True North Radio This Week

Here's the lineup for TRUE NORTH for the week of June 27, 2005:

Monday: David Klein is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Northridge, and the lead author of the 2005 Fordham Foundation analysis of the state of state math standards, which rated Vermont’s standards as very poor: as D-level. David holds a B.S. in physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Cornell University. He has held teaching and research positions at Louisiana State University, UCLA, and the University of Southern California, and was a guest scholar at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Klein has testified about mathematics education in forums ranging from local school boards to a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. He has served on official panels to review K–8 mathematics curriculum submissions for statewide adoption in California, and was appointed by the California State Board of Education to review and evaluate professional development proposals for California mathematics teachers. He has also been a mathematics content director for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. We’ll be discussing the main problems with the way math is being taught in our public schools.

Tuesday: Ed Klein, author of the controversial new best-seller The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go To Become President. Klein, who is no right-winger, is being attacked by the Left and the Right alike for this book. Some have suggested this book’s purpose is to “inoculate” the public against some of the concerns voters may have Mrs. Clinton’s character and personal history. (Since the book has been excerpted in Vanity Fair, that’s not as wild an assertion as it may seem.) Surprisingly, a number of Republicans are leaping to defend Mrs. Clinton—without being able to disprove anything Klein says. The generous-spirited Peggy Noonan, for example, argues, strangely, that Hillary can’t be as awful as Klein makes her out to be. (I, on the other hand, recognize Klein’s Hillary as a “type” very familiar on college faculties, starting in the late 1970s.) This is a riveting, and a chilling, portrait of a woman now bent on her third term as President.

Wednesday: Ken Masugi, the Director of the Center for Local Government at the Claremont Institute; the Center’s purpose is to apply the principles of the American Founding to the theory and practice of local government, the cradle of American self-government. Ken served as a special assistant to then-Chairman Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, then held a number of prestigious university appointments, including as the Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He’s the co-author and co-editor of numerous scholarly books about American government, and is also widely published in places like the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Washington Post, Washington Times, National Review, and the Weekly Standard. We’ll be discussing the Supreme Court’s ‘eminent domain’ decision in Kelo v. New London, which makes it legal for city governments to seize private property that will NOT be in “public use,” in order to increase a city’s tax base.

Thursday: Bill Sayre, formerly with the U.S. Federal Reserve, now a Member of the Board of Directors of Associated Industries of Vermont; of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce; and of the Vermont Forest Products Association. A student of Milton Friedman's (among other Nobel Laureates), Bill received his MBA in economics/finance from the University of Chicago.

Friday: Col. Gordon Cucullu, military analyst for the Fox News Channel and for New York's WABC-TV and WABC-radio, and for TRUE NORTH! Gordon is the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin. Check out Gordon's beautiful and content-rich website. Gordon will be telling us about his trip last week to GITMO, the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

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