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk by mentioning that a verdict has come down in the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Yesterday Gosnell was found guilty of murdering 3 of 4 babies and guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 abortion death of a 41 year old woman who died when his untrained staff administered a sedative overdose. He was also found guilty of 21 of 24 felony counts of illegal abortions beyond the 24 week limit and charged with 227 misdemeanor counts of violating the 24 hour informed consent law of which he was found guilty of all but 16. He was also convicted of conspiracy and corrupt organization charges. Sentencing will take place May 21.

Jim also brought news regarding the Romeike family of Germany, the family that is seeking asylum in the U.S. after feeling the oppression of German officials over the home schooling of their children. Today a 3 judge panel in the 6th Circuit heard their case and ruled against them. Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association says they will be appealing the case.

Jim's third story dealt with the passing of a bill that legalized gay marriage in Minnesota. Ironically supporters will be holding a big musical celebration called "Love is Law" in the city of St. Paul, named after the apostle who clearly condemns homosexuality in the Bible.

Jimmy DeYoung is with Prophecy Today. He has spent many years living in Israel and is a noted conference speaker. He constantly monitors news regarding Israel and the Middle East and provides a unique blend of political, biblical and prophetic insight that is absent from the media today.

In A.D. 70 the Jews became dispersed through the destruction of Jerusalem. Moving ahead to 1897 we see the formation of the first Zionist Congress in Basil, Switzerland, designed to discuss the formation of a Jewish homeland. They considered Uganda but ultimately it became the original site which had come to be known as Palestine. Following this first Zionist Congress Jews began emigrating to the land from 108 different nations.

Moving ahead to WWI we see God preparing the land for his people and he did so through the British defeat of the Turkish empire, the empire that had been in control of the Middle East since the 1500's.

When thinking of the Jews at that time of WWII you think of the holocaust. This war was about preparing the people for the land as we see the Jews beginning to move into the area of Jersusalem.

At the United Nations on November 29th, 1947 there was a vote regarding a partition plan because of the realization that there were two people groups in the area that the Jews were moving to. One state would go to the Palestinians and the other state would be for the Jews. This plan was rejected by the Palestinians but reluctantly accepted by the Jews.

Then in May 1948 Israel was declared a nation and within 48 hours after the announcement, 7 Arab nations attacked Israel. As Dr. DeYoung noted, that began Israel's war of independence, a war that has yet to see a conclusion.


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To obtain a copy of "Israel Under Fire" by Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and Dr. John Ankerberg for a donation of $17 or more, call 1-800-729-9829.

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Air Date: May 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: May 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life and the family.

Concerning Obamacare, how do you feel about being forced to pay for abortion? How do you feel about the employer mandate? How do you feel about the abortion mandate that even applies to religious employers? These are just some of the questions that are simmering as we continue to see the roll out of this new health care plan.

Back in November the Supreme Court ordered the court of appeals to once again hear Mat's case. This Thursday Mat Staver will be arguing before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond in a case that he feels involves one of the most important oral arguments of his career.

The Supreme Court only upheld the individual mandate as it relates to it being supported by the taxing and spending clause. According to Mat, if the individual mandate is a tax, then he feels it violates other constitutional principles because it it originated in the Senate and not the House (Taxing bills must originate in the House). In other words, there's much more to be considered such as the employer mandate that seeks to force employers to provide contraception, sterilization and abortion inducing drugs and I.U.D.'s. In addition to the fact that the employer mandate violates the free exercise of religion, no decision has been rendered as to whether it's supported by the commerce clause or the taxing and spending clause.

Since Obamacare is set to be fully implemented in 2014, this Thursday Mat will be asking for an injunction to block it's implementation.


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Air Date: May 10, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 10, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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This edition of Crosstalk featured Vic Eliason taking calls from listeners as they presented brief tributes to their mothers in preparation for this very important day.

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Air Date: May 9, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: May 9, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok was born in Egypt and raised in a Christian home as the son of a Baptist pastor. He became a Christian at the age of 11. Going through Egyptian schools Islam was a mandatory subject. He furthered his knowledge of Islam by studying Islamic law in college. He came to the U.S. in 1992 and several years later in 2001 he founded the Straight Way of Grace Ministry. He travels throughout the United States equipping the saints to be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ to their Muslim neighbors as well as ministry to Muslims directly. Usama has conducted a full comprehensive English translation of the Qur'an and he has recently released a two-volume set of books, "Exposing the Truth about the Qur'an: The Revelation of Error".

This Crosstalk was an open forum program that allowed listeners to obtain the truth about the Islamic faith from an expert on the topic. Questions asked included:

--Where does Al Qaeda fit in with the two groups of Muslims, namely the Shiites and Sunnis?
--What is the movement in America known as "Chrislam"?
--Why does the Allah of the Qur'an seem to have the same attributes as Satan in the Bible?
--Muslims have a tradition known as honor killing. Why don't we hear more about these deaths in America?


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Air Date: May 8, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ken Ham

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Air Date: May 8, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ken Ham

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Ken Ham is the president, CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis and the highly acclaimed Creation Museum. Ken is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America.

Ken began by commenting on how we're seeing a change in worldview where Christian morality is disappearing due to a tossing out of God's Word. People are saying that man determines truth and the result is that marriage is whatever you want it to be.

He pointed to President Obama and his occasional reference to Bible passages. Ken wondered why the President doesn't bother to quote Matthew 19 where Jesus clearly lays out the definition of marriage from the perspective of Genesis 1 and 2.

Moving to the main topic, Ken described how Blue Ridge Academy in South Carolina is coming under attack by atheists because a teacher tested a class of 8 students regarding Creation. Why is this unusual? It's unusual because Blue Ridge Academy is a Christian school.

Ken also dealt with the following:

--The Romeike family of Germany. This is the family that is looking for asylum here in America so that they can home-school their children.
--The "Standing our Ground, Rescuing our Kids" theme that Answers in Genesis is using over the next two years based upon Galatians 1:4.
--Various questions from numerous Crosstalk listeners.


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Answers in Genesis contact links:
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www.arkencounter.org

To obtain the complete set of Ken's "Answers" book series (Volumes 1-3) for a donation of $45 (normally $18 per book) contact Crosstalk by calling 1-800-729-9829.

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Air Date: May 7, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Air Date: May 7, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Ben Barrack is an investigative radio host and blogger who broadcasts in Central Texas. He is the author of the book, "Unsung David's: Ten Men who Battled Goliath without Glory". With Walid Shoebat he has co-authored, "The Case for Islamaphobia: Jihad by the Sword, America's Final Warning".

Tomorrow the House Oversight Committee, Chaired by Republican representative Darrell Issa of California, will begin the first of a new round of hearings regarding the September 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. This attack resulted in the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith and two Navy Seals--Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

Many questions remain unanswered. For example:

Drone information allegedly indicates that we could see the commotion that was forming that led to the attack. Why didn't the chain of command respond to protect our people?

In the first set of hearings, Hillary Clinton said, "What difference does it make?" and then after that communicated that we have to do everything we can to prevent such an incident from happening again. These are contradictory statements that require an explanation.


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Air Date: May 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Air Date: May 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Avi Lipkin was born in New York and moved to Israel at age 19. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the artillery reserves and served as an officer in the IDF Spokesman's Office from 1989-2001. He has worked in the news department at the Israel Government Press Office. He has lectured in Christian churches and synagogues in many countries around the world including in the U.S. He has written 6 books including, "Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?", "Christian Revival for Israel's Survival" and others.

According to Avi, the recent attack on Syria by Israel was designed to weaken the missile and technology transport channel that runs from Iran, through Syria and into Lebanon. The technology being transported includes ground-to-sea, anti-aircraft as well as ground-to-ground missiles that could eventually be used by Hezbollah against Israel.

On an even larger scale, Avi noted that Russia, China, North Korea and Iran all support Syria and by extension they also support Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Complicating matters is the fact that when Bashar Assad falls in Syria, that will open the door for Al Qaeda to take over which isn't good news for either Israel or the United States.

As Syria continues to fight for survival, will this recent action by Israel cause its enemies to attack from different border positions, perhaps at the same time? You be the judge when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: May 3, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 3, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic cleared the news desk, bringing Crosstalk listeners additional information on stories making news around our nation. Some of the discussion included the following:

--Vic showed great concern over the trend established by recent news events. For example, there was the Benghazi attack, the Boston bombing, the cancellation of Usama Dakdok's speech at Wisconsin Lutheran College and the Pentagon's recent willingness regarding the punishing of military personnel who share their Christian faith.

--Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has announced he now supports gay adoption.

--Yesterday Rhode Island became the nations 10th state to allow gay marriage.

--The FDA officially announced that the "Plan B" morning after pill should be available without a prescription for teenagers beginning at age 15.

--61% of those affiliated with the Boy Scouts support current policy that excludes homosexuals.

--The office that is implementing most of Obamacare is not furloughing any of its workers as a result of sequester budget cuts.

--Young woman attempts to flush her baby, then places baby in a trash can. The girl has been charged with concealing the death of a child.

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Air Date: May 2, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Martin Mawyer

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Air Date: May 2, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Martin Mawyer

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Martin Mawyer began his career as a freelance journalist resulting in his position some years back as the editor-in-chief of Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority Report". In 1990 he founded the Christian Action Network, a non-profit organization created to protect America's religious and moral heritage. He has produced a number of documentary films including, "Homegrown Jihad". He is the co-author of a book presently coming under fire, entitled, "Twightlight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America".

Crosstalk listeners may remember Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Pearl was investigating allegations regarding Richard Reid (the "Shoe Bomber") and also why Muslim compounds existed within the U.S. Pearl was eventually kidnapped, beheaded and dismembered.
According to Martin, "Twilight in America" is the book that completes the story of Daniel Pearl and also informs readers about the Muslims of the Americas group that has been in the U.S. for the past 30 years.

In "Twightlight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America", Martin Mawyer documents Muslim criminal and terrorist activity that includes bombings, gun running, stabbings and drug running along with welfare, unemployment, workmen's compensation and food stamp fraud. The book is causing such a firestorm that the Christian Action Network is being sued by Muslims of the Americas for 30 million dollars.


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Air Date: May 1, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Steven Camarota

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Air Date: May 1, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Steven Camarota

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Dr. Steven Camarota serves as the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC based research institute that examines the consequences of legal and illegal immigration on the United States. Dr. Camarota has testified before Congress more than any other non-government expert on the economic and fiscal impact of immigration.

It's estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. This indicates that our borders are porous. Just how porous? Dr.Camarota pointed out that although we're not 100% sure, recent satellite and radar analysis shows that about half of the people who try to get in do so successfully.

The border situation is only the beginning as there are many items to consider when discussing the immigration reform controversy. Dr. Camarota examined this subject carefully as he answered the following questions:

--What happened to the border fence idea?

--Are illegals educated enough to be considered a legitimate threat to job seeking citizens?

--What are the effects of illegal immigrants on public education?

--Do illegal immigrants provide a challenge for crime and law enforcement?

--How would giving illegals amnesty make those feel who became citizens "by the rules"?

--What will be the verification elements of the new immigration bill that's being worked on?

Dr. Camarota feels the bill will be actively debated in the Senate in about 3 to 4 weeks so senators need to hear from their constituents soon.


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To contact your senators or congressmen regarding the immigration bill call 202-224-3121 or 202-225-3121.

Senator Marco Rubio
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The Center for Immigration Studies
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Air Date: April 30, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 30, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Some people today are afraid to talk about the violence of Islam for fear of being labeled as an “Islamophobe”. The problem is, the threats we hear of jihad and world dominance come from no other religion than the religion of Islam. Open the pages of its holy books, the Qur’an and the Hadith, and there can be no doubt that such calls to violence are a command to all Muslims for all time. In spite of this, there are those who insist that anyone who tries to sound a warning against Islamic violence is too controversial.

Usama Dakdok hosts a daily radio program on the VCY America Radio Network called, “Revealing the Truth about Islam”. He was scheduled to speak at Wisconsin Lutheran College on May 9th. The college administration canceled the event, and school staff member
Barbara Wellnitz stated, in a letter to the student group hoping to sponsor the activity, that Usama, “...is just too political or extremist and the topic is too sensitive and too pertinent in the light of Boston bombings.” Appeals to higher officials in the school administration so far have not changed their decision.

School Public Relations Director Jason Van Acker said the denial had to do with protocol regarding approval to make the invitation.

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Contact numbers at Wisconsin Lutheran College for comments about their cancellation of the scheduled appearance by Usama Dakdok about Islam:

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414-443-8782

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Air Date: April 29, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Host: Phyllis Schlafly

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Air Date: April 29, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Host: Phyllis Schlafly

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Phyllis Schlafly is the founder and president of Eagle Forum. She is the author or editor of 20 books including "The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It" and "No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom".

According to Phyllis, Common Core Standards was signed off by the Organization of State Governors along with a state superintendent organization. Phyllis noted that they did not write the initiative but instead it was written by experts dictated by the Federal Department of Education. So Common Core Standards is basically the federal government stepping in to set some new standards and make everyone comply.

Remember "Outcome Based Education", "School to Work" and "Values Clarification"? According to Phyllis, Common Core Standards is basically a revival of those ideas.

At this time all but 5 states have signed on to this initiative although Phyllis indicated that the states that signed on did so because that would allow them to obtain funding under the "Race to the Top" grant program.

Can the Common Core Standards initiative avoid the concern over teaching to the test as opposed to a broad curriculum overview? What about laws already in place that are supposed to prevent the implementation of a national curriculum in local schools? What are the data collection dangers? How will home schooling be affected? Get the answers when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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To contact your senator and encourage him to sign on to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley's letter to defund Common Core Standards call 202-224-3121.

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Air Date: April 26, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 26, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic wrapped up this week of Crosstalk programming by bringing numerous stories to the attention of listeners. Here’s a sample:

--Family Research Council attacker facing 45 years in prison; admits to getting information for the attack from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
--Mother of surviving Boston bomber says that if they're going to kill her second son, she doesn't care.
--Egyptian cleric says that we will soon see the flag of Allah over the White House.
--The Boston Herald alleges that the mastermind of the Boston bombings was living on state welfare benefits even while delving into anti-American Islamic beliefs.
--Since September 11th of 2001, the Saudi student population in America has increased by over 500%.
--Judge admits mistakes in trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell; reinstates the murder charge for baby "c" while dismissing another.
--Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton under scrutiny concerning Benghazi document signatures.
--The Mormon Church gives its blessing to the latest Boy Scout proposal to include homosexual scouts while limiting homosexual leaders.
--Various agencies suddenly excluded from Obamacare.
--Airport control tower closings causing delays. Who's making these decisions?
--Although the federal government feels it's necessary to close some airport control towers for cost saving reasons, now they want to spend $152,000 to study voice therapy for transgenders.
--A middle school in Red Hook, New York, held an anti-bullying presentation that focused on homosexuality and gender identity. The girls were told to ask one another for a kiss.

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Air Date: April 25, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: April 25, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Peter LaBarbera is Founder and President of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. His organization is dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda.

The Boy Scouts recently released a proposed resolution to accept openly homosexual scouts. The resolution will be voted on by their 1,400 voting members during their 2013 national annual meeting that will take place May 22-24 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

Why the push to incorporate homosexuality into the Boy Scouts? Peter believes the Boy Scouts panicked. He pointed to pro-homosexual CEO's who are big donors that wanted to see the Boy Scouts implement the same changes that have taken place in their corporations.

Jim then read the resolution that they will be voting on in May. The final statement of the resolution contradicts other statements made in their "whereas" clauses because what happens to homosexual scouts that turn 18 and want to be leaders?

Jim also discussed related news from New Zealand, France, Rhode Island, Illinois and Minnesota.


More Information:

Contact the boy Scouts about the coming vote on accepting homosexual scouts

To comment regarding homosexual marriage in Minnesota:
1-888-234-1112 (Senate members)
1-800-657-3550 (House members)

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Air Date: April 24, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Air Date: April 24, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Cheryl Sullenger is Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue, one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. Cheryl has been closely following the murder trial of abortionist, Kermit Gosnell.

New information has come forth in regard to the trial of Kermit Gosnell since Cheryl last appeared on Crosstalk (See Crosstalk entry for April 8th.) Yesterday was the first day back in court since the prosecution rested its case. Cheryl informed listeners that the defense attorney asked Judge Jeffrey Minehart to basically dismiss the entire case. While he didn't do that he did dismiss nine charges against Gosnell (out of almost 400) including 3 counts of murder, 1 count of infanticide and 5 counts of abuse of a corpse.

Before leaving at the halfway point in the broadcast, Cheryl encouraged listeners to call their health department and ask them to do an inspection of any local abortion clinics.

Vic then challenged listeners to call with an answer to the following question: When was the last time you heard a message from your church dealing with the wickedness of abortion?


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Operation Rescue
www.operationrescue.org

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Air Date: April 23, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Host: Vic Eliason

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As government authorities and the media continue to examine the many facets of the Boston bombing incident, the questions continue to outnumber the answers. The following are just a sample of the questions and concerns presented by Vic Eliason for listener consideration:

--Could Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be stripped of his citizenship and would that that allow him to be tried as an enemy combatant?

--Was Tsarnaev "set up" or was he a willing believer of his brother's philosophies?

--Should intelligence gathering take precedent over Miranda rights? Does this act of terrorism even require Miranda rights?

-- The American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.) is calling for the Obama administration to read the bomber his rights.

--Are there sleeper cells that are unknown at this point?

--What about the attempted terrorism of a passenger train in Canada that's alleged to have had support from Al Qaeda elements within Iran.

--The F.B.I. was warned ahead of time by a foreign government about the older brother (who was named after a great Islamic warrior) in the Boston bombings.

--The former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey believes that the Boston bombings were a jihadist act. However, the Obama administration has disbanded the C.I.A. interrogation group responsible for investigating such plots.

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Air Date: April 22, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Patrick Trueman

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Air Date: April 22, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Patrick Trueman

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Patrick Trueman is the CEO & President of Morality in Media. He is a former Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1988-1993. He supervised the prosecution of child sex crimes, child pornography and obscenity. With more than 3 decades as a lawyer, he has litigated cases at all levels of the federal system including the United States Supreme Court.

Just when you thought that network television couldn't get much worse, news is now coming forth that the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.) is considering a relaxing of the current indecency standards so that nudity and expletives can be broadcast.

According to Patrick, the federal statute says that on broadcast TV (not Cable TV) you're not allowed to have any indecency or profanity. That law is supposed to be administered by the F.C.C. The current chairman, Julius Genachowski, has claimed that this was tied up in the courts. That was not the case. He simply hasn't enforced the law since President Obama put him in office. Now that he's leaving his post, he wants to change the law (that he wouldn't enforce) to say that nudity and profanity are fine as long as there aren't sustained incidents.

Making matters worse is the fact that Mr. Genachowski's department has trashed more than one million citizen complaints to the F.C.C.

Find out how the Supreme Court dealt with broadcast indecency and obscenity decades ago, how that contrasts with Obama's F.C.C. and the broadcast networks today and what you can do to make a difference.


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Regardless of the form of communication you use in contacting the Federal Communications Commission, it's important that you reference Docket # 13-86.

To send a comment to the F.C.C. by e-mail go to:
www.vcyamerica.org

To comment by snail-mail before the May 20th deadline write to:

Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St. SW
Washington, DC 20554

To contact your House and Senate representatives regarding this issue call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 (Congressmen) or 202-225-3121 (Senators).

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Air Date: April 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: April 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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The following are some of the news stories that Jim Schneider presented for listener comment:

--Suspect #1 in the Boston bombing case is dead; second suspect still at large.
--Boston bombing suspects have ties to Chechnya, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
--Supreme leader of Iran blames U.S. for world problems.
--TV personality blames the N.R.A. for the Boston bombings.
--Judge finalizes a settlement between McDonald’s and Michigan's Muslim community.
--White House sent out an LGBT update while Boston bombing investigation played out.
--Connecticut man pleads guilty to sending hundreds of threatening letters to a pro-family leader. Judge only sentenced the man to 5 years of probation.
--Hawaii judge rules that a Christian woman broke the law by refusing to rent a room at her bed and breakfast business to a pair of homosexual women.
--E-Harmony dating service now links homosexuals.
--New Zealand legalizes same-sex marriage.
--California Assembly Bill 1266 requires that students be permitted to participate in sex segregated school program activities and facilities consistent with their gender identity.
--Boy Scouts are now proposing to lift the ban on homosexual scout members.
--J.C Penney unveils new designer home brands in light of plunging sales. No word on whether Ellen DeGeneres will continue as a spokesperson.
--Matt Staver of Liberty counsel presented oral arguments in California's change therapy case.
--Gun control background check legislation fails to pass.
--Barbara Jane Wilke, wife of Jack Wilke and co-author of the 1971 book, Handbook of Abortion, passed away this week.
--Beloved Christian singer George Beverly Shea passed away at age 104.
--Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius can't answer simple questions regarding implementation of Obamacare.
--The House of Representatives approved legislation this week for medical use of marijuana.

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Air Date: April 18, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Air Date: April 18, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat is a former Muslim Brotherhood activist willing to die for the cause of jihad. He converted to Christianity and is a committed Christian warning about Islam. He is an Arab analyst and is the author of several books including, “Why I Left Jihad”, “God’s War on Terror” and his newest book, “The Case for Islamaphobia”.

Not long after the Boston bombing an individual was arrested as a suspect but later their designation was changed to a “person of interest”. Walid identified this person as Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, a Saudi national with clan ties to Al Qaeda.

Walid also reported news regarding a communiqué between the Saudi ambassador to the king and top government officials in the U.S. in which the U.S. officials assured that there would be no Saudi’s charged. In addition, there is word that this “person of interest” is allegedly being deported.

Become informed by reviewing this edition of Crosstalk and then present your views to the U.S. State Department at the phone numbers listed below.


More Information:

www.shoebat.com

To contact the State Department call 202-647-4000.

To contact Secretary of State John Kerry call 202-647-5291

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Air Date: April 17, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Omer Eshel

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Air Date: April 17, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Omer Eshel

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Omer Eshel is the director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism for the Midwest Region. He promotes tourism to Israel in 13 states. He is a 4th generation resident of Moshav Merhavia, the first Jewish community established in Israel's northern Jezreel Valley. He served 3 years in the Israeli Defense Forces. He's a certified Israel tour guide and served as the head of staff for Israel's national parks. He's been with the Israel Ministry of Tourism since 2008.

Israel is a nation with six different climate zones. That's even more amazing when you consider that it's so small it could fit inside Lake Michigan 3 times.

The modern state of Israel was formed in May of 1948 so they will be marking their 65th birthday this year. In another sense Israel is one of the oldest lands of the world because you can see the ruins of King David's palace from almost 3,000 years ago when Israel was a kingdom.

Is it safe to visit Israel? Is there a better time of the year to visit? What new archaeological discoveries from Israel confirm the validity of the Scriptures? What inventions come from Israel?

As Omer answers these questions and those of listeners you'll realize why he views Israel not as a tourist destination but rather as a journey.


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Air Date: April 16, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Air Date: April 16, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Before Dr. Corsi began, Jim covered some details related to the following news stories:

--Some liberal media accounts are asking whether or not the recent Boston Marathon explosions were generated by domestic right-wing extremists that might include anti-abortion supporters or evangelical Christians.

--In reference to those same explosions, the head of a Jordanian Muslim Salafi group is happy to see the horror in America.

--The Kermit Gosnell murder trial is weeks old but only now getting major media attention. Presidential spokesman Jay Carney says the president has no comment.

Dr. Jerome Corsi is a senior staff reporter for WND. He is a New York Times best-selling author having written and co-authored numerous books including "Showdown with Nuclear Iran", "Black Gold Stranglehold" "The Late Great USA" among others. He joined Jim Schneider to discuss his newest book, "Bad Samaritans: The ACLU's Relentless Campaign to Erase Faith from the Public Square".

The remainder of this Crosstalk featured an examination of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization birthed in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, a draft resistor from World War 1. Dr. Corsi believes the ACLU was formed with a secret history to attack the Judeo-Christian founding of our nation in order to establish a socialist or communist society.

On this edition of Crosstalk you learn…

…how the ACLU distorts the First Amendment to the Constitution.
…how we’ve gone from protecting freedom of religion to freedom from religion.
…about the ACLU’s civil rights logic behind the normalizing of homosexual marriage and other deviant behaviors.
…how the ACLU is attempting to establish a generation that despises God.
…and more.


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To leave comments for President Obama regarding the Kermit Gosnell trial call 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414.

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Air Date: April 15, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ed Bulkley

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Air Date: April 15, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ed Bulkley

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Ed Bulkley is the founding pastor of Life Fellowship in Westminster, Colorado. He is also the President of the International Association of Biblical Counselors. He is the author of 3 books including, “Why Christian’s Can’t Trust Psychology”, “Only God Can Heal a Wounded Heart”, and “How Big is Your God?” He speaks extensively on Biblical counseling. For several years he hosted, “Return to the Word” a program addressing Biblical counseling issues.

Dr. Bulkley began by explaining that our world has moved away from Christ and is relying on the philosophies of this world as Paul describes in Colossians 2:8.

Since people are moving away from the simple truth that God’s word is more than enough to deal with any life issue when we obey him, many adults are on anti-depressants or anti-psychotics. Children as well are on drugs for maladies like Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In fact, Vic noted that 90% of school shootings are linked to medications yet as Dr. Bulkley noted earlier in the discussion, drugs often anesthetize the conscience and the mind itself.

Sanity comes from obeying the Lord. Unfortunately the world has things turned around and is communicating today that religious practice can be a sign of deeper mental health issues. Find out why that’s false and discover why God’s word is mankind’s only true solution to issues of the heart when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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To obtain a copy of “Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology” for a donation of $17 to Crosstalk call 1-800-729-9829.

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Air Date: April 12, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: April 12, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok is the founder of The Straightway of Grace Ministry. He travels throughout the United States equipping Christians to be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ to their Muslim neighbors as well as ministering to Muslims directly. Usama was born in Egypt, the son of a Baptist pastor. He became a Christian at the age of eleven yet learned about Islam in school. He eventually studied Islamic law in college.

Vic began this edition of Crosstalk noting two important news stories that highlight the problem of Islam:

--Christian pastor Saeed Abedini has been given an ultimatum by Iranian authorities to deny Jesus Christ or face a longer term in prison.
--A mosque in Cairo has installed a torture chamber to terrorize Christians.

Usama then revealed an important truth about Islam. It’s the claim we hear in America about “moderate” Muslims, a claim that is false because “moderate” Islam is not contained within the text of the Quran or the Hadith.

Other aspects of Islam touched upon by Usama included:

--The various pillars of Islam.
--The merging of Christianity and Islam known as
“Chrislam.”
--Women in Islam.
--The tradition of honor killing.
--The infiltration of Islam in America through acceptance
and ignorance.

You can obtain even more information by attending Usama Dakdok’s presentation called, “Islam: What You Need to Know” tomorrow evening at 7pm during the VCY America rally at the Waukesha Expo Center.


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The Straight Way of Grace Ministry
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Air Date: April 11, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: April 11, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok is the founder of The Straightway of Grace Ministry. He travels throughout the United States equipping Christians to be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ to their Muslim neighbors as well as ministering to Muslims directly. Usama was born in Egypt, the son of a Baptist pastor. He became a Christian at the age of eleven yet learned about Islam in school. He eventually studied Islamic law in college.

Usama noted that people are victims of the teachings of Allah in the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad in the Hadith. This is playing out in various headlines such as the following:

--Canada asks how middle class boys became jihadists.
--A Muslim mob, angered by Christian youth, attack
residents of a city in Pakistan.
--Egyptian Christian funeral ends in violent clashes while
police stand by.
--A teddy bear named Muhammad causes controversy.

We should not be surprised by this as Usama told listeners that Allah commands Muslims to lie, attack and to kill Christians, Jews and non-Muslims.

So where is this “Allah” talked about? Allah is talked about in the Muslim holy book known as the Quran. 87% of Muslims worldwide don’t speak the Arabic language so many of them, despite their anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments, haven’t even read the Quran. In order to expose more people to the full impact of the errors and contradictions of Islam, Usama has produced an accurate English language translation of the Quran with study notes.

We are losing our freedom, lives and existence because of political correctness relating to Islam. Find out why and what’s next when you listen to this along with tomorrow’s edition of Crosstalk.


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The Straight Way of Grace Ministry
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Air Date: April 10, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Erich Pratt

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Air Date: April 10, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Erich Pratt

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Gun Owners of America issued a news release communicating that the fate of gun control could be determined in the next few days. In fact, Senator Harry Reid has moved to proceed to Senate Bill 649, the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013.

Discussing the matter with Jim was Erich Pratt, Director of Communications with Gun Owners of America.

Erich believes that SB-649 will not do anything to make schools safer and instead feels this is all about restricting the 2nd Amendment rights that we enjoy.

SB-649 would put you in jail for 15 years if you sold guns to someone and you didn’t realize they were a prohibited person. Erich also noted that nothing in Senator Harry Reid’s bill would have prevented the carnage that took place in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Erich indicated that Gun Owners of America has been working with Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah to begin a filibuster to prevent SB-649 from even coming up for a vote. However, Senator Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania has made a deal with Joe Mansion, a Democrat from West Virginia and they are promoting their own bill as a compromise which may give other Senators the excuse they need to go ahead and vote for Harry Reid’s bill.

The final language that goes into the bill is critical to protecting your 2nd Amendment rights and you can voice your concerns via the legislative hotline number listed below.

Later in the program Jim also discussed two articles that highlight the fact that our government believes evangelical Christians are an extremist threat to America.


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Gun Owners of America
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To contact your legislators regarding Senate Bill 649 call 202-224-3121.

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Air Date: April 9, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Katherine Albrecht

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Air Date: April 9, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Katherine Albrecht

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Dr. Katherine Albrecht is a privacy expert a consumer activist, award- winning author, and broadcaster who helped develop startpage.com, the world’s most private search engine. She co-authored the bestselling RFID book, "Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID" and "The Spychips Threat: Why Christians should resist RFID and electronic surveillance." Her efforts have put an end to human micro-chipping trials since 2007 and slowed many other invasive programs. Katherine has authored legislation and testified before the FTC and lawmakers around the world.

Americans are under near constant surveillance. According to Katherine, We're contributing to databases and the federal government basically taps into them. This is happening because our technical tools, like computers and smart phones, have a dark side as these tools have the ability to be monitored and as we use them we leave information that can be viewed by others.

The tracking of Internet searches is one example. For the last 10 years Google has amassed the largest dossier of personal information on individuals ever collected in the history of mankind. They reasoned that if they create a small window and put it on everyone’s computer, then all individuals who they could not get information on would log on everyday and contribute information themselves via their browsing habits.

In response, Katherine helped to develop startpage.com, a private portal that allows you to access Google results without ever making direct contact with Google. It's free and financed by ads.

E-Mail is different. Katherine described how Google is giving you a free service that costs them about $5 a month. What you may not know is that if you read the fine print, they have the right to read everything you send and receive.

Radio frequency Identification (R.F.I.D.) continues to be a concern. This technology involves the use of tiny microchips connected to miniature antennas. These chips can be woven into fabric, embedded into the soles of shoes, pressed into I.D. cards or even injected into flesh. The problem with R.F.I.D. technology is how it’s being used with enhanced driver’s licenses. These licenses allow you to cross the border into Canada or Mexico without a passport. The chip embedded in these licenses uses inventory tracking technology of the kind that retailers want to use. This means that individuals with enhanced driver’s licenses could have their personal information read by readers placed in various parts of a retail store.

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Air Date: April 8, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Air Date: April 8, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Cheryl Sullenger is the Senior Policy Advisor to Operation Rescue. She has attended and has been following the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist from the state of Pennsylvania.

Gosnell operated an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia that, according to Cheryl, was performing illegal abortions to women bussed in from other states even before Roe v. Wade. After Roe, Gosnell operated his clinic without much fanfare until his clinic was raided in 2010. The raid took place by police, F.B.I. and D.E.A. agents because his clinic is alleged to have been the source of many prescription pain killers that were being sold illegally on the streets of Philadelphia.

What authorities also found was a clinic that appeared to be doing illegal late term abortions. Not only were they being done past the gestational age but some were allegedly born alive and murdered by Gosnell and his untrained staff.

So along with drug violations, Gosnell is in the midst of a capital murder case having been charged with 7 counts of murdering newborn babies after abortions by inserting scissors into the back of their necks and snipping their spinal cords. He’s also being charged with 1 count of third degree murder in the death of one of his patients.

The jury was shown photos of the babies who had gaping wounds in the back of their necks and one crime scene unit officer testified that he discovered jars that contained the severed feet of babies.

Unfortunately there’s been no major network coverage of this trial.

Cheryl noted that the trial is currently in its fourth week and as of the time of this broadcast the prosecution was still presenting their case with the defense to present their side later.

More Information:

Operation Rescue
www.operationrescue.org

ABC News—212-456-7777
ABC News in Washington, D.C.—202-456-7777
ABC World News Tonight—212-456-4040
CBS News—212-975-4321
CBS Evening News—212-975-3691
CNN News—404-827-1500 (option 1)
Fox News—212-301-3000
NBC News—212-664-4444
NBC Nightly News—212-664-4971

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Air Date: April 5, 2013

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Mark Smith

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Air Date: April 5, 2013

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Mark Smith

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Mark Smith is the Director of Bible Tracts, Inc., an organization that, since the 1930’s, has distributed literally millions of tracts around the world in many different languages. This broadcast is made up of portions from a presentation Mark gave earlier this month at a VCY America rally.

In his introduction, Gordon Morris notes how we often think about the Bible as being a large book with 66 smaller books within it. However, what if that word is limited to one sheet of paper, perhaps folded so that it’ll fit in a pocket? Does that word still have the power of the Word of God?”

Mark answers that question by explaining how the printed word works regardless of the culture, a person’s age, or even in situations where it’s illegal to verbally present the gospel.

So as you listen to Mark’s presentation, you’ll discover just how powerful gospel tracts really are, in spite of the fact that those who use them may never again see most individuals that receive them. The proof is in the amazing testimonies that point to the power of the Holy Spirit as he works through this method of disseminating God’s Word that has changed millions of lives.

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Air Date: April 4, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Maloof

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Air Date: April 4, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Maloof

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Michael Maloof is a staff writer for WND and the G2 Bulletin. He is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the Secretary of Defense. He has almost 30 years of federal service in the U.S. Defense Department and as a specialized trainer for border guards and Special Forces. He is the author of the book, "A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of An American Catastrophe."

Vic reported that North Korea has authorized plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States with other reports naming locations such as Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles. Michael noted that following the last underground nuclear test in February, it was only then that Kim Jong Un mentioned the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike on America. This may mean that North Korea has established a breakthrough in terms of miniaturization that would allow them to place a nuclear warhead on one of their missiles.

In December, North Korea successfully launched a satellite. A satellite could be used to de-orbit a nuclear weapon. Such a weapon could create a high altitude nuclear explosion that would send out an electromagnetic pulse and thereby decimate our electrical grid.

Michael outlined the factors that have led to North Korea’s war related rhetoric. (1) The imposing of U.N. sanctions for their missile and nuclear testing. (2) New leadership in North Korea. (3) The annual U.S./South Korean joint military exercises.

What has been the response from Russia and China? They are perplexed with Kim Jong Un. He noted that China in particular is concerned because hostilities would force refugees to head over the border to China creating a humanitarian crisis.

A couple of American politicians have suggested a preemptive strike on North Korea. The problem with this suggestion is that we have to prove that there's an imminent threat so that we don't respond to a bogus deception that's really no threat at all.


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Air Date: April 3, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Air Date: April 3, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Twila Brase is the President of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. Twila is a public health nurse and a health care freedom advocate who has been informing listeners of crucial health issues pertaining to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) and is deeply concerned about patient privacy issues.

Jim began by referencing a Newsmax article that said that Obamacare has cost 30.8 billion dollars so far and 111.4 million hours to complete the various types of paperwork involved.

January 1, 2014, is the date when Obamacare is to be fully implemented. In fact, on October 1st of this year we're supposed to be able to get online and find one of these exchanges and purchase coverage.

Overall, Obamacare is basically healthcare via a national IT infrastructure. The critical structural pieces of Obamacare include the health insurance exchanges connecting the state governments with the federal government. 17 states have said "yes" to building a state based exchange. These are just the federal exchange with a state name and will be state funded. 33 have said "no" and they will default to the federal exchange.

Twila also mentioned that within the 33 states mentioned, there are 7 states that have said they will partner with the government in what's called a "partnership exchange." In this case the state has a storefront website with the federal government handling the "back office" operations.

Could the exchanges fail? According to Twila, if they do, there will be no Obamacare. If they don't fail and you don't have employer supplied insurance, are there any options outside of Obamacare? Twila answers these questions and more on this critical edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: April 2, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: April 2, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider cleared the news desk in order to present listeners with another news round-up program. Some of the stories mentioned included:

--U.N. General Assembly approves the first treaty regulating the multi-billion dollar global arms trade.
--President Obama calls for common sense measures for gun control.
--New York Democratic lawmaker is behind the Firearm Risk Protection Act that would require gun owners to buy liability insurance or face a $10,000 fine.
--A Colorado law would give members of the secret service broad arrest powers in the state and awaits the governor's signature.
--Hunters begin boycott over Colorado gun control laws.
--Marine Corp blaming sequester cuts for having to conserve their bullets.
--North Dakota governor gets death threats after signing 3 new laws restricting abortion.
--Former Obama official has now become the new CEO at a Florida Planned Parenthood.
--Ohio woman suing an abortion clinic after she claims she made the decision to terminate her pregnancy because her life was in danger only to discover she was still carrying the baby after the procedure.
--Senator Rand Paul introduces the Life Begins at Conception Act (S-583)
--Planned Parenthood lobbyist says parents should be able to kill a child that survives an abortion.
--Federal Department of Health and Human Services sidesteps the state's efforts to defund abortion clinics in Title X.
--Obama proclaims April the month to teach kids how to budget responsibly.
--IRS admits it erred when it spent thousands in taxpayer dollars making a video spoof of Star Trek for its 2010 employee conference.
--Bureau of Land Management will pay 2 million dollars in taxpayer dollars over 5 years to allow prison inmates in Kansas to teach wild horses and burros to be gentle.
--Joe Biden's security detail racks up 1 million in two nights; one in Paris and another in London.
--Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska evolving on the issue of homosexual marriage.
--New Jersey Governor Chris Christy believes that sexual orientation is determined at birth.
--Gary Bauer believes there will be an exodus from the Republican Party if they abandon their traditional defense of marriage position.
--Florida Atlantic University apologizes for Jesus "stomping" incident.
--Ireland to build one of the world's largest mosques.
--Indonesian authorities carrying out their threat to tear down a church building cheered on by Muslim protestors denouncing Christians as infidels.
--Ohio man shot after Easter church service by shooter who alleged that the shooting was the "will of Allah."
--10,000 commercial drones could cover America's skies by 2020

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Air Date: April 1, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Walid Shoebat

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Air Date: April 1, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat is a former Muslim Brotherhood activist willing to die for the cause of jihad. He converted to Christianity in 1994 and is a committed Christian warning about Islam. He is the author of several books including "Why I Left Jihad", "God's War on Terror" and the newly released, "The Case for Islamaphobia". Its subtitle is, "Jihad by the sword, America's final warning".

Walid believes that the accusation of Islamaphobia is an attempt by Muslims to place the term on the same level as anti-Semitism or other racial issues. He believes it will never be successful because the diagnosis of Islamaphobia includes a prescription that says that afflicted individuals must necessarily agree with the Constitution of the U.S. This is due to the fact that critiquing religion is not a phobia; it's part of our rights as Americans.

He views the accusation of Islamaphobia as a phobia itself; that in fact it's the Hillary Clinton's and the Al Gore's that are afraid of an onslaught of terrorism or Islamic ridicule and that's why they won't address the issues that need to be dealt with.

Walid continued on providing valuable information as he commented on the following:

--The Muslim Sisterhood and their participation in the
Islamic deception.
--News reports that Egyptian mosques have been turned into
torture chambers for Christians.
--A columnist who is alleged to have called for the
executions of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and John
Bolton.
--The real story regarding chemical attacks in Syria.
--The sources that are supplying Muslim rebels with
weapons.
--John Kerry’s son–in-law is said to be an Iranian American
with ties back to Iran. Is this something to be
concerned about?
--The parallel between the pacifism of the church of 1071
when Muslims overran Asia Minor and the pacifism of the
church today.
--Heretics and the ministry of rebuke.


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Because of his background as a medical doctor, James Fuzzell was naturally interested in the medical aspects of the crucifixion. His in-depth study led him to a greatly-deepened appreciation of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Dr. Fuzzell considers each aspect of the events leading up to the crucifixion as well as the crucifixion itself. He discusses the trials and the accompanying scourging and paints a graphic picture of the crown of thorns, the cross, and the agony inflicted upon Christ.

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Air Date: March 28, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Rick Bach and Ryan Cohan

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Air Date: March 28, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Rick Bach and Ryan Cohan

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Vic began this edition of Crosstalk by talking about the Bible story that depicts a young man possessed by evil spirits. He came before Jesus and Jesus set him free. In his joy over what had been done he wanted to go with Jesus and the disciples but Jesus told him that he should stay behind and tell his friends what the Lord has done.

This is important because while many of us may have dreamed of doing what other Christians might see as “great things” for God, perhaps God is calling you to lead others to Christ within your immediate sphere of influence. After all, when was the last time you led a soul to Christ? Was it days, weeks, months or even years ago?

Due to this concern, a major change is taking place within the confines of the VCY Bookstore ministry. The VCY Bookstore is making room for change concerning evangelism and outreach.

The VCY evangelism program will train Christians and get evangelistic materials in the hands of people, teaching them how to reach co-workers, friends and family members for Christ.

One reason for this ministry is to help do away with the “baggage” that comes to mind when one is confronted with the idea of evangelism. On that note, Vic, Rick and Ryan discuss other areas related to evangelism such as:

--Personal testimony tracts.
--Discipleship—When someone becomes a Christian, what are they supposed to do next?
--Distractions—Those things that confront us in life that aren’t necessarily sinful yet keep us from the propagation of the gospel or to greater growth in our own faith.
--The importance of prayer.--If you pray for opportunities to witness, watch out because God will provide!

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Air Date: March 27, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: March 27, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family.

Mat described same-sex marriage as a deconstruction of the institution, an idea that accomplishes this through the redefinition of marriage as a policy matter.

On that note, yesterday and today the Supreme Court has been listening to arguments over 2 issues. Proposition 8 out of California involves the state constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as the union of one-man and one-woman. The Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.) does the same thing in terms of federal benefits.

Mat explained that if for some reason 5 justices were to say that there’s a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, that will cause catastrophic changes in the areas of morality, our free exercise of religion, freedom of speech and aberrant same-sex activity and behavior within the public schools beginning in Kindergarten.

Regarding Prop 8 specifically, Mat believes that the justices are uncomfortable making a broad rule that will affect the entire nation and ultimately undermine the institution of marriage.

The timetable for a decision by the court is the month of June.

Vic and Mat also discussed the pressure upon the G.O.P. to go along with same-sex issues, the Starbucks Coffee shareholder controversy, along with other elements related to this topic.


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Air Date: March 26, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J. Mark Holland

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Air Date: March 26, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J. Mark Holland

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Mark Holland has 36 years of teaching in Christian schools including elementary and secondary education and 26 of those years at the college level. He has taught Bible, math and science. Bible study has been his heart’s desire. It is through his study that he wrote the book, “Thrice Trumpeted Truths”. In his study he found more than 100 unique triple proclamations in Scripture.

Mark began by noting that it was Elihu, one of Job’s friends who said, “For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.” So Mark decided to have his adult Sunday school class look at some of the “triples” from the Bible. What began as a 2 or 3 week curiosity turned into a 6 month adventure.

These are not hidden messages or new truths. Mark described the “triples” he found as specific truths, stated in the same way, usually in the same words and in 3 different places. They could be in the same chapter, in the same book or in the totality of the Bible.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is full of “triples”. So join Jim and Mark as they move through various portions of Scripture looking at some of them including:

--The 3 denials of Peter

--The 3 trials of Jesus

--The 3 proclamations of the crowd

--The 3 crosses

--3 days in the grave

--The “triple” of Christ’s victory over Satan, sin and death

--The “triple” of the world, the flesh and the Devil

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Air Date: March 25, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Keith Gibson

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Air Date: March 25, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Keith Gibson

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Reverend Keith Gibson has served in Christian ministry for more than 27 years. He is the founding pastor of Word of Life Community Church in Grandview, Missouri, and serves as the Kansas City Director for the Apologetics Resource Center. He is the author of the book, “Wandering Stars: Contending for the Faith with the New Apostles and Prophets”

Recent years have seen an explosion of independent ministries claiming apostolic and prophetic offices. These new apostles and prophets are claiming the Church must come under their authority and direction in order to fulfill her end-time purpose. New doctrines and practices are being introduced into the Church at an alarming rate. Reverend Gibson has examined the claims and doctrines of the new apostles and prophets in the light of Biblical revelation and offers a response for the discerning Christian.

Although individuals whose ministries may lay claim to apostolic and prophetic offices may also believe that they speak for God, what responsibility does Scripture place upon them for holding that view? Reverend Gibson pointed out that in Deuteronomy 18 we see that in order for someone to claim they speak for God, their words must come true. In Deuteronomy 13 we see that even if the words of the self-proclaimed prophet do come true, if that individual leads you follow a deity other than the God of Scripture, then God has allowed that person’s words to come true to test you to see if your heart is truly his.

Discussion regarding this topic moves to areas such as those drawn to esoteric experiences, the Seven Mountains Mandate, as well as individuals heading up the contemporary apostles/prophetic movement such as Todd Bentley, Rick Joyner, Mike Bickle and C. Peter Wagner.


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Air Date: March 22, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: March 22, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic Eliason was back in the chair as host of another news round-up edition of Crosstalk. Stories mentioned included:

--President Obama quotes Saul Alinsky in a speech as he encouraged young Israeli’s to
create change in their nation.
--White House map erases Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights as Israeli
territory.
--Hamas says that they are not terrorists; they just want to destroy Israel and want to be
dropped from the U.S. Senate Department list of foreign terrorist organizations.
--F.B.I. investigates a Chinese scientist who was arrested attempting to flee the U.S. with
information from N.A.S.A. labs.
--2.7 million dollars allocated to discover why lesbians have a higher risk for hazardous
drinking.
--California public school recommended reading list includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender friendly books.
--Florida professor tells students to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper and then
stomp on it. This man is a top official in the local Democratic party.
--Members of Congress are demanding that President Obama explain why the
Department of Homeland Security is stockpiling weapons, ammunition and armored
vehicles.
--Aurora, Colorado, shooter has decided that he’s a Muslim to justify his assault.

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Air Date: March 21, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Barbara Loe Fisher

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Air Date: March 21, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Barbara Loe Fisher

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Barbara Loe Fisher is the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a non profit organization she founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982. She has led a grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system. She is the author of “The Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines” and “Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic” and co-author of “DPT: A Shot in the Dark”.

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products just like prescription drugs and carry risks so you need to understand what you are purchasing so the decision involves product safety and your human and civil right to exercise voluntary informed consent to medical risk taking.

When children are born they are put on a rigorous vaccine schedule. That schedule is of concern to Barbara because today the Centers for Disease Control recommends that children receive 69 doses of 17 vaccines beginning on the day of birth through age 18. 49 of those doses are given between the day of birth and age 6. That’s three times as many vaccinations as children were given 30 years ago.

Barbara noted that she’s been watching the relationship between chronic disease and disability among children. Today, one in 6 children in America has learning disabilities. One in 9 has asthma. One in 50 are now autistic. One in 450 develop diabetes. One in 10 have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

She assured listeners that she’s not saying chronic disease in children is all due to vaccines. She’s concerned because an intervention consisting of increased vaccines is a manipulation of the immune systems of children. Since you have to have inflammation in order to initiate an antibody immune response, is it possible that a growing number of children are not able to physically deal with that inflammation, are becoming chronically inflamed and therefore becoming victims of chronic disease?

As this program moves along, Vic and Barbara discuss anthrax testing on children, the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine, maintaining religious exemptions and how you can stay informed on this important subject.


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Air Date: March 20, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brad Dacus

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Air Date: March 20, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brad Dacus

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Next week Tuesday, March 26th & Wednesday March 27th, the United States Supreme Court will hear two cases. The case of United States vs. Windsor pertains to the challenging of the Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.) and Hollingsworth vs. Perry is the case challenging California’s Proposition 8.

Discussing this with Jim was Brad Dacus, the president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other civil liberties. The Pacific Justice Institute has a network with hundreds of volunteer affiliate attorneys and handles more cases on the West Coast than any other organization of its kind.

Since the Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, there have been 18 lawsuits challenging it. It has made its way to the Supreme Court and there should be a decision in June. This case is important because it’s a question of maintaining the will of the people reflected through legislation and whether or not by this process a state can respect the institution of marriage and define it as their citizens deem necessary.

Prop 8 specifically addresses the ability of California to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Brad is cautiously optimistic that there are five votes on the court that will uphold both D.O.M.A. and the ability of states to define marriage as being between one man and one woman.

If the Supreme Court rules against D.O.M.A. and Prop 8, any state legislation that defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman will become invalid.

Your prayers are needed for the Supreme Court concerning this decision and you can get caught up on the legal specifics when you review this important edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: March 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Craig Rucker

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Air Date: March 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Craig Rucker

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Craig Rucker is co-founder and Executive Director of C-FACT. (Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow). He has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media and industry forums. He serves as co- host of CFACT’s daily radio commentary called, “Just the Facts” which airs daily on VCY America. He has written extensively on numerous environmental policy issues.

