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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

400-408 – Today, for all three hours, I want to hear from you about your reaction to what happened yesterday.  

So, what do you think happened last night?  What does it mean for Christianity, for Israel, the Middle East and the world at large? For the United States of America, for your family, your kids and for your grandkids?  How significant was it in terms of economics, and electoral politics?  Do you think we've crossed some kind of tipping point of some kind, with half of America dependent upon the federal government and the other half paying for it? How do you persuade those who don't pay taxes to embrace tax cuts?  What does it mean for the future of the Republican party, and more importantly, for the ideas of individual responsibility and representative limited government?

In my opinion, what won last night?  Class Warfare, Unions, Obamacare, and Big Government – and the higher taxes that will come with it.  The rich will clearly be paying more, along with everyone else.

Progressivism defeated conservatism yesterday, and it may be what political scientists refer to as a "critical realignment," an election that reflects a fundamental change within the electorate.  I fear for the future of America, sure we'll have the same name, but I now know that we've become a different country. We've crossed the tipping point on our way to the Progressive Utopia that leftists have been working for since Woodrow Wilson and FDR, we'll now become another centralized, secular, unionized socialist state, just like most European countries.  Not since the Civil War, has it been as clear that there are now two Americas – as starkly depicted in the Red-Blue County electoral map – the one founded in 1776, and the one that first took office in 2008 and won re-election yesterday.  

Basically, the blue cities want their big government but they're running out of money to pay for it, and they'll take it from the red-county workers and homeowners to pay for it.  Anticipate new redistributionist "regionalist" schemes to accomplish this – charging the suburbs to fund the failing policies of the inner cities.  And, look for Obama to move to allow debt-ridden states like California to nationalize their debt since "we're all in this together."  Federalism is in it's final gasps.  Washington is on the path to Athens.

Obama has indeed fulfilled at least one campaign promise, he has "fundamentally transformed America."

What lost last night?  E pluribus unum, Entrepreneurs, Federalism, Representative Government, Limited Government, Liberty, Free Markets, and your savings due to imminent and unavoidable inflation.  If Big Government doesn't get the money it needs, it'll just print more, depressing the value of your savings and your future.

The unions, rather than individual tax payers, now rule American politics through the Democratic Party they have purchased.  How do you now stop the unions and their organization machine that masterfully "gets out the vote" for the Democrats?  How do you now stop their drive for national socialism?  In dutiful response, in return, I expect Obama to implement "Card Check" in his second term, to expand union influence across the country, and to energize the assault on all "Right to Work" states.  And, I expect Harry Reid to implement the "nuclear option" and change the senate rules so the Democrats won't need 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster, a simple majority is all that will be necessary.

Nor is it "the economy stupid," since Obama blamed Bush for the economy, even after 4 years of his own policies.  It will be interesting to see what happens when it all begins to "hit the fan," and people are paying taxes they thought only the rich would be paying.  I wonder if the media will still allow Obama to blame Bush after 8 years…. probably. 

Speaking of the media, I expect an assault to censor or silence Fox News, talk radio, and conservative websites that oppose the New Leviathan.

Too many people were worried about "next month's government paycheck," and not at all about their future or their kids' future.  As Rush Limbaugh said, my paraphrase, "Santa Claus beats personal responsibility every time, especially when even the naughty get presents."

Lastly, I think the church is now almost irrelevant in electoral politics.  Neither abortion, nor same sex marriage, nor the contraception mandate, had any noticeable impact in deterring Hispanic and African American voters.  Thus, look for an even stronger attempt to redefine Christianity in terms of the social gospel and not these "archaic and bothersome" moral values of the past.

But take heart, Christianity has always done well under persecution.

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644-656 – Ted Smith, Deputy District Attorney for San Bernardino County and former Chairman of the African-American Caucus of the California Democratic Party from 1999 to 2007, weighs in with excellent insight.

Obama 50.3% 59,725,608.  303 Electoral Votes.  9 million fewer votes than in 2008.

Romney 48.1% 57,098,650.  206 Electoral Votes.  2 million fewer votes than McCain.

House of Representatives – R 232 / D 191

Senate – D 51 / R 45 

• LA Times (11/07/2012) Jerry Brown, California Democrats appear to be big winners in election.

• OC Register (11/07/2012) Election 2012: California State Propositions results.  And, Democrats won a supermajority in Sacramento – the Republican party is now irrelevant to how the state is run.

30 Passed – 54/46.  I lost this.

31 Lost – 60/39.  I won this.

32 Lost – 56/43.  I lost this.

33 Lost – 54/45.  I lost this.

34 Lost – 52/47.  I lost this.

35 Passed – 81/18.  I won this.

36 Passed – 68/31.  I lost this.

37 Lost – 53/46.  I won this.

38 Lost – 72/27.  I won this.

39 Passed – 60/39.  I lost this.

40 Passed – 71/28.  I won this.

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

• David Crary (AP, 11/07/2012) MAINE, MARYLAND VOTE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE.

