November 2010

You need to know this about airport security.  As public outrage grows over the airport x-ray body scanners – manufacturers of the machine are taking their fight to Capitol Hill.  In the last 5 years – body scanner manufacturers have more than doubled their lobbying expenses with lawmakers.  Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s Rapiscan Systems spent $80,000 lobbying Congress five years ago – this year they’ve spent almost $300,000.  And it’s working – the government has in turn given Chertoff’s company $41.2 million in contracts and the use of t

You need to know this about Afghanistan.  The old joke used to be that we couldn't bomb the country into the stone age, because most of it is already there.   It's one of the poorest countries in the world, only about a quarter of Afghans can read or write, and there's no national radio or TV infrastructure - large parts of the country don't even have electricity.  So when 9/11 happened here, nobody told the Afghans.

Quote of the Day:  "For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation." - President John F. Kennedy

Hour One: Afghanistan...we're killing them and they don't know why

Hour Two: Is Obama a one term President?

DiCaprio to star in JFK tale

Assassination story based on book 'Legacy of Secrecy'
By DAVE MCNARY

Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the feature "Legacy of Secrecy," based on the book about the John F. Kennedy assassination by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.