Is Europe worse off than the United States economically? If the EU does collapse, will it take another form? Is the Green Movement based on junk science?

In a recent interview, James Delingpole provides a different perspective on the future of the EU and the dangers of the modern Green Movement.

While many people originally thought creating a European super-state would avert war, James Delingpole believes it has had the opposite effect. “Like the Titanic, the ship is doomed,” he explains. A journalist for the London Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, Delingpole asserts that Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has been a disaster for conservatives – no Margaret Thatcher by any means.

In his recent book, Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors, Delingpole argues that the Green Movement is the “greatest threat Western Civilization has ever known.” With activists taking the moral high ground, and scientists distorting scientific facts, the circumstances are dangerous. President Obama has neglected to look at the cost-benefit analysis of the Green Movement, and has wasted $38.6 billion of taxpayer money by investing in clean energy start-ups.

So is the EU destined to decline? And is the Green Movement a dangerous ideology? To hear explanations for these questions and more, watch the full interview below.

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Is the United States government considered a republic?

Paul Rahe thinks so – and asserts, “The modern nation state is an attempt to capture what the ancient Greeks and Romans had.”

Our federal government has gone through a massive shift in the last six decades, leaving us with less public discourse and more control at the federal level – which Paul Rahe argues has left Americans feeling anxious with no way to influence the government.

In our most recent episode, Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, compares the US government to the ancient republics and explores how this applies to our current place in history.

The US Constitution has been co-opted to shield government agencies from the public. As a result, we now have a consolidated government with far too much control over private institutions. The recent developments in the EPA and the new regulations set up for ObamaCare are just a few easy examples of the extreme federal overreach coming out of the Obama Administration.

What’s the good news? Rahe argues that the administrative entitlement state is coming to an end.

To hear more about the past, present, and future role of the federal government, watch the full interview below.

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“One of Barack Obama’s great gifts is the ability to say things that are absolutely absurd and make them sound not only plausible, but inspiring.”

President Obama is spreading poverty – not wealth – around the country by attacking the people who are creating wealth in the first place. As economist Thomas Sowell argues, raising taxes only encourages people to keep their wealth and jobs overseas. Barack Obama’s belief that individuals in certain professions should be taxed less than others is nothing more than clever ludicrousness.

In our recent episode, Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, discusses everything from his life, the President, and class warfare to similarities between Marxists and Occupy Wall Street protestors. In this interview, Sowell reflects on the leading Republicans of our time and the Tea Party’s ability to restore sanity in Washington next year.

Has Barack Obama’s time in office surprised you? Sowell isn’t surprised at all – he explains that “Barack Obama has followed policies which have ruined the economy. He has followed foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies.” While Obama takes credit for killing Osama bin Laden, in reality special ops forces found and killed him based on interrogations at Guantanamo.  Interrogations which the President vehemently opposed throughout his campaign.

To learn more about Thomas Sowell’s political insights and his recent book, The Thomas Sowell Reader, watch the full interview below.

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The Declaration and the Constitution have been thrown out the window by the Obama Administration.

There’s no doubt that these are two of the most impressive and influential documents in history.  The founding fathers of our country provided a framework for democracy that has stood the test of time. And yet when it comes to actual governing, that framework seems to have been forgotten.  It deserves to be revisited.

On our most recent episode, Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, asserts, “Our government needs to have a different character than it does today.” In the interview, Larry Arnn evaluates whether or not Paul Ryan’s plan and George W. Bush’s foreign policy decisions would be considered “constitutional” from a technical standpoint. And he expresses concern that the quality of our government is diminishing with each passing second.

What do you think?  Should politicians strictly abide by the principles laid out by the Declaration and the Constitution? Is the President?  What about your favorite candidate – are his or her positions in adherence to our Constitution?

To hear Larry Arnn’s interpretation of modern politics and more, watch the full interview below.

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“Approximately one-fourth of government spending goes towards healthcare.” And it is our responsibility to fix a broken system.

What’s the first step? The full repeal of ObamaCare.

Congressman Paul Ryan argues that what is needed is increased choice and competition in healthcare. It’s time to turn ideas into policy, and transition from a benefit-oriented system to a market-based system.

So what is stopping us from repealing ObamaCare?  Many people recognize that Obama’s health care law is inherently flawed.  In fact, ObamaCare even dismantles basic programs related to health savings laws.

Paul Ryan, representing Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, met with Hoover Institution to discuss why Obama’s health care law isn’t working and why we need to replace it. To hear more of Paul Ryan’s argument, watch the full episode below.

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Why are so many scientific experts atheists? Is it because of their desire for power, their sole acceptance of physical theories, or mere denial?

