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• Yesterday President Obama and Helen Thomas celebrated their birthdays at the White House. Obama is 48, and John is a little depressed that the President is a couple of months younger than him. Do you have any birthday gift ideas for President Obama?
• Howell Sex Scandal:Howell accused of having sex with a 16 year old football player. It wasn't John, it was a teacher named Howell.
• A California man was shot by police after walking into a liquor store with a hatchet. The family claims he was not a threat, but could the police take that chance?
• The Obama administration is fighting back against the rowdy townhall meetings. Do you think that the media will portray all of the opposition to the health care plan as fringe kooks?
• Whether they are organized or not, polls show that public opinion is beginning to turn against the Obama health care plan.
• Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea resulted in the released of the jailed journalists. Is it a good idea to negotiate with North Korea? What do you think was really discussed in the negotiations?
• Jennifer Keiper from Fox News Radio updated John and Cisco on Cash for Clunkers. The program will get an extra $2 billion from Congress.
• Dave Kang is a professor of international relations and business, and the director of the Korean Studies Institute at USC. He joined John and Cisco to talk about what the implications of President Clinton's North Korean visit and the release of the two captured journalists will be.
• A Colorado housing complex has barred kids under 15 from playing outside on their own for safety reasons. Are they just being cautious or are they micro-managing?
• Mike Allen the senior White House correspondent from The Politico joined John and Cisco to talk about the Obama administration's comments about health care protestors.

• Predictably Mothers Against Drunk Driving has come out against President Obama's "beer summit" last week. Do you really think that seeing the President with a beer is that big of a deal?
• The White House says that President Obama has improved his bowling score from a pathetic 37 during the campaign to a 144. When did he have time to practice?
• Stuart Varney from Fox Business Network joined John and Cisco to talk about the latest on the Cash for Clunkers program. It has picked up some key supporters in the Senate and may get another shot at life.
• Vice President Joe Biden used "Jesus Christ" as an expletive in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Do you think that Christians should be offended by that?
• There are two great new iPhone aps out there: You can find sex offenders in your area. Plus, another tells you the best parts of movies to get up and go to the bathroom.
• Yet another townhall meeting turned into a screaming match yesterday. If you were a politician would you schedule any more townhall meetings?
• Congressman Peter Roskam joined John and Cisco to talk about his column in the Sun-Times over the weekend talking about the corruption in Medicare and Medicaid, the examples of government health insurance.
• Arianna Huffington joined John and Cisco to talk about her new book "Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America"
• Yet another townhall meeting turned into a screaming match yesterday. There seems to be some bias in the way that they are reported, especially at MSNBC.

• Hide you VIN number: Loophole in IL state law allows car thieves to get away with selling a stolen car for scrap.
• The heckled Toledo Mayoral Candidate and his tormentor got together for their own beer summit.
• A 69 year old Florida retiree won $500,000 in the lottery but then lost the ticket. If you found it, would you return it or keep it?
• Despite campaign promises, it looks as though team Obama is setting the state for middle class tax increases.
• Moment of racial insensitivity: A Philly sewage treatment plant may have segregated bathrooms.
• Cash for Clunkers is already running out of money, at the same time that they are changing the rules. Rich Johnson from Fox News Radio joined John and Cisco to talk about the future of the program.
• The snake invasion of Florida continues. A 17 foot python has been found in the sunshine state. Time for a John and Cisco snake hunting party.
• A 27 year old recent college grad is suing the school because she hasn't been able to find a job. Does she have a case or just feel too entitled?
• Despite his claims to the opposite, video has surfaced in which Obama explains how his health care plan will 'eliminate' private insurance

• Wal-Mart is once again looking to open up a store in Chicago. They've released a poll that suggests 73% support the idea. Is it a good addition to the retail landscape or the end of Chicago as we know it?
• Shockingly Predictable Studies: Texting while driving makes you 23 times more likely to have an accident. Women have gotten more attractive over time while men have not. Big spenders tend to prefer marrying people who save money.
• Chicago cops will now be permitted to shoot at drivers or passengers in cases of felons fleeing in motor vehicles. Is this a good idea?
• According to a new Rasummen poll, a plurality now oppose ObamaCare 49-47. John and Cisco broke down the numbers with pollster Scott Rasmussen.
• An Atlanta person has been accused of running a strip club in her basement.
• The Gates saga rages on. Colin Powell says that Gates should never have argued with the police. Meanwhile, Glenn Beck on Fox News says that Obama's reaction indicates that he is probably racist.
• Wal-Mart is once again looking to open up a store in Chicago. They've released a poll that suggests 73% support the idea. John and Cisco talked to John Bosio, the Director of Public Affairs for Wal-Mart.
• Chicago’s first openly gay alderman today re-opened the volatile debate about whether City Hall should establish contract set-asides for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered residents.
• Michelle Malkin joined John and Cisco to talk about her new book “Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies” which came out on Monday and is already number one on Amazon.

