America’s Morning News

In case you didn’t tune into The Washington Times’ nationally syndicated radio show “America’s Morning News” - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - here’s what three of Wednesday’s guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin:

- A.W.R. Hawkins, professor of history at West Texas A&M; University: For the secular President Obama, the war against terrorism is an “overseas contingency operation” disconnected from the religion-based motivations of the extremists, Mr. Hawkins said. For the extremists, he continued, the war is a religious expression of jihad, for which they are prepared to die.

- Jim Frogue, director of state policy at the Center for Health Transformation: Mr. Frogue said Uncle Sam has forked over tens of billions of dollars in questionable Medicare claims and the fraud is growing worse by the day. To his credit, President Obama next week will convene a panel to wrestle with long-standing Medicare abuse, he added.

- Christina Perozzi, co-author of “The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer”: Known as the “beer chick” in California, Ms. Perozzi told listeners to request a glass when ordering an expensive bottled beer to allow the brew to “air” as a fine wine would. Also, don’t buy pitchers of beer (“too much carbonation,” she said), and never be shy to order a half-pint if you don’t feel like a pint.