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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, 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 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Tod Lindberg, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and bestselling author: “The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern”;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT:  David Adesnik, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Institute: The State of the Global Islamist Terror Movement;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  James Philips, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at The Heritage Foundation: The Expanding Threat Posted by ISIS; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Dan Epstein, Executive Director of Cause of Action: The Latest Progressive Attack on Speech.

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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: Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review: October 2015 Term;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: The Honorable Michael Warren, Oakland County (MI) Circuit Court Judge and co-creator of Patriot Week: Civics and Patriotism in America;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT: Professor Gail Heirot, Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law: Immigrant Detention Centers;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT: Quin Hillyer, Political Expert and American Newspaper Columnist and Writer: Election 2016;

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Doug Bronson, Member of the Florida House of Representatives: Looking Behind and Ahead; and

5:45 CDT/6:45 pm EDT: Marita Noon, Executive Director of Energy Makes America Great: House Votes to Lift Oil-Export Ban.

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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:  Clark Neily, Senior Attorney for the Institute for Justice – Separation of Powers;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, Newspaper Columnist and Writer – Candidates 2016, Including Trumps Visit to Alabama Quin’s Interview with Scott Walker;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Sarah Westwood, Watchdog Reporter for the Washington Examiner – Hillary Clinton E-Mails; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs – Iran, Puerto Rico and the First Amendment.

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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 Wyrosdick, Superintendent of Schools, Santa Rosa County: A New School Year;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Mario Lopez, President of the Hispanic Leadership Fund: Dangerous New Climate Regulations;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT: Ryan Lovelace, Campaign Reporter for The Washington Examiner: Takeaways from the 2016 Presidential Debate and RedState Gathering; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Troy Senik, CFIF’s Senior Fellow, Editor-in-Chief at Ricochet and Former Speechwriter for President George W. Bush: America Divided, Iran and Other Current Events.

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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:  James Roberts, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth at The Heritage Foundation – Greece;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT:  Bob Dorigo Jones, Senior Fellow for the Center for America – Finalists in the 18th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Contest;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Logan Beirne, Lecturer in Law and Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School – Treasury Department’s Seizure of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Profits;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Puerto Rico and Bankruptcy; 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 – Post SCOTUS ObamaCare Ruling.

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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:  Tiger Joyce, President of the American Tort Reform Association – Fraud and Mass Tort Advertising;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Tzvi Kahn, Senior Policy Analyst for the Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  David Rivkin, Jr., Partner at Baker & Hostetler – The Senate Filibuster; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – The Fight Against Net Neutrality and Congressional Litigation Reform Efforts.

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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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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. 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: Patrick Hedger, Policy Director of American Encore – EPA and Carbon Emission Regulation;

4:15 CST/5:15 pm EST: Sean Noble, President of American Encore – Blueprint for Republican Presidential Victory in 2016;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST: Craig Shirley, President of Shirley & Bannister Public Affairs and author – What Should Conservatives Do?;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Dr. Jeffrey Singer, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and Doc Squads Member – “2014 Survey of American Physicians”; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Senator Rand Paul and Foreign Policy.

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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: Election 2014, why Democrats will never fix ObamaCare and American Commitment’s big win in Moveon.org’s video contest;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Troy Senik, CFIF Senior Fellow, Senior Editor of Ricochet and Columnist with OC Register: What to look for in 2016;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Catherine Englebrecht, Founder of True the Vote: Lawsuit against IRS, election fraud and Obama’s AG appointee;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT: David Adesnik, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Initiative: Tea Party Hawks, rebuilding U.S. Military, ISIS and Iraq; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies: President Obama’s planned Executive Order on immigration.

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