• Sgt Crowley has accepted President Obama's invitation and will join Henry Louis Gates for a beer at the White House. Do you think this is a good idea?
• Former Governor Blagojevich's book is coming out later this fall. Amazon is offering a discount for ordering early. What should the subtitle of the book be?
• Gun of the Day Update: Taser International has developed a Taser that can shoot three people without reloading. Don't tase me bro.
• The 911 tapes from the Gates incident have been released. It turns out that despite Gates claims, race did not figure into the 911 call at all.
• John and Cisco talked to South Carolinia Senator Jim DeMint. He has been leading the charge against the dems healthcare plan, and even said that it will be the President's "waterloo." DeMint also has a new book out called "Saving Freedom"
• Midwest governors met in Chicago on Monday to push for an eight-state, high-speed rail network . Is this a good way to spend tax dollars? Would people actually ride it?
• President Obama's poll numbers have been falling like a rock since his primetime new conference last week. John and Cisco crunched the numbers with David Mark, Senior Editor for The Politico.
• Were you planning on taking advantage of the government's Cash for Clunkers program? The government has "recalibrated" the numbers and now half of the vehicles are no longer eligable.
• Michigan Congressman Thaddeous McCotter has introduced a resolution calling on the President to apologize for his remarks over the Gates incident. Is that a smart move for a Republican.
• James E. Causey with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel used to live in Cambridge and had a very similar situation to Gates, but he handled it very very differently.

• The Barack Obama birth certificate flap rages on. Yesterday Chris Matthews had G. Gordon Liddy on his show, and he didn't make the right look too good.
• In an interview yesterday Obama said that he prays for guidance every day. Wasn't Bush criticized for saying exactly the same thing?
• Ratings for President Obama's prime time news conference this week were way down. Is it possible that even though Obama is still popular, he has become overexposed with all of the TV apperances.
• White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history yesterday, President Obama is already taking credit for the feat after he wore a Sox jacket to the All-Star game.
• Bret Baier is filling in for Chris Wallace this week, so he joined John and Cisco to preview Fox News Sunday.
• Should President Obama apologize after he said that the police in the Gates case "acted stupidly" during his press conference earlier this week?
• Wayne Allyn Root the Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008 has a new book coming out called "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts!"
• Hardees has come out with yet another potentially offensive it. John and Cisco threw caution to the wind and played to add. Do you find it offensive?
• Michael Medved joined John and Cisco previewed his show this afternoon, plus he also reviewed The Ugly Truth and talked about Mark Buehrle's perfect game.

• A conservative kisok will not be allowed at a mall in North Carolina. At least one passerby found their bumper stickers and posters racist and bigoted, and now the lease will be allowed to expire at the end of the month without an option to renew.
• July is the heart of bikini car wash season. One such car wash was rejected by the Make A Wish Foundation. Plus, a boys lacrosse team decided to try to compete with the cheerleaders by having their own bikini car wash. A passerby complained and they had to cancel it.
• In a rare win for gun control advocates, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a measure allowing a person with a concealed weapon permit in one state to also hide his firearm when visiting another state.
• An Ohio man has been jailed on terrorism charges and could face four years in jail, after a heated argument over car insurance allegedly escalated into death threats. He was 400 miles away from the telemarketer. Is this an overreaction on the part of the authorities?
• Before last night's press conference Rahm Emanuel said that the Obama administration has "saved" the economy. Could this turn out to be Obama's "Mission Accomplished" moment? John and Cisco talked to Matt Lewis from PoliticsDaily.com.
• According to CareerBuilder.com, Hiring managers have gotten some really weird answers in job interviews.
• Preview of ObamaCare? An airman went in for gall bladder surgery and woke up without legs. They nicked his aorta in the surgery, they delayed getting him to another hospital, and they ended up cutting off his legs.
• A Wisconsin homeowners association has voted to ban residents from smoking in their own homes. John and Cisco talked to Dave Hanvelt, president of the Fairfax Parkside Homeowners Association in Eau Claire, WI.
• President Obama stepped in it last night during the press conference when he was asked about the Henry Louis Gates arrest, he said that the cops acted stupidly.
• John and Cisco checked in with columnist S.E. Cupp, she thinks that the President's numbers on health care are a little sketchy.
• Dennis Miller has a live show in Chicago coming up in September. Right now Dennis is in San Diego for ComiCon. 

