FIRST HOUR:
:12 - Welcome. Third Blogaversary. News Updates.
:27 - John McCain blasts Bush on Iraq
:42 - UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon and the Congo; UN Gave Hazbollah Intel (Weekly Standard); UN Won't stop Syria from Re-Supplying Hezbollah (Telegraph - UK)
:57 - Dumb Dems: Pelosi ("Anybody who knows me knows not to mess with me..."), Biden ("My state was a slave state...") and Ray Nagin (NYC's "hole in the ground.")
SECOND HOUR:
:12 - Competence Matters
:27 - Guest: Sandra L. Nudelman
:42 - We continue our conversation with Sandra
:57
THIRD HOUR:
:12 - The American Quagmire: Philadelphia, Orlando, Cincinnati, and elsewhere vs. Iraq (Washington Post)From the Indianapolis Star:
• Cincinnati, with a population of about 308,000, logged 53 homicides as of Wednesday, putting it on pace to push past last year's total of 79. In 2004, there were 64 killings in that city.It's time to cut and run, people!
• Columbus, Ohio, had 102 murders last year, compared to 88 in 2004, and the problem isn't getting better. The city of 730,000 has seen at least 66 homicides since January -- three more than during the same time last year.
• Houston, with more than 2 million people, had 201 homicides during the first half of the year, up more than 26 percent compared to the first six months of 2005.
• Charleston, S.C., home to about 107,000 people, notched 13 killings as of Wednesday, surpassing its 2005 total of 11 with several months left in the year.
:27 - "Taking on the 527" Media by Jed Babbin (RealClearPolitics)
:42 - Iran Update: Opens nuclear reactor; test fires submarine -to-surface missile
:57 - The "Rapid Fire" segment.