Terry McAuliffe: For more than twenty-five years, Terry McAuliffe has been at the epicenter of American politics. Just out of Catholic University in Washington, Terry took a position with the Carter-Mondale campaign and quickly became one of the campaign’s chief fund-raisers—and hasn’t looked back since. The list of Terry´s former mentors, friends, and close associates in the nation’s capital reads like a who’s who of legendary Democrats: Tip O’Neill. Jimmy Carter. Dick Gephardt. Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Al Gore. The list goes on and on. Terry has fought hard for the Democratic Party his entire life and, as Bill Clinton reveals here for the first time, he was the first one in the party to see opportunity in the Republican gains in the 1994 Congressional elections.

Without question the most successful fund-raiser in political history, Terry established himself as a heavyweight Democratic strategist and leader who was George W. Bush´s most vocal and persistent critic during the first four years of the Bush 43 presidency. He earned rave reviews even from former critics for his groundbreaking work as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005, pulling the DNC out of debt for the first time in its history. Terry has served as a confidant and adviser to President Clinton and countless presidential candidates, a mediator among party leaders, the chairman of a national convention and presidential inaugural, and a forceful spokesman for the party—all without losing his reputation as a colorful, fun-loving character liked and respected even by his Republican adversaries.

What a Party! is a fascinating, hilarious, and provocative look at the life of one of Washington’s legendary figures. From wrestling an alligator to running the Democratic National Committee to his friendship with President Clinton, Terry McAuliffe’s wonderful memoir covers it all and is, without doubt, the political book of the year.

“I thought I knew Terry McAuliffe as well as anyone, but this time he surprised even me. Who knew Terry could sit still long enough to give us a book this good? What a Party! is a must-read for all of us who love politics, believe in public service, and know that laughter is often the best survival strategy.” —President Bill Clinton

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Lou Dobbs: Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight. Dobbs also anchors a nationally syndicated financial news radio report, The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and is a columnist for Money magazine and U.S. News and World Report.

Originally a classically conservative economist, Dobbs' views have evolved over time, and he is now a strongly populist critic of the "excesses of capitalism," which he identifies as globalization, offshore outsourcing, illegal immigration, free trade deals, corporate/big business influence in government and the Bush administration's tax cuts. He advocates fair trade, warning that the U.S. trade and budget deficits threaten the American middle class.

Dobbs has won nearly every major award for television journalism. He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. In 1990, he was given the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism Review for his "visionary work, which changed the landscape of business journalism in the 1980s." In 1999, he received the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans and, in 2000, the National Space Club Media Award.

Dobbs was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee in 1993.

In 2004, the National Television Academy awarded Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy Award for "Exporting America" and the following year gave him its Lifetime Achievement Emmy for business and financial reporting.

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Susan Estrich: A best-selling author, Estrich's recent works include: "Who Needs Feminism, Sex and Power?" (2000), "Getting Away With Murder: How Politics is Destroying the Criminal Justice System" (1998) and "Making the Case for Yourself: A Diet Book for Smart Women." Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center. She serves on the Board of Editorial Contributors for USA Today, as a presidential appointee on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and as a mayoral appointee on the City of Los Angeles Ethics Committee.

Estrich first gained national prominence as national campaign manager for Dukakis for President in 1988, but she has been at the forefront of the academic and intellectual debate for decades. After graduating as a Phi Beta Kappa scholar with highest honors from Wellesley College in 1974, Estrich went on to attend Harvard Law School. She was selected president of the Harvard Law Review and received her JD magna cum laude in 1977.

After serving as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, Estrich had her first taste of politics as Deputy National Issues Director with the Kennedy for President campaign in 1979. In 1981, Estrich began teaching at Harvard Law School, and by 1986, she had received tenure. Her professorial duties did not limit her involvement in political campaigning, however, as she was named executive director for the Democratic National Platform Committee in 1984 and worked as a senior policy adviser to the Mondale-Ferraro presidential campaign.

Estrich also performed some private legal practice, serving as a counsel for the firm of Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles from 1986 to 1987. The call of national politics was too strong for her to stay out of the fray for long, however, leading her to accept the job with the Dukakis campaign in October of 1987.

