400-408 – Andy Pugno, lead attorney with protectmarriage.com, on the decision announced this morning.
• Protect Marriage (8/8/08), Proposition 8 to Protect Marriage Seeks Appeal of Prejudicial Language on Ballot Title & Summary: Attorney General Attempts to Slant Election toward Opponents of Proposition 8.
413-423 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, is 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," he's a former Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps now in private practice in Phoenix, specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology.
• Zuhdi Jasser (8/8/08), Exclusive: As the West Sleeps, Islamists Work on Establishing a Worldwide Islamic State. How many of our State Department employees are following Qaradawi's Arabic writings and its influence upon impressionable Muslims? Past I of II.
428-437 – • Politico (8/8/08), John Edwards Statement.
• Byron York (8/8/08), The Edwards Scandal and the Agony of the MSM: They know it's news. They just wish it would go away.
443-452 – • Joel Rosenberg (8/8/08) Russia Bombs Georgia: And U.S. moves two new carrier groups to the Persian Gulf region.
458-508 – • Dallas News, Police free 26 cheerleaders from elevator at University of Texas' Jester Hall. What is your best prank-gone-wrong story? Have you heard the legendary Cincinnati Reds mongoose story?
512-523 – What was the greatest prank you were involved in?
528-539 – Chris Ferrell, director of policy research at Judicial Watch (judicialwatch.org), suggests you talk about his new website (sanctuarybusters.org) and also about San Francisco's illegal immigration policy.
544-554 – Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Council (lc.org), and dean of the Liberty University School of Law (law.liberty.edu), on the recent homeschool ruling.
• Liberty Council (8/8/08), Court Says California Parents Can Home School Their Children.
558-608 – Charles Morris, Haven Ministry (havenministry.com), heard daily at 9:30pm, calling from Beijing China.
612-623 – Cal Beisner, with the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (cornwallalliance.org) and the We Get It Campaign (wegetit.org), updates us on the effort to gather one million signatures of those who endorse biblical stewardship without embracing radical alarmism that will certainly hurt the world's poor. Over 31,000 scientists, 9,000 of them with Ph.D.'s, oppose global warming alarmism (petitionproject.org). Over 50 of the world's leading economists worked to find the best solutions to the world's ten biggest problems, and in May 2007, the expert panel of 8 top-economists, including 5 Nobel Laureates, presented their Copenhagen Consensus. The world's best investment? Micronutrients for undernourished children (copenhagenconsensus.com).
• Bjorn Lomborg (WSJ) How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks. The Copenhagen Consensus reports that global terrorism takes an average of 420 lives per year. If we spent $75 billion over the next five years, we could reduce terrorism deaths by 25% saving us $21 billion. That's a return of $0.30 on each dollar invested to save 105 lives. That is, the costs are three times higher than the benefits. Climate change mitigation yields only a $0.90 return, while R&D yield an $11.00 return for each dollar invested. Fighting disease yields a $20.00 return, spending about $500 million, saving 500,000 lives. Fighting hunger with micronutrients vitamin A and Zinc yields a $17.00 return.
628-639 – Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition based in Washington D.C. (christiandefensecoalition.com), one of three Americans arrested, detained and deported by the Chinese government while speaking to the press in Tiananmen Square about China's civil rights record.
• Christian News Wire (8/8/8), Christians Deported After Tiananmen Square Arrests, Return Safely to U.S.
• Hugh Hewitt (8/8/08), Obama's Vision: "America Is No Longer What It Could Be, What It Once Was."
(2:19) BO, in Elkhart, Indiana, fumbles the "why did you start running for President" question from a 7 year old girl.
