The listening post...

Here are the podcast links from last night's stint on the John Batchelor Show:

Wednesday, 08/18/10 - Batchelor 9pm

GUESTS: Co-hosts Gordon Chang and Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; David Goodman, WABC; Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA); Salena Zito, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)...

Wednesday, 08/18/10 - Batchelor 10pm

GUESTS: Co-hosts Gordon Chang, Forbes.com and Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; David Welch, Bloomberg; Mary Kissel, AWSJ

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Radio, Radio...

Tonight, I'll be doing another stint as a co-host on the John Batchelor Show with my friend and colleague, Gordon Chang.

The guest list and topics for tonight’s show (6-10 p.m. Pac Time):

Toshi Yoshihara - post-World War II Japan

Elisabeth Eaves - “ghost cities”

Jim Walsh - nuclear proliferation since WWII

Yifei Zhang - China coal mines

Dean Cheng - China and North Korea

Andrew Benton - higher education

Tunku Varadarajan - Hillary Clinton

Tom Henriksen - Afghan and Africa

Jonathan Knowles - robotics

Christine Loh - her book Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

Carla Marinucci - California's budget deficit

Bill Thomas - Maryland politics

Mary Kissel - Indonesia anti-corruption court

Paul Vigna - U.S. economy

Rick Fisher - the Chinese space program.

Check the John Batchelor Show website for details, schedules, stations, etc.

Hope to see you there!

So last night...

Last night's John Batchelor Show was filled with interesting (and breaking) news...including a federal judge's decision to overturn California's voter approved ban (Proposition 8) on same-sex marriages. Below you will find links to the podcasts from my co-hosting stint during the first two hours...

Coverage of California's big news...

Hour 1 - GUESTS: Co-host Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; Gordon Chang, Forbes.com; Bruce Bechtol, Marine Corps Command and Staff College; Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) (Listen Here)

Hour 2 - GUESTS: Co-host Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; David Drucker, Roll Call; Tim Homan, Bloomberg; Dan Senor, WSJ; Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg (Listen Here)

Let's give 'em something to talk about...

We're nearing week's end, so here's a round-up of some of the bigger stories out there...

The president went on "The View" yesterday. Among the topics he touched on - Snooki and LiLo, race and social media. Ba-ba Wa-wa, unfortunately, did not ask him if he was a tree what kind he would be...

When Nancy Pelosi promised to "drain the swamp" in D.C., who knew emptying it would begin on her side of the aisle? (I wonder what else is under the rocks...?)

Maybe her drainage pipe is blocked...

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio/Gray Davis? Poll shows Californians prefer Davis over The Governator. Looks like Ah-nold shouldn't have quit his day job...

Now that Sen. Harry Reid's efforts have failed, is the global warming movement dead? Moreover, is Harry Reid's career dead?

News item: One in five Californians say they need mental health care...so that's how Nancy Pelosi keeps being re-elected...

Serf warning: "Tax tsunami on the horizon" -(c.q.)...

News item - "Judge Blocks Parts of Arizona Immigration Law"; no word from Feds on actual enforcement of existing laws...

Americans between the ages 18-42, H.R.5741-Universal National Service Act- calls for 2 years mandatory national service. The bill, by the way, is authored by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), who will be lucky if he gets away with just two years...

Charlie Rangel - he has a right to be worried...

Hey, who wouldn't like to take four vacations in a month? (Times are tough all over!) I'm just glad the prez and his family feel all our pain...

He was against paying taxes -until he was for paying taxes? John Kerry has "Nothing more to say" about yacht tax dodge. (Thank goodness Mrs. Heinz-Kerry was able to cough-up a nice $500,000 check to the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts to buy-away the embarrassment.)

He should've stuck with the windsurfer...

Add Kerry: "If you guys think that John Kerry doesn't have enough sense of either propriety or common sense, that I'm going to be sailing my boat around Massachusetts where I'm highly recognizable but it's going to somehow stay in Rhode Island and I'm going to avoid a tax . . . I'd be crazy to think that I'm going to be doing that, and that was never our long-term intention here." (As quoted in The Boston Globe - h/t: James Taranto @ Best of the Web Today/WSJ.)

RADIO ALERT! - Yours truly will be hosting the John Batchelor Show tomorrow (Saturday) from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., Pacific Time. I'll be joined by Gordon Chang of Forbes.com, as well as more than a dozen other guests as we take on the news and events shaping our world. Check local listings or John's website for details...

The John Batchelor Show - tomorrow night!

Radio-ology

Lots of airtime for yours truly this weekend…

Tomorrow night (Saturday, July 17), from 6 – 10 p.m. (Pac Time), I’ll be co-hosting The John Batchelor Show with Simon Constable and Gordon Chang. We’ll be discussing a variety of issues with correspondents throughout the U.S. as well as key locations around the world where news is breaking.

Gordon Chang...

I’ll also join John on Sunday night to discuss California news, politics and the economy.

Simon Constable...

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