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Gerry Spence: Gerry Spence was born and educated in the small towns of Wyoming where he has practiced law for nearly fifty years. He has spent his lifetime representing the poor, the injured, the forgotten and the damned against what he calls "the new slave master," mammoth corporation and mammoth government.

He has tried and won many nationally known cases, including the Karen Silkwood case, the defense of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the defense of Imelda Marcos, the case against Penthouse Magazine for Miss Wyoming and other important crinimal and civil trials. He has never lost a criminal case. He has not lost a civil case since 1969. He has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any lawyer in America.

Spence is the founder of the Trial Lawyers College which has established a revolutionary method of training lawyers for the people. He believes that what he has learned needs to be shared with those who will continue to strive for justice on behalf of ordinary people. Spence is the author of twelve previous books, his latest being "Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture"

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. He heads The Post's Continuous News department, which reports and edits breaking news stories for washingtonpost.com, and he helps to shape the newspaper’s overall multimedia strategy.

From April 2003 to October 2004, he was The Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq and supervising a team of Post correspondents. He lived in Baghdad for much of the six months before the war, reporting on the United Nations weapons-inspections process and the build-up to the conflict.

He took a sabbatical from The Post in 2005 to serve as the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington and as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. Before the U.S.-led war in Iraq, he was The Post's Cairo bureau chief. Prior to that assignment, he was The Post’s Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In the months following September 11, 2001, he was part of a team of Post reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan. He joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the Metropolitan staff. He subsequently served as the paper’s Washington-based national technology correspondent. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. He lives in Washington, D.C. Rajiv's new book is titled "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone."

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Joseph Cirincione: Joseph Cirincione, after eight years of outstanding service as director of the Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is now Senior Vice President for National Security and

He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is one of America’s best known weapons experts, appearing frequently in print and on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR and occasionally on Comedy Central. Joseph Cirincione appears in the 2005 award-winning documentary, "Why We Fight," by Eugene Jarecki.

In May 2004 the National Journal listed Cirincione as one of the 100 people who will play a critical role in the policy debates of this administration. The World Affairs Councils of America also named him one of 500 people whose views have the most influence in shaping American foreign policy.

Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations. He is the author of numerous articles on proliferation and weapons issues, a co-author of WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implication (January 2004), the editor of Repairing the Regime (Routledge, 2000) and producer of the award-winning DVD, The Proliferation Threat.

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Laura Schwartz: The White House Director of Events for the Clinton Administration, created and executed more than 600 White House Events including 12 State Arrival Ceremonies and Dinners, America’s Millennium Celebration and NATO’s 50th Anniversary. While producing the President on the world stage every day, leaving no room for error, Laura demonstrated the Presidency’s ability to inspire a nation and the world through powerful events.

Today, Laura is a national commentator on politics and its direct impact on the common citizen by defining the line between “Political Rhetoric and Everyday Reality” on the Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She discusses political strategy and the skill of our politicians in finding the right message for their intended audience. Laura promotes a politically responsible message to students as she presents her program “The Power of Your Political Voice” at colleges and universities around the country. She takes this same message to the airwaves in a weekly radio segment on the Good Life Radio Network heard around the country targeting minorities ages 18-34 in urban areas.

She is concurrently working on her first political book "Inside the Ropeline"© which explores campaigns and elections from behind the scenes for publication in Spring 2008.

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Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey: Lynn Woolsey, an unapologetic progressive and the first former welfare mother to serve in Congress, is in her seventh term as the representative from California’s 6th District, just north of San Francisco (including all of Marin and most of Sonoma Counties).

As co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Woolsey is one of the Democrats’ most vocal and visible leaders in the House. A passionately outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, she has helped move public opinion against President Bush’s Iraq policy. She introduced the first resolution calling for our troops to be brought home and convened the first congressional hearing on military exit strategies. The San Jose Mercury News recently called her “the unofficial matriarch of the [anti-war] movement in Congress.”

