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This month's "In-Depth" featured writer Melanie Phillips and will be repeated tonight at Midnight EDT on C-Span2. Three hours of interesting commentary and replies to viewers by a wise and thoughtful woman who, for example, provides a spot-on defense of traditional marriage as being a "unique fusing" of two individuals which is necessary for society because it is the way "we produce humanity", yet partially blames traditional marriage for the current drive for gay-marriage because it has become merely a contractual, legal arrangement in many people's minds. Phillips is concerned with facts, but even more with how facts get hidden...

In case the link was buried and lost in previous threads, this is the Youtube video Here of Dr. Benjamin Carson's talk this morning at the congressional prayer breakfast in which he virtually destroys much of what Obama stands for, from political correctness to punishing the rich and successful to Obamacare - while Obama has to sit there and listen to the whole presentation - and the libs can't even demonize the good doctor as being racist..... No wonder Obama wants everyone to believe that what's said at prayer breakfasts is always forgotten before the day is done.........

Anyone wanting to understand the beginnings of great economic collapse of 2008 should start with the book "Reckles$ Endangerment", by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. Mortgenson is finally interviewed by Brian Lamb on this week's C-Span Q&A, and gets to tell a bit of the story of how government mismanagement and outright corruption in the early 90's set the stage for the wrecked economy in the late 00's. Lamb, for some reason, tries his best to turn a lot of the blame to Republicans, and Morgenson does the obligatory "both sides of the aisle" routine, but the names you'll hear...

Mark Steyn, author of "America Alone" and other conservative writings, is appearing right now on this month's In-Depth from C-Span2 - program will run to 3:00PM Eastern (with taped repeats tonight) and is live with Steyn discussing his works and answering questions from viewers via email and phone callins.......

This month's guest on C-Span2's In Depth, Sunday 6 February from noon to 3PM EST, is R. Emmett Tyrrell, founder and editor in chief of the American Spectator magazine. Tyrrell has written a number of books including the most recent "After the Hangover: the Conservatives' Road to Recovery", and will be taking calls and emails from viewers as well as discussing his philosophy and writing......

It's that time of the month again - no not that time - it's the first Sunday, time for C-Span2's BookTV In-Depth, featuring three hours of interview/questions and answers from maybe your favorite author. This being conservative month, the guest for today, November 7, is Jonah Goldberg, author of works including "Liberal Fascism" and "Proud to be Right". Goldberg will discuss his philosophy and writings, and reply to comments and questions from viewers' emails, phone calls, and Tweets. Program starts at noon EST.

C-Span will repeat today's Q&A on the new documentary "The Lottery", with Brian interviewing Medeleine Sackler, the producer-director, starting at 11:00 EDT. Sackler set out to follow the attempts of four youngsters in Harlem to gain admission to charter schools, where their parents believed they would receive better education than in the regular public school system. Charter schools are partially supported by public funds, but also by private money, and accordingly are not forced to operate under many of the restrictions facing the public system, including especially unionized teachers. Thus the charters face considerable resistance from the community, fostered by...

Repeat of tonight's Q&A on C-Span begins at 11:00 PMEST with an hour of interview of Fred Grandy by Brian Lamb. Grandy is the former "Gopher" on "Love Boat", Republican congressman from Iowa, and current self-proclaimed conservative co-host of the "Grandy and Andy" talk radio show on WMAL in DC.

Clearly something must be up with AARP. Why else would the nation's largest lobbying organization, sworn to protect the interests of senior citizens, watch silently as Congress plans to cut Medicare spending by $400 billion to pay for its health reform legislation? Could it be that the interests of seniors and AARP are not exactly aligned? Let's follow the money..... Link to Full Article

Saw John Goodman somewhere on TV today discussing the website "Free Our Healthcare Now!" and its related petition calling for an insurance based medical sustem free of government interference. Goodman along with several others authored the book "Lives at Risk" which investigated and detailed the foibles and failures of nationalized healthcare around the world. He knows how bad Obamacare could get. Check out the petition here - Link ......

Sunday's Q&A session with Mona Charen and Ruth Marcus is scheduled for rebroadcast this morning at 5:50 - 6:50 AMEDT on C-Span. Moderated by Brian Lamb, the program explores the political and cultural interests and views of this odd couple, who in fact went to the same high school together and claim to be friends. The program includes excerpts from a similar interview with the two from three years ago, giving them the chance to revise and extend some of their comments. Interesting to hear them go at topics such as the nature of man and the need for government...

This morning's interview-callin with Daniel Hannen is scheduled for repeat on C-Span at 1:15 AM EDT. Hannen is the conservative Member of Parliament who pretty much demolished Gordon Brown in his speech earlier this week which was replayed widely on US television. He is in London for this interview and takes calls from US viewers.

It was announced this evening that the Philadelphia "Daily News" soon would no longer publish as an independent newspaper, but instead would begin printing as a separate "edition" of the Philadelphia "Inquirer". Both papers are owned by the same parent company which announced only last week that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In doing so the company insisted that the filing was only to reduce its debt load, and that current operations were financially strong for both papers - - - maybe not.......

Breaking news on Philadelphia local TV - Philadelphia "Inquirer" and "Daily News" are filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - company says papers will continue to publish, filing is to retire debt primarily -

This must be conservative month on C-Span2's Book TV. Author and Catholic theologian George Weigel was today's guest on In Depth, the three hour interview program during which he discussed his books and took questions from viewers. He has written on the life of Pope Paul II as well as the gay-priest acandal and the morality of the Iraq War. Among other topics he discussed the war at length, saying that it was and still is morally defensible and that there is simply no justification for us to back away from it now. He also took a swipe at those...

John McWhorter is scheduled to be the guest author on C-Span2's "In Depth" Sunday afternoon from noon to 3:00 EST. McWhorter, a linguistics professor, has written a number of books including the best-seller "Losing the Race", which detailed the ways in which many blacks engage in self-defeating activities keeping them from advancing both culturally and economically. The program will include an interview regarding his books and Q&A's from viewers......

Newt Gingrich is the scheduled writer/celebrity on this month's "In Depth" on C-Span2, 2 December from noon to 3:00 PMEST. Program will involve interview with Gingrich about his various books and viewer call-ins and e-mails - a chance for the audience to match wits with the Professor.

Cashill, author of several books including "Hoodwinked" and "Suckerpunch", says the left was shocked and terrified when the Republicans won the Congress in 1994 and intensified their efforts to make sure the press covered only those elements of important issues which they wanted the public to know. He believes many major stories of the past few years have been misportrayed and it would take "only three phone calls" by reputable reporters to correct how the stories were presented. Using his latest book, "What's Wrong with California", as a takeoff point he touches on what he says are the latest findings...

David Horowitz, conservative activist and author of many books including Radical Son and The Professors: the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America is the scheduled guest on C-Span2's monthly "In Depth" beginning at noon edt on Sunday, October 7. Three hours of interview, discussion and Q&A with viewers' e-mails and call-ins. Should be an interesting and provocative session.....

Janks Morton was contentedly selling medical supplies when he ran across the statistic that 70% of black children today are born out of wedlock; looking further, he discovered the blacks now have the lowest marriage rate and highest divorce rate in the country. Taking some of his own money he set out to interview blacks around the country to find why these were the facts when "we weren't that way a generation ago". The resulting documentary ("What Black Men Think") contains some fascinatng commments from many men and women on the street as well as some well known names such...