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Today on Bill Bennett's Morning In America, Dr Stanley Kurtz directly tied Obama, Ayers and Acorn to the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse. It all stems from Nobamas time as a community organizer. You gotta hear it.This has to get out. There is a link at Bill Bennetts site: http://bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD0zNDUzOSZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1jaGFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==

Liberals always think there's something broken in politics. Conservatives always think there's something wrong with the culture. Why that gives Sarah Palin and the Republicans the edge in November. Culture war, culture war! In our nation of revivals -- theatrical, cinematic and political -- this one sounds exciting, and promises a riveting new story line in the riveting presidential campaign. But the idea of a resurrected culture war is all sound bites and flurry, and not much else. A war requires two sides to fight it. Yet the Republicans are clamoring about the culture while the Democrats insist on sticking...

We got a bunch of excited e-mails about this leading me to think it was some sort of O’Reilly/Geraldo nuclear exchange. It’s okay — perfectly righteous about not turning Bristol Palin into some sort of springboard for a venal talking-head debate on abstinence education, but cordial and low key. The real outrage, as you’ll see, is CNN bringing up the pregnancy rumors about Palin herself as an intro to the Bristol piece. Here’s how easy it would have been for them to check that before going on air with it. Stay classy, CNN. That clip and the Bennett clip are...

Who cares if Barack Obama won't protect a child who is born alive after an abortion? Gas is over $4/gallon! So argued Donna Brazile when Bill Bennett pressed her on the matter today. The issue arose during a post-Obama press conference kibitzing session on CNN's Situation Room. Bennett was making the point that the complaisant media failed to press the candidate on tough issues. View video here.

1. Barack Obama’s foreign policy is dangerous, naïve, and betrays a profound misreading of history. For at least the past five years, Democrats and liberals have said our standing in the international community has suffered from a “cowboy” or “go-it-alone” foreign policy. While politicians with favorable views of our president have been elected in Germany, Italy, France, and elsewhere, Barack Obama is giving cause to make our allies even more nervous. This past Sunday’s Washington Post reported, “European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without...

[T]he Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political record. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far-left candidate in the tradition of Michael Dukakis, albeit without Dukakis’s executive experience as governor. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of John Kerry, albeit without Kerry’s record of years of service in the Senate. The Democratic party is about to nominate an unvetted candidate in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, albeit without Jimmy Carter’s religious integrity as he spoke...

Folks, Fred will be on Bill's Show Today, later in the show

Republican candidate Fred Thompson maintains that, if he were running the country, he would deny Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad entry into the United States. According to UN Headquarters Agreement of 1947, the US "shall not impose any impediments to transit," obligating the US to allow representatives of UN members, or those invited on "official business," to visit the UN. However, the government may bar entry based on national security grounds, but would have to provide specific allegations for banning Ahmadinejad. "There are exceptions to every rule. This is our home soil," Thompson asserted on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" talk...

Republican presidential candidate former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee will appear on Bill Bennett's radio show later today. Click to find a station near you.

Critics on the left are constantly complaining that right-leaning radio talkers are getting their daily programming straight from the talking points of the Republican Party. This is one of the main reasons why they're so eager to implement the 'Fairness Doctrine' and either silence talk radio or force an artificial balance on broadcast content so that their message gets equal time. Their argument is that every word that Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly utters is essentially a free political commercial for the GOP, their policies and their candidates. How much more troubled they must be by this week's developments in...

A Wartime President Hugh Hewitt President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today --Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me. This was an off-the-record conversation, and so I won't be quoting the president. I will say on today's show that I am confident about the course of the war and about the momentum in Iraq, as well of the president's absolute commitment to doing right by the troops and his concern for every lost and wounded soldier and their...

Bill Bennett on his book, America: The Last Best Hope, comparing history to events today. HH: If you’re really smart, you go to work with my next guest, Dr. Bill Bennett, former secretary of education, and author of many books, including the second volume of his magnificent history of American entitled America: The Last Best Hope. Volume Two is from a world at war to the triumph of freedom. I’ve linked it at Hughhewitt.com. You’ll want to go get Volume Two. In fact, they’ve got a good deal at Amazon for Volume One and Volume Two at the same time....

Howie Carr live thread. I believe today's guest is: (via Howie site)--"Former Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H.W. Bush Willam J. Bennett. (He) will be with us to discuss the second volume of his overview of U.S. history America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom."

Q. How can embrace of a given policy "stall" a candidate's campaign if it helps him with the voters? A. If the policy in question is the Bush administration's Iraq war plan, and the MSM finds it difficult to admit that support for it can be an electoral plus.As NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens and I have noted here and here, NBC reporters, notably including Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory, have repeatedly explained McCain's weak standing in the GOP primary polls by his support of the Iraq war. The truth, of course, is just the opposite. Republicans are less than enthusiastic about...