Woolsey is organizing a Congressional forum to examine the costs associated with the continued occupation of Iraq. The event, scheduled for next Tuesday, will bring together Members of Congress with some of the leading experts in the fields of intelligence, military affairs, humanitarian work, and veterans’ affairs. “I’m organizing this forum because President Bush’s Iraq Policy has been an absolute failure, and our nation will suffer its effects for years to come” Woolsey said. “It has not only ruined our nation’s credibility in the eyes of the world, but it has made us worse off economically and militarily as well.”

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Colonel Sam Gardiner: Colonel Gardiner is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College, and NAval War College. He was recently a visiting scholar at the Swedish Defense College. During Gulf War II, he was a regular on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as well as on BBC radio and television and National Public Radio.

In 2004, he conducted a war game organized by the Atlantic Monthly to guage how an American president might respond, militarily or otherwise, to Iraqn's rapid progress towards developing nuclear weapons. He also has conducted war games on North Korea.

He has just completed a 26 page reportfor the Century Foundation in New York. It is titled "The End of the Summer of Diplomacy: Assessing the Military Option on Iran." On Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room on CNN on Monday, Colonel Gardiner said the order to attack Iran has already been given.

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Pat Buchanan: Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day. Our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, and the future of our nation is at stake. In this important book, Pat Buchanan reveals that, slowly but surely, the great American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico. These lands---which many Mexicans believe are their birthright---are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the United States by a deliberate policy of the Mexican regime. This is the “Aztlan Plot” for “La Reconquista,” the recapture of the lands lost by Mexico in the Texas War of Independence and Mexican-American War.

Comparing the immigrant invasion of America from across the Mexican border---and of Europe from across the Mediterranean---to the barbarian invasions that ended the Roman Empire, the author writes with passion and conviction that we have begun the final chapter of the Death of the West. Unless the invasion is halted now, Buchanan argues, by midcentury America will be a country unrecognizable to our parents, the Third World dystopia that Theodore Roosevelt warned against when he said we must never let America become a “polyglot boardinghouse” for the world.

President Bush’s failure to halt the invasion and secure America’s border, Buchanan writes, is a dereliction of constitutional duty that, in other times, would have called forth articles of impeachment. In the final chapter, “Last Chance,” he lays out a sweeping immigration reform and border security plan, which, he contends, if not pursued, means George W. Bush’s legacy will be to have lost for America a Southwest that was the legacy of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk. With an estimated ten to fifteen million “illegals” already here and tens of millions more poised to pour across our borders, few books could be as timely---or important---as State of Emergency. It is essential reading for all Americans.

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Peter Galbraith: Peter W. Galbraith has held senior positions in the United States government and with the United Nations. He is currently a Professor at the National War College in Washington, DC.

Peter presents a clear-eyed and persuasive case against the Bush administration's nation-building project there. As a former U.S. diplomat with long experience in Iraq, he offers an insider's view of the American occupation's failures—the poor preparation for post-invasion chaos, the cluelessness about Iraqi politics, the incompetence and corruption of the occupation authority—while advancing a deeper critique. With Saddam's dictatorship and the Baathist party and army that supported it gone, he contends that Iraq is irrevocably splitting into a pro-American Kurdistan in the north, a pro-Iranian Shiite south and an ungovernable Sunni center. America "cannot put the country back together again and it cannot stop the civil war," he insists. Deeply skeptical of attempts to reunify the Iraqi state, he proposes that the U.S. withdraw from Arab Iraq and "facilitate an amicable divorce" between the fractious sections.

Galbraith advised the Iraqi Kurds during recent constitutional negotiations and is palpably sympathetic to their national aspirations; his argument sometimes feels like a brief for Kurdish separatism. Still, Galbraith's authoritative grasp of the issues and his cogent, forthright call for disengagement ensure that the book will move into the center of the debate over American policy in Iraq. Peter Galbraith has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions.

In The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End , he offers many firsthand observations of the men who are now Iraq's leaders. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. The End of Iraq is the definitive account of this war and its ramifications.

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Crystal Woodman-Miller: . In 1999, Crystal was a 16 year old high school student. On April 20, 1999, she was in her school's library. Unfortunately, Crystal was a student at Columbine High School. She was in the library for the entire duration of Eric Harris and Dylan Kleybold's killing spree. As she cowered under a desk in the library, two of her class mates stomed the room on a shooting rampage. They murdered twelve students and a teacher that day, then killed themselves, leaving a legacy of pain and a nation asking "why?"

