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The 9/11 Commission (9-11commission.gov)Commission Accomplished?
The Democratic-controlled House plans to adopt the final 9/11 Commission proposals. The proposals would change the formula for Homeland Security funding, but what will it mean for New York? Also: neocon scholar Robert Kagan makes the case for a troop surge in Iraq.
Commission Accomplished?
Richard Ben-Veniste, member of the 9/11 Commission and former chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975, member of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Interagency Working Group Roster
- on the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations that the Democratic Congress plans to enact during its first 100 hours
Baby's First Controversy
Jason Sperber, co-founder and coordinator of the group blog by Asian American dads, Rice Daddies, and has his own blog at
daddyinastrangeland.com, and writes for
antiracistparent.com--and the father of a 2-year-old daughter
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talks about the Toys R Us debacle over the first New Year's baby
Daddy Dearest
Neal Pollack, author, Alternadad (Pantheon Books 2006)
- talks about being a father who refuses to grow up
Alternadad is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Risk Assessment
Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, project director at the Project for a New American Century and author, Dangerous Nations (Knopf 2006)
- talks about American foreign policy in the post 9/11 world
Dangerous Nation is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Open Phones: Crime and Property Values
- Listener calls on whether they're in denial about crime in their expensive neighborhoods
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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.- Comments [40]
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!- Comments [15]
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!- Comments [172]
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.
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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.
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