Episode 9.5 - Patriotism Drugs
Discord over Michael Steele’s Afghanistan comments and the DNC response; Obama gives a big speech on immigration, but does it matter?; Hickenlooper issues an oil and gas mea culpa - kind of; New ballot measure proposes partisan elections for judges; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff must defend the NYT’s 2001 decision to and current justification of not using the word ‘torture’ to describe waterboarding; Mexican elections; an extended debate over legalizing all drugs in the US; what Presidents are overrated? underrated?; Special 4th of July Rants!
Episode 8.3 - Jeff is Balloon Boy, John wishes there was never a balloon
Jeff is obsessed with Balloon Boy story; John hates, intensely, on the Balloon Boy story/obsession; Discussion of Obama’s Nobel, albeit a week late; Romanoff/Bennett update; UN votes on the Goldstone Report; health care - Finance Committee finally votes and what will the final bill look like; Devil’s Advocate - John has to defend the teabaggers; Rants - John on Obama’s regulation FAIL and Jeff revisits Balloon-ism
Episode 7.12 - ICC Smackdown
Jeff and John argue passionately about the future of the United States and the ICC and it gets quite heated; Is the economy headed for a rebound? - Jeff and John discuss employment numbers; Latest Blackwater updated - Erik Prince implicated in murder of former Blackwater employees; Sotomayor confirmed(!) and the future of the Supreme Court; Olberman/O’Reilly deal; education in Colorado; Rants - Jeff on crime in American society and John on the unserious (and dangerous?) coverage of town hill disruptions.
Episode 7.10 - Health care and Sotomayor debates
Health care update - where is the plan and what’s next?; Sotomayor hearings and political theater; the secret CIA assassination squad (maybe?); Special interview with Nicholas Clayton, Washington Times correspondent and author of the Three Kings blog, live (sort of) from Tblisi; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff defends the uber expensive F-22 project; Rants - John on the continued need to investigate Bush era crimes, Jeff on Walter Cronkite