• Tony Lee (Breitbart, 11/07/2012) COLORADO, WASHINGTON LEGALIZE MARIJUANA; OREGON DOES NOT.

•• Victor Davis Hanson (NRO, 11/07/2012) Three Ways of Explaining Defeat.

• Jonah Goldberg (NRO, 11/07/2012) Against Despair.

• Michael Barone (NRO, 11/06/2012, before results) Two Americas: The country is no longer culturally cohesive.

• Kevin Williamson (NRO, 11/07/2012) How Romney Lost.  1. Ohio likes crony capitalism.  2. Class warfare works.  3. Repealing Obamacare was not a deal clincher in Ohio.

• Jerry Bowyer (Forbes, 11/07/2012) As Obama Heads To Term Two, What Are Investors To Do?

• Jay Severn (Blaze, 11/07/2012) LIFE AFTER AMERICA.

• Christian Post (11/07/2012) Exit Polls: Obama Gains With Latinos, Romney Gains With Evangelicals.

• Breitbart (11/07/2012) BILL O'REILLY: 'IT'S NOT A TRADITIONAL AMERICA ANYMORE'.

"It's not a traditional America anymore. People want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it and he ran on it. Whereby twenty years ago President Obama would be roundly defeated by an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney. The white establishment is now the minority. The voters, many of them, feel like the economic system is stacked against them. And they want stuff. You're going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama's way. People feel they are entitled to things. And which candidate between the two is going to give them things?"

• Joel Rosenberg (11/07/2012)  So what now? 7 sets of questions to ask after President Obama's reelection. Starting with: "Is the implosion of America more or less likely now?"


Tuesday, November 6, 2012

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

400-408 – Jennifer Walsh, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and professor of political science at APU (apu.edu/clas/faculty/jwalsh).  Her primary research interests include crime policy, such as the Three Strikes sentencing movement, prosecutorial decision-making, and the implementation of public policy at all levels of government.

Rove's "3-2-1 Strategy" – Romney must win traditionally red Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia, then win the classic toss-ups Florida and Ohio, and then just one of the remaining states of Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire.

Key States – (in poll closing order) Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada.

Themes – Big turnout, but who does it favor?  Why assume big turnout in a traditionally Democrat area means they're all voting Democrat?  The gigantic anxiety is due to the fact that this could be a squeaker or a landslide for either side!  The '08 electorate was D-7, '04 was Even, and '00 was D-2.  It looks to be less than D-7 this year, which seems to reflect Republican enthusiasm and favor Romney.  I'll bet it all comes down to how the Independents break.

• Fox News (11/06/2012) Road to 270: Here's how the presidential candidates could win, lose or draw on election night.

413-423 – Jennifer Walsh

428-438 – Jennifer Walsh

443-452 – Jennifer Walsh,

• Bostinno (11/06/2012) What Time Do Polls Close in the 2012 Presidential Election? Complete State by State Map of Election Night.  All times Eastern.

6PM – Kentucky

7PM – Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia.

730PM – North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia

8PM – Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee.

830PM – Arkansas

9PM – Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

10PM – Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah.

11PM – California, Hawaii, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington

1AM – Alaska

458-508 – Scott Waller, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Biola, who earned his Ph.D. from my alma mater Claremont Graduate University (faculty.biola.edu/scott_waller, and on Twitter @ProfWaller).

512-523 – Scott Waller, Why electoral college? turnout and independents? Voter fraud? Blue/Red states?  City slickers vs. Farmers?

528-539 – Scott Waller,

544-554 – Scott Waller,

558-608 – Calls – I want to know what it was like for you to vote today!  Especially, those of you who are first-time voters, or immigrants who grew up in another country.  What does it mean for you to exercise the right to cast your ballot?  Do you remember your first time?  If your kids went with you, did they say anything cute?  For all our faults, aren't we still the greatest country in the world?  Anything interesting happen at your polling place today?  Were their long lines?  Did you have to show any ID?  Do you think having to do so is "voter suppression?"  Are you concerned that your vote may be nullified due to voter fraud?  Did you witness any politicking at your location – like Obama banners on the wall, or voter-intimidation like the New Black Panther member outside the Philly voting site?  What are your fears and concerns if the "other guy" wins, and hopes if "your guy" wins?

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• Sharona Schwartz (Blaze, 11/06/2012) 'I SPIT IN YOUR FACE!': MOTHER GOADS PALESTINIAN GIRL TO PUSH, SCREAM AT IDF SOLDIERS IN PROPAGANDA VIDEO THAT BACKFIRES.

