Radio Live: 3/31/17 | Inside the Beltway, PS Report 50, Ryancare, Gorsuch

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar talk Ryancare, VP Pence, Gorsuch Confirmation, and more! Today we also welcome two new regular contributors: D.C. Director Rebekah Gantner's "Inside the Beltway" report and Research Director Jordan Henry's weekly Friday segment on "50 Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report."

Is History Education A Thing Of The Past?

Each of the core subjects play an important part in a child’s education. Science teaches students how to think critically and analyze how the world around us works. Math teaches students logic and basic computation. English teaches students how to communicate and read. However, new research shows that history is quickly been pushed off in many public schools. A study from Perspectives on History magazine found that 88 percent of elementary school teachers consider teaching history to be a low priority. The sad reason for this is simple: teachers are forced to teach for the benefit of standardized tests, not for the benefit of students. History simply is not a tested Common Core standard in the early grades. Thus, elementary school teachers push history education further and further onto the horizon until young students fall hopelessly behind. This is why the curriculum of the public school system should belong to the parents, who always put the needs of the children first in the educational experience.

Radio Live: 3/30/2017 | Court Watch, Sanctuary Cities, Patents

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar talk about Trump Administration policy and tackle key issues facing our nation today. Andy Schlafly gives a Court Watch update; Woody Woodrum talks sanctuary cities and conservative activism in California; Jim Edwards discusses the battle to defend patents and intellectual property in D.C.

Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: What’s Still Wrong with “Equal Rights” For Women

Tornadoes are created by a unique collision between systems of warm and cold air in only the most select of circumstances. Likewise, February 1972 created the ideal conditions for a “perfect storm” that would alter the course of American history forever. Standing in the eye of that storm was a dynamic woman named Phyllis Schlafly. When she wrote the February 1972 issue of the Phyllis Schlafly Report, she did not know that she was going to lead a movement against an overwhelming congressional majority, several acting presidents and their wives, the media, big donors, and a horde of “radical women’s libbers.” However, she still wrote her very first article on the subject as though it would be her last. Each point in the article was a point that she would employ throughout her campaign, and that we can still employ today. Just because the ERA was declared dead by the courts on December 23, 1981 does not mean we do not have to deal with the same ol’ liberal lines today.

DeToqueville Admires Our Christianity

Alexis de Toqueville is a name well-known to educated Americans as a remarkable Frenchman who traveled our country in the mid-19th century and wrote his perceptive commentaries about what kind of country we had formed. His book, published in 1835 after nine months of traveling, was called Democracy in America. It has been described as "the most comprehensive ... analysis of character and society in America ever written."

Here are some words of wisdom from Alexis de Toqueville's book, which I think would be appropriate on the day after the great Christian feast of Easter: "Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention.... In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united." Alexis de Toqueville continued: "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.... They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion."

Then, in Book Two of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville added this: "Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America.... In the United States ... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it."

This is just more confirmation of the fact that the people who created America believed in their right and duty to call upon Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ in all kinds of public places and events.

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Radio Live: 3/29/2017 | Trade, Sanctuary Cities, Clinton Russian Deals

Hosts Cherilyn Eagar and Ed Martin talk on hot topics. Trump reverses Obama's energy regulations; New information on Obama-Clinton uranium deals with Russia. John Schlafly joins the show to discuss his latest column "Sessions Warns Sanctuary Cities."

Hate Group or Hated Group?

University liberals and the truth have a tenuous relationship at best on many campuses. However, one liberal group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has gone so far as to call a conservative student group a “hate group” in order to remove the conservative voice from campus. The Student Coalition for Progress pushed a petition to label the school’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom a “hate group” whose efforts “create a hostile environment on campus.” Of course, that could not be further from the truth. Young Americans for Freedom is nothing more than a conservative student group that seeks to share an alternative viewpoint on a predominantly liberal campus. They do this by hosting conservative speakers and debates about political topics relevant to students.