Is the earth warming up or not? Craig noted that since 1880 there has been about one-half to three-quarters of one degree Celsius of warming. Is this man-made or a natural phenomenon? CFACT believes this is within the range of natural variability and is nothing to be alarmed about.

One billboard that CFACT put up claimed that there has been no global warming for the past 16 years. A billboard from another campaign in New York showed that the population of polar bears has actually increased since the 1960’s. So why do we continue to hear of so many things that are attributed to global warming? Craig indicated that there are estimates showing that there is as much as 7 billion dollars of government grant money that’s given out annually for global research. Then there’s the fact that dramatic news stories of impending catastrophes tends to attract more readers/listeners/viewers than typical news stories.

CFACT goes to climate conferences and Craig explained that the tone of these meetings is such that they describe the earth as being on its last legs. These conferences have been taking place since 1992 and virtually all the climate models have proven to be false. Nonetheless, these conferences continue to promote energy restriction, carbon taxes and other things that would restrict freedom.

Craig fills listeners in on the Obama administration’s plans for carbon restrictions, the current state of affairs regarding the Keystone XL pipeline, the process of fracking and more.


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Air Date: March 18, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Trewhella

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Air Date: March 18, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Trewhella

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Matt Trewhella has been a leader in the pro-life movement and directs the ministry, Missionaries to the Preborn. Matt has been involved in hunting down and securing the first English Translation of The Magdeburg Confession dealing with the Lesser Magistrate Doctrine.

The Lesser Magistrate Doctrine states that when a higher or superior authority creates unjust or immoral laws, the lesser ranking civil authority has both the right and the duty before God to not only not obey but to actively resist such unjust laws.

The Magdeburg Confession, which was based upon the Lesser Magistrate Doctrine, was written in 1550 by the nine pastors of Magdeburg, Germany. When Luther died in 1546, Charles V, who had always wanted to crush the reformation, decided to finally take action and he introduced his Augsburg Interim in order to try and bring all the Christian states and Christian princes back under Roman Catholic authority.

Most of the empire went along with the Augsburg Interim except for the city of Magdeburg, Germany.

The confession was written in Latin, then translated into German and distributed as the printing press had been invented approximately 100 years earlier. Unfortunately it was never translated into English, although through the help of a librarian from Concordia University, Matt was able to secure a Latin original from 1550 from the Bavarian State Library in Germany. From there Matt was able to obtain the help of a Cornell University staff member with a PhD in Latin and Greek literature who did the translation work.

As the rule of law continues to deteriorate in America, is it possible that there are instances where the Lesser Magistrate Doctrine should be executed? Would this restore order or would it promote anarchy? Are there examples where we see the principle behind the doctrine already playing out? Find out as Matt and Vic analyze the historic roots and the possible contemporary applications of this little known confession.


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Air Date: March 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: March 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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This following are some of the stories mentioned on this news round-up edition of Crosstalk:

--House Speaker John Boehner will not include language to defund Obamacare in the
continuing resolution bill when it returns to the House.
--Nancy Pelosi would like to see a balanced budget in a number of decades.
--President Obama’s sequestration strategy appears to be a political ploy.
--Sequestration forces the Army, Marines and Air Force to halt their tuition assistance
programs.
--Under the Federal Housing Program, that helps about 100,000 American, homeless and
formerly homeless veterans will lose assistance due to the sequester.
--Obama administration admits they had released more than 2,000 illegal aliens from
immigration jails due to budget concerns in February.
--60,000 federal employees responsible for securing America’s borders and facilitating
trade to be furloughed as many as 14 days starting next month due to sequestration.
--The Obama administration to award 2.3 million dollars to 12 counties or cities in an
attempt to stop domestic violence before it turns deadly.
--The Obama White House is resigned to losing up to 36 billion dollars in military
hardware when they move out of Afghanistan.
--Representative John Conyers of Michigan says that our 16.7 trillion of debt is not
endangering the economy.
--Feds spend 1.5 million to study why three-fourths of lesbians are fat.
--Obama wants to double the U.S. quota subscription in the International Monetary Fund.
--3 leading House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats are calling for an
oversight hearing on the FCC’s Lifeline Program.
--The trial for infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell begins Monday.
--Operation Rescue says competency of Planned Parenthood’s training program is
questioned after a rash of botched abortions.
--40% of all pregnancies in New York City still end in abortion.
--Students from Hunter College in New York City gathered to play a game called
abortion battles.
--72 member of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter to the Government Accountability
Office asking for updated detailed information about government grants to Planned
Parenthood.
--The Obama presidential campaign held an event for campaign volunteers at an abortion
clinic in Iowa.
--Due to the number of Italian obstetricians/gynecologists opting out of abortion activity
in recent years, some are calling for restrictions on the right of conscience objection by
physicians in order to protect the right for women to obtain abortions.
--Government funded mortality study raises concerns about health care rationing under
Obamacare.
--Applying for benefits under Obama’s healthcare overhaul could be as daunting as doing
your taxes.
--The founder of Dominos Pizza has won his bid for a court order to prevent enforcement
of the H.H.S.mandate that forces religious employers to purchase drugs that cause
abortion.
--Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman announced yesterday that he now supports gay
marriage because one of his sons is gay.
--Boy Scouts of America send questionnaire to find out how their members feels about
issues such as homosexuality, gays camping with children and gays in church
leadership.
--Supreme Court to hear challenges to D.O.M.A. and California’s Prop 8 on March 26th.
--Former President Bill Clinton calling for D.O.M.A. to be overturned.
--Many of the nation’s most prominent businesses have filed a brief in favor of same-sex
marriage arguing that Prop 8 is detrimental to California businesses. Some of the
companies that signed on include Apple, Facebook, E-Bay, Google, Intel, Johnson &
Johnson, Levi-Straus, Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks.
--Homosexual activists in Minnesota are pushing for a strong anti-bullying act that could
have a chilling affect on free speech especially in religious schools that teach Christian
beliefs on sexuality.
--A Californian lawmaker introduces legislation that calls for guaranteeing transgender
students the right to use public rest rooms and participate on the sports teams that
correspond with their expressed genders.
--New Mexico photographer forced to pay more than $6,600 for declining to take pictures
of a same-sex commitment ceremony because of her Christian beliefs.
--Mixed martial arts fighter changes sex.
--A 24 year old man living as a woman sues California Baptist University for $500,000
after the school expelled him for lying on his application.
--Chicago schools requiring sex education for Kindergartners beginning in 2015.

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Air Date: March 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: March 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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David Rubin is the author of 3 books including his brand new book, “Peace for Peace: Israel in the New Middle East”. He is the former mayor of Shiloh, Israel, and is the Founder and President of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund which deals with the trauma of terror victim children.

President Obama is heading to Israel next week. Because the president is in his second term, David believes the president feels he can do almost whatever he wants on foreign policy now that he doesn’t have to “look over his shoulder” at voters and donors. He expects President Obama to stroke the Israeli public and try to get them on his side regarding a two-state solution that includes an independent Palestinian state within Israel.

Secretary of State John Kerry has said that President Obama is not bringing a peace plan with him but David disagrees. David noted that President Obama’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be a “touchy-feely” affair but the private discussion will be intense with President Obama putting pressure upon Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria otherwise known as the West Bank.

David briefly described his “Peace for Peace” plan that begins with non-negotiable recognition that the land of Israel belongs to the state of Israel and includes the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. He also discussed what appears to be the narrowing window of opportunity for stopping Iran’s nuclear military aspirations and Israel’s relationship with Egypt and Syria.


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Air Date: March 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Hammond

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Air Date: March 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Hammond

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Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there’s been a concerted effort on the state and national level to institute gun control.

To discuss this topic, Crosstalk welcomed Mike Hammond. Mike has spent the better part of his career in government service. He has been a legislative counsel to Senators Bob Smith, Gordon Humphrey, Jesse Helms and Steve Symms. Mr. Hammond was a member of the Department of Education transition team and the Department of Justice Transition team. From 1977–1989 he served as General Counsel to the United States U.S. Senate Steering Committee. He presently serves as a political consultant and writer, as well as General Counsel for the Gun Owners of America.

According to Mike, within the next four weeks, history will be made as President Obama stakes his legacy on being able to break the back of the gun lobby or we will teach him the lesson that our constitutional rights transcend his legacy.

Tomorrow it’s estimated that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote out the Feinstein gun bill, a bill that would ban most semi-automatic weapons. How does he know this? Mike believes it’s a “red herring” or “throw away” bill that will cause some Democrats to vote against it, making it appear as though they support the 2nd Amendment while these same legislators will then vote for other types of gun control legislation.

On the state level, Colorado has implemented a universal gun registry while demanding that gun owners pay for their own background checks. Also, a Florida legislator wants ammunition buyers to take an anger management program consisting of online or face-to-face instruction that must be repeated every 10 years.

On the other side of the equation, some states are enacting legislation to empower citizens. For example Arkansas is moving to legalize the carrying of a firearm in a church. In South Dakota and Oklahoma they are enacting legislation to allow school staff members to carry firearms in schools.

Would examination via universal background checks lead to registration, to investigation, to confiscation and then to tyranny? You connect the dots and make up your own mind when you hear the other anti-2nd Amendment related efforts discussed on this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: March 12, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerry Bergman

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Air Date: March 12, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerry Bergman

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Dr. Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology and microbiology at the college and university level for over 40 years. He has over 900 science publications to his credit, in twelve languages. He has published 30 books and monographs and been a consultant for over 20 science textbooks. He appeared on Crosstalk to discuss his latest book, "Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview". It is subtitled, "How the Nazi Eugenic Crusade for a superior race caused the greatest holocaust in world history."

Can someone just write Dr. Bergman off as an individual who has created a "straw-man" argument because he links a Darwinian worldview to Hitler? The answer to this is an emphatic "no" because Dr. Bergman's book, which has over 1,000 footnotes, was based upon his personal work in examining the writings of Adolph Hitler and his close associates.

In addition, Dr. Bergman also pointed listeners to the book, "Deadly Medicine" put out by the World Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It documents the relationship between Darwinism, the holocaust and World War II.

Dr. Bergman carefully noted that Hitler's idea of a master race came indirectly from Darwin; that we have no evidence that he read Darwin's works which may have been due to the fact that they were in English and Darwin was British. Clearly, however, the idea came from scientists within Germany such as Ernst Haeckel who relied upon Darwin.

Darwinists were not overt racists; however, they clearly held the idea that some races were superior to others which is the basis for evolution. As Dr. Bergman noted, if all races were equal there’d be nothing for evolution to select from.

This fascinating program delves into Hitler's eugenics goals; what triggered his anti-Semitic attitudes; his leading scientists; the connection between social Darwinism and government sponsored mass murder; Nazism as applied evolution; the content of Germany's biology textbooks and more.


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Air Date: March 11, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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Air Date: March 11, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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The conclave to elect the next pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church is set to begin tomorrow. At the same time there is talk of scandal within the church as well as debate over what type of pope should be elected.

Actually, before a person delves into those issues, one must ask about the doctrines and teachings of Catholicism to find out whether or not people are being led astray.

To answer that important question, Crosstalk brought in Mike Gendron. For over 30 years, Mike was a devout Roman Catholic and a strong defender of the "one true church." He was taught from a very early age, to trust and rely on the church, its priests, the sacraments and his own good works for salvation. However in 1981 while attending an evangelical seminar, he realized the Bible is the supreme authority for knowing truth. Mike soon discovered that many of the teachings and traditions of the Catholic religion were not found in the Bible. After more study he discovered the Roman Catholic plan of salvation was diametrically opposed to the Gospel of grace that is revealed in the Bible. Mike left the Catholic Church in 1985 for a church where the true Gospel is proclaimed and the Scriptures are the final authority in all matters of faith. He leads a ministry called “Proclaiming the Gospel.”

Mike joined Jim Schneider to discuss numerous aspects of Catholicism including the following:

--What is a “conclave” and what takes place there?

--Why do Catholics believe their bishops are successors to the apostles?

----Catholic officials talk about the influence of the Holy Spirit in relation to the decision making process for finding a new pope, but will the cardinals actually be using God’s Word to see who is qualified for the position?

--What are some of the contrasts between what Peter taught and what Catholicism taught through Pope Benedict?

The answers to these questions are just a sample of what you can learn and discuss with your Catholic friends and acquaintances.


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Air Date: March 8, 2013

Speaker: Paul Washer

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Air Date: March 8, 2013

Speaker: Paul Washer

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This Crosstalk features Paul Washer. Paul originally became a missionary to Peru where he founded the Heartcry Missionary Society. Today he works at his home church in Alabama, but he also speaks periodically in other locations, as he did in February, 2008 at a VCY America rally.

The broadcast begins with Paul discussing how the gospel has been reduced to a number of simple questions which include: Do you know you are a sinner? Would you like to go to heaven? Would you like to pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart? If the respondent prays that prayer, we then ask if he/she was sincere. If the respondent answers "yes" to these questions, we declare the individual to be "born again."

Paul points out how this is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, "...and that methodology and evangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined."

This is just the beginning, as he expounds on other aspects of the true gospel. For example, there's the importance of the need for preaching on sin so that people see the contrast of where they stand eternally in the light of God's perfection. From there, he moves on to explain the concepts of justification, grace, and propitiation.

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Air Date: March 7, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Chelsea Schilling

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Air Date: March 7, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Chelsea Schilling

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Chelsea Schilling is a commentary editor and staff writer for WND. She is also an editor of Jerome Corsi’s “Red Alert” and is a U.S. Army veteran. She has also worked as a news producer at USA Radio Network and as a news reporter for the Sacramento Union

The Transportation Security Administration was formed after 9/11. It used to come under the authority of the Department of Transportation but now operates under the banner of Homeland Security. Their screeners or “officers” who pat you down in airports have no arresting authority or federal law enforcement training. In fact, Chelsea told listeners that they don’t even have to have a G.E.D. or high school diploma if they have x-ray experience. In short, they have authority similar to that of a mall cop.

Unfortunately it gets worse. Although they are responsible for looking at your check bags, Chelsea reported that some TSA screeners have stolen money, iPads and even pain killers. Other reports include TSA agents who have been guilty of assault, assisting drug traffickers and even smuggling marijuana.

The TSA claims it’s not under the authority of Congress. So what’s the answer? Chelsea believes the answer is to privatize the system and give TSA officers law enforcement training so that the flying public can be treated like customers rather than suspects.


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Air Date: March 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Floyd Brown

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Air Date: March 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Floyd Brown

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Floyd Brown is a political innovator, media commentator, writer and speaker. He is the chairman of the Western Center for Journalism. He was involved in launching the impeachment movement against former President Clinton and has organized many national campaigns including the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. He is the author of the book: Obama’s Enemies List: How Barack Obama Intimidated America and Stole the Election.

Bob Woodward is a fixture of the Washington media scene who became well known for his Washington Post coverage of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon. With the sequester happening he accused the Obama administration of “moving the goalposts” because at first the budget battle was about spending cuts. The Republicans gave President Obama one tax increase and now he wants another one while ignoring the spending questions.

In an e-mail, Woodward was told by a White House official named Gene Sperling that he would regret taking the position as he had been reporting it. Woodward felt that he was being intimidated.

This is an example of how the reporting landscape has changed over the past 30 years. As news corporations have come under financial pressure, they have gutted or retired the top level of its newsrooms. So now Floyd feels the reporters are junior people in their 20’s and 30’s and their lack of life experience and viewpoint can make them more susceptible to intimidation.

On March 21st, Congress will take their Easter recess. According to Floyd, if they don’t have a continuing resolution by that time, the sequester will be nothing because they won’t have budgetary authority for most of the major agencies.

In 2013 the federal government will have more money than it’s ever had in its entire history, an amount that increases each year. The problem is, they can’t seem to live within this ever growing amount. As Floyd noted, nothing’s really being cut. All politicians are doing is slowing the rate of growth yet in Washington they call this a budget cut. When a business commits to making budget cuts, they try to make cuts that won’t impact their customers. President Obama, on the other hand, seems bent on making Americans (his customers) miserable with threats of negative budget consequences so that we will vote out the current Republican Congress.

Would it be an exaggeration to say that the secular media has become a branch of the White House due to Obama’s Chicago style presidency? Get the answers as Floyd Brown gives you an inside look at Washington; the kind of view you can only get from Crosstalk.


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Air Date: March 5, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: March 5, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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This Crosstalk takes a look at one aspect of American societal change that is throwing us into a downward moral spiral. This societal change is being fueled in part by the Obama administration as they promote the LGBT agenda. For example:

--President Obama last week urged the Supreme Court to overturn California’s same-sex marriage ban. It marked the first time a U.S. president has urged the Supreme Court to expand the rights of gays and lesbians to wed. If adopted by the court, it will likely result in homosexual marriage becoming legal in 7 other states. Oral arguments will take place on March 26th.

--In a brief challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Obama Department of Justice argued that children have no need or right to mothers.

--Jim played audio from President Obama regarding Proposition 8 indicating that he believes the nation as a whole has gone through the same evolution he has in now supporting same-sex marriage.

--Last Thursday the House joined the Senate passing the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. It has been expanded to protect LGBT individuals.

--The State Department launches a new website/travel service for the LGBT community.


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Air Date: March 4, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: March 4, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk with news that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will vote tomorrow on the nomination of John Brennan to head our nation’s Central Intelligence Agency. If confirmed, he will be the most pro-Islam director to ever head the agency.


Christians have become drawn to social networking Internet sites like Facebook and Twitter but what kind of witness for Christ are non-believers seeing? Unfortunately, these social networking outlets are bringing out or causing many professing Christians to exhibit behavior we might not normally see from them; behaviors such as gossip, idolatry, glorification of self and poor time management. In essence, these sites can become so all-consuming that even Christian users can literally find themselves living in a virtual world.

If you participate in social networking, what kind of safeguards do you have in place for yourself? Do you monitor what your children send out on these sites? These are just two considerations that Jim presented as challenges to listeners as they responded to the question of whether Christians can show themselves as faithful when using social media.


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Air Date: March 1, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. John Ashton

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Air Date: March 1, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. John Ashton

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Dr. John Ashton is Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia and Adjunct Professor of Applied Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Dr. Ashton is a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a former Honorary Associate in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. He also served as editor of three books related to science and faith issues including the book, In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation. He appeared on Crosstalk to speak about his new book, Evolution Impossible: 12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth.

According to Dr. Ashton, changes or mutations to DNA can happen when there is a loss of some of the code or the code is damaged or if the code has new components added to it. No scientist has ever seen the substantial amounts of new code forming that would be required to prove the existence of evolution.

In other words, many scientists don’t have any solid evidence that proves the existence of evolution yet they continue to propagate the manufactured assertion that evolution is a real phenomenon.

Some of the things you’ll learn on this Crosstalk include:

--The fossil record is evidence of extinction, not evolution.
--How radiometric dating often gives different results on the same rocks depending upon
the method used.
--Could the “Big Bang” have ever happened?
--Is there solid evidence that supports the idea of a global flood?
--What is the difference between a scientific law and a scientific theory?


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Air Date: February 28, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: February 28, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic discussed several current events that should be of concern to American citizens, and to people of faith. Among them:

• The historic resignation of Pope Benedict which went into effect today


• The annual Government Accounting Office audit of United States’ finances concludes that unless there are policy changes, the current fiscal path is unsustainable, and will result in the collapse of the dollar.


• Several government agencies—including the Social Security Administration— are reported to be purchasing millions of round of ammunition.


• Military exercises—often unannounced—which are so realistic they frighten citizens and generate 911 calls that activate local emergency responders


• Statements by conservative talk show hosts that show concern that the government may be preparing for expected civil unrest should there be a total collapse of the economy


• The Obama administration’s release of hundreds, or even thousands, of illegal alien criminals from detention centers, ostensibly because of expected budget cuts should the “sequester” go into effect—an act some charge is an impeachable offense


• And now just before the “sequester” is due to take place, the Obama administration admits that the results will not be nearly as serious as has been threatened in recent days by the same administration.

Listener calls on these and other topics filled most of the program.

Also announced was a new email alert system, called the “VCY America iNetwork” Emergency Alert Information Newsletter. Subscribers will receive occasional email alerts, but no commercial mailings, and the list will never be shared with any other entity. Users can subscribe or unsubscribe at any time.

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Air Date: February 27, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Robert Morgan

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Air Date: February 27, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan is a pastor and author of several books including the newly released book, Then Sings My Soul—Volume #3.

Pastor Morgan believes hymns are important to the Christian faith because they represent 2,000 years of our musical and worshipful heritage and 1,500 years of biblical heritage. All totaled, it’s a legacy of 3,500 years of hymnody that’s often ignored in churches and this ignoring puts us in danger of losing this great tradition that helps anchor our faith.

This ignorance of the great hymns of the faith is ironic when you realize that in our computer era we have greater access to these treasures than any other time in history.

Pastor Morgan presents the history behind hymns such as “The Old Rugged Cross”, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” and “How Great Thou Art”. You’ll also learn what the earliest hymn is in Christian history along with the title of the most famous children’s hymn.

This program originally aired April 5, 2012.

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Air Date: February 26, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Air Date: February 26, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Brian Camenker is President of Mass Resistance, a pro-family action center based in the State of Massachusettes.

The slippery slope started with a word like tolerance. We were told we just need to tolerate the homosexual lifestyle. This new tolerance was promoted in schools. Then we saw a push toward domestic partnerships and civil unions, but this just became a stepping stone for what is being called "same-sex marriage".

Join Brian and Jim as they discuss how this has impacted the education system, entertainment and corporate America and government.

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Air Date: February 25, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Air Date: February 25, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Phyllis Schlafly is the President & Founder of Eagle Forum. She's been a leader of the conservative movement for over four decades. She is an author or editor of some 20 books including, "No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom"

Join Vic Eliason and Phyllis Schlafly as they discuss the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense; how Mr. Hagel may have converted to Islam; When the Senate is set to vote; and whether or not the filibuster that blocked the last vote will hold together or fall apart.

A group of 15 Republicans have urged President Obama to withdraw his nomination, but Jay Carney, spokesman of the white house says, "Absolutely not" and further went on to say that the Republican opposition was just political "posturing" and "gamesmanship" calling it a "waste of time".

Make sure to tune in to this Crosstalk to stay informed on this information of great consequence to the country!

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Air Date: February 22, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: February 22, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider brought many news stories to the attention of listeners and asked for comments. The stories included:

--American government agencies made a record 13,753 requests to read e-mails or gather
other information sent through Google’s “g-mail” and other services in 2012, more than
half without warrants.
--According to Arnie Duncan of the Department of Education, if the sequester goes into
effect on March 1, 70,000 children could be kicked out of the “Head Start” program.
--A majority of states have opted to let the deadline to form state insurance exchanges
pass.
--Last Friday President Obama recognized the recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens
Medal and one of them was the founder of PFLAG.
--Leon Panetta has unilaterally issued a directive stating that the U.S. military will now
extend certain benefits to unmarried domestic partners but only if they certify in writing
to the Defense Department that they are of the same sex.
--Rufus Gifford, former Democratic National Committee Finance Chair, is said to be the
leading candidate for ambassador to Denmark.
--Mormon John Huntsman, former governor of Utah, has recently spoken out in favor of
same-sex marriage.
--Lawyers challenging California’s Prop 8 urge Supreme Court to rule broadly that gays
and lesbians deserve an equal right to marry.
--New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is working on legislation to allow women to
receive late-term abortions.
--Formal complaint filed with the Maryland Board of Physicians against the medical
license of late term abortionist LeRoy Carhart in the death of Jennifer Morbelli, a 29
year old Kindergarten teacher, who died after having her 33 week pregnancy
terminated.
--Judge grants injunction to pregnant Houston teenager who sued her parents to stop them
from forcing her to have an abortion.
--Planned Parenthood announces 2 clinic closures in the state of Iowa.
--Colorado woman files suit after being forced to undergo an abortion without anesthesia
and then was discovered to still have part of the fetus in her body.
--Robert Alexander, the abortionist whose clinic was shut down as a threat to public
health, is now working at a public STD clinic in Detroit.
--Hobby Lobby continues to fight President Obama’s HHS mandate.
--Affordable Healthcare Act affecting W-2 forms.
--Duncan Brands looking to overturn another major provision of Obamacare.
--China suspected of hacking key U.S. targets.
--Ohio poll worker target of investigation for allegedly voting up to six times.
--The Obama administration pressures Colorado to implement gun ownership restrictions.
--Bill introduced in New York would require one-million dollars of liability insurance for
gun ownership.
--Chicago police superintendent said that gun owners who lobby their representatives or
who give money to political campaigns for pro 2nd Amendment issues are guilty of
corruption and of endangering public safety.
--Study from the Department of Justice research wing has the feds admitting that so-
called “assault weapons” are not a major contributor to gun crime.
--The number of Americans purchasing guns up significantly since President Obama took
office.
--Tustin, California, shooter was a video game playing loner.
--John Kerry says that looming sequestration cuts will reduce the State Department’s
fiscal year 2013 budget by 2.6 billion dollars and could affect sensitive areas.
--John Kerry tells students and faculty at the University of Virginia to be ready to join
him and President Obama in curbing the potential threat of climate change.
--Kansas State Board of Education to rule on new science standards.
--People protesting in Washington regarding the Keystone XL pipeline show support for
population control.
--New Jersey authorities alleged that a Muslim ban beheaded two Coptic Christians.
--Spain agrees that Moroccan children adopted by Spanish families must remain
culturally and religiously Muslim until the age of 18.
--The Al Jazeera cable news network has big plans for its American division.
--The executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution
encouraging the Boy Scouts to not change their policy banning openly gay members.
--SB-323 in California determines to revoke the tax exempt status for a range of youth
groups unless they agree to abandon any criteria related to gender identity, sexual
orientation, religion and other categories.

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Air Date: February 21, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bill Wilson

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Air Date: February 21, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bill Wilson

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Bill Wilson is the president of Americans for Limited Government. Their organization identifies, exposes and works with Congress and state legislatures to prevent the continued expansion of government.

From the beginning of the U.S. to the year 2000, we amassed a debt of about 5.5 trillion dollars. In the 8 years from 2001-2009, President Bush nearly doubled the debt and in the last 4 years under President Obama, we’ve gone from 10 trillion to 16 trillion in debt.

Back in August of 2011, Congress was debating over whether to raise the debt ceiling. President Obama asked for an additional 2.1 trillion in spending authority which created considerable opposition. The impasse was broken by a three-step plan that the president signed into law called the “sequester.” It was decided that a couple of months would be taken to work out a deal and if one couldn’t be worked out, on January 1 of 2013, there would be automatic spending cuts that would total 1.2 trillion over 10 years. (The sequester has been given a 2 month reprieve with across-the-board cuts set to begin March 1.) Half would be in defense and the other half in non-defense parts of government. Under this plan, Social Security and Medicaid were given an exemption but not Medicare for senior citizens.

According to Bill, the thought was that the cuts would seem so Draconian that the politicians would eventually agree to a deal. Unfortunately they’ve been unable to find a middle-ground position on how to deal with the out-of-control spending and the result is that the sequester is still a near future reality.

Should the sequester be allowed to take place, will the sky fall down around us? Does Congress have the courage to make the cuts necessary to get our nation’s financial balance sheet in order? Let Bill and Jim sort out the details for you when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


More Information:

www.getliberty.org

Capitol Hill Switchboard numbers:
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Air Date: February 20, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Ferris

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Air Date: February 20, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Ferris

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Michael Ferris is the Founder and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He is also the Chancellor of Patrick Henry College.

This Crosstalk details the case of the Romeike family of Germany, a home schooling family seeking permanent asylum status in the U.S. and the implications this case may have on home schooling families throughout our nation.

The Romeike family went to German authorities to let them know of their desire to home school their children and the government came at them with the full force of the law via threats of fines and criminal prosecution. When the family persisted in the face of this persecution, a caravan of armed officers came to pick up the children and forcibly take them to the public schools.

Eventually the Romeike’s came to the U.S. on a regular tourist application but as soon as they arrived they applied for asylum. The first judge ruled in their favor but the Obama administration appealed that decision to a higher immigration board. That board agreed with the administration which led the H.S.L.D.A. to appeal this decision on behalf of the family. The case now resides with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the U.S.


More Information:

www.hslda.org

Attorney General’s Office—Comment Line
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Parental Rights Amendment
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Air Date: February 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Valerie Huber

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Air Date: February 19, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Valerie Huber

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Valerie Huber is the Executive Director of the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA), a Washington, D.C.-based professional association in support of abstinence education as the optimal strategy for teen sexual health. Valerie previously served as the Title V Abstinence Education Coordinator for the state of Ohio where she provided oversight and grant awards to community abstinence programs serving more than 100,000 students per year as part of the Ohio Department of Health. She also founded and directed a non-profit organization in support of character building and abstinence education during the late 1990’s that served all school districts in two counties of Ohio.
Jim summarized a Centers for Disease Control (C.D.C.) report released last Wednesday that places the current number of sexually transmitted infections at 110 million in the U.S. Some 20 million new cases are diagnosed each year costing taxpayers approximately 16 billion dollars. Those between the ages of 15-24 are disproportionately affected by the epidemic accounting for half of all infections despite comprising only one-fourth of the sexually active population.

Valerie pointed to the fact that today sex among teens has been normalized. In fact, some who oppose abstinence education believe that teen experimentation is a healthy aspect of teen maturation therefore abstinence education is harmful.

The result? While the numbers above show infections are infecting about 1 in 3 people across the population as a whole, Valerie mentioned another C.D.C. report from about 4 years ago indicating that 1 in 4 teen girls has at least 1 STD. In African American teen girls it’s 1 in 2. This proves that among teens, this epidemic is exploding.

Valerie also described the legislative climate regarding this issue beginning with the Bush administration. In 2008 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did the first comprehensive review of where federal dollars were going for sex education. President Bush wanted to bring parity between contraceptive based sex education and abstinence education. When he took office there was an 8-1 disparity and he was able to reduce that to a 4-1 disparity, meaning that for every 4 dollars spent on contraceptive based sex education, 1 dollar was spent on abstinence based education.

As soon as President Obama took office, the first budget he sent to Congress eliminated all funding for abstinence based education. Even though the N.A.E.A. worked hard on Capitol Hill to bring some parity back, the ratio is still 16 to 1 in favor of contraceptive based sex education, the most lopsided sex education initiative America has had in modern times.

In response, a bipartisan team from Illinois introduced the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act (HR-718) which, for the first time in modern history, seeks to establish some parity between the two approaches, putting a strong emphasis on abstinence based sex education.


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To express your views regarding the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act (HR-718), contact your member of Congress through the House Switchboard at 202-225-3121.

The National Abstinence Education Association
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Air Date: February 18, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ted Shoebat

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Air Date: February 18, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ted Shoebat

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Ted Shoebat is the son of Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist. At age 16, Ted released his first book, “In Satan’s Footsteps” which has been followed up with, ‘For God or For Tyranny”. Ted has been a student of the worldviews presented by socialism, liberalism, Islamism, communism and how tyranny works.

Ted began by noting that President Obama doesn’t want Americans to have semi-automatic and automatic weapons. At the same time he’s shipping heavy weapons, such as machine guns, indirectly to jihadists by selling them first to the Saudi Arabs, knowing that they will give them to jihadists because the Saudi’s want the revolution in Syria to succeed.

This is just one of a number of factors related to the gradual building of a nation of Islam in the Middle East. Related to this is information Ted presented regarding the late Christopher Stevens who was working with the rebel groups in Syria, how the Syrian revolution is affecting Israel, details surrounding freelance American journalist Austin Tice, the vetting of John Brennan for C.I.A. director and more.


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Air Date: February 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: February 15, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider hosted this Crosstalk that featured news items that spanned the globe. Some of the stories included:

--Arlington National Cemetery is being told to recognize gay partners as being married.
--Representative Tom Harkins says we don’t have a spending problem. He claims we
have a misallocation of wealth/capital problem.
--Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Hillary Clinton inspired his decision to
allow women in combat.
--Rahm Emanuel is said to be considering a run for president if Hillary Clinton decides
not to run in 2016.
--Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg says the Texas law that’s at the heart of the
Roe v. Wade decision was the most extreme law in the nation.
--The F.B.I.’s former top expert on Islam announced that President Obama’s pick to
head the Central Intelligence Agency converted to Islam years ago in Saudi Arabia.
--Harry Reid calls for expedited vote regarding Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
--A.C.L.J. reports that Hagel is anti-Israel.
--North Korea conducts its third nuclear missile test.
--Iceland considering introducing Internet filters to prevent citizens from downloading
pornography.
--No exams on Wiccan and other pagan holidays at the University of Missouri.
--On Valentine’s Day the Illinois Senate approved legislation that if passed by the House
would create same-sex marriage in the state.
--Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of
ammunition in the next 4-5 years for law enforcement in training and on duty.
--France’s lower House of Parliament approves a bill to legalize gay marriage and allow
same-sex couples to adopt children.
--U.K. police officers to attend course teaching them to ask transgenders whether they
want to be known as a man or a woman.
--Hundreds or possibly thousands of patients said to have died from lack of care in
British hospitals.
--New Japan finance minister causes controversy with death comment regarding the
elderly.
--Texas bill (SB-303) would allow doctors to impose “do not resuscitate” orders on
patients even if doing so would violate the patient’s express wishes.
--White House not saying where President Obama was, what he did or who he spoke to
between 5:30pm and 11:26pm on September 11th, 2012, while the Benghazi attacks
were taking place
--New Secretary of State John Kerry took a larger detail of security agents on a trip to
Arlington, Virginia, last week than the State Department employed to its compound in
Benghazi, Libya, in the days leading up to last September’s terrorist attack.
--Judicial Watch released U.S.D.A. videos of compulsory cultural sensitivity training
requiring employees to chant in unison, “The Pilgrims were illegal aliens.”
--Since taking office in 2009, food stamp roles under President Obama swell to over 47
million people which exceeds the population of the nation of Spain.
--New York hospital changes procedures so that pro-life medical personnel no longer
have to violate their beliefs when it comes to abortion.
--Pro-abortion Senator Frank Lautenberg from New Jersey will not be seeking reelection
in 2014.
--Parents of a Texas teenager are being sued by their 16 year old daughter who wants to
keep her baby.


More Information

To contact Illinois legislators regarding their same-sex marriage legislation (SB-10) call:

Barbara Flynn Currie—Majority Leader
217-782-8121

Timothy Schmitz—Republican spokesperson
217-782-5457

Lou Lang
217-782-1252

David Leitch
217-782-8108

Frank Mautino
217-782-0140

House Speaker’s Office
217-782-5350

Minority Leader
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Air Date: February 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Air Date: February 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Cheryl Sullenger

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Cheryl Sullenger is the Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue.

Jim opened this Crosstalk by explaining the following: If a Kindergarten teacher were killed by a gunman it would be the top story on news outlets across America. Night after night the networks would be doing follow-up stories, the print media would be involved and certain congressional offices would be putting out press releases. The President might even get involved as he addresses the nation about another senseless killing, probably telling us why we need tougher gun control laws.

What if the killing occurred, not because of a gunman, but because she was the victim of a botched abortion?

This Crosstalk describes the circumstances that led to the February 7th death of 29 year old Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, a Kindergarten teacher from New Rochelle, New York, who is alleged to have died due to internal bleeding after having an abortion. No massive media coverage, no congressional press releases and no comments from President Obama. The only thing the public is hearing on this matter from the major media is silence.

Cheryl reported that Jennifer went to Germantown, Maryland, to obtain an abortion during the 33rd week of her pregnancy as she was told by one of her doctors that her baby had some abnormalities. This was a desired pregnancy; nonetheless she was encouraged to see LeRoy Carhart who would be performing the abortion.

On the last day of the multi-day process she delivered her baby but developed complications that led to her death in spite of her being admitted to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. Carhart, in the meantime, had left town.

Also discussed was the connection between Carhart and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, illegal dumping practices, as well as details surrounding the death of Tonya Reaves who died last July of abortion related complications.


More Information:

www.operationrescue.org

To call Shady Grove Hospital and request that legal action be taken against the abortion doctor LeRoy Carhart, dial (240)826-6000

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Air Date: February 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Knight

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Air Date: February 13, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Knight

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Robert Knight is an ACRU Senior Fellow (that’s American Civil Rights Union). He has been a journalist for 17 years including 7 as an editor and writer with the Los Angeles Times. He holds both a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Political Science. He has held senior positions with the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, Media Research Center and Coral Ridge Ministries. He has authored 3 books and written hundreds of reports, papers and articles.

Robert began by noting how President Obama’s state of the union address was a “laundry list for the political left of this country”—more government, more intrusion, higher taxes, more attacks on the moral order, more attacks on our economy and more restrictions on energy.

Jim also presented an interesting quote from the President: “So together we have cleared away the rubble of crisis and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.”

Robert disagreed and reminded listeners that unemployment remains at around 8%. Government spending is out of control with a deficit of 16 trillion dollars and the interest on the national debt alone set to consume about 500 billion per year. In spite of this, President Obama asked for a number of new government programs in his speech while at the same time claiming these new programs won’t increase the deficit.

Jim and Robert discuss other aspects of President Obama’s list like universal preschool; use of executive orders; energy policy; the minimum wage; the gay agenda, especially in the military; voting issues; gun control and also the concerns of Crosstalk listeners.


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Air Date: February 12, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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Air Date: February 12, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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Mike Gendron was a devout Roman Catholic for 34 years. He began reading the Bible and recognized that the plan of salvation that he had been taught was diametrically opposed to that found in the Bible. He had to decide whether he was willing to stake his eternal destiny upon the teachings and traditions of his religion or on Christ and His word. God granted Mike the ability to believe the gift of faith, granted him repentance and from that point on he no longer trusted in what he was doing to save himself but put all his trust and hope in Jesus Christ. Eventually Mike left the corporate world and is now the founder and director of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministry.

Yesterday mainstream media outlets began reporting that the current Roman Catholic Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, would be retiring at the end of this month, something that hasn’t been done in nearly 600 years. Mike noted that Pope Benedict has been an embattled Pope and that this, along with his deteriorating health, may be why he has chosen to step down.

Mike comments on numerous aspects of this decision including: The cardinals that meet in a secret conclave to chose the new Pope; the geographic shift of the Roman Catholic population around the world; the leading candidates to become the new Pope; why Matthew 16:18 does not reveal the Apostle Peter as the first Pope; manmade unity vs. biblical unity and more.


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To obtain a copy of the DVD, Prophecy and the Pope (available at the special price of $10 until February 28th.), call 972-495-0485 or go to www.proclaimingthegospel.org.

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Air Date: February 11, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. E. Calvin Beisner

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Air Date: February 11, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. E. Calvin Beisner

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Dr. E. Calvin Beisner is the founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. He has published over 10 books and written hundreds of articles.

True or false: Storms such as the one that recently dumped significant amounts of snow on a large portion of the eastern U.S. as well as super-storm Sandy were historically unprecedented. The answer: False.

While you might be tempted to view recent storms as having been fueled, at least in part, by global warming; caution must be taken. This is because Dr. Beisner noted that there is nothing historically unprecedented about either the rate or the magnitude of any global warming that’s taken place in the last 150 years. The fear that’s being propagated now is only due to significant warming that occurred from about 1980 to 1997, a period of about 17 years. Since 1997 we’ve had 16 straight years of no statistically significant global warming. In spite of the fact that these two periods are nearly identical n terms of time, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (the alleged “main ingredient” of global warming) has continued to rise even faster than it did during the 17 year period of warming. This proves that global warming and climate change are not a threat but merely part of a natural cycle.

It’s unfortunate that President Obama added to the pool of false information recently when he mentioned global climate change in his inaugural address and Al Gore resurfaced recently when he commented on coal pollution. Dr. Beisner analyzes those remarks and brings a balanced, biblical perspective to this controversial issue.


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Air Date: February 8, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: February 8, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider cleared the news desk for another news round-up edition of Crosstalk. Headlines mentioned included:

--A massive winter storm continues to pummel the eastern U.S.
--L.A. police continue the manhunt for former police officer Christopher Dorner, suspected of killing 3 and injuring 2.
--In a Washington, D.C. courtroom, Floyd Lee Corkins pleaded guilty to three charges associated with the shooting of a security guard at the national headquarters of the Family Research Council. He admitted he identified his targets on the Southern Policy Law Center website.
--Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told senators that President Obama was absent the night that U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans were killed in Benghazi on September 11th of last year.
--Senator Lindsey Graham vows to hold President Obama accountable for his leadership on Benghazi.
--Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blames the Bush administration for the lack of funding to secure the Benghazi embassy.
--A report from the Social Security Administrator found 4,317 instances where a non-citizen was able to obtain 2 Social Security numbers.
--A “think tank” with close ties to the White House is outlining a plan to provide preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds.
--Owners and makers of assault style weapons could soon be held legally liable in Colorado for crimes committed with their guns if sponsors of a new gun control package get their way.
--The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing to examine the itemized deduction for charitable contributions.
--The Secret Service confirms that they are investigating reports regarding a hacker that has broken in to e-mail accounts of Bush family members.
--Connecticut state officials are looking to require confidential behavioral health assessments of every public school student in grades 6,8,10 and 12 and every home school student at ages, 12, 14 and 17.
--North Dakota may be on the verge of becoming the first state in the union to protect human beings from the moment of conception.
--Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce the expansion of some military dependent benefits to the same-sex spouses of homosexual personnel.
--Miami-Dade circuit judge approves a private adoption allowing a gay man and a married lesbian couple to be listed on the birth certificate of their 23 month old daughter.
--The founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure throws her weight behind homosexual activism.
--Pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, comments on the life of Ellen DeGeneres in sermon series.
--Time Magazine describes Florida Senator Marco Rubio as the Republican “savior.”
--A bipartisan group of top lawmakers from the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to President Obama requesting that the committee be granted the opportunity to review all Justice Department documents pertaining to the legal justification of drone strikes against Americans overseas.
--Iranian born American Pastor Saeed Abedini is facing 8 years in Iranian prisons because of his Christian faith.
--The Obama administration approved the request of a college in Pennsylvania to sell the Plan B abortion drug through a vending machine.
--President Obama presented a message to NARAL Pro-Choice America as they held their annual dinner celebrating the Roe v. Wade decision.
--Chinese family planning officials ran over a 13 month old boy with a mini-bus after feuding with the Chinese resident over fines related to the birth of the child, born outside of China’s one-child policy.
--Doomsday biologist says the world now faces dangerous trends of global climate change and overpopulation that threaten our extinction.
--Entitlements and Obamacare spending will comprise 53% of all federal spending over the coming decade.
--Obamacare will push 7 million people out of their job based health insurance coverage.
--Attorneys file the first legal challenge to the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate since the announcement of additional proposed rules that do not respect the religious freedom of family business owners.
--Supermarket owners argue that a pending federal food labeling rule that stems from the new health care law would overburden thousands of supermarket and convenience store owners to the tune of 1 billion dollars in just the first year.
--Iran leader says his nation possesses nuclear technology that won’t harm Israel.
--British government leaders voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage.
--New Zealand is rushing a marriage bill through.

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Air Date: February 7, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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For many years Americans have witnessed attempts by the homosexual community to infiltrate various American institutions and thereby gain approval for their lifestyle in the court of public opinion.

Scouting has not gone unnoticed by the homosexual movement and in late January, the Boy Scouts announced that they were reconsidering their decision whether or not they should lift their ban on homosexual members/leaders. This was to be taken up by their national executive board. As they met this week, they indicated that they will prepare a resolution for the 1,400 voting members of the national council to consider at their annual meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in May of this year.

At the root is corporate funding that could be pulled from the scouts. Why? It’s because these corporations have non-discrimination policies as it pertains to homosexuals and pro-homosexual forces are pressuring these corporations to persuade the scouts into taking a similar stance or risk losing funding.


More Information:

Boy Scout Headquarters
972-580-2000
pr@scouting.org

Wayne Brock
972-580-2004
wayne.brock@scouting.org

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Air Date: February 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jay Seegert

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Air Date: February 6, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jay Seegert

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Jay Seegert is the co-founder and principle lecturer for the Creation Education Center which was established to 2007 to address the challenge from the secular world regarding the validity and accuracy of the Bible, especially the creation account as presented in the book of Genesis.

The Clergy Letter Project had, in recent years, promoted an effort close to Charles Darwin’s birthday known as “Evolution Sunday.” This year the name has been changed to “Evolution Weekend.”

Close to 600 churches from 13 different countries will be celebrating Evolution Weekend. As part of this celebration, nearly 13,000 pastors have signed on to a document denouncing the literal 6 day Genesis creation account. As part of this Crosstalk, Jim read the letter that some pastors are signing and Jay explained some of the weaknesses of evolution which included exposing two fallacious statements often touted by evolution proponents:

--Evolution, as a core component of human knowledge, is sound science.

--When a person believes that God created the universe in 6 literal days, they are rejecting science.

The second guest was Bob Sorenson, a Crosstalk listener from New York who, as a result of Evolution Sunday, started a grassroots movement called “The Question Evolution Project” and “Question Evolution Day.”


More Information:

To obtain resources from the Creation Education Center go to www.cecwisc.com or call
262-227-5636.

www.piltdownsuperman.com
(Look for the “Question Evolution Project” tab at the top)

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Air Date: February 5, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Hammond

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Air Date: February 5, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Hammond

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Michael Hammond has spent the better part of his career in government service. He has served multiple U.S. Senators in positions as legislative counsel, special assistant and legislative assistant. He was a member of the Department of Education transition team and the Department of Justice transition team. He presently serves as a political consultant and writer as well as General Counsel for the Gun Owners of America.

Senator Feinstein of California has proposed gun ban legislation (S. 150). This legislation would ban up to 50% of all long guns currently in circulation, 80% of handguns in circulation and possibly ban every magazine. Michael feels it won’t pass because it’s just too extreme. Actually, this legislation may be a type of distraction designed to make universal background checks and the eventual creation of a national gun registry look like a sensible, bipartisan solution.

Get the latest information from the front lines of the gun control debate and find out what listeners had to say when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


More Information:

Gun Owners of America
www.gunowners.org

To comment on universal background checks that could be the framework to put together a national gun registry, call your legislators via the Capitol Hill Switchboard at
202-224-3121 and 202-225-3121.

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Air Date: February 4, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Stevens

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Air Date: February 4, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Stevens

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Dr. David Stevens is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Medical & Dental Association, the nation’s largest faith-based organization of doctors. He is the spokesman for 16,000 doctors.

Obamacare was going to fund preventative services. HHS issued regulations which state that for preventative care, every health insurance company must provide contraceptive
coverage and every employer must pay for it. Unfortunately that includes every FDA approved contraceptive. That includes one that can actually interrupt a developing pregnancy.

Last Friday, the government’s Department of Health and Human Services came out with some health care revisions.

One of them dealt with how the government defines what a religious organization is. This narrow definition kept the religious exemption to churches and no one else. 44 court cases later, the government decided to revamp the rules and broaden things a bit but Dr. Stevens feels they didn’t do much better. In other words, this administration has decided that they will determine who’s religious enough to have the First Amendment apply to them.

As Dr. Stevens noted, the Obama administration has moved away from the idea of freedom of religion and instead is touting freedom of worship. What you do in your church is your business. However, as soon as you walk outside your church, there is no exemption available for religious liberty or right of conscience. In other words, what you do in your church has no application to how you live your life in the public square.


More Information:

To have your comments read on this issue, go to www.hhs.gov. Once there, go to the regulations section then click on “All HHS rules open for comment”. You can also go to www.regulations.gov.

White House
202-456-1111

House and Senate Leaders
202-224-3121
202-225-3121

Christian Medical and Dental Association
www.cmda.org

www.freedom2care.org

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Air Date: February 1, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Colin Gunn

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Air Date: February 1, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Colin Gunn

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Colin Gunn is an award winning writer, director, producer and an accomplished animator. His is a home school father of 7 children who produced a documentary field trip of a lifetime. Colin and his family travel across America in an old yellow school bus exploring the origins and social impact of public school education.

Some people believe that the infiltration of ungodly philosophies in American education began with President Obama while others believe it began in the 1950’s or 1960’s. Colin, however, believes it began to occur already back in the 1800’s when there were individuals like Robert Owen and Horace Mann who desired a new type of utopian society. These individuals believed that man could be prefected through education and the result is that now we have this massive compulsory education system that is failing.

Colin communicated that parents have abdicated their duty to make sure their children are being instructed properly. Instead parents have become unwittingly trusting toward the systems that are cheating them.

When you consider that nearly 90% of Christian children in the U.S. attend public schools, this subject is a critical one as it pertains to America’s future.


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To obtain a copy of “Indoctrination” in book or DVD form, contact Crosstalk at 1-800-729-9829.

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Air Date: January 31, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: January 31, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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David Rubin is the former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel and is founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children's Fund (which treats terror victim children) (www.ShilohIsraelChildren.org ) He is the author of “The Islamic Tsunami” and “God, Israel, & Shiloh”

The results of recent elections in the Israel are in and Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as Prime Minister. In light of this victory, David comments on the Israeli draft; the Palestinian peace process; the Iranian nuclear program; President Obama’s late congratulations to Netanyahu after his re-election and the President’s desire to press Israel into land-for-peace negotiations.

Other topics discussed that are related to Israel include the tense situation in Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood and the teaching of cannibalism against Christians and other non-Muslims at Al-Ahzar University in Cairo, Egypt.


