40 YEARS LATER
There's been a lot of talk about protests at this year's Democratic convention and we ask – why? Should the masses assemble at the steps of the Republican machine? Is it just that Denver will be more fun so protestors are flocking there? We'll look back in history to the Chicago10 and the shocking protests at the 1968 convention. We'll be talking with Bobby Seale founder of the Black Panther Party and Paul Krassner, founder of FreeThought Magazine – about convention protests. 

TORTURE
What is torture? Who better to tell us than a psychologist? But psychologists have been debating what constitutes complicity in aiding torture. Should they assist the military in developing interrogation methods? Dr. Bryant Welch says no! He's pushing his peers to make helping the military torture a violation of their professional code of ethics. We'll hear how that's going.

THE VEEPSTAKES
The NY Times has narrowed the field of potential Democratic VP choices to three.
We'll do the cursory speculating but you may change your mind once you hear why Kuby supports his choice.

Will McCain have an advantage because he won't be announcing his VP until after the Democratic Convention?

Meanwhile, the Washington Post admits they've given Obama three times more front page stories as McCain. But let's face it, Obama is just a bigger story. So how should a paper deal with that?

PRAYER
We'll talk with a bioethicist about a recent study that most Americans think prayer can help cure disease and injury. Does prayer help? Can it hurt? What might the implications of this be for, say, a person on life support beyond the help of science (but not prayer) who is costing the hospital, family and tax payers thousands of dollars a day?

And much much more including why Obama wants to boost NASA, how Cheney wants to boost energy companies profits and some lighter news like the couple who were tasered and arrested at their own wedding, why college Presidents want to lower the drinking age, smokeless cigarettes, and a lost humpback whale.