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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 14, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

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Saving Liberalism

Shortly after World War Two, Democrats decided to treat the USSR as the greatest threat to America’s well-being. Now a lively discussion has broken out among Democrats about whether they should show the same muscular response to extreme political Islam.
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I Spy

Michael Vickers, Director of Strategic Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says different satellite systems compete for federal funding
» The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
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Dana Priest Washington Post reporter and author (winner the Bernstein Book Award and was a Pulitzer finalist), The Mission: Waging War And Keeping Peace With America's Military (Norton, 2003) on intelligence reform and the debate over spy satellites
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The World's Children

Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, on the UNICEF report on the state of the world's children
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New Liberalism

Peter Beinart, Editor of the New Republic, says liberalism should embrace the war on terror
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listeners call in to discuss caring for homeless hawks vs. homeless people and teachers gifts

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