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From Ross Kaminsky:

Please join me for this Sunday’s edition of Backbone Radio on Newstalk 710 KNUS in Denver and 1460 KZNT in Colorado Springs from 5 PM to 8 PM.

In our first segment, our guest will be Fox News’ National Security Analyst KT McFarland. Ms. McFarland held national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations, and received the Defense Department’s highest civilian award.  We’ll discuss the Middle East, especially the critical areas which are simmering below the daily headlines, namely Bahrain and Iran, including Iran’s efforts to gain power and position by the current chaos.  We’ll also discuss whether David Brooks was correct in his dismissal of Samuel Huntington’s characterization of Arabs as pro-Islam rather than nationalistic.

For the rest of  our first hour, we’ll be joined by Peter Ferrara who is, among other things, a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute and a contributing columnist for Pajamas Media and the American Spectator. Peter served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is author of The Obamacare Disaster, from the Heartland Institute, and President Obama’s Tax Piracy.

We’ll talk with Peter about the “Wisconsin Showdown” as well as the issue of Obama’s offering of state waivers to Obamacare – a subject on which I’ve also offered an opinion.

In the second hour of the show, Jimmy Sengenberger will join me in studio to talk about life as an outspoken conservative in a less-than-conservative university – a conservative with his own college radio show no less.  We’ll discuss how to engage more young people in politics, especially on the conservative/libertarian side as well as how some of the key issues of the day are particularly important to the current generation of young people.

In the third hour, we’ll talk more about current events, including the likelihood of a government shutdown and why it seems that pirates murder Americans and Europeans in the Indian Ocean with so little response by our governments.  Shouldn’t we be doing whatever it takes to make them realize that attacks on our people and interests will result in unendurable pain for the offenders?

Please join us by listening to (and calling in to) this week’s Backbone Radio program from 5 PM to 8 PM on 710 AM KNUS in Denver and 1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs.

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