John Garamendi; Family Cars; Bush Speech Announces Troops Coming Home from Europe and Asia; Maureen Dowd; The Cultural Split Between Northern and Southern California
John Garamendi
Guest host Patt Morrison talks with John Garamendi, Insurance Commissioner for the State of California.
Family Cars
Choosing a family car is a huge decision. You want your family to be safe; you want economy, and you want a car that everyone will like. Many people think that they are being safe by putting their family into an SUV. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just released the 2004 Rollover Tests. Guest host Patt Morrison discusses choosing a family car with Rae Tyson, spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Bill Wright, managing editor of LACAR.COMand Brian Moody, Road Test Editor at Edmunds.com.
Bush Speech Announces Troops Coming Home from Europe and Asia
President Bush just gave a speech to say that he plans to shift as many as 70,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Europe and Asia, bringing them back to the US or reassigning them to Eastern Europe. Guest host Patt Morrison talks with Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information.
Maureen Dowd
In her new book Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Putnam), Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd draws upon some of her most perceptive and hilarious columns to skewer the Bush administration’s follies at home and abroad. Dowd offers penetrating insights into the presidency of George W. Bush and the baffling relationship with his father and surrogate father, the Vice-President, which she believes has trapped the world in "the most astonishing and dangerous subordination of American history to particular psyches." Guest host Patt Morrison talks with Maureen Dowd.
The Cultural Split Between Northern and Southern California
Jon Winokur joins Guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss his new book on the war of words between Northern California and Southern California-The War Between the State (Sasquatch Books).