KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT: Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School, Hoover Institution re Obama and the Supreme Court, re Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein's updated article "Obama: the University of Chicago Democrat."

720P: L. Gordon Crovitz WSJ Information Age columnist, "Inherently Risky Business," re the unknown unknowns of risk management, re we don't know what we don't know, re animal spirits not reason move markets; the next crisis is guaranteed to be unheard of.  Mention the sweet detail that "unknown unknowns" is short-handed as unk unks.

735P: Roundtable with John Anderson author "Follow the Money"  and Larry Johnson No Quarter, re Obama takes the money, re the FISA accomodation by Steny Hoyer and the House Majority: Feingold of Wisconsin called the deal "a capitulation," by his party.  

750P: Continued.  Re the "Certifcate of Live Birth" document produced on the Daily Kos and challenged as non authentic by the Free Republic site.  Also another Hawaiian citizen's certificate is shown alongside Obama's on the No Quarter site, revealing puzzling inconsistencies.  

805P: Roundtable with John Fund WSJ and Craig Unger Vanity Fair, re the Obamas change their minds and drop out of public financing because they can raise so much money without inconvenience, and the first humdinger "Follow the Money" story since Richard Nixon's Creep campaign of 1972 and the launch of all this campaign finance reform palaver.  Re the New Republic Noam Scheiber inquiry: Is Barack Obama more or less cynical than Bill Clinton 1992?

820P: Continued.  Mention that the sudden apperance at a Democratic Party governors' event on Friday of a highly derivative seal on the podium "Obama for America" has entertained everyone so far, and immeidately reminds of the ambition of President Nixon to upgrade and aggrandize the Secret Service uniforms of his second administration with accessories that the eminent historian Stanley Karnow once called "Ruritanian."  Linking the tyro Mr. Obama and the tyrant  Mr. Nixon is such an outlandish notion that it is impossible to resist.  Fornow, a stroll down memory lane to a snapshot of the amazing fancy dress hats of the Nixon Secret Service, designed, we were once told, by the president himself.  The Obama campaign is self-consciously stylish, and we can hope for a signature clothing line and sunglass product line soon enough, replacing the vapid Sean James with an edgy and ubiquitous  "O."  Bonaparte understood branding, too, with the very successful "N."  I have a theme.  More soon.

835P: Robert Tomsho WSJ re the Don Quixote Age and the new rise of wind power, re the prospect of wind energy from sea-based units.

850P: Ann Marlowe Weekly Standard re Afghanistan turmoil, the Taliban around Kandahar, the border dispute with Pakistan's tribal areas, re NATO to the rescue?

905P: Richard Lapper FT Latin America re the Latin government subsidies for fuel,the fear of inflation, meanwhile  Caracas swimming in oil and SUVs.

920P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re Hubble, re Mars Phoenix Lander and no water yet.

935P: Benjamin Wittes, Brookings and Hoover, author "Law and the Long War," re Guantanomo, torture, wiretaps, warrants and the supersecret, only seen once FISA court inside the Justice Building.  The problem with FISA?  "It is overdeveloped -- or perhaps misdeveloped."

955P: Exeunt re drill, drill, drill and spot oil trading.