Tomorrow morning, Friday, December 27th, I will guest host for Ben Ferguson on 820, WBAP Radio in Dallas from 9:00-11:00 a.m. central. The station carries Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

  

Plus, I will be filling in for Ben on Monday, December 30th and Tuesday, December 31st from 9:00-11:00 a.m. as well as for Chris Krok from 8:00 p.m.-midnight on Monday, December 30th and Tuesday, December 31st.

 

You can  listen live to me from anywhere. Join the conversation by calling 1.800.288.9227. 

 

Here is my tentative line-up.

 

Friday, December 27th

9:00 a.m.: I'll talk with Kelly Shackelford, President of the Liberty Institute, about a series of hostile actions against Christians as noted in the stories below. He was just featured as a guest by Glenn Beck last night.

VETERANS AFFAIRS BANS CHRISTMAS CARDS TO TROOPS OVER RELIGIOUS CONTENT

According to the Liberty Institute, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is refusing to allow school children to give Christmas cards to veterans if those cards say "Merry Christmas" or "God bless you." Religious liberty lawyers have sent the VA a letter demanding they immediately lift the ban.

Susan Chapman is a teacher at Grace Academy of North Texas and, at a parent's suggestion, organized a project for students to take cards to wounded military veterans to thank them and cheer them up during the holidays. She attempted to deliver those cards to a VA hospital in Dallas on Dec. 22. However, VA staff reportedly stopped her when she entered the facility, telling her that gifts or messages with religious content were not permitted by VA policy.

"It is so sad that the VA is sending a message to our children that after all the veterans have done to fight for freedom across the world, the children have no freedom to say Merry Christmas to these honorable men and women," Chapman said.

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Here's the Liberty Institute release.

JUDGE FORCES CROSS TO BE TORN DOWN AT MT. SOLEDAD

The Liberty Institute and their client, the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association, filed an appeal of last week's district court ruling, in which a judge ordered the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross to be torn down. Liberty Institute vows to fight this case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

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AUSTIN STUDENTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS

The Liberty Institute and Texas Values submitted a letter of explanation to Austin ISD administrators who discouraged members of the Anderson High School Choir from singing Christmas carols and other holiday songs at private homes in the community. The letter assures administrators that it is constitutional for students to engage in private speech through singing religious songs.

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An Augusta, Georgia hospital has adopted a new policy banning Christmas carolers from singing religious songs in public patient areas.

The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center announced the new policy Monday according to the Athens-Banner Herald."Military service veterans, male and female, represent people of all faiths," hospital spokesman Brian Rothwell said in a statement according to Athens-Banner Herald. 

"It is out of respect for every faith that The Veterans Administration gives clear guidance on what 'spiritual care' is to be given and who is to give it."

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10:00 a.m.:

LIBERAL COMMERCIAL TALK RADIO DISAPPEARS IN NYC, L.A. & SAN FRAN

2014 will mark the beginning of a massive change for liberal talk radio across the country. In New York, WWRL 1600 AM will flip to Spanish-language music and talk, throwing Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and Alan Colmes off the air. 

In Los Angeles, KTLK 1150 will be dumping Stephanie Miller, Rhodes, Bill Press and David Cruz off the air in favor of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. In San Francisco, KNEW 960 will leave Miller, Hartmann, and Mike Malloy without a radio home in the market.

Thanks to radio consolidation and the secondary status of leftist talk in major markets across the country, the final death knell for liberal talkers could be tolling.

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10:30 a.m.: I'll talk to a LAS VEGAS CABBIE WHO TURNED IN $300,000 BAG OF CASH!

Las Vegas cab driver Gerardo Gamboa thought someone left a bag of chocolates in the back seat last Monday. But this stash turned out to be cold hard cash.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Gamboa was making a pickup Monday at the Bellagio when a hotel doorman noticed the brown paper bag and handed it to him.

At a red light, the Checker Cab driver's curiosity got the best of him. To his surprise, he found six bundles of $100 bills totaling $300,000.

The newspaper reports that Gamboa called his dispatcher and took the money to the company's main office.

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9:00 a.m.: I'll talk to a WALL STREET ADVISOR WHO RECOMMENDS GUNS, AMMO FOR PROTECTION IN COLLAPSE.

A top financial advisor, worried that Obamacare, the NSA spying scandal and spiraling national debt is increasing the chances for a fiscal and social disaster, is recommending that Americans prepare a "bug-out bag" that includes food, a gun and ammo to help them stay alive.

David John Marotta, a Wall Street expert and financial advisor and Forbes contributor, said in a note to investors, "Firearms are the last item on the list, but they are on the list. There are some terrible people in this world. And you are safer when your trusted neighbors have firearms."

His memo is part of a series addressing the potential for a "financial apocalypse." His view, however, is that the problems plaguing the country won't result in armageddon. "There is the possibility of a precipitous decline, although a long and drawn out malaise is much more likely," said the Charlottesville, Va.-based president of Marotta Wealth Management.

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Read Marotta's original essay.

10:00 a.m. I'll talk with Kelly Lewman, a single mother from Oklahoma, who was set to sell an antique Raggedy Ann doll to catch up past due bills, especially her utility and car payments. People intervened and made $700 of donations to cover gas, electric and water which were about to be shut-off

WOMAN SURPRISED BY KINDNESS TRYING TO SELL RAGGEDY ANN DOLL

A local mother is going through some hard times and facing cutoff notices from utility companies.

