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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: Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment: Keystone XL Pipeline;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Scott Blackburn, Research Fellow at the Center for Competitive Politics: Campaign-Finance Laws and Regulations;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Tzvi Khan, Senior Policy Analyst for the Foreign Policy Initiative: Terror in France; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director at American Encore: President Obama’s Idea of Free Community College and ObamaCare .

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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:  Leighton Steward, Chairman of Plants Need CO2 – Obama’s Push for an International Climate Agreement;

4:15 CST/5:15 pm EST:  Christopher Griffin, Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST: Sean Noble, President of American Encore – Cuba;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Catch 22 for Employers; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Tim Wyrosdick, Santa Rosa County School Superintendent – State of the School District.

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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: Richard Morrison, Program Manager for the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Advancing Capitalism: Must Every Product in the World be Safe Enough for Children?; 

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT: Dr. Tevi Troy, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and President of American Health Policy Institute: Stopping Ebola Before It Turns into a Pandemic;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Chris Edwards, Cato Institute’s Director of Tax Policy Studies and Editor of Downsizing Government.org: Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, 2014;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Open Mic; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Megan Brown, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP: SCOTUS October 2014 Term.

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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:  Ambassador Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and author of The Global Vatican — Persecution of Christians in the Middle East;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Andrew Langer, President of the Institute for Liberty — Local Choice Broadcast Reform;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Nan Swift, Federal Affairs Manager for the National Taxpayers Union — “No-Brainer” Bills Congress Should Pass; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Marita Noon, Executive Director of Energy Makes America Great — What President Obama Hasn’t Done for American Energy Workers.

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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:  Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment — Halbig Decision as Major Legal Challenge to ObamaCare;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Brad Smith, Chairman and Founder of Center for Competitive Politics — DISCLOSE Act of 2014;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT:  Robert Knight, Senior Fellow and Policy Expert at The American Civil Rights Union — Rock the Vote’s Liberal Designs;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Chris Griffin, Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative — Iraq Crisis; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Bart Hinkle, Editor and Columnist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch — The Democratic Shift to the Left.

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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:  Lori Lowenthal Marcus, co-founder of Z STREET — Politicization of the IRS and Z STREETS lawsuit against IRS for First Amendment violations;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Mike Wendy, director of MediaFreedom — Net Neutrality;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Dr. Sunil Gupta, founder, chairman and chief medical officer of IRIS — Barriers to Medical Care and Access to Latest Technologies; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, political commentator and contributing editor for National Review Online — An Early Look at Elections 2014.

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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:  Aloysius Hogan, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute – Harris v. Quinn and Unions Targeting Women;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:   Evan Moore, Senior Policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative – Unrest in the Middle East;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow in Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation – U.S. Inaction Creates Opportunities for our Enemies;

5:15 CST/6:15 pm EDT:  Ashton Ellis, CFIF Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy – To Impeach or Not?;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – How ObamaCare Will Kill Job-Based Plans and Why Healthcare’s Problem is Not High Drug Prices.

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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:  Craig Shirley, Author, Historian, Conservative – President Reagan, Then and Now;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Hans von Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation – Lerner’s Lost E-Mails and Other IRS Scandals;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Robert Zarate, Policy Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative – What to do in Iraq; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Steve Soukup, Vice President and Publisher of The Political Forum and Fellow in Culture and Economy at the Culture of Life Foundation – Immigration.

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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 —  Daren Bakst, Research Fellow in Agricultural Policy, Heritage Foundation:  New School Lunch Requirements and Michelle Obama;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT — Megan L. Brown, Parnter, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C.:  Supreme Court Round-Up;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT —  Erin Murphy, Parnter, Bancroft PLLC, Washington, D.C.:  McCutcheon v. FEC;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT —  Paul Kersey, Director of Labor Policy, Illinois Policy Institute:  Unions and Home Healthcare Givers;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT —  Guest T.B.A.:  Obama Administration, Air Pollution and Global Warming;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT — Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs, CFIF:  Net Neutrality.

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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 —  Professor John Yoo, Boalt Hall UC Berkeley School of Law and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice: Point of Attack:  Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT —  Marita Noon, Executive Director for Energy Makes America Great:  Environmental Shakedown;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT —  Caitlin Poling, Director of Government Relations:  Boko Haram and Terrorism in Africa;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT —  Alexandra Aldrich, heir to the Astor legacy:  “The Astor Orphan: A Memoir.”

