OTB Radio – Tonight at 5:30 Eastern

Tonight’s topics: the Blagojevich verdict, whether lying about military awards should be protected speech, the politics of the Cordoba House project, the coherence or lack thereof of the Obama administration, and whether the United States should be more like Germany.

James Joyner

August 18, 2010

Comments

The latest episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 5:30-6:30 Eastern.

Dave Schuler, Doug Mataconis, and I will talk about the news of the week including: the Blagojevich verdict, whether lying about military awards should be protected speech, the politics of the Cordoba House project, the coherence or lack thereof of the Obama administration, and whether the United States should be more like Germany.

We’ll also be taking calls at (646) 716-7030. Owing to a high trolls to legit callers ratio, however, we’ll be using the BTR chat feature to screen for legit calls.

You can play the show, subscribe to its feed, or share it with your friends via the widget below:

(Note: The playback automatically updates to the most recent show available. Older shows can be accessed at the show archives.)

One response to “OTB Radio – Tonight at 5:30 Eastern”

john personna

August 18, 2010 at 7:37 pm

I agree that we should fix our budget and our health care, but find the idea that this is the main difference between us and Germany to be preposterous.

Educational systems are far different (something you acknowledge in the audio), but you still want to count total degrees. That is an unresolved contradiction in your position.

My link, with our poor grades in science and engineering seem a pretty solid answer to that. Can you engage at all with our “D” grade? As opposed to Germany’s “A?”

As it happens, I don’t think we need to filter children at 4th grade. We just have to stop subsidizing bad degrees (where bad degrees are those degrees without ROI, which create a deadweight loss in our economy.)