More Information:

To obtain a copy of David Ruben’s books call 1-800-431-1579.

Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund
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Air Date: January 30, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: January 30, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Peter LaBarbera is President of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality.

Jim Schneider noted information from Dr. Paul Cameron indicating that studies regarding male homosexuality show that they make up only about 1-3% of the population yet are responsible for 20-40% of all child molestation cases.

In spite of this, the Boy Scouts are planning to make a decision in the very near future about possibly overturning their policy that for the first time would allow homosexuals to be involved in the scouting program.

Peter feels the Boy Scouts have been harassed by liberals and homosexual activists ever since they won in the Supreme Court in 2000 to live by their own moral creed.

Jim pointed out that this is astounding because the scouts just conducted a two-year study on this and just 7 months ago they came forth and made a statement basically saying that they won’t allow homosexual leaders and that no further action would be taken on the matter.

Peter attributes this change in attitude to immense corporate pressure; pressure that began as homosexual activists targeted companies who would realize that since they have non-discrimination policies, they should apply the same logic to their support of the scouts.


More Information:

Boy Scout Contacts:

Main Number - (972) 580-2000 / Email: pr@scouting.org
Wayne Brock – Chief Boy Scouts Executive – 972-580-2004
Wayne.Brock@Scouting.org

Scout Public Relations (972) 580-7848 or 1-855-870-2178

Administrative Services – (972) 580-2204 & (972) 580-2500

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Air Date: January 29, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dave Christiano

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Air Date: January 29, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dave Christiano

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Dave Christiano is a film writer, producer and director.

From extreme movies to the ever increasing sexual themes on TV to homosexual marriage, one must ask, “Whatever happened to the concept of purity?” This edition of Crosstalk looked at purity before marriage and what can be done in a society that promotes promiscuity not only through the media, but sadly, also through our educational system.

Dave began by explaining that along with his twin brother Rich; their philosophy of filmmaking involves having a direct message for Christ either for evangelism or Christian living. With that basis set, he went on to share a very interesting testimony of an experience he had with a Chicago youth pastor who was afraid to show Pamela’s Prayer because of its pro-purity message and how he overcame that objection.


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To obtain the Purity Package consisting of Pamela’s Prayer/One Lucky Lady call 1-800-729-9829 or write to:

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Any 2 DVDs for a donation of $15 (includes postage)
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Air Date: January 28, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: January 28, 2013

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A woman is a special vessel designed by God to bring forth life and to nurture it. So for women, their position in regard to the Bible isn’t about being “equal” but about being special and men are to bring honor to them as the weaker vessel.

How does that play out in regard to the protection of our nation? For example, the U.S. Department of Defense has decided to let women serve on the front lines of combat and possibly include them in any future draft.

Does the desire for equal combat opportunity by some women comport with what the Bible says is God’s desire for them? In other words, is it possible that having women serve in combat is demeaning to the general calling of God for women? Listeners weigh in on this controversial topic on this Monday edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: January 25, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Air Date: January 25, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Jim opened this edition of Crosstalk with word regarding the following news items:

--Today is the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Much of the media is calling it only a march, leaving out the reference to life.
--A federal appeals court panel ruled today that President Obama violated the constitution in making recess appointments last year.

Ben Barrack is an investigative radio host and blogger who broadcasts in Central Texas. He is the author of the book, “Unsung Davids: Ten Men Who Battled Goliath without Glory”.

Last September 11th in Benghazi, our consulate came under attack by a fundamentalist Islamic assault. According to Ben, not only was security denied, it was withdrawn. In the wake of it all, Christopher Stevens, who for some reason went to the compound days before, ended up dying along with IT Manager Sean Smith and two former Navy Seals. Jim noted that in subsequent days the line that we kept hearing from Susan Rice was that this was spontaneous activity due to an anti-Muslim You Tube video.

This portion of the program looks at why this happened, especially in light of a recent Senate Foreign Relations hearing that featured questions for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Jim played audio highlighting the fact that some of the toughest questioning came from Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

Other news stories Jim presented included:

--U.S. military orders soldiers to remove a cross and a steeple from on top of a chapel and to board-up cross shaped windows at a remote American forward operating base in Afghanistan.
--A retired military chaplain is concerned about a new Marine training course that incorporates Buddhist teachings.
--President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hegel, sits on the board of a fund that has the main financial backer of a group that’s urging the U.S. to join the U.N.’s international criminal court.
--Senator John Kerry said that if he’s confirmed as the next Secretary of State he would support making the U.S. a party to a United Nations convention that’s been repeatedly used to advocate for abortion, oppose restrictions and support government funding across the world.
--Al Qaida linked jihadist rebels are streaming into Syria via the Turkish border at the rate of thousands per month.
--A New Mexico teenager accused of killing his parents and three other siblings was involved in violent video games prior to the shootings.
--President Obama delivers a supportive video address to approximately 3,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals at an LGBT equality national conference.

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Air Date: January 24, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ryan Mauro

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Air Date: January 24, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ryan Mauro

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Ryan Mauro is National Security Analyst for RadicalIslam.org. He is also founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.

Ryan defined an Islamist as a person who takes the faith of Islam and gives it a political context. It’s the code for governance.

The strategy employed by Islamists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, involves a patient, long-term effort known as “gradualism”. This is a bottom-up approach to achieving the objective of governance within a nation. In the short-term this involves converting people to the religion of Islam, destroying church support for Israel and interfaith engagement with churches and Christian organizations.

There are six long-term steps involved when gradualism is used as jihad. They include:

--Sharia over the individual.—This is where a supporter of radical Islam incorporates it into his daily life.

--Converting the family to Sharia.
--Spreading Sharia through the local society.
--Sharia takes over the government. (Egypt is currently at this stage.)
--The resurrection of the Caliphate.—This is the Islamic, Middle East “superstate” that destroys Israel.
--Mastership of the world.

Ryan also described his DVD called, “Obsession”. This documentary warns people about the threat of radical Islam by presenting interviews with former terrorists as well as utilizing footage from Middle Eastern TV stations that you won’t see anywhere else.

Learn how our government is reacting to all of this and how you can get involved in the effort to stop this Islamic strategy for ultimate victory over America.


More Information:

www.radicalislam.org

To obtain a free copy of the DVD called, “Obsession”, go to www.getobsession.com
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Air Date: January 23, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Sam Rohrer

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Air Date: January 23, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Sam Rohrer

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Sam Rohrer is the president of the Pennsylvania Pastors’ Network. He is a former State Representative serving 9 terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He speaks around the country on constitutional and biblical issues.

This Crosstalk began with some history as Sam explained that the 2nd Amendment on the federal level mirrors amendments that were already contained within the constitutions from our 13 colonies; the idea that life has intrinsic value as coming from God and that this life is to be protected not only by the government, but by the people as well.

He went on to explain that whether it was Waco or Oklahoma City, after the fact there were attempts to limit or cut back on the rights afforded by the 2nd Amendment. We’re seeing the same thing in the aftermath of Sandy Hook with some individuals vilifying gun rights rather than getting to the core issue which is the sinful nature of man and the evil that comes forth from that.

Sam is concerned that if we don’t have the debate regarding both the biblical and moral component of whether we have the right to keep and bear arms and self-defense and instead concentrate the discussion on the emotion or the moment, we will violate the freedoms we have and end up as subjects and not citizens.

As you review this program you’ll learn the biblical instructions for self-defense at the personal and collective levels, the root cause of our violence problem today, and whether or not we are replacing God with government in the United States.


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www.papastors.net

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Air Date: January 22, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Trewhella and Charlie Wysong

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Air Date: January 22, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Matt Trewhella and Charlie Wysong

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Matt Trewhella is a local pastor and director of Missionaries to the Preborn. Matt has been in Washington D.C. over the last couple days of inaugural activities to be a pro-life witness.

Matt described his activities at places like Union Station during the inaugural. He mentioned the much lower attendance count compared to the last inaugural, the reception to pictures of aborted infants shown to the public, his discussion with two atheists that was filmed by CNN and more.

Charlie Wysong is president and founder of the American Rights Coalition.

Charlie shared his thoughts regarding the biblical ideas of repentance, prayer and how America needs to come back to God. He also detailed how Chattanooga, Tennessee, has held off the scourge of abortion, a testimony that speaks loudly as to how all of us can work to end abortion in our communities as well. He also answers questions from listeners as Crosstalk looks back at America’s tragic abortion record.


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Air Date: January 21, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: January 21, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is founder and president of Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics. With offices in Florida, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Liberty Counsel has hundreds of advocates around the world.

In his inaugural address, President Obama made an interesting remark. He said: “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly great and equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

Mat commented that the last thought above regarding the love that’s committed to one another and that it must be equal would actually sanction polygamy and polyamory. After all, just because you have love toward someone or something else, does that mean you get all the rights of marriage? No, and Mat noted this is the kind of thinking that comes out of President Obama’s radicalism.

This Crosstalk brings out other disturbing points as well. For example: Jim noted the inaugural parade featuring the participation of the gay and lesbian band association and the Rolling Stone magazine report that Lady Gaga will be performing at a ball for White House staffers tonight.

Then there’s President Obama’s side profile picture for Newsweek magazine’s cover story that describes him as “The Second Coming.” Then in a poster being sold by street vendors today you can see the image of President Obama in prayer with the headline, “Prophecy fulfilled.”

What else can we expect from President Obama during his second term of office? Mat warns listeners of a more radical Obama than the one we’ve seen so far. He discusses Harry Reid’s attempt to abolish the filibuster, what’s in store as the rollout of Obamacare continues, President Obama’s new picks for secretary of defense and director of the CIA and more.


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Liberty Counsel
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Air Date: January 18, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: January 18, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim brought listeners up-to-date by presenting numerous news items affecting the lives of Christians. Here’s a partial list of the stories mentioned:

--7th Circuit Court upholds Act 10 (concerning collective bargaining for state employees)
in its entirety in Wisconsin.
--New study released by the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center at
West Point links opposition to abortion and other fundamental positions to terrorism.
--President Obama uses children as a backdrop for his latest speech concerning new gun
laws.
--Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky plans to introduce a bill next week that will nullify
anything President Obama does that “smacks” of legislation.
--Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, sent a proposal to the city council to increase jail
time for anyone failing to report that their guns have been lost, stolen or sold.
--Minnesota sheriff said he would consider any new federal regulation on guns to be
illegal and would refuse to carry it out.
--New online video game takes “shots” at the 2nd Amendment by encouraging players to
take head shots at their most hated NRA officials.
--15 year prison sentence given to a woman and her 7 children by an Egyptian court for
converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come.
--Orly Taitz continues to file cases against President Barack Obama the latest of which is
over the President’s alleged use of forged I.D.’s.
--Senator Harry Reid to force a set of procedural changes that will break the senate’s long
standing policy on rule changes.
--President Obama claims Congress orders him to spend money.
--A Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies after March 31st due to Obamacare.
--Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department asks a federal court to indefinitely
delay a lawsuit by the organization called Judicial Watch that seeks the enforcement of
open records requests relating to “Operation Fast and Furious.”
--North Dakota State University ends its partnership with a Planned Parenthood abortion
business.
--Deaf twins from Belgium that were going blind were euthanized by lethal injection.
--Northern Michigan county blocks Planned Parenthood grant.
--Louisiana named the most pro-life state in America.
--Obama’s half-brother seeks a governorship position in Kenya.

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Air Date: January 17, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bodie Hodge

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Air Date: January 17, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bodie Hodge

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Bodie Hodge is a writer, speaker and researcher with Answers in Genesis, having served with them since 2003. He is passionate about providing biblical answers to believers, seekers and non-believers. With Ken Ham he has compiled a number of writings from different apologists addressing numerous issues as presented in the book, “How Do We Know the Bible is True”.

This is a fascinating program dealing with issues that confirm the truth of the Bible. Some of the questions answered include:

--The Bible is written by men. How can we be confident that it speaks truth and therefore is the Word of God?

--How could Moses have written Genesis when he wasn’t even around at the time of the events he describes?

--What about the debate regarding a literal vs. a metaphorical interpretation of Scripture?

--Do we all worship the same God?

--Does the age of the earth really matter?

--Is it important to be a defender of the faith?

--Is hell a real place?

--Where did Cain get his wife?


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You can obtain “How Do I Know the Bible is True?” Volume 1 or Volume 2 for a donation of $17.00 each or both for a donation of $30.00 by calling 1-800-729-9829.

www.answersingenesis.org

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Air Date: January 16, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: January 16, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic began by spending several minutes presenting interesting news regarding the state of Oklahoma. This is the only state where President Obama did not win one single county in the last election.

The points he noted included:

--They passed an amendment, (37-9) to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance of the state capitol. Federal officials in Washington along with the ACLU said this would be a serious mistake. They did it anyway.

--They recently passed a law (HB-1804) to incarcerate all illegal immigrants and send them back to where they came from unless they are willing to get a green card and become an American citizen.

--They passed a law (SB-1102) to include DNA samples from any and all illegal aliens to the state database for criminal investigative purposes. Nancy Pelosi said it was unconstitutional. Oklahoma did it anyway.

--Several weeks ago, they passed a law declaring that they are a sovereign state, not under the federal government directives, joining Texas, Montana and Utah as the only states to do so.

--A week ago Oklahoma passed a law confirming that citizens have a right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles.

--They have passed a law that all drivers’ license exams will be printed in English and only in English.

Regarding the main topic, sadly, there were 349 military suicides in 2012, a record high, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan.

This may seem confusing, especially when you consider the fact that we are winding down our involvement in Afghanistan. Could it be the transition period back to peaceful, societal living that poses a challenge for soldiers? Do factors such as the continued ousting of God as seen in the tide of homosexual acceptance in the military play a role? Find out what callers had to say on this important edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: January 15, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Lenden Eakin

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Air Date: January 15, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Lenden Eakin

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Lenden Eakin is a Federal Firearms License Dealer. He is a National Rifle Association Firearms Instructor since 1994 with current certification in rifle, pistol, shotgun and personal protection. He is a Hunter Education Instructor since 1996. He is also an attorney and has military experience with the U.S. Army and Virginia Army National Guard.
The Second Amendment of the United State Constitution says, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Lenden began by noting that the Supreme Court is the body that determines what the constitutional amendments mean and they have said that every individual that is a responsible citizen has the right to bear arms for self defense and for the common defense.
So how has this played out in more recent times? Lenden pointed to a number of court cases. The District of Columbia vs. Heller was a case dealing with Washington D.C. when they had a ban on all hand guns. The Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd Amendment allows people to defend themselves and hand guns are a perfect self-defense weapon, therefore the D.C gun ban was overturned.

At the time of the case of McDonald vs. the City of Chicago in 2010, Chicago was banning firearms. Chicago felt that just because Washington D.C. can’t ban guns they should be exempt because the city is part of a state that is not under full-time federal control. The Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment applies the 2nd Amendment to all the states so every citizen of the U.S. has the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

Vic the asked about the phrase “tyrannical government” and where that comes into play. Lenden noted that the history of the 2nd Amendment follows the overthrow of tyrannical government in England and was in the minds of the framers and the people when they passed the amendment; to make certain that the ultimate power of the sword was in the people and not the government.
But now let’s get specific. What about a citizen’s right to own an AR-15 rifle? After all, the AR-15 is the civilian version of the standard military rifle. Lenden said that this is “the question on the table right now.” The case of U.S. vs. Miller from 1939 was about a short-barrel shotgun. The defense lost the case with the Supreme Court stating that guns owned by the people for common defense should be of a type similar to ordinary military equipment and typical of the time.

Whatever President Obama attempts to do via executive order, one thing is certain. With a relatively pro-gun, pro-Constitution House of Representatives in town, he’ll have a lot of eyes looking his way to make certain he’s not failing to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.


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Air Date: January 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Air Date: January 14, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Twila Brase is the president of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. She is a certified public health nurse and produces daily the Health Freedom Minute which takes daily health care issues and brings them to light for the American people.

With the exception of a tax that goes into effect in 2018, the majority of Obamacare will be in effect by January 1, of 2014.

One critical point discussed is what Twila called, “essential health benefits”. The law allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to have sole authority regarding what everyone’s health plan has to cover and therefore what we have to pay. There’s also “health market rules”, “payment parameters” and other aspects.

When you consider the huge number of pages for each of these, factor in the legal wording and cross references to other pieces of legislation and you can imagine how complicated this is. In fact, Twila reported that the rules for Obamacare already exceed 13,000 pages, none of which have been voted on by Congress.

Find out how the state health exchange plan is going, how the Hobby Lobby morning- after pill case is shaping up, how Obamacare might affect employers who normally don’t offer health care, how the I.R.S. is already attempting to limit the economic fallout from Obamacare, and more.


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Air Date: January 11, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: January 11, 2013

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It was time once again for the Crosstalk team to clear the news desk and Jim did just that by presenting the following news stories for listener comment:

--Reverend Louie Giglio will not give the benediction at the upcoming January 21st
presidential inauguration to avoid controversy over a message he preached against
homosexuality 15 years ago.
--President Obama signs the 633 billion dollar defense law but disagrees with the
conscience rights provision.
--The Marine Corps has advised its legal staff that spouses clubs operating on its
installations must admit same-sex spouses if they want to remain on the bases.
--The Washington National Cathedral will soon begin performing homosexual marriages.
--The National Institutes of Health says they have awarded the Fenway Institute a 3 year
$800,000 grant to address health disparities in LGBTQ youth of color through the
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparity.
--Openly gay British Columbia elementary school teacher suspended for showing his 4th
grade students a sexually charged YouTube video featuring men in drag.
--Kids need to see more gay people on TV according to a BBC report.
--The Anglican Church says the blessing of homosexual couples is not enough.
--Reverend Scott Lively is accused of committing crimes against humanity in violation of
international law just by sharing his biblical views on homosexuality during a 2009
visit to Uganda.
--V.P. Joe Biden compared restrictions on guns to auto safety regulations such as air
bags.
--NRA president disappointed that recent task force meeting over gun violence seemed to
have more to do with attacking the 2nd Amendment rather than doing something to
improve child safety.
--Bank of America reportedly freezes the account of a gun manufacturer.
--According to the most recent statistics from the F.B.I., more Americans commit
murders with hammers than with assault rifles or other long guns.
--Louisiana sheriff’s department to hold four-hour course on how to operate firearms.
--New York representative looks to repeal presidential term limits.
--Planned Parenthood achieved record abortions and profits in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
--Planned Parenthood does on average one abortion every 94 seconds.
--Atheist Richard Dawkins says that raising your child to believe in hell is worse than
sexual abuse.
--A Muskegon abortion clinic, closed by the fire marshal the day after Christmas for
multiple code violations, is unlikely to reopen.
--Eric Holder is staying on at the Justice Department.
--President Obama signs bill guaranteeing secret service protection for the rest of
his life.
--White House Press secretary places the blame for the 16.4 trillion dollar national debt
on Congress.
--There’s talk about the minting of a trillion dollar platinum coin in order to avoid having
to raise the debt ceiling.
--New video game featuring a black alien female superhero delivered to earth to fight
global warming is about to hit the market due to a $100,000 grant from the Obama
administration.
--In one of its last actions of 2012, on Christmas Eve, the U.N.’s General Assembly
agreed to extend for another 3 years the formula that has American taxpayers
contributing more than one-fifth of the U.N.’s regular budget.

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Air Date: January 10, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: January 10, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.

The debate regarding whether people should be allowed to own guns is a hot issue because you’re dealing with the personal property and personal safety of many Americans. Unfortunately, as Larry discusses, there are those on the other side who have a seemingly animistic view regarding guns, treating them as though they have a life of their own concerning where and when they fire.

Things are heating up as Vice President Joe Biden has suggested that President Obama is considering unilateral action on gun control by executive order in lieu of congressional action. Larry called this “the talk of a dictator” who feels the idea that there are constitutional restraints is simply not acceptable. He believes the administration is getting bolder because they don’t have to stand for re-election.


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Air Date: January 9, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: January 9, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Do you feel worn down by the immense pressure placed upon society by the media and even so-called religious groups who are trying to make you feel like your historic pro-Bible, pro-Christian views on homosexuality are outdated, hate-filled, mean-spirited and/or homophobic?

There’s someone on your side. His name is Peter LaBarbera. Peter is the Founder and President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. He joined Vic for an hour long discussion of 20 resolutions that are a wonderful blueprint for upholding the biblical position regarding homosexuality.

Review this program and you’ll discover that you can’t always trust republicans, Fox News or conservatives in general about homosexuality, that homosexual victories are not inevitable and that you can send political correctness packing. So be encouraged. Join Vic and Peter as they scan these resolutions and learn how you can stand strong in the grace of God on this critical issue.


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Air Date: January 8, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: F. Michael Maloof

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Air Date: January 8, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: F. Michael Maloof

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F. Michael Maloof is the former Senior Security Policy Analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has nearly 30 years of federal service both in the Defense Department and as a specialized trainer for border guards and Special Forces in Central Asia. He directed the Defense Department’s technology security operations as head of a ten-person team involved in halting diversion of military critical technologies to countries posing threats to national security and sponsoring terrorism. He has been a legislative assistant to various U.S. Senators, now serves as a senior staff writer for WND and is the author of the book, “A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe”.

According to Mr. Maloof, NASA has confirmed that if the U.S. was hit directly by a solar storm, it would cost upwards of 2 trillion dollars in the first year and would affect more than 160 million lives.

Why should a person be concerned about this? From the power grid to information systems to our financial and transportation systems and even personal health electronics such as hearing aids and pacemakers; America is particularly vulnerable because we rely so heavily on electronics to run our society.

There’s another element to this dilemma that must be considered. A solar storm is basically a natural form of what would take place if a rogue nation would attempt to stymie the United States by exploding a high altitude electromagnetic pulse bomb. Both of these examples constitute what is referred to as an EMP, a high energy burst of electromagnetic energy caused by rapid acceleration of charged particles. EMP’s are so powerful that they can completely knock out or destroy electronics/electrical systems.

In 1999 America took action and avoided large scale problems related to Y2K. Find out what can be done to avoid the potential problems that would be caused by a natural or man-made EMP event and how you can be part of the solution.


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Air Date: January 7, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: William Gheen

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Air Date: January 7, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: William Gheen

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William Gheen is President and National Director of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. They are involved in leading the fight against illegal immigration and Amnesty in America, to secure our borders, to enforce our existing immigrations laws, to restore the rule of law and to restore the American Republic.

William believes that America has an immigration enforcement credibility problem, a problem that people in Mexico and around the world are exploiting. Americans for Legal Immigration PAC has been fighting for 8 years to stop this.

There have been no new laws passed regarding illegal immigration on the federal level. Instead, William noted that President Obama has taken the Bush non-enforcement plan to a whole new level while at the same time lying about having great deportation numbers. That’s only because he’s using the voluntary deportation figures.

What Obama has actually done is to create a type of ordered amnesty. This ordered amnesty is not new law or an executive order. William noted that the mainstream media is using the phrase, “executive fiat” to describe or give credibility to this ordered amnesty. Whatever one chooses to call it, President Obama appears to have created nothing more than a form of amnesty which shows a great lack of respect for the governing process.

Is this behavior a threat to our constitutional republic or perhaps even an act of treason? Is the pro-amnesty movement merely out for control as they look to give amnesty only for the purpose of creating a new, large voting bloc? Could reparations or even the returning of land to Mexico be factors in this controversy? Get the answers to these and other amnesty related questions on this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: January 4, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jordan Sekulow

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Air Date: January 4, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jordan Sekulow

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Jordan Sekulow is the Executive Director of the ACLJ (American Center for Law & Justice). He also oversees the ACLJ’s work in the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan.

Numerous F-16 fighter jets and tanks are among the weapons set to be shipped by America to Egypt this month. This news is controversial for a very good reason.

Since 1979, there’s been a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. Part of that has included military aid from America to each of these nations.

An agreement was made in 2010 between the Mubarak government and the U.S. for the delivery of 20 more F-16 fighter jets and 200 more Abrams tanks. Delivery of these weapons is set to begin later this month.

Since 2010, we’ve seen revolution take place in Egypt which elevated the Muslim Brotherhood on the political stage and has resulted in their leader, Mohamed Morsi, becoming president. Along with his presidency, Egypt has also developed a new constitution based upon Islamic Shariah law.

As Jordan explains, Mohamed Morsi has been quoted showing himself to be no friend of America or Israel. Vic has Jordan lay out the additional details so that you can become informed and involved in this key decision.


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Air Date: January 3, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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Air Date: January 3, 2013

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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The Senate passed the latest fiscal cliff legislation by a margin of 89-8 after having only 3 minutes to read over the 154 page bill. Now that its contents are law, what does it contain? Here’s a brief synopsis of the legislation from the perspective of Jim’s guest, Robert Romano, the Senior Editor with Americans for Limited Government.

Robert began by saying that we’re in “…wonderland right now where up is down, down is up and a tax increase is a tax cut.” In fact, he noted that everyone will be paying 2% more in F.I.C.A taxes around the middle of this month.

Another increase he spoke of concerns those making over $400,000 and couples over $450,000 who will be seeing their rates go up to about 40%. That category includes many small businesses, so Robert considers these higher taxes to be nothing more than a recipe for higher unemployment.

The above scenario was described as part of President Obama’s alleged “balanced approach” to deficit reduction. True, the president got the rate he wanted but according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, this will only produce about 30 billion in revenue in 2013 which falls far short of the 1.2 trillion dollars in new debt the government plans on accumulating.

Throw in the tax credits and “pork” loaded into the final version of the fiscal cliff bill and it’s no wonder Robert feels that rather than governing financially by an appropriations process we’re governing by continuing resolution and to challenge the latter will only get you accused of trying to shut the government down.


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Air Date: January 2, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Air Date: January 2, 2013

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Phyllis Schlafly is the founder and president of Eagle Forum, a national organization of citizens who participate as volunteers in the public policy making process.

After presenting brief comments on the fiscal cliff negotiations, Phyllis took listeners on a conversational tour of her long career. For example:

--She worked her way through college as a “gunner” on a night shift at what was the largest ammunition plant in the world in St. Louis.

--Pursued political science at Harvard and obtained a master’s degree.

--Ran for Congress in 1952 and again in 1970.

--She stopped the Equal Rights Amendment while pursuing a law degree.

--Helped build anti-communist sentiment in America.

--Recognizes the problems of poor history teaching and student reading skills in public schools.

--She’s the author of 20 books including her latest, “No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom”.

One person can make a difference. Let Phyllis inspire you with her story when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: January 1, 2013

Speaker: Ed Hindson

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Air Date: January 1, 2013

Speaker: Ed Hindson

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Dr. Ed Hindson is a distinguished Professor of Religion and Dean of the Institute of Biblical Studies at Liberty University. He’s authored a number of books including: Global Warning, Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics and the Zondervan King James Bible Commentary. Dr. Hindson is also a Bible prophecy speaker and host of the King is Coming telecast.

Dr. Hindson was the speaker at a VCY Rally in October of 2009 and this broadcast features portions of his presentation.

Dr. Hindson describes how Bible prophecy is not written to scare us, but to prepare us; so that we will be ready when the Lord returns. It’s not written to frighten us, but to invite us to give our lives to Christ while there’s time and hope.

His first main point of emphasis was on the idea that time is running out for the world. He pointed to a recent gathering of world leaders; a gathering designed to bring about solutions to the problems of the world. The problems, however, still remain.

From there Dr. Hindson goes to the Word of God, laying more groundwork for the importance of prophecy. He looks at the 16th chapter of Matthew and explains how Jesus challenged the Pharisees and Sadducees who had missed all 109 of the first prophecies concerning his first coming. He then contrasts that text with Luke 21 which describes the signs of the second coming; signs that challenge us as believers today to be ready.

In light of all this he warns how we should watch out for false predictions as he cites numerous examples from the last century. Even today he describes how the New Agers have a prediction, supposedly based upon the Mayan calendar, that on December 21, 2012, the world will either end or we will have the dawning of a great new age.

Dr. Hindson believes we are close to the end of the age. Here are several points he uses to defend his position:

--Israel must be back in their Promised Land. They have been for 60 years.
--Tension in the Middle East; particularly against Israel.
--The failures of worldwide peace attempts.
--The threat of nuclear weapons.

More interesting, Scripture-based information concerning Bible prophecy is available by listening to this broadcast or by ordering Dr. Hindson’s complete rally presentation via the contact information listed below.


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Air Date: December 31, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J.C. Rasoul

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Air Date: December 31, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J.C. Rasoul

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J.C. Rasoul is an American Kurd who was born in Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. As a child, he witnessed the violence of the government of Baghdad practiced against his people; violence due in part to the fact that Kurds are not of Arab descent. This violence hit home when his elder brother’s lifeless body was brought back to his parents.

J.C. grew up Muslim, adhering to the practices of the Sunni division of Islam but his experience with the socialist dictatorship formed his political conscience. During the Gulf War, J.C. was forced to flee Iraq not once, but twice and eventually came to America under political asylum. In the late 90’s he was airlifted to Guam and then to the United States where he was exposed to the teachings of Christianity and his life was radically changed.

Don’t miss this testimony of how God’s loving hand miraculously took J.C. halfway around the world and to new life in Christ.

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J.C. Rasoul will be speaking this evening (6/22) at 6pm at the Rock River Patriots meeting being held at the Dwight Foster Library, 209 Merchants Avenue, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. For more information call 920-650-1260.

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Air Date: December 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: December 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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What do people mean when they turn words like “church” and “preach” into pejoratives and describe something as “churchy” or “preachy”? Why is there such scorn for past traditions that communicate respect for our holy God? Perhaps this attitude was best described by Vic when he pointed to the casual nature of many Christians and churches today. He described it as an affliction that has “…turned the church into a bunch of spoiled rotten people who’ve been over-blessed, over-stuffed, over-fed on pablum and have never put the roots that God has given them into the soil.”

Have you ever given thought to the spiritual “temperature” of your church or even your own walk with Christ? This “temperature” is best set by knowing how to hear the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit even amidst the throngs of alternative voices that come from within or those voices from the world that attempt to change us.

America appears to be listening more and more to alternative voices and the result is that casual seems to be the formula today that often drives how we “do church”. Is all of this a sign that America is losing its definition of what church is or perhaps who God really is? Find out how listeners responded to these concerns on this year-end edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: December 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: December 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, boasting a national membership of some 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting the 2nd Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.

Larry’s initial reaction to the Sandy Hook tragedy was anger that the laws that have disarmed people in gun free zones have made it possible for a murderer to act with impunity until police arrive.

In response to those who allege that organizations like the N.R.A. and G.O.A. bear responsibility for tragedies like Sandy Hook, Larry explained that those individuals don’t believe in self-defense, believing instead that no defense is a defense.

So what is the solution? In the case of school shootings, Larry believes that the most practical, feasible and affordable suggestion is to come up with laws to allow teachers and administrators to carry firearms at school.

Celebrities such as Piers Morgan and Michael Moore are in favor of gun control laws. What’s interesting about people who take this position is how it actually plays into the hands of those who would abuse guns. For example, Larry and Jim discussed the fact that every mass murder situation in America that has occurred during the past two decades, with only one exception, occurred in a gun free zone.

With President Obama’s record regarding the Constitution and Congress, will he move on his own regarding gun control? What do increased gun sales tell us? What about international pressure? Find out how Larry feels about these points and get the views of Crosstalk listeners as well regarding this critical topic.


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Air Date: December 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: December 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Rubin

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Vic began by reporting the latest news concerning Iranian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani. Pastor Nadarkhani was originally accused of defecting from Islam, imprisoned and sentenced to death. He was acquitted and released in September. It’s being reported that he was rearrested and imprisoned on Christmas Day but then released based on the charge that he must complete the remaining 45 days of his sentence which he had been originally told would be served under probation.

David Rubin is the former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel. He is the Founder and President of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund which treats children who are victims of terror. He is the author of “The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama”.

Recently the U.N. took a vote to recognize a Palestinian state. According to David, this means that the world is taking another step to granting full recognition to the fictional state of Palestine; a state comprised of three terrorist organizations.

In addition, David comments on other factors that are adding additional weight to the Arab/Israeli conundrum. They include:

--New housing settlements are being built by Israel around Jerusalem. Will the International Criminal Court become involved to stop such activities?

--Israel is being asked to open its borders to 100,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria so that they can safely reach the West Bank and Gaza by going through Israel. What are the security risks involved for Israel?

--If Chuck Hagel eventually replaces Leon Panetta as America’s defense secretary, what affect will that have on American/Israeli relations?

--Will Egypt re-militarize the Sinai Peninsula?

--Is Hezbollah really preparing for war with Israel?

--Iran’s Press TV alleges that Israel is responsible for the Sandy Hook school tragedy.


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Air Date: December 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: December 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This Crosstalk was our electronic Christmas card edition. Each year this broadcast is an opportunity for listeners to reflect on the blessings of God’s mercy and grace in their many forms, all centered on the Christ of Christmas who came to be the Savior of mankind.

So what does the birth of Christ mean to listeners? Find out when you review this special edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: December 20, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Stevens

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Air Date: December 20, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Stevens

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Despite the fact that federal law states that it is illegal to grow and sell marijuana, during the November election, both Washington and Colorado decriminalized its use for recreational purposes.

Why are states beginning to embrace this substance that’s been fought against and banned for so many years? To find out, Jim Schneider interviewed Dr. David Stevens. Dr. Stevens is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Medical & Dental Association, the nation’s largest faith-based organization of doctors.

According to Dr. Stevens, there is some evidence that marijuana can be helpful in certain situations, but he was careful to note that there are much better ways to obtain the benefits without smoking a “joint”.

He described marijuana as a psycho-active drug that causes users to experience a sense of euphoria. It decreases some of the tension for people that have glaucoma. It has some anti-nausea capabilities which are sometimes helpful for patients who suffer from severe nausea or vomiting from chemotherapy. It must be pointed out, however, that there are other drugs that work better.

The problem with using marijuana, even for so-called “medicinal purposes”, is that the user ends up also subjecting themselves to over 400 vasoactive substances within the smoke just to obtain the beneficial effects of THC, marijuana’s active ingredient.

In addition, a person must also realize that there’s no F.D.A. approval, no regulation of the manufacturer, no standard dose, no safe delivery system, no knowledge of its interaction with other drugs a person might be taking and more. The verdict? According to Dr. Stevens, the negative effects of marijuana far outweigh the beneficial ones.


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Air Date: December 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: December 19, 2012

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Here’s a selection of stories that Jim addressed for listener comment:

--3 State Department officials including a security chief resign following the release of
Benghazi report.
--U.S. judge and legal scholar Robert Bork died today at age 85.
--Lawmakers charged with merging House and Senate versions of the National Defense
Authorization Act drop the provision that would have barred the military from holding
U.S. citizens and permanent residents in indefinite detention without trial as terror
suspects.
--A Marine Corp Captain proposes to his boyfriend in the Grand Foyer of the White
House.
--Any notary public in Maine who performs traditional marriages may not refuse to
perform a same-sex marriage for any reason or they will be charged with a human
rights violation.
--In a 4-3 ruling the Montana Supreme Court says that same-sex couples seeking to be
granted the same benefits as married couples are making an overly broad request.
--New Zealand church billboard depicts Jesus in the crib surrounded by a halo of rainbow
colors along with a billboard that says: “It’s Christmas. It’s time for Jesus to come
out.”
--Openly gay Nebraska woman found guilty of falsely claiming that she was brutally
attacked by three men.
--U.S. Attorney General recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center
sweeping new powers to store dossiers on citizens even if they are not suspected of
criminal activity.
--New study reveals that illegal aliens in Oregon cost taxpayers more than 1 billion
dollars annually.
--Last month the White House had a transgender day of remembrance.
--New I.R.S. report reveals 36 of Obama’s executive office staff owe the country
$833,970 in back taxes.
--St. Louis County police chief in Missouri says that we should talk about arming civilian
school personnel.
--Some Missoula, Montana, school parents are upset over the song selection for the
school’s Christmas program claiming that it’s a form of bullying due to references to
the Christ of Christmas.
--Owners of an apartment at a senior living complex in California are demanding that
management remove Christmas trees and menorahs from common areas in the
complex.
--California school facing threat of lawsuit over yoga classes.
--California governor appoints the first openly homosexual judge to serve on the Court of
Appeals.
--Minnesota Supreme Court ruling from 1995 requiring taxpayers to fund abortions has
resulted in the death of more than 58,000 unborn children.
--Bioethics expert, Peter Singer, says that when the death of a disabled infant leads to the
birth of another with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will
be greater if the disabled infant is killed.
--A British baby less than one pound survives.
--Michigan House and Senate pass a pro-life omnibus bill requiring all surgical
abortion clinics to be licensed and inspected by the state.
--The founder and former owner of the Dominos Pizza chain files a lawsuit over the
Health and Human Services mandate that forces religious employers to purchase drugs
for employees that may cause abortions.
--Republican congressman Tim Scott, a black, pro-life advocate, will replace Jim DeMint
in the U.S. Senate. The N.A.A.C.P. is upset because of Scott’s conservative positions.
--Fiscal cliff talks at an impasse. House Speaker John Boehner removes certain
individuals from key committees for not holding to the party mark.
--President Barack Obama is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
--U.N. wants to impose a tax on Americans.

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Air Date: December 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Air Date: December 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Dr. Jerome Corsi received his PhD from Harvard. He is a senior staff reporter for WND. He has authored many books including “The Obama Nation”, “Unfit for Command” and “Where is the REAL Birth Certificate.”

This edition of Crosstalk looks at Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (H.S.B.C.). Although originating in China (Its holding company is in London.) they are a worldwide bank capable of dealing with transfers within the bank between nations.

Dr. Corsi’s story begins by focusing on John Cruz, an employee of H.S.B.C. in Long Island who was in charge of establishing commercial accounts along with selling additional banking products and services. Eventually John discovered that things were not in order with specific accounts. He went to his superiors who told him not to worry about the situation. He was eventually terminated for “poor performance”. Law enforcement authorities were notified, however, Dr. Corsi doesn’t know what they’ve done with the information.

A Senate subcommittee did become involved and prepared a report that documented some of the things that Dr. Corsi and Cruz were alleging. For example, the report documented the money laundering with the bank, attributing it to money for the drug cartels in Mexico, for terrorists in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, and that H.S.B.C was utilizing illegal money facilities to circumvent sanctions the U.S. government had on Iran.

Eventually H.S.B.C. was fined 1.92 billion dollars in lieu of prosecution. According to Dr. Corsi, the bank had this money set aside for years. Is it possible that the settlement itself was part of a criminal scheme that includes bipartisan involvement by members of the U.S. government and therefore the fine is just considered the “cost of doing business” by H.S.B.C.? Get listener reaction and find out how this impacts all of us when you review this Crosstalk broadcast.


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Air Date: December 17, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: December 17, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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On Friday’s broadcast, Vic commented on the connection between the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and the cultural influences that are at the root of such tragedies; activities such as killing video games. This Crosstalk looks deeper at this connection along with the biblical warnings that can help us avoid much grief.

While some individuals may believe that the answer can be found through increased gun control legislation, the bottom line is that this subject involves three elements: people, sin and the enemy of our souls who is busily at work attempting to bend the minds of our youth away from news of Christ.

Vic opened the phone lines to the nation and many callers shared their viewpoints concerning this important Crosstalk topic.

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Air Date: December 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: December 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic began this edition of Crosstalk by noting an interesting contrast related to the story that 26 lives were taken in a Connecticut elementary school shooting today. He recalled a recent incident where a school suspended a child for having a piece of pizza shaped like a gun, while on the other hand, many parents see nothing wrong with X-Box killing games or paint-ball.

Other stories that Vic brought up for listener comment included:

--The charitable deduction portion of the tax code could fall prey to the “fiscal cliff”
negotiations.
--Entertainer Harry Belafonte tells MSNBC that he feels the only thing left for President
Obama to do is to work like a Third World dictator and put his opponents in jail.
--The Queen James Bible, a homosexual edition, was launched at the end of November.
--Susan Rice, ambassador to the U.N., has withdrawn her name for the position of
Secretary of State.
--22 states refuse to set up Obamacare exchanges.
--Unless two-thirds of Congress votes to prevent it, the White House defends its demand
to grant President Obama unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling at will.
--President Obama bypasses Congress to mandate “black boxes” (data recorders) in cars.
--Planned Parenthood solicits dollars for life-saving health services.
--Democrats pushing to fund abortions on military bases.

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Air Date: December 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mark Mix

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Air Date: December 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mark Mix

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Mark Mix is the President of National Right to Work. They have been litigating at the Supreme Court level 15 times and continue to be a blessing in the area of workers rights.

Michigan has been in the news lately because they have become the 24th state to be classified as a right-to-work state.

What is the right-to-work? According to Mark, every worker in America has to have the protected right to join a labor union. Unfortunately, for many years our legal system has allowed unions to demand that workers pay dues in order to get or keep a job. Right-to- work laws protect a worker’s right to join a union but they also insist that a worker cannot be compelled to pay union dues to get a job.

Union officials may come back by saying that if you intend on reaping the benefits of organized labor, then you need to pay a fee.

Some may claim that “exclusive representation” of the union is the answer.
This is where the union remains the sole bargaining agent, even for employees who don’t join the union.

What impact do right-to-work laws have on incomes? Since much of the media reporting on the right-to-work issue are also part of unions, are they giving us the truth regarding this issue as it plays out? Is right-to-work legislation the answer to union “thugery”? Join Vic as he has Mark answer these and other questions in order to bring understanding to this controversial issue.


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Air Date: December 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dan Weber

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Air Date: December 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dan Weber

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Jim opened this edition of Crosstalk with an update concerning McPherson, Kansas, a city that had come under attack from the Freedom From Religion Foundation as it relates to the city’s police chaplaincy program. The F.F.R.F. alleged that this program violates the separation of church and state. The city announced early this week that they will continue to pursue this chaplaincy program.

Dan Weber is the founder of A.M.A.C., the Association of Mature America Citizens.

According to Dan, seniors within A.M.A.C. can’t understand why both sides are “toughening up” regarding the fiscal cliff negotiations.

When you take a look at what lies ahead, it’s seniors that may have to “toughen up”. For example, Dan explained that tax hikes on dividends will hurt seniors most. A lot of seniors have saved via 401K’s and I.R.A.’s and as dividends are taxed, it’s going to affect the earnings of their mutual funds. In other words, this is treating seniors like the millionaires and billionaires that the “left” wants to tax.

Dan believes that because of the severe impact that Medicare and Medicaid have on the national deficit, these programs should be included in “fiscal cliff” discussions.

Social Security is not solvent and in 3 years the disability section will go bankrupt. In 19 years, the basic Social Security will run out of trust funds and only be able to pay out at a 75% rate. In other words, if nothing is done, recipients at that time will take a 25% cut in benefits. However, Dan agrees that Social Security should be separate from the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.

Getting America’s financial house in order can go a long way toward helping seniors today and that can help secure the future for others as well. Find out how the budget battle is going in Washington and what you can do to help the process when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: December 11, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brad Dacus

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Air Date: December 11, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brad Dacus

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Brad Dacus is Founder and President of the Pacific Justice Institute, a non- profit legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights and other civil liberties He is also the speaker on the Legal Edge a brief news spot heard weekly here on VCY America and stations around the country.

Brad began by discussing two cases up for analysis by the Supreme Court early next year. The first concerns the Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.—U.S. v. Windsor) while the second deals with California’s Proposition 8.

Brad believes that if the court rules that D.O.M.A. (basically one-man/one woman marriage) is unconstitutional, then we’ll have an “open heyday” for homosexual marriage as well as other types of marriage that could eventually become protected including polygamy or even adult incest.

If the Supreme Court defines California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional due to states not being allowed to define marriage as being between one-man and one-woman, this will prohibit any state from being able to adopt similar legislation in regard to the definition of marriage.

Also discussed is the demographic split between traditional marriage proponents and same-sex marriage supporters, why same-sex relationships is a “general welfare” issue for the nation, the reparative therapy controversy in California, and more.


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Air Date: December 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Martin Mawyer

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Air Date: December 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Martin Mawyer

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Martin Mawyer began his career as a free lance journalist. In 1990 he founded the Christian Action Network, a non-profit organization created to protect America’s religious and moral heritage through educational and political activism efforts. He has authored several documentary films including “Homegrown Jihad” and he has authored several books including, “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamic Terrorist Training Camps Inside America”.

Martin describes how there are areas in Dearborn, Michigan, and Hancock, New York, that are literal enclaves of Islamic life where non-Muslims can be in danger of harm. These areas/compounds have their own Islamic legal system and mimic the enclaves that exist in areas of Western Europe.

On a larger and more ominous scale, what about Islamic terrorist training camps? Typically when you hear of such activity you may think of locations such as Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq or Iran. How about right here on American soil?

Martin also details how back around 2006, the Christian Action Network was at work attempting to educate their supporters concerning the goals of radical Islam. During this process a former F.B.I. agent approached Martin and told him to be careful about what they put out because there was an Islamic terrorist training camp about 30 miles from the offices of Christian Action Network. In his research, Martin learned that this particular camp was not an isolated case. It’s run by a Pakistani cleric named Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani who Martin says has nearly 3 dozen such camps scattered throughout the United States.

What are the originators of these camps up to? What has been the response by law enforcement officials from Washington on down to the state and local levels? Find out the surprising answers when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: December 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: December 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Once again it was time to clear the news desk so here’s just a sampling of stories that Vic presented for listener comment:

--A Jewish woman in Iran was murdered by Muslim extremists who cut her body in half because she refused to let her house be taken over so that a mosque could be expanded.

--The British government goes back on its word over gay marriage in the church.

--Judicial Watch has released records that details government funds expended on Malia Obama, the daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama.

--Successful New Mexico high school soccer coach, who claims he was forced to resign after praying for an injured opponent, is looking for a new team to coach.

--73% of new jobs created in the last 5 months are in government.

--Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who is resigning his Senate seat, sends parting shot to House Speaker John Boehner over “fiscal cliff”.

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Air Date: December 6, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: December 6, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is the Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics. Mat has argued cases in all levels of the justice system including the United States Supreme Court.

The Crosstalk sought Mat’s input on numerous topics including:

--Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a conservative voice in the Senate, is stepping away from that body to take the helm of the Heritage Foundation. Will his departure leave a critical void?

--Mat was in federal court in California last week challenging the implementation of a law regarding a process known as “change therapy”. This therapy is aimed at those with same-sex attractions who may want to default to their religious and moral values. Effective January 1, 2013, will counselors be forced to tell such clients that same-sex attractions are only good and normal?

--If this law is not overturned, what are the ramifications in other states and for pastoral counseling overall?

--The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing a Jewish organization for what they feel is consumer fraud, alleging that reparative therapy failed in a particular instance.

--The Defense of Marriage Act continues to be under attack. What cases, if any, will the Supreme Court look at regarding this topic? Mat feels that something regarding marriage and its definition will be decided by this court by June of 2013.

--Liberty Counsel filed the first private lawsuit in March of 2010 against Obamacare. They represented Liberty University and private individuals, challenging the individual and employer mandate. The Supreme Court was asked to review the case, and they in turn, ordered the federal court of appeals to re-hear the case. This means Mat will go back and argue in early 2013 with a decision to come shortly after on the employer mandate.


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Air Date: December 5, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: December 5, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok was born in Egypt and raised in a Christian home as the son of a Baptist pastor. He became a Christian at the age of 11. Usama learned about Islam in school because it was, and still is, a mandatory subject. He came to the States in 1992 and founded The Straight Way of Grace Ministry in 2001. He travels throughout the United States equipping Christians to be effective witnesses of Jesus Christ to their Muslim neighbors and also ministers to Muslims directly. Usama is the host of “Revealing the Truth about Islam”, a radio program that can be heard weekdays at 12:30pm on the VCY America network.

On December 15th, Egypt is supposed to hold a referendum for their new constitution that was crafted by leader Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood has been riding the tide of unrest among the younger generations that have sought change going back to the Mubarak regime. Now, however, with a new constitution on the line and Morsi’s extension of powers, riot-like conditions exist in some areas.

Did the Egyptian people really understand who or what they were getting when they elected Morsi? What are the implications for America as well as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? Get the answers to these and other questions when you review this timely Crosstalk program.


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Air Date: December 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Georgia Purdom

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Air Date: December 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Georgia Purdom

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Dr. Purdom graduated with a Ph.D. in molecular Genetics from Ohio State University. Her specialty is cellular and molecular biology. She has published papers in the Journal of Neuroscience and other professional journals. She is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and American Society for Cell Biology and also the Creation Research Society. She also serves as a peer reviewer for Answers Research Journal and Creation Science Quarterly. She is a dynamic speaker and researcher with Answers in Genesis and is the only female Ph.D. scientist engaged in full-time speaking and research for a biblical creationist organization in North America.

In spite of the obvious genealogies from Genesis chapters 5-11, there are still many, including notable people such as Pat Robertson and Bill Nye the Science Guy, who believe and are communicating to the public that the earth is millions or even billions of years old.

