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The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – There is something deeply uncomfortable about searching for a positive message in a tragedy involving murdered children. The grief is unimaginable. The trauma experienced by witnesses and survivors is real. The families who must live with this loss deserve compassion, privacy, support, and prayers—not simplistic explanations or lectures on gun laws...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – Parents deserve to know what their children learn and how schools spend their tax dollars. Marsha Metzger discusses concerns about social-emotional learning, curriculum transparency, and parental authority while offering practical resources to help families ask questions, evaluate educational options, and advocate for their children’s future...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When teachers feel like they don’t matter to their students, families, administrators, and other teachers, the flame of passion begins to die. They’re ready to move on to other career options. The school plays a role in this feeling. Private schools and classical charter schools have a culture that adds meaning to the work teachers are doing. Public schools...

The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – The concept is straightforward: churches already own land, have established community connections, and often have volunteers willing to serve. With the right partnerships and planning, those resources can become part of a broader solution to homelessness. Can Religious Freedom Help Churches Build Housing?

Unleashed: The Political News Hour with Chris Cordani – Human beings are uncomfortable with uncertainty, but uncertainty is often the honest starting point for understanding complicated events. That may be the most useful lesson connecting Columbus, artificial intelligence, synthetic media, political ideology, and modern information warfare. The real battle is not simply over facts...

Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Who shapes a child’s values when the screen becomes a trusted teacher? Dr. Andrew Fox urges parents to examine children’s media, challenges churches to resist cultural approval, and calls Christians to speak with conviction, humility, and reason while giving younger generations a firmer moral foundation...

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Artificial intelligence offers quick answers, but can it provide spiritual wisdom? As believers turn to chatbots for guidance, the risks of fabricated sources and comforting interpretations demand scrutiny. Faith, conscience, and human judgment remain essential when technology begins to carry the authority of truth itself...

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – The confusion runs deeper than dating. Popular entertainment sells sexual exhibitionism as empowerment. Young people absorb messages that say anything goes, that restraint is outdated, and that personal freedom comes without responsibility. Then, when things unravel, the same culture rushes to choose villains and victims without examining what it has...

Two Mikes on America Out Loud – The political climate made matters worse. For several years, Black Lives Matter became the organizing principle of institutional life across many cities. Addressing racial injustice mattered. The response went too far, and urban leaders seem reluctant to admit what their overcorrection cost. Why volunteer, donate, or invest where expressing an ordinary political view can make you a target?

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – The controversy involving Cornell students should force an uncomfortable reckoning. Reports of university materials encouraging sexual experimentation raise a basic question: Why are schools pushing boundaries instead of teaching responsibility? Families pay enormous sums for an education. They should not have to wonder whether their children are...

Unleashed: The Political News Hour with Susan Price – The controlled demolition and deconstruction of our United States Government actually took place beginning with President Trump's first term in office. Seemingly unnoticed by the majority of Americans, yet through Trump's COMMS and Executive Orders, his messages were received and welcomed by the small percentage of...

Dangerous Thoughts with Jack Danger – Political loyalty can undermine the independent thinking Americans value. An informal experiment with a conservative audience explores how criticism of Donald Trump prompts some defensive reactions, exposing the tension between allegiance and consistent principles. Accountability begins with questioning leaders we admire as honestly as opponents...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Your Highnesses may believe that in all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your Highnesses should feel great joy because presently they will be Christians and instructed in the good manners of your realms, for a better people there cannot be on earth,” wrote Columbus. Ae modern historians and educators lying to us about...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – France’s unrest raises questions about political intimidation, while America’s right divides over liberty and government power. The author argues that post-liberal ambitions risk sacrificing limited government to the common good, leaving a fractured conservatism less able to defend freedom or capitalize on the left’s weaknesses...

Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Brian Kamenker of MassResistance argues that Gay Straight Alliance clubs have become a powerful channel for promoting LGBT activism in schools. His warning deserves attention: withdrawing your own children from public school does not remove your responsibility to the community. Those classrooms are educating future teachers, doctors, and...

The Counter Momentum of Spin, with Dr. Franco Musio – The negative points about climbing the company ladder will be discussed to include loss of personal time, health impacts, lower effective hourly pay, exhausting political machinations, loss of autonomy, diminishing returns on happiness, the illusion of security, and development of obsolete skill sets. However, there are positives of...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – America is as politically polarized as I can remember in my lifetime. One question: are we contributing to the polarization or defusing it? Why do we keep having these political attacks? Why is there a spirit of revenge between the two major parties? Because We the People have taught them that this is one way to get re-elected: attack your...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – The detransitioners are now a unique subset of medical patients due to their physical, urological, biological fertility, hormonal, and mental health issues. This will be a challenging future for the medical community and the ethics of informed consent. The basis of informed consent for this community has been lacking awareness of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Supreme Court is “distinctly American in concept and function,” as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed. No other court in the world has functioned as long and with one main purpose —to interpret and protect the Constitution. The ideas espoused during the Great Awakening were the underpinnings of the words in the Declaration of Independence...

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – A murder victim deserves more than a footnote in a killer’s story. Compassion and serious death penalty debate coexist with personal responsibility. Honest journalism keeps victims and grieving families visible, separates facts from speculation, and challenges a culture that turns criminal notoriety into public admiration...

