"If you tax cigarettes and alcohol to reduce consumption, what do you think happens when you tax capital, businesses, and job creators?" - Chip

Featured on Monday's edition of Chip Franklin Mornings...

Clint Van Zandt, former supervisor of FBI's profiling unit and a former FBI hostage negotiator joined Chip to talk about the most recent conspiracy theory floating around Chris Dorner. "This joins the ranks of the grassy knoll and 9/11 being an inside job," Van Zandt said. Also: Occupy movement protests the LAPD over cop killer.

If you cross the border you run the risk of your elctronic devices being seized. Why? It's all a part of a little-known DHS step taken by both the Bush and Obama Admin. The San Diego ACLU joined Chip to tell us why this is a serious Constitutional issue.  

You wear perfume. Now you're charged with murder. Could that happen? What about a lawsuit for lack of overtime...while checking email?! @FredTecce answered these questions and a slew of others on this week's "IS IT LEGAL?"

The former San Diego mayor's EXTREME gambling problem - "It's not a tumor" - or is it?  Jacopo Annese, Ph.D. of the Brain Observatory weighed in on the Maureen O'Connor's excuse; amd its surprising validity... and how POKER could have actually made her tumor WORSE!

Joe Terzi is with the San Diego Tourism Authority - and he says Mayor Filner is damaging San Diego's second-largest industry. How? Joe joined Chip at 7:06.

Dirty hippies don't want the Keystone Pipeline; protest in SD over the weekend. "The water and air is cleaner than it has been in fifty years," Chip said. He continued, "If you REALLY want to focus on bad environment policies, avert your attention to China and India!"

"Imagine if the U.S. decided to unilaterally cut back on emmisions, what would that do? That would decrease supply with the demand still high. Thus, other countries would step in to meet the demand. Thus, they would create an even worse situation!"

California Police Chief: Guns are not a defensive weapon... Chip says, "I guess we need to disarm the military and Department of Defense then, eh, Chief James? He thinks your gun is offensive, as opposed to defensive, but I find THIS police chief offensive."

Nancy Pelosi slams congressional pay cuts: We need 'dignity of the job that we have rewarded'... Chip asked, "Wait, what dignity?"

If you see this guy talking to you online, you MAY wanna block him...

Chip asks, "If you meet people online, how do you trust them to be who they say they are?" Del Mar man meets La Mesa woman on ChristianMingle.com, rapes her.