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As House editor of the Cook Political Report, Dave Wasserman is in the thick of covering next year’s elections. Formerly of the U.Va Center for Politics, Wasserman is a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. This week he looks at the possibility of a primary or caucus before the end of the calendar year, the viability of John McCain’s candidacy, and he assesses the remaining candidates.
Jed Babbin is a former Air Force JAG officer who served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in the first Bush Administration. Also the Editor of Human Events, Babbin’s new book is called In The Words of Our Enemies, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about it.
“The whole reason for this book is to give people the chance to judge for themselves, and hopefully to push our government in ways that we may be able to avoid wars,”G,V he said. “Some people are talking against America and it’s just noise, but some people very quickly rise out of the noise level and we need to take steps against them before we have to go war.”
Wendy Fournier of the National Autism Association joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss legislation that contains an amendment that would restrict the federal government’s ability to purchase vaccines with thimerosal. President Bush has threatened a veto.
Charlottesville Blogger Rick Sincere joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a recent op-ed on hate crimes legislation he wrote for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.G,V Coy also makes reference to a companion op-ed penned by DyanaG,V Mason of Equality Virginia. Rick also talks about his visit to a Kwik-E-Mart, which he wrote about on his blog.
Dahlia Lithwick is Senior Editor at slate.com and a legal analyst for NPR’s Day to Day Program. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent rulings.
Jonathan Rintels of the group Creative Voices in Media join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about his organization, and the latest news on fines levied by the Federal Communications Commission on CBS and other networks for broadcasting “obscene” material transmitted during various awards shows.
Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D., a University of Virginia psychiatrist and director of the Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG), is a principal author of the 1999 study for the FBI, “The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective,” which can be downloaded from the FBI web site. Richard J. Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, is the chair of the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, which is addressing how the mental health and criminal justice systems intersect. Alison Malmon is executive director of Active Minds, Inc., the nation’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging young adults in mental health awareness, and is working to combat the stigma of mental illness. They spoke at a Miller Center of Public Affairs forum on June 25, 2007. This lecture concludes this season’s Miller Center forums. |
GAGE invited eleven of the nation’s most prominent intellectuals to think boldly and imaginatively about America’s future role in the world, and how the Bush Doctrine’s strategy of preemption, unilateralism, and assertive democratization is suited to U.S. foreign policy going forward. This is part three of three of that discussion held at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on June 7 and 8, 2007. |
GAGE invited eleven of the nation’s most prominent intellectuals to think boldly and imaginatively about America’s future role in the world, and how the Bush Doctrine’s strategy of preemption, unilateralism, and assertive democratization is suited to U.S. foreign policy going forward. This is part two of three of that discussion held at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on June 7 and 8, 2007. |
Morgan Felchner is the editor of Campaign and Elections Magazine, which is currently profiling the early professional days of the presidential candidates. This month, Barack Obama gets the treatment, and Felchner joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to update us on the 2008 election.
GAGE invited eleven of the nation’s most prominent intellectuals to think boldly and imaginatively about America’s future role in the world, and how the Bush Doctrine’s strategy of preemption, unilateralism, and assertive democratization is suited to U.S. foreign policy going forward. This is part one of three of that discussion held at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on June 7 and 8, 2007. |
Anthony Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and one of the author of a new book called In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror. “What we tried to do in the book was tell a series of stories about what civil liberties are all about. It’s not a book about policy wonks or inside-the-Beltway politics,” said Romero on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now in late May.
