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    Enter Stage Right

    Columnist and playwright William Tucker thinks the political situation in Iraq today is analogous to America on the eve of the constitutional convention. Now he’s hoping to teach Iraqis federalism through a play he wrote about the founding fathers. Also, the Dallas Morning News’ Ruben Navarrette, Jr., Saudi Arabia in flux, and Michael Bloomberg, reticent Republican.

    Bill Tucker, playwright and columnist:
    "The Kurds are in a similar position to Maryland at the constitutional convention."

Dallas

Ruben Navarrette, Jr. syndicated columnist, regular contributor to NPR's morning edition and member of the Dallas Morning News editorial sizes up the race for president

Enter Stage Right

Bill Tucker playwright and contributor to the Weekly Standard, American Spectator, and the New York Sun, wants his play about the Founding Fathers to teach Iraqis about democracy

Oil Friends

Thomas W. Lippman former Washington Post Middle East bureau chief, adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and author, Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia (Westview Press, 2004) on the US / Saudi Arabia relationship and its impact on the rest of Islam

True Red

Douglas Muzzio Professor of Political Science at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College
on Mayor Bloomberg’s relationship with the Republican party

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