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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.” Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Genevieve Wood, Senior Fellow in Communications and Senior Contributor, The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation – President Obama’s Legacy;

4:20 CST/5:20 pm EST:  Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network – Trump’s Potential SCOTUS Nominee;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Clark Neily, Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice – Sharing Economy;

4:45 CST/5:45 pm EST:  David Adesnik, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative – Foreign Policy in the New Administration;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Michael Auslin, Resident Scholar and Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute – US-Asian Relations;

5:20 CST/6:20 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs: In the News – TV Blackouts, Climate Alarmists and Nominees; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Sally Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute – The Fate of OmamaCare.

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Please join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.” Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Jim Martin, Chairman of 60 Plus Association – ObamaCare and the New Regime;

4:15 CST/5:15 pm EST:  Evan Moore, Senior Policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative – The World Awaiting President Trump;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST: Craig Shirley, Author, Historian, Lecturer – Trump’s People First Platform;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST: Bradley A. Smith, Chairman and Founder of Center for Competitive Politics – Donor and Speech Privacy; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST: Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs –  Post-Election 2016, the Importance of Federalism and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.” Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Riley Walters, Research Associate at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation – Terrorism at Home and Abroad;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT:  Scott Gottlieb, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute – The Growing Risk from Zika;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Diane Mack, Founder and Treasurer of the Institute for Women in Politics – Women in Political Office;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – The Economy, Intellectual Property, and the FCC’s Destructive Cable Set-Top Box Proposal; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University – What History Teaches Us about Elections and National Security.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment – Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Evan Moore, Senior Policy Analyst at The Foreign Policy Initiative – Russia and NATO Post Summit;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT:  Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator at the American Enterprise Institute – Vice Presidential Chatter;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Brad Smith: Chairman and Founder of The Center for Competitive Politics – First Amendment, Political Speech Rights and Disclosure Laws; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, Contributing Editor of National Review Magazine, Senior Editor for The American Spectator Magazine, and Political Commentator – Presidential Candidates and Conventions.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Anthony Hennen, Staff Writer at Red Alert Politics – Millennials in America;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT:  James Capretta, Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute – America’s Entitlement Programs;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Peter Roff, Contributing Editor with US News & World Report – Congress’ Proposed Bailout of Puerto Rico;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Bob Dorigo Jones, Senior Fellow at Center for America – 2016 Wacky Warning Labels Contest; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Peter Brooks, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation – Lone Wolf Terrorism and the Nightclub Shoot in Orlando.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT –  Justin Johnson, Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy at The Heritage Foundation:  Military Readiness;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT – Trey Kovacs: Policy Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:  Obama’s New Overtime Rule;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT – Ari Cohn, Legal and Advocacy Officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education:  Free Speech on College Campuses;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT – Tzvi Kahn, Senior Policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative:  Iran, Syria, and the Egyptian Air Crash;

5:15 CDT/6:15 pm EDT – Ike Brannon, Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute and Former Treasury Department Official:  Biggest Flaws in the Latest Version of Puerto Rico Debt Legislation; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT – Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute:  Medicare — The Times They are a Changing.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Nathan Nascimento, Senior Policy Advisor at Freedom Partners – Obamacare’s Skyrocketing Costs;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT:  Roslyn Layton, Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Internet, Communications and Technology Policy – FCC’s Foray into ISP Privacy Regulation;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Ambassador Francis Rooney, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and Author of “The Global Vatican” – Continuing Threat Posed by ISIS and Islamic Extremism;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Thomas Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance – Stop Work Orders to States in Wake of SCOTUS Ruling on Obama’s Clean Power Plan;

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, Contributing Editor of National Review, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator, and a nationally recognized political expert – Florida’s Primary; and

5:45 CDT/6:45 pm CDT:  Jonathon Wood, Staff Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation – Sports Betting.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Ambassador Terry Miller, Director, Center for Data Analysis and The Center for Trade and Economics and Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Economic Freedom at the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity at The Heritage Foundation – 2016 Index of Economic Freedom;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Bradley A. Smith, Chairman and Founder of the Center for Competitive Politics and Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission – 40th Anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Sarah Westwood, Watchdog Reporter for the Washington Examiner – Recent Stories from the Campaign Trail; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Quin Hillyer, Contributing Editor of National Review, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator, and a nationally recognized political expert – New Hampshire Primary.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Craig Shirley, New York Times bestselling author and president of Shirley & Bannister Public Affairs – “Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan”;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Ike Brannon, president of Capitol Policy Analytics – Puerto Rico;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Patrick Hedger, policy director of American Encore – Keystone XL Pipeline Project;

