Backbone Radio

The miracle that is America

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

Another election day, another birthday. Backbone Radio is five years old this Sunday. In 2004 when we started, Colorado voters had just lurched left, an early indicator of the trend that would engulf Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. Through it all, 250 weeks of the times that try men's souls, our show has stood for clear thinking and good cheer. The sensible right turn in Tuesday's balloting bespeaks not only a resurgent GOP but a resilient spirit of citizenship in the land. How good this country is! Someone on this email list wrote me the morning after: "Thank you for communicating confidence in America during this gloomy recent period in our politics." Well, friends, thank you for helping our program flourish. With your help, we intend to keep right on. Please be listening Sunday as the lineup includes:

5:20 Senate Race: Candidate Cleve Tidwell & preview of Nov. 10 forum

5:30 Jihad Rising: David Gaubatz, author of "Muslim Mafia"

6:00 Election Analysis: Ross Kaminsky of Rossputin.com

6:30 National Security: Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute

7:00 Judges: Matt Arnold of Clear the Bench Colorado

7:30 Health Care: Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute

"If you doubt there are miracles, look at this flag. This is a miracle." So said Prof. Daniel Robinson, who teaches philosophy at Oxford, in a Friday lecture at Colorado Christian University. He showed how America's founding principles, rooted in natural law, honor and guard our rights. But as for our own fidelity to those principles today... that remains an open question. What shall we answer?

Yours for the Constitution, JOHN ANDREWS

Myth Busters

Slated on Backbone Radio, Oct. 25 Listen every Sunday, 5-8pm on 710 KNUS, Denver... 1460 KZNT, Colorado Springs... and streaming live at 710knus.com.

What people think they know that isn't so, even more than what they simply don't know, is often the biggest problem in self-government, Ronald Reagan liked to say. Our show this Sunday takes on five overheated myths, correcting them with cold fact to help you make a difference politically. Is global warming a crisis and our fault? Is Islam a religion of peace? Is light rail the ideal transportation solution? Are old white guys the face of the Republican Party? Does public education put the public interest first? The answers would be no, no, no, no, and no. Tune in and call in... the number is 303.696.1971... as I do some myth-busting with:

5:10 Laura Boggs, Republican for Jefferson County School Board

5:20 David Petteys, Act for America chapter chairman

5:30 Ryan Frazier, Republican for 7th Congressional District

6:00 Phelim McAleer, the film producer climate alarmists fear most

6:30 Dennis Polhill, expert on the debacle that is FasTracks

7:00 Susan Brown, researcher on Muslim Brotherhood subversion (plus David Petteys again)

Yours for guiltless carbon dioxide, JOHN ANDREWS