ISIS, California Prisoners, National Parks in Winter, Flu Shots

ISIS, California Prisoners, National Parks in Winter, Flu Shots

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 179

  • Nov 16, 2015 7:00 am
  • 103:21
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Rise of the Islamic State (1:03) Guest: Cole Bunzel, Author of “From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic State” which was published by the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World  The Islamic State terror groups has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks in Paris over the weekend that killed more than 120 people. The Islamic State also claimed responsibility for two deadly bombings in Lebanon earlier last week and the apparent bombing of a plane carrying more than two-hundred Russian tourists that crashed in Egypt a week and a half ago. All of this from a group once considered by US and other Western officials as less of a threat than Al Qaeda. How did the Islamic State become so powerful and are its goals changing as it rises?  You can read the full report here Proposition 47 Prisoners (23:18) Guest: Milena Blake, JD, Staff Attorney on Stanford’s Justice Advocacy Project  Overcrowded prisons are a problem nationwide, but they’ve become so serious in California that the US Supreme Court ordered a significant reduction in prison headcount by next year. Initially, the plan involved releasing some prisoners early and transferring others from federal prisons to county-run jails with more space.  Then California voters got involved. Last year they passed a proposition that converted six types of non-violent felonies into misdemeanors. And it’s retroactive, so a Stanford Law School report says some 13,000 people doing time in California prisons and jails on those offenses have had their sentences reduced and been released in the last year.  National Parks in Winter (42:42) Guest: Kurt Repanshek, Founder and Editor of NationalParksTraveler.com – the leading online resource for National Parks-related news  As winter approaches the temperature drops and the snow begins to fall. Sometimes there’s a powerful urge to snuggle up and wait out the winter from the comfort of a chair by the window. Shame that, because apparently there’s a lot to be appreciated out