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a Twitter video related to the state's budget crisis in which he picks up an oversized knife and jokes about autographing state vehicles.

• There was more excitement at a townhall meeting yesterday. Do the people who continually scream about President Obama's birth certificate reflect badly on the Republican Party?
• The Secret Service was practicing for a Presidential visit yesterday, plus NORAD was performing drills last night. How nervous do you get when you see helicopters and fighter jets flying overhead unannounced?
• An Austrailian made burst into flames after being tased by the police. He was covered in gasoline at the time. The man was clearly a danger to those around him, is there anything else that the cops could have done?
• Regina Benjamin is President Obama's pick to be Surgeon General and could be described as overweight. Does it bother you that the spokesperson for healthy living in the United States is overweight?
• Charges against Henry Louis Gates have been dropped, so he won't face time for breaking into his own house. Do you buy the charges that his arrest was racialy motivated or do you think the police were just being cautious?
• Todd Starnes from Fox News Radio updated John and Cisco on the healthcare debate. It is looking less and less likely that there will be a bill any time soon. Plus HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebilius heard from a few hecklers at her townhall meeting on healthcare.
• The generation that survived the Great Depression and fought it World War II are the "Greatest Generation," Chicago Tribune columnist Dennis Byrne says that thanks to all of the bailouts and deficits the Baby Boomers may be the "Worst Generation."
• The downward spiral in the economy is leading to people to drop a formal burial and bury loved ones in the back yard. Would you have a problem if one of your neighors did that?
• The UIC College of Nursing has received a $3 million federal grant to continue research to identify risk factors for excessive drinking among lesbians.

• Congressman Mark Kirk announced his run for Senate yesterday. John's annoyed by the fact that there were protestors there on what should have been a positive day.
• RNC Chairman Michael Steele called President Obama health plan "socialist" yesterday. Steele is starting to sound like an opposition leader, and he managed to get a surprising confession from Chris Matthews yesterday.
• Senator Jim DeMint said that healthcare could be President Obama's Waterloo. Is that a good political strategy? Was it a good idea to actually say it publicly?
• Great Moments in Racial Insensitivity: Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Channel had to apologize for comments about "pure species" intermarrying.
• The Cook County board is going to cut taxes by a half penny, assuming of course that Todd Stroger doesn't veto it. If you saw a half penny on the street, would you stop to pick it up?
• President Obama pledged to trim $100 million from the $2 trillion budget, to fight runaway federal spending. Monday was the dealine. So how is it going? We checked in with Liz McDonald from the Fox Business Network.
• Elgin is stepping up their graffiti laws to target parents of kids caught defacing property. Is that the best way to fight taggers?
• President Barack Obama dove into the political street-fight threatening his signature issue Monday. The Dems would like to have a bill on the floor this week, could it happen? John and Cisco got an update from Chris Frates, Health Care Reporter for The Politico.
• On The View yesterday, Whoopi Goldberg questioned whether or not we actually landed on the Moon. Goldberg was lucky that Apollo 11 Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin wasn't on set. We've seen how Buzz deals with the consiracy theorists:

• Today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. A new poll says that 6% think that it was fakes. Do you believe it's possible that the Moon landing never actually happened?
• One of the prostitutes that Elliot Spitzer used claims that she also did business with another governor, one with a prominent wife. Who do you think it was?
• Governor Pat Quinn joined John and Cisco to talk about his surprise visit to Kuwait and Iraq.
• A US soldier has been captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. He claims that he had wondered off by himself when he was nabbed. Is it possible for soldiers to just wonder off like that?
• Former NASA astronaut Tom Jones joined John and Cisco to talk about the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
• Congressman Mark Kirk joined John and Cisco to talk about his announcement coming up later today, and Cisco held his feet to the fire on Cap and Trade. Did Mark Kirk change your mind, will you support him now?
• The biggest topic on the Sunday talks shows was the debate over health care reform. Now there is talk of rationing, are you getting more uneasy as the debate goes on?
• Gun of the day update: Missouri car dealership gives away AK-47 with purchase of a new truck.
• Great Moments in Racial Insensitivity: Sen. Barbara Boxer stepped in it with the leader of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Plus, Big John had his own moment last week.