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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, October 31, 2005
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  • 30 Issues: Is Bloomberg a RINO?

    In a televised debate yesterday, Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer sought to link Mayor Bloomberg, a Republican, to President Bush, who is unpopular in New York. But many dyed-in-the-wool Republicans say Bloomberg, a former registered Democrat, is a “Republican in Name Only”, a RINO.

From Scooter to SCOTUS

Michael Isikoffinvestigative correspondent with Newsweek
- on the CIA leak investigation and President Bush's nomination of Sam Alito the the Supreme Court

» Newsweek

All About Alito

Glenn Reynolds, writes the blog Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee and author of the forthcoming book, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Nelson Current, 2006)
and
Frank Askin, law professor and founder of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University and author, Defending Rights: A Life in Law and Politics (Humanity Books, 1997)
- on President Bush's nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court

» Instapundit
» Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee Law)
» Frank Askin (Rutgers)

30 Issues: Is Bloomberg a RINO?

Juan Manuel Benitez, reporter and host of NY1 Noticias "Pura Politica"
and
Wayne Barrett, senior editor at the Village Voice, and author, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic Books, 2000)
- analyze the first mayoral debate and examine Mike Bloomberg's republican creds

» NY 1 Noticias
» The Village Voice

Cult of the Occult

Mary Roach, author, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (W. W. Norton, 2005)
- examines theories about the afterlife

» Spook (Norton)

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.