What do evangelical voters want in their president?

That’s what Fox News has been asking all day in the cable news channel’s promos for tomorrow night’s McCain/Obama face off at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in California.

This ought to be interesting. Christians are solidly anti abortion, first and foremost. Barack Obama voted three times while a state senator to allow late term abortions, including partial birth. You know, the kind that wrap a gurgling infant in paper and stick it in a broom closet to die if the poor thing survives the abortion procedure. Another word for it is infanticide or fetal homicide. (Obama has received an A+ rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood.)

Religious conservatives believe marriage is a sacred pledge between a man and a woman, thus are vehemently against same-sex marriage.

So… in anticipation of tomorrow night’s “Saddleback Showdown”, we’ve invited Deal Hudson, director of Inside Catholic, an online journal for Catholics, to join us tonight to talk about the candidates, their records and actions on behalf of Christianity.

Deal Hudson was with us last March to report on the Pope’s activities during his visit to the United States. We enjoyed Deal’s observations then, and expect he’ll be just as interesting and informative tonight.

Join us — we get started at 9 p.m. ET — and get prepped for the big showdown.

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Cell phones. How did we get along without them?

I remember my first — a mobile phone that weighed at least five pounds. It was a company phone, assigned to me when NASA returned the space shuttles to flight status. We had learned our lesson after the Challenger disaster when in the ensuing panic, all phone lines went into overload. No calls in. No calls out.

This black Motorola brick that I carried around in its accompanying black shoulder-strapped case gave me unprecedented communication ability with my corporate counterparts, which was essential in the event of — God forbid — another space shuttle disaster.

What a novelty it was to talk on it while driving! The handset was much like our home phones — or “landlines” as they’re now called. An antenna affixed to my car’s exterior gave me extended range, and I was looking for excuses to use it!

Fast forward twenty years and today’s mobile phones are palm-sized and multi-functional in ways we couldn’t have imagined in 1988. And they are ubiquitous.

Now we learn that cell phone usage could increase our risk of cancer.

Dr. Ronald Heberman, director of the U of Pitt Cancer Institute, recently warned cell phone users to limit their usage. He’s basing his claim on early data that contradicts studies that have not found a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public “lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration”.

Tonight we’ll explore those claims with Shelly Kalnitsky, who’s taking the warning seriously, and has created a device called Waveshield. He says the device reduces the emission of cell phone radiation up to 97%, and has similar devices for portable home phones too.

After the interview, we’ll talk about today’s top stories and I’ll take your calls.

The show begins at 9 p.m. ET and you can listen to it live, or later in the archive. Hit the button below to get there.

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The World Bank. What do you know about it? Well, if you’re like me, probably not much. So, that’s why I’ve invited Steve Berkman — who worked at the World Bank — to join us tonight on my radio program. He’s just written a blistering expose about this bloated and corrupt organization that is spending billions of our tax dollars to “alleviate poverty”.

With sixteen years experience as a member of and consultant to the Bank, Steve uses fraud investigations, internal reports and project documents to uncover deception and conflicting agendas as billions are wasted each year on ill-conceived programs, dysfunctional government institutions and foreign officials with a history of looting national treasuries.

His book is titled The World Bank and The Gods of Lending. Join me as we learn about the World Bank, how it got started, who was behind it then, and who’s been robbing it blind now.

We get started at 9 p.m. ET — hit the button and join us.

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DURING HITLER’S REIGN, there was a man who during World War II was called “the Fuhrer of the Arab world” and whose dangerous legacy lives on today.

It is said that an understanding of history is a critical predicate to the future. It applies here.

In 1921, the British appointed the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the middle East to be the mufti of Jerusalem.

His name is Haj Amin al-Husseini and he was a vicious anti-Semite who incited riots against Jewish settlers. He was eventually forced out, only to make his way to the country whose legions he desperately wanted to join: Nazi Germany. He ingratiated himself with Hitler, and encouraged the “Final Solution”.

After the war, al-Husseini escaped charges of war crimes and fled to Egypt. His standing rose and he became mentor to a new generation of radical Islamic leaders. Foremost among them — Yasser Arafat.

Tonight we’ll hear the fascinating story that connects us to the Islamic Jihadists we now face. John Rothmann, co-author of ICON OF EVIL, Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam will tell us of the link between al-Husseini and current contemporary events — notably the execution of journalist Daniel Pearl.

We’ll get underway at 9 p.m. ET, and you’re invited to join us. Come, get smarter. Just hit the button below.

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Some of Washington’s best and brightest conservative writers can be found at The American Spectator, a daily online magazine (often mentioned by el Rushbo who frequently includes it in his “stack of stuff’) that features conservative perspectives and analyses on the day’s events and issues.

ON THE RADIO! Tonight at 9 ET we’ll be talking to two of these sharp political writers.

Robert Stacy McCain asks the question: Is there a clear reason for Republicans’ defeatist mood? His take… not quite. A Rasmussen Presidential polling shows the candidates are head-to-head.

