For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: U.S. to lose it's AAA rating?

The dollar extended declines today after Treasuries and American stocks slumped on concern the U.S. government’s debt rating may at some point be lowered. Bill Gross, the co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. “eventually” will lose its AAA grade...Gross said in an interview yesterday on Bloomberg Television that while a U.S. sovereign rating cut is “certainly nothing that’s going to happen overnight,” markets are “beginning to anticipate the possibility.” Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, speaking in Hong Kong today, nevertheless argues it’s “hard to believe” the U.S. would ever default.

Is Gross right, or is he greatly exaggerating? If the full faith ...

Topics in today's show: President Obama gets heckled at Notre Dame, a new poll shows a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, Chrysler will close 1000 dealerships, and Vanessa Hudgens is upset that Zac Efron wont propose to her.

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Starring: Jodi Miller
Director: Bruce Roundtower
Executive Producer: Matthew Sheffield

Topics in today's show: President Obama gets heckled at Notre Dame, a new poll shows a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, Chrysler will close 1000 dealerships, and Vanessa Hudgens is upset that Zac Efron wont propose to her.

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Starring: Jodi Miller
Director: Bruce Roundtower
Executive Producer: Matthew Sheffield

Topics in today's show: President Obama gets heckled at Notre Dame, a new poll shows a majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, Chrysler will close 1000 dealerships, and Vanessa Hudgens is upset that Zac Efron wont propose to her.

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Think you're funny? Send your (short) jokes to newsbusted at dialognewmedia.com. If we use them, we'll pay you USD $50 for each one.

Starring: Jodi Miller
Director: Bruce Roundtower
Executive Producer: Matthew Sheffield

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is Dick Cheney the Most Valuable Republican?

Dick Cheney is reminding Republicans that they need to defend themselves when attacked. When President Obama released the Justice Department interrogation memos a month ago, Cheney denounced him for doing so. He explained why it was inappropriate and unwise to release such documents. But he did more. He didn't just defend himself and the administration in which he served. He fought back, and encouraged others to do so. He challenged the president to release CIA memos evaluating the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation techniques. He raised the question of whether congressional Democrats--Nancy Pelosi, for one--had known of, and at least tacitly approved of, the allegedly horrifying abuses of the allegedly lawless Bush administration.

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