PoliTalking #20 - U.S. Supreme Court 2005-2006 Term in Review
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Professor Lawrence Friedman returns as our guest this week for an intensive short-course in the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2005-2006 term. In the first half of the program,
we focus on the Court’s major criminal law decisions, including a troubling majority opinion by Justice Scalia in Hudson v. Michigan that threatens to [...]
Professor Lawrence Friedman returns as our guest this week for an intensive short-course in the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2005-2006 term. In the first half of the program,
we focus on the Court’s major criminal law decisions, including a troubling majority opinion by Justice Scalia in Hudson v. Michigan that threatens to [...]
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Sun July 09 2006
Professor Lawrence Friedman returns as our guest this week for an intensive short-course in the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2005-20...
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Professor Lawrence Friedman returns as our guest this week for an intensive short-course in the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2005-2006 term. In the first half of the program,
we focus on the Court’s major criminal law decisions, including a troubling majority opinion by Justice Scalia in Hudson v. Michigan that threatens to [...]
Professor Lawrence Friedman returns as our guest this week for an intensive short-course in the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2005-2006 term. In the first half of the program,
we focus on the Court’s major criminal law decisions, including a troubling majority opinion by Justice Scalia in Hudson v. Michigan that threatens to [...]
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Wed June 21 2006
The Woodpecker this week discusses competing Democratic proposals for troop withdrawal in Iraq, and tries (again, and without success) to find strateg...
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The Woodpecker this week discusses competing Democratic proposals for troop withdrawal in Iraq, and tries (again, and without success) to find strategic honesty in the arguments of those both who
propose immediate withdrawal and those who insist that it is essential to stay the course. We also discuss Operation Mountain Thrust in Afghanistan. In the second [...]
The Woodpecker this week discusses competing Democratic proposals for troop withdrawal in Iraq, and tries (again, and without success) to find strategic honesty in the arguments of those both who
propose immediate withdrawal and those who insist that it is essential to stay the course. We also discuss Operation Mountain Thrust in Afghanistan. In the second [...]
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Mon May 15 2006
The Woodpecker “PoliTalking” webcasts this week as part of the First Annual WorldBridges Webcastathon, celebrating the first full year of ...
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The Woodpecker “PoliTalking” webcasts this week as part of the First Annual WorldBridges Webcastathon, celebrating the first full year of global webcasting from
http://www.worldbridges.com/.  In the first half of the program, we discuss the president’s appointment of General Michael Hayden to the position of CIA Director, as
well as the revelations this we...
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The Woodpecker “PoliTalking” webcasts this week as part of the First Annual WorldBridges Webcastathon, celebrating the first full year of global webcasting from
http://www.worldbridges.com/.  In the first half of the program, we discuss the president’s appointment of General Michael Hayden to the position of CIA Director, as
well as the revelations this week that the president’s [...]
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Wed May 03 2006
On The Woodpecker this week, we focus on three issues that are grabbing headlines (or at least our attention). In the first half, we disc...
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On The Woodpecker this week, we focus on three issues that are grabbing headlines (or at least our attention). In the first half, we discuss “net
neutralityâ€Â and the effort by Congressman Ed Markey and other Democrats to introduce legislation that would keep ISPs and telco companies from charging users and
content-providers for â...
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On The Woodpecker this week, we focus on three issues that are grabbing headlines (or at least our attention). In the first half, we discuss “net
neutralityâ€Â and the effort by Congressman Ed Markey and other Democrats to introduce legislation that would keep ISPs and telco companies from charging users and
content-providers for “preferred accessâ€Â to [...]
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Tue April 18 2006
Our guest this week on The Woodpecker is Stuart Comstock-Gay, the Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute and a former Vice-Preside...
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Our guest this week on The Woodpecker is Stuart Comstock-Gay, the Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute and a former Vice-President and COO of the New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation. Stuart is also a former Executive Director of the Maryland ACLU in Baltimore. As Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute, Stuart was [...]
Our guest this week on The Woodpecker is Stuart Comstock-Gay, the Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute and a former Vice-President and COO of the New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation. Stuart is also a former Executive Director of the Maryland ACLU in Baltimore. As Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute, Stuart was [...]
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