This program looks at evidences that run counter to the old earth assumptions. Some of these include:

**Very little sediment on the sea floor—An age in the range of billions of years would
have deposited much more sediment than we see.
**Bent rock layers—This bending can only occur when the layers are soft. They
couldn’t have possibly kept their soft consistency over billions of years.
**Soft tissue in fossils—Scientists are finding blood vessels, red blood cells and even
proteins, in dinosaur bones; elements that shouldn’t be available in bones alleged to be
about 65 million years old.
**Faint Sun Paradox—This deals with the rate of nuclear fusion as it pertains to the sun.
An old sun would be fainter and wouldn’t have heated the earth much and there’s
simply no evidence in the geologic record to suggest a very cold earth.
**Rapidly decaying magnetic field—We know the earth’s magnetic field was 40%
stronger in A.D. 1,000 so if you extrapolate back, the earth can’t be more than about
20,000 years old.
**Carbon 14—Carbon 14 is found mainly but not exclusively in living things. It has a
rapid radioactive decay rate and therefore can’t be used to accurately measure ages
beyond about 80,000 years. So if something has measurable Carbon 14, it must be
less than 80,000 years old.
**Short lived comets—If the universe is billions of years old, short lived comet activity
should not be occurring.
**Very little salt in the sea—If the earth was truly billions of years old, the sea would be
much saltier than it is today even accounting for different removal and deposition rates.
**Bacteria from a salt crystal dated to be 250 million years old was discovered to have
DNA that is nearly identical to DNA from living bacteria today. Scientists expected
today’s bacteria to have evolved to be much different proving once again that the earth
can’t possibly be millions of years old.


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Air Date: December 3, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Connelly

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Air Date: December 3, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Michael Connelly

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Michael Connelly is a U.S. Army vet, a retired constitutional attorney and the Executive Director of the United States Justice Foundation.

What is the “fiscal cliff” we keep hearing about in the news? Michael defined it as the point at which Americans will face massive tax increases, a time when the Bush era tax cuts would be reversed and spending cuts will take place not where we need them but instead in places we can’t afford them. These cuts will take place in areas such as national defense along with threats to military and veterans programs. All these will happen automatically unless Congress does something between now and the end of the year.

Michael believes we went over the cliff more than a year ago when the Republican controlled House caved in to the president’s demands on the debt ceiling.

Remember the “Super Committee” comprised of both House and Senate Republicans and Democrats? They were supposed to reach an agreement to cut 1.5 trillion dollars worth of spending over the next 10 years. If it didn’t, the president demanded there’d be automatic cuts. The problem with this concept is that it amounted to representatives forfeiting their right to vote on a topic on behalf of their constituents. In other words, the idea of a “Super Committee” is unconstitutional. This should have been challenged but none of our legislative leaders had the courage to step up and do it.

Michael believes there is no offer for definite spending cuts on the table from President Obama. He contends that even if President Obama does manage to get middle class tax cuts extended, it won’t make any difference to him because the increase in taxes due to Obamacare and tax increases due to new regulations placed upon the energy industry will make up for those tax cuts.

In the end, Michael feels President Obama wants us to go off the “fiscal cliff”. At that point the president could begin to nationalize the essential elements of government and the private economy. This could include cuts in the military, taking control of the health care system, disarming the populace and even taking control of everyone’s retirement investments.


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Air Date: November 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Keith Smith

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Air Date: November 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Keith Smith

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Jim opened this edition of Crosstalk with an update regarding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Treaty. Harry Reid is now saying that this treaty will be brought to the Senate floor for ratification next Tuesday, December 4th.

Jim also presented an update concerning Yousef Nadarkhani, a pastor who was taken captive in Iran because of his Christian beliefs. He was eventually released and at a national conference in London he expressed his gratitude to his supporters who prayed for him during his 3 year imprisonment.

Jim’s guest was Dr. Keith Smith, a board certified anesthesiologist in private practice since 1990. In 1997 he co-founded The Surgery Center of Oklahoma, an outpatient surgery center in Oklahoma City owned by 40 of the top physicians and surgeons in Central Oklahoma. Dr. Smith serves as the medical director, CEO and managing partner while maintaining an active anesthesia practice. He is a member of AAPS, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

This week Dr. Smith issued a press release with an alarming question that makes up the title of this program: Will there be any physicians left to implement health care? What prompted him to right this when America is literally the health care capital of the world?

Dr. Smith feels that as far as revamping health care, the government isn’t going to get it right any more than Argentina, Canada or Britain has. He believes that, “…unless the free market is working, then the necessary price signals are just simply not there to clue the suppliers in about whether they’re surpluses or shortages.” He contends that price controls will be part of the Affordable Care Act and that will lead to shortages. Central planners will get it wrong, prices will be too low and at some point if a doctor believes that the situation is not mutually beneficial they will find something else to do with their time and it may not involve the practicing of medicine.

Will the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) include a payment advisory board? How about the forcing of physicians to take government patients? Will there be an increase in cash-based physician services as doctors leave the current system behind? How might this affect Medicare dependent patients? These are just some of the questions looked at during this vital edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: November 29, 2012

Speaker: Mike Gendron

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Air Date: November 29, 2012

Speaker: Mike Gendron

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This Crosstalk is a recorded message delivered by Mike Gendron who represents a ministry known as Proclaiming the Gospel. Mike addressed an audience at a VCY America rally that took place on September 29, 2012.

Mike described his journey that begins with his younger days as an altar boy, his eventual success in the business world, the material accoutrements that went with that lifestyle and his ties to the Catholic Church through it all.

While Roman Catholicism gave Mike a grounding in the basics of Christianity, there was much about this system that covered, clouded and distorted the truth of God’s plan for mankind through the redeeming work of Christ. Beginning in 1981, the Lord began to work on his heart, showing him the contrasts between Catholicism and the truth of God’s Word and the wonderful assurance of salvation given to all believers (John 10:27-30).


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Air Date: November 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: November 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently said that the Senate would be giving consideration to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Treaty (UNCRPD). A vote could come any time this week.
The name of this treaty sounds like a worldwide step-forward for those who suffer from disabilities. However, if ratified, Article 7 of this treaty would establish a legal standard here in America that would override the traditional, fundamental rights of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children with special needs. In effect, this treaty would undermine our national sovereignty.

America already has the best disability laws in the world therefore ratification of this treaty just so that we can have a “seat at the table” of any U.N. discussions regarding disabled individuals is simply unnecessary.

Other stories Jim presented included:

--Senator John McCain is taking heat for communicating his desire to see a “truce” take
place over the issue of abortion.
--Jamie Fox calls President Obama “…our Lord and Savior” during the 2012 “Soul
Train” Awards.
--A painting features President Obama posed as Jesus Christ crucified and is on display at
a community college art gallery in Boston.
--For the fourth straight year, President Obama omits any direct statement thanking
God in his Thanksgiving address.
--A Maryland state lawmaker has asked the F.B.I. to impound two voting machines to
determine whether there was a malfunction or something nefarious taking place during
the presidential election.
--The “Heartbeat Bill” is fighting for its life in Ohio.
--This Friday the U.S. Supreme Court will be meeting and discussing whether or not to
take up one or more of several petitions before them that are challenging the Defense of
Marriage Act.
--House Republicans say they’ve done all they can in negotiations to prevent America
from falling off the “fiscal cliff”.
--Hillary Clinton to deliver remarks at a State Department event celebrating the 20th
anniversary of the launch of an organization representing gays and lesbians in the State
Department and other government agencies.
--Madison, Wisconsin’s Freedom from Religion Foundation is challenging Buhler,
Kansas, over a cross that exists in the town’s seal. The F.F.R.F is claiming that the
cross violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.


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Ohio residents who wish to show their support for the “Heartbeat Bill” can call 800-282-0253.

To encourage Mayor Dan Freisen of Buhler, Kansas, to stand and fight for the city seal, call 620-543-5003. More information can also be obtained by going to http://www.buhlerks.org/

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Air Date: November 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ted Shoebat

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Air Date: November 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ted Shoebat

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Ted Shoebat is the son of Walid Shoebat, a former P.L.O. terrorist. Ted is a dedicated researcher of issues like socialism, liberalism, Islamism and communism. He is the author of “In Satan’s Footsteps: The Source and Interconnections of all Evil” and co- author of “For God or For Tyranny: When Nations Deny God’s Natural Law”

The world was told that the Arab Spring was all about ushering in liberty and democracy. What Ted has found out is that the majority of the Egyptian people want Sharia law and the only entity that can stop its enforcement is the Muslim Brotherhood. He believes the Egyptian people have become a mob and that if you look at the protestors closely, you can see that it will be the youth of Egypt that will usher in Sharia law. When they do, it will not only be the government that will be doing the enforcing but the people themselves.

What does all of this mean for the relationship between Egypt and Israel? Can Mohamed Morsi continue to hold dictatorial power in Egypt? Where does Syria stand in all of this? What about Christians and Jews in the area? Get the answers when you review this Middle East update on Crosstalk.


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Air Date: November 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Air Date: November 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Avi Lipkin was born in New York, but at age 19 in August 1968 he moved to Israel. Avi served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a spokesman for the Judea and Samaria Command, and also served in the artillery reserves.

Avi began by noting how the nations that surround Israel literally want to wipe the Jewish state off the map. It’s not the first time Israel has been in Gaza or Lebanon and when they are forced to go in to defend themselves, they’ve had to leave due to pressure from the U.S. and the U.N. and this has allowed nations to regroup for the next round of attacks. In the case of missiles fired from Gaza toward Israel, they are often fired from civilian areas. Israel’s enemies do this knowing that if they retaliate, it can cause civilian casualties. In other words, Israel is hamstrung and must be surgically precise in their response.

Why hasn’t all-out war taken place yet? It could be due to the part Egypt must play. According to Avi, the Arab world cannot go to war against Israel unless Egypt is part of the coalition.

During the Arab Spring, Egypt’s leader, Hosni Mubarak was replaced by the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood. The U.S. government did get their new leader, Mohammed Morsi, to negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas but riots started against him because hatred against Israel is so great among Muslims. In fact, Avi believes that Egypt is going through a time of anarchy and perhaps even civil war.

Before the Arab Spring, Israel was facing four enemies: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Because of the Arab Spring we see the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria on the brink as they fight against much of the population of Syria, most of which is comprised of Sunni Muslims who back the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood, in turn, is backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and the State Department. If they win in Syria, 1 million Christians will be annihilated or forced to flee and the Muslim Brotherhood will make sure of that. Avi believes that will radiate into Lebanon. Lebanon is 28% Christian and 40% Hezbollah. The 40% that comprise Hezbollah are Shiites and are pouring in to Syria to defend Bashar al-Assad of Syria. So now we see the battle lines being drawn as Shiites from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran are coming to Syria to fight for the Shiite cause and opposed to that are the Sunni’s from Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, all backed by the U.S.

Avi believes this mirrors what took place four thousand years ago when three armies came to destroy Jerusalem and they all ended up fighting one another.


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Air Date: November 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Marty Girardier

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Air Date: November 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Marty Girardier

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Ever wonder how the church feeds those who need food? Do most churches in America even have this kind of benevolence ministry? If you’ve ever considered these kinds of questions, perhaps the Lord is leading you to begin just such a ministry.

This Crosstalk can help you answer that call as Vic presents Marty Girardier, author of the book, How Shall We Feed Them. Marty explains the biblical basis for the title of the book, how to develop a self-sustaining food pantry plan, how recipients obtain food under her plan and more.

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Air Date: November 22, 2012

Speaker: William Federer

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Air Date: November 22, 2012

Speaker: William Federer

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William (or "Bill") Federer is is an American historian and writer, having authored a number of books specializing in the history of America and of the world, as they have been impacted by the Bible and by Jesus Christ. His best known publication is America's God and Country- Encyclopedia of Quotations.He is also the founder of Amerisearch, Inc., which produces a daily radio commentary describing historical events for each day, called "American Minute".

In this message, given at a VCY America Rally in November, 2006, Bill Federer provides a new perpsective on the American holiday of Thanksgiving. He starts with the Roman Empire and continues to the present, showing how and why the Pilgrims came to this continent, and laying the foundation for being thankful despite extremely difficult times.

Those ordering today's Crosstalk on CD will actually receive the entire rally message which is well over an hour long

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Air Date: November 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/11/21/thanksgiving-a-time-for-thanks Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:22:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/11/21/thanksgiving-a-time-for-thanks Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: November 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Jim Schneider began this edition of Crosstalk by describing what he is thankful for along with the latest news on the blasphemy case of 14 year old Rimsha Masih in Pakistan. Yesterday the judge dropped the charges against her. Unfortunately, both Rimsha and her family must remain in hiding. They are not free to ever go back to their home because there is a risk that there are individuals who believe that the false claims against Rimsha are the truth.

Vic then opened the phone lines and encouraged listeners to call in with their testimonies of thanks, showing God’s providence, sustenance and blessing. You’ll be encouraged as you hear what God has been doing and continues to do for those who seek Him.

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Air Date: November 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Joseph Farah

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Air Date: November 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Joseph Farah

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Joseph Farah is the author of The Tea Party manifesto, and the editor and CEO of WND, the largest independent internet news service in the United States

President Obama received 10 million fewer votes than he did in 2008. You’d think that would mean a landslide win for the Republicans but it didn’t happen. Why not? Perhaps the following factors played a role:

--Precincts that allegedly had more votes cast than the number of people registered to vote. Perhaps this can be answered by the reports of people who registered to vote but were ineligible or those who attempted to vote twice.

--Some precincts are alleged to have not had one opposing party vote registered. For example, Farah noted the account of a man who, at his Chicago polling place, actually saw his vote for Romney switch to a vote for Obama. When confronting the polling master about the issue, he was told to assume his vote was recorded correctly.

--In Florida they had a different problem with ballots that were unaccounted for that showed up in a warehouse.

--What about the troubling foreign contributions?

America is currently in debt to the tune of 16.5 trillion and in four years we will be at 25 trillion. We are headed toward a “fiscal cliff”. The Republicans hold the power to make a change in this area but will they?

Joseph Farah has an inside track on the answers to these and other intriguing questions as he discussed some interesting aspects of the recently held elections as well as the possible fallout.


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Air Date: November 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: November 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.

Less than 24 hours after the presidential election, there was a vote from the U.N. to start a new round of talks on an arms-trade treaty. Jim reported that Congressman Tim Huelscamp of Kansas indicated that although the resolution was expected, he finds it appalling that the current administration is willing to put the U.N.’s agenda ahead of America’s constitutionally guaranteed rights.

It’s likely that President Obama’s anti-firearms views would not have been well received by many Americans while he was on the campaign trail. However, now with the campaign behind him, his administration can push ahead to challenge Second Amendment rights.

Don’t assume that these challenges will always come in the form of pre-packaged legislation with anti-Second Amendment names. For example, Obamacare is also a concern on the gun ownership level because of its lack of privacy. As Larry pointed out, this means that under Obamacare, if it’s deemed that you’re a danger to yourself and others without due process, you could have the B.A.T.F. knocking on your door to take your guns way.

Now that the election is over, find out what else may be on the horizon concerning the Second Amendment on this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: November 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: November 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This edition of Crosstalk featured a portion of a message preached by Dr. Robert Jeffress from the First Baptist Church of Dallas entitled, “Last Days Living” (Pt. 2). In it, Dr. Jeffress teaches that God has enlisted each of us to be part of an offensive force to fight evil by illuminating the world with Christ. This means that when we are confronted with persecution for our beliefs, we need to do the following:

(1)—Pick our battles carefully

(2)--Demonstrate respect when we disobey

(3)—As we engage in offensive living, we need to remember that this means to be abounding in the work of the Lord.

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Air Date: November 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Air Date: November 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ben Barrack

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Ben Barrack is a conservative and investigative radio host and blogger who broadcasts in Central Texas. His columns have appeared in Human Events, World Net Daily and other media. He is the author of “Unsung Davids: Ten Men Who Battled Goliath Without Glory”.

In the early 1970’s, America endured Watergate, a scandal that involved a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters during the Richard Nixon administration. Right now America and the Obama administration are enduring what’s being referred to as Benghazigate, the controversy over what appeared to be a skillfully prepared attack on an American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Unlike Watergate, which seemingly was in the news every day and where no one died; in Benghazigate there have been deaths. In addition, the major media is strangely silent on this issue and this reaction makes them appear to be running interference for President Obama.

Benghazigate involves the State Department, the C.I.A. and the Department of Defense. This means that Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta and David Petraeus are involved. In fact, Patraeus will be in front of a couple of Senate and House committees tomorrow in closed session.

According to Ben, back in October, Petraeus said that no one told the Navy Seals (Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty) to “stand down”. He went on to note that there are now reports that they were told to “stand down” and that it’s now being said that Woods and Doherty were C.I.A. so they would have reported up the chain to Petraeus. However, if that’s the case, then why were the members of the consulate where Ambassador Stevens was located requesting security from the State Department? The State Department was watching the attack unfold in “real time” so he believes that any attack by anyone inside or outside of the State Department to point to this as a C.I.A. issue rings hollow.

Complicating matters is the latest news regarding Petraeus. Did he get, as Ben reported, “cold feet” about towing the Obama administration’s line in testimony and that the administration knew about the Petraeus extramarital affair for some time and held it until there was an opportunity to use it?

Join Vic and Ben as they sort out the complex details when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: November 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Air Date: November 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Brian Sussman is a former meteorologist in the San Francisco Bay area. He has written two books: Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam and Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda will Dismantle America.

As hurricane Sandy was inflicting damage, one could only wonder how former Vice President Al Gore would react. On his own blog site, Brian predicted what Gore’s response would be. Gore not only blamed the catastrophe on the burning of fossil fuels but went so far as to say it was strengthened by climate change.

The problem with Gore’s assessment is that according to Brian, there is not one meteorologist that would connect global warming or climate change with hurricane frequency, intensity or severity. Brian can prove this as he noted that the last several directors of the national hurricane center don’t even believe in anthropocentric, or man caused global climate change/warming.

Brian also debunked the idea that storms in the Atlantic become stronger because the waters in the oceans are warmer due to human induced climate change. The oceans are no warmer than normal. In fact, hurricanes need warm water to form in the first place but the warmer the water is doesn’t necessarily mean a hurricane will be stronger.

Brian finished his correction of Al Gore by mentioning that when there are times of warming on the planet (which usually occurs in cycles of approximately 27 years) there seems to be a decrease in the number of hurricanes and when there’s cooling on the planet, there seems to be an increase in hurricane activity.

The remainder of this Crosstalk looked at the “control” issues that seem to be driving today’s climate change madness. For example, Jim and Brian discuss…

…the tie-in between radical environmentalism on one hand and Karl Marx and a liquidation of Christianity on the other.

…a carbon tax to help with the budget deficit. This tax would likely drive up the price of anything that causes carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.

…a U.N. global agreement concerning the carbon emissions of airlines.

…the desire of some to prosecute alleged crimes against nature that they believe fall under the rubric of “ecocide”.


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Air Date: November 13, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: November 13, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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This edition of Crosstalk looked at the impact of the recent 2012 election on LGBT issues. The guest was Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

In the recent election, pro-traditional family forces lost on the homosexual marriage issue in four states. Maine, Washington and Maryland voted in favor of homosexual marriage legislation while in Minnesota a traditional marriage amendment was voted down.

Wisconsin elected a radical lesbian, pro-abortion feminist named Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate, while the first bisexual atheist was elected to the U.S. Congress from Arizona. The Human Rights Campaign attributed Baldwin’s victory to helping her to raise over $500,000 and also called her “…a role model for LGBT youth and young women across the country.”

Other talking points discussed by Peter and Jim included:

----Supreme Court Judge David Wiggins of Iowa survived a recall during this last election. He was one of the Supreme Court justices that voted unanimously to impose homosexual marriage on the people of Iowa.

--Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas, turned back the so-called “bathroom bills” (sexual orientation and gender identity ordinances).

--The “passion gap” or “boldness gap” that exists between the homosexual side and pro-family advocates.

--Homosexual advocates are pushing President Obama to “go big” on their agenda in his second term of office. An example is their desire to have him sign an executive order to ban discrimination by federal contractors against homosexual and transgender individuals. Some believe this could cause the passing of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (E.N.D.A.).

--Now that homosexual marriage is becoming increasingly legal, the next step for the homosexual lobby appears to be the initiating of lawsuits against marriage related officials and businesses.

--Fox News released a story that cash-strapped California somehow found taxpayer funding to finance sex changes.

--Evergreen State College in Washington has decided it will not prevent a 45 year old man from lounging unclothed in the women’s locker room, an area frequented by females as young as 6.

--U.P.S. late last week decided to discontinue funding to the Boy Scouts because of what they feel is discrimination by the Boy Scouts against homosexuals.

--The Gay Christian Network tries to explain compatibility between the Bible and their lifestyle.


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Air Date: November 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Reza Kahlili

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Air Date: November 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Reza Kahlili

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The name of the guest on this edition of Crosstalk, Reza Kahlili, is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Reza grew up in Iran and came to the U.S. to study computer science. His time was cut short with the sudden death of his father. He returned home to a country that saw significant change. Clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, he joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeini’s tyrannies unfolded, and many horrors witnessed, he returned to America to become a spy for the CIA with the hope of bringing about change in his homeland. He serves on the task Force on National and Homeland Security and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran. He is the author of the book, “A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guard of Iran”

Reza noted that Iran’s nuclear program started in the mid-1980’s. Pakistan eventually gave Iran the platform, the blueprints, the centrifuges and the “know-how” to build a nuclear bomb. Iran is enriching uranium out of two sites that we know of and have amassed enough uranium for 6 nuclear bombs. He also referenced work Iran is undertaking for intercontinental delivery of such devices along with work on a plutonium bomb.

How does Reza feel about Obama’s policy toward Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Where does Israel fit into this and can they attack Iran alone? Will any attack, whether it’s from Israel or a coalition of nations, collapse the global economy? Is it possible for the U.S. to show strength in this situation and shut down Iran’s nuclear advances while at the same time avoiding war? Find the answers by reviewing this critical edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: November 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: November 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic Eliason presented the following stories for listener input:

--President Obama holds firm on tax hikes.
--John Boehner calls on President Obama to step up efforts to avoid spending cuts and
tax hikes that threaten to trigger a new recession.
--Russian leaders pleased to see that someone who sees them as an enemy won’t be the
president.
--Company blames county for “robocall” problem.
--Democratic congressional campaign head says the Tea Party is over.
--One Tea Party group says it’s tired of “weak kneed” Republicans.
--In the last 90 days leading up to the election, over 68 regulations and notifications were
posted per day by the White House.
--Harry Reid indicates that the debt limit should be raised to18.794 trillion.
--Canada Free Press article indicates that America has been relegated to the “dust bin” of
history.
--David Petraeus resigns from the C.I.A. citing an extramarital affair.
--Hate crimes bill would allow men to use women’s restrooms.
--Congress warns that drones would chill the rights of Americans.
--U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may be stepping down.
--A government agency that oversees U.K. charities decides that a local Christian
congregation cannot be registered because it doesn’t open its communion to just any
outsiders.
--Philadelphia female ELCA pastor distributed condoms in her church and used the
metaphor of communion.
--Episcopalians vote to sell their headquarters in New York because of membership
losses.
--ELCA youth conference speaker touts her reputation.
--President Obama didn’t win a single state that fully required photo I.D.’s to vote.

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Air Date: November 8, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jerry Dykstra

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Air Date: November 8, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jerry Dykstra

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Jerry Dykstra is the Director of Media Relations for Open Doors USA. Open Doors works in the world’s most oppressive countries, strengthening Christians to stand strong in the face of persecution and equipping them to shine Christ’s light in these dark places.

Jim opened this edition of Crosstalk by quoting Hebrews 13:3 which says, “Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”

Jim went on to describe an annual day of recognition that seeks to encourage people to lovingly obey that verse. It’s called The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church which will be celebrated once again this Sunday, November 11th. Beginning in 1996, the recognition of this day spread to the point where today it’s one of the largest prayer events in the world with over 120 nations participating.

The persecuted church is not limited to a certain geographic area. Open Doors works in about 45-50 countries although there are others that persecute Christians. Jerry estimates that the worldwide number of Christians facing persecution and discrimination at about 100 million but he admitted that other agencies put the number at 200 million.

Jerry noted persecution hot-spots like Nigeria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Laos and North Korea, while giving details surrounding specific instances of persecution such as the blasphemy case of 14 year old Rimsha Masih in Pakistan.


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Air Date: November 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Sam Rohrer

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Air Date: November 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Sam Rohrer

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Sam Rohrer is President of the Pennsylvania Pastors Network. He served 9 terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. On finance & economic issues, he served 14-years as a member of the Appropriations Committee which he pursued an agenda of fiscal restraint. In 2009 he led an effort to invoke the 10th Amendment to challenge the federal government’s encroachment in the state on issues like health care and education. He’s been a home schooling father for over 20 years. In 2011 he served as the State Director for Americans for Prosperity, and today leads the Pennsylvania Pastors Network who takes seriously Christ’s command to be “salt and light” to the culture.

Sam believes that it is God who raises up and brings down leaders. In light of this, he encouraged listeners with the news that the result of yesterday’s election is no surprise to God. He also communicated that while America has a Christian heritage, by majority vote, our nation has placed its trust in men and not God. America is therefore no longer a Christian nation.

Sam also noted how God has shown great mercy toward America and has warned us via fires, floods and hurricanes. These things are to get our attention and drive us back to God. There has been no response in that direction. He emphasized that we must be willing to identify the sins that come under the rubric of “wicked ways” from 2 Chronicles 7:14 and turn from them.

Overall, his message to listeners was to be inspired, not in retreat.


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Air Date: November 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Penny Nance

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Air Date: November 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Penny Nance

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Penny Nance is the CEO and President of Concerned Women for America.

At the beginning of 2011, Concerned Women for America began their “She Votes 2012 Project” to encourage conservative women and women of faith to step forward and make sure they vote. Sadly they discovered that only about 25% of conservative women and women of faith actually vote. So they have set out to change that.

Regarding the contention that conservatives have initiated a war on women, Penny looks at it differently because she contends that women have carried every presidential election since 1964. She feels that the Obama administration felt that the way to “message” to women was based on divisiveness and that they’ve tried to position women as only caring about abortion

She encouraged people to call others who may have difficulty getting to the poles; people such as moms with young children. She also discussed how God’s sovereignty plays out in the end regardless of the election’s outcome.

Jim continued with discussion on the following:

--What the candidates were doing on this final day of campaigning,
--Workers at a Philadelphia polling place were ordered by a judge to cover up a mural of
President Obama in its entirety but only covered part of it, leaving the Obama campaign
logo and a quote from him in clear sight.
--A Pennsylvania judge made an order this morning to reinstate Republican election
officials in Philadelphia who were allegedly ejected or refused entry by on site
Democratic voting chief judges.
--A representative from the New Black Panther Party was also spotted outside a polling
site.
--Grave concern regarding overseas voting.
--Americans for Legal Immigration PAC accused Culinary Union #226 of knowingly
registering illegal immigrants and pressuring them to vote.
--South Dakota Family Policy Council president and CEO gives important message
regarding our voting responsibility and God’s place in it all.


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Air Date: November 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: November 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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While the election of the president is the primary focal point concerning tomorrow’s election, other key elections and decisions cannot be ignored. For example, eligible citizens will also be faced with the decision to vote for:

…all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

…one third of the U.S. Senate.

…governorships in Delaware, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Missouri, North
Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Utah, West Virginia and Washington.

…marriage in Minnesota, Washington, Maryland and Maine.

…gambling and its expansion in Maryland, Oregon, Ohio and Rhode Island.

…physician assisted suicide in Massachusetts.

…legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado, Washington and Oregon.

…medical use of marijuana in Massachusetts and Arkansas.

…scaling back in the use of marijuana for medical purposes in Montana.

…propositions to prevent people from being required to obtain health insurance in
Alabama, Florida, Montana and Wyoming.

…special rights to homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders in Kansas.

Also mentioned was e-mail and fax voting in New Jersey for those displaced by super storm Sandy. They are also using military trucks as polling places.

With all this in mind, Vic asked listeners who they would be voting for in the presidential election and the main factor that is determining that vote.

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Air Date: November 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: November 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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It was Jim Schneider’s turn to clear the Crosstalk news desk. Here’s what he found:

--New Jersey utility workers reject help from Alabama utility workers because the
Alabama workers are not union members.
--Connecticut utility workers pelted with eggs after the mayor claimed that the local
power company shortchanged the state’s largest city as it tries to cover hurricane
Sandy.
--New York State asked federal government to pay all the costs of cleanup from
hurricane Sandy.
--E.P.A. administrator Lisa Jackson announced that her agency has approved the
emergency fuel waiver for New Jersey.
--Department of Homeland Security is temporarily waiving some maritime rules to allow
foreign oil tankers from the Gulf of Mexico to enter northeastern ports.
--New Jersey to deploy military trucks to serve as polling places on election day in storm
struck communities.
--I.R.S. officially reported that they are not auditing churches because they don’t have the
authority to take away a church’s tax exempt status.
--The Republican National Committee has asked officials in Ohio and five other states to
fix voting devices.
--3 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices will be turning 80 years of age before the 2016
election.
--Planned Parenthood took in $487.4 million in government health services grants and
reimbursements for the fiscal year ending June 30th of 2010.
--V.P. Joe Biden calls transgender discrimination the civil rights issue of our time.
--Valerie Jarrett says Obama wants to spend more time on the road if re-elected.
--Department Of Interior requiring private oil companies to hire marine mammal and
sea turtle monitors if the companies are granted a lease to drill off shore.
--As of yesterday, the Obama administration has missed their second straight legal
deadline for disclosing its regulatory plans and their economic impact to Congress and
the American people.
-- Iowa joins Texas in warning international election observers of possible criminal
prosecution if they violate state laws and get near polling places on election day.
--Planned Parenthood putting another $835,000 into its efforts to attack Romney’s pro-
life positions.
--Proponents of gay marriage getting nasty in their campaign tactics.
--One Washington state county general election ballot has a spelling error that makes it
appear as though citizens will be voting for president and vice-president of the “Untied
States” rather than of the United States.
--Bill Clinton tells college students to re-elect President Obama because of his college
tuition practices alone.
--Nearly half of 600 Muslim-American citizens polled that planned on voting believe
parodies of Mohammed should be prosecuted criminally in the U.S. and 1 in 8 says
violators should face the death penalty.
--Election expected to hinge on Ohio but problems exist with provisional ballots.
--On November 6th, Massachusetts citizens will face a critical vote to decide the Death
with Dignity Act.
--5 years after Oregon legalized physician assisted suicide it’s been found that nearly
90% of people who ask their doctors for help in killing themselves later changed their
minds.
--A federal judge in Michigan becomes the second in the nation to say he would halt the
enforcement of the Obamacare mandate that employers pay for abortion drugs
regardless of their religious views.
--Hobby Lobby must obey the Health and Human Services mandate that requires
religious companies to pay for drugs that cause women to have abortions.
--Attorney General Eric Holder is allegedly connected to an abortionist who’s been
accused of defrauding Medicaid, killing a woman during a failed abortion, and allowing
another woman’s child to die due to sub-par medical care.
--U.S. birth rate at an all time low in America in 2011.
--Homosexual activists in Brazil joined by coalition of United Nations groups in an effort
to pressure the nation to criminalize homophobia.
--Irvine, California, resident requests that a sign be installed to memorialize fish killed in
traffic crash.

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Air Date: November 1, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Air Date: November 1, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Twila Brase is President of the Citizen’s Council for Health Freedom and is a certified public health nurse. She is based in Minnesota where she has provided testimony at the state legislature, but she has also met with members of Congress and speaks around the country regarding nationalized healthcare related issues.

November 6th is the election date but November 16th is also an important day. That is the deadline for the nation’s governors to declare their intentions regarding implementation of a health insurance exchange under Obamacare.

According to Twila, a health insurance exchange is defined by proponents as a one-stop shop for purchasing health insurance online that the government will set up in each state to make purchasing of health insurance easy for everyone.
Twila defines the health insurance exchanges as a large national infrastructure to register your health insurance for the purposes of the Obamacare mandate to purchase health insurance. Each exchange will connect directly with the I.R.S. In other words you will be registered with the federal government through the I.R.S. and if the exchange idea is implemented, that registration will take place through the health insurance exchange. The I.R.S. will then be able to impose penalties for anyone who hasn’t signed up, doesn’t have the right insurance or doesn’t have the right exemption.

The November 16th deadline is artificial and has no basis in state or federal law therefore Twila believes this date is just the federal government’s way of pushing state governors into compliance. This means the law doesn’t require any governor to set up an insurance exchange in their state and they can defend this stance by appealing to the 10th Amendment and states rights.

Does it pay to contact state governors? After all, if a state doesn’t implement a state exchange, won’t they automatically default to the federal government’s exchange? Did the federal government even appropriate any money for themselves to build a federal exchange or did they think states would just go along with this idea? In light of that, if enough states decide not to implement their own exchanges, what happens to Obamacare then?

These and other questions are answered as Jim and Twila “open the hood” and take a detailed look at the health insurance exchanges that some federal bureaucrats are hoping will power Obamacare.


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Air Date: October 31, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Janet Parshall

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Air Date: October 31, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Janet Parshall

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Janet Parshall is a nationally syndicated talk show host and has been consistently profiled as one of the top 100 talkers in Talkers magazine, the leading trade publication of the talk industry. She is a devoted advocate of the principles and policies that strengthen the family. In 2005 she was selected by President George W. Bush to represent the White House as public delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She is the author of the newly published book, “Buyer Beware: Finding Truth in the Marketplace of Ideas”.

Janet began by noting aspects of America today that parallel the narrative in Bunyan’s classic work, Pilgrim’s Progress. She also discussed how we should respond as she looks to the example of Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

Should we be engaged? After all, American culture is a messy place. Janet pointed to our God who has given us guidelines for cultural engagement. She mentioned John 17 where Jesus is on his way to the cross, yet in spite of that heavy burden, he prayed for us. Here he isn’t praying to the Father that we be allowed to escape to our “holy huddles” but instead he prays that we’d be given the strength to engage the culture.

In "Buyer Beware", Janet takes the reader on a journey through the public square where ideas are “bought and sold” but where Truth is sometimes difficult to find. She examines some of the most controversial issues being debated in our culture today by looking at them through the lens of Scripture. The book is designed to encourage modern day saints as they enter the “marketplace” by helping them discover the richness of God’s Word and the poverty of the world’s message.

Learn biblically how and why you can engage the culture and make a difference as you review this vital edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: October 30, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Rabbi Noson Leiter and Neil DiCarlo

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Air Date: October 30, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guests: Rabbi Noson Leiter and Neil DiCarlo

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Rabbi Noson Leiter is the Founder and Executive Director of Torah Jews for Decency and founder of HelpRescueOurChildren.org which is involved in assisting victims of child-molestation and tracking down the perpetrators. He has also been leading Orthodox Rabbis and has been spearheading a fight to repeal homosexual “marriage” in New York State.

Neil DiCarlo is the Chief Compliance Officer for a financial services firm in New York City. He is running for the 41st Senate District seat in the State of New York and has taken positions that affirm the sanctity of human life and that marriage is to be preserved as being between a man and a woman.

Rabbi Leiter noted that the advance toward homosexual marriage is not predicated upon getting rights. Their purpose is to bash Bible believers and use their so-called homosexual “rights” as a pretext to do so.

Neil explained that he’s running for the 41st Senate District in the State of New York because his opponent, a 32 year incumbent, said he told Governor Cuomo that he would be the deciding vote for homosexual marriage. At that point, Neil felt it was time to step up.

This sets the stage for a program that covers many areas of the gay marriage debate including the part homosexual marriage plays amidst the corruption within New York politics, the lawsuit Rabbi Leiter launched with Liberty Counsel after gay marriage legislation passed in New York, why Neil’s election campaign is important beyond the borders of New York, and more.

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Air Date: October 29, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: James O'Keefe

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Air Date: October 29, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: James O'Keefe

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James O’Keefe is the founder of Project Veritas. The mission of Project Veritas is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society. They are a non-profit organization which seeks to inform the public of wrongdoing and allow the public to make judgments on the issues.

According to James, voter fraud is very real. In fact, back in January, Project Veritas cross-referenced dead people with registered voters and they found that many people were dead and registered to vote.

To prove that voter fraud cases aren’t as rare as you might think, James discussed a recent investigation that took place in Arlington, Virginia. This incident involved Patrick Moran the son of Jim Moran, a Democratic representative from Virginia. Patrick was caught on tape discussing how to forge documents, impersonate other voters and even pollsters to determine voter inactivity.

In another incident, Stephanie Caballero, a regional field director with an organization called Organizing for America, was caught facilitating someone to vote twice, once in Texas and once in Florida via absentee ballot.

Join Jim and James as they comb through the details of these incidents and find out what you can do to demand accountability within our election system.


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Air Date: October 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ron Rhodes

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Air Date: October 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ron Rhodes

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Ron Rhodes is the president of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries. He is an author of over 60 books and regularly speaks at conferences and in the national media. He joined Jim on this edition of Crosstalk to discuss his book, Cyber Meltdown: Bible Prophecy and the Imminent Threat of Cyber Terrorism.

Imagine if the computer related networks controlling the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, our dams, chemical plants, the aviation industry, traffic lights, gas pipelines, subway transportation systems, freight and passenger rail as well as the electrical grid, all went down.

Our nation’s leaders are concerned about this possibility as Jim verified by presenting a recent quote from U.S Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Secretary Panetta testified during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense warning that America faces the potential for another “Pearl Harbor”. This new “Pearl Harbor” could be launched by enemies who have the capability to wield a cyber attack that would paralyze our nation.

The attacks are more common than you might think. For example, Ron pointed out that the U.S. Senate is subjected to 1.8 billion security events each month. There are 13.9 million computer attacks launched each day against the Senate Security Operations Center.

Cyber attacks, however, are not limited to attacks on our government. Ron describes how cyber technology continues to have ramifications for your personal privacy, how it appears to be shaping a cashless society, and how these and other factors fit into Bible prophecy.

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Air Date: October 25, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 25, 2012

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ObamaCare has been ruled legal and the floodgates are now open. Christians, businesses and churches being forced to pay for abortions and contraceptives is only the beginning. Does religious liberty still exist in America? Phyllis Schlafly, author of the book, "No Higher Power" gives a stirring presentation addressing this War on Religious Liberties.

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Air Date: October 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Air Date: October 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Today, October 24th is United Nations Day. What is the UN? When did it come to power? What is it's agenda? And what dangerous policies and treaties are coming from the UN?

Addressing this issue is Tom DeWeese. Tom DeWeese is the President of the American Policy Center, and is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence.

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Air Date: October 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic discussed some reactions to the third and final Presidential Debate. He immediately opened up the phone lines to allow listeners to call in and give some reactions to the debate.

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Air Date: October 22, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/10/22/2012-elections-whats-at-stake Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:48:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/10/22/2012-elections-whats-at-stake Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: October 22, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is Founder, President, and General Counsel of "Liberty Counsel," and he discussed the 2012 election and what is at stake.
He also talked about how another Federal Court struck down DOMA. This will probably go on to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This next President may have the opportunity to appoint 2-4 Justices to the Supreme Court which may sway the entire Court to be totally Liberal and promote more Judicial Activism or become more Conservative for years to come. The Justices on the current Court go all the way back from President Lyndon Johnson to President Obama.
Our nation is currently 16 trillion dollars in debt, which is almost an inconceivable amount.
There are many other civil and religious freedoms at stake.

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Air Date: October 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Shari Richard

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Air Date: October 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Shari Richard

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Shari Richard, is an Obstetrical Ultrasound Expert and Educator whose medical experience spans 34 years. In 1990 she founded SoundWave Images through which she produced the videos Ultrasound: A Window to the Womb & Eyewitness to the Earliest Days of Life. Her 2-D ultrasound footage has educated millions on prenatal development as over 500,000 copies have been distributed, broadcast and translated “world wide.” Her 2009 release of Window 2 and Eyewitness 2: The Next Generation contains the new digital 3-D and 4-D ultrasound imaging. Her footage is internationally known as “the best” and has been viewed on commercial ads and in numerous national television shows. She has appeared on national radio, television, and has lectured in schools, pregnancy centers and medical groups. In 1992 Shari founded The Imaging Network Diagnostic Ultrasound Program where she pioneered and started the first medical ultrasound clinics for SE Michigan Pregnancy Centers. She has now implemented her success nationwide by providing ultrasound training for the medical staff of pregnancy centers.

One year after the Roe v. Wade decision Shari had her first abortion. As a result of that she eventually suffered from a molar pregnancy. The resulting abnormal growth ruptured. She had to have a blood transfusion to save her life, was told she would never be able to have children and that she had cancer.

Shari asked the Lord to help her, use her and forgive her and in 1983 she conceived the first of 3 sons. Since that time God has taken her work and testimony worldwide.

Her “wakeup call” came in 1982 when she went to ultrasound school and saw the picture of an 8 week baby. Not surprisingly, the medical professionals told her to lie to women and to turn the monitors away from them so that that the ultrasound picture wouldn’t influence the patient’s choice.

Shari described how ultrasound wasn’t used for diagnostic purposes until the 70’s when Ian Donald eventually showed America what a 12 week old moving baby looked like on national TV. She noted that the government was furious and tried to deny what Ian had to show. This furious attitude showed itself again in 1990 when she presented testimony regarding the Freedom of Choice bill before the House and Senate.

As Jim pointed out, a baby’s blood type is different from that of the mother and this blood is being pumped by the baby’s own heart while in the womb. Combined with what the science of ultrasound allows us to see, we know that the Bible was right all along; that what’s in the womb is human life created by God (Jeremiah 1:5). Learn more when you review this powerful edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: October 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: October 18, 2012

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Jim Schneider cleared the news desk once again for this information packed edition of Crosstalk. Below are some of the topics covered:

--Manhattan federal appeals court strikes down DOMA as unconstitutional.
--Bill Clinton tells audience that Americans must decide whether they believe people like
him.
--President Obama shows his allegiance to Planned Parenthood in recent debate.
--Vice President Joe Biden communicates that Planned Parenthood under law can’t
provide abortions.
--Romney wants Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
--Rosanne Barr makes outlandish claim that Romney is pro-rape.
--Michelle Obama proclaims to Ohio crowd that every single child is worthy in spite of
the fact that she believes that women should be able to control their own bodies.
--Planned Parenthood has already invested more than 5.7 million in ads against Romney.
--In 2010 Planned Parenthood did 27% of all abortions in the U.S.
--Wisconsin school bus driver who had spotless record fired after telling student he
should have been aborted because his family supports Romney.
--Rudy Giuliani said the Obama administration was trying to “run out the clock” on the
investigation into what occurred at the U.S. consulate in Libya.
--The atheist group known as the Secular Coalition for America has released its election
scorecard.
--Billboards going up around the nation regarding voter fraud primarily in Ohio and
Wisconsin.
--Michelle Obama says the U.S. is in a huge recovery because of what her husband has
done.
--Republican representative Darrell Issa threatens to subpoena the Department of Health
and Human Services if it won’t turn over documents by today on a program that he’s
claiming is attempting to “buy” the election by hiding the effects of Obamacare.
--U.K. doctors told to make a death list for the rationing of care.
--Democrats running for the senate in red states deploy various tactics to fend off the
unpopularity of President Obama at home.
--In fiscal year 2011, the number of illegal aliens apprehended in the U.S. was the lowest
in 40 years.
--E.P.A. celebrates child health month.
--Some California schools to ban “Flamin’ Hot Cheeto’s”
--2 senior Republican senators call on the Department of Energy to explain whether the
bankruptcy filing this week by the maker of an electric car batteries will result in
taxpayer losses.

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Air Date: October 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Rich Christiano

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Air Date: October 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Rich Christiano

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Rich Christiano is a film writer, director & producer. In 2002 he along with his brother Dave formed Five & Two pictures. Rich has been involved with multiple films. He is the Writer, Director and Producer of such films as “The Appointment”, “Time Changer”, “Unidentified” and “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry”.
Rich’s commitment is to create movies that impact people and more significantly, glorify the God of the Bible. One example is the new film called, “Amazing Love” of which Rich is co-writer and supervising producer. This film has two story lines, one surrounding teens on a camping trip combined with another line that deals with the story of Hosea from the Old Testament.
If you know of someone perhaps struggling in their marriage or a teen going through some challenges, then you’ll want to obtain a copy of this movie to see the power contained in the unconditional love of God.


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Air Date: October 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Some people have struggled with President Obama’s claim that he’s a Christian when in fact his words and actions have shown that he is sympathetic to the Islamic faith. For example, it’s being alleged that since his college days he’s been wearing a ring that has an Islamic inscription quoting the first half of their statement of faith known as the Shahada which says, “There is no god except Allah”. This is allegedly the same ring Michelle put on his ring finger at their wedding in 1992.

Consider the recent attack on our embassy, the murder of our ambassador, the blaming of a movie as the cause and our government’s refusal to describe this incident as an act of terror. Combined with President Obama’s apparent favoritism toward Islam, it brings up interesting questions concerning the mindset that exists in Washington’s halls of power.

Is President Obama a Christian or not? Join Vic as he discusses the president’s ring and other related topics with listeners on this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: October 15, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Knight

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Air Date: October 15, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Knight

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Robert H. Knight is a Senior Fellow and Policy Expert with the ACRU (American Civil Rights Union). He has been a journalist for 15 years, including 7 as editor/writer at the Los Angeles Times. He holds various higher education degrees and has also held senior positions with the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, Media Research Center, and Coral Ridge Ministries. He has authored three books and hundreds of reports, papers and articles.

Some Crosstalk listeners may remember the voter debacle that took place in Minnesota that resulted in the election of Senator Al Franken in 2008. Robert reported that there were numerous recounts and ballots were even found in car trunks. The result was the additional 312 votes that allowed Franken to defeat incumbent Senator Norm Coleman. Robert expressed regret over the fact that Coleman conceded the election to Franken in spite of the fact that over 1,000 felons voted who weren’t eligible to vote. This particular election was critical because it was the 60th vote for Obamacare.

This is just the first example mentioned as Robert and Jim discussed voter fraud and the apparent need for some kind of voter identification system.


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Air Date: October 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Some Christian voters have difficulties with President Obama because they feel that although he claims to be a Christian, they allege that he appears to have Islamic sympathies. On the other hand, some individuals have problems with Governor Mitt Romney because of his Mormon faith.

Do these issues trouble you to the point that you’ve been thinking of avoiding the polls? If so, instead of boycotting your own opportunity to participate in the upcoming election, you may want to prayerfully consider the thoughts brought up by listeners on this critical edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: October 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Eric Eversole

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Air Date: October 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Eric Eversole

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Eric Eversole is a former Navy officer and founder and executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project.

Getting the opportunity to vote while in the military has often been a confusing process and in worse case scenarios, the ballot sometimes arrives after the election, not at all or if individuals are able to vote, their vote doesn’t get counted.

The factors complicating the process are many. Perhaps the biggest issue is the often transient nature of military life that requires that personnel have access to remote registration capability so that an absentee ballot can be requested. In response to these and other concerns, a comprehensive reform to the military voting system called the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act) was passed in 2009 to give military personnel greater access to voting opportunities and removal of roadblocks like the notarization requirement.

Eric explains that it’s not too late for military personnel to register for next month’s election. Obtain more information by going to his website linked below.


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www.heroesvote.org

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Air Date: October 10, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Colin Gunn

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Air Date: October 10, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Colin Gunn

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Colin Gunn is an award winning writer, director, producer and an accomplished animator. His is a home school father of 7 children who produced a documentary field trip of a lifetime. Colin and his family travel across America in an old yellow school bus exploring the origins and social impact of public school education.

Some people believe that the infiltration of ungodly philosophies in American education began with President Obama while others believe it began in the 1950’s or 1960’s. Colin, however, believes it began to occur already back in the 1800’s when there were individuals like Robert Owen and Horace Mann who desired a new type of utopian society. These individuals believed that man could be prefected through education and the result is that now we have this massive compulsory education system that is failing.

Colin communicated that parents have abdicated their duty to make sure their children are being instructed properly. Instead parents have become unwittingly trusting toward the systems that are cheating them.

When you consider that nearly 90% of Christian children in the U.S. attend public schools, this subject is a critical one as it pertains to America’s future.


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Air Date: October 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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As Americans continue to hear how the two major political candidates are responding to the critical issues facing America, Vic asked listeners the following question: What needs to be done or what needs to take place to save or rescue America?

Find out how listeners responded and where there may be differences when you review this open forum edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: October 8, 2012

Speaker: Dave Benoit

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Air Date: October 8, 2012

Speaker: Dave Benoit

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This edition of Crosstalk featured evangelist Dave Benoit who spoke at a VCY America rally on October 2nd of 2010. The title of his rally address was: Disarming the Powers of Darkness: The Spirit Gate.

Dave Benoit founded Glory Ministries in 1984. Since that time he’s been communicating biblical messages on the dangers of rock music and the occult.

Dave began by quoting Revelation 12:12 and explained that the reason we see the intensity increasing in the supernatural is because Satan knows he has but a short time.

Recognizing this, David described some of the 7 spirits that Satan uses to wreak havoc on this world. They include:

--The spirit of fear
--The vile spirit
--The spirit of bondage
--The spirit of unfaithfulness
--The psychic spirit
--The lying spirit
--The spirit of anti-Christ

Dave backed up discussion of these spirits with interesting facts and statistics showing how these spirits are indicative of the soon return of Christ.