Crystal is a young woman whose life was forever changed by the tragic events at Columbine high School in 1999 – seven eternal minutes that served as the ultimate wake-up call. And in the aftermath of tragedy, Crystal found herself at a crossroad of fear and faith. Crystal believes the trauma she has suffered has given her a platform and a purpose. Since 1999, she has traveled the country, speaking of her experience and sharing ideals of kindness and community with school children. She has visited Africa, Honduras, Indonesia, Russia, and Kosovo to help others and share hope — because she has learned after seven minutes of horror, there are others who suffer far worse day in and day out.

Crystal has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN's Faces of Faith. She is the featured speaker on the 180 Tour with the recording artists 'Casting Pearls.' A savvy and charismatic speaker, Crystal will:

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James Meigs: (and/or, David Dunbar & Brad Reagan) From the moment the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen? Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.

Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia. Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the Internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories: The Pentagon was struck by a missile; the World Trade Center was razed by demolition-style bombs; Flight 93 was shot down by a mysterious white jet. As outlandish as these claims may sound, they are increasingly accepted abroad and among extremists here in the United States.

To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, POPULAR MECHANICS assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military. In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense. We learned that a few theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history.

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Jack Carter: John William "Jack" Carter, (born July 3, 1947), is an American businessman and politician who is running for the United States Senate in Nevada. Carter is the eldest child of former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Carter was born at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Raised in Plains, Georgia, he spent summers working at his father's peanut farm warehouse, where his wages began at 10 cents per hour. Carter struggled when he first entered college in 1965, bouncing around between Georgia Tech, Emory, and Georgia Southwestern State University before enlisting in the United States Navy in April 1968 at the suggestion of his father.

Carter served in the Vietnam War, on the salvage ship USS Grapple (ARS-7). After an honorable discharge, Carter returned to Georgia Tech, earning a degree in nuclear physics. Following graduation, he immediately entered law school at the University of Georgia, graduating in 1975.

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John Dean: John Dean is someone who knows about the impeachment process, so when he recently wrote an article reflecting on George W. Bush and impeachment, it spread across the net like wildfire. Not that anyone thinks that with Tom DeLay pulling the strings in Congress, you will even hear any criticism out of the rabid right wing that controls the House. But one can dream about justice, can't one?

Before becoming Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at age thirty-one, John Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

He served as Richard Nixon's White House lawyer for a thousand days. He did his undergraduate studies at Colgate University and the College of Wooster, with majors in English Literature and Political Science. He received a graduate fellowship from American University to study government and the presidency, before entering Georgetown University Law Center, where he received his JD in 1965. John has written many articles on law, government,and politics.

He has recounted his days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, Blind Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982). He works as a writer, lecturer, and private investment banker. In 2001 he published "The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Redefined the Supreme Court;" in 2002 he published an e-book "Unmasking Deep Throat;" and in early 2004, Warren G. Harding. His newest book is "Conservatives Without Conscience."

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Linda Seger: Dr. Linda Seger is the granddaughter of a Lutheran minister, and a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). She holds an M.A. in Religion and the Arts from Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, a ThD in Religion and the Arts from The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and an M.A. in Feminist Theology from Immaculate Heart College Center, Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Seger has given a number of speeches and seminars on the subject of how to convey theological values through drama. She is the recipient of the Candlelight Award from Regents University, given to a Christian in the film industry, for "being a light to the entertainment industry." Her new book, Jesus Rode a Donkey, uses the light of Scripture and Theology to look at Christian Values from the viewpoint of the Democratic Party.

Is a Christian Democrat an oxymoron? Dr. Seger shows how Christian values have shaped, and continue to shape, many of the policies of the Democratic Party. She looks at such controversial issues as ecology, taking care of the poor and needy, war and peace, terrorism, abortion, and homosexuality from both a Biblical and theological perspective.

