WABC-AM New York /WMAL-AM Washington /KSFO San Francisco Sunday 20 July.

"Murphy's Law is often misinterpreted," Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy's Law, told me. "The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes."

705P ET: John Bolton, AEI, frmr U.S. Ambassador United Nations, re Iran, Israel and the bomb, re the surprise decision by the Bush Administration to send an envoy to Tehran for direct talks re Iraq and nuclear weapons.

720P: Keith Cavele, filmmaker, re his project, "Stand Tall for the Children of Sichuan," re working with the high school survivors of Bi-Chuan High School, where 700 of 2000 died in the May 12, 2008, earthquake in western China.

735P: Professional roundtable with Jim McTague, Barron's; Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com; and Bill Whalen, Hoover, re campaign week: Obama $52 million on pace for nonpublic funding;McCain boosts Detroit and campaigns for Michigan; re Obama goes to Europe and Iraq; what is the flap about the Brandenburg Gate?   McCain camp argues; re Bush sues for peace with Iran; re Afghanistan sinking.  "It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Senator McCain on important economic issues facing the country," Phil Gramm said, quitting the McCain campaign, late Friday July 18. 

750P: Continued re the dreadful state of the banks and Fan and Fred vs Barney; re Al Gore's address on carbon tax, re the politics of drilling and taxes.   "We should tax what we burn, not what we earn," Al Gore told the crowd at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Friday 18 July.

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC Kudlow and Company, re Fed Watch, will Berbank raise rates to stem inflation?  Re the banks.  Re Fan/Fred rescue necessary?  Re EU slowdown.  ReCongress and drilling.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re Olmert troubles worse, re unequal exchange of corpses, re Assad and Sarkozy, re Bush surrender to Tehran?

835P:  Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation, re FISA and Obama, re Obama goes to Europe; re credit crisis and Fan/Fred bailout; Fed and Treasury stalling and whistling.  Re Coutrywide, IndyMac and more banks to fail.

850P:  Daoud Sultanzoy, MP Ghanzi Province, Afghanistan, from Kabul re Barack Obama's visit to President Karzai and call for more troops, re corruption the major threat, re the American FOB KIA episode in Kunar Province, re Afghanistan and the 44th president.

905P:  Aaron Klein, Wnd.com, re the exchange of terrorists for murdered IDF soldiers, re the Iran threat, re the rearming of Gaza.  Watch for late surprise guest.

920P: Siobhan Gorman, WSJ, re soldiers of fortune and black ops private security services, re MVM, Blackwater and others, re shortages of personnel for the demand.  "The State Department terminated a nonclassified MVM contract guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, citing inadequate personnel in that case as well. Among the issues: The firm provided a crew of Peruvian guards who couldn't speak sufficient English, Mr. Marquez acknowledges."

935P: Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, "Kingmakers," continuing our conversation of some weeks back re "The Invention of the Modern Middle East," featuring the tyros D.H. Lawrence, Kermit Roosevelt and Paul Wolfowitz.  With attention to the ramshackle and bloody-minded CIA plot, Operation Boot, that removed P.M. Mossadeq and installed the reluctant Shah Pahlevi in 1952, fixing the deep-seated Iranian disdain for Washington diplomacy to this day.

955P:  Exeunt re the first ever Triple Neo, re water on the moon.