Sea Levels Rise, Lake Michigan drops

Published: Dec. 3, 2012, 6 p.m.

State Sen. Rob Hogg discusses the dramatic decline in water levels in Lake Michigan, despite higher than normal precipitation in recent years. Rob also encourages folks to contact Congressman Tom Latham to push more aggressively for the renewal of the wind energy tax credits. Also, Adil Khan discusses the bipartisan effort in the US Senate to protect civil liberties from further erosion of habeas corpus; and we discuss why President Obama is threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act over this issue. Finally, we talk with author Sean Faircloth, a former state legislator from Maine now with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, in Iowa to promote his about his new book on religious extremism, 'Attack of the Theocrats!'