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Show 5-17 Why Oregon Fails at Economics

By Dr Mark | April 27, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: April 25 & 26, 2015

This week, it’s about economics. Yeah, yeah. Don’t groan. You need to know this stuff. Otherwise, you’ll be boondoggled into thinking raising taxes is good. Or that raising minimum wage doesn’t impact businesses. Or big government works. Or any number of progressive ideologies. Next thing you know, you’ll be believing global warming and then it’s all down hill from there.

With guests Jonathan Williams of American Legislative Exchange Council and Jan Meekcoms of National Federation of Independent Businesses.

Always fun talking with Mark Anderson @ispyradioshow about #oregon #tcot. I just wish Oregon had a better outlook https://t.co/d6TcClSnnp

— Jonathan Williams (@Taxeconomist) April 25, 2015

Links mentioned

ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council. One of the good guys. You can tell, because the political Left hates them so much they think one of the Baldwin boys needs to rename himself.
NFIB – National Federation of Independent Businesses. Here’s the state chapter for Oregon (have you joined yet??) and the national organization.
Download your own copy of Rich States, Poor States and take a look at how your state is doing (you might want your legislators’ number on speed dial)
A quick one-sheet verview from ALEC on Oregon’s outlook (this link opens a PDF)
NFIB-Oregon is holding its Day at the Capital on April 29. More info.
Both of these fine organizations offer memberships. Why not join them and add your voice to the chorus of conservative voices trying to safeguard your economic freedom?

Additional Links & Info

Talk to liberals? Not sure how to answer their unicorns-and-fairies myths about the minimum wage? Here’s a great Forbes article (by an NFIB economist no less) that debunks progressive myths.

Rally ‘Round the Flag Event

When: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 10am – 4pm
Where: Fairgrounds, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cost: Free!

Here in Oregon, we have a strong heritage of using our natural resources wisely. But well-intended yet weak-minded “environmentalists” believe they are “protecting” the environment by not touching it–or allowing anyone else to harvest them. Worse, our lands are being controlled by people out east who’ve never set foot on them and have no idea about how to manage them; people who’ve been persuaded by the well-funded environmental lobby that we should never touch these lands.

Oregon Citizen’s Lobby invites you to join them for a fantastic day of speakers, networking, and fun! And a chance to learn more about the effort to transfer control of the federal lands to the people who know best how to manage them: Oregonians.

The event will feature prominent leaders in this effort, booths, networking opportunities, and a panel discussion to answer your questions.

Featured Guests:

Rep. Ken Ivory (UT) of the American Lands Council
Noah Wall, FreedomWorks Grassroots Director
Jeff Kropf, Oregon Capital Watch
Mark Anderson, host of I Spy Radio
David Hunnicutt, Oregonians in Action
Dennis Linthicum, former Klamath County Commissioner

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.

Show 5-05 | Socialism Exposed: Superiority of Capitalism

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

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Air Dates: Jan 30 & 31, 2015

By now, you’ve heard or read the usual conservative fact-checking of Obama’s State of the Union speech but we wanted to go deeper than just fact-checking to analyze the progressive ideology that lie at the heart of the speech.

This week on I Spy, we talk with author and economist Dr. Gerard Lameiro to analyze the underlying philosophies and values on display in Obama’s State of the Union address.

For example, most of I Spy listeners know that the free-market system is superior to socialism but why is it so superior? What makes it more successful from both an economic and philosophical standpoint? And what is so unique about the American system of capitalism that makes it better than any other free-market system in the world? We also analyze Obama’s faith in big government to drive the economy, the unfairness of wealth, that regulation is the solution, and much more.

Links mentioned

Dr. Lameiro’s terrific website: www.gerardlameiro.com
Why is American capitalism so superior? See Dr. Lameiro’s “Achitecture of American Capitalism“
Check out this terrific graphic about the characteristics of a free-market economy
See also his “Socialism’s Chain of Control“
His books include Renewing America and its Heritage of Freedom (What Freedom-Loving Americans Can Do to Help), America’s Economic War (A Citizen’s Handbook for Understanding the War between American Capitalism and Socialism), and Choosing the Good Life (two competing economic visions, capitalism and socialism).

Show 5-07 | Best of: Pebble Mine

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

Air Dates: Feb 14 & 15, 2015

It’s Valentine’s Day and nothing says “love” like a ring. A gold ring with a shiny pebble in it. But you can’t say “love” without getting all of that from a mine somewhere. So for you romantics, we’re running a best-of I Spy on the Pebble Mine and their fight against the EPA.

Show 5-06 | Red Money for Green Groups

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Feb 14 & 15, 2015

One of our listeners (thank you, David D.!) put us on to a story exposing Russian money being funneled to the environmental left, especially the anti-fracking movement. Needless to say, this got our attention but it turns out it was only the tip of the iceberg. We expose the Puppet Masters of the Enviro-Green movement with investigative journalist, Ron Arnold.

Want to know more about the pile of cash rabid environmental groups have at their disposal to do things like shut down mining and access to National Forests? This week on I Spy Radio, we expose the backbone of the environmental movements—their funding—and their illegal collusion with government officials.

We talk with Ron Arnold, Executive VP of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and long-time investigative journalist who has tracked the far-left environmentalist for more than 4 decades. And, we look at foreign influences, specifically Russian oil oligarchs, who have been secretly funding environmental groups here in the U.S. All of this means, literally, tens of billions of dollars going to anti-oil, anti-mining, anti-timber, anti-ranching, anti-you-name-it.

Philanthropoids: The Puppet Masters of the Leftist Environmental Movement.

Links mentioned

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise’s website and Facebook page. (BTW, here’s I Spy’s Facebook page too).
For Ron’s books, see his Amazon page.
Free Beacon article – Russian money being funneled to the Far Left Enviro movement.
Ron’s article in The Washington Examiner: “The Hidden Persuaders of the Environmental Elite“.
Another related Examiner article: “If it’s Wet, the EPA wants to Regulate It” (beware: water is the next big target of the Left!)
Download a copy of the US Senate Minority Report The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA.

Show 5-09 | Pop Culture: Real American Heroes

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Feb 28 & March 1, 2015

In a week of depressing news stories, we need to remember the real heroes of America, like Chris Kyle—the title character of the blockbuster film American Sniper. We talk with Chris’s co-author Scott McEwen.

Even though American Sniper didn’t get the Oscar nod that its fans hoped it would, it was a tremendous success with the people who truly mattered: the American public. And we can guarantee that the 19 medals and awards that Chris Kyle earned meant far more to him than any silly gold statuette. With the incredible success of American Sniper at the box office, we check back in this week with Scott McEwen, Chris’s co-author, to talk about the film and he does not disappoint. We get his—quite literally—behind the scenes insights into the film, his thoughts on the Oscars and his reflections on Chris Kyle, the man and the hero.

If you’ve seen the film or read the book, you know a big part of Chris’s own healing was to help other vets—only to be tragically killed by a Marine. Now that the trial is over, we’ll get Scott’s take on it as well as the healing help that vets need. And don’t miss his incredible news on what could be the next James Bond franchise.

Links mentioned

Scott McEwen’s books can all be found on his website. Be sure to check out his latest book, coming in May!
The Variety announcement about Scott’s movie deal.
Find Scott on Twitter (@authorsmcewen) and on Facebook.
Iran tests bombs on a replica USS aircraft carrier article.