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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:  Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment – IRS, ObamaCare, Keystone XL Pipeline and other scandal and scams;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Allen Dickerson, Legal Director for Center for Competitive Politics – State disclosure laws and how they violate the First Amendment;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Jennifer Gratz, President of President of the XIV Foundation – A debate on affirmative action;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation – “Conscience of the Constitution.”

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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:  Myron Ebell, Director, Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute – United Nation’s Flawed Report on Climate Change;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Robert Zarate, Policy Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative – Responding to Russia’s Aggression against the Ukraine and What’s Next?;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Why the NCAA Should Defend Against Athlete Unionization;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – Assessing ObamaCare Four Years After Its Passage.

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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:  Cameron Seward, Heritage Foundation Program Manager – President Obama’s Budget;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Shona Holmes, Canadian Healthcare Refugee – ObamaCare and Patient Rights;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Bruce Herschensohn, Political Commentator, Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and CFIF Board Member – The Situation in Ukraine and Foreign Policy; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Troy Senik: FLOTUS and Food Labels and Why is the Middle Class Leaving California.

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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): Cleta Mitchell, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP: Proposed IRS Rules on 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Groups;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 (EST): Nan Swift, Federal Government Affairs Manager, National Taxpayers Union: Obama’s Insurance Bailout;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST): George Landrith,President and CEO, Frontiers of Freedom: Drones, Security at Sochi and Other Issues; and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST): CFIF’s Tim Lee, Sr. Vice President: Obama’s American Unexceptionalism.

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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 Common Sense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 (CST)/5:00 pm (EST):  Bradley A. Smith, Chairman and Founder of the Center for Competitive Politics – Proposed IRS Rules on 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Groups;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 (EST):  Romina Boccia, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at The Heritage Foundation – Congressional Budget Deal;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network – DC Circuit Court Appointments and Filibuster; and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Jim Lacy, attorney, political communications expert and author – “Taxifornia: Liberals’ Laboratory to Bankrupt America.”

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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 Common Sense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Peter Ferrara, Carleson Center for Public Policy Senior Fellow – Global Warming and Obamacare are Costing Americans Jobs and Liberties;

4:30 CST/5:30 EST:  Jennifer Gratz, Co-Founder of the XIV Foundation and Equal Protection Advocates – Race Preferences in College Admissions;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Aloysius Hogan, Senior Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute – Right to Work Amendment; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF Senior Vice President – America’s Copyright Protections.

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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:  Troy Senik, CFIF Fellow and Senior Editor at Ricochet – Infighting in the GOP in the wake of the shutdown and the disastrous ObamaCare rollout;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Romina Boccia, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs at The Heritage Foundation – How Federal Spending and Government Waste Affect Economic Growth;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security – Cybersecurity Vulnerabilties; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Sam Kazman, General Counsel of Competitive Enterprise Institute and Head of Death by Regulation Project – ObamaCare in Federal Court over Illegitimate IRS Penalties.

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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:  Pete Sepp, Executive Vice President of National Taxpayers Union – NTU’s 3^rd Annual “No-Brainer List” of Congressional Bills;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  RJ Smith, Distinguished Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment – Federal Control of Land and Environmentalist Deception;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Research Institute – ObamaCare and Employer Health Care Cuts; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Captain Glenn Sulmasy, Center for National Policy’s Homeland and National Security Law Fellow – Syria.

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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:  Tim Connors, Senior Manager in the Law Enforcement and Security Division of CAAS, LLC – National Security and Embassy Closings;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Scott McEwen, Coauthor of the #! New York Times bestseller “American Sniper” – nonstop-action thriller, “Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip”;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – Unions and Schools; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Angela Logomasini, Senior Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute – Liberal Media Needlessly Scaring Women.

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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:  Megan Brown, Partner at Wiley Rein, Washington, D.C. – Supreme Court Roundup;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  William Yeatman, Assistant Director, Center for Energy and Environment – President Obama’s Climate Plan;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  James O’Keefe, Founder of Project Veritas: “Breakthrough – Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy”;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Tim Wyrosdick, Superintendent of Schools, Santa Rosa County – School Year End Update.

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