Kant, Not Cant Actually, morning talker Bill Bennett has a much better taste in philosophers than that, but you’ve got the idea. It’s a curious thing, the angst over Don Imus. What’s most interesting is not what he said, but how people are reacting to his possible impending demise. If Don Imus goes, we are worrying — at least, the Washington Post is, but it’s not alone—will there be “No One to Talk To?” What the Post piece actually described is what a humiliating experience it is for a luminary to lower himself to go on Imus’s radio show—to sell...

If Don Imus goes, we are worrying — at least, the Washington Post is, but it’s not alone—will there be “No One to Talk To?” What the Post piece actually described is what a humiliating experience it is for a luminary to lower himself to go on Imus’s radio show—to sell books, or a policy. Said respected person will get down in shockjockville lite—even now, chancing the taint of racist—because it is understood that Imus sells books and the guest will reach people. So they’ll go on and be yelled at by the I-Man, put up with being asked if...

1. Global War Against Islamic Terror--call the war right and fight it right. 2. Publicly commit to regime change in Iran. 3. Fund and deploy a fully operational missile defense system. 4. Cease coddling Saudi Arabia & other states and organizations with ties to terror................. 5. Explore new and alternative sources of energy; reward hybrid technology 6. Immunize federal authorities for good-faith terrorist profiling. 7. Start a United Democratic Nations. 8. Stop and punish national security leaks. 9. Immigration: build the fence, stop the flow, get tough on violators. 10. Create choice in education with federal money. 11. End racial...

Bill Bennett ran a song parody contest which clearly stated that lyrics be sent in. The contest was for the best Sandy Berger song parody. So what happened? The people who FOLLOWED the stated rules sent in lyrics and got PENALIZED because the winner of the contest also sent in a recorded version of his song. Sorry, Bill, but this is just WRONG. If you wanted people to send in recorded songs, you should have stated so instead of penalizing the entrants who sent in just lyrics as they were asked to do so in the RULES. In case anybody...

Imagine you're John Kerry this morning, comfortably installed before your television in your silk robe, watching David Gregory's "Today" segment on the way the Dem presidential contenders are maneuvering their Iraq war positions. Suddenly, the screen fills with the infamous clip of you claiming you were for the war before you were against it. Enough to make a man spit out his pain au chocolat! Then Gregory adds insult to injury by pointing to your performance as an object lesson of how being too nuanced can hurt a nominee's chances. That Gregory chose to run the Kerry clip is a...

You are not mistaken in believing that drugs are a scourge that is devastating our society. You are not mistaken in believing that drugs are tearing asunder our social fabric, ruining the lives of many young people, and imposing heavy costs on some of the most disadvantaged among us. You are not mistaken in believing that the majority of the public share your concerns. In short, you are not mistaken in the end you seek to achieve. Your mistake is failing to recognize that the very measures you favor are a major source of the evils you deplore. Of course...

"Okay, look. Now is the time for all good men-and women-to come to the aid of the party. "In 1960, Barry Goldwater famously shouted, 'Grow Up Conservatives.' It took 20 years for that call to be heeded, and we got the expanded, entrenched Welfare State, a disastrous & humilitaing foreign policy in the meantime; and Ronald Reagan's presidency was about attempting to roll back those 20 years as much as moving forward on a positive agenda. "Look, if you want John Paul Stevens replaced on the Supreme Court with a carbon copy, pro-choice, pro-racial preferences Justice, stay home. "If you...

The Steve Malzberg Almost Live Dance Show Steve Malzberg, one of America's favorite radio hosts, substitutes today for the great Bill Bennett's Morning in America. And now, from his lair from his hidden location, so secret, sometimes even he is not sure where it is ......... STEVE MALZBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just spent two hours on line and combing through a Children's Poetry book for inspirational poems which could be used in the classroom. I have a list of ONE!!! Does anyone else have an idea for a poem other than "If" which can be used?And PLEASE don't suggest those vapid, nonsense works from Shel Silverstein. Thanks to all who wish to make a contribution.

Our twice victorious Rummy is being interviewed on Bob Bennett Morning In America radio right now.

If Jews are the canaries in the coalmine of how a civilization, state, or country will treat religious or ethnic minorities, what is Israel — the only democratic state in the Middle East, and the only Jewish state in the world? For several years now, I have been asking the question: Will our culture and the international community allow us to fight the war we need to fight to prevail? An interim answer to that question is now playing out for Israel, our international canary in the darkest of mines. Israel, which comprises some 10,000 square miles, compared with Arab...