Dangerous Thoughts with Jack Danger - The issue is control. Can you understand the bargain you’re making? Can you refuse data collection without losing basic functionality? Can you see the price before you commit? Technology does not need to become a science-fiction villain to make ordinary life more intrusive. It only needs to make extraction convenient, profitable, and difficult to challenge...

The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – The Democratic Socialists of America are not letting this current cost of living crisis slip through their fingers. While Americans are increasingly divided over capitalism and socialism, small business remains overwhelmingly popular across the country. Gallup found that 95% of Americans view small business positively, and its research shows...

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – The writer behind the 1619 Project has admitted to sending her daughter to two of New York City’s worst schools, not because she had no choice, but as a sacrifice to change the system. Meanwhile, the experiment in “transitioning” children has another nail in its coffin. Do No Harm published a study showing that the study by the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Trump’s Department of Education formally removes Biden’s expanded Title IX regulations, restoring the 2020 rule governing sex discrimination in federally funded schools. The change follows court rulings and emphasizes protections for women and girls, including privacy, safety, and athletic opportunities, while clarifying legal responsibilities for...

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Children’s learning takes center stage as Maud Maron challenges ideological pressure in New York City schools. Debates over selective admissions, school integration, and parental choice reveal the personal stakes of education policy. Families need honest information, rigorous standards, and real options that prioritize students’ reading, math, growth, and future ambitions...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teen accounts will be unavailable from midnight to 6 a.m. Messaging and push alerts face extra limits overnight and during school hours. In addition, cosmetic filters are banned for teen users. Parents should take advantage of those productive pauses and trade their phones with their children for a good book. Perhaps it’s time to reclaim...

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Barack Obama’s suggestion that women govern better raises a larger question: What makes leaders worthy of public trust? Voters deserve competence, accountability, and results, regardless of gender. Applying equal scrutiny to every candidate means judging records, challenging party loyalty, and demanding more than historic firsts or promises of better representation...

Two Women Inspiring Real Life with Stephanie Coxon and Lauren Muglia – From Flock cameras to car kill switches to the data-center boom, with Perry walking through how these systems vacuum up personal information without serious oversight—or anything resembling informed consent. He laid out the amendments he’s been pushing and made the less glamorous point that actually matters...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Theodore Dalrymple examines how fear of illness, expanding diagnoses, and institutional incentives reshape the way people understand themselves. He questions weak medical claims and psychological labels that turn ordinary struggles into disorders, arguing that sound judgment and personal responsibility remain essential to healthy human agency...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Allegations that a teacher singles out and disparages a conservative eighth grader at a nationally ranked Florida school raise questions about parental rights, classroom debate, and political bias. True educational excellence requires teachers to protect students’ dignity and cultivate independent thought across differences in belief...

The Tenpenny Files – When teenagers question their identity, Maria Keffler urges parents to examine the influences around them. She discusses schools, social media, medical guidance, and the importance of calm conversations at home, while offering practical ways to maintain trust, ask questions, and set clear boundaries...

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Trump’s support among Black voters faces a test as 2024 enthusiasm cools. Rev. Damien Thaddeus Jones urges Republicans to address offensive conduct, listen beyond election season, and earn trust through service. He challenges Americans to reject political labels and treat their neighbors with dignity and respect...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – 1619 Project writer learns the hard way the failing lesson of Socialism. She offered up her daughter’s education to better the experience of Black students in city schools. “So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?” Najya yelled during one of their fights, according to the essay. “Because other kids are...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Comedian Lou Perez considers how audiences turn violence into a cause at Luigi: The Musical and in reactions to Lindsay Clancy. His conversation examines health insurance grievances, costly care, opioid treatment, and the limits of sympathy when public anger obscures the people harmed by violence...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – School personnel began referring to the girl by a male name and using male pronouns without the parents’ knowledge. When the parents discovered what was happening, they strongly objected to what was transpiring behind their back. A school counselor reported the parents to the MA Department of Children and Families...

Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Modern feminism and cultural pressures challenge motherhood, fatherhood, and family identity. Parents face competing messages about authority, truth, and responsibility, while faith and marriage come under scrutiny. Defending family life begins at home with courage, conviction, and adults who guide children through an uncertain world...

The Tenpenny Files – Denise Shick explores how trauma, family relationships, and cultural influences intersect with children’s questions about gender identity. Drawing on her personal experiences and Christian ministry, she encourages parents to listen closely, understand their children’s struggles, and approach difficult conversations with compassion, faith, and honest curiosity...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The judge said the policy failed to provide discernible criteria for what programs would be considered DEI initiatives and likely to lose funding. She further chastised the department for failing to consider the impact of canceling the grants on those who relied upon the funding. “The Directive does not acknowledge the fact that thousands of teachers...

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Terrorism evolves as institutional activism spreads ideology and technology lowers barriers to political violence. Decentralized threats challenge defenses built to dismantle organized networks. Preventing attacks requires stronger detection, accountability, and protection while preserving constitutional freedoms and restoring the core responsibilities of schools, media, and...

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – Autism and gender diversity intersect in ways that raise questions for parents. Understanding each child’s individual experience encourages thoughtful support. Open communication, careful assessment, and informed guidance help families navigate identity, puberty, and emotional needs while ensuring children feel heard, respected, supported, and consistently loved...