Mississippi will vote on a constitutional amendment declaring that embryos are people, a move that would outlaw abortion and could criminalize other birth control methods. Terry O’Neill with NOW joins us. Then, author Ken Ballen talks about Terrorists in Love.

Jeanne Guillemin is a leading expert on bioterrorism and in American Anthrax she gives the definitive account of the seven year investigation of the virulent spores that were sent through the mail killing several. Then Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler tells you how to handle yourself when in a fearful situation in Dangerous Instincts.

Susan Herman, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror in Taking Liberties.

Debunking 9/11 Myths expands on an article published in Popular Mechanics in March 2005, which deconstructs many of the myths surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Co-author,  David Dunbar responds to the conspiracy theories.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but among the memorials, political speeches, and news editorials, the most pressing consideration- and often the most overlooked is the lives and well being of the 9/11 first responders, their families, and the victims’ families over the past decade. Dennis Smith, a former firefighter and the author takes a look at A Decade of Hope.

In Top Secret America, award-winning reporter Dana Priest shows that a secret government was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks which has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. Then, Nikki Stern whose husband died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. She is the author of Because I Say So.

Stephen Glain‘s State vs. Defense characterizes all the great figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.

In the summer of 2006, as many as 18 conspirators planned to simultaneously blow up almost 10 airplanes by bringing hydrogen peroxide-injected soda-bottles-turned-bombs onto flights bound from London to the U.S. and Canada. Now, the National Geographic Channel, with access to undercover agents and top officials from British Counter-Terror Command, the CIA and Homeland Security, goes inside the true story behind the largest and most sophisticated terrorism plot since September 11, 2001, which changed airline security measures around the world. Kip Hawley, the former Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration is featured in “The Liquid Bomb Plot”.

Rev. Richard Killmer, Executive Director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture responds to the recent release of Wikileaks documents describing the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Then, Michael Zimmerman with Butler University discusses the good news in the battle to repeal Louisiana’s anti-evolution law with 42 Nobel laureates working to replace creationism with science in the state.

Conservative historian Larry Schweikart tackles some of the key issues confronting our nation today: education, government bailouts, gun control, health care and the environment in What Would The Founders Say?