On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Republican Meme du Jour: Alan responds to the ridiculous assertion that Democrats like Harry Reid are racist.

• The Obama administration wants to keep some sex offenders in prison after they’ve completed their sentences, but does the Constitution allow it? Judge Andrew Napolitano analyzes the Supreme Court case.

• Think you can survive the cut? It’s Sudden Death Radio!…

McCain On How Poorly Palin Was Vetted: “I Wouldn’t Know”

John McCain told “Today”‘s Matt Lauer he’s “proud” of his campaign, “proud” of Sarah Palin, “proud” that she was his running mate, but refused to comment on revelations in Game Change that the vetting process to pick a vice presidential candidate was “wholly inadequate.”

Was it true, Lauer asked, that the vetting of Sarah Palin was so woefully inadequate that no one from the campaign traveled to Alaska to interview her husband or any of her political opponents?

“I wouldn’t know,” McCain said. “The fact is that I’m proud of Sarah Palin, I’m proud of the campaign we waged, she …

Miep Gies: “I Am Not A Hero But Did What Seemed Necessary At The Time”

And that’s what made her a hero.

During the Second World War, Miep Gies, along with Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Bep Voskuijl, Jan Gies and Johan Voskuijl, made up a team of helpers for the eight Jewish people hiding in the Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. The office of Otto Frank, where Miep worked as secretary, was located at the front side of the same building.

Following the betrayal and the deportation of the hiders, Miep and her colleague Bep made sure that the diary of the youngest of the group, Anne Frank, did not fall into …

Job Hiring Up In November

The number of workers hired in November is up, even as the number of jobs fell.

The rate of hires, measured as a percentage of the total number of people employed, rose to 3.2 percent in November, up from 3.1 percent in October and matching the same pace in July, the U.S. Labor Department said in its monthly Jobs Opening and Labor Turnover survey (JOLTS).

“The good news in the JOLTS data is that it is showing the hiring rate is starting to pickup a little bit,” said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist for RBS in Stamford, Connecticut.

“We …

John Cornyn: Trent Lott’s Comments “Far More Innocuous Than” Reid’s

Texas Senator John Cornyn says the comments Trent Lott made when he was celebrating the 100th birthday of the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond were “far more innocuous” than what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

Reid said, in a private conversation before the 2008 election, that Obama had a chance to be the first black president because he was “light-skinned” and didn’t have a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Lott, in a televised tribute to Sen. Strom Thurmond for his 100th birthday, said: “I want to say this about my state: When Strom …

The Toll On Gay Couples

The federal trial in San Francisco to determine if it’s constitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry is shedding light on what gay couples experience.

“I’ve been in love with a woman for 10 years, and I don’t have access to a word for it,” said 45-year-old Kristin Perry of Berkeley, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the voter initiative that outlawed gay marriage in California. “In a store, people want to know if we are sisters or cousins or friends, and I have to decide every day if I want to come out wherever …

New Jersey Assembly and Senate Approve Medical Marijuana

The “Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Bill” passed the New Jersey Assembly, 48-14, and the State Senate 25-13. Outgoing Governor Jon Corzine says he’ll sign the bill before he leaves office January 19.

The bill is expected to take effect in six months, making New Jersey the 14th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. Sponsors declared it the toughest in the country. The law would forbid people from growing their own pot; license “alternate treatment centers” to dispense the drug and require designated caretakers who retrieve the drug on behalf of a severely ill person to undergo criminal background …

Since When Do Conservatives Care About Political Correctness?

Conservatives care about political correctness when it can be used to slam Democrats, that’s when. As Hoffmania notes, nothing wrong with some political correctness if it can be used against Harry Reid.…

On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann sit down with Alan to discuss the shocking revelations in their new book, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.

• No comparison: Alan responds to Republican efforts to equate Harry Reid’s racially insensitive comments to those of Trent Lott.

• Radio host Karel joins Alan from San Francisco’s Green 960 with an update on the California courtroom battle over gay marriage.…

Harry Reid Defends Himself

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke out today in his own defense. about his 2008 comments that Barack Obama was “light-skinned” and possessed “no Negro dialect.”

Reid: I am very proud of the fact, I can still remember the meeting that took place in my office with Senator Barack Obama, telling him that I thought he’d be elected president…I’ve apologized to the president…I could have used a better choice of words…As a very young man in the state of Nevada, I was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in Nevada. I had a lot of moving …

Lou Dobbs: The Left Created “Toxicity” By Questioning Birthers

In an Esquire magazine interview, Lou Dobbs puts the blame squarely on the left for questioning the meme that Obama isn’t an American citizen and was elected under false pretenses.

I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme Left as a quote-unquote birther. I mean, what the hell is that? When you can create a controversy by asking what seems to me still a perfectly commonsense question? It has been used in the extreme Left to create a toxicity that is just unbelievable.

Was George W. Bush or any other president asked if he was an …