400-408 – Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (aifdemocracy.org), an organization committed to "demonstrating the synergy of American democracy and its founding principles with the religion of Islam," a former Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps, who is now in private practice in Phoenix. He talks about the danger of home-grown terrorism fueled by the hate preached in American Mosques.
• NRO Editors, When in Israel...
• Fox News, Muslim Extremist's Web Site Stirs Mixed Emotions in Charlotte, N.C. Focus is on Samir Khan, 22, who emigrated from Saudi Arabia when he was 7, and who attends the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, who runs the website Revolution.Muslimpad.com.
• Act For America, Petition Calling for Congressional Hearings to Review Radical Islamist Materials Distributed in American Mosques.
413-423 – Jean Schroedel, Chairman of the Department of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University (cgu.edu), on the presidential race, the VP possibilities, and on how women might vote in November.
(:29) John McCain talks about his military background in his new presidential campaign ad.
• Fox News, Clinton Sets Details for Saturday Exit, After Secret Meeting With Obama. Dianne Feinstein hosted Hilary and Obama at her Washington, D.C., home, then talked the next morning of her hopes for the "dream ticket."
428-437 – Greg Laurie, heard weekdays on KKLA at 10:30am, is pastor of the 15,000-member Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside (harvest.org/church) and host of the Harvest Crusades, back in Anaheim August 15th, 16th and 17th, and he shares about his just-released autobiography Lost Boy: My Story.
443-452 – Paul Sheppard, pastor of the 6,000 member Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Mountain View, California (alcf.net), and host of Enduring Truth (enduringtruth.org), heard weekdays on KKLA at 12:30pm, with an update on his church and his comments on gay marriage in California.
• CA Sec of State, To vote November 4, your registration must be postmarked October 20, 2008. Register Here. If successful, California will join 26 other states who have approved constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage.
• AP (6/5), Gay couples cheer California high court ruling. According to the 2006 Census, there are 108,734 same-sex households in California.
458-508 – Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies for the Pacific Research Institute (pacificresearch.org) on how California students performed last year in school. California spent $12,000 per student this year. Lance is the co-author of Not As Good as you Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice.
• Lance Izumi (5/27), Writing skills lacking across the spectrum. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, California's eighth graders ranked 45th in writing. Even though 20% of students are "English-learners," which is 14% higher than the national average of 6%, this still doesn't account for our poor performance. Only 38% of white and 44% of Asian eighth graders were at or above proficiency.
• Jeffrey Williams (6/5), The Handwriting on the Wall: A School to Prison Pipeline. 100,000 students drop out of California high schools every year, and dropouts are 4 times more likely to be incarcerated than graduates. 75% of prison inmates are high school dropouts. Globally, in 2006, the US ranked 37 out of 57 in math, 29 out o 57 in science, and due to printing errors on the reading test no comparison could be made.
• Fox News (6/2), California High School Valedictorian to be Deported.
512-523 – Steve Barr, was the co founder of Rock The Vote in 1990, and the Motor Voter Bill in 1994, and he was involved in the founding of Americorp with President Clinton, and he's been on several presidential campaigns and been the finance chair of the Democratic Party. But, in 1999 he founded Green Dot Public Schools (greendot.org), and has since taken large public schools in the worst areas that were failing and transformed them into smaller successful cluster schools with an amazing graduation rate. Last fall the LAUSD approving giving him control of Locke High School in the center of Watts.
528-539 – Steve Barr
544-554 – • AP, $45 trillion needed to combat warming. The Paris based International Energy Agency says the world needs to spend $45T and build 1,400 nuclear reactors to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. That's 32 new nuclear plants every year.
• Charles Krauthammer, The Power of Four Dollars. The British are paying $8.00 a gallon and Goldman Sachs is predicting we'll have $6.00 gas by next year, while we are "just" paying $4.50 right now, so Krauthammer suggests adding a 0.50 per gallon tax hike every six months for two years and keep the tax revenue at home rather than sending it overseas.
558-608 – • Fox News, Family Moving Into New Home Finds Military Warhead.
612-623 – • MSNBC, Tainted cheese fuels TB rise in California: Unpasteurized dairy products linked to reemergence of ancient disease. It's called Mycobacterium bovis strain of Tuberculosis traced to the 17% of infected cattle in the Mexican herd. And, it's resistant to drugs.
628-639 – Open Lines Calls
644-655 – Open Lines Calls
(2X) Reagan at Normandy, 6/6/84.
• Daniel J. Flynn, America's Racist Left: Instead of merely ignoring the problems of African Americans, socialists and progressives actively contributed to them.
• Peggy Noonan, Recoil Election.
• Juan Williams, It's Time for Another Obama Race Speech.