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Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan: Byron L. Dorgan was reelected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by an overwhelming majority after serving two terms in the U.S. Senate and six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1998, Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle named Dorgan the Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee -- the first North Dakotan to serve in the Democratic leadership. Dorgan continues to hold that post under the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. This position was held by Lyndon B. Johnson before he became Majority Leader. From 1996 - 1998, Dorgan served in the Democratic leadership as Assistant Floor Leader.

Throughout his career in both the House and Senate, Dorgan has fought for the interests of rural America. He has worked to create jobs and economic opportunity in North Dakota, to establish strong farm policies for family farmers and to demand fairer trade policies. He has fought to assure that rural areas have access to cutting-edge technology and has promoted computers and Internet access in our nation's schools. Dorgan has also been a leader in the fight for sensible spending reductions and responsible government by cutting government waste and fighting for a balanced budget amendment while protecting our most important priorities: Social Security, Medicare, education and the environment.

In 1997, when record flooding devastated North Dakota homes and communities, Dorgan worked tirelessly to ensure a swift federal response. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, he steered over $1 billion in disaster aid for the upper Midwest. He also fought and won relief for farmers and ranchers who lost their livestock herds.

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Nidal Ibrahim: Ibrahim is the Executive Director at AAI. Prior to joining, Ibrahim was formerly the founder and publisher of Arab American Business Magazine, a national publication launched in November 2000. A 12-year veteran of the news business, Ibrahim has held reporting and editing positions with mainstream American newspapers, business publications and The Jordan Times in Amman, Jordan. He has written extensively on political, economic and social affairs. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton.

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Dina Titus: Senator Dina Titus has dedicated her entire professional life to education. She has taught American and Nevada government at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for nearly 30 years. She has represented the people of Senate District 7 in the Nevada Legislature since 1989, serving as the Democratic Minority Leader since 1993. As a teacher and legislator, Dina Titus has fought to maintain smaller class sizes in the important early grades and sponsored legislation for full-day kindergarten as a strong advocate of early childhood education.

Dina Titus has sought to protect Nevada’s most vulnerable citizens – seniors. She sponsored legislation allowing seniors and other Nevadans to purchase less expensive prescription drugs from Canada, proposed successful legislation mandating enhanced penalties for criminals who commit identity theft, and won passage of legislation doubling penalties for offenders who commit crimes against disabled persons. Dina Titus cracked down on sexual predators with legislation increasing penalties for sex offenders, requiring lifetime supervision of their conduct, and establishing a state website that allows concerned citizens to identify locations in their neighborhoods where paroled, supervised sex offenders reside.

Dina Titus earned her Bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary, her Master’s degree from the University of Georgia and her PhD from Florida State University. A noted non-fiction writer, she is the author of Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics (University of Nevada Press, Revised Edition 2001) and Battle Born: Federal-State Relations in Nevada During the Twentieth Century (Kendall-Hunt, 1989). She has been named UNLV’s Teacher of the Year and received the President’s Medal for Service to Higher Education. Readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal have twice selected her as their Favorite Female Las Vegan of the Year and the Outstanding Legislator of the Year in 1999.

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Lt. Gen. William Odom: Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. As Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security.

From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was Military Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked upon strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.

General Odom's latest column -appeared in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy magazine - is titled "Cut and Run? You Bet?"

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Howard Zinn: As a young adult, Howard Zinn worked as a shipyard worker and labor organizer in the Brooklyn shipyards. Later, he flew bombing missions in Europe during World War II, an experience that shaped his opposition to war. Zinn flew a B-17 with the 490th Bomb Group. In April, 1945 he participated in the bombing of Royan, France, the first time napalm was used in warfare. According to Zinn, the bombing took the lives of French civilians and also German soldiers who were doing little more than waiting out the closing days of the war. Nine years later, Zinn visited Royan to examine documents and interview residents. In his books, The Politics of History and The Zinn Reader, he concluded that the bombing was ordered by decision-makers for career advancement rather than for any legitimate military objective.