Contrary to what many people think, science and religion are not always mutually exclusive. Many laws of the universe are actually consistent with Judeo-Christian beliefs.

In his recent book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, Dr. David Berlinski challenges everything from Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to the Big Bang Theory. Do these theories lack sufficient evidence? Interestingly, Berlinski identifies a conspiracy among members of the academic world as the reason for evolution’s popularity.

How can we answer the question of what exists? If there were a God, how could the Holocaust have happened? To hear answers to these difficult questions and more, watch the full interview below.

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It’s widely known that the media has a liberal bias. But how do we prove it exists?

Tim Groseclose, political scientist and Professor of American Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles, has proven that this liberal bias does in fact exist. His method – called “Political Quotient” – uses statistical research to compare media outlets and the political leanings of Americans.

How liberal is the media? In his book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, Groseclose reveals which media companies are more liberal than others. After examining 20 news outlets, 15 were more liberal than the average American. Surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal was not excluded from having a liberal bias.

Does the media’s liberal bias affect how people vote? Without a doubt. Groseclose argues that media bias “aids democratic candidates 8 to 10 percentage points in general elections.”

To learn more about how to combat and expose liberal media bias, watch the full interview below.

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“By the middle of the 21^st century, the output of China and India will account for almost 60 percent. The US and Europe by then will each account for 10 percent. It will be a very different world in terms of economic power.”

Michael Spence, Nobel Prize winner and professor of Economics at NYU, discusses the factors that led to the United States’ rise to power, and the causes of its economic and political downfall. Michael Spence argues that growth in the developing world is no longer an economic issue, but a governance issue.  And despite China’s rapid state-led growth, he asserts that “democracy is still alive.”

How will the US respond to rising powers like China and India? In The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, Michael Spence predicts that the US will lose its dominance but will persevere, much like the British after the Industrial Revolution. Global power is not a zero sum game.

To learn more about the future economic and political power of the US, China, and India, watch the full interview below.

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Big Government’s very own Andrew Breitbart stopped by our studio recently to discuss his latest book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World.   Check out the episode below to learn more about his days as a liberal parrot and how his father-in-law’s suggestion to actually listen to Rush Limbaugh helped him see the light of day.

It was after a few months of listening that Breitbart discovered that (shocker!) Rush was not a racist, sexist homophobe, but in fact a journalist who, using AM radio of all things, spent every day painting a vivid picture of the Democrat Media Complex.  Rush was analyzing the source material of the world (NY Times, NBC, etc) and exposing it as the front line of the political battle.  Main stream media used “objectivity” as their greatest weapon.

Breitbart goes on to describe the new media revolution (starting with Matt Drudge in 1995) and explain his hope for the future.  He wants the center-right nation to fight for its soul.  To commit to the battle in the media with the same force and excellence as NPR and Jon Stewart.

Andrew talks about co-creating the Huffington Post so that the left would have a home online (and grant source material to conservatives).  And when asked who’s winning, he admits that while the Left still controls the money, the Right is winning tactically.  His goal with every story is to aim it straight at MSM, to dare them to cover his news.  And it seems to be working.

Check out the full interview, here.

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Margaret Thatcher nearly singlehandedly restored Britain from its cradle-to-grave welfare state to a thriving economy.  She believed that the socialism of her day was incompatible with the strong, productive, self-reliant, moral citizens she wanted the British people to be, and that freedom (economic and personal) was the only solution.  Her conservatism was a moral stance, not a technocratic one.

Our latest guest, author and journalist Claire Berlinski, talks about the Iron Lady, why she matters and what she stood for.  She suggests that were Thatcher and President Obama to meet, the former Prime Minister would “eat him for lunch.”  Even more surprisingly, Berlinski takes offense to the notion that Sarah Palin might be compared to Thatcher.  What are their similarities? “Sarah Palin is a woman; she’s from a small town; she’s a conservative.  The comparison ends there.”

Berlinski goes on to discuss her past 6 years living in Istanbul, moderate Muslims and moderate Islam, and why Americans should be paying more attention to Turkey.

Watch the full episode below:

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Is environmentalism the new socialism?

In this installment of “Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson” Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus goes after Al Gore and the political expediency of the anthropogenic global warming movement:

Watch out for these highlights:

“I don’t believe that he’s that much interested either in science or in economics of global warming… as a typical politician he simply understood the idea of global warming is an excellent political idea.”

“The politicians have been searching for such a beautiful idea [global warming] for decades, and the finally found that idea.”

“We are talking about two ideologies, and in this respect they are structurally very similar:
they are against individual freedom, they are in favor of central(ized) masterminding of our fates, they are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behaveve, what to eat, how to travel, what we can do and what we cannot do and so on.  There is a huge similarity in this respect.” (more…)