• Fox News (11/06/2012) New Black Panthers back at Philly voting site.

• Examiner (11/06/2012) Former SEALs, special forces to observe, report Black Panthers at polling places.

• Foreign Policy (11/06/2012) Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system.


Monday, November 5, 2012

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

400-408 – • Stephen Prothero (CNN, 11/01/2012) My Take: Billy Graham and Ralph Reed are putting politics before God.

• Ken Shepherd (Fox News, 11/03/2012) CNN religion blogger attacks Christian Conservatives for supporting Romney.

413-423 – John Stonestreet, speaker and fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and host of The Point (thepointradio.org), and content advisor at Summit Ministries (summit.org).  John is the Thursday-Friday host of Breakpoint, while Eric Metaxas hosts M-W.  Check out Summit's great Worldview Chart here, or as a pdf. He and his wife Sarah have three daughters and a dog, and live in Colorado Springs.

• Tony Lee (Breitbart, 11/05/2012) BIG LABOR BOSS TRUMKA: CARD CHECK 'WITHIN NEXT TERM' IF OBAMA WINS.

428-438 – John Stonestreet, If you give your own money to the poor it's called charity, but too many people think their being charitable when they give to the poor money they've borrowed from their kids and grandkids – or vote for a political party who'll do it for them.

• Terence Jeffrey (CNS News, 1104/2012) 4 Yrs at Private College = $130,468; Median-Priced Existing Home = $173,100; U.S. Debt Per American Under 18 = $218,676.

(CNSNews.com) - If Americans under the age of 18 were required as a group to pay off the entirety of the federal government's debt in equal shares, each would now need to pay about $218,676.

That is more than the $130,468 average price tag for four years at a private college or the $173,100 median price for an existing one-family home in the United States.

During the time Barack Obama has been president, the U.S. government debt has increased from approximately $143,255 per American under 18 to approximately $218,676 per American under 18--a climb of $75,421 or about 53 percent.

As of Nov. 1, the total national debt was $16,221,685,381,838.28, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt. On Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, it was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Thus, during Obama's presidency, the U.S. government debt has increased $5,594,808,332,925.20.

The 2010 Census said there were 74,181,467 people in the United States under the age of 18. Thus the total U.S. government debt of $16,221,685,381,838.28 equals about $218,676 per person under 18, and the $5,594,808,332,925.20 in new debt accumulated under Obama equals about $75,421 per person under 18.

The Census Bureau's 2012 Statistical Abstract of the United States said the median price of an existing one-family home was $173,100 in 2010 (the latest year included in the abstract).

The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics says that in the 2010-2011 school year the average price for total tuition and room and board for a full-time undergraduate at a four-year private college or university was $32,617. Were that rate to remain constant for four years, an undergraduate degree from a private college would cost about $130,486.

Neither borrowing all the money needed to pay for a four-year private-college education nor borrowing all the money needed to buy a median-priced home would put as much debt on the shoulders of young Americans as the federal government already has.

443-452 – (3X) Karl Rove (R 285) and Joe Trippi (O 303) made their predictions this afternoon.

(2X) Charles Krauthammer lays out three paths to 270 for Romney.

(3X) Panel today with Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, and Stephen Hayes.

458-508 – Scott Rae is the chair of the department of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology (talbot.edu/faculty/profile/scott_rae), his expertise is in applying Christian ethics to both medicine and the marketplace, from the lab to the boardroom – from pre-conception to end of life issues, from egg and sperm donations, IVF, surrogacy, and snowflake babies to organ harvesting and cryogenics – behind it all is the Imago Dei and personhood theory.  

• He's authored 10 books –  Outside the Womb: Moral Guidance for Assisted Reproduction (2011);  The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets (2010);  Biotechnology and the Human Good (2007);  Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics (2000);  Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age (1999);  Embryo Research and Experimentation (1997);  Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics (1996);  Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies (1996);  Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics (1995);  and The Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood: Brave New Families? (1994).

512-523 – Scott Rae

528-539 – Joel Rosenberg (joelrosenberg.com) former senior aide to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky (while both men were out of office), campaign manager for U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes (with lots of experience on the merits of a flat tax), campaign strategist for other U.S. and Israeli political leaders – even Director of Research for Rush Limbaugh.  But, Joel is best known today as the best-selling author of riveting page-turners about Israel, the Middle East, and Biblical prophecy – with plots many times predicting months ahead of time the actual headlines.  Author of six novels (The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, Dead Heat, The Twelfth Imam, The Tehran Initiative, The Damascus Countdown), and four non-fiction books (Epicenter, Inside the Revolution, Implosion: Can America Recover From Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges?, and his new e-book Israel at War: Inside the Nuclear Showdown with Iran).  Joel is also the founder of The Joshua Fund, an outreach to the needy of Israel (joshuafund.net).

