Alito, Product Liability, Gale Norton - 01/15/06
Posted on: January 15th, 2006This week, we speak with NAM President John Engler on the Alito hearings and why its more about economic than social issues. Then, ABC News Supreme Court correspondent Manny Medrano also will be along to offer his analysis of the politics swirling around the Alito nomination. Later, our weekly trip to the factory floor will introduce us to a small manufacturer in Connecticut who says product liability lawsuits are a big drag on our economy. Finally, as high energy prices also exert a drag on our economy, interior secretary Gale Norton says lawmakers need to authorize new energy production in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and along the outer continental shelf when congress reconvenes later this month.
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A reading by Joan Didion of her National Book Award winning memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
Posted on: January 12th, 2006A reading by Joan Didion of her National Book Award winning memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking”, followed by a conversation with author Mona Simpson.
New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College
Finding fraud in digital images, with Hany Farid
Posted on: January 12th, 2006Associate professor of computer science Hany Farid is interested in detecting whether a digital image has been manipulated. Because digital images are found everywhere today, he explains that his research can be used to examine images to see if they have been tampered with. This has immediate relevance for the fields of law, media, and science. In this podcast, he talks about his work in digital forensics and how it can be implemented.
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#001 Hey Mister Jesse for January 2006
Posted on: January 3rd, 2006Welcome to 2006 and the debut podcast of Hey Mister Jesse. The show features news, Jesse’s top 8 classic swing songs, an interview with and song by Paul Tillotson and listener comments. Brought to you by Yehoodi.com.
Jesse Miner
High Energy Costs and Food Prices, Blogging, Judicial Hellholes, Time Square’s New Years Eve Crystal Ball - 01/01/06
Posted on: January 1st, 2006This week’s radio show features a USDA economist on high energy costs and food prices, NAM Sr. VP and blogger-in-chief Pat Cleary on the value of blogs, American Tort Reform Association President Sherman “Tiger” Joyce on his group’s 2005 Judicial Hellholes report and a “factory floor” interview with the makers of Time Square’s New Year’s Eve crystal ball. Background music by Mel Torme (aka, the “Velvet Fog”), The Beatles, Warren Zevon and Auld Lang Zyne.
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