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Father's Day on the Divide

Slated on Backbone Radio, June 21 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver... 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs... and streaming live at 710knus.com.

What would become of Father's Day if the whole culture and political system grew indifferent to men and women marrying each other, if most babies came from labs and acquired their parents through agencies, if the family itself were declared a toxic institution as some feminists and Marxists claim? Sorry for the downer, but doesn't that seem to be where Western civilization (formerly so called) is heading unless some of us who love tradition start fighting harder and turn things around?

Well, take heart. Fighting the good fight, even on a weekend that ought to be about celebration and relaxation, is our way of life in Backbone Colorado USA. Up here on the Divide, we still draw a line between good and bad, between natural and otherwise. Tune in Sunday and let's think together about keeping Father's Day and other American institutions alive for coming generations.

** We'll talk Iran with policy expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross... health care reform with patient rights advocate Amy Menefee... and Republican strategy with former congressman Bob Beauprez.

** Authors Ward Connerly (Lessons from My Uncle James)... Joseph C. Phillips (He Talk Like a White Boy)... and Allen Orcutt (No Rest Elsewhere)... will share their perspectives as sons and dads.

Yours for America without apologies, JOHN ANDREWS

Grandiosity

Slated on Backbone Radio, June 7 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver... 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs... and streaming live at 710knus.com.

Whoa, does Obama think he's president of the planet? A community organizer from Chicago gets 60 million votes to be the trustee of power in one country for 48 months, so he jets off to the ancient capital of the pharaohs to fix things up with 1.2 billion followers of Muhammad across the globe. Amazing. Obviously he does think that's what he is, but he's not, and only bad can come of the man's wild grandiosity. An "address to the Muslims of the world" by the US chief executive is a terrible idea, no matter what words are said. It reveals again Mr. Obama's incomprehension of America, natural law, and human nature itself.

Why? We'll talk about it on this edition of Backbone Radio, along with a full scan of worrisome headlines from the week. These are definitely the times that try men's souls.

** Stephen Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism joins me to analyze the presidential speech in Cairo.

** Author Steve Milloy takes us inside his book, "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life," and James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation talks about their new movie on missile defense, "33 Minutes."

** Plus commentators Jay Ambrose and Rob Roseman with a Colorado perspective on issues from media bias to the GM takeover.

Yours for self-government, JOHN ANDREWS

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