From the precincts of the European Union to the United Nations to the editorial pages in the United States, it is being argued that Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israelis and firing of rockets into Israel is “disproportionate,” a threat to the region, and could undo the U.S. democracy project in the Middle East. What is disproportion in the Middle East? How should one state respond to multi-state-sponsored terror? Begin with the fundamentals. Hezbollah, once described as “the A-team of terrorists” by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, is a terrorist group with a record of killing hundreds...

On Bill Bennett's radio show this morning he said that in 1983 we had broken the Iranian's code that they were using to communicate with groups in Lebanon. The Washington Post published that information. As a result the communication ceased (I guess it could have changed code & frequency rather than ceased but Bennett said ceased). Two months latter the Marine Barracks Beirut Lebanon was bombed. Is this story accurate and does anyone have confirmation that's on the web? This would go nicely with the recent NY Times stories and how responsible the press is.

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 7/1 and 7/2/06 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: Bush was wrong on all the issues McCain is right onThe Supreme's smack down the Bushies (who cares if it endangers the country, it's NEWS!!!) Topics: Hamdan, Immigration, and Iraq Guests Senator John McCain, Republican - Arizona He's BAAAAACKMcCain's back and Georgie's got himIt's such a tragedy that President Bush didn't listen to Saint...

WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Education Secretary William John Bennett, the popular host of the weekday radio program "Morning in America," tells NewsMax that these days his audience members "just don't want to talk about Bush." "It is sort of a case of ‘If you can't say something nice, don't say anything.' Thirty percent of them want to stick-up for him no matter what he does, but most people don't," explains the author of the book "America: the Last Best Hope, Volume One: From the Age of Discovery to the World at War." Bennett was secretary of education from 1985...

Thomas Jefferson faced a lingering foreign crisis early in his administration. For more than twenty years, he had been urging military action against Arab corsairs on the Barbary coast. These were fast, cheap warships that preyed upon merchant shipping along the northern shore of Africa. Various Arab rulers there would regularly declare war against European countries and then begin seizing their ships and men. The captured crews would be held for ransom or sold in the market as slaves. “Christians are cheap today!” was the auctioneer’s cry. This practice had been going on for centuries.As many as a million and...

CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.

NEW YORK On his national radio program today, William Bennett, the former Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration official and now a CNN commentator, said that three reporters who won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday were not "worthy of an award" but rather "worthy of jail." He identified them as Dana Priest of The Washington Post, who wrote about the CIA's "secret prisons" in Europe, and James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times, who exposed the National Security Agency's domestic (a.k.a. terrorist) spy program. Scott Johnson of the popular Powerline blog also weighed in today, under the heading "The...

This time, the press failed the public By William J. Bennett and Alan M. Dershowitz February 24, 2006 There was a time when the press was the strongest guardian of free expression in this democracy. Stories and celebrations of intrepid and courageous reporters are many within the press corps. Cases such as New York Times v. Sullivan in the 1960s were litigated so that the press could report on and examine public officials with the unfettered reporting a free people deserved. In the 1970s the Pentagon Papers case reaffirmed the proposition that issues of public importance were fully protected by...

There was a time when the press was the strongest guardian of free expression in this democracy. Stories and celebrations of intrepid and courageous reporters are many within the press corps. Cases such as New York Times v. Sullivan in the 1960s were litigated so that the press could report on and examine public officials with the unfettered reporting a free people deserved. In the 1970s the Pentagon Papers case reaffirmed the proposition that issues of public importance were fully protected by the First Amendment.

I've given the Bill Bennett Radio Show some time to get going, but that show plainly lacks energy. It is totally unfocused, chatting about rock and roll trivia and other crap.a. Bill speaks kind very sloooooow . . . . . and when . . . . you are . . . .on the . . . road at 5:00am . . . . you don't want to . . . . . . .go back to . . . .sleep. He relies on his listeners too much for the hard takes --- this is a huge mistake, talk show...

Whether it's something in New York City's tap water or the moon's current phase, the Radio Equalizer isn't sure, but some kind of foot-in-mouth disease is afflicting its radio hosts. First, it was Don Imus over the weekend, who complained of cocaine dealers who were too slow to supply more drugs, back when he was an addict. What a grave injustice. Now, Al Franken sinks to his own fresh low in a new Playboy interview, according to the New York Daily News. Will feminists be able to remain silent this time? Rachel Maddow, are you paying attention? Get a load...

Report: Bill Bennett to Join CNN Former U.S. Education Secretary and drug czar Bill Bennett plans to join CNN as a political analyst, according to a United Press International (UPI) report. Bennett would replace columnist Robert Novak, who recently left CNN after serving as political analyst at CNN for 25 years. Novak left CNN after walking off the set during a show when he was "fed up” with accusations that he leaked classified information about a former CIA operative, Valerie Plame. Bennett, formerly of Fox News Channel, hosts his own radio talk-show on Salem Radio Network. He is a prolific...