The special needs teacher tried selling an antique doll on Facebook, hoping to catch up on her bills.

FOX23 Anchor Shae Rozzi showed us the response, and it was something she never saw coming.

This antique doll is known to most of us as Raggedy Ann, but to Kelly Cathcart Lewman of Sapulpa, she's now known as her saving grace.

FOX23 spoke to Lewman, "You've had a difficult time."

Lewman replies, "Yes, very much, just trying to make ends meet, my car is behind. I don't know when, I might lose the car. I just struggle to try to keep everything going."

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The saint-like image of a hooded woman looms out from the movie poster, her arms outstretched as a divine light bursts from the sky. A message written above is simple and unambiguous: "You Will Believe."

So goes the promotional campaign for the forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster Mary Mother of Christ. "It is a part of Mary, Joseph and Jesus's life that has not been shown on the big screen before," reads a synopsis. "Under the reign of terror of Herod the Great and, against all odds, they survive as young parents in one of the most treacherous times in history." It promises "faith-based high action drama" − and there is no room in the audience for doubting Thomases.

Mary Mother of Christ, whose title character will be played by Odeya Rush, a 16-year-old Israeli-born actress, is one of a series of unashamedly Christian biblical epics due to appear next year, marking an unprecedented overture by Hollywood to America's evangelical heartland.

In March audiences will be treated to Noah, a $150 million special effects-laden extravaganza, in which Russell Crowe will build an ark and rescue mankind from the Great Flood. Harry Potter actress Emma Watson will play his adopted daughter, and Sir Anthony Hopkins is portraying Methuselah. The ark was built on Long Island, New York.

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other stories:

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR STEALING TOYS DONATED TO NEIGHBORS

A Hyannis woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing toys that were donated through the Toys For Tots program.

On Christmas Eve, two neighbors say 49-year-old Janice Tully gave them a ride to pick up donated toys for their five children at the Barnstable Police Department and the Independence House.

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CNN POLL: GOP HAS EDGE IN EARLY MIDTERM INDICATOR

Democrats have lost their advantage and Republicans now have a slight edge in the battle for control of Congress, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/ORC International survey released Thursday also indicates that President Barack Obama may be dragging down Democratic congressional candidates, and that the 2014 midterm elections are shaping up to be a low-turnout event, with only three in 10 registered voters extremely or very enthusiastic about voting next year.

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NEW OBAMACARE FEES COMING IN 2014

Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.

The cost of President Obama's massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-tax bills.

Most insurers aren't advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead to discretely pass them on to customers while quietly lobbying lawmakers for a break.

But one insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, laid bare the taxes on its bills with a separate line item for "Affordable Care Act Fees and Taxes."

The new taxes on one customer's bill added up to $23.14 a month, or $277.68 annually, according to Kaiser Health News. It boosted the monthly premium from $322.26 to $345.40 for that individual.

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MANY COUNTIES HAVE ONLY PRICEY OBAMACARE PLANS

More than half of the counties in 34 states using the federal health insurance exchange lack even a bronze plan that's affordable - by the government's own definition - for 40-year-old couples who make just a little too much for financial assistance, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

Many of these counties are in rural, less populous areas that already had limited choice and pricey plans, but many others are heavily populated, such as Bergen County, N.J., and Philadelphia and Milwaukee counties.

More than a third don't offer an affordable plan in the four tiers of coverage known as bronze, silver, gold or platinum for people buying individual plans who are 50 or older and ineligible for subsidies.

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PR NIGHTMARE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVE.

Just when everything seems settled and people are starting to catch their breath, all of a sudden, it's back.

That's pretty much any disaster or monster movie. It's also the story of the Obamacare rollout the past few months. Over and over again, Obama administration officials have promised that they're finally getting everything under control.

Each time, they assure people, they've put whatever the latest problem was to bed. No more changes. No more surprises.

And then another arrives.

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SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR GETS BERETTA FROM SANTA

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley shared her high-powered Christmas present social media on Thursday -- a 9 mm Beretta PX4 Storm pistol.

The concealed-weapons permit holder is familiar with this type of gift.

Haley received the gun from her husband, Michael, who returned recently from a year-long military deployment to Afghanistan. her office said.

The PX4 Storm "delivers concealed carry handling with large frame firepower," according to the Beretta website. The $575 gun can hold up to 13 rounds of ammunition.

The present's presentation by the governor led to some strong reactions in social media.

Congratulations ("Another reason why I love South Carolina") were mixed with pleas for gun safety ("I will say a prayer for your family").

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MCDONALD'S SHUTTERS SITE THAT TOLD WORKERS HOW TO TIP AU PAIRS, TO AVOID EATING FAST FOOD

McDonald's has shut down a website intended to provide employees with work and life guidance after it generated negative publicity for the fast-food company.

The McResource program has been criticized for creating unrealistic budgets and offering advice that was out of touch with its workers' pay. The website, which was run by an outside company, also reportedly discouraged workers from eating fast food.

McDonald's, based in Oak Brook, Ill., said Thursday that it is having its vendor take down the website.

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