• Joel Rosenberg (11/05/2012) High stakes: What role should Christians play in the 2012 elections?

544-554 – Joel Rosenberg, 

558-608 – (3X) Karl Rove (R 285) and Joe Trippi (O 303) made their predictions this afternoon.

612-623 – (2X) Charles Krauthammer lays out three paths to 270 for Romney.

(3X) Panel today with Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, and Stephen Hayes on the polls.

(:56) Brett Baier today reports on the "new" CBS audio.

• Joel Pollack (Breitbart, 11/05/2012) PROOF: OBAMA REFUSED TO CALL BENGHAZI 'TERROR,' CBS COVERED UP.

In an astonishing display of media malpractice, CBS News quietly released proof--two days before the election, far too late to reach the media and the public--that President Barack Obama lied to the public about the Benghazi attack, as well as about his later claim to have called the attack "terrorism" from the beginning.

CBS unveiled additional footage from its 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, conducted on Sep. 12 immediately after Obama had made his statement about the attacks in the Rose Garden, in which Obama quite clearly refuses to call the Benghazi an act of terror when asked a direct question by reporter Steve Kroft:

KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?

OBAMA: Well it's too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans.  And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.

(2:00) New Audio, Obama with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes on 9/12.  •• Bret Baier (Fox News, 11/05/2012) What President Obama really said in that '60 Minutes' interview about Benghazi.

KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?

OBAMA: Well it's too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans.  And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.  

KROFT: It's been described as a mob action, but there are reports that they were very heavily armed with grenades, that doesn't sound like your normal demonstration.

OBAMA:  As I said, we're still investigating exactly what happened, I don't want to jump the gun on this.   But your right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt.  And my suspicion is there are folks involved in this. Who were looking to target Americans from the start.  So we're gonna make sure that our first priority is to get our folks out safe, make sure our embassies are secured around the world and then we are going to go after those folks who carried this out.

KROFT: There have been reports, obviously this isn't the first time…there have been attacks on the consulate before. There was an attack against the British ambassador. Do you…this occurred on Sept. 11. Can you tell me why the ambassador was in Benghazi yesterday? Was it to evaluate security at the consulate?

OBAMA: Well keep in mind Chris Stevens is somebody that was one of the first Americans on the ground when we were in the process of saving Benghazi and providing the opportunity for Libyans to create their own democracy. So this is somebody who had been courageous, had been on the ground, had helped to advise me and Secretary Clinton when we were taking our actions against Moammar Qaddafi. And is somebody who is very familiar with the train. He was doing the work that he does as a diplomat helping to shape our policies in the region at a time when things are still fairly fragile. But I think it's important to note that we have a Libyan government in place that is fully cooperative, that sees the United States as a friend that recognizes we played an important role in liberating Libya and providing the Libyan people an opportunity to forge their own destiny. And in fact we had Libyans who helped protect our diplomats when they were under attack. But this is a country that is still rebuilding in the aftermath of Qaddafi. They don't necessarily always have the same capabilities that countries with more established governments might have in helping to provide protection to our folks. But beyond that, what I want to do is make sure that we know exactly what happened, how it happened, who perpetrated this action, then we'll act accordingly."

628-639 – Jon Coupal, President of the 200,000-member Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), the Prop 13 (1978) group, and a name synonymous with tax relief for the California homeowner (hjta.org), joins us to vote No on 30.

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

644-656 – Elizabeth Emken is the Republican candidate running against incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein (emken2012.com).  She graduated from UCLA in 1984 with a dual degree in Economics and Political Science, and later worked for IBM as an efficiency expert, helping to streamline operations, eliminate waste, and save the company millions of dollars.  After he son, Alex, was diagnosed with autism, she began her second career as an advocate for developmentally disabled children, serving as Vice President for Government Relations at Autism Speaks.

• Mark Steyn (NRO, 11/02/2012) A Tale of Two Crises: Whether or not to get serious is the choice facing the electorate.

• Peggy Noonan (WSJ, 11/05/2012) Monday Morning.

• WSJ Editors (11/04/2012) Obama's Progressive Gamble. He bet his Presidency on expanding government because that's who he is.


Friday, November 2, 2012

400-408 – Jennifer Walsh, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and professor of political science at APU (apu.edu/clas/faculty/jwalsh).  Her primary research interests include crime policy, such as the Three Strikes sentencing movement, prosecutorial decision-making, and the implementation of public policy at all levels of government.