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Air Date: October 5, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: October 5, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim presented the latest news items for listener comment:

--New figures reveal seemingly unbelievable job growth and low unemployment figures.
--The federal government has added over 93 billion dollars to America’s debt on October
1st.
--President Obama said Social Security is structurally sound in recent debate. The Social
Security Board of Trustees disagrees.
--Top Democratic strategist and donor concedes that the rationing of health services
under Obamacare is inevitable.
--A religious publisher, Tyndale House, files federal lawsuit against the Obama
administration over abortion pill mandate.
--Philadelphia high school teacher under investigation after allegedly telling a girl to
remove a shirt supporting Mitt Romney’s campaign.
--Michelle Obama calls birth control “basic preventative care”.
--The Obama administration is claiming that Arizona’s new law revoking taxpayer
funding for the abortion business of Planned Parenthood conflicts with federal laws.
--Canada’s Supreme Court may decide when life begins on October 10th.
--French politicians to offer free abortions to women who can’t afford one.
--The French President’s first annual budget raised taxes on the rich and large companies.
--U.S. Attorney General’s brother allegedly employs illegal aliens.
--October surprise: Iran deal cut.
--National security staff member who regularly communicated regarding “Fast and
Furious” suddenly transferred.
--Joni & Friends not supporting the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities Treaty.
--Voter I.D. requirements thwarted in Pennsylvania.
--Retiring long-time Senator Joe Lieberman has not decided who he will vote for.
--Liberty Counsel files suit in federal court challenging a California law that bans any
counseling to diminish, eliminate or manage same-sex attractions.
--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on a network TV program
admitting that he officiated over two same-sex marriages while in office.
--Russian supreme court upholds a law banning public gay pride events.
--Chick-fil-A president reaffirms his commitment to biblical families.
--Climatologists say there’s a record amount of ice at Antarctica.
--Audio of President Obama at a 2004 campaign event calling a fetus “potential life”.

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Air Date: October 4, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: October 4, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Last evening, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts and President Barack Obama participated in the first of 3 debates at the University of Denver.

This open forum edition of Crosstalk allowed listeners to present post-debate comments.

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Air Date: October 3, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: October 3, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim began with news from Open Doors U.S.A. They are alleging that 25-30 Christian students were massacred by a militant Islamic group at Northern Nigerian College. Open Doors U.S.A. is calling for prayer for victims, families and friends.

Imagine schools going through your child’s sack lunches to make sure they don’t contain certain food items. Can you imagine your kids looking forward to hummus and black bean salads for lunch? Would you believe that at one school in Massachusetts, students created a “black market” for chocolate syrup, selling it by the “squeeze”?

The problem began in December of 2010 when President Barack Obama signed S. 3307, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. As time went on, the U.S.D.A. set calorie limits that are designed to reduce the amount of proteins and carbohydrates; factors that are claimed to have been promoting obesity. These limits are part of mandates that came down from Congress to the U.S.D.A during the last lame-duck session.

The government’s intentions may sound good on the surface, but even with Michelle Obama promoting the healthier choices, the changes simply aren’t playing out well in schools. Find out why and what you can do to keep the government out of your refrigerator when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Dr. Janey Thornton—Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services—202-720-7711

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Air Date: October 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: October 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.

Vic reported that this morning, two U.S. border agents were shot. One was killed near a major drug corridor in Arizona. This has happened as we approach the second anniversary of the death of border patrol agent Brian Terry in December of 2010. His death opened the door to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious.

Just as unfortunate is the fact that up until now, the faces and names of hundreds of Mexicans that have died due to Fast and Furious have gone largely unknown. Larry noted that this has changed with the recent coverage of this scandal by a Mexican news network called Univision.

Larry also reported that there have been similar Fast and Furious efforts in Texas and Florida and that overall, the entire program ran from the Fall of 2009 to early 2011. The goal was to intentionally have guns get into the hands of cartels in Mexico in order to make it easy to argue for gun control here in the United States.

Larry uncovers more on this scandal as well as providing listeners with an update on the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.


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Air Date: October 1, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Air Date: October 1, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Brian Camenker is the Director of MASS Resistance, a pro-family action center in the state of Massachusetts, but with a nationwide impact.

Unfortunately two of the highest offices of law enforcement and surveillance in America are now embracing the homosexual movement.

According to Brian, the F.B.I. has started a LGBT program on their careers website. They have embraced the idea of having a gay advisory committee, welcoming homosexuals as F.B.I. agents, getting involved with “pride” events and even encouraging homosexual activists to report hate crimes.

Brian also mentions the F.B.I.’s connection to a multi-year partnership with several groups, more specifically with the extreme left-wing group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Speaking of the Southern Policy Law Center, they are behind the observance of “Mix it Up” Day, a nationwide day to promote the homosexual lifestyle in over 2,000 public elementary and junior high schools on October 30th.

The C.I.A. used to deny security clearance to homosexuals but over time things have changed. Apparently for about 15 years they’ve been involved with an internal agency known as the Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Employees and Allies. So today the C.I.A. celebrates national LGBT pride month and they encourage their employees to go to gay pride activities.


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Air Date: September 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Air Date: September 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat is a former PLO member and Muslim Brotherhood activist. He is the author of several books including “God’s War on Terror” and “For God or for Tyranny”.

What was it that stimulated the terrorist activity against our embassy in Libya where our ambassador was killed? Was all of this really instigated by the film “Innocence of Muslims”?

As it pertains to the film, Walid believes our media and government are using a narrative that is mired with contradictions, relying on false statements by the filmmaker who himself is not a trustworthy source. Walid makes this claim based upon the fact that
the film’s producer, Nokoula Basseley Nokoula (a.k.a. Sam Bacile), was arrested again recently and he also changed his name again.

Walid noted that there are court documents and he has collaborated with the F.B.I. as well as with the Canadian Intelligence Bureau on the issue of Walid’s cousin, a terrorist supporter, who Nokoula Basseley Nokoula has been dealing with for some time.

Why has Nokoula been dealing with Walid’s cousin? This is just part of the narrative behind this film that the media for some reason refuses to report on.

Complicating matters even more is the fact that no one has stepped forward or can confirm positively that whoever holds the identity of this filmmaker is even that man. This means that the man who calls himself Nokoula Basseley Nokoula could actually be Muslim.

Perhaps what’s most interesting is what Walid shared concerning the Muslim world; the idea that everyone is known by their clan names. So you’d think that of the many thousands of Muslims that were angered by this film, if they really wanted to find the man behind it, they should be able to produce his siblings, wives or even ex-wives if they exist. In other words, it makes no sense that Egypt cannot produce this man.

There are two other odd characteristics of this film related incident. This film is alleged to have been made well before the attack. In addition, those who attacked the embassy are alleged to have had the accoutrements of a military team and not a group of people who’ve decided to press their cause on short notice.


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Air Date: September 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Air Date: September 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jerome Corsi

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Dr. Jerome Corsi has a PhD from Harvard in political science. He is a senior staff reporter for WND and is the author of several books including “The Obama Nation”, co-author of “Black Gold Strangle Hold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil” and the newly released, “The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the U.S. Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People"

You may recall learning that oil was allegedly formed by decaying matter from dead dinosaurs. Eventually this was changed to communicate that it was formed by the decaying of ancient forests. When that theory was abandoned, credit was given to plankton and other deep-earth biological materials. Dr. Corsi says it’s all nonsense.

The Nazi’s, who had been making synthetic oil out of coal, knew that oil is abiotic and not a fossil fuel that is biologically made from certain types of decaying matter. They developed what’s known as the Fischer-Tropsch equations which explained that oil is made under intense pressure and heat deep within the earth on an ongoing basis.

To prove his point, Dr. Corsi noted that there is approximately 1.38 trillion barrels of oil in known oil reserves, the most in human history, despite the fact that consumption of oil has doubled since the 1970’s.

Are the environmentalists and our government being dishonest with us when they claim we are running out of oil? You decide when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: September 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Dr. Orly Taitz

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Air Date: September 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Dr. Orly Taitz

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Believe it or not, the topic of President Obama’s eligibility has not gone away. In order to get up-to-date on the matter, this Crosstalk featured Dr. Orly Taitz. Dr. Taitz is a well known lawyer in the country who brought to light a number of legal cases pertaining to the eligibility of Barack Obama to be President of the United States. Dr. Taitz is the President of “Defend Our Freedoms Foundation”. She was born and raised in the Communist Soviet Union and knows first hand the bleakness of the totalitarian regime and being deprived of constitutional rights.

At the time of this broadcast, Dr. Taitz had just finished participating in a hearing in Indianapolis, Indiana, regarding a case that is proceeding to trial.

Dr. Taitz noted that the attorney general wanted the judge to go back on her allowance for a special order so that Dr. Taitz, as an out-of-state attorney, could represent Indiana plaintiffs. The judge denied it.

The judge did state for the record that this is a strong case yet she did not see sufficient evidence to grant the preliminary injunction that Dr. Taitz asked for.

Dr. Taitz said that now she will ask for an expedited trial. At that time she will bring her witnesses to present their testimony as today’s proceeding was just a preliminary injunction hearing.

Dr. Taitz tried to subpoena Sheriff Joe Arpaio and she communicated that she was disheartened by the fact that he did not show up for today’s hearing. She believes that had he been in attendance, the judge would have granted Dr. Taitz’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

Vic’s interview with Dr. Taitz also included commentary from two plaintiffs in the case.


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Air Date: September 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ken Blackwell

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Air Date: September 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ken Blackwell

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Ken Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Club for Growth and the National Taxpayers Union. He is a member of the public affairs committee of the NRA. He is a columnist. He has served in public service as the Mayor of Cincinnati, the Undersecretary at the U.S. Department. of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He also has served as Ohio’s Treasurer and Ohio’s Secretary of State.

Many Crosstalk listeners are well aware of the Chick-fil-A controversy and the emotions it stirred as the company expressed their beliefs regarding traditional marriage.

Then there was the shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council by a man who told the operations manager that he objected to their politics.

What is it that is causing so much hatred toward religious individuals and the idea of religious liberty by the radical left? Even the Southern Poverty Law Center certified F.R.C. as a hate group, a certification that Ken believes is related to the shooting at the F.R.C.

A number of factors contribute to this problem. One of them is the 16 trillion dollar American debt problem. Ken described this robbing from our children and great grandchildren as a moral crisis which can only lead to people who become more and more dependent upon government. It’s basically the welfare state being financed by debt while undermining American exceptionalism.

As Ken noted, we don’t need the fundamental transformation that President Obama promised just before he was elected. Instead, we need the restoration of those principles and practices that have made America an exceptional nation.

As Chick-fil-A discovered, to stand for these principles will bring about opposition. How far does Ken feel this kind of hatred and intolerance toward Christians will go? He feels it will go as far as it can without meeting a wall of resistance. Learn what you can do to help stem the tide when you listen to this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: September 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Kupelian

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Air Date: September 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Kupelian

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David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, Vice President and Managing Editor of WND. He is the editor of “Whistleblower” and the author of The Marketing of Evil and its sequel, How Evil Works.

In an era when print news media is going the way of the dinosaur, Whistleblower magazine is growing. The reason it’s growing is because it connects the dots of the news stories that people get so rapidly these days, showing readers where the trends are going.

What makes this even more remarkable can be seen in some Gallop Poll results noted by Vic. According to the poll, only 8% of Americans have a great deal of trust in the news media; a new low.

The reason for this distrust of the major media could be due to the average information consumer becoming savvy to the phenomenon of disinformation. What’s that, you ask? Disinformation is the laundering of lies by the media; lies that come from an allegedly or assumed-to-be credible source. Because the media is doing the reporting, the public is given the impression that what’s being disseminated is full of authority and integrity.

One recent example involves the Chick-fil-A scandal. The major media presented the narrative that the restaurant caved regarding their traditional marriage stance and wouldn’t support pro-family groups anymore so that they could open up new restaurants in various areas. Looking at it in greater detail it was discovered that the major media was basically reporting a lie from a gay rights campaign.

Review this Crosstalk to learn more about disinformation as Vic and David discuss the Fairness Doctrine, the disappearance of the Jeffersonian idea of a free press, the difference between being objective vs. fair and balanced and much more.

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Air Date: September 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: September 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Here’s just a sample of stories Jim brought up for listener attention:

--Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois and Tom Harkin of Iowa tried to being The U.N.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Treaty to the Senate floor
for a vote under a unanimous consent agreement. Had Senator Mike Lee of Utah
not been on the floor to object, the efforts of Durbin and Harkin might have succeeded.
This treaty is antithetical to the idea of parental rights and is pro-abortion. See the
contact information listed below to let your senators know how you feel about this
legislation.
--The 225th birthday for the U.S. Constitution was celebrated on September 17th.
--The Obama administration is running apology ads in Pakistan denouncing an anti-Islam
film about the prophet Mohammed.
--In order to appease Muslims and the White House, a military general and the
Department of Defense punished a lieutenant for teaching about the dangers of radical
Islam.
--As a goodwill gesture, the Obama administration is weighing the possibility of
releasing Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind sheikh who was the spiritual advisor to the
1993 World Trade Center bombers.
--Tensions between Israel and the U.S. on the rise because President Obama refuses to
meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yet can seem to find time to
meet Muslim Brotherhood member, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
--5 point drop seen in Obama foreign policy approval rating.
--China military leader orders military forces to prepare for combat as warships prepare
for deployment to waters near disputed islands.
--Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani expresses thanks to his supporters for his release.
--President Obama under fire for campaign poster showing his campaign logo in place of
stars on the American flag.
--Some major network TV shows set to present Obamacare propaganda.
--EPA has mandated that all consumers must purchase at least 4 gallons of gas at pumps
that offer E-15 fuel.
--Efforts to keep President Obama’s name off the election ballot in Kansas were halted
when a state board ended its probe over Obama’s state of birth.
--Former Marine’s views on marriage costs him his job.
--Judge Vaughn Walker who nullified Proposition 8 in California, believes the role of the
judge sometimes involves moving the “strike zone” in order to champion certain social
issues like same-sex marriage.
--Senior military officials have allowed personnel in favor of repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t
tell” to speak to the media while those who have concerns have been ordered to be
silent.


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Air Date: September 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Omer Eshel

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Air Date: September 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Omer Eshel

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Omer Eshel is the Director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism for the Midwest Region. He promotes tourism to Israel in 13 states. He is a 4th generation resident of Moshav Merhavia, the first Jewish community established in Israel’s northern Jezreel Valley. He served 3 years in the Israeli Defense Forces. He is a certified Israel tour guide and served as the Head of Staff for Israel’s National Parks. He’s been with the Israel Ministry of Tourism since 2008.

It is 100% safe to travel in Israel. In 2010 Israel had over 3.4 million people come though which means every third person on the streets was a tourist and 2012 is turning out to be even better.

Israel is a high tech nation so tourism is only 4th or 5th in terms of factors that feed the economy.

Why should people choose Israel as a tourist destination? Omer’s answer was simple. While you can see mountains and rivers in a lot of places, there’s only one Jerusalem. Israel is a place where the Bible truly comes to life because it’s filled with names and places just as they are in God’s Word.

How does a person or group go about planning a trip to Israel? Because of the spiritual impact that a visit to Israel has on a person, Omer recommends going with a group. You can start with your pastor or form a group on your own. Then go to www.goisrael.com and start making plans!

In addition, Omer briefly discusses some interesting discoveries that prove the validity of the lives of Samson as well as Joshua.

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Air Date: September 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Air Date: September 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Avi Lipkin was born in the U.S., but immigrated to Israel in 1968. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces Reserves for 30 years, served in the IDF Artillery Reserves and 14 years as an IDF spokesman. Avi also served as senior editor and translator in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. Avi speaks 6 languages and is well versed in the centuries of Islamic Wars. He has written several books including, “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?”.

On the uprisings at U.S. embassies, Avi communicated that Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand the mentality of Muslims and it’s no different for many Americans. Avi likened himself to a needle that provides the vaccination Americans needs to survive, “…the sickness known as Islam.”

Moving up the chain-of-command to President Obama, Avi believes Obama has three tasks according to those in Saudi Arabia:

(1) Terminate the Shiite threat in Iran. (Avi believes this will happen before the
November elections.)
(2) Destroy the Jewish threat.
(3) Convert America into a Muslim nation.

Point #3 involves what Avi feels is President Obama’s plan to bring 100 million Muslims to live in America. This requires bringing the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood governments to power. These nations will attempt to kill Jews and Christians. Since nations won’t invest in others that are killing Christians, the economies of these Muslim Brotherhood led nations will collapse which will send masses of Muslims to America where President Obama will welcome them.

Avi also comments on:

--Recent interesting comments regarding Israel’s future from Nancy Pelosi.

--How far away is Israel from war with Iran, will America be involved and is
Israel prepared to fight this battle alone?

--The media’s treatment of the Middle East situation.


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Air Date: September 18, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ken Ham

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Air Date: September 18, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Ken Ham

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Ken Ham is the Founder, President and CEO of Answers in Genesis and Director of the Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio.

This Crosstalk began with Vic playing audio of Bill Nye the Science Guy from PBS as he attempted to present a brief defense for the idea of evolution.

The first problem with Bill’s explanation is that he never gave any evidence for evolution. Also, what does evolution, which is the alleged effect of random chance processes acting upon inanimate matter, have to do with some of the scientific endeavors he mentioned or technology in general?

The reason Bill is able to make evolution appear plausible is because he fails to make a distinction between observational science and historical science. As Ken explained, observation science deals with using your five senses in the present while historical science deals with knowledge concerning the past. By not making this clear delineation within science, Bill’s explanation is fallacious. Unfortunately, such thinking within the evolutionary camp is generating fear. In fact, some humanists are claiming that to teach biblical creation is to engage in child abuse.


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Air Date: September 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Lindsay Vessey

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Air Date: September 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Lindsay Vessey

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Lindsay Vessey is the Advocacy Director for Open Doors USA. Open Doors works in the world's most oppressive countries, strengthening Christians to stand strong in the face of persecution and equipping them to shine Christ's light in these dark places. They also intercede by means of advocacy on behalf of those being persecuted.

This Crosstalk presented details concerning Rimsha Masih of Islamabad, Pakistan. She has been accused of blasphemy by a neighbor for allegedly burning pages from a Muslim holy book. Her exact age is unknown but she’s believed to be from 11 to 14 years old. Rimsha is illiterate and may have Down’s Syndrome. Lindsay noted that the evidence may have been planted by a Muslim cleric who has been arrested.

Rimsha’s charges have not been dropped but she has been released. This puts her life in danger because even if she’s acquitted, vigilante justice is common; therefore she is currently in an undisclosed location.


More Information:

www.opendoorsusa.org

Embassy of Pakistan
Sherry Rehman
202-243-6500 Ext. 2000 or 2001
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The Embassy Deputy Chief—Dr. Asad Khan
202-243-3251

Chicago Consulate
312-781-1831

New York Consulate
212-879-5800

Los Angeles Consulate
310-441-5114

Houston Consulate
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Air Date: September 14 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Shaw

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Air Date: September 14 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Shaw

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Michael Shaw is the President of Freedom Advocates which represents a cross-section of people from all political parties and backgrounds who are united in the principles of individual liberty, equal justice and the constitutional administration of government.

Agenda 21 is a program that was announced by the United Nations in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit and signed by 178 nations. It’s not a typical treaty but is a soft-law treaty which means it comes back into a nation and requires no legislative approval. In the case of the U.S. it was taken by Bush’s executive department and made an integral part of the administration of all of our federal agencies. It continues on to this day in our government with full backing from both political parties.

Agenda 21 calls for an 85% reduction in the human population of the earth. It also calls for the re-wilding of over 50% of the U.S., land that won’t be accessible by people or for the resources they contain.

Agenda 21 comes into our communities in a number of ways. For example, you may have heard the phrase, “sustainable development”. This phrase encompasses the movement toward a controlled society whose economics are not based upon free enterprise or the concept of private property but instead by public-private partnerships.

Another way Agenda 21 shows up locally is through federal government councils of government (C.O.G.) or regional planning councils as they are called in Wisconsin.

What can you do to fight this progression? Find out from Michael when you review this edition of Crosstalk


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Air Date: September 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: September 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Below are some of the stories Vic covered for listener comment:

--Is it possible that the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya was a planned, coordinated,
two-part operation and that the angry mob was merely used as “cover”?
--President Obama says he considers Egypt neither an enemy nor an ally.
--Jerusalem official accuses the White House of lying by denying that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had requested to meet with President Obama later this
month.
--Stirring backdrop behind four-star retired Navy veteran at Democratic National
Convention showed Russian and not American warships.
--Germany’s minister of foreign affairs emphasizes that they are opposed to
a unilateral Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.


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Air Date: September 12 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: September 12 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok is Egyptian born. He is the founder of The Straight Way of Grace Ministry and speaker on the program, “Revealing the Truth about Islam” heard daily at 12:30pm Central Time on the VCY America Network.

In comments before the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, President Obama appeared to communicate that the U.S. supports activities that have people in the Middle East rising up in the name of spreading democracy. This dream of spreading democracy is something that Usama noted will remain just that…a dream.

Why does Usama feel democracy will remain a dream for the Middle East? Perhaps it’s because America’s approval of uprisings seems to be encouraging an increase in Muslim violence. For example, in the past 24 hours American embassies in Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya have been attacked allegedly because of a movie critical of Muhammad. This movie was produced by an Israeli/American filmmaker named Sam Bacile.

Usama believes the movie is an excuse. He claimed that when Muhammad is described as a child molester or a womanizer, it’s because this is the way Muslim religious books describe him. Usama noted that if Muslims are ashamed of this, “…maybe it is time for them to leave this wicked cult of Islam.”

Join Vic and Usama as they look at the details surrounding these incidents including audio from presidential candidate Mitt Romney.


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Air Date: September 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: September 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This Crosstalk began with Vic Eliason reading the 9/11 proclamation given today by President Obama. The problem with his proclamation is its failure to mention God in the main text.

Where were you when the 9/11 terror attack took place? Vic shared his testimony of God’s provision toward him that day and listeners followed up with their own words of reflection regarding this tragic time in American history.

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Air Date: September 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Beverly Eakman

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Air Date: September 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Beverly Eakman

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk with news that Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor, was acquitted of all charges in his legal case. He was originally set to die by hanging for embracing Christianity and he is now a free man.

The main topic discussed on this Crosstalk dealt with America’s education system and how over the decades it’s become a petri dish of experimentation for leftist social engineers. Discussing this trend was Beverly Eakman. She has a number of years of experience as an educator. She was the chief speech writer for Chief Justice Warren Burger on the commission on the bicentennial of the U.S. She’s a researcher, public speaker, and an author of various books including, “Walking Targets: How Our Psychologized Classrooms are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks”, “Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education”, “Educating for the New World Order”, “Microchipped: How the Educational Establishment Took Us Beyond Big Brother”, “How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics” and her latest, “Agenda Games”.

Beverly noted that when we talk about manipulation of our children in schools, you have to go back to a socialist cadre of behavioral scientists in 1947. She cited the National Education Association as well as the Carnegie Corporation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as having created U.N.E.S.C.O. U.N.E.S.C.O. has infiltrated every free world nation’s education system and their leftward teachings are at the core of a manipulative type of curriculum

How did they manage to get their philosophies into he hearts and minds of young people? It’s through the media as well as textbooks. She describes how unfortunately conservatives threw their money into campaigns rather than buying up and sitting on the boards of media companies. The result is the “left” now controls the media.

Beverly exposes the leftist group manipulation techniques used on children and adults, some of which come from Nazi Germany and the old Soviet Union. As they relate to the chapter headings of her latest book, “Agenda Games”, she shows how these techniques affect issues facing America today such as “The Family Values Game”, “The Education Game” “The ‘Green’ Game”, “The Foreign Policy Game”, “The National Security Game” and more.


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Air Date: September 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: September 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic wrapped up the week by highlighting the following stories for listener comment:

--The Secular Coalition for Wisconsin is organizing a state lobbying group.
--Vice President Joe Biden thanks gay rights advocates for advancing the civil rights of
gay and straight Americans.
--Atheists, humanists and freethinkers being given official recognition at the nation’s
military academies
--Half of military voting assistance offices not working as intended by law.
--Pakistani officials believe false evidence was planted in blasphemy case against girl.
--Gallop poll shows President Obama with massive lead over Mitt Romney with
registered voters who say they have no religion.
--Critics say the current Democratic Party Platform is the most anti-life document that the
party has accepted up to this point.
--A United Methodist clergy member receives “boos” after a voice vote to put God back
into the Democratic platform.
--Obama prayer proclamation seeks to summon the spirit of all Americans who pray to
different gods.
--Audio from Mark Alan Siegel, the Palm Beach County Democratic Chairman, who
believes that fundamentalist Christians want to kill Jews in order to usher in the return
of Christ. Vic followed this up with audio featuring an opposing viewpoint from Rabbi
Abba Lighter.
--Audio from Democratic convention where a delegate said if she saw Romney, she’d
like to kill him.
--Karl Rove is being encouraged to remove himself from the GOP campaign after joking
about the murder of House member Todd Akin.

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Air Date: September 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Trent England

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Air Date: September 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Trent England

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Increasingly there is a growing debate on the matter of continuing to elect our President by means of the constitutionally directed electoral system which we see in Article II, Section 1, or the increasing push for a national popular vote. This Crosstalk addressed this issue with Trent England, the director of the Save Our States Project with the Freedom Foundation.

Although Nebraska and Maine do things a bit differently, basically the electoral college works by having each state hold its own election for president. The candidate that wins the most votes in each of the states gets a set of electors.

The National Popular Vote is an organization in California headed by John Koza who was an elector for Al Gore in the 2000 election. His plan basically works like this: A state government would pass a law requiring it to award all its electoral votes to the candidate that wins the nationwide popular vote.

Perhaps the easiest way to understand this scenario is to compare it to a baseball series. The current electoral college system resembles what happens when a team is declared the winner of a 7 game series by winning four of the seven games. That team may have actually scored fewer runs in the entire series than the losing team but nonetheless they won more games therefore they are declared the series winner. On the other hand, a popular vote for president would be like declaring the series winner, not on the basis of which team won the most games, but instead upon which team scored the most runs in the series.


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Air Date: September 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Williams

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Air Date: September 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Williams

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David Williams is the President of The Taxpayers Protection Alliance. They are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy.

While Vic described the U.N. as a great big, tall, skinny building, David added that this tall, skinny building has a very fat budget. It funds countries and policies that we might not agree with and does so via U.S. tax dollars given to it in the name of “foreign aid”. Vic called it cultural prostitution; buying favors from foreign governments by paying them money.

Vic and David discuss two taxes. One is a U.N. emissions tax that will certainly have an impact upon the airlines as well as long-haul trucking.

The second is the tobacco tax. This tax would come through the World Health Organization to help fund health care around the world.

Are these taxes ultimately designed to protect the earth or to provide health care as we are led to believe? After all, where’s the transparency at the United Nations that has allowed the American public to see audits or any specifics to see how the money the U.N. receives is being spent? Could these taxes really be about behavior control? Are there any legitimate efforts afoot to control wasteful government spending here in America? These are questions that deserve an answer, so become informed by reviewing this program and then contact your congressmen using the numbers listed below.


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Air Date: September 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: September 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim began this Crosstalk by looking at the following news items:

--The 16 trillion dollar mark in total U.S. federal debt has now been met.
--Food stamp use reached a record 46.7 million in June.
--Prices at the pump reach a national average of $3.83 a gallon.
--Growth of entitlement payments over the last 50 years increases dramatically.
--U.S. Army survey discovers that only 26% of active duty Army officers say “yes”.

After reviewing these issues, Jim turned attention to the election by asking listeners if they believe they are better off or worse off than they were four years ago. What about as a nation? Jim was looking for answers not just from the economic perspective but from the spiritual perspective as well.

Find out how Crosstalk listeners feel about the state of the nation when you review this interesting edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: September 3, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guests: Pastor J.D. Enosh and Pastor Scott Van Laanen

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Air Date: September 3, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guests: Pastor J.D. Enosh and Pastor Scott Van Laanen

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Pastor Enosh is a native of India, and now has a ministry in South India. He is currently in the United States, speaking at a number of locations. He is traveling with Scott Van Laanen, who is pastor of Northwoods Bible Church in Lakewood, Wisconsin.

One cultural reality must be recognized when trying to reach India: the “Caste” system, which under the Hindu religion includes four major groups, or “castes”. The lowest Caste, the “Dalits” or “untouchables”, are believed to be under punishment for sins in a previous incarnation. They have no rights, are allowed only the most menial jobs, and are pushed down when they attempt to improve their status. They literally are “untouchable” as no one from any other caste will have anything to do with them.

Ministry goals are to reach out with the Gospel to the downtrodden in India, especially the Dalit people. One prayer is that the caste system will eventually be broken down. The ministry also includes pastor training, church planting, and caring for destitute children through a system of Christian orphanages.

The Gospel, which is often preached in the open air, is having its effect as many individuals then ask how to receive Christ. Even Hindu priests have come to Christ as they heard the gospel preached on the street in front of Hindu temples. Some are now Christian pastors.

Demon possession is a reality, and some who have not been cured after paying Hindu temples to cast out their demons, have found that prayer by Christians in the Name of Jesus Christ has resulted in the demons fleeing. In addition, some Hindu priests who failed to cast out the demons came to Christ after seeing that He has power over demons.

Persecution of believers is also a reality, and Pastor Enosh has been attacked physically, and imprisoned on occasion, for simply preaching the Gospel.

Prayer is requested for the underprivileged people in India, that the Gospel will continue to be preached to them, that education can be provided for the children, for Bible studies for new believers, and for Bibles.

NOTE: This program first aired April 2, 2012

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Air Date: August 31, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: August 31, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic began this Crosstalk by reading a story about a man who claims he transitioned into womanhood. The article goes on to talk about the confusion taking place in this person’s life.

Vic followed this up by reading from Romans 1 beginning at verse 21. These are words that speak directly to the kind of confusion we see today as some people reject the God of Scripture and instead look elsewhere, worshipping just about anything that arouses the lusts of the flesh.

When you have a nation that has this kind of confusion existing for some individuals at the personal level, in light of our upcoming election, can we expect national leadership to provide proper direction?

Crosstalk listeners provide their views on this issue that is vital to our nation’s future.

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Air Date: August 30, 2012

Speaker: Gary Kah

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Air Date: August 30, 2012

Speaker: Gary Kah

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This Crosstalk is a recording of a presentation given by Gary Kah when he appeared at a VCY Rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, in March of this year.

Gary is a former specialist for Europe in the Middle East working for the state of Indiana. He became aware of a global push for a one-world political, economic and religious system. He has been researching developments in this area for many years. His ministry is known as Hope for the World.

The year 2012 is here and according to some, the world is supposed to end on December 21st because of a prediction from the ancient Mayan calendar. Because of this, many interfaith gatherings are being planned throughout the year in order bring the religions of the world together and facilitate a quantum leap into a new spiritual order. Much of this appears to be driven by New Age globalists who are doing all they can to make their dream of an occult world order come true.

Interestingly, Gary noted that the Bible warns of unprecedented worldwide deception, spearheaded by the anti-Christ, that will take place in the final days of human history just prior to the return of Christ.

Join Gary as he combs through the evidence to prove his point and then looks at other global issues that signal our need to seek Christ in these uncertain times. Such issue include:

--The “occupy” movement’s seeming desire to cause instability and call for
a new world order and new financial system.
--The threat of a global depression.
--The Vatican’s call for a global public authority and a central world bank.
--The European Commission’s efforts to further integrate the economies and
finances of EU nations.
--The Arab Spring uprisings that are threatening to destabilize the Middle
East.
--The Global March to Jerusalem movement and the prominent people that
are involved.
--Syria’s key place amidst the current Middle East turmoil.


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Air Date: August 29, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jacquie Sullivan

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Air Date: August 29, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jacquie Sullivan

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Vic opened this Crosstalk with news that Sunday night at 8pm Central Time, Fox News Channel will allegedly be having a very important program. No other program details have been given.

In another story, Vic noted that in the years since D-Day took place in1945, there have been only 3 occasions when an American president failed to go to the D-Day monument that honors the soldiers killed in that invasion. President Obama is the man in question and he failed to visit the memorial in 2010, 2011 and this year as well.

Jacquie Sullivan is a City Councilwoman in Bakersfield, California, and founder of "In God We Trust - America".

Years ago, while listening to the local Christian radio station, Jacquie heard about a small group out East that was protesting the appearance of the slogan “In God We Trust” on a public building. After hearing this she thought she’d work to do the opposite and have this motto instituted in cities and counties around America.

Jacquie has been working on this project since 2002. 2 years later, “In God We Trust-America” incorporated. Their mission statement says—“Our mission: To promote patriotism by encouraging elected officials to vote ‘yes’ to legally display our congressionally approved national motto, ‘In God We Trust’ in every city, county and state chamber in America.”

The total number of municipalities in America that have voted to do this so far is near 300.

This proves that one person can make a difference. Could you be that person in your area? Find out how you can get the national motto instituted in your city or county when you review this exciting edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: August 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: August 28, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This Crosstalk was a headline review program that included comments from listeners. News stories selected included:

--Fox News anchor states that Planned Parenthood does not perform abortions but only refers them to abortion providers if they so wish.
--Missionaries to the Preborn is planning to distribute 50,000 DVD’s in the general Milwaukee County area of Wisconsin in order to expose the horrors of abortion. To get involved, contact them at the information listed below.
--Vic read more responses arriving at VCY America over the issue of the comedy play, The Bible—The Complete Word of God (Abridged).
--Pro-family leaders around the world condemn an endorsement by the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic of a Czech homosexual festival.
--Kansas officials hastily drop charges against Planned Parenthood because documents disproving their excuse for keeping the felony charges from seeing a courtroom were about to be exposed.
--Over 700,000 invalid voter registrations are found by an attorney.
--Former Georgia Secretary of State and member of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to release book on Planned Parenthood.
--Islam to be a focus at the Democratic National Convention.


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Air Date: August 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/08/27/the-importance-of-the-christian-voice Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:19:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/08/27/the-importance-of-the-christian-voice Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: August 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This edition of Crosstalk began as Vic reminded listeners about a play that was set to begin later this month in Delafield, Wisconsin, called: The Bible—The Complete Word of God (Abridged). This play, produced by the Phantom Cicada Theatre Company, makes a mockery of God as it trivializes and attempts to find humor in numerous aspects of the Bible.

Since the Crosstalk broadcast that discussed this topic aired on August 9th, many listeners made their voices heard and the State of Wisconsin took responsible action and revoked the use of Lapham Peak State Park for this performance. This decision underscores the importance of the voice of the average Christian and the impact that can be made for Christ when free speech is utilized in a godly fashion.


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Air Date: August 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brenda Elliott

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Air Date: August 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brenda Elliott

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Brenda Elliott is an award-winning historian, researcher and New York Times bestselling author. She has teamed up and co-authored with Aaron Klein the books, “Red Army”, “The Manchurian President” and the newly released, “Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed”.

Some of the points Brenda discusses on this Crosstalk include:

--Are President Obama’s executive orders and presidential memos just the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of what he’s capable of when it comes to his governing style?

--How the President is “cooking the books” in terms of the number of individuals that are being detained and deported.

--The President’s cutting of 100 billion per year from our defense budget.

--The National Infrastructure Development Bank.

--The 21st Century Work Progress Administration.

--The National Popular Vote plan.

--The Obama administration’s plan to set employee wages.

--An increased unfolding of Obamacare. Will it collapse under its own weight?


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Air Date: August 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: August 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: David Rubin

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David Rubin is the author of the book, The Islamic Tsunami (Israel and America in the Age of Obama). He is the former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel and the Founder and President of Shiloh Israel Children's Fund, established after he and his three-year-old son were both shot and wounded in a vicious terrorist attack. As an American-Israeli who has been living in Israel for over twenty years, he sees the current events and their ramifications from a unique perspective.

David explained that if someone builds a home in Israel today, one room is required to be a bomb shelter. This shows how serious they are about eventual war with an outside enemy. However, this kind of move that in the past may have seemed off in the distance now seems to be closer to reality because of Iran’s nuclear program as well as their recent war rhetoric.

So with Iranian threats, Israeli preparations and public debate continuing at a feverish pace, the question is out there for all to see: Is Israel planning to attack Iran in October? David predicted that Israel will go it alone – and soon. In fact, he communicated that he expects Israel to attack Iran before the November elections in the U.S.

David noted that in order to know whether Israel will attack Iran, one needs to look at the overall situation including the political and military factors as well as what he called, “the popular factor”. On this last point he indicated that the dispute among many in Israel doesn’t center on whether or not Iran should be stopped militarily. Instead he believes the discussion is about whether it should be done alone or with the help of the U.S.

What does David feel will be the response from both the Obama and Romney campaigns in the event of an attack on Iran? Why hasn’t Iran been dealt with by Israel long before this? If Israel attacks Iran, will Iran retaliate by closing off the Strait of Hormuz, a move that would choke off critical oil supplies? These and other questions regarding the Iran/Israeli relationship are dealt with on this critical edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: August 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: William Gheen

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Air Date: August 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: William Gheen

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William Gheen is the President and National Director of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, known as ALIPAC. It is one of the largest grassroots organizations in America fighting for more immigration enforcement, border security and against illegal immigration and amnesty. He remains steadfast in his resolve to end illegal immigration in the United States.

The DREAM Act was first introduced into the Senate in 2001. It was designed to provide amnesty for alien minors that met certain specific requirements and was eventually voted down by Congress.

Now, President Obama has instituted a new immigration policy. The problem with this policy is that it hasn’t originated as a law or formal executive order but instead as some type of memo or decree through bureaucracy. In other words, with no legislative backing, which itself is an attempt to bypass the Constitution, this new policy amounts to mass amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants that includes a worker and I.D. program.

This program is for any illegal alien that claims to be under the age of 30. No proof of birth is required. William noted that the activists and organizations and those who have written the DREAM Act legislation have made it clear that they want all 20 million illegal aliens to receive this type of amnesty.

In the end, William believes that the purpose of giving amnesty to 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants is to create a block of voters that will displace and replace the center-right Christian/conservative heart of America, thereby turning America into a leftist nation.


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Air Date: August 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Air Date: August 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Twila Brase

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Twila Brase is President of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and is an R.N. She provides commentary for the Health Freedom Minute, provides testimony at the state legislature, meets with members of Congress, and speaks around the country.

Obamacare is being implemented in stages and plans call for further implementation under the guise of state healthcare insurance exchanges. The proponents of these exchanges are describing them as a one-stop place to buy health insurance (online for example).

Twila noted that the exchanges would be imposed by the federal government under Obamacare with a host of “behind the scenes” regulations. What’s most troubling about this exchange system is the fact that there would be information about everyone shared with the federal government through a federal data services hub. Your information would be shared with the IRS, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice and the Social Security Administration.

Patient privacy issues, mandates and mandate exemptions, states rights, employer fines…this topic is complicated but Jim and Twila sort out the details when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: August 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/08/20/white-house-hosts-iftar-dinner-again Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:37:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/08/20/white-house-hosts-iftar-dinner-again Crosstalk Home

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Host: Vic Eliason

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President Obama has stated that he’s a Christian and he has emphasized the importance of our faith. But what does he mean when he says he’s a Christian? Does he have a track record during his first term to prove it or are there examples showing him acting counter to his spoken allegiance?

Vic played a clip of President Obama addressing the fourth annual Iftar dinner held in the State Dining Room of the White House on Friday evening August 10th. The Iftar is the meal that breaks the day of fasting during Ramadan, when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset.

This celebration, that started with Bill Clinton and continued with George W. Bush, isn’t limited to the recognition it gets from the White House. For example, Janet Napolitano hosted the 2nd annual Department of Homeland Security Iftar dinner.

Vic also talks about Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Abedin’s alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood; Tony Blair’s warning of Islamic extremism to a “sleeping” Western world and more.

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Air Date: August 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: August 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider cleared the news desk and presented items of interest to Crosstalk listeners. Stories included:

--Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, commented on the Southern
Policy Law Center and their naming of FRC as a “hate group”. This law center gives
the FRC this rating in spite of Wednesday’s alleged shooting of a FRC security guard
by a Virginia man.
--Brent Bozelle of the Media Research Center criticizes the secular media for their lack of
coverage of the alleged FRC shooting.
--The Obama administration refuses to declare the shooting at the Family Research
Council a “hate crime”.
--President Obama holds the record for hiring more openly LGBT individuals to federal
government jobs than all previous administrations combined.
--Bill Keller of LivePrayer.com plans to file a 100 million dollar defamation lawsuit in
federal court against the Southern Policy Law Center.
--A Dallas police officer is facing punishment for allegedly supporting Chick-fil-A while
on duty.
--Pro-homosexual vandalism reported at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.
-- On August 7, the D.C. Office of Human Rights announced their plans to launch a
government sponsored ad campaign aimed at combating transgender discrimination in
Washington, D.C.
--A Great Britain newscaster used the phrase “religious hogwash” to introduce the book
of Genesis.
--A blasphemous play that mocks Christianity and the Bible is set to go ahead as
scheduled at a Southeast Wisconsin state park.
--A Virginia reverend is convicted of aiding an international parental
kidnapping.
--The Democratic Party Platform Committee unanimously adopted a plank that calls 32
states in America as discriminatory because they do not support same-sex marriage.
--An Afghanistan village policeman opens fire on his American allies.
--Suicides among American soldiers on the increase.
--A critical comment about Medicare was edited out of a 60 Minutes broadcast involving
vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
--Democrats in the California assembly kill a bill that would have made it easier to fire
teachers accused of serious sexual offenses against youngsters.
--The name ‘Mohammed’ reclaims its place as the most popular name for baby boys born
in England and Wales in 2011.
--Joe Biden continues to get caught presenting verbal gaffs.
--The Department of Energy announced the distribution of 43 million dollars in funding
for the development of energy storage technology that was too risky for private sector
investment.
--The E.P.A. claims they are seeing coal “haze” in certain areas of the U.S.
--A Russian nuclear powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles
went undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks.
--The Russian economy prepares for possible meltdown.

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Air Date: August 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Dr. Dean Kurtz

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Air Date: August 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Dr. Dean Kurtz

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As Vic mentions early on, music can motivate, it can be a blessing, but it can be abrasive as well as a curse. It’s this very challenging topic of music and worship in the church that was covered on this edition of Crosstalk.

Vic’s guest was Dr. Don Kurtz. Dr. Kurtz has bachelor degrees in both Music Education & Bible, a Masters in Sacred Music, and a Doctor of Ministry. He is an adjunct professor at Maranatha Baptist Bible College and is on the Pastoral Staff at Calvary Baptist Church in Watertown, WI. He has been communicating what the Word of God says about music and worship for close to 30 years. He is author of the book, Worship and Music in the Word: A Genesis to Revelation Study.

If you’ve ever tried to defend a biblical basis for music, you may have been led to feel as though it’s intolerant to challenge the near constant change that seems to take place in the music field. As Dr. Kurtz pointed out, there’s nothing wrong with change itself, but instead what is the parameter for change? He noted that we need to discipline change by the Word of God. Since God is a moral God, any change in music such as the notes, rhythm, etc. must also represent the character of God. In other words, we can’t short circuit the process and look only for a moral beat or rhythm; we need to make sure all parts of the music properly represent the God of the Bible.

Dr. Kurtz’s book, Worship and Music in the Word: A Genesis to Revelation Study, looks at areas such as the creation of music, the patriarchs and their music, Mosaic worship, a study on Psalms, the disintegration of music, Christ’s teaching on music and more.

Remember that God does not accept all forms of worship allegedly geared toward Him. He’s looking for those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. This fact alone makes this Crosstalk a critical one worth reviewing as well as sharing with friends and loved ones.


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Air Date: August 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Daniel Weber

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Air Date: August 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Daniel Weber

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Daniel Weber is the founder of an organization for seniors known as the Association of Mature American Citizens. A.M.A.C. is a conservative alternative to the liberal American Association of Retired Persons (A.A.R.P.) and has been in existence since 2007.

Vic began this edition of Crosstalk with an audio cut from President Barack Obama who has admitted that Medicare is going broke.

After Mitt Romney’s announcement of Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential candidate, the liberal media began to scare seniors with the false notion that Ryan, if elected, would change Medicare as we know it.

Is this true? Daniel noted that President Obama is taking away billions from seniors as he attempts to do away with Medicare Advantage, yet he has the nerve to criticize Paul Ryan who is, in fact, trying to save the system.

Daniel admits that Obama’s health plan will save money but it will do so by rationing. Ryan’s plan will still have exchanges but there will be no federal option. The lack of a federal option will spur competition and actually help doctors make more money.

Vic also played an audio clip from Erskine Bowles. Bowles is the former Clinton administration White House Chief of Staff. He was appointed in 2010 as the Democratic co-chair of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. In the clip, Mr. Bowles communicates his appreciation for the budgeting abilities of Paul Ryan.

Daniel also explained that the House committee that oversees Medicare investigated A.A.R.P. and found that they stand to gain 1 billion in commissions and royalties from their Medicare supplement policy.


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Air Date: August 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. John Ashton

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Air Date: August 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. John Ashton

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk with news from the Chicago Tribune. The paper reported that 700 fewer people participated in this year’s Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation 3 day breast cancer event that took place this past weekend in Chicago. A Komen spokeswoman admitted two decisions regarding Planned Parenthood affected participation.

Dr. John Ashton is Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia and Adjunct Professor of Applied Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Dr. Ashton is a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a former Honorary Associate in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. He also served as editor of three books related to science and faith issues including the book, In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation. He appeared on Crosstalk to speak about his new book, Evolution Impossible: 12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth.

According to Dr. Ashton, changes or mutations to DNA can happen when there is a loss of some of the code or the code is damaged or if the code has new components added to it. No scientist has ever seen the substantial amounts of new code forming that would be required to prove the existence of evolution.

In other words, many scientists don’t have any solid evidence that proves the existence of evolution yet they continue to propagate the manufactured assertion that evolution is a real phenomenon.

Some of the things you’ll learn on this Crosstalk include:

--The fossil record is evidence of extinction, not evolution.
--How radiometric dating often gives different results on the same rocks depending upon
the method used.
--Could the “Big Bang” have ever happened?
--Is there solid evidence that supports the idea of a global flood?
--What is the difference between a scientific law and a scientific theory?


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To contact the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation call 877-465-6636.
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Air Date: August 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: August 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Compared to the presidency, typically we don’t hear as much from or about a vice-president after an election is over. However, leading up to an election, the vice-presidential candidate can be a critical mouthpiece and image enhancer for the president’s worldview and policy stance.

This past Saturday, Governor Mitt Romney used the backdrop of the USS Wisconsin, a navy ship, to formally introduce Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate.

This Crosstalk features Vic Eliason as he reviews a number of media opinions regarding the choice of Congressman Ryan. Vic also takes calls from Crosstalk listeners as they express what impact they feel Ryan will have on the Republican ticket, how he measures up to Joe Biden, if the choice of Ryan is swaying their vote one way or the other and more.

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Air Date: August 10, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider

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Air Date: August 10, 2012

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The broadcast began with an important review/update of the topic from yesterday’s Crosstalk. The Bible—The Complete Word of God (Abridged), is a blasphemous play that is scheduled to run from August 31st to September 15th at Lapham Peak State Park in Delafield, Wisconsin.

Headlines mentioned included:

--The Natural Resources Conservation Service operates 9,516 vehicles even though it has
only 11,605 employees. These are odd statistics for a government entity that is
supposed to exist to help keep our environment clean.
--Mormon Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney reiterates his view that the Boy Scouts
should admit homosexuals as scouts and scout leaders.
--U.S. Postal Service losing 42 million dollars per day in fiscal 2012.
--A gay artist, claiming to be a Christian, arrested after illegally painting a Chick-fil-A
restaurant.
--I.R.S. official warns pastors to keep silent during elections.
--Muslim terrorists tell Nigeria’s Christian president to convert or resign.
--Welfare state grows by nearly 19% under current administration.
--Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, to host President Obama at white tie
fundraiser for health care causes.
--Turkish government rescinded the license of a company who offered abortion tours.

More Information:

CLICK HERE for a list of many contacts to reach the SummerStage board of directors, and for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that operates the park where the play is being held.

To contact Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker regarding the play, The Bible—The Complete Word of God (Abridged):

govgeneral@wisconsin.gov

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Air Date: August 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider

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Air Date: August 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason and Jim Schneider

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Today in America, it’s not unusual to hear voices of outrage, even from secularists, when someone is deemed to be acting in an intolerant fashion to the people or writings of numerous religious persuasions. However, when the Bible is mocked or ridiculed, the cries for tolerance seem to stop.

Here’s one example. The Bible—The Complete Word of God (Abridged) is a play produced by the Phantom Cicada Theatre Company. This play makes a mockery of God as it trivializes and attempts to find humor in various aspects of the Bible.

A 501c3 non-profit group known as Summer Stage of Delafield, Inc. and their board of directors will be hosting this blasphemous play at Lapham Peak State Park in Delafield, Wisconsin. The play will be running on various dates beginning August 31st and ending on September 15th.

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CLICK HERE for a list of many contacts to reach the SummerStage board of directors, and for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that operates the park where the play is being held.

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Air Date: August 8, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Day Gardner

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Air Date: August 8, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Day Gardner

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Day Gardner is President of the National Black Pro-Life Union.

Vic began this edition of Crosstalk with audio cuts featuring North Carolina abortionist Ron Virmani It was on his doorstep recently that pro-life activists confronted him about his abortion exploits. What was his response? He said, “Let me see you adopt one of those ugly, black babies.”

Of the approximately 50 million children killed via abortion since 1973, approximately 15 million have been black children. This isn’t surprising when you consider, as Day noted, “abortion facilities are purposely placed in minority, urban neighborhoods”.

Why aren’t people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton speaking out against this? Gardner points out that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger went to the community leaders and clergy with her message. She knew that if black parishioners heard this message from a black pastor, they would accept this ideology.

In the case of Jesse Jackson, Day described how he was on the pro-life side until he ran for president. She explained that running for president requires great wealth or access to it. So she feels Jackson sold his soul to the devil and changed his stand regarding the abortion issue.