Historian, activist, and bestselling author Howard Zinn has been interviewed by David Barsamian for public radio numerous times over the past decade. Original Zinn is a collection of their conversations, showcasing the acclaimed author of A People's History of the United States at his most engaging and provocative. Touching on such diverse topics as the American war machine, civil disobedience, the importance of memory and remembering history, and the role of artists -- from Langston Hughes to Dalton Trumbo to Bob Dylan -- in relation to social change, Original Zinn is Zinn at his irrepressible best, the acute perception of a scholar whose impressive knowledge and probing intellect make history immediate and relevant for us all.

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Dr. Kevin Barrett: Dr. Barrett is the founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance—“MUJCA."MUJCA was born out of a concern for the future of interfaith relations in light of the 9/11 Big Lie, and the poisoned global communications environment it spawned. The goal of MUJCA-NET is aimed at promoting deep dialogue and deep unity between the Abrahamic faith traditions in light of the spiritual-environmental crisis afflicting our shared planet.

Dr. Barrett is scheduled to teach an introductory course on Islam at UW this fall. Many Wisconsin legislators, (primarily republicans) in particular, state representative Steve Nass -R-Whitewater - are trying to not only prevent this, but have Dr. Barrett fired as well. Nass said "This case isn’t about academic freedom. I firmly believe this is a case of protecting students from the academic garbage that Mr. Barrett spews."

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Kirsten Powers:

Kirsten A. Powers is a New York-based Democratic political and communications consultant and since 2004 has been a Fox News Political Analyst, providing on-air commentary on political issues from a Democratic perspective. Powers served in the Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Public Affairs and was the Vice President for International Communications at America Online, Inc. and later a Vice President at the AOL Time Warner Foundation. Her writing has appeared in USA Today, Elle Magazine, The New York Observer, Salon and American Prospect Online.

Eugene Jarecki: Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose most recent film WHY WE FIGHT won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. “Combining the skills of journalist and poet,” Variety writes, “Eugene Jarecki joins the top ranks of non-fiction filmmakers with WHY WE FIGHT, a thoroughgoing and affecting film on the nature and causes of the American military-industrial complex.” The film was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics in New York and Los Angeles on January 20 and nationally on February 10. It will be released on video on Tuesday June 27.

In 1992, after training at Princeton University as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film. His first short subject SEASON OF THE LIFTERBEES premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival before winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival. His prior film, THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, was released theatrically to critical acclaim in 130 U.S. cities. Winner of the 2002 Amnesty International Award, the film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and has been broadcast in over thirty countries. In 2002, TRIALS was selected to launch the Sundance Channel’s DOCday venture as well as BBC’s prestigious digital channel BBC4.

In addition to his work in film, Jarecki is also the Founder and Executive Director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy.

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Greg Palast : Palast has uncovered fraud and corruption in the highest seats of power, exposing the back-room crimes and propaganda lies of the New World Order's robber barons-- from the pirates in the Oval Office to the corporate globalizers steamrolling the world over. Greg's writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Harper's, and The Nation. He's been a guest on Politically Incorrect, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and does regular investigative reports for BBC's Newsnight. Winner of Salon.com's 2001 "Politics Story of the Year," Greg Palast is a legend among his colleagues and his devoted leadership worldwide.

When Greg Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, “The most important investigative reporter of our time” [Tribune Magazine] in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers. Of Greg, the Baltimore Chronicle said “Greg Palast is investigative journalism at its best. No one has exposed more truth about the Bush Cartel and lived to tell the story.”

Palast has broken some of the most infamous stories of the past decade, including: - How the Bush family stole the election in Florida in 2000 - How Bush killed the FBI's investigation into the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi Arabia, and why - How Enron cheated, lied, and swindled its way into an energy monopoly - Groundbreaking reports on the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization, Wal-Mart and more.

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Michelle Goldberg: America as we know it is undergoing a vast and troubling cultural revolution, and is in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism where every political issue is a battle between good and evil. Without the knowledge of many, a large number of Americans who call themselves Christian Nationalists, are mobilizing to dissolve the separation of church and state, our country's founding tenant. In her brave and important book KINGDOM COMING: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, veteran Salon.com writer, Michelle Goldberg takes us on a frightening tour of an America in the grips of a religious radicalism, an America that urgently requires our attention.

