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This weekend, Glen talks about the middle east, the U.S. economy, and the U.S. debt ceiling.  Glen also talks with Rick Santorum about his campaign to become the GOP Presidential nominee, Karen Lugo about the spread of Sharia law in the United States, and Tim Hayes about the importance [...]

GRAHAM: The option that the country has chosen through President Obama is to withdraw 10,000 this year, all surge forces gone by September. Is it fair to say, General Allen, that was not one of the options presented to the president by General Petraeus?
ALLEN: It is a more aggressive option than that which was presented.
GRAHAM: [...]

Please Remember and be Thankful

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

To all who have served in our nation’s armed forces, thank you!  You and your families have given so much to protect the United States of America.
On this weekend’s radio program, Glen talks about our great military, and remembers the many Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who have made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve freedom and [...]

By Glen Meakem

via Guardian.co.uk. US navy Seals on a night mission in the Middle East. Seal Team 6, which killed Osama bin Laden, is a secret elite unit that works closely with the CIA. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
If you study history, you realize that every once in a while, an event occurs that [...]

This weekend, Glen talks with Bob Fragasso – Founder and CEO of Fragasso Financial Advisors – and Andrei Voicu – Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Fragasso Financial – about the possible economic effects of the ongoing crisis in Japan.  All of us at “Glen Meakem on the Weekend” and Fragasso Financial extend our [...]

By Glen Meakem

Each weekend, I strive to bring you rational, intelligent, news and opinion on my radio program.
This weekend, I talk with one of America’s top entrepreneurs, Ed Stack – Chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods – about success in business and entrepreneurship. I also talk about the failure of over-regulation and government led [...]

“Frustration is a persistent feeling for those of us who study and record the horrors of 20th century communism, as we see those horrors ignored repeatedly by our illustrious ‘scholars’ in the academy—and by people who erect statues to Stalin on American soil. … Can’t we learn anything from history? If Russians today can deconstruct the legacy of lies erected by Stalin to build up himself, then we Americans today can cease to erect monuments to the man on our own soil.”

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner [...]