“Despite the dispirited state of the GOP, the ideological muddling of the McCain campaign, and the media accolades for Obama, it is far from a foregone conclusion that Hope and Change will triumph Nov. 4.”

“Obamamaniacs were thrilled by last month’s Newsweek poll showing their candidate ahead by 15 points. Alas for the apostles of Hope, either that poll was a statistical mirage or else the mass movement toward Obama quickly receded, and Newsweek reported last week that his lead is now an insignificant 3 percentage points.”

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Midway through the program, Philip Klein will join us to add to the conversation. He was quoted this week in USA TODAY’s article on controversial The New Yorker magazine cover. Philip also attended Senator Obama’s Iraq speech in D.C. and will give us his take on the man and the speech. What’s the worst that could happen?

Tonight he’ll lay it out for us. Just click the button below at 9 to join us.

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TONIGHT — ED AMES joins us on my internet radio program. We’re on at 9 p.m. ET and you can listen LIVE by clicking here. (The link will stay alive in archive if you miss the show and want to listen to it later).

You remember Ed. He played “Mingo” in the Daniel Boone series.

He’s also well known for his singing carer with his brothers, a group appropriately named “The Ames Brothers”.

Ed Ames is one of the rare Hollywood Conservatives you don’t often hear about.

Coincidentally, Scott Johnson at Powerline yesterday posted about the toxic anti-conservative environment in today’s Hollywood:

“Andrew Breitbart helps hold down the fort at the Drudge Report while running Breitbart.com. He observes the entertainment industry from his home in the Los Angeles area. In a terrific Washington Times column, Andrew decries the existence of the new Hollywood blacklist. Comparing the old Hollywood blacklist with the new, Andrew has previously observed:

“My father-in-law, Orson Bean, an author, comedian and actor, was once blacklisted as a Communist back in the ’50s. Ed Sullivan called him to say he could no longer book him on the show. Fifty years later, and after a sharp ideological metamorphosis, Orson says it’s harder now to be an open conservative on a Hollywood set than it was back then to be a Communist.”

Ed Ames knows all about it.

We discussed it over drinks when we met in November 2006 at David Horowitz’ Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, FL. Former radio show co-host and actor Mark Vance (pictured at left in the Circle Room at the Palm Beach Breakers Hotel with Ames) did a couple of episodes of Daniel Boone with Ed.

Tonight we’ll get Hollywood actor Ed Ames’ perspective and observations on the Hollywood Left and its politics. Join us for a fascinating chat with the man who gave Johnny Carson his funniest bit — The Tomahawk. Watch it at The Radio Patriot now. And join us tonight!

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In response to Obama’s claim that Republicans will use race to stoke fear, Lt. Col Allen West, candidate for Congress in Florida’s 22 District (Broward County) said this:

My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a Presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone…however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements.

It also seems rather humorous that the Presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a “uniter” and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need to create a crutch for failure. Senator Obama has just tipped his hand, any criticism of him and his policies will be directly attributed to racism. I congratulate Senator Obama for taking race relations in America back some 30 years.

West has faced down the world’s terrorists: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was battalion commander for the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and in Afghanistan, where he trains Afghan officers to take on the responsibility of securing their own country.

In 2004, when it was time to retire from more than twenty years of service in the US Army, he brought his wife and two young daughters to Broward County, Florida, where he taught high school. He then returned to Afghanistan as an advisor to the Afghan army, an assignment he finished in November 2007.

In his Army career, Col. West has been honored many times, including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals (one with Valor), and a Valorous Unit Award. He received his valor award as a Captain in Desert Shield/Storm, was the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year in 1993, and was a Distinguished Honor Graduate III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas Air Assault School.

Tonight at 9 pm ET, we’ll spend some time with Col. West, getting his views on the War, our dependence on foreign oil, illegal immigration, Israel, Iraq, and Congress’ dismal approval rating, today at an all time low of 9%.

Join us. Click the link below …

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OBAMA’S PAL BILL AYERS WIPES HIS SHOES ON OUR FLAG. And he did it while hangin’ with “LeBron, baby”.

The blog swarm began with Marathon Pundit’s post last night. Picked up by Michelle Malkin, it has gone viral. We’re kicking it up a notch with this post. TWD said he’d been waiting for a shoe to drop on Obama this weekend, causing Barack Hussein to stumble in the Indiana and N.C. primaries tomorrow. ThirdWaveDave had no idea how prophetic his instincts were. The shoe dropped, alright. Right on Old Glory.

The political bloggers are ALL OVER IT. Now let’s see how long it takes the mainstream media and the radio talkers to bring it forward to the rest of America. Barack’s buddy — still crapping on America.

It’ll be the topic of discussion on my show tonight. Douglas V. Gibbs joins me for the full hour before hosting his show immediately following (see post below). Doors open at 9p ET. “A Conversation with Andrea… on Blog Talk Radio”

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