5:15 CST/6:15 pm EST:  Sarah Westwood, watchdog reporter for the Washington Examiner – Ben Carson and West Point; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Ben Boychuk, CFIF’s contributing writer, associate editor for City Journal, and columnist for the Sacramento Bee and ScrippsHoward – Common Core.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn:  Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Riley Walters, Research Assistant at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation – Domestic Terror Attacks and Plots Since 9/11;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  David Adesnik, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran Nuclear Deal;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Ben Boychuk, CFIF Contributing Editor, writer, and political commentator – The American Political Scene; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute – Mega-Merger Madness in the Health Insurance Industry and the State of VA Care.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Garland Tucker, historian and author – Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders who Shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  David Williams, President of Taxpayers Protection Alliance – The Truth about the Solar Industry;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT:  Sarah Westwood, Investigative Reporter with the Washington Examiner – Presidential Candidates;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Tzvi Kahn, Senior Policy Analyst at The Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Ben Boychuk, CFIF Contributing Editor and columnist – School Reform.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute – “California Dreaming: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis”;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Robert King, Healthcare Correspondent for the Washington Examiner – High Drug Prices, Bioterror and ObamaCare;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Mark Bauerlein, author and editor of “The State of the American Mind” – The Fall of Civics, a Profile of the American Mind and National Consequences; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Scott Blackburn, Research Fellow at the Center for Competitive Politics – Get IRS Out of Speech Police Business.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute – Lessons from the Opt Out Debate;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Florida Senator Don Gaetz – 2015 Legislative Session Continues;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Steven Bucci, Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation – ISIS;

5:15 CDT/6:15 pm EDT:  Daniel Allott, Deputy Commentary Editor at the Washington Examiner – The GOP Field Grows; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Current News Regarding the FCC, ISIS and other Issues.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Patrick Hedger, Policy Director of American Encore – Preserving the Work Requirement for Welfare Act and Proposed IRS Rules to Police Nonprofits;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Michael Brickman, National Policy Director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute – “Free Community College”;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Jason Kimbrell, Leslie Coleman and Leah Taylor, Santa Rosa County Chamber of Commerce – Excellence in Business and Leadership Conference; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Professor John Eastman, Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law – Texas Immigration Case.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Ryan Nobles, Owner and Chief Strategist for Full Contact Strategies – Florida’s Legislative Session;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Issues in the News, Including Proposed Ban on AR-15 Ammunition and Right to Work Laws;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Steve Bucci, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation – US/Israel Relations, the Cyberthreat Intelligence Integration Center and Hillary Clinton’s “Private” Email System; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies – SCOTUS and King v. Burwell.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute – SCOTUS and King v. Burwell;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Evan Moore, Senior Policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran/Secretary Kerry, ISIS’ Continued Threats, Mall of America, and Syria-bound Schoolgirls;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:   Quin Hillyer, Contributing Editor of National Review magazine, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator magazine, and a nationally recognized authority on the American political process – Politics Today.

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – FCC’s Proposed Regulation of the Internet under Title II.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Pete Sepp, President of National Taxpayer’s Union – Tax and Spend Mess;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Charles C. Johnson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gotnews.com – NBC’s Brian Williams and Media Integrity;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Michi Iljazi, Communications and Policy Manager at Taxpayers Protection Alliance – What Solar Energy is Costing Taxpayers; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Dr. Gerard Gianoli, Doc Squads Member – ObamaCare and Physician Innovative Solutions.

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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT: Ambassador Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See: Pope Francis’ “Soft Power” Diplomacy;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT: Marita Noon, Executive Director of Energy Makes America Great: Proposed Gas Tax Increase;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Caitlin Poling, Director of Government Relations at the Foreign Policy Initiative: Boko Haram: Africa’s Isis?;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute: Resolutions for a Do-Something Congress; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Tim Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs: Prospective 2016 Presidential Candidates.

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