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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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  • They Say It's Your Birthday

    Performance artist Sheryl Oring is traveling the country collecting birthday greetings for President Bush who turns 60 on July 6th. She started in Brooklyn and as she spells B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y with the cities she visits, she'll call in between Houston and Des Moines. Also, George Packer on the situation in Iraq, the next installment in "The Border" immigration series: is the immigration debate really about race? and differing views on Governor Corzine's proposed sales tax hike

Half Full or Half Empty?

George Packer, writer for the New Yorker and author, The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005)
- updates the situation in Iraq

» The New Yorker

» A cable sent from US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, which was leaked to the Washington Post (link opens a PDF)

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Sheryl Oring, artist, creator of "The Birthday Project" which marks the president's 60th birthday
- calls in from Des Moines on her interactive performance piece

» Sheryl Oring’s website

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The Border: Is Immigration Policy Race Based?

Chung Wha-Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition
- says immigration policy is racist
and
John Keeley, director of communication at Center for Immigration Studies
- says immigration policy is not racist

» Center for Immigration Studies

You, too, can join our flickr group The Border.

Photo: Water can for immigrants at Anza-Borrego desert, Robin Dude/flickr

Taxing Problem

Kevin O'Toole, New Jersey Assemblyman (R-Essex County), on the Budget Committee
and
Bernard F. Kenny, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader, (D-Hoboken)
- debate Gov. Corzine's proposed sales tax increase

» Assemblyman O’Toole’s webpage
» Majority Leader Kenny’s webpage
» Stop The Taxman

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Michael Moore on Brian's 20th Anniversary

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Help us map abandoned lots, stalled construction and unsold condos.

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