What would have happened if the North had lost at Gettysburg? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and reveal how important the outcome of this battle was - and almost wasn't.

Will Egypt become a country in chaos? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the current crisis in Egypt and to predict what will happen there and what the U.S. should do.

Americans have specific rights about government intrusion. Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to discuss recent debate of of whether the government has crossing the line between our privacy and our security.

Is total safety worth lack of privacy? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to defend the NSA establishment, while Jim warns that the danger is not the NSA, but the politicians who may use our information improperly in the name of security.

What happens when Big Data and Big Government get together? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the potential dangers of allowing the federal government to have unfettered access to the private digital information of citizens.

What was so different about that 30 day period in 1864? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the Civil War's Overland Campaign was so important to the outcome of the war, and how he reported this period as a historically accurate novel.

What similarities are in evidence between Civil War politics and current politics? Ralph Peters joins Jim Blasingame to discuss his new novel, Hell or Richmond, and offer evidence of how politics have changed little in 150 years.