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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:  Bob Dorigo Jones, Senior Fellow for the Center for America – Wacky Warning Labels;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Richard Miniter, bestselling author and columnist – American Media Institute and Investigative Journalism;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Avik Roy, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute – Unworkable ObamaCare; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President at CFIF – Detroit vs. Houston.

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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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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):  William Doyle, co-author with late Chris Kyle of “American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms;”

4:30 (CST)/5:30 (EST): Aron Mujumdar, Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law: Presidential Power and the Obama Imperial Presidency;  

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST): Scott F. Langmack, CEO and Founder of BlueChipExec.com: “The Fast Track to your Ideal Job;’ and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST): Matt Mayer, Visiting Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation: Role of Local Governments in Immigration Reform.

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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):  Romina Boccia, Assistant Director at Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation: Debt Limit;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 (EST): Ryan Young, Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Over-Regulation;

4:45 (CST)/5:45 pm (EST): Ashton Ellis, Contributing Editor at CFIF: Congress’ Right to Impeach Eric Holder;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST): Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies: Immigration Reform; and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Open Mic

5:45 (CST)/6:45 pm (EST): Sally Pipes, President and CEO, Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute: ObamaCare’s Upcoming Train Wreck.

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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:  Roger Ream, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Fund for American Studies – Capitalism, Individual Responsibility, Freedom and Free Markets;

4:15 CDT/5:15 EDT:  Michael Cox, Director of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University’s cox School of Business – The Fund for American Studies video, “How Nations Succeed: What’s the Secret to Ending Poverty;”

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, CFIF Senior Fellow and Senior Editor at American Spectator – Benghazi;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT: David French, Senior Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice – ACLJ Lawsuit and IRS Intimidation Scandal; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Keli Carender, National Coordinator for Tea Party Patriots – What Happens Next?

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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:  Dr. David Muhlhausen, Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis for The Heritage Foundation — Government Waste;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Dennis Lynch, Founder and CEO of TV360Media — “They Come to America II: The Cost of Amnesty” and Immigration Reform;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Sam Kazman, General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute — Small Business Owners Sue Over IRS ObamaCare Power Grab; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President at CFIF — Current Events at Home (Internet Taxation) and Abroad (Benghazi News and Syria/Israel).

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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:  Matt Patterson, Senior Fellow, Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute – UAW Sets Sights South;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment – Tax Dollars Illegally Funding Lobbying;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Charlotte Hays, Director of Cultural Programs at the Independent Women’s Forum – The Lean In Debate; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Tyler Kercher, Florida State Association Director for Skills USA – Florida State Leadership and Skills Conference.

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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):  Bruce Herschensohn, American Political Commentator, Author and Foreign Policy Expert – North Korea;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity – Immigration Reform;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – ObamaCare; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Pete Sepp, Executive President of National Taxpayers Union – Sequestrations vs. 2013 Tax Increase.

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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):  Joel Rosenberg, New York Times bestselling author:  President Obama’s trip to Israel and Jordan, and the future of Syria;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Luca Gattoni-Celli, editorial intern and reporter at The American Spectator: Gun Bill and Assault Weapons Ban;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Quin Hillyer, CFIF Senior Fellow and Senior Editor of The American Spectator:  Nomination of Thomas Perez to be Secretary of Labor ; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Ron Beyea, Chairman Republican Executive Committee Santa Rosa County (“RECSRC”), and Scott Williams, Media Relations for RECSRC:  Special Election for late Rep. Clay Ford’s seat in Florida legislature .

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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:  Author and Humorist Melinda Rainey Thompson:  Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild’s Magnolias & White Linen luncheon and her four top-selling books, including “I’ve Had It Up To Here With Teenagers”;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Congressman Steven Palazzo (R-MS):  H.J. Res. 28, Proposed Amendment to Constitution to Limit Power of Congress to Impose a Tax on a Failure to Purchase Goods or Services;

4:45 CST/5:45 pm EST:  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli:  “The Last Line of Defense: The New Fight for American Liberty;”

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Michelle Minton, Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies at Competitive Enterprise Institute:  “The Wages of Sin Taxes” and Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on 2-liter sodas with your pizza; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Larry Reed, President of Foundation for Economic Education:  Freedom Academy Ft. Lauderdale, March 9, 2013.

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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:  Professor John McGinnis, Northwestern University Law Professor, author of “Accelerating Democracy”;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Professor Gregory McNeal, Pepperdine University Professor and national security expert:  Drones;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Gwendolyn Oxenham, author of “Finding the Game: Three Years Twenty-Five Countries, and the Search for Pickup Soccer”; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Troy Senik, CFIF Fellow, Orange County Register Columnist and Senior Editor at Richochet:  GOP’s Foreign Policy Posture, Presidential Speeches and Competition between States.

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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 Knudsen, senior budget expert at The Heritage Foundation – Debt Ceiling;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Craig Shirley, author and conservative public affairs consultant – How to Reboot the GOP;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Senator Don Gaetz, Florida Senate President – 2013 Legislative Session; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Jacqueline Otto, Spokeswoman at National Rifle Association – Assault Weapons Ban and the Second Amendment.

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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):  William Yeatman – Assistant Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute:  Global Warming;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Pete Sepp –  Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union:  Tax Increases without Spending Cuts;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Bob Norton – Vice President for External Relations, Bradley Foundation:  Our Cars’ Weight Problem; and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. – Blogger, CNSnews.com: Armed Neighborhood Fortress and Gun Control.

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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):  Alex Cortes, Director of Let Freedom Ring:  Spending Cuts and Ongoing Fiscal Cliff Discussions;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Brad Bailey, Founder, Texas Immigration Solution:  Immigration and Texas as the GOP model;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union: ACLU’s war on Christmas and other religious observances;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF:  Intellectual Property, counterfeit goods, and generics.

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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 Wiggins, Field Director for American Majority Action’s Pensacola Liberty Headquarters:  Engaging Citizens in the Political Process;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Stephen Pociask, President, American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research:  Cost of Going Green and LEED;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Bay Buchanan, Political Strategist, Pundit and Author:  Election 2012;  and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, CFIF:  TalktoYourPilot.com and SCOTUS Affirmative Action 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):  Megan Brown, Partner, Wiley Rein:  2012 Supreme Court Term Preview;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Michael Reagan, Talk Radio Host and Townhall Columnist:  Election 2012

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Christopher Horner, CEI Senior Fellow:  “The Liberal War on Transparency;” and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Kristina Rasmussen, Executive Vice President, Illinois Policy Institute:  Unfunded Pensions.

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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):  Jason Richwine, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst at Heritage Foundation – Chicago Teachers Strike;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Michelle Minton, Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute –  NYC’s Sugary Drink Ban;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT): Greg Brown, Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser –  Trim Notices and Proposed Constitutional Amendments in Florida; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF – Libya and Domestic Political Developments.

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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):  Quin Hillyer, CFIF Senior Fellow: V.P. Candidate Paul Ryan and the State of the Race;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick, Santa Rosa County Schools: Back in Session;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Michael Maharrey, National Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center: State Sovereignty;  and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Bruce Herschensohn, Pepperdine Senior Fellow, Author and CFIF Board Member: “Obama’s Globe: A President’s Abandonment of US Allies Around the World.”

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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: Obama’s Anti-Business Remarks;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT): Congresswoman Nan Hayworth, M.D. (R-NY): Tax Reform;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT): Matt Patterson, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute: Jobs, Food Stamps and Global Warming; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Bryan Goettel, US Chamber of Commerce, Hiring our Heroes: Veterans Employment Programs.

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