• Heads Up! – Beware of poorly calibrated voting machines that vote for Obama when you tap the screen to vote for Romney.  Obama's touch space is larger than Romney's, so always double check your selection.  And, beware of "Republican" or "Christian" voter guides that have pictures of Romney and Ryan on them, but on four ballot propositions, 30 32 34 and 39, they recommend the wrong way!  They actually instruct you to vote for the big union Democrat way!  The correct positions are No on 30, Yes on 32, No on 34, and No on 39.  Check your mailbox!  The company mine was from was "Voter Guide Slate Cards" in Long Beach.

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

413-423 – Jennifer Walsh, What about Prop 36 on weakening Three Strikes?

428-438 – Jennifer Walsh, Despite all the other factors, it still comes down to the economy.

(8X) Brett Baier & Panel today.

443-452 – (8X) Brett Baier & Panel today.

•• Ben Shapiro (Breitbart, 11/01/2012) WAPO: 'MULTIPLE ERRORS THAT LED TO FINAL TRAGEDY' IN BENGHAZI.

• David Ignatius (Washington Post, 11/01/2012) In Benghazi timeline, CIA errors but no evidence of conspiracy.

• Jason Howerton (Blaze, 11/01/2012) CBS SOURCES: KEY COUNTERTERRORISM TASK FORCE NOT CONVENED DURING BENGHAZI ATTACK.

• Sharyl Atkisson (CBS News, 11/01/2012) Sources: Key task force not convened during Benghazi consulate attack.

• Fox News (11/02/2012) Sources, emails point to communication breakdown in Obama administration during Libya attack.

• Stephen Dinan (Washington Times, 11/02/2012) Reid says he can't work with Romney.

Five days before the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out trying to work with Mitt Romney should he win next week.

"Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable," Mr. Reid said in a statement on Friday, trying to puncture Mr. Romney's closing election argument that he'll be able to deliver on the bipartisanship President Obama promised in 2008 but has struggled to live up to. //

458-508 – Jeremy Tedesco, with the Alliance Defending Freedom (alliancedefendingfreedom.org), on the story below.

• Todd Starnes (Fox News, 11/01/2012) College Allows Transgender Man to Expose Himself to Young Girls. What about indecent exposure?

512-523 – Jeremy Tedesco, Calls – 

528-539 – Jeremy Tedesco, Calls –

544-554 – Pete Wilson, former Republican Governor of California from 1991 to 1999, talks about the election and the future of our Golden State, and why he's voting no on 30 and yes on 32.

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).

558-608 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, former president of the Arizona Medical Association, and currently serves on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, and is President & Founder of The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (aifdemocracy.org), and author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith (2012) (Amazon) (battleforthesoulofislam.com).  Zuhdi's family is from Syria, he was born and raised in Wisconsin, went to college on a Navy scholarship, served, and joined his father's practice in Phoenix where he continues his private practice.  But after 911, when the world changed, he chose to enter into the fight against political Islam.  He refers to himself as a "Jeffersonian Muslim." 

612-623 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, The latest on Syria, Iran back-dooring the sanctions by selling oil to Turkey in return for gold, and the Benghazi mess.

628-639 – Calls – For African Americans, what do you think of little Brandon's comments?

(1:14) • Jason Howerton (Blaze, 11/02/2012) 9-YEAR-OLD BOY AT MICHELLE OBAMA RALLY: 'IF MITT ROMNEY WIN, WE'LL BE GOING BACK TO THE CROP FIELDS'.

644-656 – Calls – For African Americans, what do you think of little Brandon's comments?

• Chicago Tribune (11/01/2012) Bishop orders priests to read anti-Obama letter at Sunday sermons.

• Ben Shapiro (11/01/2012) NBC PREPS HURRICANE SANDY FUNDRAISER STARRING OBAMA CELEBS.

• Peggy Noonan (WSJ, 11/01/2012) Noonan: How Far Obama Has Fallen. From historic figure to beleaguered incumbent in less than four years.


Thursday, November 1, 2012

400-408 – David Spady, founder of Media and Public Affairs Strategy (mapastrategy.com), and State Director of Americans for Prosperity California (americansforprosperity.org), here to talk about the propositions – specifically, "No on 30" and "Yes on 32."  David's responsible for over a hundred videos for AFP, and just returned with touring the battleground states with Jon Voight, Karl Rove, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Mike Gallagher, hitting 6 states and 9 cities in 7 days.

• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (school taxes) and everything else 31 (regional government), 34 (inmate sex changes), 36 (don't weaken Three Strikes), 37 (food labeling games), 38 (school taxes), 39 (business tax).

(:30) No on Prop 32 Ad.  • Brian Calle (OCR, 10/14/2012) Unions dominate California ballot propositions.  Go to yesprop32.org

• YouTube (9/18/2012) No On 32: Have You Heard?  

