This Week: The RFW Team

Merry Christmas from the Radio Free Washington Team! This week we revisit some more of our favorite moments from the past year. We also get a chance to talk with Mike Reitz about what Christmas is like at the Capital. Don't miss this very special Christmas Holiday show!

Guests: The RFW Team

Host: Steven Maggi	Technical Producer / Audio Engineer: Gregg Santee	Producer: Stephanie Lund

This Week: Don Argue and William Gray

*UPDATE* - Due to a recent emergency, Mike Huckabee was unable to join us. We will be rescheduling for early 2010, so stay tuned! Our new guest, along with William Gray, will be Dr. Don Argue.

Guest: Dr. Don Argue

Topic: International Religious Freedom

Bio: Dr. Don Argue, ed. D., is the former President of North Central University in Minneapolis, MN and Northwest University in Kirkland, WA, where he now serves as the chancellor. President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright invited Dr. Argue to serve on the President's Advisory Committee on International Religious Freedom, for which he chaired the subcommittee dealing with international religious persecution.

Guest: William Gray

Topic: Follow up on Climate Change

Bio: Gray is currently a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and has been with the college since 1961. Previous meteorological experience includes being a research assistant for the Department of Meteorology at the University of Chicago, and weather forecast duty as an Air Force Officer.

This Week: Chris Horner

Guest: Chris Horner

Topic: Climate Gate – Lies Revealed

Bio: Christopher C. Horner serves as a Senior Fellow at CEI. As an attorney in Washington, DC Horner has represented CEI as well as scientists and Members of the U.S. House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts including the Supreme Court. He has written on numerous topics in publications ranging from law reviews to legal and industrial trade journals, and is the author of two best-selling books: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Regnery, 2008) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Regnery, 2007), which spent half of 2007 on the New York Times bestseller list.

This Week: Charles Stein

Guest: Charles Stein

Topic: Charles Stein will share his amazing story.

Bio: Charles Stein is an Austrian-born Jew who lived in Vienna during the 1938 Nazi takeover. A medical student, Charles was forced to drop out of school as his world turned upside down.  He fled to the United States, not knowing the fate of his family. Stein arrived in the U.S. only to join the army and head back across the Atlantic to defend European freedom; his service took him from Normandy to the Czech border.

This Week: The RFW Team

This week is special, the Radio Free Washington Team will be sitting down to talk about the beginning of RFW and to take a listen to some of our favorite moments from previous shows. Join us for the special Thanksgiving Holiday show!

Guests: The RFW Team

Host: Steven Maggi	Technical Producer /Audio Engineer: Gregg Santee	Producer: Stephanie Lund

This Week: Floyd Brown

Guest: Floyd Brown

Topic: What's happening in today's political climate and exposeobama.com.

Bio: Floyd Brown is a writer, speaker and broadcaster. He is also the founder of exposeobama.com. Time magazine said: “Brown has stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.).” He is president of Excellentia Inc., a consulting company specializing in communications strategy and the marketing of ideas.

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This Week: Cary Condotta and Mike Schindler

Guest: Rep. Cary Condotta

Topic: Boeing’s decision to move their 787 line to South Carolina.

Bio: Rep. Cary Condotta, serving his fourth term as a 12th District representative, represents the central Washington counties of Chelan and Douglas as well as parts of Grant and Okanogan counties. Cary was awarded the 2007 Business Star Award by the statewide business roundtable, United for Washington, for his work in the Legislature to improve the state's business climate and encourage business growth. He also received the 2007 "Legislator of the Year" award from the Washington State Farm Bureau for his work on land use and property rights issues before the Legislature.

Guest: Mike Schindler

Topic: Operation Military Family.

Bio: Michael Schindler spent the early part of his childhood growing up on Elmendorf Air Force Base where his dad was employed by the Alaskan Air Command as an engineer. His dad later transferred to the Army Corp of Engineers and Mike spent the next fifteen years under the continued influence of men and women in uniform. Michael enlisted in the US Navy where he experienced the culture of Singapore, Japan, Philippines and parts of Malaysia. Through his personal experiences in the military and his exposure to the hardships of long deployments on servicemen and women and their families, Mike began to see firsthand the need for marriage support services. Years later, those experiences led Michael to found Operation Military Family. As an inspirational speaker and trainer he is a strong advocate and promoter of what our government and our military is doing “right” because, as he is known to say, “the media does a great job of pointing out what isn’t going so right.”

This Week: Victor Davis Hanson

Guest: Victor Davis Hanson
Topic: President Obama, the State of Education, Military History, and Pop Culture.

Bio: Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a classicist and an expert on the history of war. A regular contributor to National Review Online and many other national and international publications, he has written or edited sixteen books, including theNew York Times bestseller Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. His most recent book is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2007.