Episode 9.4 - A Deserted Pitch
The US World Cup loss to Ghana in perspective; With McChrystal out and Petraeus in, where does Afghanistan policy go from here?; Is the oil spill really an oil spill?; BP escrow fund; Devil’s Advocate - John must defend allowing students to carry concealed weapons on the University of Colorado campus; Hickenlooper betrays his environmental record - again; Elena Kagan confirmation hearings preview; an evaluation of the merged financial regulation legislation; Rants - Jeff on the iPhone 4 and the future; John on Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo
Episode 9.1 - On Top of that Giant Dome
Arizona’s draconian immigration law and what immigration reform should look like nationally (but won’t in reality); Implications of the BP Gulf oil spill; Disagreement over the Obama’s administration’s application of the Miranda ruling; Breakdown of the British elections; Should Obama have joked about using a Predator drone on the Jonas Brothers at the WH Correspondent’s Dinner?
Note: Due to technical issues, the rest of the show is lost forever. It might be the Jonas Brothers’ fault. However, we promise that this first 3/4 of it will still blow your mind.
Episode 8.9 - The State of Our Union
Jeff and John provide a comprehensive, full-on breakdown of Obama’s State of the Union and provide plenty of lively debate along the way; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff must defend the decision to detain indefinitely 50 Gitmo prisoners after Gitmo shuts down; Tony Blair faces Britain’s officil Iraq War Inquiry, but what would it be like if the US had the same thing?; Hickenlooper takes on the oil and gas lobby - kind of; Rants - Jeff on J.D. Salinger and John on Howard Zinn