From the classroom to the megachurches of Ohio to the federal court, Goldberg carefully demonstrates how the growing influence of dominionism - the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule non-believers - is threatening the foundations of democracy. At turns breathtaking and horrifying, Goldberg takes us on a tour of a radically Christian America, feverishly at work (funded by and highly influencing members of the executive, the senate and congress) to eradicate the enlightenment values of science, pluralism, and reason, and set up an exclusionary society, where only true "believers" feel welcome.

Traveling throughout the country, Goldberg illuminates the structures of the religious right and introduces us to many of the movement's most important players. Deep within the "red" zones of a divided America we meet among them military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country's social problems.

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Sara Rich: Sara Rich is the mother of an AWOL US soldier. Facing re-deployment to Iraq, Sara's daughter Suzanne Swift searched her soul and decided that she could not go back to Iraq and continue to go out on what she calls "useless missions."

Nor could she continue to cope with the constant sexual harassment and fear of rape by her own officers and fellow soldiers that she had to endure.

On Sunday night, June 11th, the city police of Eugene, Oregon, raided Sara Rich's home and took Suzanne away. She was taken to Fort Lewis, Washington. Her family is now asking for letters in support of Suzanne's request for a medical or honorable discharge. Her family insists that Suzanne deserves the medical benefits due to any war veteran.

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Lydia Cornell: Lydia, a Best Actress nominee at Method Fest for the indie film “Miss Supreme Queen”, is also an accomplished political writer, novelist and comedienne. She recently guest-starred with Larry David on HBO’s “Curb your Enthusiasm”; wrote and produced her own film Venus Conspiracy, and had leads in the feature films “Nooner” Erik Attias’ PBS play, and “Dean and Nancy”, along with Steven Tyler and Jon Bon Jovi. She also hosted the 2004 World Travel Awards in Barbados with The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli, Curb’s Cheryl Hines, and Law & Order’s Richard Belzer.

Winning the People's Choice Award, Lydia starred as "Sara Rush”, Ted Knight's daughter and Audrey Meadows’ granddaughter, in the hit 80’s show Too Close For Comfort — a top rated ABC series that has been in worldwide syndication for years. Just released on Rhino DVD, the show has attained cult status, with fans all over the world exchanging her trading cards. In addition to her new book of political essay, "HOW TO TALK TO ANN COULTER, IF YOU MUST", Lydia’s new book Falling Up, is based on her humiliating adventures in Hollywood and spiritual growth. It is being developed for the stage.

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Dave Lindorff: Award-winning investigative reporter Dave Lindorff has been working as a journalist for 33 years. A regular columnist for CounterPunch (www.counterpunch.org), he also writes frequently for Extra! (www.fair.org) and Salon magazine (www.salon.com), as well as for Businessweek, the Nation and Treasury&Risk Management Magazine. In the late 1970s, he ran the Daily News bureau covering Los Angeles County government, and in the mid-'90s, spent several years as a correspondent in Hong Kong and China for Businessweek. Over the years he has written for such publications as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Village Voice, Forbes, The London Observer and the Australian National Times.

Author, with Barbara Olshansky, of the forthcoming book The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, he is also the author of three earlier books--This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy (Common Courage Press, 2004), Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains (Bantam, 1992), an investigative report on the for-profit hospital industry, and Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Courage Press, 2003), the only independent examination of this important capital case.

A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, China and Kaohsiung, Taiwan), he is a 1975 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and received a B.A. in Chinese in 1972 from Wesleyan University. In October 2004, he was awareded a coveted "Most Censored Story of 2003" award by Project Censored (for his Oct. 16, 2003 story in Salon about the Pentagon's quiet efforts to gear up the machinery for a return to the draft). A founding member of the National Writers Union, and a member of the steering committee of the NWU Philadelphia local, for the past nine years, he has lived with his family just outside Philadelphia.

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Rory O'Connor: Rory O'Connor is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is also president and co-founder of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit educational foundation. He has directed, written and/or produced numerous films and television programs, and served as an executive in charge of three weekly television series, South Africa Now, and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television (PBS), and Children First (ABC).