• Here's the tiny text at the bottom:  "Paid for by No on 32 Stop Corporate Special Exemptions from Campaign Finance Rules sponsored by working families, John A. Perez and labor organizations.  Major funding by California Teaches Association/Issues PAC Committee and California State Council of Service Employees Issues Committee."  John Perez is the first openly gay and former union organizer to become Speaker of the California Assembly, and owes his job to the unions.

(:30) Yes on 32 – Your union can rob your paycheck.

(1:51) Yes on 32 – Gloria Romero, former teacher.

(:30) Yes on 32 – Special Interests are lying.

(:30) No on 32 – Helen Hutchinson, League of Women Voters

(:30) No on 32 – Have you heard?

413-423 – David Spady,

428-438 – David Spady, Calls – Are you "Yes" or "No" on Prop 32?

443-452 – David Spady,

(:30) Yes on 30 – As teachers

(:30) No on 30 – We all want better schools

458-512 – David Spady, Calls – Are you "Yes" or "No" on Prop 30?  Can Prop 30 money be used outside the classroom?

(:30) No on 30 – It doesn't mean more money for schools

512-523 – 

TH 523 – Don Rohde, sales manager at Galpin Ford for the past 40 years – "Go see for yourself why they've been the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 22 consecutive years!  Call Don's personal cell at (818) 262-2092."  Also offering Mazda, Honda, Volvo, Subaru, and Volkswagen.

528-539 – Stanley Kurtz, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (eppc.org), contributing editor at National Review Online, and best-selling author of his latest book Spreading The Wealth: How Obama is Robbing The Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (2012) (Amazon).  He's a key contributor to many important public policy debates on a wide range of issues – from marriage and family to reforming higher education, from economics to the place of religion in public life, and from the failures of progressivism to the challenges of democratization abroad, and many others. 

Why is Prop 31 exactly what you predicted in your book?  Just as wealthy states are expected to fund poor states, and those who pay federal taxes are expected to fund the unemployed, so too the suburbs are expected to fund our urban centers – in the mind of Progressives.  This socialist redistributive scheme goes by many names, among them "regional equity movement" or "regional tax-based sharing," "Building One America," and the "Sustainable Communities Initiative."  It's up and running in Minneapolis-St.Paul, and the suburbs hate it, but they can't end it because Progressives are the political majority.  The best words to describe it are tyranny and theft.  And it's on the ballot in California as Prop 31.

544-554 – Stanley Kurtz,

558-608 – Spady replay

612-623 – Spady replay

628-639 – Spady replay

644-656 – Spady replay

• Stephen Dinan (Washington Times, 11/01/2012) Two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama's four years. Researchers say legals and illegals are more mobile than natives in America.

• OC Register (10/31/2012) 16,000 Halloween revelers rock Rick Warren's 'Blocktober'.

• Catherine Herridge (Fox News, 10/31/2012) Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack'.

(:32) • Breitbart (11/01/2012) WOMAN BLOCKED FROM VOTING OVER 'BIBLE' T-SHIRT.


Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES ON 32, 33, 35, 40, and NO on everything else.

400-408 – Paul Croshaw, producer of the DVD Baseball, Dennis and the French (pragerstore.com), which tells his story of going from liberal activist and connoisseur of French films to born-again Christian by listening to Dennis Prager.

413-423 – Paul Croshaw

428-438 – Eric Metaxas, author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (2010) (Amazon) (ericmetaxas.com), and 4-day-a-week co-voice of Breakpoint (along with John Stonestreet) heard weekdays on my show just before 5pm. Eric and Susan have been married for 16 years, and their 13 year old daughter is named Anna Rose.  They all just got back from Greece.  Eric just started a 40-day fast & prayer for the country, get more info on his website – and don't miss the Os Guinness speech link on the website.  His next book is due out any day now, entitled No Pressure, Mr. President! about his National Prayer Breakfast.

443-452 – Eric Metaxas, It's Halloween, let's talk about the reality of evil and the historic inability of utopianism to acknowledge the Fall, the person of Satan, and the nature of true evil.

Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf.  Basically, it's YES ON 32, 33, 35, 40, and NO on everything else.

458-508 – Eric Metaxas, Let's talk about the reality of the immaterial, specifically that you are a soul, not just a body – you aren't your brain, you're the thing that has the brain.  This touches the limits of current physics, chemistry, and materialism.  As Hume would deny, there is a "ghost in the machine."  As you introspect, are you aware of your innate goodness or badness?  This raises the whole question of original sin, The Fall, and immaterial world that surrounds us in God's universe.

512-523 – Eric Metaxas, Question:  if guardian angels can move things, why can't demons?  What's more fundamentally "real," energy or matter?  What's God made of?  What are you made of?  What's "E=mc2" all about?

