Politics De Jour: We wander around on this topic, commenting on George Stephanopoulis' guest Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for Prez, and Bob Sheifer's guests John Kerry and Lindsay Graham before meandering into some historical background about Millard Fillmore's accomplishments (or lack thereof). Deidre adds some details about Obama's latest position on FISA (not good), citing Glenn Greenwald's point by point response to Obama's website explanation of why it is he now supports (practically speaking) retroactive immunity for the telecons who assisted justice in illegal surveillance of people like you and me. Add to that a little discussion about the Libertarian party and the current VP selection to run with Barr, and comments about John Nichols' "Jesse Helms, John McCain and the Mark of the White Hands", published Saturday by the Nation, and you've got a segment that might actually interest you.
Losing the War on Drugs While Mostly Bad Guys Profit: Are we surprised? Not really. But David Fleming and James Gray's "This is the US on Drugs- Only Cops and Crooks Have Benefited from $2.5 trillion Spent Fighting Trafficking", published Saturday in the L.A. Times even gave us pause. And if you listen, you will want to take a time out on this insanity as well. We promise.
Big Brother on Steroids: Sam and Deidre actually disagree on this topic, but Thursday AP's story, "Proposed FBI plan would authorize racial profiling" is yet another example of how far the Justice Department intends to go. And this time, Congress has no say. We ask Why not? Actually we say, What difference would it make anyway? Indeed.
Maybe we'll be back Thursday July 10. We'll see. Thanks for listening. And please tell a friend or two about us. Rush has 14 million listeners a week. Let's close the gap!
