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Reagan with the troops. Are we on tyhe verge of another revolution?

Show 5-30 Are we on the verge of another Reagan Revolution?

By Dr Mark | July 21, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: July 25 & 26, 2015 | Dr. Bruce Thornton

America’s belief in God runs deep in our culture and our psyche but it’s under attack more today that perhaps at any time since our nation’s founding. Historians generally agree on four “Great Awakenings” in America’s past (we’ll have a future show on these later this summer), the last of which immediately preceded the Reagan Revolution.

Now that (seemingly) pretty much everyone who could possibly be running for the Republican nomination is in the race, are we looking at another “Christian Revolution”? Has the groundwork been laid? What’s missing? We talk with Dr. Bruce Thornton of the Hoover Institution to find out what were the cultural sparks that set off the Reagan grassfire to find out if the elements are there for a revolution or if this has the elements of a failed coup.

The Reagan Revolution

We’ll be talking with Dr. Thornton about the seeds of the Reagan Revolution and the expanding role of conservatives and evangelicals. Like why did the same evangelicals who had voted in droves for Jimmy Carter suddenly turn on him and vote in droves for Reagan?

But what about the three decades since? What happened? The Supreme Court chose to endorse sexual preference over religious freedom. Film and TV is overtly anti-Christian. Obama has lost all pretense of not being a Muslim advocate. Federal and state governments increasingly disavow themselves from Judeo-Christian beliefs to be “inclusive” of Muslims—like the Seattle mayor endorsing special housing funding for pro-Sharia law adherents. All this make you wonder, is America’s Christian heritage disappearing? Or are we on the verge of another great awakening? And what’s that mean for the possibility of another Reagan Revolution?

Links Mentioned

Dr. Bruce Thornton from The Hoover Institution
The Salon.com article “Reagan’s Christian revolt: How conservatives hijacked American religion“
Retired Admiral James Lyon on Obama’s “stategy” – Islam as a threat doctrine
Sign the Convention of States petition! Read Deborah Lee’s guest post to learn how to get involved (they’re especially looking for district captions) or head directly to the petition

Show 5-04 | What the Media isn’t Telling You about Islam

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 3 comments

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Air Dates: Jan 24 & 25, 2015

This week on I Spy Radio Show, we do what—apparently—no mainstream media news reporter did in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish deli murders: read the Koran. And ask the hard questions about this “religion of peace” of Hoover Institution research fellow, Dr. Bruce Thornton.

Now that the initial raw emotions have dissipated from the Charlie Hebdo and Paris murders, it’s time to explore how and why these Muslim terrorist attacks happened. This week on I Spy, we go in depth with Hoover Institution research fellow Dr. Bruce Thornton to explore the Islamic faith and to find the truths about the “religion of peace” that the liberal media is too often willing (or complicit) to ignore. We compare and contrast Christian and Muslim ideology and ask the fundamental questions about what drives these terrorists and whether the Charlie Hebdo attacks were truly an anomaly committed by radicals.

And don’t miss what the mainstream media is not telling you about the newest worldwide assault on Christianity and persecution of Christians.

Links mentioned

Download a PDF copy of the Koran; use its search function to do your own research. This particular translation is by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and considered highly accurate.
Text of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights (and Wikipedia article on the CDHR)
Dr. Bruce Thornton (bio) is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, one of the nation’s leading think tanks, which seeks to advance “ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.
His book, Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow Suicide (2007) discusses the failure of European nations to integrate Muslim immigrants into their national culture *Check out Dr. Thornton’s other books: The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America (2011), and D emocracy’s Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama (2014). Both are available via Amazon.
A must-read article by Dr. Thornton: “Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World“

Related Links & Info

Check out Jesse Water’s video (from The O’Reilly Factor) when he tried to get into a Muslim convention. As you watch it, remember the Islamic principle of “taqiyya.”
Steven Crowder video: “‘Moderate’ Muslim is a myth. Here’s why…”
Some verses from the Koran discussing treatment of non-Muslims
More on taqiyya, idtirar, kitman, and ḥiyal — the Islamic principles that allow for lying to non-believers: link 1 (Wikipedia), link 2 (better – from Islam Review), link 3 (also good, via Muslim Fact), and link 4.
Article from Citizen Warrior: “What Muslim Leaders Say About Islam Dispels the Myth that Jihadists are a ‘Fringe’ Element”
And finally, a glimmer of hope from the mainstream media, The New Yorker—yes, The New Yorker—is starting to get it about Muslim ideology. Check it out.