• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the message of the NSA Scandal rather than the messenger
• Jacki Schechner calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT for another edition of Jacki’s Health Care Corner
• A U.N. team that is expected to investigate an alleged chemical attack near the Syrian capital Damascus that reportedly killed hundreds last week left their hotel Monday morning. Activists say between 322 and 1,300 people were killed in the alleged chemical attack on Wednesday.
• A northern California wildfire at Yosemite National Park grew to historic proportions early Monday, becoming the 14th largest in state history. It has scorched an area about the size of the city of Chicago while more than 3,400 firefighters try to rein it in.
• The “dream” of racial equality described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago at the March on Washington has not yet been fulfilled, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the last living speaker from the original march, said Sunday.
• Sen. Ted Cruz admitted on Sunday he doesn’t have the votes yet to pass a budget resolution to defund Obamacare, adding it will take “a grass-roots tsunami” to back his plan to pass a budget continuing resolution in September that strips all funding for President Obama’s health care law.
