Vic Eliason finished this week of Crosstalk broadcasts by presenting this edition that featured a wide variety of news stories including:

--445 million dollars allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting during the government “shutdown”.

--The U.S. Government is shut down while Camp David is open for presidential pleasure.

--U.S. government tries to shut down Mount Vernon despite the fact that it's privately owned.

--Elderly veterans find access to Mount Rushmore barricaded.

--OK given to allowing back pay for furloughed federal workers.

--Political opponents calling GOP members jihadists, arsonists and terrorists.

--U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently paid $98,670 for the purchase and installation of an outhouse in Alaska.

--President Obama continues to spread fear about the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling.

--In response to the government “shutdown”, the White House closes some tourist attractions even though it costs more to close them than to leave them open.

--25 House Democrats broke ranks with their party leaders to join House Republicans in a 254-177 vote to pass a bill funding the National Institutes of Health through fiscal 2014.

--Late term abortion defender announces run for governor's office in Texas.

--Tennessee Presbyterian church to donate funds to an abortion facility.

--California governor to allow driver's permits for illegal immigrants.

--Prime Minister David Cameron thinks pushing gay marriage through Parliament was a political mistake.

--Parents sue to stop indoctrination of Kindergarten students to evolution and global warming as if these topics are scientific fact.

--Anita Perry, wife of governor Rick Perry, feels abortion is a woman's right.