Jill & Jerry on Arnold; Divesting Pension Funds of So-Called "Terror Stocks"; Citizenship
Jill & Jerry on Arnold
Oakland Mayor and former California Governor Jerry Brown and syndicated columnist Jill Stewart join Larry Mantle to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech at last night’s RNC. They also discuss his appeal to voters, his political identity, and his importance to the GOP.
Divesting Pension Funds of So-Called "Terror Stocks"
The Center for Security Policy in D.C. has called on California state officials to divest public pension funds of stocks from stocks with companies that do business with states that sponsor terrorism, like Syria, Iran and North Korea. Larry Mantle talks with Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy, Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief of Reason Magazine, and Fred Nesbitt, Executive Director of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems.
Citizenship
What is citizenship? How has it been defined historically, and how is citizenship defined today? From granting citizenship to foreign-born US soldiers, to granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, many current political debates are bringing these questions to the fore. Larry Mantle talks with University of Pennsylvania political science professor Rogers M. Smith, Katherine Culliton of MALDEF, and Ira Melmen of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.