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Class Warfare
and
Frank Schaeffer, co-authors, AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (Collins, 2006)
- discuss the lack of the upper middle class in the military
» AWOL publisher page
Down the Hatch
- explores the phenomenon of competitive eating on the day of Nathan's Famous 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest
» Nathan's Hot Dog Contestwebsite
The Border: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"
and
Muzaffar Chishti, immigraton attorney and director of the Migration Policy Institute’s office in New York
whether America still wants “your tired your poor” 120 years after the Statue of Liberty was built
Open Phones
Class Warfare
Frank Schaeffer, co-author of AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country (with ...
Down the Hatch
Jason Fagone, author of Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream talking about the phenomenon of competitive ...
The Border: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"
Joseph Salvo, director of the Population Division at the Department of City Planning and Muzaffar Chishti, immigraton ...
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Required Reading: 7/4/2006
Washington Post: Lieberman May Run as Independent (Washington Post)
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden (NY Times)
The military's problem with the President's Iran policy (New Yorker)
National Journal: Bush Told Prosecutors He 'Directed' Cheney To Discredit Joe Wilson... (National Journal)
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