Larry will interview several great guests upcoming on Car Concerns. If you can’t listen live, then the archived interviews are available at www.CarConcerns.com. All these interviews will be recorded at 10:00 a.m. EDT (9:00 a.m. CDT) on the dates listed below.

On Thursday, May 21, 2009, we’re going to have Rick Shenkman, the author of How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter. Rick has been on The Daily Show and Lou Dobbs. The title of his book tells it all. Should be a great give and take with Rick and our listeners.

On Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Mike Lux will be our guest. Mike was supposed to be on last Thursday, but his plane got caught in a thunderstorm, so he was literally up in the air while the show was going on. Mike is the author of The Progressive Revolution. Harry Truman used to say there was really nothing new in the world, there’s only all the history you don’t know. Mike has written a terrifically readable history of the main themes of political conflict in America since the days before the Revolution and really taught me some history I didn’t know. The last time I read something so enjoyable and enlightening at the same time was when I read William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream. We’re for sure going to have a lively and informative hour.

With the financial crisis we’ve been having, we have all been learning more and more about banking. But how accurate is the knowledge we’re getting, particularly about the Fed and its role in modern US banking? To help us sort the information from the disinformation, Larry has booked Professor Harold Black of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the studio with Harry on Thursday, May 28, 2009. Professor Black is UTK’s subject matter expert on the workings of the Fed.

Whether you’re building a house, baking a cake or playing Tic Tac Toe, if you don’t start out well the percentages are against you for having a good outcome.

Don’t believe me? Try building a house without pouring a foundation that is square and level and then try to square the walls or put the roof on straight. Try baking a cake without greasing the pan first. Try to win at Tic Tac Toe without making an X in the middle square on the first turn. I’m not saying these things can’t be done, but the effort required is much greater than if you did things right the first time.

A series by the Omaha World Herald on high school dropouts and graduation rates illustrates this point very well. The higher the truancy rates, the lower the grades. The lower the grades in Elementary School, the more likely the student is to not graduate.

Not only do we have a child dropping out of school, but the society will likely be burdened by someone incapable of being a productive and self sustaining citizen. Worse yet, that child may become dependent on the state.

Education is made even more difficult by the . . .

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