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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):  Kathleen Porter-Magee, Senior Director at Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Education: The State of State Standards;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Pete Sepp, Executive Vice President at National Taxpayers Union, Will Obama’s Budget Leave America in Permanent Fiscal Crisis?;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Phil Kerpen, Vice President for Policy at Americans for Prosperity, “Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America — and How to Stop Him”;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  John Berlau, Director, Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at Competitive Enterprise Institute, Where the Jobs Are

Listen live on the Internet here.   Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

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):  Diane Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute:  How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Vincent Vernuccio, Labor Policy Counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:  Indiana’s Enactment of Right to Work;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Dr. Paul Broun (R-Georgia):  Budget or Bust Legislation;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  James Pinkerton, co-chair of RATE (Reforming America’s Taxes Equitably) Coalition, Corporate Tax Reform.

Listen live on the Internet here.   Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

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):  Megan Brown, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP — United States Supreme Court’s October 2011 Term and Hosanna-Tabor case on First Amendment rights of religious groups;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Margaret Hoover, Fox News contributor and author — South Carolina and Florida primaries, and American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives can save the Republican Party;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Ashton Ellis, Contributing Editor at CFIF — Keystone Pipeline Debacle;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author — Economic policy, and How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America.

Listen live on the Internet here.   Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

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):  Thomas Hazlett – Professor of law and economics at George Mason University, author of Encounter Broadside, “The Fallacy of Net Neutrality”;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Troy Senik – CFIF Senior Fellow and former Bush Speechwriter, on the failure of the “supercommittee” and presidential hopefuls just weeks before votes are cast;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Jeff Ashton – Prosecuting Attorney of the Casey Anthony trial and author of “Imperfect Justice:  Prosecuting Casey Anthony”;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Carrie Severino – Judicial Crisis Network, on Elena Kagan and Obamacare.

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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):  Daniel DiSalvo, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership – “Government Unions and the Bankrupting of America”;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Rich Trzupek, Chemist, Consultant and Writer – “How the EPA’s Green Tyranny is Stifling America”;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Chief George Dodge – Importance of Recognizing Veterans’ Day and the Panzacola Indian’s in Pensacola; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Troy Senik, CFIF Fellow – “Occupy Wall Street” vs. Tea Partiers, and Bush “Torture” Memos vs. Obama Awlaki Memos.

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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):  Representatives from the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Chapter #138 – Regarding the 70th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor;  

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Sally Pipes, President, CEO, and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – Regarding ObamaCare and the split between doctors and the AMA;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2012 Term and Labor Controversies within the Obama Administration; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Tod Lindberg, Hoover Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly journal “Policy Review” – Regarding Military Interventionalism and Presidential Candidates.

Listen live on the Internet here.   Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

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:

5:00 pm (EDT):  Professor John Yoo, Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American Security

5:30 pm (EDT):  Jason Stverak, President of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, Citizen Journalists and Investigative Reporting

6:00 pm (EDT): Robert Knight, Senior Fellow American Civil Rights Union, ACLU’s “Don’t Filter Me” Campaign

6:30 pm (EDT):  Tim Wyrosdick, Superintendent of Schools Santa Rosa County, Race to the Top, Teacher Bonuses based on Student Performance, and Secretary Duncan’s Digital Promise to our Nation’s Children

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Join CFIF Senior Fellow Quin Hillyer 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 he hosts “Your Turn.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

• James Robbins, senior editorial writer for The Washington Times and author of This Time We Win, about the Tet offensive
• Ned Ryun, president of American Majority and writer of a piece in the latest American Spectator print edition titled “Whither the Tea Parties?”
• Eric Eversole, head of the Military Voting Project, just out with a report that military personnel abroad voted in very low percentages
• Bill McCollum, former Florida Atorney General, to talk about the 27-state anti-Obamacare lawsuit that he spearheaded

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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.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

• 4:00 p.m. CST/5:00 p.m. EST: Nina Sankovitch, author, “Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading”;
• 4:30 p.m. CST/5:30 p.m. EST:  Bob Dorigo Jones, Wacky Warning Labels and Legal Reform Update;
• 5:00 p.m. CST/6:00 p.m. EST:  John Yoo, Presidential War Powers; and
• 5:30 p.m. CST/6:30 p.m. EST:  Megan Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Update.

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The budget compromise reached between Congressional leaders and the White House a few weeks ago has been analyzed, dissected and commented upon exhaustively.  While the “deal” may have averted a government shutdown, it ended up being a disappointment to taxpayers, who were overwhelmingly demanding meaningful spending cuts this year. 

In an attempt to help the American people better understand what transpired, Mike Bates of 1330 AM WEBY, Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio, prepared and recently read the following analysis of the “deal” on the air. 

The Budget Agreement is Nothing to Celebrate
 
The “government shutdown” was avoided when Republicans and Democrats in Washington agreed to a budget compromise to cut $38.5 billion from the proposed $3.8 trillion budget.
 
