Otto's Kansas Coffee Bar

Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss during the 2nd hour all manner of Kansas small town life after these news stories.

Counterspin (30 min.)  CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial. See: http://fair.org/

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)  See: http://fsrn.org/

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• Obama once again calls for gun law reform after yet another mass murder on campus
• Russia becomes the latest country to join Syria’s Civil War with airstrikes
• Italian police clear refugee camp along Mediterranean coast
• Missiles kill more than 130 people at a wedding party in Yemen
• Congress stages another shutdown showdown, toying with federal workers
• Shell suspends Arctic exploration; acidification already ravaging oceans
• Nomadic cattle herders in Cameroon lose traditional territory to land grabs

Co-hosted during the second hour with Rep. Bill Otto, formerly of the 9th district, in the Kansas legislature listen in to conversations with "Traditional Republicans" who have lived small town life in Kansas across the generations.