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Monday Morning Politics
We begin our 2006 election series, “30 Issues in 30 Days.” As most of the media track the political horserace, we’ll tackle an issue a day, for 30 consecutive programs, to inform listener choices in the battle for control of congress, and for control of New York State. Issue #1: Do we need a war on terror? Also, Monday Morning Politics with James Carville and Paul Begala.
Party Animals
James Carville, political consultant, co-author, Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
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Paul Begala, political consultant, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, CNN contributor, co-author of Take It Back
- handicaps the Democrats' chances in this year's mid-terms
» James Carville's website
» Paul Begala's bio on CNN
Take It Back is available for purchase at Amazon.com
What $4 Buys You
Charles Fishman, Senior Writer, Fast Company, author, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy (Penguin, 2006)
and
John Simons, business writer, Fortune magazine
- discuss the impact of Wal-Mart slashing select generic prescription drugs to $4.
» Fast Company
30 Issues In 30 Days: Do We Need a War on Terror?
Max Boot, senior fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on
Foreign Relations, Los Angeles Times columnist and author of the forthcoming,
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (Gotham, 2006)
and
Ian Lustick, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania
and author,
Trapped in the War on Terror (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
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» Prof. Lustick’s faculty page
» Max Boot at the LA Times
War Made New and Trapped in the War on Terror are available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Open Phones
Brian takes calls from swing voters in New Jersey and New York to find out why they are still undecided about the upcoming elections.
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