Though it’s been touted by both parties and the press, this is no cause for celebration.  Why not?
 
A few quick facts:
 
Our national debt is $14.2 trillion.
This year’s budget calls for $3.8 trillion in spending.
Our government will borrow $1.6 trillion to do this.
That means we are borrowing 42 cents of every dollar we spend.
We are spending $1.6 trillion dollars more than we are taking in.
The Republicans wanted to cut $45 billion from the budget.
The Democrats wanted to cut $33 billion from the budget.
The Republicans and Democrats were arguing over $12 billion.
They agreed to cut $38.5 billion.
 
Few people comprehend how bad our nation’s finances are.  Just how much is a trillion dollars?
 
If you laid one trillion one-dollar bills end to end, it would extend from the Earth to just past the Sun.  It would stretch to the moon 394 times.  And that trillion dollars would wrap around the Earth 3787 times.  But money is not understood as a measurement of distance.
 
If you spend one dollar every second, it would take you 32,000 years to spend one trillion dollars.  But money is not a measurement of time.

Money is a measurement of value.  So I broke down the budget into terms we can all understand.
 
A husband and wife have accumulated debt of $373,684.
They have a household income of $58,000.
They plan to spend $100,000 this year.
So they’ll have to borrow $42,000 to do this.
That means they are borrowing 42 cents of every dollar they spend.
One spouse proposed that they cut $1184 from the budget.
The other spouse proposed that they cut $868 from the budget.
The husband and wife were arguing over $316.
They agreed to cut $1013.
 
How long can that couple keep borrowing and spending like that?  How long can our government keep borrowing and spending like that?
 
The budget agreement is nothing to celebrate.
 
But wait!  It gets worse.  Within a week of the budget deal, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the actual savings of the claimed “$38.5 billion” in cuts could be as little as $352 million.  If that turns out to be true, the couple above just saved a pathetic nine dollars and twenty six cents.

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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 p.m. CST/5:00 p.m. EST:    Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick – State of Education

4:30 p.m. CST/5:30 p.m. EST:    Brett Haley, Director of Indie Film “The New Year”

5:00 p.m. CST/6:00 p.m. EST:    Quin Hillyer, senior editorial writer at the Washington Times and senior editor of The American Spectator – The New Order (or Same Disorder) in Washington

5:30 p.m. CST/6:30 p.m. EST:    Dr. Bobby Eberle, GOPUSA – From Tragedy to Left Wing Attacks in Arizona

Please share your comments, thoughts and questions at (850) 623-1330, or listen via the Internet by clicking here.  You won’t want to miss it today!

Radio personality Mike Bates of 1330AM WEBY, Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio, discusses airport security searches and argues that the virtual strip searches and full-body pat downs cross the line.

Listen to the interview here.

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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 p.m. CST/5:00 p.m. EST:    Bruce Herschensohn, Foreign Policy Expert  –  North Korea

4:30 p.m. CST/5:30 p.m. EST:    Pete Sepp, National Taxpayers’ Union (NTU)  –  Bush Tax Cuts, Obama’s Federal Salary Freeze

5:00 p.m. CST/6:00 p.m. EST:    Ashton Ellis, CFIF  –  Wikileaks, Janet Naplitano/Eric Holder/Charles Schumer

5:30 p.m. CST/6:30 p.m. EST:    Steve Milloy, Junkscience.com  –  U.N. Global Warming Conference

Please share your comments, thoughts and questions at (850) 623-1330, or listen via the Internet by clicking here.  You won’t want to miss it today!

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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 pm (CST) Virginia Scharff, author of “The Women Jefferson Loved”

4:30 pm (CST) Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent for The Washington Examiner, New Congress

5:00 pm (CST) Sheriff Larry Dever, Immigration

5:30 pm (CST) Timothy Lee, Center for Individual Freedom, Deficit/Economy/Judges

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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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 p.m. CDT:  Dr. Laurence Hunter, President of Alliance for Retirement Prosperity Association

4:30 p.m. CDT:  Colleen Pero, Attorney/Consultant, Author of Justice Hijacked

5:00 p.m. CDT:  Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater, Balanced Budget Referendum

5:30 p.m. CDT:  Quin Hillyer, Washington Times and American Spectator, Eve of Elections

Please share your comments, thoughts and questions at (850) 623-1330, or listen via the Internet by clicking here.  You won’t want to miss this!

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

4:00 p.m. CDT:    Megan Brown, Senior Litigation Associate at Wiley Rein LLP re: the United States Supreme Court’s 2010 Term

4:30 p.m. CDT:    Sonja Eddings Brown, The Kitchen Cabinet re: Tea Party Influence over Republican Party

5:00 p.m. CDT:    Cindy Sarver, Crime Prevention Specialist, Santa Rosa County (FL) re: Violence Prevention

5:30 p.m. CDT:    Dr. Scott Barbour, Docs4PatientCare re: Repealing Obamacare

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

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