Also discussed was President Obama’s take on the abortion issue along with the case of 24 year old Tonya Reaves. Tonya was left bleeding for 5 1/2 hours at an abortion clinic yet not one person dialed 9-11. The result was not only death for Tonya’s baby but for her as well.

More Information:

National Black Pro-Life Union:

www.nationalblackprolifeunion.com

202-834-0844

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Air Date: August 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Air Date: August 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brian Camenker

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Brian Camenker is the Director of MASS RESISTANCE, a pro-family action center in the state of Massachusetts.

Mass Resistance has an updated version of the booklet called, What Same-Sex Marriage has Done to Massachusetts. On this edition of Crosstalk, Brian discussed some of the disturbing fallout due to the acceptance of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. For example:

--In the Spring of 2005, David Parker was arrested over objections to homosexual curriculum material that was being taught in his son’s Kindergarten class. School officials refused him the option to ‘opt out’ his son nor would they tell him when they would be teaching his child these things. When the case went to court, the judge ruled that because of the gay marriage ruling in Massachusetts, the schools have a right and even an obligation to help children equate same-sex marriage with traditional marriage.

--Hospitals are starting to cater to LGBT health issues. They are having homosexual events, seminars, awards ceremonies and also participating in homosexual parades.

--Domestic Violence—It’s well known that the rates of domestic violence among homosexual couples is much higher than that for heterosexual couples. It’s become such a big problem (due to the dysfunctional nature of homosexuality in general) that the state legislature is having to target considerably more money toward this problem.

--Business and Employment—Many people showed up at Chick-fil-A restaurants recently to show support for President Dan Cathy and his freedom to speak about his opposition to same-sex marriage. When homosexuals decided to respond with a “kiss-in”, a dozen or less showed up at the Chick-fil-A near Boston.

--Massachusetts marriage certificates now say ‘Party A’ and ‘Party B’ rather than husband and wife.

--Churches are being harassed and homosexual activists don’t seem to get arrested for their unruly behavior.

--Politics—Politicians have been caving in on this issue. Conservatives don’t want to talk about this subject and appear as though they want to take away people’s rights.

More Information:

To obtain the updated version of the booklet, What Same-Sex Marriage has Done to Massachusetts

go to:www.massresistance.org

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Air Date: August 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Air Date: August 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Tom DeWeese is President of the American Policy Center. He is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence.

Here in America our government is attempting to take greater and greater control over many aspects of life such as health care, education and the environment. In this last case, it’s often done under the guise of environmentalism. Is increased regulation by our government in the area of the environment really about environmental protection or is there something else going on here?

For example, the Clean Water Act is proving to be a tool of regulation in New Mexico where the government has moved in to assert claims for damages to groundwater.

The EPA is denying a Clean Water Act permit in Bristol Bay, Alaska, for the Pebble Mine Project, a project that is thought to have the largest copper and gold mines and could employ over 1,000 people for 30 years. Why the permit denial by the EPA? It’s because they could lose a mere 6.7 square miles of wetlands out of thousands in existence.

A rural Oregon man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs to collect and use rain water and snow runoff. In Oregon, all water is publicly owned so because he collected this water, he had to have permits from the state. He actually had them but they were retracted.

You can’t tax a church but Tom says he is hearing about churches being charged a “fee” for rainwater runoff.

An individual has a small, manmade open ditch on his property in Indiana. It was in need of repair. So the owner of the property went to the county because he wanted to make some changes in order to responsibly handle the agricultural discharge. He received permission to go ahead with his plans. This saved taxpayer dollars as well as cleaning up the water supply. Federal authorities claimed this was a violation of the Clean Water Act because the ditch was deemed a navigable waterway.

The EPA is flying unmanned, military spy drones over farms in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to make sure farmers aren’t violating the Clean Water Act.

This is just a small sample of the effects of the Clean Water Act, a piece of legislation that’s being used to enforce a radical agenda, sometimes at the expense of the environment.


More Information:

American Policy Center
www.americanpolicy.org

To present your views regarding the use of spy drones, below are the bill numbers in both the Senate and the House along with phone numbers you can use to reach your government representatives:

S-3287—Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2012
(HR-5925 in the House of Representatives)

Senate Switchboard
202-224-3121

House Switchboard
202-225-3121

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Air Date: August 3, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: August 3, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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After an update concerning the Chick-fil-A/traditional marriage controversy, Vic presented the following stories:

--A heterosexual man, supportive of same-sex marriage, seeks free water
from Chick-fil-A in protest of President Dan Cathy’s support for
traditional marriage.
--White House Press Secretary Jay Carney avoids giving a direct answer on
the subject of the city the U.S. recognizes as the capital of Israel.
--70% of terrorist murders in 2011 were done by Sunni Muslims.
--Iranian president says world forces must annihilate Israel.
--Amtrak is promoting ‘Ride with Pride’.
--Democrats seek to include support for homosexual marriage in the official
party platform.
--Amazon.com founder and wife announce they are donating 2.5 million
dollars to defend Washington’s same-sex marriage law.
--Target is promoting their wedding registry with a focus on homosexual
marriage.
--Men can wear skirts at Oxford University.
--Deputy press secretary for the Obama administration marries ABC
reporter.
--Napolitano questioned about possible terrorists crossing U.S. southern
border.
--Muslim polygamists to get more welfare benefits.
--Baby in China found in trash with throat cut but still alive.

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Capitol Switchboard
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Air Date: August 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Rachel Motte

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Air Date: August 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Rachel Motte

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Rachel Motte is the Editor of Eagle Forum’s “Education Reporter”, a news letter that focuses on educational issues.

This edition of Crosstalk looks at a movement to control and direct what youth are taught in the public education system under the title of Common Core Standards.

At the present time, each state has its own set of education standards. States, however, often desire federal grant money so as part of the 2009 stimulus package, a program was created called, ‘Race to the Top’. This program communicated to states that if they participate by signing on to a series of common core standards, they would be more likely to obtain federal funds.

Common Core Standards is now a plan on the part of the Obama administration to centralize educational decision making power in Washington. It’s comprised of a set of common standards dictated by the federal government. Since the federal government would be dictating the standards, this program would take power away from individual states, local school boards and in the end, parents as well. 2014 is currently set as the year for implementation.

Jim noted how this violates the 10th Amendment and Rachel also pointed out how this violates the ‘No Child Left Behind’ law.

Find out how much this will cost, the quality of the standards, what this may mean for public school children and more when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: August 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Erich Pratt

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Air Date: August 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Erich Pratt

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Erich Pratt is the Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America, an organization dedicated to promoting the 2nd Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms. Erich is the author of “Bearing Arms: Our Rights, Our Duties & Our Freedoms”, and is the author of a civil government textbook, “The Constitutional Recipe for Freedom”

As soon as the shooting incident in Aurora took place, the liberal “left” took the opportunity to speak out against gun rights. What they conveniently forget or perhaps know but won’t admit, 99% of the massacres in America have occurred in gun free zones such as the theater in Aurora, Colorado, Columbine High School, Virginia Tech and Fort Hood, Texas.

What happens when good people are allowed to own guns? Erich cited another incident in Aurora, Colorado, that occurred in April of this year. A man drove his car into a church parking lot, crashed into another car, got out and started firing shots and killed a person in the parking lot. He was about to enter the church and continue his shooting. Fortunately, a worshipper who had a concealed firearm (Churches in Colorado are not gun-free zones.), used it and killed the man, an action that avoided a possible massacre.

The right to self-defense is biblical. America’s founders knew this which is why they gave us the right to keep and bear arms. Today, however, killing is often trivialized in the minds of children and even adults through games such as “Paintball” as well as numerous video games.

Does history prove that gun bans make American cities safer? Erich describes why the answer is no, and with Vic, discusses other factors that prove why allowing law-abiding citizens to carry guns, is a great deterrent to crime.


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www.gunowners.org

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Air Date: July 31, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Christian Andresen

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Air Date: July 31, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Christian Andresen

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Christian Andresen is the Executive Director of the European Bible Training Center in Berlin, Germany.

This Crosstalk was an example of how we can’t forget to monitor and pray for the needs of those ministering the gospel in places other than America.

Christian began by describing Europe as basically a godless society. As an example, he cited East Germany where now only 2.5% believe that there is a God.

Where did things go wrong? Christian believes the church lost its focus and went more with culture and traditions rather than focusing on the Bible and God.

Complicating matters is the problem of population replacement. Christian described Europe’s population as currently being in a negative trend with families averaging only 1.2 children. At the same time, the abortion rate is growing.

Islam is having a great impact on Europe as Christian noted that politicians want to be politically correct so as not to offend Islam. He feels the answer is the gospel but the church in Europe hasn’t caught on to that yet.

From here the discussion moved to the change of the 10/40 window to the 40/70 window, the needs of the pastors being ministered to, the shepherds conferences he’s involved with, the requirements of students at the training center, the spiritual apathy in Europe, his message to the church in America and much more.


More Information:

www.ebtc-online.org
www.tmai.org/germany

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Air Date: July 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: July 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Last Thursday, with the aid of 3 Republicans, a Senate committee passed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty, moving it one step closer to making it the law of the land.

As reported two weeks ago on Crosstalk, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty would set up a committee of judges and U.N. experts to monitor U.S. compliance to global standards allegedly set up to protect the best interests of the disabled, including children.

Jim noted on today’s program that this treaty would also allow for greater abortion access in Article 25. In short, this treaty would force Americans to sanction sterilization or abortion for the disabled at taxpayer expense. The treaty could be ratified as early as this week.

Other stories Jim brought to listener attention included:

--The U.S. House of Representatives will be voting tomorrow on legislation
that would end the current legal policy allowing abortion for any reason
until the moment of birth in the nation’s capital.
--African American woman dies in a so-called legal abortion. New
documents reveal that Planned Parenthood allegedly waited over 5 hours
before getting this woman proper medical attention.
--American Cancer Society continues to defend grants to Planned
Parenthood.
--A Federal court recently issued an order that halts the enforcement of the
Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate.
--House Speaker John Boehner indicated that the House may go ahead and
provide the Obama administration with the funding it needs to implement
certain aspects of Obamacare dealing with sterilization, cost sharing,
contraception and more.
--Chick-fil-A restaurant C.E.O. continues to be criticized for his biblical
stance on traditional marriage.
--Swedish 8th grade student fails biology class for stating that
homosexuality is abnormal.
--San Francisco public library installs plastic privacy screens so that porn
can be viewed more discreetly on its computers.
--U.N. Commission calls for the legalization of prostitution worldwide.
--Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton calls Barack Obama the most hostile
president toward Israel since the Jewish state came into existence.
--Mitt Romney declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
--Chinese direct investment could hit record high in 2012.
--The Pentagon orders replacement helicopters from Russia.
--President Obama makes special Ramadan statement to Muslim
community.


More Information:

Senate switchboard
202-224-3121
www.senate.gov

To contact your congressmen call 202-225-3121

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Air Date: July 27, 2012

Original Air Date: April 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Karen Malec

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Air Date: July 27, 2012

Original Air Date: April 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Karen Malec

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Karen Malec is the President and Co-Founder of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. She has written articles and regularly speaks on the links between abortion and breast cancer and has testified before various state legislatures.

Despite the fact that most cancer-fighting organizations either ignore, or deny the link between abortion and a woman’s likelihood of developing breast cancer, the evidence for such a link is credible and overwhelming. In fact, many of these same organizations recommend that a woman carry her first pregnancy to term and breast feed the baby to mature the cells that would be susceptible to cancer. Further studies show that even after an abortion, carrying the next baby to term and breast feeding will minimize the increased cancer risk due to the abortion alone.

Even the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which is funded by taxpayer dollars, has denied such a link, citing only a few of the available studies—the ones that show no link—while a majority of studies available showed a definite likelihood of breast cancer after an abortion.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which raises millions of dollars to fight breast cancer, briefly chose to stop sending funds to Planned Parenthood in part because of the link between abortion and breast cancer. When they did so, their rate of donations nearly doubled immediately.

But Planned Parenthood rallied support from the media and prominent Democratic lawmakers to decry the loss of “pregnancy care” including mammograms (which Planned Parenthood does not provide), and to propose an end to donations to Komen. Eventually Komen caved in, and recently announced plans to support 17 Planned Parenthood affiliates, even though PP is the nation’s largest abortion provider, which already receives millions of taxpayer dollars.

Karen recommends contacting Congress to investigate the National Cancer Institute, and especially its head, Dr. Harold Varmus, for refusing to include the credible evidence for the link between abortion and breast cancer, instead continuing to claim that there is no link. Komen for the Cure can also be contacted to let your views be known about their decision to resume support for Planned Parenthood.

More Information:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer:

www.abortionbreastcancer.com

1-877-803-0102

To contact your U.S. Senator and Representatives about investigating the National Cancer Institute cover-up of the abortion/breast cancer connection:

Capitol Switchboard in Washington, DC

202-224-3121
202-225-3121

To contact Susan G. Komen for the Cure about their support for Planned Parenthood:

1-877-465-6636

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Air Date: July 26, 2012

Speaker: Dr. John Morris

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Air Date: July 26, 2012

Speaker: Dr. John Morris

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Dr. John Morris is the President of the Institute for Creation Research of Texas. He has a doctorate in Geological Engineering, has been a professor in the ICR Graduate School and has written numerous books and articles on the evolution/creation debate.

This Crosstalk is a recording from an appearance Dr. Morris made at a VCY America rally in March of 2010.

The creation model can be defined as a model of sudden appearance. That’s precisely what we see in the fossil record; many varieties coming from a single kind but one kind never becoming a different kind.

What about the origin of the fossil record? How do evolutionists believe it came about? Is the evolutionary “tree” 100% factual or filled with inference?

These questions and more are dealt with as Dr. Morris explains how the fossil record has Christianity winning the origins battle.


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To obtain a copy of this VCY rally on audio CD or DVD, call 1-800-729-9829 or go to www.crosstalkamerica.com. Once there, go to the Crosstalk Store and search for "John Morris" or “The Fossil Record” under "Rallies"

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Air Date: July 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mark Crutcher

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Air Date: July 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mark Crutcher

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Mark Crutcher is the founder and director of Life Dynamics. Mark may be best known for his bold undercover operations that have exposed shocking and even illegal activities inside the abortion industry.

It was a Life Dynamics sting that caught Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry operating a nationwide pedophile protection ring which refuses to make mandatory reports of statutory rape, and another one that documented how abortion clinics make extra profit by selling the body parts of the babies they kill.

Mark gave a brief history of Planned Parenthood, showing that throughout its history, the underlying goal has been to target the black population. A video documentary, “Maafa 21” produced by Life Dynamics gives ample evidence of their effectiveness as even today, Planned Parenthood offices are concentrated in black neighborhoods, and the number of black babies aborted is far larger than justified by their numbers in the population.

The organization remains the largest provider of abortions in the United States, with affiliates around the world. It receives millions of taxpayer dollars each year, in addition to donations and fees charged for abortions and other services. The discovery that they also sell body parts from aborted babies reveals another source of revenue.

More Information:

Life Dynamics (Note: this website has links to a number of other pro-life websites):
prolifeamerica.com

To watch the documentary, “Maafa 21” online, or to order DVD’s:
www.maafa21.com

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Air Date: July 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: July 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Looking for an alternative news source that presents stories not covered by the major media? Then Crosstalk should be your source. Vic Eliason proved that once again with this news “round-up” edition. Stories included:

--Beginning next month, drones will begin flights across America at altitudes under 400 feet. The Air Force has announced that they can keep any personal information they collect for over 90 days and can review it to make sure you are not a terrorist threat.

--After months of worldwide protest, the governor of Saint Petersburg, Russia, signed a bill into law that would criminalize any expression related to LGBT individuals.

--A woman dies after a botched abortion at a Chicago area Planned Parenthood clinic.

--Former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann and others are being criticized as intolerant for signing a letter expressing concern over Huma Abedin, longtime aid to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her alleged connections with the Muslim Brotherhood.


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Air Date: July 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: July 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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In our modern society there seems to be and incessant desire for entertainment and excitement and this can lead to parents who allow or even encourage unbiblical choices in the lives of their kids just to prevent them from getting bored.

Remember the fantasy board game phenomenon that included games such as Dungeons and Dragons?

Remember the Columbine shooting? This tragedy was executed by young men who were fans of watching video games that had been used for military training.

Last week, and even now, the media is abuzz about the PhD student who showed up with red hair at a midnight showing of the latest “Batman” movie calling himself the Joker. For reasons still unknown, allegedly he went on a shooting spree killing and wounding many people.

When Satan clouds the mind, virtuousness disappears and that which we often call virtual reality gets played out. As we’ve seen, in acting out these scenes of the mind, people get killed.

This program contrasts worldly entertainment choices against the Christian standard—God’s Word. It challenges all believers to make sure Christ isn’t merely a historic person or that Christianity isn’t merely a faith system residing in the mind. Instead this program encourages people to make certain that Christ is truly residing in the heart.

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Air Date: July 20, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Air Date: July 20, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Brian Sussman

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You’ve no doubt now heard that for many cities across the U.S., July 4th was the hottest on record. However, did you hear this inconvenient truth? 37 cities recorded their all-time coolestmaximum temperature on Independence Day.

Meantime, USA TODAY insists that the U.S. “is in the middle of its worst drought in 55 years.

Actually, when all the records are combined, another meteorologist crunched the numbers illustrating that half of the U.S experienced above normal temperatures this summer, while the other half was below normal.

Meantime, in places like Scandinavia, and the British Isles, this summer is going down as one of their coldest on record.

Historical information shows that between 900 and 1300AD, the average temperature on the earth’s surface was likely at least 2°F warmer than today. This period is known as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP).

From 1350 to 1800AD there was a global cool down reversing the warmth of the MWP, with temperatures at one point falling to roughly 2°F cooler than today. This 450-year period is known as the Little Ice Age (LIA).

Following the LIA, temperatures stabilized for approximately 50 years. Then between 1850 and 1940, temperatures increased 1°F.

Next, from 1940 to 1970, the earth cooled about .2°F (.1°C); this was followed by a minor warming of a mere .34°F (.2°C) occurring between 1970 and 1998.

Thus, since 1850 there has been an increase in temperature of 1.1°F (.7°C). Everyone—including Al Gore—agrees with this. And, 88 percent of that warming occurred before 1940!

And, Gore and his green friends are forced to agree with this one too: since 1998, there has been no additional warming. Period.
The truth is, all of these thermal ups and downs are perfectly normal.

Still, of course, the media says all of this heat is because of human-caused climate change.

In other words, you are the problem!

More Information:

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Air Date: July 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: July 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Below is a large sample of news stories that Jim covered on this edition of Crosstalk:

--The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations was to vote today on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Treaty. Senator John Kerry vowed it would pass in the Senate before July 26th. It’s been postponed until further notice.
--Target stores now selling gay marriage greeting cards.
--Office Depot offering limited edition products from and donating a portion of its profits to the LGBT friendly “Born This Way Foundation”.
--J.C. Penny stock price drops to “junk bond” level possibly due in part to their pro-homosexual stance.
--Chick-fil-A president confirms his organization’s stance against gay-marriage.
--Thompson-Reuters news corporation endorses same-sex marriage.
--The language in the proposed marriage amendment to be decided in Minnesota in November will be decided by a court.
--The Episcopal Church has adopted legislation to give transgenders the right to become lay and ordained ministers.
--Members of the U.S. Armed Forces say that they have been given permission by commanding officers to march in a gay pride parade while wearing service-issued uniforms.
--Congressman Barney Frank married his homosexual “partner” earlier this month.
--Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in a speech before the NAACP, said he wants to represent those of every race, creed, and sexual orientation then later said he would defend traditional marriage.
--Mayor Vincent Gray announced that he’s appointed homosexual Dr. Saul Levin, a psychiatrist and Senior Deputy Director at the D.C. Dept. of Health as interim director of the D.O.H.
--An Australian married Olympic couple claims that they’ve been prohibited from sharing a room in the London Olympic Village even though homosexual couples are allowed to do so.
--The E.P.A. is flying unmanned military spy drones over farms in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri.
--Latest news about investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate case.
--Transportation Security Administration approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien.
--Hugo Chavez of Venezuela says if he loses the presidential election on October 7th, civil war could break out.
--President Obama quietly signs executive order that allegedly authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to get ready to shut down all domestic communication in case of a declared national emergency, including systems like the Internet.
--Iran’s Supreme Leader is telling his people to prepare for war, the end of times and the coming of the last Islamic messiah.
--Iran has tens of thousands of agents in Latin America according to a former Iranian official.
--American for Limited Government president is urging the U.S. Senate to reject President Obama’s nominee, Erica Groshen, to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics citing her ties to a “left wing” organization with communist roots and her radical views against small businesses.
--The Obama administration has awarded 3.1 million in federal funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates in New Jersey.


More Information:

Target
800-440-0680

Office Depot
1-800-463-3768

J.C. Penny
972-431-8200
972-431-1000

To support legislation to stop illegal and unwarranted surveillance of American citizens (Both bills are called: Preserving Freedom from Unwanted Surveillance Act of 2012-- S-3287/HR-5925) call 202-225-3121
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Air Date: July 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: July 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk by pointing out that the major mantra of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement is their use of the term, “tolerance”.

Within the last 24 hours, the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed their position on homosexuality, letting it be known that they will not allow open homosexuals to serve within their private organization. The result is that the Boy Scouts are now being verbally “bullied” by the intolerance of the LGBT community.

The Scouts launched a committee to study this issue about two years ago. Since so many rumors were being circulated that they were going to be changing their policy to allow open homosexuality, they issued a statement last month (June 7th). The statement was clear that the Boy Scouts had no plans to change their policy. It noted that, “The B.S.A. is a voluntary, private organization that sets policies that are best for the organization. The B.S.A. welcomes all who share its beliefs but does not criticize or condemn those who wish to follow a different path.”

Jim covered considerable background on this issue. He presented a brief overview of the Scouts and what they stand for along with quotes from numerous key individuals who have weighed-in on this controversy. They include: James Turley, the CEO of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young; Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T; Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign and Robert Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive with the Boy Scouts of America.


More Information:

Robert Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive
Boy Scouts of America
1325 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75015
(972) 580-2000
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Air Date: July 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Air Date: July 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Phyllis Schlafly is the Founder and President of Eagle Forum.

Phyllis was on Crosstalk about six weeks ago talking about the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty. On this edition of Crosstalk, Jim reported that since that time news has come forth that this treaty appears dead, at least temporarily.

However, U.S. sovereignty is under attack again. The latest treaties taking center stage are known as the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty would strike at the heart of our Second Amendment as well as interfere with our ability to build an anti-missile defense system.

The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty would set up a committee of judges and U.N. experts to monitor U.S. compliance to global standards allegedly set up to protect the best interests of the disabled, including children. To communicate the overreaching aspect of this treaty, Jim quoted Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association who noted that Article (1)(e) of this treaty would also give the U.N. the legal power to determine the standard for the number of handicapped parking spaces at your church.


More Information:

eagleforum.com

U.S. State Department
202-647-5291—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office
202-647-5548—Clinton’s Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills
202-647-6575—Public Communications Division

Senate switchboard
202-224-3121
www.senate.gov

Majority (Democrat) contact number—202-224-4651
Minority (Republican) contact number—202-224-6797

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Air Date: July 16, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Kipp Van Camp

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Air Date: July 16, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Kipp Van Camp

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Jim opened this edition of Crosstalk by noting that even before the July 4th recess, notice was given that Congress was going to come back into session and take a vote on repealing The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act otherwise known as “Obamacare”. Things are pending in the Senate with no indication that the Senate majority leader has any desire to see this advance.

What does this mean for all of us including the medical community?

Answering this question was Jim’s guest, Dr. Kipp Van Camp. Dr. Van Camp is a triple board certified physician. He is an interventional radiologist and former family practitioner. His formal education includes medical training with two residencies and a fellowship covering a span of nine years of post-graduate education. He is also a medical business owner and serves as an adjunct professor at Washburn University and the University of Kansas. He engages in clinical and scientific medical research. He is a public speaker and author, his latest book being, “Misdiagnosis: A Practicing Physician’s Case Study in Health Care Reform”.

Dr. Van Camp believes that we have the best health care system in the world but feels we can still come up with ways to improve the system. For example, he cited the portability aspect as one problem. Another is the fact that some preexisting conditions are difficult to get covered over a long period of time as well as providing the uninsured with some level of insurance.

Dr. Van Camp feels we don’t have a health delivery crisis, we have a health insurance crisis. Unfortunately, Obamacare doesn’t recognize this split aspect of our insurance system in America and instead Obamacare looks at the entire system as broken and attempts to throw it all out and start over which simply isn’t necessary.

Dr. Van Camp covers a lot of ground and below is a sample of questions he answers for listeners:

--Should Medicare be expanded?
--What about preexisting conditions?
--Will the present cost increases in health insurance we see each year
become even greater under Obamacare?
--Will you really be able to keep your physician and insurance under
Obamacare?
--What about health care rationing and death panels?


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www.drkipp.com

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Air Date: July 13, 2012

Host: Jim Scneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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Air Date: July 13, 2012

Host: Jim Scneider

Guest: Mike Gendron

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Mike Gendron is the Founder and Director of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministry.

Mike was born into a devout Roman Catholic family where he was taught early on that the Catholic Church is the one true church. He went on to teach high school Catholic doctrine but eventually he would realize that the zeal he had for his religion wasn’t based upon biblical knowledge.

The journey toward that realization began one morning when he was reading in the Dallas Morning News that a man was coming to town to give a 3 day seminar discussing the evidence for the Christian faith. The man that was giving the conference was Christian apologist, Josh McDowell.

Mike left the conference knowing he had to read the Bible, something that is discouraged in the Catholic religion as Catholics are told it’s too complex, therefore answers must come from the priests.

Mike’s study of the Bible made him realize that God’s plan of salvation is diametrically opposed to the Catholic plan. What did Mike do next? How did the things taught to Mike in Catholicism differ from what he was learning from Scripture?

Join Mike as he presents the answers to these questions and also shares his passion to not only reach Catholics with the truth but to also equip the saints to reach out to them as well.


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For a free copy of a 16 panel fold-out brochure called: Roman Catholicism: Scripture vs. Tradition, contact Proclaiming the Gospel Ministry through the following methods:

Proclaiming the Gospel Ministry
P.O. Box 940871
Plano, TX 75094

You can also phone them at 972-495-0485 or go to www.pro-gospel.org.

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Air Date: July 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: July 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic began with a news item that was sent to VCYAmerica for public service consideration. The news item dealt with a Muslim Youth gathering to be held tomorrow in Franklin, Wisconsin. Over 1,000 Muslim students from all over America are expected to attend. It’s sponsored by MKAUSA.

Islam is an austere faith that affects every aspect of life from how you dress, speak, eat and much more. The details are spelled out within Shariah law, the Islamic legal code. It demands world domination and requires that adherents be willing to strap a bomb to themselves if necessary and give up their lives for Allah, becoming martyrs for the cause.

Unfortunately, zeal for the Christian faith among youth appears to be at record lows. As Vic noted, depending upon the poll you’re looking at, a high percentage of young people will deny or leave the Christian faith when they get to high school or college.

Locally, Vic pointed to VCY Leadership Camp as proof of this trend. This camp was extensively promoted on the network for months yet only 4 youngsters signed up to be a part of it.

Don’t miss this program as Vic looks at where the church has and continues to go wrong regarding our youth and specifically what some of the factors are that may be keeping our youth from becoming all they can be in Christ.

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Air Date: July 11, 2012

Rally Date: November 5, 2011

Speaker: Jimmy DeYoung

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Air Date: July 11, 2012

Rally Date: November 5, 2011

Speaker: Jimmy DeYoung

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Dr. Jimmy DeYoung is a student of Bible prophecy who studies prophecies and then looks at world events to discover how they line up with the prophetic timetable. He lived in Israel for some 20 years, with full journalist credentials, and thus was able to interview many leaders in that country. He returns to Israel regularly, and still meets with political and Jewish religious leaders to get the pulse of what is taking place, and what Israelis hope will take place.

In his message delivered at the VCY America Rally on November 5, 2011, Jimmy gave an overview of the book of Revelation, and then applied it to world events in the past and the present.


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Jimmy DeYoung's website:
www.prophecywatch.com

To order an audio CD or DVD copy of the complete rally contact:

VCY America
3434 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI. 53208
1-800-729-9829

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Air Date: July 10, 2012

Rally Date: March 1, 2003

Speaker: Ken Ham

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Air Date: July 10, 2012

Rally Date: March 1, 2003

Speaker: Ken Ham

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America has the largest number of Christian resources of any nation yet we are becoming less Christian as time goes on. This shows that the culture has infiltrated the church.

We see this playing out in our schools and institutions of higher learning. The Bible touches on geology, biology, anthropology, astronomy and other earth related topics. The problem is that the public educational establishment is teaching false, anti-biblical notions about these sciences. The result is that students are led to feel that if they can’t trust the Bible regarding earthly things, they feel they can’t trust it in regard to moral and spiritual things as well.

This is the basis of a message given by Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis called, Genesis: Key to Reclaiming the Culture.

This Crosstalk program first aired August 19, 2004.

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To receive an audio CD or DVD copy of the complete rally contact:
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Orignal Air Date: April 19, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Orignal Air Date: April 19, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Many technological advances are being used in ways that can invade privacy, especially when American civilians can now be observed by tiny “drone” aircraft capable of taking high resolution video from overhead.

But in other ways, privacy is being jeopardized by the increasingly invasive questions being included in the U.S. Census, plus in selected households for surveys conducted every year. The Constitution calls for a census—counting people—every ten years, in order to determine how many representatives should be sent to Congress. It says nothing about collecting statistics about the details of our lives.

But since 1996, those receiving the detailed “American Community Survey” (whether or not it is a part of the ten year census) are told that it is “mandatory” to complete.

Questions are asked of all individuals in a household—perhaps as many as 12—about race, gender, relationships and other personal matters.

Other questions are very detailed, including those about housing, which ask for the date of original construction, date the individual moved into this property, the size of the property, information about sales of agricultural products from this property, how many separate rooms are in the house, how many are bedrooms, what this property could be sold for—all this just for starters on this one topic of housing.

The survey goes on and on and on and on with questions about each person in the household including:

How many hours did that person work last week?
Where did they work? (detailed address)
How did they travel to work?
How many rode together in a car or van?
What time did they leave for work?
How long did it take to get there?
What are the most important things done at work?
What is the total annual income from wages, salaries, commissions, tips, or self-employment income, royalties, estates, trusts, Social Security, SSI, public assistance, pensions, disability income, food stamps, or any other source?
Did they miss work in the past week?
Are they looking for work?
When was the last time they worked for even a few hours?
…and many other questions.

This must be repeated for each person listed.

Vic asked what all this information has to do with determining the number of representatives a state should have in Congress.

It is mandatory to complete the survey or be liable to fines and imprisonment. But attempts are being made to change that.

H.R. 931 – Which makes participation in the American Community Survey Voluntary was introduced over a year ago – March 3, 2011. This legislation presently has 61 co-sponsors, but is still sitting in two committees.

More Information:

To express your views about H.R. 931:

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:
(202) 225-5074

House Judiciary Committee:
(202) 225-3951

House Judiciary Committee has relegated this to two of their sub-committees:

Subcommittee on the Constitution:
(202) 225-2825

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security:
(202) 225-5727

Contact your own U.S. Representative and Senators

Congressional Hotline numbers:
(202) 225-3121 or
(202) 224-3121

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Air Date: July 6, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: July 6, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic Eliason used this edition of Crosstalk to clear the news desk and present to listeners the following stories for comment:

--The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food stamp program is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps and free meals ever. Meanwhile, the U.S. Parks Service is asking people to not feed the animals because they claim the animals will become dependent upon the handouts and not learn to take care of themselves.
--The World Health Organization has released the second edition of a guide that details the best methods for killing unborn children.
--A new court date has been set by Iranian officials for Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian Christian pastor who has been in custody for nearly 1,000 days.
--School inspectors have praised primary schools for labeling children as young as age four as being transgender because they want to dress in clothing of the opposite gender.
--Iranian official claims they can hit 35 U.S. military bases within minutes of a conflict.
--Ghost cities popping up all over China.
--An Illinois school district voted to stop using pro-homosexual curricula from the Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network (G.L.S.E.N.) after several parents voiced concerns about the content.
--Bill Gates wades into the same-sex marriage debate in the state of Washington.

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Air Date: July 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: July 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America which is dedicated to promoting their 2nd Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.

Last week, in a bipartisan vote, Congress voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. This happened in spite of the fact that several congressmen walked out of the chamber in protest. In the end the Justice Department said they won’t prosecute Mr. Holder.

Larry believes the criminal citation will stand but because they have such a backlog in the D.C. District Court, they won’t get to that well into next year. On the other hand, Larry believes that on or about Labor Day there could be a court ruling regarding the civil contempt citation and the production of documents.

He noted that the First District Court is pretty liberal and they might sustain the Attorney General. From there it would go on appeal, perhaps still prior to the election, to the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia where he feels there’s a better chance at getting a prosecution.

Is impeachment a possibility with its accompanying Senate trial to find out whether or not to convict Mr. Holder? Larry contends that it’s the civil contempt of Congress citation that’s the key. Learn more about the process and what our elected officials need to do to get to the truth when you review this edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: July 4, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: William Federer

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Air Date: July 4, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: William Federer

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William Federer is the compiler of several books and computer programs detailing the Christian roots of our nation, and the continuing acknowledgement of our religious heritage by leaders from colonial days through the present.

This Crosstalk program features excerpts from a message he delivered at a VCY America Rally in April, 2001. Even though delivered before the events of 9-11-2001, the insights he presents are still relevant today.

In this message, William Federer outlines a number of areas where the founders not only allowed Christian influences in the design and development of the United States, but how they actually insisted that without that kind of foundation a republic such as ours could never be successful.

The original message was much longer that could be included during today's program. Those ordering this Crosstalk program on CD will actually receive the entire message from that rally.

In addition, the message is available in DVD video form, which also shows many of the quotations mentioned, plus pictures of many of those men quoted, created from a program developed for use on home computers.

Ths program was originally broadcast in July, 2001.

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Air Date: July 3, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Tomorrow our nation will celebrate its 236th birthday.

Our founders gave us a free and independent America but the liberties that they established and passed down to us, liberties bought at the price of numerous lives, are too often taken for granted or abused.

From federally sponsored gay pride celebrations, the removal of National Day of Prayer ceremonies, the removal of God from school textbooks, the downplaying of the term “Christmas” and so many other anti-God efforts; one can only wonder where America is headed. Is it any wonder that our economy is stumbling and that natural disasters seem to be occurring with greater frequency?

With all this in mind, Jim asked listeners, “What is your prayer for America?” Find out how your fellow listeners responded on this edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: July 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: July 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Peter LaBarbera is the Founder & President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

This edition of Crosstalk began with Vic reading what he correctly described as a blasphemous prayer that’s being invoked by the homosexual movement. The prayer was written by Patrick Cheng for LGBT Pride Month and is from his book, From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ.

After reading the prayer, Peter LaBarbera joined Vic and they brought forth numerous talking points dealing with the continuing advance of the gay agenda including:

--The continued foisting of gay perversion on the public by the corporate
world.
--A recent gay pride parade in Philadelphia.
--The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauds the ruling that extends
federal non-discrimination protections on the basis of sex to the health care
system.
--The impact homosexuality in the military is having on chaplains.
--The ACLU threatens a Utah school district with action because parents are
required to give their consent for their children to check out a pro-
homosexual advocacy book.
--The latest on the marriage law situation in Illinois

More information:

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Air Date: June 29, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: June 29, 2012

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This past week was a critical one in American history. A number of important issues deserved greater discussion time and Vic offered that to listeners on this edition of Crosstalk.

Consequential events this week included:

1) As reported yesterday on Crosstalk, the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act otherwise known as “Obamacare”. Vic played an audio montage of President Obama speaking against tax increases yet others say Obamacare is the largest tax increase in the history of the world.

In another audio clip, Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council stated, “Without question, this is one of the largest government programs ever enacted into law and will be one of the most costly, not just in dollars and cents, but contained in this law are the seeds of radical social policy that will forever change the moral and social landscape of America.”

Despite the Supreme Court’s decision, this battle is not over as the House has announced that after their July 4th recess, during the week of July 9th, they will bring forth a vote to repeal Obamacare.

2) This week the Supreme Court struck down portions of Arizona’s immigration law.

3) The House of Representatives voted yesterday 255-67 to hold United States Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It’s the first time in our nation’s history a cabinet member has been voted in contempt of Congress yet he is shrugging it off.

4) The Obama Administration marked another historic first on Tuesday by holding the Pentagon’s first ever celebration of “gay pride” month which included a presentation from a homosexual, Brenda Sue Felton. Felton introduced her “wife” from the stage and said being homosexual “isn’t about sex; it’s about life.” Both the President and the Defense Secretary addressed the event with recorded messages.

5) Yesterday, Stockton, California, (population 290,000) became the largest United States City in history to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

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Air Date: June 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest 1st Half Hour: Joni Eareckson Tada

Guest 2nd Half Hour: Mat Staver

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Air Date: June 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest 1st Half Hour: Joni Eareckson Tada

Guest 2nd Half Hour: Mat Staver

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Joni Eareckson Tada is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends International Disability Center and is an international advocate for people with disabilities. She has a daily radio ministry Joni & Friends which is celebrating 30 years of ministry

The first half of this edition of Crosstalk looked at the value of human life and the responsibility of Christians to help the handicapped.

Joni begins by going back to when she broke her neck in 1967 and from there she gives listeners an overview of her ministry life, the specific challenges of special needs families and pro-active steps that churches can take to help these kinds of families. She also comments on today’s Supreme Court decision concerning Obamacare, the importance of having an advanced healthcare directive, and more.

Mat Staver is the Founder and President of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law.

Mat joined Jim for the second half of this Crosstalk to discuss today’s 5-4 Supreme Court vote that upholds the individual mandate within Obamacare (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The mandate was saved by being described by Chief Justice Roberts (a Bush appointee) as a tax.

Mat presented his expert opinion regarding the medical, economic and political fallout of this decision as well as updating listeners on the contempt of Congress proceedings involving Attorney General Eric Holder.


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Air Date: June 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Air Date: June 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat was born of an American mother and a Palestinian Arab father. He was sent to the United States to study in 1978 and was recruited at a terror conference. He became a member of the PLO, was active for a while with the Muslim Brotherhood and also spent some time imprisoned in Jerusalem. In the United States his life was changed in 1994 when he turned from being a supporter of Jihad and a hater of Israel to being a follower of Christ.

Working underneath Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is Huma Abedin, Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff. You may remember that Huma is married to former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner. Huma’s mother is Saleha Mahmood Abedin. Walid noted that Saleha, who is a college Dean in Saudi Arabia, was also a member of the Sunni Muslim movement known as the Muslim Sisterhood. He also cited Huma’s brother, Hassan, who sits on the board with Youssef Qaradawi and Omar Naseef. Walid described Naseef as being the “Godfather” of Al-Qaeda.

Walid explained that the Muslim Sisterhood admits to being a “fifth column” organization as they attempt to infiltrate governments “and twisting the arms of government officials to make the West Shariah compliant.” When you review this Crosstalk, you’ll hear how he draws links between this movement, its members, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hillary Clinton State Department.


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Air Date: June 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: James Lansberry

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Air Date: June 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: James Lansberry

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James Lansberry is President of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries and Vice President of Samaritan Ministries, a free-market healthcare coverage alternative. He speaks out regularly on issues related to healthcare including the economics of healthcare, healthcare public policy, healthcare tax policy and the healthcare industry in general.

A decision from the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare is anticipated this Thursday. According to James, the options for the court include upholding the law in its entirety, overturning the law in its entirety or upholding and striking down parts of the law. A lot hinges upon whether or not the individual mandate holds up.

James noted that Obamacare’s individual mandate for participation ties together what he believes are two very dangerous provisions. One is called Community Rating. This means that everyone who buys health insurance will pay within a certain percentage of what everyone else does for the same policy. Then there’s the Guaranteed Issue Provision. This means that health insurance companies will be forced by law to write you a health insurance policy as soon as you ask for it, regardless of your health history or current health.

Don’t miss this Crosstalk as it analyzes what the Supreme Court must consider as it determines how much control Americans will have over their healthcare.


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Air Date: June 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: June 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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David Rubin is the former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, in the region of Samaria, known to most of the world as the West Bank. He is founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, dedicated to easing the trauma of children who have been victims of terrorist attacks, as well as rebuilding the biblical heartland of Israel. David is the author of the groundbreaking book, The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama, which exposes the attempts of the Islamic ideologues to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Rubin currently resides in Israel with his wife and children on a hilltop overlooking the site of Ancient Shiloh, the hallowed ground where the Tabernacle stood 369 years in the time of Joshua, Hannah and Samuel the Prophet.

Crosstalk listeners may remember that when Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was overthrown by demonstrators, the military took over and said they would meet the demands of the protestors for free elections. This alleged, “pro-democracy” movement later came to be known as the “Arab Spring”. David admits there were free elections; however, he noted that in the Islamic world, free elections don’t guarantee freedom of religion, speech or the press.

President Obama has said that the Egyptian revolution will “inspire” us. David, on the other hand, doesn’t see the election of Mohammed Morsi and leadership via the Muslim Brotherhood as inspiring when 80% of the Egyptian people believe that a Muslim who changes his religion should be executed.

Internally, can Egypt’s military and the Muslim Brotherhood get along? Externally, can our leadership establish positive ties with Egypt and how will this affect our relationship with Israel? Get David’s perspective on this and other aspects of this changing scenario when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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To obtain a copy of Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama, go to www.amazon.com or call 1-800-431-1579.

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Air Date: June 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J.C. Rasoul

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Air Date: June 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: J.C. Rasoul

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J.C. Rasoul is an American Kurd who was born in Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. As a child, he witnessed the violence of the government of Baghdad practiced against his people; violence due in part to the fact that Kurds are not of Arab descent. This violence hit home when his elder brother’s lifeless body was brought back to his parents.

J.C. grew up Muslim, adhering to the practices of the Sunni division of Islam but his experience with the socialist dictatorship formed his political conscience. During the Gulf War, J.C. was forced to flee Iraq not once, but twice and eventually came to America under political asylum. In the late 90’s he was airlifted to Guam and then to the United States where he was exposed to the teachings of Christianity and his life was radically changed.

Don’t miss this testimony of how God’s loving hand miraculously took J.C. halfway around the world and to new life in Christ.

More information:

To obtain a copy of his book, Miracles in the Mountains, go to
www.miraclesinthemountains.com.

J.C. Rasoul will be speaking this evening (6/22) at 6pm at the Rock River Patriots meeting being held at the Dwight Foster Library, 209 Merchants Avenue, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. For more information call 920-650-1260.

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Air Date: June 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jim Kouri

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Air Date: June 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Jim Kouri

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Jim Kouri, the fifth Vice President and Public Information Officer of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, has served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. He also writes for many police and crime magazines.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s track record is a sketchy one, even when looking back to his time with the Department of Justice during the Clinton administration. For example, he wanted to give amnesty to certain terrorists. When he became the Attorney General, one of the first things he did was to begin investigating members of the CIA. During the 2008 election cycle his Justice Department gave a tepid response to Black Panthers that were harassing white voters at the poles in Philadelphia. He also labeled veterans returning from Iraq as potential extremists.

In the latest news regarding Mr. Holder, Congress has requested numerous documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun running scheme, yet Mr. Holder has failed to provide them. In response yesterday, the House Oversight Committee voted 23-17 to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress, a vote that came shortly after President Obama invoked “executive privilege” over the documentation.

Also discussed was the announcement by President Obama last Friday that by executive order he was suspending deportation for illegals under the age of 30 that meet certain requirements. While he claims this is not amnesty, the timing of this move is interesting considering the fact that the presidential election campaign is only months away.

What exactly is “executive order” or “executive privilege”? Why is President Obama using it so freely when he promised the American people transparency from his administration? Find the answers to these questions and more when you review this edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: June 20, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: June 20, 2012

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk by alerting listeners to what’s been taking place in the House of Representatives. Representative Darrel Issa’s committee met for hours this morning regarding holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

Interestingly, President Obama made a move to give executive privilege over the “Fast and Furious” documents that are at the heart of the dispute.

This November we will be voting not only for the positions of President and Vice President, but also the entire House of Representatives, one-third of the U.S. Senate, and then there are the various state house and assembly seats.

With this important election in mind, Jim opened the phone lines for an open discussion about the office of the presidency and what it is that will determine your vote. Does the religion or the morals of a candidate matter to you? Will Mitt Romney’s Mormonism factor in to your decision? Some people believe we should vote for the lesser of two evils while others claim that to vote for either would still be voting for evil. Is a third party candidate a viable option?

In the end, Jim wanted to know what principle or principles, biblical or otherwise, listeners will be abiding by as they make their decision. Listeners brought forth interesting responses that perhaps will help you with your decision when you review this edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: June 19, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: June 19, 2012

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In March of this year, citizens in Clintonville, Wisconsin, heard strange sounds and felt minor earthquake vibrations. These sounds are not unique to this one town but have been experienced in other countries around the world. Vic described the sounds as sometimes being similar to hammering that becomes trumpet-like; however, these sounds can have other characteristics as well.

Is this a shift or reversal in the magnetic field? Could it be solar or cosmic radiation that is entering our atmosphere and resonating with other aspects of our natural world? Is there a biblical connection?

In addition to some interesting audio cuts demonstrating the audible aspect of this phenomenon, Vic let listeners comment as they brought thought provoking elements to this discussion.

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Air Date: June 18, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: June 18, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This program highlights how America is increasingly provoking God to anger and making a mockery of his unearned, unmerited favor (his grace) toward us.

We see this demonstrated as Vic played audio of a greeting from President Obama who was honoring LGBT activists and others that are part of this movement in celebration of June as LGBT Pride Month. President Obama’s words of praise for gays and lesbians went so far as to credit them with being those who’ve “bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.”

Vic also presented audio from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who joined LGBT Pride Month recognition as he thanked homosexual military personnel with his own official salute. This salute centered on praising the LGBT community as simply part of an America that consists of individuals who share different backgrounds, values and beliefs, and that by including them, this makes the military a model of equal opportunity.

Before taking phone calls from listeners, Vic played a second audio cut from President Obama. This one was from Friday, June 15th when, for the fourth consecutive year, he spoke at a LGBT celebration at the White House.

Along with numerous words of praise and encouragement for the LGBT community, President Obama noted that his administration put an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and that his administration is also not defending the Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.) in the courts.

Soon the U.S. Senate will be voting on SB-811, The Employment Non-Discrimination Act. If passed, this act could have serious ramifications, particularly for religious organizations that do not ascribe to the LGBT lifestyle. To contact your senators and state your views, use the information listed below.


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Air Date: June 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: June 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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This Crosstalk began with comments from Gordon Morris and Vic Eliason as they shared memories of their fathers. Part of Vic’s testimony included playing a recording of a song his father wrote called, “A Name I Highly Treasure”.

Vic then opened the phone lines to allow listeners to share memories of their fathers and communicate what these men meant and still mean to them.

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Air Date: June 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ron Rhodes

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Air Date: June 14, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Ron Rhodes

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Ron Rhodes is the president of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries. He is an author of over 60 books and regularly speaks at conferences and in the national media. He joined Jim on this edition of Crosstalk to discuss his book, Cyber Meltdown: Bible Prophecy and the Imminent Threat of Cyber Terrorism.

Imagine if the computer related networks controlling the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, our dams, chemical plants, the aviation industry, traffic lights, gas pipelines, subway transportation systems, freight and passenger rail as well as the electrical grid, all went down.

Our nation’s leaders are concerned about this possibility as Jim verified by presenting a recent quote from U.S Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Secretary Panetta testified during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense warning that America faces the potential for another “Pearl Harbor”. This new “Pearl Harbor” could be launched by enemies who have the capability to wield a cyber attack that would paralyze our nation.

The attacks are more common than you might think. For example, Ron pointed out that the U.S. Senate is subjected to 1.8 billion security events each month. There are 13.9 million computer attacks launched each day against the Senate Security Operations Center.

Cyber attacks, however, are not limited to attacks on our government. Ron describes how cyber technology continues to have ramifications for your personal privacy, how it appears to be shaping a cashless society, and how these and other factors fit into Bible prophecy.

More information:

To obtain a copy of Cyber Meltdown for a gift of $17 or more:

Call 1-800-729-9829, or

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Air Date: June 13, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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Air Date: June 13, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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Robert Romano is the senior editor with Americans for Limited Government. ALG takes a non-partisan approach to the threats posed by an ever expanding government to our basic freedoms and works to both expose and prevent the continued expansion of government.

Jim noted that there are reports that allies of Barack Obama are urging him to bypass Congress and expand his executive authority to change the law through decree. Robert cited President Obama’s “pretending” of a congressional recess into existence to make appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board in opposition to Congress when Congress hadn’t gone into recess. The there was the issue of the Justice Department that took on the role of a court when they announced that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

Nothing within the Constitution allows for such activity. The president can sign a law or veto a law but under the concept of the separation of powers, only Congress can make laws.

This Crosstalk looks at numerous pieces of legislation and how they may be affected by government “overreach” including The Dream Act, The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the Clean Water Act.

Robert also comments on the billions of American dollars directed for bailouts of Europe, why Congress isn’t standing up to the president, Eric Holder’s investigation into national security leaks, Obama’s comment that government jobs aren’t expanding fast enough, the sales limitations on soda pop/popcorn servings, plus more.


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Air Date: June 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: June 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is the founder and president of Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family.

