• The Lockerbie bomber returned to a heroes welcome in Lybia. Does it anger you that he was released from jail?
• A new study suggests that contrary to popular belief, short people do not get picked on more than anyone else.
• Chris Wallace joined John and Cisco to preview Fox News Sunday, and also talked about the death of CBS news pioneer Don Hewitt this week.
• Sometimes TV interviews just go terribly wrong. Former Sopranos star Jamie Lynn Seigler had to answer an awkward question on her boyfriend. Plus President Obama had to answer questions about NASCAR, when he has never seen a race.
• The feds announced yesterday that the Cash for Clunkers program will end on Monday. Liz Claman from the Fox Business Network joined John and Cisco to talk about how the program has worked out.
• Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has a new book coming out that says that some officials in the Bush administration asked for the terrorist threat level to be raised close to the 2004 election, but President Bush vetoed it.
• In a speech yesterday, President Obama said that the angst over the health care issue is just people getting "all wee-weed up." What do you think the President meant by that?
• Michael Medved joined John and Cisco to preview his show, and also give a review of Inglorious Basterds.

• Sen. Durbin won't hold any townhall meetings, so we're holding our own outside his Chicago office on 8/22 details here: http://bit.ly/pNL38
• Two would-be robbers were shot in Milwaukee. The crooks were shot by customers in the store who just happened to be armed at the time.
• Oprah Winfrey has a bit of a drug problem. A drug dealer was buster in the area around her studio.
• A man in New York may have paid an Israeli man $20,000 for a kidney. Selling organs is illegal in the United States. If you can sell things like your life experience, why shouldn't you be able to sell your organs?
• Jesse Jackson Jr. was interviewed yesterday and compared the Obama health care plan to the US post office. Is that a comparison that you really want to make?
• Gun of the Day Update: Chris Matthews invited a gun advocate on the show to talk about protestors bringing guns to health care townhalls.
• Fox News Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano joined John and Cisco to talk about the White House email debacle. Napolitano believes that we should be worried about how tech savvy the Obama White House is.
• The Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing is to be freed on compassionate grounds. Do you think it was right let him go because he only has three months to live?
• What question would you like us to ask at our townhall meeting at Senator Durbin's office.
• Tom Bevan with Real Clear Politics joined John and Cisco to talk about the Illinois Senate race. The most recent polling shows Mark Kirk up by a couple of points. Could there be a GOP tsunami in 2010?

Cook County Forest Preserve police and agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday destroyed an elaborate marijuana-growing operation tucked away in a patch of woods in Palos Township.

• End of the World Update: Times are tough out there, Exhibit a) A woman is selling off her grave site to make enough money to pay the bills. Exhibit b) An Arkansas woman is auctioning the naming rights to her baby on eBay.
• PETA is in hot water for a new ad that seems to be targeting overweight people.
• The White House and Democrats in Congress keep going back and forth about the life and death of the public option. Cisco thinks this is all just a ploy to get the liberal base to show up to townhall meetings too.
• The city of Naperville is trying to oust homeless man Scott Huber. He says that he's protesting, they say that he has literally set up a home on the town square. John and Cisco talked about the situation with Naperville City Councilman Richard Furstenau.
• A bill making its way through the House would allow people to deduct up to $3,500 for pet-related expenses. People love their pets, but is this a good idea?
• Congressman Tom Price the GOP point man on health care joined John and Cisco to talk about the latest on the health care debate, and also the possiblity of partially government-owned health co-ops.
• Careerbuilder has compiled a list of the oddest employee complaints.
• Officials in Canada are hunting for a father who let his seven year old child drive a car. Is this bad parenting or is it perfectly normal to allow your kids to do things like this?
• A family is suing St. Ignatious after their child was paralyzed when he dove into a shallow pool and hit his head. The family says that he was bullied and egged on to do it. Should the school be held accountable?

Dick Durbin says he's not going to face the voters in a townhall meeting so we're taking the townhall meeting to him.  Join us Saturday, August 22 for a townhall meeting outside Dick Durbin's Chicago office.  Click HERE for all of the details.  Be sure to tell your friends, family, and neighbors to join us in a show of force!

