Natural Disasters and Personal Responsibility; Term Limits; The Supreme Court Changes Federal Sentencing Guidelines; God on the Quad
Natural Disasters and Personal Responsibility
Should people who buy or build homes in areas prone to natural disasters be held responsible when one occurs, or should government? Should the residents of La Conchita have been warned? Who should pay for the re-building of La Conchita? Larry Mantle takes your calls.
Term Limits
Governor Schwarzenegger said this week that he may be interested in loosening term limits in Sacramento. He said “We never really create someone that is an expert in Sacramento, because before you become an expert you are out.” Does the Governor really believe term limits should be thrown aside, or is this a strategy to get Democrats behind his redistricting idea? Joining Larry are Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee columnist, Dennis Mountjoy, Republican State Assemblyman representing the 59th district, and Paul Koretz, Democratic State Assemblyman representing the 42nd district.
The Supreme Court Changes Federal Sentencing Guidelines
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that federal judges no longer have to issue mandatory sentences using federal sentencing guidelines created in 1987. Instead, Federal judges now have more discretion about what sentences to issue. Joining Larry to deconstruct the meaning of this for the American system of justice is Bob Weisberg, professor of criminal law at Stanford Law School, the Honorable Dikran Tevrizian, a US District Court Judge in Los Angeles, and Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
God on the Quad
Journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America (St. Martin’s Press). Schaefer discusses the explosion of religious colleges and attendance at religious universities. She explores how these students integrate faith into academia and how their faith shapes issues such as race relations, feminism, and sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.