Housing Sales Up, Prices Decline. Time To Reassess Your Property Taxes?; Is The Public Health At Risk When Kids Aren't Vaccinated?; The Legal Limits Of Domestic Spying; Modern Day Slavery
Housing Sales Up, Prices Decline. Time To Reassess Your Property Taxes?
Guest host David Lazarus talks with Paul Bishop, economist for the National Association of Realtors, Andrew LaPage, Analyst at DataQuick Information Systems, and Rick Auerbach, L.A. County Assessor about the latest news regarding the housing market.
Is The Public Health At Risk When Kids Aren't Vaccinated?
Guest host David Lazarus talks with Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, Associate Director, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bob Sears,M.D., pediatrician and author of "The Vaccine Book," and Jonathan Fielding, M.D., Director of Public Health and Health Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health about the issue of whether or not to vaccinate your children.
The Legal Limits Of Domestic Spying
The ACLU believes that the National Security Agency is engaged in domestic data collection operations similar to the "Total Information Awareness" program that was shut down in 2003. The ACLU's main concern is that American citizens' right to privacy is being secretly violated. But the NSA has stated that it "strictly follows laws and regulations designed to preserve every American's privacy rights under the 4th Amendment to the Constitution." To be sure, the line between protecting national security and preserving civil liberties is more difficult to draw than ever, due in part to advances in technology. Congress and President Bush are currently trying to resolve the debate. The House passed a bill recently limiting the government's surveillance powers, but the President has threatened to veto it. AirTalk guest host David Lazarus talks with a panel of experts including Siobhan Gorman, National Security Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Caroline Frederickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law about the legal limits of domestic spying.
Modern Day Slavery
In his book, "A Crime So Monstrous," journalist E. Benjamin Skinner shows how slavery the world over is at its worst. Skinner visited over a dozen countries in four years to uncover the tales of individuals - men, women and children alike - whose lives are subject to the whims of others. He evaluates the business of human trafficking and gives a glance at the everyday existence of the enslaved.