• Former Republican Congressman Tom Delay will be on Dancing with The Stars this season. Are there any other politicians skilled at the DC two-step that you'd like to see on the show?
• 130 million credit and debit card numbers have been stolen. Federal prosecutors have formally charged 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez. It might be a good idea to look at your statement.
• Michael Jackson's family is still arguing over where to bury the self-described King of Pop, so he's actually frozen right now. Would you want to be frozen so you could be brought back one day?
• Sen. Dick Durbin wrote a recommendation letter for a subpar student to get into elite Chicago public school. Was Durbin abusing his position or was it appropriate for him to try to help a staffer?
• Mike Allen the White House Correspondent for The Politico joined John and Cisco to talk about David Axelrod's spam emails. Thanks to Major Garrett with Fox News calling them out, the White House will change its email policies to keep people from getting unwanted spam from the Oval Office.
• A man showed up at a townhall with an AR-15 rifle. Is that just a citizen exercising their 2nd amendment rights, or a distraction from the health care debate?
• Could the GOP turn the anger over the health care debate into a big win in 2010? John and Cisco checked in with Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner.
• John and Cisco Health Desk: Obsessing over eating healthy can actually be bad for your health.
• Was Alcohol A Factor?: A Boston draw-bridge operator failed to raise the bridge for a boat. He claims that he fell asleep, but John believes that he may have had a few beverages.

A man who supports the 2nd amendment carried a military style AR-15 type rifle during the rally opposed to Obama. Is this just someone exercising their rights, or is it a distraction from the debate over health care?

• Mayor Tom Barrett in Milwaukee was beaten with a pipe at the Wisconsin State Fair over the weekend when he was trying to help a bystander who was being robbed.
• John and Cisco Health Update: A new study reveals that multitasking can cause permanent neurological damage.
• Gun of The Day Update: Mayor Daley was dissapointed in the number of guns turned in over the weekend.
• Less than a month ago President Obama said he would not sign a health care bill without a public option, now they are saying that it is not that critical and it may even be dead.
• Jenifer Keiper from Fox News Radio joined John and Cisco to talk about the furlough day here in Chicago. The city is closed for business today in an effort to save $8.3 million on their budget.
• A Chicago PD officer was detained after he jokingly showed his firearm to a mall employee. Is the cop at fault for joking about his firearm, or was the mall employee overreacting?
• Some colleges in Canada are instituting a new "FD" grade, "failure with dishonesty" for students who cheat. Do you think it's a good idea to make an example of cheaters and mark them for life?
• News reports are spinning the debate over health care as a racial matter. Do you care more about Obama's race or his policies?
• Congressman Aaron Schock joined John and Cisco to talk about the latest in the health care debate. Several people in Congress and at the White House are now saying that the public option is dead.

• Sheila Jackson-Lee is in some hot water after she took a call during a townhall meeting. She was interviewed about the incident by Rick Sanchez on CNN and may have made herself look even worse.
• The House finance committee has removed the provisions in the health bill calling for a government panel to make health care decisions. Is that enough for you, or will you continue the fight?
• David Axelrod has been using the White House email database to send out messages in favor of the health care plan. Didn't the White House say that they were not collecting information on people?
• Dick Durbin is refusing to have any townhall meetings on health care, saying that the opposition is nothing but a talk radio conspiracy. Are you part of a conspiracy?
• Cisco has made a decision about whether or nor to run for the US Senate. You can read about it at his personal website: CiscoCotto.com
• John Kass from the Chicago Tribune joined Cisco to talk about his column on crime in Lincoln Park versus other areas of the city.
• Tony Blankley was one of former Speaker Newt Gingrich's top advisors during the Contract With America era. He joined Cisco to talk about whether or not the Republicans could turn this health care debate into another GOP tsunami in 2010.
• Michael Medved joined Cisco to preview his show and also weigh in on the House finance committee removing the provisions in the health bill calling for a government panel to make health care decisions. 