528-539 – Tom Sappington, Chair of the Cook School of Intercultural Studies at Biola, after having served as a teaching missionary for 15 years in Indonesia and Java, and founding an equipping ministry to the local church in those countries called Ambassadors of Renewal, with a heavy emphasis on doing spiritual warfare (cook.biola.edu/grad/faculty/thomas_sappington/).

544-554 – Tom Sappington.  Are there any common indicators to the demonic? E.g., buzzing, red eyes, supernatural strength, moving physical objects, etc.?  Can a person put a "curse" on another person?

558-608 – (:21) Little Abby crying over all the campaign noise.  • Blaze (10/31/2012) THIS VIDEO OF A SOBBING LITTLE GIRL SICK & TIRED OF 'BRONCO 'BAMA AND MITT ROMNEY' WILL MAKE YOUR HEART MELT.  It's been a long campaign season, and it seems like one little girl has had enough.  A Colorado mom captured her daughter's sobbing response after hearing about the election one too many times.  KUSA-TV reported the pair had been listening to NPR during a trip to the grocery store when 4-year-old Abigail decided she was done.  With great big tears rolling down her cheeks, the little girl declared, "I'm tired of Bronco 'Bama and Mitt Romney."  Just six days to go, Abby!

(:16) David Letterman's "Top 5 Unnecessary 911 calls."

(:29, :35) Leno: "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Is Obama's New Policy For Libya.  Eight years to get the job done?  • Christian Toto (Breitbart, 10/31/2012) LENO POUNDS OBAMA ON BENGHAZI-GATE.

"Well, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is back - not for gays in the military. It's President Obama's new policy for questions about Libya. Don't ask, don't tell."

Leno also chided the Obama campaign for Lena Dunham's ridiculous ad comparing your "first time" to voting for Obama. "Have you seen that new Obama campaign ad that equates voting with sex? It's kind of clever. It uses innuendo to try and woo young female voters."  "Like one line says," he continued, "'Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. It should be with a great guy who really understands women.'" "But, on the other hand, if it is your first time, you might want to do it with someone who doesn't need eight years to get the job done. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying."

(:59) Obama's "First Time" Commercial.

(1:21) Gingrich.  • Madeleine Morgenstern (Blaze, 10/31/2012) GINGRICH: SENATOR TOLD ME NETWORKS HAVE EMAILS FROM WHITE HOUSE ORDERING TEAM TO STAND DOWN ON BENGHAZI RESCUE.

• Awr Hawkins (10/30/2012) FACEBOOK CENSORS NAVY SEALS TO PROTECT OBAMA ON BENGHAZI-GATE.  They posted "Obama called the SEALS and THEY got bin Laden.  When the SEALS called Obama, THEY GOT DENIED."

612-623 – Dr. Frank Turek, author, speaker, radio and television host, and columnist – Frank is a former Naval Aviator (navigator and bombardier on the P3 Orion) with a Master's from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary (frankturek.com).  He debates regularly on college and university campuses – he's debated Christopher Hitchens twice.  He's author or co-author of three books: Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone (2008) (Amazon);  I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist (with Norm Geisler in 2004) (Amazon); and Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible? (with Norm Geisler in 2003) (Amazon).  Catch Frank Wednesday Nights at 9pm & 1am on DirecTV Ch. 378.

• Awr Hawkins (Blaze, 10/31/2012) EXCLUSIVE: RUMSFELD ON BENGHAZI'S KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS.

628-639 – Dr. Frank Turek,

644-656 – Dr. Frank Turek,

(5X) • The Blaze (10/28/2012) PRO-OBAMA AD HAS CHILDREN SINGING ABOUT AN AMERICA WHERE 'SICK PEOPLE JUST DIE' & 'OIL FILLS THE SEA'.  It is an independent project by founders Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein and unrelated to the agency's work.

The founders of the ad agency behind the iconic "Got Milk?" ad campaign and some of the other most well-known advertisements in the country have a new message: re-elect President Barack Obama, or your children will live in an America where "sick people just die" and "oil fills the sea."

A two-minute black-and-white spot features a chorus of children — "the children of the future" — singing to their parents that "something happened to our country, and we're kinda blaming you."

A few other choice lyrics: "The Earth is cracked, Big Bird is sacked and the atmosphere is frying."

The ad is the brainchild of Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, of the San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners, for their Future Children Project. The Future Children Project states on its website, "Re-electing President Obama is a momentous decision that will require every single voter. What would the children of the future say if we let them down this November?"

