330-338 – Steve Arterburn, founder and chairman of New Life Ministries and New Life Live (newlife.com) heard weekdays on KKLA at 2pm, the nation's largest faith-based counseling ministry. As a best-selling author, Steve has written over 100 books, with over 7 million books in print – including 1.5 million Life Recovery Bibles and 3.5 million copies of Every Man's Battle – and his most recent book, Regret Free Living. Another New Life Weekend will be happening October 2nd-4th at the Hilton Orange County in Costa Mesa (newlifeweekend.com). Go to KKLA.com, click on the picture of Steve's face to enter to win a FREE admission to the weekend, plus lodging. Winner will be selected on Sept 18th. Enter today! We talk about how to "Let Go and Let God," in terms that doesn't make it sound like a Christian bumper sticker.
343-354 – Steve Arterburn
358-408 – • White House (9/8/09) Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event.
(:52) PO SK 1 today: That's why today, I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education - and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you'll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.
(:23) PO SK 2 today: Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it. I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you're not going to be any of those things.
(:26) PO SK 3 today: But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject you study. You won't click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That's OK.
(:32) PO SK 4 today: Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(:27) PO SK 5 today: These people succeeded because they understand that you can't let your failures define you - you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
(:31) PO SK 6 today: No one's born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. It's the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.
(:27) PO SK 7 today: Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust - a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor - and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
(:13) PO SK 8 today: And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you - don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
413-423 – • Byron York (9/8/09) When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings.
428-437 – Dr. Dave White, he is the senior pastor of Northpark Community Church (northpark.com) in Valencia. I'll be speaking to the guys this Sunday night, and later this month, on 9/25-26, I'll be doing their Men's Retreat. Dave shares his testimony.
443-452 – Dr. Dave White
458-508 – • Fox News (9/9/09) Most Major News Outlets Largely Ignore Van Jones Controversy. Most of the major news outlets, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, ignored the swelling heat surrounding former White House environmental adviser Van Jones and the videos surfacing of his controversial statements. None of the MSM even mentioned Van Jones until AFTER he resigned! Where were they? Why didn't they tell you? How can you still consider them "all the news that's fit to print."
CBS News became the first of the three broadcast networks on Friday to note the controversy, but ABC's "World News" and "NBC Nightly News" again failed to report the story. After Jones' midnight resignation over the weekend, all three networks aired the story on their Sunday evening newscasts. The Washington Post offered its first story on Saturday yet The New York Times' print edition didn't publish its first story until Monday -- a story that appeared on the front page, under the fold.
• WSJ Editorial (9/8/09) Obama and the Left: The lesson of the rise and fall of Van Jones.
No President is responsible for all of the views of his appointees, but the rise and fall of Mr. Jones is one more warning that Mr. Obama can't succeed on his current course of governing from the left. He is running into political trouble not because his own message is unclear, or because his opposition is better organized. Mr. Obama is falling in the polls because last year he didn't tell the American people that the "change" they were asked to believe in included trillions of dollars in new spending, deferring to the most liberal Members of Congress, a government takeover of health care, and appointees with the views of Van Jones.
•• Thomas Sowell (9/8/09) Listening to a Liar.
512-523 – • Matt Cover, CNSNews (8/26/09) Inspired by Saul Alinsky, FCC 'Diversity' Chief (Mark Lloyd) Calls for 'Confrontational Movement' to Give Public Broadcasting Dominant Role in Communications.
Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a "confrontational movement" to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC. Lloyd expressed his regulatory call to arms in his 2006 book, "Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America" (University of Illinois Press).
Lloyd relies heavily on the left-wing radical Saul Alinsky in explaining his strategy. Alinsky (1909-1972) was a community organizer and activist from Chicago and the author of the book, Rules for Radicals, which opens with an acknowledgment "to the very first radical ... Lucifer." As for political tactics, Alinsky said, "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people. This means revolution."
// To combat the control of international business and restore government to what he sees as its rightful place in managing public communications, Lloyd calls for a "confrontational movement" to protest the present order and organize a political movement that could force government to rein the businesses in. "If our republican form of government is perishing because communications – the infrastructure of that republic – is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it?" he asks. "We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
// "We understood at the beginning, and were certainly reminded in the course of the campaign," wrote Lloyd, "that our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an opponent, the commercial broadcasters ...."
// 2. "Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded," said Lloyd. "This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. … Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs. … Spectrum allocations should be established that create clear preferences for public broadcasters ensuring that regional, local, and neighborhood communities are well served," he added.
// 3. "The FCC should be fully funded with regulatory fees from broadcast, cable, satellite, and telecommunications companies. The FCC should be staffed at regional offices, matching those CPB regions, at levels sufficient to monitor and enforce communication regulation. "Clear federal regulations over commercial broadcast and cable programs regarding political advertising and commentary, educational programming for children, the number of commercials, ratings information about programs before they are broadcast, and the accessibility of services to the disabled should be established and widely promoted."
4. "Universal service support provided by all commercial telecommunications providers (whether they are classified as information services or not) to fund access to advanced telecommunications services should be expanded to all nonprofit organizations, including higher-level academic and vocational schools, community centers, and 501(c) (3) organizations unaffiliated with either business or government."
6. "Public secondary schools should be required to include civics and media literacy as part of their core curriculum. Testing on civic, media, and computer literacy should be required and national standards set." For those who think any or all of these recommendations might infringe on the free speech rights of broadcasters, Lloyd says his concern is not the "exaggerated" concerns over the First Amendment. "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press," he said. "This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies." "[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance," said Lloyd.
528-538 – Jack Hibbs, senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills (calvarycch.org). They will be hosting a September 11th service this Friday with David Barton at 7:30pm entitled Have You Forgotten?
544-554 – Jack Hibbs
555 – [2:00] Let's check in with the "pros" at Applied Financial Planning, "The Money Guys" Robert Micone and Bill O'Connor at 866-SEEK-COUNSEL or SeekCounsel.com. [(1) "Healthcare is the issue at the top of most people's minds these days. Especially when it comes to those facing retirement. As Financial Planners what programs do you have that will not only ensure the ability to pay for the healthcare plan now but as we age and the costs go up?" (2) "What's the first step that the listeners should take in getting help in this matter?"] Get independent, unbiased advice on your investments and retirement planning from the "pros" in the investment world in Southern California for decades, "The Money Guys," Robert Micone & Bill O'Connor, at Applied Financial Planning, by calling 866-SEEK-COUNSEL or on the web at SeekCounsel.com.
558-608 – Teaching on Islam.
612-623 – Obama's Education speech.
628-638 – Steve Arterburn (Reprise)
644-700 – Steve Arterburn (Reprise)
• Victor Davis Hanson (9/8/09) Once Upon a Time…Whatever happened to the old Barack Obama?
• WSJ (9/8/09) Key Week for Obama Starts on Feisty Note.
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