Cisco has made a decision about whether or nor to run for the US Senate. You can read about it at his personal website: CiscoCotto.com

• Democrats are claiming that opposition to the health care plan is being manufactured by the Republicans, but President Obama's PAC is sending out emails asking people to go to their reps office in person. Doesn't that sound like "astroturfing"?
• Governor Pat Quinn signed new laws Tuesday designed to limit sex offenders' use of technology as a way to find more victims. Is this an invasion of privacy or just a smart precaution?
• A survey of economists by the WSJ suggests that the recession is over. Cisco talked to Stuart Varney from the Fox Business Network, who isn't quite convinced.
• Hillary Clinton stepped in it again yesterday, saying that people in Nigeria shouldn't feel too bad about their political corruption problems since we had to deal with the 2000 election.
• Media pundits have accused the GOP of invoking Nazi imagery in the debate over health care. But it turns out that the people doing that are actually Lyndon LaRouche supporters.
• At Obama's townhall on Tuesday he claimed that the AARP has endorsed his health care plan, Jake Tapper with ABC called out Robert Gibbs at the press briefing yesterday.
• Adam Andrzejewski is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in Illinois in 2010. He joined Cisco to talk about why he thinks he would be the best choice for the GOP.
• Yesterday Senator Charles Grassley said that people are right to be concerned about the idea of the government having a panel that would help make medical decisions for patients.
• Bob Barr is a former Republican Congressman and the libertarian Presidential candidate in 2008. He believes that the debate over health care has become sophomoric, and it's not the people at the townhalls who have done it. 

Adam Andrzejewski stopped the studio today to talk about his campaign to become the next Governor of Illinois.

• President Obama's townhall meeting yesterday was more civil than most, which may have something to do with the DNC paying people to come out and support it. Sen. Claire McCaskill though ended up sounding like a teacher or an angry soccer mom.
• Arlen Specter townhall may have gone the worst. He falsely said that polls show that people are in favor of single payer health care.
• President Obama implied at his town hall that doctors may decide to amputate the feet of a diabetic patient instead of working on a diet.  
• Lt. Col. Jeff Addicott is a former green beret and is now the Director of the Center for Terrorism Law. He joined Cisco to talk about the recent resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
• Obama fielded a very friendly question from an 11 year old at his townhall yesterday. It turns out that her mother was a big Obama donor and has been working on promoting the health care plan.
• Mayor Daley says that taxes are going up, but not as much as they could. So that doesn't really count. Do you agree?
• A couple of months ago the DHS released a report saying that veterans could come back from combat and become terrorists. It turns out that they had virtually no data to back up that claim.
• Democrats have been acusing Republicans of paying operatives to oppose ObamaCare, but posts on Craigslist offer people money to go to townhall meetings in support of ObamaCare. Cisco talked to Erick Erickson, the editor in chief of Redstate.com, the website that found the Craigslist postings.

• Cisco really is considering a run for the US Senate. He says he will make a decision this week, and talked a little about his thought process.
• President Obama is headed to a townhall meeting on health care today. Do you think he'll actually take any tough questions? Cisco got a preview with Rich Johnson from Fox News Radio.
• Yesterday Hillary Clinton did not react well when an interpreter accidentallly asked her what Bill thought about an issue.
• The mainstream media has found a new spin on the townhall protestors, now people just don't have the right information on the health care bill.
• Can Mark Kirk win the general election in the Illinois Senate race? Sean Trende with Real Clear Politics has taken an in-depth look at the history of Illinois senate races.
• Gun of the Day update: Anti-gun activists are nervous after a pro-gun group showed up at the Black Women's Expo here in Chicago.
• GM is trying to sell more cars by putting some of them up for auction on eBay. Cisco talked about the program with Jennifer Keiper from Fox News Radio.
• House Democratic leaders have set up a healthcare “war room” to help their rank-and-file members deal with the townhalls. What happened to the promise of transperancy?
• Dr. Donald Palmisano is a former head of the American Medical Association. He says that ObamaCare would be a threat to the world class medicine that we enjoy here in the US.

• People were mad about the House spending $200 million on a pair of new jets. It turns out they're spending $500 million. Has Congress lost any sense of fiscal responsibility?
• Steve Chapman in the Tribune over the weekend had a column talking about how Cash for Clunkers could potentially keep higher mileage cars off the road.
• Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have an opinion column in USA Today describing people who protest against ObamaCare as "Unamerican." 
• There's a new line of attack against the townhall protestors, now Tom Harkin is saying that you just don't know anything about the plan and if people did, everyone would support it.
• Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says that the people at townhall meetings protesting ObamaCare are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
• Author and Columnist S.E. Cupp joined Cisco to talk about the Democrats reactions to the people protesting against the health care plan.
• Mayor Daley friend Michael Scott, a member of the Chicago 2016 committee, could financially benefit from a proposed project near the site of a potential Olympic venue.
• The unemployment rate dropped last month to 9.4%. We'll talk about President Obama's reaction with Andy Barr from The Politico.