Jim began by noting that yesterday the U.S. Senate was successful in obtaining the necessary 60 votes to stop a filibuster and invoke cloture to advance the nomination of Andrew David Hurwitz (the architect of Roe v. Wade) to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

This morning the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (E.N.D.A.—SB-811). E.N.D.A. would add new categories to the already existing non-discrimination categories. These additions include sexual orientation and gender identity. It would apply to a person’s actual or even their perceived sexual orientation or sexual identity.

Under this law, gender identity is defined as the gender related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth.

If this passes, can we expect rest room gender divisions to become blurred? Could protecting women and young girls in such situations cause a person to be in violation of E.N.D.A.? These are questions that Jim and Mat discuss as they not only look at E.N.D.A. but also Proposition 8 in California (one-man/one woman marriage), a vote regarding contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder, and the latest news concerning Obamacare.


More information:

To find out who your senators are, go to www.senate.gov.

To contact your senators regarding The Employment Non-Discrimination Act call 202-224-3121.

Comments regarding E.N.D.A. should also go to the Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at 202-224-5375.

Liberty Counsel
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Air Date: June 11, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Air Date: June 11, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk by noting that the U.S. Senate will be proceeding today on an executive session regarding the nomination of Andrew David Hurwitz (the architect of Roe v. Wade) to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. He is the Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report. He’s been a leading researcher and authority on the United Nation’s planned Agenda 21.

Next week, June 20th thru the 22nd, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development otherwise known as the Rio +20 Summit will be held at the Riocentro Convention Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The United Nations is counting on this to be the final one to enforce Agenda 21.

Agenda 21 is a blueprint to transform human society with “top down” control all under the excuse of protecting the environment. It moves into many facets of our lives including the economy, the kind of homes we live in, the kind of cars we drive, how much energy will cost and many other societal factors.

According to Tom, a key factor of the Rio +20 Summit is that it seeks to push for the creation of a 100 billion dollar global fund paid for by the industrial nations of the world. This is part of a larger redistribution of wealth scheme with the 100 billion being in essence a penalty on those nations that have allegedly damaged the environment through their industrialization. The problem with this socialistic plan is that the industrialized nations of the world are having economic difficulties, a factor that threatens to derail the goals of this summit.

From redistribution of wealth to overpopulation, vaccines, the rationing of healthcare and government surveillance of farmland, find out what secular forces are up to as they attempt to provide their own version of ecological and economic stewardship through activities like Agenda 21.


More information:

To contact your senators regarding the possible nomination of Andrew David Hurwitz:
202-224-3121
www.senate.gov

Available from the American Policy Center
The DeWeese Report
www.americanpolicy.org

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Air Date: June 8, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: June 8, 2012

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The following is a partial list of the stories mentioned on this news round-up edition of Crosstalk:

--President Obama says the private sector is doing just fine.
--There is a vote coming up on Monday regarding the nomination of David
Hurwitz, the architect of Roe v. Wade to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
--President Obama delivers a proclamation for June Pride Month.
--The Army confirms that it conducted the first military homosexual
wedding.
--The U.S. State Department honoring those who are gay, bisexual and
transgender.
--Despite news to the contrary, the Boy Scouts say they have no plans to
change their membership policy and allow participation by open or
avowed homosexuals.
--The daughter of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer has come “out of the
closet” to endorse same-sex marriage.
--D.C. Comics character, the Green Lantern, will be reinvented as a
homosexual.
--Illinois Attorney General joined a legal effort to impose same-sex marriage
on citizens of the state.
--Erie, Illinois, school board takes a stand to stop using a pro-homosexual
book.
--The nation of Denmark has voted to force churches in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church to perform same-sex marriages.
--The Premiere of Edmonton, Alberta, announced over the weekend that she
has accepted an invitation to participate in the city’s gay pride festival.
--The National Religious Broadcasters warns that the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act will be considered next week by U.S. Senators.
--President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to an 82 year
old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union and
honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
--Attorney General Eric Holder continues to present congressional testimony
over “Fast and Furious”.
--Florida is trying to purge voter registration because of over 182,000
registered voters who may not even be U.S. citizens.
--Media mogul Ted Turner would like to see the world’s population reduced
by 5 billion people.
--China hits couple with record fine for violating the nation’s 1 child policy.
--YWCA mobilizing women to vote for their reproductive rights.
--Mitt Romney promoted his education plan at a charter school in
Philadelphia whose leader is an Islamist activist.
--The Parental Rights Amendment has been officially introduced in
Congress.
--Persecuted Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani says he is in perfect health.

Jim wrapped up the program with an audio tribute to the late President Ronald Reagan who passed away this week in 2004.


More information:

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Air Date: June 7, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Shormann

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Air Date: June 7, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. David Shormann

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Dr. Dave Shormann is an educator, author and scientist. He has a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, a Masters in Marine Chemistry and his Doctorate in Limnology (the scientific study of bodies of fresh water such as lakes and ponds with reference to their physical, geographical, biological and other features). He has served the home school community by teaching college preparatory math and science classes from a biblical foundation and has developed the DIVE into Math CD’s which have been instrumental in schooling children about the world. He is a Creation scientist and leader of several expeditions to Novarupta.

June 6-8th marks the 100th anniversary of the 1912 eruption of Novarupta. Novarupta (Latin for “new eruption”) is a volcano that is part of Katmai National Park in Alaska.

The eruption of Novarupta was about 30 times greater than that of Mount St. Helens as it dumped over 700 feet of volcanic material in 60 hours. It was so powerful that on June 7th, 1912, it shook the town of Illiamna, Alaska, continuously for 12 straight hours. That’s pretty impressive when you consider the fact that Illiamna is 100 miles away from the volcano.

Perhaps even more astounding is the fact that people about 750 miles away, in Juneau, Alaska, actually heard the blast one hour after it occurred!

Obviously with a blast of this magnitude, the effects were felt even beyond Alaska. Dr. Shormann noted that it dropped the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere by 2 degrees and six days after it erupted the volcanic ash was visible in Algeria in Northern Africa.
Join Dr. Shormann as he discusses many other fascinating historical facts about Novarupta, what the area might unveil in terms of the history of the entire earth, how this history affects the Creation science community and more.


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Air Date: June 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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This program focuses on the recall election yesterday in Wisconsin that had Governor Scott Walker becoming the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall.

Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is the first lieutenant governor in the nation to have been subject to a recall election and thus also the first of her kind to survive such an election.

There was 57% voter turnout. Governor Walker took 53% of the vote and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett took 46%. This margin of victory was greater than when he defeated Barrett the first time two years ago.

3 of 4 Republican senators that were recalled also survived. The one that didn’t survive lost in a close vote. If that vote holds up, this means that the balance of power in the Wisconsin Senate will have switched from the Republicans to the Democrats. The switch appears to be insignificant because the senate is not in session. Unless a special session is called, it will not be in session until after the November elections in which redistricting can change the balance of power in the senate once again.

Although the Democrats and their supporters tried to claim during the campaign that this election was, in large part, about collective bargaining, the results of the election prove that most people in Wisconsin felt that the election was about allowing the governor to continue the fiscal “belt tightening” that he’s already started.

Jim also presented the following: Audio clips from Governor Walker’s victory speech, an interview with the governor on Fox News, the unusual sound of people humming outside the Wisconsin capitol building last evening, news of death threats and more.

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Air Date: June 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Over the past 4 months, J.C. Penney has launched 3 attacks on traditional family values. Vic presented Crosstalk listeners with the following details:

In attack #1 from February, 2012, J.C. Penney announced that open homosexual Ellen DeGeneres would be their company spokesperson.
When many people contacted the company to object, C.E.O. Ron Johnson defended the choice of Ellen as their spokesperson.

In attack #2 last month, J.C. Penney’s sale catalog featured a same-sex couple. The photograph is of two women identified as Wendi and her partner Maggie holding their two daughters. Both women were wearing wedding bands.

Attack #3 is currently under way with J.C. Penney’s Father’s Day ad that features two homosexual dads.

Last month when the finance reports came out, J.C. Penney reported a first- quarter loss and said it will discontinue its quarterly dividend after sales fell more than anticipated. It was a loss of $163 million compared to a profit of $64 million a year earlier. Sales slumped 20% and their stock plunged nearly 20% on Wednesday, May 16th. Forbes reported that this was the worst single day performance in the past 40 years.

Vic also presented information regarding two related stories:

--A New Mexico Court of Appeals judge says that states can require Christians to violate their faith in order to do business. This decision affirms a penalty of nearly $7,000 for a photographer who refused to take photos of a lesbian commitment ceremony in the state where same-sex marriage is illegal.
--The week of June 10th has been declared Pensacola Pride Festival Week. You can contact the Mayor of Pensacola, Florida, (Ashton Hayward) by calling 850-435-1626.

More information:

J.C. Penny Customer Service: 1-800-322-1189
J.C. Penny Corporate headquarters: 972-431-1000.
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Air Date: June 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Air Date: June 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Phyllis Schlafly

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Phyllis Schafly is the founder and president of Eagle Forum. She is the author or editor of some 20 books along with being an attorney admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, Missouri, DC, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She’s involved in radio broadcasting with daily commentaries and the monthly newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report.

The U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty has been continually rejected by U.S. legislators going all the way back to the 1980’s and the Reagan administration. The idea behind the treaty is to give control of a vast majority of the earth’s surface to the United Nations. Phyllis described how they want this due to the vast riches that exist at the bottom of the sea; a factor which she believes is part of a great wealth transfer program.

It isn’t just radical environmental lawyers that are backing this treaty. Believe it or not, other groups supporting it include the U.S. Navy as well as multinational oil companies led by Shell. It’s possible that via the International Tribunal in Hamburg, these environmental lawyers may be looking at the opportunity to sue the United States over our alleged environmental sins.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes that opposition to this treaty is based upon “mythology”. Phyllis, however, believes that this treaty would mean a loss of sovereignty for the U.S. and that it would do nothing to rein in China’s enormous maritime territorial claims.


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Air Date: June 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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History records much about civilizations that sacrificed children to false “gods” or perhaps killed infants because the sex of the child wasn’t wanted.

Certainly the world today is too sophisticated to become involved in this kind of activity, right? Unfortunately that’s not the case. Vic reported that a newspaper in India says doctors are so desperate to hide the evidence from sex-selection abortions that they are feeding the remains to dogs.


Believe it or not, the mentality of sex-selection abortions has gained traction here in the United States. As proof, Vic played undercover audio cuts from www.liveaction.org. These cuts, from counseling sessions, expose the very real problem of sex selection abortions (gendercide) that take place at abortion clinics throughout America.

A bill to outlaw abortions based on the child’s gender received a majority of votes in the House of Representatives on Thursday but failed to receive the two-thirds margin of support needed for passage. H.R. 3541—The Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act, would make it a federal offense to knowingly perform a sex selection abortion, coerce a woman into the procedure or transport a woman across state lines into the U.S. to obtain such an abortion. The woman herself is not liable for prosecution.

President Obama has announced his opposition to the ban claiming that it would result in subjecting doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine a sex-selection motivation.

Listeners also heard audio from Jay Carney, President Obama’s press secretary, who attempted to defend the president’s position on the matter while at the same time claiming to oppose gender discrimination in all forms.


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Air Date: May 31, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic began this edition of Crosstalk with news that an appeals court ruled today that the portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that denies federal benefits to same-sex couples deemed married according to their state law is unconstitutional.

Vic then presented the latest examples showing how Islam isn’t merely trying to become part of the public landscape but instead is infiltrating American life. The stories noted for listener comment included:

--A Harlem public elementary school will become the first in New York to require students to study Arabic. The organization that co-created and funded the program for the New York school district maintains close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The group’s founder started the Al Jazeera TV network.

Qatar Foundation International, a non-profit group funded by the nation of Qatar, gave Harlem’s Hamilton Heights K-5 public grade school a $250,000 grant to support the Arabic program for the next three years.

--Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Muhammad Morsi allegedly said that he will achieve the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Upon doing so he will require Christians to convert to Islam or pay an additional Islamic tribute tax.

--The Commerce Department is considering naming Arab Americans a socially and economically disadvantaged minority group that is eligible to receive minority business assistance.

--An Islamic group has demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice Department protect the religious liberties of Muslims after a Tennessee ruling prevented a mosque from being completed after an outcry from the public. The building’s future is uncertain. By a court ruling the county avoided the legal process requiring granting building permission for the project.

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Air Date: May 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Steve Crampton

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Air Date: May 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Steve Crampton

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Steve Crampton is the Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel with Liberty Counsel. He has practiced constitutional and civil rights litigation since 1993. He has served as lead counsel in numerous cases, many of which have resulted in reported decisions in state and federal district and appellate courts.

U.S. House of Representatives is voting this afternoon on HR3541, the Pre-natal Non-discrimination Act of 2012: To prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or race, and for other purposes. One result would be to ban sex-selection abortions.

The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Obama’s appointee Eric Holder, has reportedly sent a letter ordering the University of Arkansas at Ft. Smith to allow a male student to use the women’s bathroom on campus. Apparently having “unisex” restrooms where individuals of either gender can enter one at a time is not a sufficient provision of facilities.

Steve says that if this order is allowed to stand, it will have a domino effect at universities across the nation. This decision has crossed a critical line for government dictating to public institutions, opening a “Pandora’s box” with no end in sight.

This is actually part of an increasing pattern of accommodating “perceived” genders not only at the national level, but also community by community as pro-homosexual activists are demanding local ordinances be revised to end “discrimination” against same-sex activities. A notable example is a sweeping ordinance proposed for Hutchinson, Kansas, which would allow no exceptions. Several other Kansas municipalities have passed or are considering similar ordinances as they cave in to homosexual demands.

In the private sector, large chains of stores are beginning to portray a gay-friendly identity. J.C. Penney department stores have signed on Ellen DeGeneres—an outspoken lesbian—as their spokesperson, and have incorporated pages in their advertising that feature same-sex couples.

Target Stores, which took a stand against same-sex unions, was hit with a massive protest by homosexual activists, and have done an about face. They now are featuring a promotion for June, which is “National Pride Month”, in which they are donating 100% of their income from the online sale of gay-pride clothing to a homosexual political action group, Marriage Equality USA.

More information:

To contact the Department of Justice with your comments about their letter ordering the University of Arkansas to permit a man who believes he is a woman to use the women’s restroom:

Main number: 202-514-2000
Contact line: 202-353-1555

To contact Target and their President and CEO, Gregg W. Steinhafel:

800-440-0680 or
612-304-6073 Option 6

email: guestrelations@target.com

Send a message on the Target Corporate Information Contact Form

Liberty Counsel:
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Air Date: May 29, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mike Prom & Henry Mukonda

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Air Date: May 29, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Mike Prom & Henry Mukonda

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This edition of Crosstalk began with Mike discussing the formation of Headwaters Christian Youth, a non-denominational youth ministry headquartered in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Mike has been the executive director since 1983.

One of the offshoots of Headwaters Christian Youth is W.I.L.D. This stands for Wise Intentional Leadership Development. W.I.L.D. began as a local leadership program designed to train and develop volunteers that were involved with Headwaters Christian Youth.

Eventually W.I.L.D went international and Pastor Henry Mukonda discussed that aspect of this leadership program. He is from Zambia and has worked with Mike for the last 7 years. Henry detailed the beginnings of W.I.L.D., its biblical moorings, training people to hear the voice of the Lord, how people can lead from anywhere and any position, the issue of women in leadership and more.


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Original Air Date: March 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jake Jacobs

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Original Air Date: March 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jake Jacobs

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Jake Jacobs earned a Ph.D. in Early American History from Northwest University with his dissertation titled, “The Influence of Biblical Ideas on Early American Republicanism and History”. A public high school history teacher for some 25 years, he is known throughout the public education field as a “politically incorrect instructor” and a fighter of the NEA. He is president and founder of the Politically Incorrect Institute and has degrees in American History and Biblical and Judeo-Christian Studies. He appeared on “Fox & Friends” to defend Wisconsin’s Governor, Scott Walker. He is the author of “Mobocracy: The Cultural & Political War to Destroy Our Republic Under God”.

Article 4 section 4 of the Constitution says that we are to have a republican form of government and not a democracy. What does this have to do with “mobocracy”? Dr. Jacobs notes that the term, “mobocracy”, wasn’t new to our founders and that they used it as a synonym for the word “democracy”. He notes how our founders distrusted the idea of a democracy; that mob or majority that could turn against the minority or a violent minority that could turn against the majority.

This fact is lost on many Americans. Dr. Jacobs gives an example of this as he details what he refers to as the “winter Woodstock” that took place in Madison, Wisconsin, as protestors responded to Governor Scott Walker’s position on collective bargaining. Dr. Jacobs describes how the protestors behaved like a mob with some carrying signs describing violent acts while other chanted, “This is what democracy looks like.”

From Karl Marx and Fabian socialists to the rewriting of American history textbooks and his opinion of the National Education Association, Dr. Jacobs covers a lot of ground as he looks at the ideological factors past and present that are affecting the vitality of our republic under God.


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To obtain a copy of the book, “Mobocracy: The Cultural & Political War to Destroy Our Republic Under God”, go to www.jjusa.org

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Original Air Date: April 17, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Guest: Brian Sussman

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Brian Sussman, at one time a successful television meteorologist, now works to counteract popular myths and mis-information about the world’s climate. He is the author of the book, “Climategate”, and has just released a new title, “Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America”

Not only can the “politically-correct” story about the environment can be shown to be false, but this false information is being used to increase governmental regulation of society of individuals.

In fact, socialist planners have long seen climate change as a tool to gain control of free societies and move them into socialism. The earliest record of this is from 1883 when it was used to warn about “Global Cooling”.

In recent years regulations have done far more than regulate pollution, or carbon emissions, etc. They have limited severely the use of private property, with the ultimate goal of eliminating private property altogether.

This is taking place even though the Declaration of Independence states that our rights come from God, and are to be protected by the government acting on behalf of the people. Socialists and Communists of all stripes believe that “rights” are granted by the government, and can be taken away by the government, for the “common good”.

Large areas of land in the United States have now been placed off-limits for development of any kind, or even the presence of human beings. Despite massive deposits of energy resources, we cannot access them. So we remain energy dependent on nations that hate us.

Long range plans for areas like California envision a ban on motorized vehicles except for mass transit, the end of ranches, with the land being restored to its “pristine” natural state.

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Air Date: May 24, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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It was time once again for Vic to clear the news wire and inform listeners of stories mostly ignored by secular media outlets. The stories included:

--The number of people taking their lives is on the rise since the State of
Washington made assisted suicide legal.
--The British government spends 1 million in taxpayer dollars weekly on
abortions.
--GOP lawmakers kill civil unions in Colorado.
--Legislators defund Family Planning Association of Maine.
--The NAACP endorses same-sex marriage claiming it’s a civil right.
--Mitt Romney holds a fund raiser at the home of an executive whose
company makes the morning after pill.
--A proposed civil rights ordinance in Jacksonville, Florida, would open
public restrooms and showers to transgender individuals.
--Starbucks says going ‘gay’ is profitable.
--The founder of Organic Pastures in California says government health
officials have begun to track down the names and addresses of natural food
customers, showing up at their homes demanding to confiscate any raw
milk in their possession.
--India wants the U.N. to rule the Internet.
--The Air Force pays out $179,750 per hour to fly Air Force One. That
doesn’t include the First Lady’s own plane as well as any support aircraft.

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Air Date: May 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 23, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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The beginning of this Crosstalk highlighted the fact that young children are gifted by God in unique ways as it pertains to expressing God’s glory through the deliverance of His word. It begins with accurately teaching them Bible stories. The results can be remarkable as Vic demonstrated by airing a presentation given by a young girl named Mary Margaret who tells the story of Jonah.

During the remainder of the program, Vic took calls from listeners who were given one minute to express their views on topics of importance to them. Topics ranged from Christian courage to separation of church and state, battered women, an answer to the charge of ‘Islamophobia’ and much more.


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Air Date: May 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Floyd Brown

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Air Date: May 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Floyd Brown

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Floyd Brown is the President of the Western Center for Journalism. He is a political innovator, writer and speaker. He is a media commentator. He is the author of “Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton in 1992”. As the founder of “Citizens United”, he is the one who launched the impeachment movement against President Clinton. He also organized many national campaigns including the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

Even before he became president, there were warnings that Barack Obama may not be a U.S. citizen. Today, the flames of this subject continue to be fanned. This time it’s by news released last week from Breitbart.com alleging that information from a literary agent of Barack Obama’s in the 1990’s states that the President was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

Jim and Floyd discuss this recent development, along with the latest in the investigation of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He’s just dispatched his lead cold case posse investigator and a deputy detective to Hawaii to gather more information.

Why didn’t President Obama register for Selective Service? Is it because he thought he was an Indonesian citizen at the time and felt he didn’t have to? Is his pronounced allegiance to Christianity believable in light of his Islamic background? Will the laws and legal decisions made since he took office continue to be binding if he’s found to be ineligible or will it create a Constitutional crisis? These and other questions are probed on this investigative edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: May 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gonzalez

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Air Date: May 21, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mike Gonzalez

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Mike Gonzalez is the Vice President of Communications at the Heritage Foundation. Mike spent close to 20 years as a journalist, then left journalism to join the administration of President George W. Bush where he helped explain fiscal and foreign policy to U.S. and overseas audiences. He did this for the Securities and Exchange Commission, then for the State Department.

America is on a financial trajectory that simply isn’t sustainable. Unless we do something about entitlements, our children will be left with unfunded liabilities (lack of money to pay for future outlays) and debt that will certainly collapse our nation. For example, Medicare alone has an unfunded liability of close to 37 trillion dollars over the next 74 years.

Mike listed what he feels are the biggest problems facing America. (1)Economic growth is very low. (2)Government is spending too much money. As a solution he’s proposed a fiscal plan called, “Saving the American Dream”. This plan balances the budget in 10 years and replaces today’s complicated tax code with a 27% federal “flat tax”. It’s an expenditure tax that will encourage individuals to save.

Right now America has a national debt figure of 15.7 trillion. “Saving the American Dream” would reduce our debt to 30% of GDP within 25 years.

The health care aspect of this plan would feature “portability” allowing employees to take that system to a new job unlike the current system that has many people staying at jobs they don’t like because they know they’ll lose their health care.

So while various pundits are trying to find solutions by attempting to “tweak” our current broken system, Mike is one of the few individuals providing new answers. Learn more details when you listen to this interesting edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: May 18, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 18, 2012

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It was time once again for Vic to clear the news wire and pass along numerous news items of interest to Christians:

--The Salina, Kansas, City Commission gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that gives special protection to citizens based upon sexual orientation or gender identity.
--The lewd, Christian hating ABC TV series called GCB has been cancelled.
--A federal government study alleges that it could provide evidence to end the ban on blood donations from gay men.
--Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he’s opposed to same-sex marriages but also that same-sex couples have the right to adopt and raise children.
--A 54 year old Nigerian man working as an airport security supervisor was an illegal alien for 20 years as he used the identity of a murder victim. He worked at the airport from which United Airlines flight 93 departed on September 11, 2001, the flight that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
--Dozens of faculty and staff at Georgian Christian Academic Institute are resigning over a personal lifestyle statement that requires employees to refrain from alcohol, adultery and homosexuality.
--Rhode Island governor signs an executive order recognizing same-sex marriages conducted in other states.
--Obama puts homosexual marriage front and center on the campaign trail.
--A budget resolution based upon President Obama’s 2013 budget was brought before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday and the senators rejected the plan.
--Homosexuals oppose a push to name a navel vessel after former Navy diver and late San Francisco homosexual icon/activist Harvey Milk.
--Minnesota taxpayers paid for more than 58,000 abortions in 15 years at a cost of over 18 million dollars.
--Ohio bill HB125 (The Heartbeat Bill) is considered by some to be the best chance ever to save most lives. It’s been stalled in the Senate. To comment on this bill, see the contact information below.
--Nancy Pelosi believes conscience protection in regard to protecting chaplains is a fraud.
--The federal government moves quickly to open the skies to drones for commercial as well as government purposes.
--Grand Rapids, Michigan, mayor apologizes for calling pro-life advocates “the forces of darkness.”


More Information:

To comment on Ohio’s Heartbeat Bill (HB-125) call:

President of the Senate—Tom Niehaus--614-466-8082
President Pro Tempore—Keith Fabor—614-466-7584
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Air Date: May 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Harry Mihet

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Air Date: May 17, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Harry Mihet

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Harry Mihet is Senior Litigation Counsel with Liberty Counsel, an international nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family. Harry grew up in communist Romania where his father pastured a number of underground churches. Harry and his entire family suffered great persecution. At the age of 12, Harry participated in the Christmas Revolution of 1989 when the oppressive Communist regime was overthrown. Shortly after, through a series of miracles, God brought Harry’s family to the U.S. He joined Liberty Counsel and is involved in defending the religious rights of many.
Harry and Jim began by discussing the case of a U.S. District Judge who has suggested stripping the first four of the Ten Commandments from a display in order to resolve a dispute between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Giles County, Virginia, School District.

The dispute centers on a collage of America’s historical documents. Several of them reference God yet the only document in the display that is at issue is the Ten Commandments.

The next topic discussed involved an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals battle where Liberty Counsel has been representing Child Evangelism Fellowship of Minnesota, the sponsor of Good News Clubs, against Minneapolis Special School District No. 1. Liberty Counsel is alleging that the school district unfairly denied equal access and opportunity to after-school programs. This is due to a 2009 incident where a school employee moved to revoke Child Evangelism Fellowship’s after-school program because the Good News Club included prayer and “proselytizing.”

This story was followed by news that Scott Lively, a U.S. evangelical pastor, is being sued in Massachusetts federal court by a group calling itself Sexual Minorities Uganda because Lively presented his views on homosexuality and pornography to pastors in Uganda in 2009. He is accused of violating international law and committing a crime against humanity.

Finally, Jim and Harry discussed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. His track record of inactivity in terms of investigation in areas ranging from Wall Street to the Fast and Furious case makes him look as though he’s abdicated his responsibilities as the nation’s “top cop”. Instead he appears to be little more than a “mouthpiece” for the Obama administration.


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Air Date: May 16, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Air Date: May 16, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Walid Shoebat

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Walid Shoebat was born in Bethlehem. In his youth he was a terrorist with the Palestine Liberation Organization. He eventually married and became a U.S. citizen. After undertaking a search for biblical corruptions in order to convert his wife to Islam, he became convinced that the Bible has the truth and he became a Christian in 1993.

What are the facts regarding Islam? Walid dealt with numerous important points as he passionately urged listeners to wake up and recognize how dangerous Islam is for America. Some of the items he covered included:

--Islamic fundamentalists don’t necessarily hate our way of life. What the
Islamist really hates is the Trinity aspect of the Godhead.
--Islam is actually a religion and a state; it’s a cohesive unity, your tradition
your life, how you eat, dress, etc.
--Islamic terrorism is an intimidation act designed to achieve a political goal.
--There are three types of Islamists. (1)Those open about their radicalism.
(2) Those not open to radicalism but in disguise about it. (3) Those who
are liberal and don’t care about Shariah.
--Islamists will condemn terrorism but also condemn those who speak
against it.
--The link between Islam and liberal teachings in America. One example
Walid noted is Al Gore’s use of Islamic sources to back up his
environmental claims.
--Islamists will sometimes say one thing when speaking in English yet show themselves to be deceptive when you look at what they say in Arabic.


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Air Date: May 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Air Date: May 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Avi Lipkin

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Avi Lipkin is an Israeli citizen. He was born in the United States, but immigrated to Israel in 1968. He is a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and a former translator inside the Israeli Prime Minister’s
office, giving him a rare insight on Middle East affairs. He is the co-founder of the “Israel Today” magazine. Avi has written several books under the pen name Victor Mordecai, including “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?”

Vic began with news out of an island near Madagascar that falls under the sovereignty of Australia. The population of this island is nearly 100% Muslim. 80% of them are on welfare paid by Australian taxpayers. The person in charge of approving the welfare payments is the local Islamic Imam.

Avi noted that there’s a strong interdependence between the United States government and the Islamic and Arab world and that we have to look at the U.S./Israeli relationship through that lens. Israel is a strong ally for the U.S. with Israel acting like a land-based aircraft carrier for the U.S. in the region.

With that idea established, Vic segues into the topic of the various czars that President Obama has put into place, specifically Samantha Powers who in 2002 gave a three-fold answer to the question of how to deal with the current events in Israel. Her answer involved alienation of the American/Jewish community and Christians who support Israel, pour billions of taxpayer money into the new state of Palestine and finally, stage an American ground invasion of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Avi then notes how the world is demanding military intervention against the current Syrian regime. If that happens, this will be the precedent needed to do the same thing to Israel, perhaps involving a U.S. military invasion should the Israeli military attempt a crushing response to a Palestinian revolt.

Why is the State Department supporting the Muslim Brotherhood? Is there reason to believe that President Obama is a Saudi (Sunni) “plant” whose goal is to destroy the Shiite threat in Iran, to destroy Israel and turn America into a Muslim nation? Will President Obama attempt to overthrow the Iranian regime before the next presidential election and use the resulting popularity to propel himself into a second term of office? Will President Obama eventually resettle millions of Muslims coming to America from Egypt? These questions and more are addressed on this critical edition of Crosstalk.


More Information:

www.vicmord.com
1-800-540-0828

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Air Date: May 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Joseph Farah

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Air Date: May 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Joseph Farah

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Joseph Farah is the editor and C.E.O. of WND (formerly known as WorldNetDaily), the largest independent Internet News Service in the United States. He is the Author of “The Tea Party Manifesto”.

After giving a brief history of his journalism career which led to the creation of WND, Joseph described how in running a news organization operating from a Christian worldview, he ran into situations where WND received more than just casual resistance in attempting to get press credentials. While at one time getting press credentials may have been difficult due to being new, Joseph describes how today it can occur because an organization doesn’t like how WND is describing them in their stories.

As the program unfolded, Vic and Joseph discussed the gay christening of President Obama by Newsweek magazine, President Obama’s birth certificate situation as researched by WND staff member Jerome Corsi, the Fox Network’s refusal to let commentators and guests discuss the eligibility issue and the program wrapped up with questions and comments from callers.


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Air Date: May 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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With Mother’s Day approaching, Vic set aside the negative news of the day and opened the phone lines to let listeners honor their mothers by communicating their finest and fondest memories.

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Air Date: May 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Paul Cameron

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Air Date: May 10, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Paul Cameron

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Dr. Paul Cameron is Chairman of the Family Research Institute. He is a frequent lecturer and author of over 90 scientific articles and five books including, “The Gay Nineties” and “Exposing the AIDS Scandal”. In 1985 he was nominated by the national gay magazine, “The Advocate” as “the most dangerous man in America”. In 2005 they downgraded him as “public enemy #2”. He has served as a medical and social-psychological expert in numerous court cases across the country, including dozens of child custody cases involving a homosexual parent.

Dr. Cameron began by reminding listeners that after President Obama entered the White House, Hillary Clinton and other United Nations ambassadors began a push for gay rights and threatening African and Asian countries with a loss of funds if they didn’t comply.

Jim pointed to the incredible irony that while Michelle Obama has been stressing good health habits, at the same time she’s saying nothing about the unhealthy nature of the homosexual lifestyle. Dr. Cameron responded by noting that homosexuality may take up to 20 years off of a person’s lifespan and at the present time AIDS is costing us $700,000 per person infected.

Along with comments from listeners, this program contains much more information including news regarding legislative action in California where Senate Bill 1172 would make it illegal for psychologists, therapists, counselors and parents to engage in any kind of sexual orientation change efforts against children age 18 and younger.


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Air Date: May 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 9, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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The citizens of North Carolina voted approximately 61% to 39% yesterday to add an amendment defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman to its constitution. President Obama said during his campaign for president that he agreed with this definition but recently he said he was disappointed in the North Carolina vote. Now the major media is telling us that his views are evolving despite the fact that 31 states have now declared marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Vic showed where Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stand as he presented audio clips showing their support of same-sex marriage.

Vic also alerted listeners regarding a May Sale ad by J.C. Penny that further assaults the traditional values of families. It was mailed to many of their customers and also appeared with the Sunday sale ads this past weekend under the title, “Freedom of Expression”. Vic’s discussion of J.C. Penny included audio from company C.E.O. Ron Johnson. Mr. Johnson appeared on “CBS This Morning” on February 9th of this year where he expressed support for Ellen DeGeneres as their national spokesman.


More Information:

The White House
(202) 456-1111
(202) 456-1414

JC Penny Customer Service—1-800-322-1189
JC Penny Corporate Headquarters—972-431-1000
Email: jccorpcomm@jcpenny.com
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Air Date: May 8, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Nonie Darwish

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Air Date: May 8, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Nonie Darwish

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Nonie was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo Egypt and Gaza and lived under Islamic Shariah Law. She lived in the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict during the 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars. Her father headed the Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza in the 50’s and led operations against Israel under the leadership of President Nasser of Egypt. He was killed by Israel in Gaza in 1956. She co-founded the website, FormerMuslimsUnited.org which stands for freedom of religion and civil rights of Former Muslims. She is a Middle East Expert and is author of “Cruel and Usual Punishment” providing an analysis of Shariah’s impact on women, men, families and society. Her brand new book is entitled, “The Devil We Don’t Know” speaking of the dark side of the revolutions in the Middle East.

According to Nonie, Muslims believe that Christians and Jews are sub-human and enemies of Allah and should live as hostages in any Muslim society.

One of the biggest factors driving this attitude is Shariah Law. Shariah Law is the Muslim legal code that has its own court system and Muslims are told they must abide by this system regardless of the country they are living in. While we may not see much of this playing out in the lives of American Muslims, she noted that once Muslims become about 3-4% of the population in a given nation, they begin demanding special Shariah rights.

Nonie also discusses the following:

--The possibility that some U.S. Mosques in New Jersey, New York and
Ohio could be command centers under the operation of the Revolutionary
Guard’s intelligence office.
--The preferential treatment and enabling of Islam by our government.
--The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group yet they were given an
invitation to visit the White House.
--Why Shariah obeying Muslims laugh because America is training some of
their soldiers while at the same time we have offered to release Afghan
insurgents in exchange for peace pledges.
--Why the Arab Spring is not the freedom and democracy movement some
may think it is.

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Air Date: May 7, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: May 7, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.

According to Larry, Fast and Furious is an enormous government scandal that’s resulted in the death of 300 Mexicans by 2,500 guns that were illegally transferred by the American ATF into the hands of cartels.

Larry details why there is so little cooperation from Attorney General Eric Holder and the contempt order against him; the poor response to document requests regarding this incident; and why all of this points to Fast and Furious as an anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment move by the Obama administration.


More Information:

Gun Owners of America
www.gunowners.org

To comment concerning the contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder, contact your congressmen at 202-225-3121

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Air Date: May 4, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: May 4, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic Eliason hosted this program that looked at news stories of interest to Christians all over the globe. They included:

--“Occupy” had partnered with anarchy groups to engage in direct action.
--Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been illegally imprisoned in Iran for over
930 days. Senate Resolution 385 condemns the government of Iran for its
continued persecution, imprisonment and sentencing of Pastor Nadarkhani.
The House of Representatives has a companion resolution.
--Pepsico had contracted with the research company Senomyx that was
using aborted fetal cells to conduct flavor testing. Pepsico states that
Senomyx will no longer be doing this on behalf of their company.
--West Virginia’s Democrat governor will not be endorsing President
Obama.
--Mitt Romney’s national security spokesman resigns after critics question
his conservatism because he’s an open homosexual.
--Sunday marked the 3rd year since the Senate passed the last budget.
--University of Maryland touts LGBT studies program.
--Christians have been killed in a series of attacks in Nigeria as jihadist
group vows to eradicate Christianity.

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Air Date: May 3, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Gary Kah

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Air Date: May 3, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Gary Kah

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This Crosstalk is a recording of a presentation given by Gary Kah when he appeared at a VCY Rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, in March of this year.

Gary is a former specialist for Europe in the Middle East working for the state of Indiana. He became aware of a global push for a one-world political, economic and religious system. He has been researching developments in this area for many years. His ministry is known as Hope for the World.

The year 2012 is here and according to some, the world is supposed to end on December 21st because of a prediction from the ancient Mayan calendar. Because of this, many interfaith gatherings are being planned throughout the year in order bring the religions of the world together and facilitate a quantum leap into a new spiritual order. Much of this appears to be driven by New Age globalists who are doing all they can to make their dream of an occult world order come true.

Interestingly, Gary noted that the Bible warns of unprecedented worldwide deception, spearheaded by the anti-Christ, that will take place in the final days of human history just prior to the return of Christ.

Join Gary as he combs through the evidence to prove his point and then looks at other global issues that signal our need to seek Christ in these uncertain times. Such issue include:

--The “occupy” movement’s seeming desire to cause instability and call for
a new world order and new financial system.
--The threat of a global depression.
--The Vatican’s call for a global public authority and a central world bank.
--The European Commission’s efforts to further integrate the economies and
finances of EU nations.
--The Arab Spring uprisings that are threatening to destabilize the Middle
East.
--The Global March to Jerusalem movement and the prominent people that
are involved.
--Syria’s key place amidst the current Middle East turmoil.


More Information:

Call 1-800-729-9829 and ask for this Crosstalk program. To obtain an audio copy of the entire rally, ask for the Gary Kah Corn Palace rally from March of 2012. This rally is not available in video form.

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Air Date: May 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

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Air Date: May 2, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

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This Crosstalk featured Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who for the past year has been under fire for implementing a number of reforms in an effort to balance the state budget while at the same time improving employment opportunities for citizens that are eligible to work.

Governor Walker noted that when he took office, the fiscal shape of Wisconsin was as bad as it’s ever been in its history. In fact, his administration inherited a 3.6 billion dollar budget deficit.

Rather than raise taxes like some states, Governor Walker lowered property taxes, something that hadn’t been done in 12 years. He avoided massive layoffs of government employees as was done in Illinois. Along with this, rather than cutting programs like Medicaid, he added money to it along with money to help fund programs such as Badger Care.

Governor Walker also cited Chief Executive Magazine that each year runs a survey of employers around the nation to find out what states provide the best and the worst business climate for creating jobs. According to this magazine, last year Wisconsin moved up in the rankings faster than any state in the country moving from #41 to #24. This year Wisconsin is at #20. This is one of the most dynamic turnarounds in the country.

In spite of all this, Walker’s critics say he’s balanced the budget on the backs of state workers, that schools are in a fiscal crisis because of a reduction of 1.6 billion dollars from education and that he’s initiated a war on women. How does he answer such critics? Get the answers to these concerns, his views regarding the sanctity of life and much more when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


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Air Date: May 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Erin Mersino

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Air Date: May 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Erin Mersino

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Erin Mersino is Trial Counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, and is the attorney handling a case filed in the United States District Court yesterday, April 30th in the Western District of Michigan.

In January 2012, a free-speech event was taking place at a high school in
Allegan, Michigan, sponsored by Michigan State Representative David Agema and several local officials, and a conservative organization, ACT! for America. ACT! for America is a non-partisan, non-sectarian organization founded by Brigitte Gabriel, whose mission is to provide a voice for Americans concerned about national security, terrorism, and the threat of radical Islam. The purpose of the event was to promote the U.S. Constitution and to offer laws ensuring that it is not superseded by foreign laws, such as the Islamic Sharia Law.

But the meeting was interrupted when the Allegan Police Department ordered the event shut-down. The reason? School officials notified police that they had received a letter complaining about the event from Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI).

At first the Allegan police chief indicated he shut down the event because of threats to one of the speakers, Kamal Saleem. Later the chief admitted to a reporter that there was no specific threat to the event and no real danger at all. Kamal Saleem was deemed to be controversial because he was a former Muslim who has converted to Christianity, and was speaking about the dangers of Sharia Law.

The civil rights lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center seeks the court to rule that in fact the Constitutional Right of Free Speech was violated, and contract obligations were broken, to issue an injunction against any repetition of this kind of action, and to assess appropriate compensation for damages.

Meanwhile, organizers fully intend reschedule the meeting at a later time once this issue is settled.


More Information:

Thomas More Law Center
www.thomasmore.org

Act! For America
www.actforamerica.org

To contact officials in Allegan, Michigan with your views about the decision to stop this meeting at the Allegan High School:

Mayor Tom Clark: 269-673-5511

Police Chief Rick Hoyer: 269-673-2115

Allegan Public School District—to reach Superintendent Kevin Harness or School Board President, Mark Davidhizar: 269-673-5431

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Air Date: April 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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Air Date: April 30, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Romano

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Robert Romano is Senior Editor with Americans for Limited Government, an organization that wants to limit the scope of government, including cutting both spending and taxing, and cutting regulations so the citizens can be free to become innovative and successful.

A video was produced recently by Ryan Houck, patterned after an essay by long-time news commentator, Paul Harvey, “If I were the devil”, which he broadcast in 1965. The new video has gone viral, with well over a million downloads.

Some of the points made in the video are discussed in more detail, including

--Increasingly restrictive environmental regulations that threaten to destroy economic production in the United States.

--Policies and announcements that make Americans feel guilty about the amount of energy used, while promoting vastly more expensive—and untried—alternative methods of producing energy.

--Blocking all attempts to develop proven energy resources within the United States, thus perpetuating dependence on foreign oil, and maintaining high fuel prices that affect every American and every American enterprise.

--An armed raid that effectively shut down Gibson guitars because of a regulation about the type of wood being used—even though imported guitars made with the same wood are still being sold. The end result may be that companies will stop making things in the United States that can be made elsewhere without such onerous regulations.

Callers also shared their views.


More Information:

Americans for Limited Government

www.getliberty.org

To view the video, and read the transcript of “If I Wanted America to Fail…"

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Air Date: April 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 27, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic shared just a few of the many stories that come in to Crosstalk each day. Among them:

--Christian student organizations on college campuses are being forced to open leadership positions to students who may not share their worldview, goals, morals, or religious views. Under these requirements, Christian groups must to allow Muslims, or homosexuals, or atheists to lead their organizations.

--A Mobile, Alabama television station reports that a man who told children to stop playing in the street was brutally beaten a short time later when a group of adults came with weapons ranging from pipes to chairs—and as the attackers left, they announced “Now that’s justice for Trayvon Martin”, the intruder allegedly killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. The search is on for the multiple attackers.

--A British father refuses to allow organs to be removed from his son for transplants, after the boy was declared “brain dead” following a serious car accident; later the boy was brought out of his induced coma—and has since recovered sufficiently to leave the hospital.

--Liberty University students are protesting the school’s decision that Mitt Romney, a Mormon, will to be the commencement speaker at the Christian school—a decision the students say violates Liberty’s policies in place since the days of founder Jerry Falwell.

--Joel Osteen claims that both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are actually Christians.

--The “Occupy” movement threatens to “shut down” New York City during May Day protests.

--An Ohio judge rules that a prison’s decision to force all prisoners to adhere to a diet required by Islam’s Sharia Law does not discriminate against Christian prisoners because Christians have no “dietary rights”, even as the policy grants Muslim prisoners their “dietary rights”.

--Barack Obama seeks to cede control of U.S. ocean waters to the United Nations.

--The Obama re-election website is displaying a “rainbow” timeline highlighting 40 accomplishments by the administration supporting the homosexual agenda. Also, the Obama campaign is recruiting thousands of “community organizers” to organize a massive effort across the country to persuade people to work for Barack Obama’s re-election.

--There is yet another “czar” at the White House—an “Atrocities Czar” who will formulate response to alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and mass atrocities. The new “Czar”, Samantha Power, has stated that billions of dollars should be “invested” in a new state of “Palestine”.

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Air Date: April 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

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Air Date: April 26, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

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Chaplain Klingenschmitt served 16 years as a military officer, he is a former Navy Chaplain who dared to pray in Jesus name and as a result, lost his career as a chaplain.

Several developments in the U.S. Air Force in recent months show increasing hostility to Bibles and Christian influences. Among them:

--In August, 2011, the Air Force banned a class on the Christian-based “Just War Theory” because the class used verses from the Bible

--In November, 2011, the Air Force Academy dropped “Operation Christmas Child” after a single complaint from an atheist group. The Air Force apologized to the atheists and ordered chaplains to no longer use official mail to promote the charity. This was not mandatory participation, but voluntary participation by the cadets

--A new policy was instituted last year, under which commanders are no longer allowed to talk about chaplain programs

--In February, 2012, it was revealed that the Air Force removed a Latin reference to “God” from the logo of its Rapid Capabilities Office after an atheist group complained.

--Then just this month, the Air Force, which maintains a list of items to be provided in Air Force-approved lodging facilities, has now removed the word “Bible” from this list. While Bibles currently in the facilities (usually provided by the Gideons) will not be removed, any that do disappear will not be replaced by the maids who no longer have it on their checklist, and Gideons may be unable to go on base to replenish the supply of Bibles.

Looking beyond the Air Force, becaused of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, military chaplains in all services are being ordered not to preach or counsel against homosexual practices, and in fact must accommodate same-sex ceremonies in military chapels, even though such practices are forbidden in the Bible.

A new organization was formed in the past few years, called the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers. Rather than promoting their own beliefs (or lack thereof), this group has concentrated on protesting expressions of faith by those who do believe in God.

Earlier this year, H.R. 3828, known as the “Military Religious Freedom Protection Act” was introduced in Congress.

More Information:

www.prayinjesusname.org

To let your views be known about Air Force policies:

Michael B. Donley, Secretary
Secretary of the Air Force
1670 Air Force Pentagon
Washington DC 20330-1670

Air Force Office of Public Affairs: 703-695-9664

Email: usafinquiries@pentagon.af.mil

The Congressional Oversight Committee to Investigate these Air Force Actions:
202-225-5074

To contact your U.S. Representative about the “Military Religious Freedom Protection Act”, H.R. 3828:
202-225-3121

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Air Date: April 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mark Crutcher

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Air Date: April 25, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mark Crutcher

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Mark Crutcher is the founder and director of Life Dynamics. Mark may be best known for his bold undercover operations that have exposed shocking and even illegal activities inside the abortion industry.

It was a Life Dynamics sting that caught Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry operating a nationwide pedophile protection ring which refuses to make mandatory reports of statutory rape, and another one that documented how abortion clinics make extra profit by selling the body parts of the babies they kill.

Mark gave a brief history of Planned Parenthood, showing that throughout its history, the underlying goal has been to target the black population. A video documentary, “Maafa 21” produced by Life Dynamics gives ample evidence of their effectiveness as even today, Planned Parenthood offices are concentrated in black neighborhoods, and the number of black babies aborted is far larger than justified by their numbers in the population.

The organization remains the largest provider of abortions in the United States, with affiliates around the world. It receives millions of taxpayer dollars each year, in addition to donations and fees charged for abortions and other services. The discovery that they also sell body parts from aborted babies reveals another source of revenue.

More Information:

Life Dynamics (Note: this website has links to a number of other pro-life websites):
prolifeamerica.com

To watch the documentary, “Maafa 21” online, or to order DVD’s:
www.maafa21.com

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Air Date: April 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Noland

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Air Date: April 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Robert Noland

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Robert Noland is the Executive Director of the Kansas Family Policy Council.

Across the country, there has been a rapid increase in requests for cities and counties to pass ordinances adding benefits to same-sex. In Kansas, this effort started in Manhattan about 18 months ago, when an ordinance was passed to establish domestic partner benefits. A new city council repealed the ordinance in Manhattan early in 2011.

However, efforts continue as homosexual activists are going from city to city, demanding that benefits be extended to domestic partners, or other ordinances related to “gender identity”. In the past few months Lawrence, Hutchinson, Salina, Wichita, and Pittsburg, Kansas have all been persuaded to consider such proposals. In some cases, within a few days of the introduction of a proposed ordinance, it came before the city council, with very little time for the public to be informed, let alone become involved in the process.

Some of these proposals are quite comprehensive—in Hutchinson, for example, the Human Rights Commission has recommended that sexual orientation and gender identity be added as protected classes, and that protection should apply to matters of employment, housing and public accommodations. This would extend to allowing men to use women’s restrooms if they identify themselves as being female, and forcing any business or organization—even a church—that provides public accommodations of any kind, to accept requests from homosexual couples or groups to use those facilities.

In Salina: a vote may take place within the next two weeks

In Hutchinson: the city council will vote on May 15

Wichita: Currently no action planned by the city council, but that could change

Pittsburg: The city council is deciding how to respond to the demands

Signatures are being collected for citizens to express opposition to these proposed ordinances, and possibly request a ballot referendum. In addition, the Kansas Family Policy Council website, awakenkansas.com, has links to allow citizens of Hutchinson and Salina to send their comments directly to the city council.

The concern is that if several larger cities in Kansas pass gender identity ordinances, the state legislature would come under pressure to make those rules effective statewide.

There is an attempt on a state level to curb all these individual attacks on the communities by puts cities in line with Kansas anti-discrimination ordinances which do not include gender identity. HB-2260 and its companion SB-142 has already passed the House and is awaiting passage in the Senate, which goes back into session briefly starting April 24. Technically these are religious liberty bills. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal “Religious Liberty Restoration Act” cannot apply directly to the states, so each state must develop its own legislation.

On a related matter, in California, Senate Bill 1172 would regulate “conversion therapy”, their term for counseling designed to help those who wish to leave the homosexual lifestyle. It would ban those under 18 from obtaining such services or counseling without parental approval. The bill states that it is impossible for a person to change sexual orientation, so those that want to help people do that are labeled as “bogus”. That bill is currently in the California Senate Judiciary Committee.

