By SueN
- Guests:
- Andy Kroll, DC based Investigative journalist at Mother Jones Magazine.
- Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author of several books including "Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent," and the forthcoming "The United States of Torture: America's Past and Present Policy of Interrogation and Abuse".
- Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information.
- Topics:
- Financial crisis / reform / Greenspan rewriting history
- Steven's retirement, future of the supreme court, replacements?
- Nuclear summit today in DC
- Bumper Music:
- Are the Good Times Really Over for Good Wynonna Judd.
- It's all About the Money, Travis Tritt.
- You Want History, Kaiser Chiefs.
- Who Do You Love? George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
- Who knows, Jimi Hendrix (video).
- Who'll Be The Next In Line?, Kinks.
- Someday, Rob Thomas.
- Walk Away, Kelly Clarkson.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- KPOJ's Carl and Christine in for Thom.
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- Quote: “Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” -- William Howard Taft.
- Article: Obama: Governor's failure to mention slavery unacceptable.
Virginia's proclamation of Confederate History Month without any reference to slavery was unacceptable, President Obama said in an interview broadcast Friday.
"Well, you know, I'm a big history buff. And I think that understanding the history of the Confederacy and understanding the history of the Civil War is something that every American and every young American should be a part of," he told ABC in an interview taped Thursday.
"Now, I don't think you can understand the Confederacy and the Civil War unless you understand slavery. And so, I think that was a -- an unacceptable omission. I think the governor's now acknowledged that." - Article: Miss. gov says Confederacy flap not worth 'diddly' by AP.
Fellow GOP Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi said he doesn't think the proclamation was a mistake.
"To me, it's a sort of feeling that it's a nit, that it is not significant, that it's not a — it's trying to make a big deal out of something (that) doesn't amount to diddly," Barbour said in the interview aired on CNN's "State of the Union."
