Steel on Steel Radio Broadcast

Potpourri show today covering a wide range of issues John spends the first part of the program talking about liberty- related issues and doing a follow-up on the interview with former Attorney General John Ashcroft last week featuring audio clips of the interview There really was a secret meeting in Banff Alberta Canada regarding the Security and Prosperity Partnership Dr Steven Yates Ph D gives us the results of his investigation Then we'll hear clips of a speech given by White House correspondent Bill Koenig of www watch org about the relationship between quot replacement theology quot and whether or

We clear the decks today for an important show This involves skipping the boralogue First former Attorney John Ashcroft joins the program for a discussion about his new book quot Never Again Securing America and Restoring Justice quot It's time for hard questions about the War on Terror and the laws that have been passed to deal with it since The next segment examines an alarming hostility to freedom of speech on college campuses John Zmirak is author of quot All-American Colleges Top Schools for Conservatives Old-Fashioned Liberals and People of Faith quot www collegeguide org He does a survey

What relationship do science and the arts actually have While assigning much to random chance science actually argues that there is design and order because it's always looking for quot elegance quot in its theories Dr Benjamin Wiker Ph D co-author of quot A Meaningful World quot joins us to look at the tension between various disciplines and how perhaps the tension is actually harmony John's extended boralogue centers on the quot silly season quot which precedes U S elections when stupid stuff dominates the airwaves as the parties attempt to sway election votes Boy Democrats are sure upset about

John's been wanting to do this program for a long time If there were one gentleman it could be said started the Middle East conflict who would that be The answer is the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini - The first part of the program is devoted to this gentleman's colorful history and his intimate ties with Hitler's Germany Chuck Morse author of quot The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism quot guests In the light of activist Islam throughout the world Jim Jacobson from Christian Freedom International www christianfreedom org says the situation for Christians living in

Philosophy and worldviews are the foundation of politics morals economics and society Contrary to what secularists assert they are inseparable Somebody's worldview will prevail in politics and law The show rotates around this theme today John's introduces the program with an extended boralogue examining Pope Benedict XV's statements during his academic address at Regensburg Germany including the relationship between faith and politics Then he ties this to the alleged dichotomy between reason and faith From there we jump to our guest philosophy Professor Brendan Sweetman Ph D author of quot Why Politics Needs Religion quot

The West is experiencing a death of speech tolerance which represents a grave threat to freedom Frosty Wooldridge covered motorcycle miles traveling across the country confronting Americans with the hard-core facts associated with illegal immigration We'll see what the reaction was as Frosty joins us In the light of the controversy over Pope Benedict XVI's comments on Islam this week John's boralogue reflects on other small stories largely ignored by the media which distinguish truth from political correctness in the larger controversies notably in Germany John also tails out the show with persecution news from around the world

Busy show today Conditions in Latin America are tending toward instability and some countries are even setting up open visas with terrorist-supporting countries such as Syria Shoshana Bryer from JINSA www jinsa org warns that US borders are drastically unsecured Don McAlvaney www mcalvany com of the McAlvaney Intelligence Advisor appears briefly on the show with a cataloging of the cost of illegal immigration Finally we'll continue telling the story of the so-called Israeli terrorist units involved in the Jewish struggle to free Palestine from British control in the s Middle East historian Dr Steve Carol Ph D www cames

It seems the Security and Prosperity Partnership SPP has taken a lot of heat lately about its goals to merge the U S Canada and Mexico nbsp So the official website has published a rebuttal Nevertheless an examination of the writings and speeches of SPP's guiding light Robert Pastor weaves a different story than one they're presenting on the official site nbsp Pastor wrote a book entitled Toward a North American Union nbsp Pat Wood from The August Review www augustreview com updates us Frequently anti-Israeli commentators forward the notion of founding of Israel as an act of terrorism citing

Happy Labor Day weekend for everyone living in the U S For all the rest it's just another weekend Despite claims of tolerance and diversity college campuses have been bastions of politically-correct speech tolerating only its own belief system But increasing numbers of students want the field opened up to honest discussion about things that matter Kelly Monroe Kullberg www veritas org is author of quot Finding God Beyond Harvard quot and she details the decade-old history of the Veritas movement Then we invite Chuck Missler www khouse org back for an explanation of how end-times eschatology in different Christian

The future of the Middle East depends in large part on how Islamic societies treat women Iraqi-American Yasmine Rassam of the Independent Women's Forum www iwf org provides an insight as to what is happening within various countries and whether Islam is going to reform itself Then hear from former CBS news correspondent Dave Dolan www ddolan com in Jerusalem for a portrait of items the media didn't cover during the recent war between Hisbollah and Israel Finally John does an extended boralogue examining some of the Bill of Rights and why these were put into the Constitution in the

The current war in the Middle East has been underway for several weeks now so how have the media been doing in covering it Accurate Biased Alex Safian from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America www camera org joins us It seems many young Americans are ignorant of the building blocks of freedom So John's boralogue begins a mini-summer-series on the Bill of Rights and exactly why each right was put in place We begin with the First Amendment right to freedom of speech religion and the press

Time for John to go play so we're taking the weekend off That means the program is pre-recorded Since Mexico is destined to play a large role in the futures of the U S and Canada it's important Americans and Canadians know more about that country The entire show today is devoted to the colorful and intriguing history of Mexico Dr Burton Kirkwood Ph D has written a wonderful short book entitled quot The history of Mexico quot and he is our sole guest for this romp through an historic adventure

The majority of today's program will be dedicated to providing connecting issues behind the Middle East Conflict First Avi Lipkin www vicmord com joins us for a segment to alert listeners to the emerging division between Sunni and Shia Muslims and potential for disruption in the Middle East from unknown sources Then we'll take a quick look at the issue of water scarcity as a geopolitical factor with Chris Mayer www dailyreckoning com Finally John does an extended history of Muslim views of the Middle East conflict dating back to the beginning of the th Century John's boralogue provides an

We're putting seemingly unrelated geopolitical events together today tying the current Mideast conflict with the Security and Prosperity Partnership with the European Union's new Mediterranean expansion all scheduled to be locked in place by First we're joined by a long-time friend outspoken Congressman Tom Tancredo R-Colorado who discusses his new book In Mortal Danger putting special emphasis on the new form of government we're marching into without even realizing it Then we'll move to Edinburgh Scotland and Robert Congdon who has been monitoring close coordination between the European Union Mercosur The Market of the South and the new Security and

From Abraham Lincoln through Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush presidential administrations ran rough shod over the Constitution causing an ongoing erosion of rights Fox News's Judge Andrew Napolitano guests in the first part of the program to discuss his book The Constitution in Exile Then at least one Christian author asserts that the religious right is going to have to come to grips with the fact that the Bush administration has serious moral problems We don't agree with everything he says in the book but we'll talk to John Klar author of Christian Words Un-Christian Actions John's