More Information:

For more information about developments in Kansas:
awakenkansas.com


Call the Kansas Legislative Hotline about HB-2260/SB-142:
In Kansas: 800-432-3924
Out of state: 785-296-2149

To contact the California Senate Judiciary Committee with your comments about SB-1172:
916-651-4113

Members of the California State Senate Judiciary Committee:
Sen. Noreen Evans (Chair) 916-651-4002
Sen. Tom Harman (Vice Chair) 916-651-4035
Sen. Sam Blakeslee 916-651-4015
Sen. Ellen Corbett 916-651-4010
Sen. Mark Leno 916-651-4003


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Air Date: April 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Karen Malec

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Air Date: April 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Karen Malec

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Karen Malec is the President and Co-Founder of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. She has written articles and regularly speaks on the links between abortion and breast cancer and has testified before various state legislatures.

Despite the fact that most cancer-fighting organizations either ignore, or deny the link between abortion and a woman’s likelihood of developing breast cancer, the evidence for such a link is credible and overwhelming. In fact, many of these same organizations recommend that a woman carry her first pregnancy to term and breast feed the baby to mature the cells that would be susceptible to cancer. Further studies show that even after an abortion, carrying the next baby to term and breast feeding will minimize the increased cancer risk due to the abortion alone.

Even the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which is funded by taxpayer dollars, has denied such a link, citing only a few of the available studies—the ones that show no link—while a majority of studies available showed a definite likelihood of breast cancer after an abortion.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which raises millions of dollars to fight breast cancer, briefly chose to stop sending funds to Planned Parenthood in part because of the link between abortion and breast cancer. When they did so, their rate of donations nearly doubled immediately.

But Planned Parenthood rallied support from the media and prominent Democratic lawmakers to decry the loss of “pregnancy care” including mammograms (which Planned Parenthood does not provide), and to propose an end to donations to Komen. Eventually Komen caved in, and recently announced plans to support 17 Planned Parenthood affiliates, even though PP is the nation’s largest abortion provider, which already receives millions of taxpayer dollars.

Karen recommends contacting Congress to investigate the National Cancer Institute, and especially its head, Dr. Harold Varmus, for refusing to include the credible evidence for the link between abortion and breast cancer, instead continuing to claim that there is no link. Komen for the Cure can also be contacted to let your views be known about their decision to resume support for Planned Parenthood.

More Information:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer:

www.abortionbreastcancer.com

1-877-803-0102

To contact your U.S. Senator and Representatives about investigating the National Cancer Institute cover-up of the abortion/breast cancer connection:

Capitol Switchboard in Washington, DC

202-224-3121
202-225-3121

To contact Susan G. Komen for the Cure about their support for Planned Parenthood:

1-877-465-6636

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Air Date: April 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: William J. Murray

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Air Date: April 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: William J. Murray

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In 1963, America’s most famous atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, won the landmark lawsuit filed on behalf of her son William that effectively banned prayer in public schools. Years later, Bill Murray became a Christian, and he now is Chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition.

Bill tells of his life as a child, having just barely met his father before he left the family, being raised by his mother who was dysfunctional, unable to hold a job. Madalyn was recruited by a Communist while standing in an unemployment line, and she embraced the Marxist worldview, and hatred of God.

Later she noticed that the Pledge of Allegiance (which includes the phrase, “Under God”) was posted and recited in schools. As she discovered other practices in public schools, including prayer in a few situations, she began protesting and carried out her threat to remove Bill from school.

After she sent out a mailing detailing her views, others who hated God began sending her money enabling her to improve her lifestyle and develop her organization, American Atheists. The organization worked to remove God from public life, and filed a number of lawsuits, one of which led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling ending official Bible-reading in American public schools in 1963.

Bill was back in school after three weeks and continued his education. He tells how he came to Christ and began his ministry which includes daily visits to Capitol Hill to visit Senators and Representatives.

Bill Murray’s life story is told in the book, “My Life Without God” which has just been reprinted.

More Information:

www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org

Order the book “My Life Without God” at 25% off the regular price during April, 2012:
Order online at
www.vcy.com

or call
1-888-722-4829

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Air Date: April 19, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 19, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Many technological advances are being used in ways that can invade privacy, especially when American civilians can now be observed by tiny “drone” aircraft capable of taking high resolution video from overhead.

But in other ways, privacy is being jeopardized by the increasingly invasive questions being included in the U.S. Census, plus in selected households for surveys conducted every year. The Constitution calls for a census—counting people—every ten years, in order to determine how many representatives should be sent to Congress. It says nothing about collecting statistics about the details of our lives.

But since 1996, those receiving the detailed “American Community Survey” (whether or not it is a part of the ten year census) are told that it is “mandatory” to complete.

Questions are asked of all individuals in a household—perhaps as many as 12—about race, gender, relationships and other personal matters.

Other questions are very detailed, including those about housing, which ask for the date of original construction, date the individual moved into this property, the size of the property, information about sales of agricultural products from this property, how many separate rooms are in the house, how many are bedrooms, what this property could be sold for—all this just for starters on this one topic of housing.

The survey goes on and on and on and on with questions about each person in the household including:

How many hours did that person work last week?
Where did they work? (detailed address)
How did they travel to work?
How many rode together in a car or van?
What time did they leave for work?
How long did it take to get there?
What are the most important things done at work?
What is the total annual income from wages, salaries, commissions, tips, or self-employment income, royalties, estates, trusts, Social Security, SSI, public assistance, pensions, disability income, food stamps, or any other source?
Did they miss work in the past week?
Are they looking for work?
When was the last time they worked for even a few hours?
…and many other questions.

This must be repeated for each person listed.

Vic asked what all this information has to do with determining the number of representatives a state should have in Congress.

It is mandatory to complete the survey or be liable to fines and imprisonment. But attempts are being made to change that.

H.R. 931 – Which makes participation in the American Community Survey Voluntary was introduced over a year ago – March 3, 2011. This legislation presently has 61 co-sponsors, but is still sitting in two committees.

More Information:

To express your views about H.R. 931:

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:
(202) 225-5074

House Judiciary Committee:
(202) 225-3951

House Judiciary Committee has relegated this to two of their sub-committees:

Subcommittee on the Constitution:
(202) 225-2825

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security:
(202) 225-5727

Contact your own U.S. Representative and Senators

Congressional Hotline numbers:
(202) 225-3121 or
(202) 224-3121

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Air Date: April 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Air Date: April 18, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Peter LaBarbera

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Peter LaBarbera is the founder and president of Americans for Truth.

This Friday, April 20, has been designated by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) as a “Day of Silence” in many schools across the nation to protest what they perceive as discrimination against—and hatred toward homosexual students. The idea is for those supporting homosexuals to remain silent throughout the day. In some schools, even teachers have refused to speak on that day.

But even the liberal American Civil Liberties Union has stated that students “do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak.”

Some schools have not only accommodated the “day of silence”, but have also encouraged it by allowing posters and other displays that promote homosexuality. In response, students who do not agree with the homosexual agenda are encouraged to walk out and not be in attendance that day, which will deprive the school of funds paid based on attendance figures.

Meanwhile, the Obama White House effectively “shouts from the housetops” their support for the homosexual agenda. They are holding conferences with homosexual groups in Atlanta April 19, and in Minneapolis April 28. Even other activities, such as the Easter Egg roll on the White House lawn, are used to spotlight homosexual “families’ participating, with no mention of traditional heterosexual families.

Funds spent by the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies researching the HIV epidemic, which is largely a result of homosexual activities, have totaled over $225,000 per HIV-related death, in contrast with $2,429 spent per death on research related to heart disease and stroke.

The promotion includes sponsoring a “Champions of Change Video Challenge” as part of the coming “Gay Pride Month”. On issue after issue, the Obama administration has supported pro-homosexual legislation, including the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the military, signing the Hate Crimes act, and refusal to enforce the “Defense of Marriage Act” while working to repeal it.

Many court decisions have chipped away at traditional marriage by ruling that laws that do not give equal benefits to non-traditional unions are “discriminatory”.

More Information:

For information on the movement to “walk out” of the day of silence:
http://www.doswalkout.net

Americans for Truth website:
http://americansfortruth.com

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Air Date: April 17, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Air Date: April 17, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Brian Sussman

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Brian Sussman, at one time a successful television meteorologist, now works to counteract popular myths and mis-information about the world’s climate. He is the author of the book, “Climategate”, and has just released a new title, “Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America”

Not only can the “politically-correct” story about the environment can be shown to be false, but this false information is being used to increase governmental regulation of society of individuals.

In fact, socialist planners have long seen climate change as a tool to gain control of free societies and move them into socialism. The earliest record of this is from 1883 when it was used to warn about “Global Cooling”.

In recent years regulations have done far more than regulate pollution, or carbon emissions, etc. They have limited severely the use of private property, with the ultimate goal of eliminating private property altogether.

This is taking place even though the Declaration of Independence states that our rights come from God, and are to be protected by the government acting on behalf of the people. Socialists and Communists of all stripes believe that “rights” are granted by the government, and can be taken away by the government, for the “common good”.

Large areas of land in the United States have now been placed off-limits for development of any kind, or even the presence of human beings. Despite massive deposits of energy resources, we cannot access them. So we remain energy dependent on nations that hate us.

Long range plans for areas like California envision a ban on motorized vehicles except for mass transit, the end of ranches, with the land being restored to its “pristine” natural state.

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Air Date: April 16, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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Air Date: April 16, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: David Rubin

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David Rubin lives in the “West Bank”. He is founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, which helps children who were victims of terrorist attacks. He is the author of, “The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama”.

The US, European Union, and others are scrambling to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad meet this week for the first time in two years, amid Palestinian threats to bring their statehood bid back to the United Nations.

Why the return to peace talks now, when they have failed so many times before? Is there new information that we don’t know about?

Mr. Rubin says the real issue is what is happening with Iran, not the Palestinians. Ever since the first meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama, it has been obvious there is a huge disagreement about how Iran should be treated. Mr. Obama wants Iran to understand that we do not consider them an enemy. Mr. Netanyahu says that the very real threat of nuclear weapons in Iran, coupled with Iran’s stated desire to destroy Israel, cannot be anything but the actions of an enemy.

As a result, the Obama administration is pressuring Israel to delay any attack on Iran until at least 2013. Israel considers any delay to be putting off the inevitable. They believe that a strike against Iran earlier rather than later could minimize the scope and effects of such a conflict.

Other factors are the Iranian surrogate terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, plus current changes in Egypt that will make that country more antagonistic towards Israel.

Behind the scenes, the Obama administration is pushing for progress towards a Palestinian state—despite his stated desire to delay such efforts until after the U.S. Presidential election in November. Rubin says if Obama is re-elected, the result will be “disaster”, as his record of pro-Islamic, anti-Israeli actions could continue with no concern about re-election.

More Information:

A copy of Mr. Rubin’s book, “The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama”, can be ordered by calling

1-800-431-1579

For more information on the non-profit organization started by Mr. Rubin to help children who have been victims of terrorist attacks:

shilohisraelchildren.org

Donations can be made on the website, or by writing

Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund
P.O. Box 212
Suffern, NY 10901

Donations can also be made by calling
1-877-742-2064

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Air Date: April 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic Eliason created conversation with Crosstalk listeners by presenting some of the latest stories that came in to the news desk. The stories included:

--Reverend Al Sharpton tries to express a parallel between Christ’s legal
case and that of Trayvon Martin.
--Wyoming Supreme Court issues a ruling that protects the use of graphic
abortion pictures.
--Planned Parenthood files federal lawsuit to stop Texas from enforcing law.
--Time Magazine to honor Planned Parenthood president.
--Environmental Protection Agency levies large fines on school bus
contractor for excessive diesel idling.
--$205,075 spent in San Francisco to translocate one shrub that stood in the
path of a 1-plus billion dollar highway renovation project.
--Almost 900 New Zealand women hospitalized for botched abortions.
--President Obama raised money for Islamic causes.
--Despite their low population count in America, Muslim voters could easily
swing the November presidential election.

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Air Date: April 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bodie Hodge

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Air Date: April 12, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Bodie Hodge

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Bodie Hodge is a staff member with Answers in Genesis. He is a speaker, writer, contributor and researcher on a host of topics related to apologetics, biblical history and the book of Genesis. He is the author of “The Fall of Satan” and co-author of “Dragons: Legends & Lore of Dinosaurs” as well as a contributor to many titles published by Master Books including the newly released, “Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions” Volume 2.

Like its predecessor, “Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions” Volume 2 is an easy-to-read book that will allow lay Christians to do away with the “smoke screens” of unbelievers by providing great teaching points from the authority of God’s Word. Here are four examples of alleged Bible contradictions that are included in the book:

How could God tell Abraham that Isaac was his only son (Genesis 22:2) when he also had Ishmael as a son?

How could the world have a foundation of pillars (1 Samuel 2:8) yet be hanging upon nothing (Job 26:7)?

How could Jesus tell the thief on the cross that he’d be with him in paradise (Luke 23:43) when the Bible says thieves will not inherit eternal life (1 Corinthians 6:10)?

Why do chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis seem to contradict one another?


More Information:

To obtain a copy of “Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions” Volume 2, go to www.vcy.com or call 1-888-722-4829. Get your order in by April 30th and you can receive this book at a discount of 41%.

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Air Date: April 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Hans Von Spakovsky

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Air Date: April 11, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Hans Von Spakovsky

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Hans Von Spakovsky is a contributor to PJ Media and a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Institute.

The federal government requires that individuals seeking employment or food stamps must be able to authenticate their identity and citizenship. In spite of this, there are those who insist that voter I.D. laws are unfair.

The U.S. attorney general has been fighting voter I.D. laws claiming that they are discriminatory, unnecessary and making it harder for minorities to vote. This simply isn’t true. In fact, Hans noted that in Georgia, African-American and Hispanic voter turnout has actually increased in federal elections held since the implementation of voter I.D. requirements.

Hans also presented details of his undercover experiences at civil rights organizations and the Justice Department, proving that although some people may be against voter I.D, that doesn’t stop them from requiring identification if you want to talk to them.


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Air Date: April 10, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 10, 2012

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Vic opened this edition of Crosstalk noting that while reflecting upon his campaign as well as his young daughter’s illness, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum gave word today that he is suspending his bid to be the G.O.P. nominee.

After this, Vic opened the phone lines to give listeners the opportunity to comment regarding why they listen to Crosstalk. Vic noted how this helps for program evaluation purposes so that Crosstalk can serve you in the best way possible.

Listeners had various responses including: Crosstalk’s faith-based background; Crosstalk stands for the truth; it’s the most informative news-radio; it’s an encouragement for listeners to hear others who tune in; Crosstalk’s eternal vigilance against abortion; and more.

During the last several minutes, Vic asked listeners to also comment on the suspension of the Rick Santorum campaign.

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Air Date: April 9, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Air Date: April 9, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Larry Pratt

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Larry Pratt is the executive director of Gun Owners of America.

There is a treaty conference coming to New York this July that could have important implications for Second Amendment rights here in America. This conference will deal with the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and according to Larry, this is a project that Hillary Clinton announced early on during the Obama administration. He feels she can get the president to sign it but he can’t see the Senate ratifying it.

The problem with such a treaty is that it would have its “wish list” of restrictions. It could include the confiscation of non-civilian weapons or perhaps even requiring a manufacturer’s license just to change a scope or a stock on a rifle. These are two regulations that could show up just short of an outright gun ban due to this treaty.

Larry also comments on the case of Trayvon Martin, the young man who was allegedly shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida.


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Larry encouraged listeners to ask senators to cut off any bureaucratic funding activity that could go toward this treaty. You can contact your senators by calling 202-224-3121.

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Air Date: April 6, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

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Air Date: April 6, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

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Air Date: April 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Robert Morgan

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Air Date: April 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan is a pastor and author of several books including the newly released book, “Then Sings My Soul”—Volume #3.

Pastor Morgan believes hymns are important to the Christian faith because they represent 2,000 years of our musical and worshipful heritage and 1,500 years of biblical heritage. All totaled, it’s a legacy of 3,500 years of hymnody that’s often ignored in churches and this ignoring puts us in danger of losing this great tradition that helps anchor our faith.

This ignorance of the great hymns of the faith is ironic when you realize that in our computer era we have greater access to these treasures than any other time in history.

Pastor Morgan presents the history behind hymns such as “The Old Rugged Cross”, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” and “How Great Thou Art”. You’ll also learn what the earliest hymn is in Christian history along with the title of the most famous children’s hymn.


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Pastor Morgan’s book, “Then Sings My Soul”—Volume #3 is available through Crosstalk for a donation of $23. Send your donation to:

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Air Date: April 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: April 4, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim began this edition of Crosstalk with news regarding Youcef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor accused of leaving Islam and becoming a Christian. His son has received a birthday president in the form of being able to visit his father in an Iranian jail.

Jim also included audio from a video address that President Obama made just days ago where he assured listeners that Planned Parenthood will have his continued support. The president noted his efforts to halt those who would attempt to defund this organization, an organization that he praised for their efforts at supporting women’s health.

With Mexican and Canadian leaders joining him at a recent Rose Garden press conference, President Obama warned the Supreme Court that if they find Obamacare unconstitutional, this would amount to an unprecedented act of judicial activism.

Join Jim as he looks at the president’s comments especially in light of how they appear to be an attempt to sway an upcoming Supreme Court decision. Was this, as one commentator described it, as “bullying”? You decide when you review this important edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: April 3, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: April 3, 2012

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So often today when it comes to the matter of being Pro-choice, you will hear bureaucrats argue – keep the government out of my bedroom, or keep the government out of my house. Yet, these same bureaucrats have no problem today taking away choices from consumers when it relates to what light bulbs they want to use or what toilets they want for their home, or what washing machines we can use.

Vic played a recording of an exchange that took place in Congress on March 10, 2011. U.S. Senator Rand Paul questioned—and lectured--Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, at a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. They were discussing Senate Bill 395 on energy efficiency of certain appliances and equipment and the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act.

Some of the points made by the Senator were that government mandates regarding appliances, toilets, lawn mowers, light bulbs, etc. create many more problems than they solve. While the goals are to conserve energy and protect the environment, among the other effects are higher prices and lower performance for these products, which often must be manufactured overseas, resulting in the loss of American jobs. And the consumer is left with no choice except to purchase only products that meet the new standards, with the threat of fines or imprisonment if they do not comply.

Callers offered examples of their experiences with these regulations, and gave their comments.

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Air Date: April 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guests: Pastor J.D. Enosh and Pastor Scott Van Laanen

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Air Date: April 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guests: Pastor J.D. Enosh and Pastor Scott Van Laanen

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Pastor Enosh is a native of India, and now has a ministry in South India. He is currently in the United States, speaking at a number of locations. He is traveling with Scott Van Laanen, who is pastor of Northwoods Bible Church in Lakewood, Wisconsin.

One cultural reality must be recognized when trying to reach India: the “Caste” system, which under the Hindu religion includes four major groups, or “castes”. The lowest Caste, the “Dalits” or “untouchables”, are believed to be under punishment for sins in a previous incarnation. They have no rights, are allowed only the most menial jobs, and are pushed down when they attempt to improve their status. They literally are “untouchable” as no one from any other caste will have anything to do with them.

Ministry goals are to reach out with the Gospel to the downtrodden in India, especially the Dalit people. One prayer is that the caste system will eventually be broken down. The ministry also includes pastor training, church planting, and caring for destitute children through a system of Christian orphanages.

The Gospel, which is often preached in the open air, is having its effect as many individuals then ask how to receive Christ. Even Hindu priests have come to Christ as they heard the gospel preached on the street in front of Hindu temples. Some are now Christian pastors.

Demon possession is a reality, and some who have not been cured after paying Hindu temples to cast out their demons, have found that prayer by Christians in the Name of Jesus Christ has resulted in the demons fleeing. In addition, some Hindu priests who failed to cast out the demons came to Christ after seeing that He has power over demons.

Persecution of believers is also a reality, and Pastor Enosh has been attacked physically, and imprisoned on occasion, for simply preaching the Gospel.

Prayer is requested for the underprivileged people in India, that the Gospel will continue to be preached to them, that education can be provided for the children, for Bible studies for new believers, and for Bibles.

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Air Date: March 30, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Dave Benoit

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Air Date: March 30, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Dave Benoit

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This edition of Crosstalk featured evangelist Dave Benoit who spoke at a VCY America rally on October 2nd of 2010. The title of his rally address was: Disarming the Powers of Darkness: The Spirit Gate.

Dave Benoit founded Glory Ministries in 1984. Since that time he’s been communicating biblical messages on the dangers of rock music and the occult.

Dave began by quoting Revelation 12:12 and explained that the reason we see the intensity increasing in the supernatural is because Satan knows he has but a short time.

Recognizing this, David described some of the 7 spirits that Satan uses to wreak havoc on this world. They include:

--The spirit of fear
--The vile spirit
--The spirit of bondage
--The spirit of unfaithfulness
--The psychic spirit
--The lying spirit
--The spirit of anti-Christ

Dave backed up discussion of these spirits with interesting facts and statistics showing how these spirits are indicative of the soon return of Christ.

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Air Date: March 29, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Farris

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Air Date: March 29, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Farris

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Michael Farris is Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He is the Chairman and Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, and President of ParentalRights.org. Since founding HSLDA in 1983, Michael Farris has used his extensive experience in both politics and appellate litigation to defend parental rights and help grow the organization to over 80,000 member families. He has written over a dozen books. Education Week has named him as one of the “Top 100 Faces in Education of the 20th Century”.

Michael tells the story of Scott and Jodi Ferris from Pennsylvania. Jodi was pregnant and went into labor early and therefore was not able to have her baby delivered by her midwife. Instead she went by ambulance to the hospital and ended up giving birth in the hospital parking lot.

It’s at this point that things took an ominous turn. Once born, one doctor said the baby was fine yet another doctor who was critical of the couple’s desire to have the birth via midwife said the baby was very ill. Eventually a social worker became involved in the situation, consented to a vaccine for the child, seized the child, and Jodi was kicked out of the hospital.

Find out how this case is proceeding, why a legal firm that defends home schoolers has become involved, and what you can do if you find yourself in a similar situation.

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Air Date: March 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: March 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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The following is just a portion of the stories that Jim Schneider selected for listener comment on this Wednesday edition of Crosstalk:

--Today is the third day of U.S. Supreme Court testimony regarding Obamacare.
--A CNN legal analyst calls Obamacare a “train wreck” for the Obama administration.
--Justice Elena Kagen did not recuse herself from the hearings in spite of the fact that in the past she has shown to be in favor of the enactment of Obamacare.
--Obamacare regulations contain 2.16 million words.
--Former Senator Arlen Specter confirms that he viewed Romney’s health care reform plan in Massachusetts as solid precedent for Obamacare.
--In South Korea on Monday, President Obama is caught giving interesting comments regarding the U.S. nuclear position as it relates to Russia.
--Russian government radio views the ignoring of the Obama eligibility issue by the American media as the biggest censorship and blackout attempt in the history of journalism.
--President Obama’s administration has requested 770 million dollars in federal funds to combat the effects of global warming in developing nations.

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Air Date: March 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Daniel Weber

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Air Date: March 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Daniel Weber

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Daniel Weber is the founder and president of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)

This morning the U.S. Supreme Court held its second day of testimony concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act otherwise known as “Obamacare”. Today’s testimony was to focus on whether the individual mandate that would force individuals to purchase health insurance or face fines, is constitutional.

There are many points that Daniel covers in order to bring listeners up to date concerning Obamacare. Here are several:

--The independent payment advisory board that will issue rules to determine
which medical procedures you can or can’t have.
--Why Obamacare, if it passes, may collapse under its own weight.
--The Medicaid component and why Obamacare actually hurts it.
--Justice Elena Kagan and the fact that she hasn’t recused herself.
--Accessibility to your checking account.
--16,000 more I.R.S. representatives to make sure employers are following
the plan.

These discussion points, along with questions and comments from listeners, made for a very timely and informative edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: March 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Don DeYoung

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Air Date: March 26, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Don DeYoung

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(Originally Broadcast on 2/16/2010)

Don DeYoung is Chairman of the Physical Science Department at Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana. He’s a graduate of Michigan Tech University (B.S., M.S., Physics), Iowa State University (Ph.D., Physics), and Grace Seminary (M.Div.).

Dr. DeYoung is a member of the Indiana Academy of Science and the AuSable Environmental Institute. He is currently president of the Creation Research Society with 1,700 members worldwide.

He has written 16 books on Bible-science topics and his appearance on Crosstalk involved discussion of a book he has co-written with Derrik Hobbs called Discovery of Design: Searching Out the Creator’s Secrets.

God has placed a countless number of practical designs in nature. On this edition of Crosstalk you’ll have fun listening to Dr. DeYoung as he explains some of the discoveries that came about because scientists looked to God’s creation for inspiration. For example, you’ll learn the connection between…

--batteries and bacteria…
--the Water Strider insect and water repellent fabric…
--optic surveillance and bees…
--airport terminals and ants…
--the Box Fish and a unique automotive design…
--the Elephant Nose Fish and clean water management…
--the lobster eye and a telescope lens…
--the paw of the dog and modern shoe design…
--the eye filter of the penguin and modern sunglasses…
--the Eiffel Tower and the femur…
--and other interesting facts!


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Air Date: March 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Air Date: March 23, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

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Mat Staver is the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.

Today is the 2nd Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act otherwise called Obamacare. Ironically, this is also the 237th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. Obamacare has shown itself to be anti-liberty and because of this, next week oral arguments will be occurring before the United States Supreme Court Challenging the Constitutionality of Obamacare.

At the time that Obamacare was rolled out, Liberty Counsel claimed that Congress had no authority to implement it. Obamacare is the largest attempt to finance abortion in American history as it seeks to force taxpayers to pay directly to fund this horrific process.

There are many other key details that make Obamacare an unsustainable program, one that could, if fully implemented, push America over the economic precipice. Find out why when you listen to this edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: March 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jake Jacobs

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Air Date: March 22, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jake Jacobs

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Jake Jacobs earned a Ph.D. in Early American History from Northwest University with his dissertation titled, “The Influence of Biblical Ideas on Early American Republicanism and History”. A public high school history teacher for some 25 years, he is known throughout the public education field as a “politically incorrect instructor” and a fighter of the NEA. He is president and founder of the Politically Incorrect Institute and has degrees in American History and Biblical and Judeo-Christian Studies. He appeared on “Fox & Friends” to defend Wisconsin’s Governor, Scott Walker. He is the author of “Mobocracy: The Cultural & Political War to Destroy Our Republic Under God”.

Article 4 section 4 of the Constitution says that we are to have a republican form of government and not a democracy. What does this have to do with “mobocracy”? Dr. Jacobs notes that the term, “mobocracy”, wasn’t new to our founders and that they used it as a synonym for the word “democracy”. He notes how our founders distrusted the idea of a democracy; that mob or majority that could turn against the minority or a violent minority that could turn against the majority.

This fact is lost on many Americans. Dr. Jacobs gives an example of this as he details what he refers to as the “winter Woodstock” that took place in Madison, Wisconsin, as protestors responded to Governor Scott Walker’s position on collective bargaining. Dr. Jacobs describes how the protestors behaved like a mob with some carrying signs describing violent acts while other chanted, “This is what democracy looks like.”

From Karl Marx and Fabian socialists to the rewriting of American history textbooks and his opinion of the National Education Association, Dr. Jacobs covers a lot of ground as he looks at the ideological factors past and present that are affecting the vitality of our republic under God.


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To obtain a copy of the book, “Mobocracy: The Cultural & Political War to Destroy Our Republic Under God”, go to www.jjusa.org

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Air Date: March 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: March 21, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Our nation is in turmoil like never before. This situation is being amplified by those who seek to implement change through the fueling of the human penchant toward envy and entitlement. This edition of Crosstalk looks at two examples of this process, one past and one present, that may give an indication where our nation is headed.

Tomorrow the Milwaukee Public Schools will be meeting to discuss a student bill of rights, a bill that has already been formulated by Y.E.S. (Youth Empowered in the Struggle).

From decision making power to the desire for an affordable and dignified lunch along with transportation and language demands, this document appears to share the same attitude of entitlement that the nation saw during the Madison, Wisconsin, union protests and the nation’s “occupy” protests.

Vic also plays a recording of an interview featuring retired postman Allen Hulton who delivered mail in the late 80’s and early ‘90’s to Tom and Mary Ayers, the parents of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. He has some surprising things to say about the young man he believes is now our current president, Barack Obama.

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Air Date: March 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/20/martial-law-by-executive-order Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:13:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/20/martial-law-by-executive-order Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 20, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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An executive order is a directive that the President of the United States can bring into existence without an act of Congress.

On February 16th, President Obama signed one of these orders called the National Defense Resource Preparedness Order. Sounds fine, right? After all, who in America is against national defense?

This order pertains to certain national departments and agencies responsible for plans and programs that relate to national defense or for services and resources needed to support such efforts during the full gamut of emergencies. This includes providing for essential civilian and military demands.

The problem with this executive order is that it’s so sweeping. Under this order, a company could literally be co-opted by government officials to produce whatever goods are required with employees forced to work to produce the needed items.

Under this order, how will our leaders define an emergency or could this order be implemented even during times of non emergency conditions? Is this constitutional? These are just some of the questions you may have as you review this interesting edition of Crosstalk.

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Air Date: March 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jim Garrow

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Air Date: March 19, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dr. Jim Garrow

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Dr. James Garrow is the founder and executive director of the Bethune Institute's Pink Pagoda schools, private English-immersion schools for Chinese children. Today he runs 168 schools with nearly 6,300 employees. Garrow has spent over $25 million over the past sixteen years rescuing an estimated 40,000 baby Chinese girls from near-certain death under China's one-child-per-couple policy by facilitating international adoptions. He was nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize where he would be runner-up to the eventual winner, President Barack Obama. He is the author of the newly released book, “The Pink Pagoda: One Man’s Quest to End Gendercide in China”.

Believe it nor not, under China’s one-child policy, 8 million female babies are killed per year and that number doesn’t include the abortion count. This preference for males is a 5,000 year old cultural tradition because of the passing on of wealth and status as well as the fact that the males are responsible for looking after the elderly parents.

Join Jim Garrow as he explains how he can operate his schools and especially how he can rescue Chinese children in spite of the fact that this is technically illegal by U.N. definition. He also describes how he came to become the runner up to President Obama for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, how he feels about President Obama’s posture on life issues and so much more.


More Information:

Contact with Jim Garrow can be made through www.wnd.com and in your e-mail reference “The Pink Pagoda”.

“The Pink Pagoda: One Man’s Quest to End Gendercide” is available at the VCY Bookstore and through the end of this month, they are offering it at 23% off the regular price. This is a hardcover book with over 150 pages. It’s available at this discount through the end of the month at vcy.com
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Air Date: March 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/16/your-digital-window-of-corruption Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:40:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/16/your-digital-window-of-corruption Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 16, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic reported on the response from the previous program, which dealt with a blasphemous “entertainment” program which began to be broadcast recently on the ABC television network in the United States, also distributed to television outlets in other countries.

The program was originally titled “Good Christian Bitches”, now just “GSB”, depicts Christians as being grossly immoral, to the point of blasphemy, all for laughs.

On the last Crosstalk, Vic recommended that listeners contact ABC Radio News, since ABC Entertainment gave no phone contact information. He suggested they be asked why they are not covering the story about reaction to the controversial program.

Vic reported that about a half hour after the program ended, he received a call from the Vice President of ABC Radio News, Steven Jones, who said that the many calls coming in had awakened them to the issue, and that it was going to the “assignment desk” to be assigned to a reporter.

Crosstalk first learned about the program from a listener, and since yesterday a number of listeners have called or written to, and also to offer additional points of contact—again at ABC Radio News. Vic said that Christians should continue to contact ABC News to ask about coverage of the program, until such coverage actually takes place on the air.

Before taking calls, Vic read another message from a listener, encouraging people to pray for the actors and producers of the program in question, that God would work on their hearts. Prayer for our nation that allows such programming without any outcry was also encouraged. Vic stated that “the church cannot remain silent while the world around us goes to hell”.

Listeners were urged to put actions to their prayers, and their concerns, in whatever way they can—from handing out tracts and witnessing, to becoming involved in society to provide a Christian perspective.

More Information:

Additional contact information at ABC News:

Steve Jones, VP ABC News Radio: 212-456-5101

Andrew Kalb, Executive Director, Programming: 212-456-5120

Jeff Fitzgerald, Executive Director, Operations: 212-456-5554

Jim Kane, Deputy D.C. Bureau Chief: 202-222-6604

Jon Newman, News Coverage: 212-456-5100 (also given out yesterday)

Joyce Alcantara, Assignment Manager: 212-456-5106

Larry Lafferty, Associate Dir., Broadcast Operations: 212-456-1859

Wayne Fisk, Director, Programming: 212-456-5327

Cristi Landes, Manager, Programming: 212-456-5107

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Air Date: March 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Air Date: March 15, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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A letter received by Crosstalk from concerned Christians prompted this program which discussed the new comedy program which was started on Sunday, March 4, 2012.

The program is based on a book titled “Good Christian Bitches”, which depicts Christians as being grossly immoral, to the point of blasphemy, all for laughs. After a storm of protest when the publicity came out about the new program, the title was changed to “Good Christian Belles”, and eventually just “GCG”, which allows the user to decide what the initials mean.

While Christians can expect persecution, and are told to accept it and pray as individuals for their persecutors, Christians are also told to defend the faith. In addition, in a consumer-oriented society, it is proper for consumers to communicate to companies when they do not appreciate their product or service.

Vic recommended that listeners contact ABC, but because it was impossible to reach a live person at the ABC Entertainment phone number, he suggests contacting ABC Radio News to ask why they are not covering the story about the reaction to the controversial program.

Listeners then called with their comments and reports on their calls to ABC News.

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To contact ABC News in New York:

212-456-5100

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Air Date: March 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/14/secret-weapon-active-denial-system-ads Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/14/secret-weapon-active-denial-system-ads Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 14, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Discussed were a number of disturbing developments, including new laws that threaten to infringe on the privacy and safety of U.S. Citizens.

One issue is the “Active Denial System (ADS)”, which is a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military. The ADS works by firing a high-powered beam of high-frequency electromagnetic. The effect is similar to microwaves, and just like microwave ovens, any tissue they come into contact with will be suddenly heated to painful temperatures—possibly causing first-degree burns.

The system was originally designed for crowd control, but several portable ADS transmitters were taken to Afghanistan, but were not used due to the controversy over how they could affect innocent civilians as well as military or terrorist combatants.

Now, however, the system is being described as being effective to stop a person without any “long-term” injury, and there are moves to make smaller versions available for civilian law enforcement agencies.

A bill which would criminalize even peaceful protests, has passed the House of Representatives, H.R. 347 threatens even those who protest peacefully individually or as a group anywhere near the President are now in danger of arrest, fines, and even imprisonment. The bill passed the House by a wide margin.

Another bill, which is now law, authorizes the use of drone aircraft law enforcement in the Unites States for surveillance. Some cameras used on drones on the battlefield have the capacity to read a license plate from 30,000 feet in the sky. These drones are very small and quiet compared to manned aircraft. There are concerns over privacy, and possible future uses (already proven on the battlefield) which could include firing weapons.

Listeners commented on these developments.

More information:

For documentation about these issues, go to this page:

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Date: March 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Date: March 13, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Islam is promoted as being a "religion of peace". But when the teachings of their "holy" book, the Qur'an, are examined, there is much more teaching of violence, including the killing and maiming of those who do not submit to the worldview started by Muhammad.

Vic Eliason presented the evidence by reading a number of verses from the Qur’an, and from the companion sayings of Muhammad and traditions in the Hadith, which specifically order Muslims to kill or maim non-Muslim "infidels", especially Jews and Christians.

These verses are taken from the English translation of the Qur'an done by Usama Dakdok, a Christian raised in Egypt, who now leads "The Straightway of Grace Ministry" to reach out to Muslim people in the United States. They have been collected in a 20-page booklet, “Verses in the Qur’an That Teach Violence”, which has been printed by VCY America and is now available individually or in quantities.

Listeners then called in with their comments.


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A complete literal translation of the Qur’an is available from Usama Dakdok’s ministry:

http://www.thestraightway.org/

Copies of the 20-page booklet of collected “Verses in the Qur’an That Teach Violence”

VCY America
3434 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53208
Call 1-800-729-9829 M-F 8am-5pm Central

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Date: March 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Adrian Rogers

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Date: March 12, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Adrian Rogers

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In this edition of Crosstalk, Vic Eliason plays two segments from the late Dr. Adrian Rogers speaking on a very important issue for the church today.The subject is luke-warm Christianity, the kind that shows itself through an apathetic attitude, and a general lack of zeal for the things of God in this world.

Vic also mentioned a book by Dr. Noah Hutchings: 40 Irrefutable Signs of the Last Generation, available to listeners through the Crosstalk ministry at the address and phone number listed below.

NOTE: This program first aired April 14, 2011

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To obtain a copy of the entire message by Adrian Rogers contact Love Worth Finding at:
1-877-568-3463.

To obtain copies of the Noah Hutchings book, 40 Irrefutable Signs of the Last Generation, for a donation of $20 for one copy, or $35 for two copies\:

Write
VCY America
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Milwaukee, WI 53208

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Air Date: March 9, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Ed Hindson

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Air Date: March 9, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: Ed Hindson

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Dr. Ed Hindson is a distinguished Professor of Religion and Dean of the Institute of Biblical Studies at Liberty University. He’s authored a number of books including: Global Warning, Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics and the Zondervan King James Bible Commentary. Dr. Hindson is also a Bible prophecy speaker and host of the King is Coming telecast.

Dr. Hindson was the speaker at a VCY Rally in October of 2009 and this broadcast features portions of his presentation.

Dr. Hindson describes how Bible prophecy is not written to scare us, but to prepare us; so that we will be ready when the Lord returns. It’s not written to frighten us, but to invite us to give our lives to Christ while there’s time and hope.

His first main point of emphasis was on the idea that time is running out for the world. He pointed to a recent gathering of world leaders; a gathering designed to bring about solutions to the problems of the world. The problems, however, still remain.

From there Dr. Hindson goes to the Word of God, laying more groundwork for the importance of prophecy. He looks at the 16th chapter of Matthew and explains how Jesus challenged the Pharisees and Sadducees who had missed all 109 of the first prophecies concerning his first coming. He then contrasts that text with Luke 21 which describes the signs of the second coming; signs that challenge us as believers today to be ready.

In light of all this he warns how we should watch out for false predictions as he cites numerous examples from the last century. Even today he describes how the New Agers have a prediction, supposedly based upon the Mayan calendar, that on December 21, 2012, the world will either end or we will have the dawning of a great new age.

Dr. Hindson believes we are close to the end of the age. Here are several points he uses to defend his position:

--Israel must be back in their Promised Land. They have been for 60 years.
--Tension in the Middle East; particularly against Israel.
--The failures of worldwide peace attempts.
--The threat of nuclear weapons.

More interesting, Scripture-based information concerning Bible prophecy is available by listening to this broadcast or by ordering Dr. Hindson’s complete rally presentation via the contact information listed below.


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Air Date: March 8, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/08/the-race-for-the-gop-nomination Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:15:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/08/the-race-for-the-gop-nomination Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 8, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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After presenting the following election related new items, Jim opened the phone lines to give Crosstalk listeners an opportunity to comment on the current status of the G.O.P. nomination race:

--Romney encourages rivals to back out of the G.O.P. nomination battle claiming they are hurting the party by continuing to campaign.
--A Rick Santorum ally calls for Newt Gingrich to step out of the way.
--A Gingrich advisor feels Romney should step aside so that conservatives can have a debate about how to confront Obama.
--Sarah Palin has not abandoned the idea of accepting a proposal to run for president should the G.O.P. race lead to an open convention in August.

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Air Date: March 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)

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Air Date: March 7, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Guest: Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)

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Senator Inhofe represents the State of Oklahoma. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He is one of the leading conservative voices in America and a strong advocate of common sense values. In January, 2003, Senator Inhofe became the Chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Today he is the ranking member of this Committee. He is the author of the newly released book, “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future”.

According to Senator Inhofe, the world saw its greatest CO2 emissions right after WWII. Environmentally we went into a period of cooling. In fact, in 1975, some environmentalists were claiming that we were heading toward a worldwide ice age.

So why does the global warming movement seem to communicate a “sky is falling” mentality today? Find out as Senator Inhofe traces this movement beginning with 1972’s U.N. Conference on Human Environment to 1987 when the phrase “sustainable development” was coined. He informs listeners that sustainable development is really “cap & trade” which is predicated on two assumptions: First of all, there’s too much disparity between wealthy and developing countries. Secondly, our planet can’t sustain the level of development that’s taking place now so it has to be controlled by the United Nations.

So why is the E.P.A. moving ahead with carbon control when Congress hasn’t authorized it? Find out why and what you can do to make a difference when you review this edition of Crosstalk.


More Information:

Through the end of this month the VCY Bookstore is offering the 300 page hardcover book, “The Greatest Hoax” at 23% off. It normally retails for $25.95 but through March 31st you can obtain it for $19.98 plus shipping. It’s available at www.vcy.com or by calling 1-888-722-4829

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Air Date: March 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese and Michael Chapman

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Air Date: March 6, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Tom DeWeese and Michael Chapman

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Tom DeWeese is the Founder & President of the American Policy Center and editor of the DeWeese Report. Michael Chapman is the Founder of American Heritage Research.

According to Tom, Agenda 21 is one of about four documents that came from the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit. It was designed to transform human society by bringing top down control to private property, energy use, population control and even how we grow our food. In other words, Agenda 21 is a massive scheme to redistribute the wealth of the world.

Don’t miss this Crosstalk as Jim, Tom and Michael discuss how this gets from the federal level, to state and local officials and eventually to your backyard; the education aspect that seeks certain specific “positive outcomes” from your children; the heritage areas factor that seeks to lock land away for purposes of re-“wilding” and much more.


More Information:

www.americanheritageresearch.com

Both Tom and Michael will be appearing Saturday March 10th at 6pm at the Olympia Resort and Conference Center in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. You can obtain details by calling 920-650-1260

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Air Date: March 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/05/life-issues-continue Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/05/life-issues-continue Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 5, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Vic opened the phone lines to obtain listener comment on the following life issue stories:

--A 10 year old girl quits her Girl Scout troop over connections to Planned Parenthood and sells her own cookies with a pro-life twist.
--U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tells a U.S. panel that a reduction in the number of people born compensates for the cost of contraception.
--4.2 billion in taxpayer dollars in monies are being given to illegal aliens that have children in the U.S.
--Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor who was scheduled to be executed by Iranian authorities, is reported to still be alive as of March 3.
--Australian ethicists argue the right to kill babies after they are born.
--Taxpayers fund abortions and transgender hormone therapy for illegal aliens awaiting deportation under new Obama administration rules.
--Planned Parenthood to close webcam abortion centers in Iowa thanks to the efforts of pro-lifers.
--A California senate bill will allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives to provide 1st trimester non-surgical abortions.
--Obama agency rules that Pepsico’s use of aborted fetal remains to produce flavor enhancers falls under “ordinary business operations”.

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Air Date: March 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jerome Corsi

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/02/obama-certificate-a-fraud Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:49:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/02/obama-certificate-a-fraud Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 2, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Jerome Corsi

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Dr. Jerome Corsi has a PhD from Harvard in political science and serves as senior staff reporter for WND. He is the author of two Number 1 New York Times nonfiction bestsellers, “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” and “The Obama Nation: Leftish Politics and the Cult of Personality”. He has also authored, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President”.

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been working with a cold case posse in regard to the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president. A cold case posse is a group of volunteers that includes former law enforcement detectives, officers and lawyers with law enforcement experience.

The posse released a written report indicating that two crimes have allegedly been committed by President Obama. They include putting forth a forged birth certificate as well as a fraudulent selective service registration card to the public.

Get the details from Dr. Corsi as to his involvement with the cold case posse, what specifically makes the birth certificate fraudulent, the cooperation level of authorities in Hawaii and more.


More Information:

To obtain Dr. Corsi’s latest e-book with Mike Zullo called, “A Question of Eligibility” go to www.barnsandnoble.com or www.amazon.com

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Air Date: March 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

Listen: MP3 | http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/01/chrislam-confusion Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:17:00 +0000 http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/03/01/chrislam-confusion Crosstalk Home

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Air Date: March 1, 2012

Host: Vic Eliason

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Lately we’ve been hearing considerable news about the mistake our military allegedly made by burning some Qurans. What may not be known by many is that these Qurans were already corrupted.

Just when you think that America’s “white-glove” treatment toward Islam can’t go any deeper, news sources are reporting that Purpose-Driven pastor Rick Warren is in the news again. This time Warren is allegedly developing what’s referred to as the Kings Way peace plan. This plan is designed to establish peace, define mutual goals between Muslims and Christians and agree that neither side will attempt to evangelize the other.

This is just one example of the current phenomenon known as Chrislam. Chrislam is an attempt by some Christians to combine Christianity with Islam so that hopefully those from both faith systems can happily coexist. What the Christian proponents of this effort fail to tell people is that the doctrines of Islam clearly call for world domination.

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Air Date: February 29, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: William Federer

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Air Date: February 29, 2012

Host: Gordon Morris

Guest: William Federer

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On February 1st, 2003, author and speaker William Federer spoke at a VCY America rally in celebration of Black History Month. He spoke on black Americans who have influenced America toward Christ and biblical values.

Famous black Americans discussed by William Federer include: Dr. Ben Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University, Alan Keys, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth and George Washington Carver.

More Information:

For a copy of the entire rally on audio CD or DVD call or write:
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Air Date: February 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Air Date: February 28, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Usama Dakdok

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Usama Dakdok was born in Egypt. At age 11 he became a Christian. Although raised in a Christian home, he grew up in a government school in Egypt. Through the years in school he learned about Islam. In college he studied Islamic law. In 1992 he came to America where he found many Muslims in America and began The Straight Way of Grace Ministry to reach out to Muslim people with the power of the Gospel through Jesus Christ. Usama hosts the program Revealing the Truth about Islam that airs weekdays at 12:30pm Central Time on the VCY American Network.

Islamic leaders are calling for the beating and killing of American soldiers, the burning of the White House and the hanging of our commanders. All this is due to the accidental burning of some copies of the Quran in Afghanistan.

On the other hand, Jim Schneider noted that in May of 2009, U.S. military personnel threw away and then burned confiscated Bibles that were printed in Afghan languages.

Don’t miss this edition of Crosstalk as Usama Dakdok presents information from history showing how Muslims themselves have burned the Quran. This shows how hypocritical protesting Muslims and their leaders are in their cries for violence in response to this incident.

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Air Date: February 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dave Christiano

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Air Date: February 27, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Dave Christiano

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Dave Christiano is a film writer, producer and director. His first film, “The Daylight Zone” was produced in 1985 followed by “The Pretender” in 1987. Some of his other films include, “Pamela’s Prayer” and the evangelistic film, “Late one Night”.

Dave started ChristianFilms.com in 1998. In regard to film making, Dave has said, “If someone is going to call a movie a Christian film, it needs to have a sincere message for Jesus Christ. That is the bottom line for me and makes it quite simple when it comes to selecting which films to offer. I'm looking for message first. I want to make sure every movie we offer has the person or presence of Christ in it."

This Crosstalk involves discussion of a video presentation that is part of a larger TV series project called the 7th Street Theatre series. This video presentation called “Death Row” is a 28 minute drama that deals with a person on death row and how this ties directly to the importance of leading people to Christ.

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NOTE: THIS OFFER EXPIRES MARCH 30, 2012

To obtain copies of “Death Row” (1 copy – donation of $8/4 copies – donation of $20 includes shipping) go to www.vcyamerica.org or call 1-800-729-9829. You can also write to:

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Air Date: February 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Air Date: February 24, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

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Jim Schneider presented numerous news stories that reflect the perilous nature of the times we live in. The following are just some of the stories:

--The likelihood that Iran will execute Christian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani is increasing daily.
--Home schooling families cannot teach that homosexuality is sin under Canada home schooling rules.
--A lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Navy over the manipulation of gay data used to convince Congress to overturn the ban on open homosexuality in the military.
--Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress that the Justice Department will not stand in the way of any service member same-sex spouses suing for military spousal benefits.
--A Dallas County judge will not perform marriage ceremonies until gay couples can wed.
--New Mexico governor loses hair stylist due to the governor’s position on gay marriage.
--A 14 year old home school student has her testimony about gay marriage before the Maryland State Senate go viral and is now the victim of cyber bullying and death threats.
--A federal court in Washington State upholds the First Amendment rights of pharmacists to refuse to distribute potentially abortifacient contraception and abortion inducing drugs.
--Another link appears between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood.
--Late term abortionist George Tiller is found to have been doing such abortions for 7 years.
--An unruly Middle Eastern passenger causes problems on a flight to Houston—TSA officials claim this was not a security issue.
--A White House senior advisor says unemployment stimulates the economy due to unemployment checks that are cashed and spent.
--President Obama says he and Vice-President Joe Biden will act to keep the economy moving when Congress won’t.
--A Houston Kindergarten teacher sent a letter to parents along with a poem about President Obama. The parents were told their children were required to learn it for the Black History Program.


More Information:

To intercede on behalf of Iranian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani call the following numbers:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton--202- 647-5291
Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff--202-647-5548
Wendy Sherman (Undersecretary for Political Affairs)--202-647-2471
Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs--202-647-1189
Department of State-The Iran Office--202-647-2520

The House and Senate switchboard numbers:
202-224-3121
202-225-3121

White House:
202-456-1414

Fox Television Network:
212-852-7111

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