Archive from 5/22/07 – Is adventure dead? Not according to people like John Haslett. In 1995, Haslett attempted to re-create Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Hawaii. He ended up engaged in a five-year quest that was more a struggle for survival than anything else. His book “Voyage of the Mante??o: The Education […]
Archive from 5/16/07 – Is there something wrong with religion? Famous contrarian and “devout atheist” Christopher Hitchens thinks so. The contributing editor to Vanity Fair, who has been called “one of the most brilliant journalists of our time” by the London Observer, has just published his latest book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons […]
Archive from 5/16/07 – Imagine you’re riding in a tank covering Iraq as a journalist and suddenly, without any warning an IED explodes, causing a traumatic brain injury that nearly kills you. Now imagine getting the word back home that this has happened to your spouse. Lee and Bob Woodruff joined us in May to […]
What is the state of public health care in North Texas? We’ll talk this evening with Dr. Ron Anderson, President and CEO of Parkland Health and Hospital System about meeting the health care needs of a growing population. Market research analyst Kelley Styring will join is for the Scene segment of the show to discuss […]
In November, Dallas voters will decide whether a toll road will be part of the Trinity River Corridor project. We’ll get an update on the referendum this hour with Dave Levinthal of the Dallas Morning News and Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer.
The Dallas Video Festival is celebrating its twentieth year this week. We’ll spend this hour with a few of the filmmakers. Bill Buchanan will join us to discuss the plight of abandoned animals as detailed in his film “Companions to None.” Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza will drop by to discuss their work-in-progress “Stop the […]
How can law enforcement aid the War on Terror? Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and our guest this hour, examines the link between traditional criminal activities and terrorism in his recently published Manhattan Institute study “The Convergence of Crime and Terror: Law Enforcement Opportunities and Perils.”
Should developed nations help developing countries – even if those countries have sponsored terrorism? What if that assistance includes desperately-needed health care? This hour we’ll discuss the plight of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted and twice sentenced to death for allegedly injecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. They were […]
Many have predicted it. And now, a Grantham Prize-winning Los Angeles Times series “Altered Oceans” confirms that the Earth’s oceans are becoming toxic and possibly threatening the stability of life on the planet. We’ll spend this hour with Kenneth Weiss, who along with Usha Lee McFarling and photographer Rick Loomis, wrote the five-part series.
Where does the U.S. currently stand in Iraq? How long will our military be involved and can the insurgency be controlled? Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, interviewed more than 100 senior U.S. military officers and reviewed more than 30,000 pages of official documents while researching his book “Fiasco: […]
