On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Tala Dowlatshahi of Reporters Without Borders shares her thoughts on the imprisonment of two American journalists in North Korea.

• Former KKK Grand Dragon Brian Tackett, author of Inside the Klu Klux Klan, says he’s a victim of discrimination due to his racist past. He’ll explain his case to Alan.

• Travel guru Rick Steves, whose latest book is Travel As A Political Act, discusses how tourism can make you a better American.…

Leading Evangelical: Obama Goes Beyond Tolerance For Gays, All The Way To Pride

The White House declared June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.  Forty years ago, in June 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York resisted police harassment, a seminal moment in the evolution of gay rights in America.  I can’t imagine this language coming from our previous administration:

Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days …

N. Korea Sentences Two US Journalists To 12 Years Hard Labor

Laura Ling (r) and Euna Lee (l) are being used as pawns in what former UN Ambassador and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson calls “a high stakes poker game,” as North Korea ramps up hostilities with the United States.  Ling and Lee report for Al Gore’s Current TV, and President Obama says he will use “all possible channels” to gain their release.  The women are accused of “hostility toward the Korean people.”

There are fears Pyongyang is using the women as bargaining chips as the U.N. debates a new resolution to punish the country for its defiant May …

Wichita Abortion Protestors Don’t Know What To Do With Themselves

Operation Rescue moved from California to Wichita seven years ago specifically to focus on George Tiller.  There were regular shifts outside Tiller’s clinic to plant crosses daily and tried to convince women not to enter.  But now, with his death, there are a bunch of activists in search of a target.   And what will become of the bloody “truth truck” that had a sign saying “Abortion is an ObamaNation”?

When blocking entrances to clinics became illegal in 1994, anti-abortion zealots took to hanging out at restaurants frequented by clinic workers, searching their trash for information, and showing up …

Welcome To Iraq, The Contractors’ Paradise

In a report out Wednesday, the Wartime Contracting Commission will show how tens of billions of dollars have spent in Iraq since 2001, most of it because of poor management, weak oversight, and failure to learn from past mistakes.  A $30 million dining facility at a US base will be completed December 25. Merry Christmas! It was to far along to stop, and is described as a monument to bad planning and botched paperwork.

There is no central database of what contractors are doing and how much they’re getting paid.  And lack of oversight extends to Afghanistan, unless systems are changed …

One Last Tour Of Normandy

From President Obama’s speech at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial:

I know this trip doesn’t get any easier as the years pass, but for those of you who make it, there’s nothing that could keep you away.  One such veteran, a man named Jim Norene, was a member of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Division of the 101st Airborne.  Last night, after visiting this cemetery for one last time, he passed away in his sleep.  Jim was gravely ill when he left his home, and he knew that he might not return.  But just as he did 65 years ago, …

Anti-Obama Attack Du Jour

The president’s conservative critics can be rather predictable, which is why I’m sure we’ll soon be hearing a lot more about this night in Paris. Once again, President Obama committed the unpardonable sin of taking his wife out to dinner.

A week after flying to New York for dinner and a Broadway show, President Barack Obama and first lady, Michelle, dined at a cozy neighborhood bistro just a few blocks from the Eiffel Tower…

La Fontaine de Mars dates back to 1908 and specializes in rustic dishes from France’s southwest region of Bordeaux Perigord and the Basque. Foie gras, …

Attention Working Girls: Make Room For The Guys

Men seeking work in today’s troubled economy could soon have a new job option.

The AP reports:

The owner of a Nevada brothel suffering from the recession thinks she has been ignoring about half the market – the half that prefers men.

Bobbi Davis is looking for male prostitutes to help expand the clientele at the Shady Lady Ranch, her small roadside brothel about 150 miles north of Las Vegas.

“We’ve had requests for men in the past, and there’s nothing else like this out there,” she said.

But Nevada Brothel Association lobbyist George Flint …

National Review Courts Controversy

(And you can read “courts” as both a noun and a verb.)

Here’s the cover of National Review‘s new issue:

Remembering all the attention that The New Yorker received in response to its caricature of the Obamas, could it be that maybe – just maybe – the folks at NR are trying to provoke an outcry?

Nothing like a little free publicity to boost circulation.…

On Friday’s Radio Show…

• Guest host Ellis Henican fills in for Alan.…

Texas Congressman: “Greatest Threat To America Is Liberal Media Bias”

Texas Congressman Lamar Smith is on it.   He’s using his good office to create something called the “Media Fairness Caucus.” Smith has discovered a bigger threat than another terrorist attack or a recession. “The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.”

SMITH: Let me just say – this is going to sound radical, I don’t mean for it to be radical – but to me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias. …

via Think Progress

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