400-408 – John Goodman, is the President and CEO of The National Center for Policy Analysis (ncpa.org), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization whose goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, seeking to solve problems through the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. The Wall Street Journal has called John "the father of Health Savings Accounts," and his ideas on ways to transfer power from government to the people have had a significant impact on Capitol Hill. He's authored numerous editorials in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, the Los Angeles Times, and many others.
• Government run health care can be stopped by you! We need every KKLA listener to sign our "Free Our Health Care Now!" petition at freeourhealthcarenow.com, and forward the petition to at least two friends! Over 550,000 have done so already, and we want to get to a million!
• The petition reads: "I, the undersigned citizen of the United States, petition the US congress to stop any increased role of the government in my health decisions. I also petition the US congress to protect my right to choose my own doctors and hospitals without delay or denial, to obtain care that is patient-centered, and to have health insurance that is personal, portable, and best suits my needs."
(:25) White House Budget Director Peter Orszag talks on Fox News Sunday 7/19/09 about how taxpayer healthcare plans may fund abortions.
(:50) Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) questions Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) about planned parenthood being covered in health care.
413-423 – Wesley J. Smith, bioethicist and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute (discovery.org), and blogger at firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke, on his concerns about national health care. His next book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of Animal Rights, is due out in January '10
• Wesley J. Smith (7/20), So Three Cows Walk into Court…Animal-rights extremism in the Obama entourage is no joke.
428-437 – Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy at USC, and the person who has had the biggest impact on my spiritual life through his books and tapes, especially his The Divine Conspiracy, is out with his new book Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge (dwillard.org).
443-452 – Dallas Willard.
458-508 – Andrew Marin is president and founder The Marin Foundation (themarinfoundation.org), a nonprofit that seeks to build bridges between the GLBT community and the religious community. His latest is entitled Love Is An Orientation: Elevating The Conversation With The Gay Community. Andrew will be speaking Sunday, August 16, at New Song in Irvine.
512-523 – Andrew Marin
528-538 – Calls
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612-623 – Calls
628-638 – Calls
644-652 – Calls
• MSNBC (7/20/09) How much homework is too much? Many districts are recommending 10 minutes a night per grade. Psychology professor Harris Cooper of Duke University says the evidence points to little or no connection between the amount of time spent on homework and academic achievement. However, practice-style assignments in elementary school, such as learning numbers, places, and vocabulary, do help improve unit test scores. Teachers and parents, how much homework is the right amount? Should all the kids in the classroom be given the same amount regardless of skill? Does your child have too much, too little, or just about the right amount of homework? Kids, do you agree? Teachers, do you have time to grade all the homework?
• Tom Vilsac, US Secretary of Agriculture USDA (7/20/09) , Response to Drudge Item on Recovery Act Funding.
• Tom Krattenmaker (7/20/09) Evangelism 2.0. Stereotypes simply don't apply these days in Portland, Ore. A conservative Christian minister and an openly gay mayor of this progressive city provide a glimpse of what could be Christianity's future. Welcome to "Jesus' favorite city."
• Townhall (7/20/09) RNC chairman attacks Obama on health care.
• Peter S. Goodman, NYT (7/20/09) Subprime brokers mutate into loan fixers. NYT analysis: profit making loan modification firms often fail to deliver.
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