[1] Imagine an America
Where strip mines are fun and free
Where gays can be fixed
And sick people just die
And oil fills the sea

We don't have to pay for freeways!
Our schools are good enough
Give us endless wars
On foreign shores
And lots of Chinese stuff

We're the children of the future
American through and through
But something happened to our country
And we're kinda blaming you

[2] We haven't killed all the polar bears
But it's not for lack of trying
The Earth is cracked
Big Bird is sacked
And the atmosphere is frying

Congress went home early
They did their best we know
You can't cut spending
With elections pending
Unless it's welfare dough

We're the children of the future
American through and through
But something happened to our country
And we're kinda blaming you

[3] Find a park that is still open
And take a breath of poison air
They foreclosed your place
To build a weapon in space
But you can write off your au pair

It's a little awkward to tell you
But you left us holding the bag
When we look around
The place is all dumbed down
And the long term's kind of a drag

[4] We're the children of the future
American through and through
But something happened to our country
And yeah, we're blaming you

[5] You did your best
You failed the test

Mom and Dad
We're blaming you!

• Bradley Klapper (AP, 10/30/2012) Who said what and when about the Benghazi attack.


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

400-408 – Norm Geisler (normgeisler.com) is the patriarch of Christian apologetics in America – a seminary professor for the past 50 years, who's spoken or debated in 26 countries on 6 continents, and authored or co-authored over 80 books and hundreds of articles.  This past July 21st, Norm accomplished  a rare feat – an "80-80" – publishing 80 books by his 80th birthday!  He's involved with the new Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Murietta, on the campus of Calvary Chapel Bible College (veritasseminary.com, 1-888-John1717).  He grew up in not just a non- but an anti-religious family north of Detroit, and was still illiterate in the 11th grade, but went went on to become the patriarch of modern Christian apologetics.  His former students are our professors and teachers, from Ravi Zacharias to William Lane Craig.  He lives in Charlotte, NC.

• And next Friday and Saturday, at Big Calvary in Costa Mesa, 11/09-10, Norm will be one of the speakers at the big free apologetics conference.  The following week, he'll be teaching at Veritas from 11/11-17, public welcome, the first night is free.

413-423 – Norm Geisler, Calls – We're victims of the big three, "relativism, pluralism, and naturalism."  

428-438 – Norm Geisler, Calls – Tomorrow is Halloween, what about demonology – vampires, zombies, monsters, and ghosts, etc.?

443-452 – Mike Fabarez, pastor of Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo (compasschurch.org) and host of Focal Point (focalpointministries.org) heard weekdays right before my show from 330-400pm and Sunday mornings at 9:30am.  And Compass will be holding their 24th FREE Fall Fest Celebration this year on Halloween at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, for info go to ocfallfest.com, with FREE In-n-Out, Chick-fil-A, Hot Dogs, Rides, Candy, snacks, etc.

458-508 – Sean McDowell, (seanmcdowell.org), heads up of the Bible department at Capistrano Valley Bible Schools, and has authored of over 15 books including his latest project with his dad, Josh McDowell, coming out 8/1/2012, entitled 77 FAQ's About God and the Bible: Your Toughest Questions Answered (2012) (Amazon).  He blogs over at conversantlife.com/seanmcdowell.

512-523 – Sean McDowell, Calls – How much should Christians participate in Halloween?  Do you "opt out" your kids from the school parade?  Do you prevent your kids from dressing up at all?  Do you turn the lights out and "nobody's home?"  What do you think of Christian "haunted houses?"  Would you approve of your youth group going to Knott's Berry Farm?

Sean recommends Mark Matlock's Don't Buy the Lie: Discerning Truth in a World of Deception (Amazon) as a good book on demonology.

528-539 – Sean McDowell,

544-554 – Sean McDowell,

558-608 – Calls –

• LINER – For your chance to listen to or purchase R.C. Sproul's series entitled "Chuch & State" go to kkla.com, keyword "Sproul."

612-623 – Calls –

628-639 – Calls –

644-656 – Calls – Gen 6 and the Nephilim?

() Brett Baier and Jennifer Griffin today on Fox News that the first drone got there an hour after  the attack started, the second from Sicily some time later, both were unarmed, and a participant in the attack is in custody in Tunisia.

• NYT Editorial (10/30/2012) A Big Storm Requires Big Government.

• John Sexton (Breitbart, 10/30/2012) NY TIMES SLAMS ROMNEY AS SANDY SLAMS NEW YORK; 'BIG STORM REQUIRES BIG GOVERNMENT'.

• Fox News (10/30/2012) California karate student pummels intruder found in bathroom.

• Fox News (10/30/2012) Boy faces murder charge in shooting death of neo-Nazi dad.

• LAT (10/30/2012) Apple ousts two top execs over missteps.  Scott Forstall, who replaced Google Maps with Apple's own faulty mapping software in iOS, will leave. Retail operations head John Browett will also depart.

• Kevin Williamson (NRO, 10/30/2012) Yes, We Should Cut FEMA.