His broadcast and film work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award, two Emmys, an Iris, a Cine Gold Eagle, and many other awards. O'Connor's most recent films examine the effects of globalization and of poverty around the world, economic reforms and human rights in China, and the origins of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. He also oversees two Internet sites, the not-for-profit MediaChannel.org, and the Globalvision News Network (GVNEWS.NET), an international wire service distributing thousands of articles daily from hundreds of professional news organizations around the world.

We'll be discussing this story... Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller tells William Scott Malone and Rory O'Connor about a story she'll regret for the rest of her life. In 2001, an anonymous White House source leaked top-secret NSA intelligence to Miller, then a reporter for the New York Times, that Al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the U.S. The story never made it into the paper.

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Tom Fitton: Tom Fitton is the President of Judicial Watch. Having helped lead Judicial Watch since 1998, Mr. Fitton directs Judicial Watch's operations from its DC headquarters. Tom has over 15 years experience in the conservative non-profit arena, having worked for the International Policy Forum, the Leadership Institute, and Accuracy in Media.

As the main spokesman for Judicial Watch, Tom is well-known across the country, having appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, in addition to being regularly quoted in hundreds of newspapers nationwide. Tom hails from New York, having moved to the DC area in 1986 to begin his career in public policy. He attended The George Washington University, where he received his B.A. in English, with a minor in Applied Ethics.

We'll be discussing the video tape of the Pentagon that Judicial Watch received this week that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Department of Defense is releasing the videotape in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request and related lawsuit.

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Jon Meacham: Jon Meacham is the managing editor of Newsweek. He arrived at the magazine as a writer in January 1995, became national affairs editor in June of that year, and was named managing editor in November 1998. He supervises the magazine's coverage of politics, international affairs, and breaking news, and has written cover stories on politics, religion, race, guns in America, and the death of Ronald Reagan. In 2001, Newsweek won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence—the industry's highest honor—for its coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. In 2003, the magazine won the award again for its coverage of President Bush and the Iraq War.plemented by America's current leadership. George W.'s actions are Machiavellian, not Christian.

He has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The Washington Post Book World. In 2001, he edited Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Random House), a collection of distinguished nonfiction about the midcentury struggle against Jim Crow. Meacham's newest book is titled "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation."

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John Stoddard Klar: Conservative Christian attorney criticizes Bush for unchristian policies.

This conservative Christian attorney holds George W. Bush accountable to the standards of Christianity that Mr. Bush espoused to gain office. "Christian Words, Unchristian Actions: George W. Bush and the Desecration of Christianity in Modern America," available at www.winepresspub.com, is an intellectually challenging and well-researched examination of the Bush administration's conduct in war, torture, and the transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy.

What is unique and compelling about Mr. Klar's arguments is that his is a conservative Christian perspective, not so easily dispelled by the neo-conservative ideology which is driving the ruinous decisions implemented by America's current leadership. George W.'s actions are Machiavellian, not Christian.

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Marcy Winograd: Marcy Winograd, President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, thinks it's time a real Democrat challenged 36th District Congresswoman Jane Harman, a supporter of the Iraq war, the Patriot Act, new nuclear weapons development, secret detentions and the suspension of due process, and illegal government wiretapping of private American citizens. Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, remained silent for over a year after being briefed on the Bush administration's violation of federal wiretapping law (FISA) and recently told "Meet the Press" that she deplores the New York Times for informing the American people that the Bush Administration ignored the law.

As a long-time opponent of the Iraq war and occupation, Winograd was instrumental in getting an anti-war resolution passed at last year's California Democratic Convention and worked with Assemblyman Paul Koretz to draft a resolution calling for a moratorium on depleted uranium weapons systems. Playing a leadership role to protect our vote, Winograd helped establish the California Election Protection network, a grassroots organization that successfully lobbied for State Senator Debra Bowen's bill requiring a paper trail for electronic voting recounts. In her position as Media Reform Chair of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party, Winograd hosts "They Say/We Say" -- a public access televsion show which highlights the plight of returning veterans and underscores the importance of citizen activism.

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Mark Manning: Falluja will go down in history as a cauldron of chaos. On March 31st, 2004, four American contractors were killed and dragged from their cars near the bridge spanning the Euphrates