First on TVNewser: Controversial conservative talk show host Bill Bennett will become a CNN political analyst early in 2006, TVNewser has learned. This month's departure of Bob Novak left the network without a high-profile conservative commentator. But Bennett, a former Education Secretary and drug czar, seems to be a strange choice to add a little red to the channel. Of all the conservatives CNN could sign, why Bennett? In September, he came under fire from all sides of the political sphere for his assertion that aborting "every black baby in this country" would reduce the crime rate. Many members...

An Open Letter to Store Owners & Managers Nationwide From William J. Bennett* December 8, 2005 Dear Sir or Madam: This has been a long year for the citizens of Iraq and for our troops in the armed forces. Headlines, news-stories, and politicians have portrayed the situation in Iraq as violent, terror-ridden, and bloody. All of that is true: such is the nature of war; but also, such is the nature of a burgeoning democracy. Indeed, our own Founding was far from bloodless. Nevertheless, there has been another story in Iraq that has unfolded over the past year, despite the...

Dear Sir or Madam: This has been a long year for the citizens of Iraq and for our troops in the armed forces. Headlines, news-stories, and politicians have portrayed the situation in Iraq as violent, terror-ridden, and bloody. All of that is true: such is the nature of war; but also, such is the nature of a burgeoning democracy. Indeed, our own Founding was far from bloodless. Nevertheless, there has been another story in Iraq that has unfolded over the past year, despite the violence, despite the terrorism — it is the story of a brave people standing up for...

Bill Bennett has asked Americans for a colorful favor that will help show support for democracy throughout the world. "On Dec. 12, when elections begin in Iraq,” Bennett told Neil Cavuto in a Fox News Channel interview, "let’s see many Americans color their right index finger purple in solidarity for the people voting in free elections in Iraq.” ... "Americans should watch closely the voting in Iraq," he said. "I think it will do us all good to see democracy in action."

Bill Bennett has asked Americans for a colorful favor that will help show support for democracy throughout the world. "On Dec. 12, when elections begin in Iraq,” Bennett told Neil Cavuto in a Fox News Channel interview, "let’s see many Americans color their right index finger purple in solidarity for the people voting in free elections in Iraq.” Bennett, who supports the war against terrorism and the continued liberation of Iraq, said President Bush is wise to "stay the course” in the face of negative attacks by Democrats and jelly-legged critics who are calling for the U.S. to pull troops...

homas J. Dodd of Connecticut was the last United States Senator to be censured by his colleagues. He was so reprimanded in 1967 for using his office to transfer campaign funds for personal use. One would think that a Senator giving an enemy of the United States a warning of possible imminent danger to that enemy’s ally would at least warrant the same mark as campaign fund embezzlement. As Bill Bennett has pointed out in his much-noted article on National Review Online, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia admits that well over a year before the commencement of military operations...

Rockefeller’s Confession What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat? By William J. Bennett Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller? SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I...

Did Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia tip off our enemies in the Middle East in early 2002 that President Bush was readying to invade Iraq? Bill Bennett, in a new article at National Review Online, is questioning a possible "prewar intelligence giveaway" in light of remarks that Sen. Rockefeller made to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday on November 13, 2005. In responding to a question that Sen. Rockefeller himself "hyped" intelligence, here's what the vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told Wallace (emphasis mine): ROCKEFELLER: ... I took a trip by myself in...

While Democrats in Washington are berating the White House for having prewar intelligence wrong, a high-profile U.S. senator, member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, tells two putative allies (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and an enemy who is allied with Saddam Hussein (Syria) that the United States was going to war with Iraq. This is not a prewar intelligence mistake, it is a prewar intelligence giveaway.

Finally, a major media personality has the guts to express what many in the US have long felt: Left Coast cities such as San Francisco are anti-American to the core. Bill O'Reilly, speaking of the Irrelevant City's hostility toward military recruiters, said on Tuesday's Radio Factor (transcript from the Political Teen): O’REILLY: You know, if I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, “Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine....

Using the Press to Attack Political Opponents Everyone is weighing in on what Bill Bennett said on his radio program. Everyone is eager to offer their opinion on his words and whether or not he should have said them. Everyone is missing the point. The travesty is that we’re even talking about this at all. The most abhorrent behavior that occurred regarding this issue came from the Associated Press (AP). Allowing news hit men like John Conyers, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Neas, Howard Dean and many elected Democrats to assault Bill Bennett is detestable and the AP should be held accountable....

Not a week goes by that some part of the Left does not hurt America. But in the past two weeks, three examples stood out for the degree of such harm. The first example involved the ACLU, which has threatened Southwest Airlines with a lawsuit. Southwest ordered a passenger off a flight after she refused to cover her T-shirt on which was printed an expletive -- "Fu--ers" -- referring to President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The ACLU position is not surprising. That organization had once defended a high school student whose...

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