Analysis of the State-of-the-State Address; Orange County Journalists' Round Table; The Confirmation Hearings of U.S. Attorney General Nominee Judge Alberto Gonzales; Bias In Psychiatric Diagnoses
Analysis of the State-of-the-State Address
Larry speaks with experts about Governor Schwarzenegger’s second state-of-the-state address. He discusses many issues facing California, including his desire to redraw the state’s political boundaries and the state budget. Joining Larry is Jack O’Connell, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jim Hard, President, SCIE Local 1000, Jean Ross, Executive Director of California Budget Project, Barbara Kerr, President, California Teacher’s Association, Elizabeth Garrett, Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics, and a law professor at USC, and Sherry Bebitch Jeffee, Political Analyst and Senior Scholar at the School of Policy Planning and Development at USC.
Orange County Journalists' Round Table
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County journalists Chris Reed, Orange County Register op-ed column editor, Jean Pasco, Los Angeles Times staff writer and Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
The Confirmation Hearings of U.S. Attorney General Nominee Judge Alberto Gonzales
Confirmation hearings are underway right now in Washington for President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Judge Alberto Gonzales. If confirmed, Gonzales will take the place of John Aschcroft, becoming the 80th attorney general and the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States. Some democratic Senators and critics have expressed alarm over the infamous “torture memo,” which Gonzales wrote to the President in 2002, telling him that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban. Concerns have also been raised that Gonzales may be too close to the President to act independently as attorney general. Larry Mantle talks with Stanford Law School’s Allen Weiner and Douglas Kmeic of Pepperdine University School of Law.
Bias In Psychiatric Diagnoses
Larry Mantle talks with psychologist Paula Caplan about her new book Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (Aronson). Caplan is alarmed by the way patients are so easily classified by mental health professionals into categories of psychiatric diagnoses. Caplan believes serious consequences can result.