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Tom Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSBlog, spoke at the Law School Aug. 26 at an American Constitution Society event, is principally responsible for SCOTUSblog, which is devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading legal blogs.

Join Errington for the latest in national politics and sports! Topics include Russia-Georgia conflict and the response of the US what is going on? Isaac Hayes, and more! This week, I decide that I would like to review the famous August 6th Presidential Daily Brief and the Downing Street Memo. I invite 2 great guests to discuss these important papers Greg Mitchell from Editor and Publisher and Faiz Shakir at thinkprogress.org. Also, note how I freeze when Faiz gives me a compliment. I m not use to that. Great show. Enjoy!

It s not every day in little old Charlottesville that you can get the behind-the-scenes, accurate, true, factual story about something you see it on the national news. Or, at least the Daily Show. The other evening, Congressman Virgil Goode was the topic of a joke on the program, with host Jon Stewart commenting on Goode s [...]

On the July 27th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Sean McCord, Joe Crisp and UVA adjunct professor Pete Ronanye were Rick Moore s guests for a round table discussion on politics. Some of the issues discussed were the Presidential race, the Iraq War, the reasons for rising gas prices, whether offshore drilling [...]

John Whitehead, CEO and President of the Rutherford Institute, is having an incredibly busy summer as his organization trains 22 interns on the ins and outs of defending the Constitution. He’s also awaiting the publication of his new book The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Recreate America which comes out in [...]

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate.com, where she writes Supreme Court Dispatches. She is also the legal correspondent for NPR s Day to Day. Lithwick joins Coy Barefoot in the studio to discuss the Supreme Court version of the Super Bowl the Justices 2008 decisions.

Ralph Nader defines political activism for many Americans, though many also attribute George W. Bush s presidency to Nader s presidential run in 2000. Now, Nader is running again as an independent and will be at the Gravity Lounge on Sunday from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM for a rally. Coy Barefoot spoke with Nader before the [...]

Lowell Feld is the founder and editor of Raising Kaine and the co-author of Net Roots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics. In this July 7, 2008 edition of WINA s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot, Feld talks about how he got his start online, and why Virginia s [...]

President George Bush became the fourth sitting president in U.S. History to visit Monticello on July 4, 2008. The 43rd president was on-hand to address 75 new Americans who were participating in their naturalization ceremony. Bush s speech was interupted several times by protestors who shouted slogans.

In today’s show, written by Brevy Cannon, General Assignments writer for University of Virginia Media Relations, we look at a recent Center for Politics event, Reconsidering the Presidency held at the University of Virginia in April 2008. “The vast and ever-increasing amounts of money spent on U.S. political campaigns are a detriment to our democracy. And, [...]

As evidenced by the controversy now ranging between Bill O Reilly of FOX News and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, Roger Ailes is the rare example of a newsman who makes headlines even while he and his minions cover the politics, entertainment and personalities of our time. Ailes has been instrumental in every notable advance in TV [...]

On this edition of Sunday Morning Wake-Up call show Pete Ronayne and Jim Sofka, two political analyst discuss presidential election 2008 wiath Rick Moore. Topics include candidate experience, whether America is ready to vote for a black man as President, and who would be a more acceptable first lady.

Tom Perriello is the Democratic candidate for Virginia s 5th Congressional District, having been officially annointed at the 5th District caucus over Memorial Day weekend. He joined Coy Barefoot on the May 27, 2008 edition of WINA s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot to talk about why he s running, his work in Afghanistan, and how he sees [...]

This week s edition of WNRN s Wake-Up Call is a discussion about politics - specificially the 2008 Presidential Race. Three guests: Bonnie, Thalia, and Jim, give their opinions on questions such as, Should Clinton drop out? Which Democratic candidate would do better against McCain? and How does ageism/racism/genderism play into the equation? The conversation then moves to [...]

Senator Jim Webb joined Coy Barefoot on the April 28 edition of WINA s Charlottesville Right Now! to talk about his new GI Bill, which he has spent the last two years collecting votes for the initiative. If passed, the Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007 (SB22) would provide financial assistance to service members who have served [...]

Liz Chadderon of the Chadderdon Group, a political consultant firm, joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the Democratic primaries. Chadderdon was surprised with Senator Hillary Clinton’s win in Texas. “I did predict that [Tuesday] would not decide anything for us, but I have to say I didn’t think it would be that indecisive,” Chadderdon said.  “It’s a brand new day in this campaign.” Chadderdon and Coy talk about the effectiveness of negative campaigning, the impact of the Michigan and Florida primaries not counting towards delegate counts, and what it means that Republican Senator John McCain has his party’s nomination outright.

In today’s show, adapted from an article published this month on the Oscar Web site written by Andrea Arco, marketing director for the School of Engineering and Applied Science we observe at the research of Adrienne Felt, a fourth-year computer science major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, concerning privacy issues surrounding social networking platforms. Facebook, the social networking platform that has redefined communications, has millions of users. According to University of Virginia computer science major Adrienne Felt, all of these users should be concerned about security. Felt, a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UVa, leads a research project on privacy issues surrounding social networking platforms and is investigating the information sharing that occurs when users download a Facebook application — a program that allows the user to interact with other users in interesting ways, from sharing music to playing games For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.

Giving the President advice on the Iraq War. We'll talk with two Middle East scholars who participated in closed-door conference with President Bush on Iraq. We'll hear from two of the conference presenters, ERIC DAVIS, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, and author of Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, and with VALI NASR a professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California. He is author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future.

For more than a century, voting machines have helped shape American political history. The chaos of the 2000 presidential election in Florida and the alleged election fraud in Ohio during 2004, which led to testimony before congress about computer programs that could rig an election, demonstrate the crucial role that voting machines play in shaping the outcome of an election. Bryan Pfaffenberger, a historian of science and an associate professor at the University of Virginia s School of Engineering and Applied Science, believes there is value in understanding that the interaction between technology and culture has been going on for more than a century. For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.

Senator Jim Webb joins Coy Barefoot on WINA s Charlottesville Right Now! for the first time. Coy begins the interview by asking how Webb, who had never run for office before, is adjusting to life as a Senator. Webb talks about what he sees as a major divide in the Bush administration in terms of Iraq policy. Other topics include the privatization of military functions by groups like Blackwater, efforts by members of the House to make earmarks harder to track, and Webb s plan to pay more to care for returning Iraqi veterans.

Across the United States hundreds of elections were held Tuesday November 6th and thousands of Americans voted. Did you? According to the research of Ross Baird, voting has been on the decline for the past several decades. A University of Virginia Government and Foreign Affairs major from the class of 2007, Baird researched this trend to find out why it has continued, especially among the young voting population

Barack Obama discusses his new book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper gives a rousing introduction of Barack Obama: a senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature. In July 2004, Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the poltical spectrum. In his new book, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness and nobility of a spirit at the hart of our improbable experiment in democracy. ($25.00) Crown ISBN #0-307-23769-9. You can visit Senator Barack Obama s official web site as well. author podcasts, books, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, literature, arts, Barack Obama, Obama, national politics, Democratic Party, Democrats

Gary Nordlinger is the president of the political consulting firm Nordlinger and Associates. He joined Coy Barefoot on the September 25th edition of WINA s Charlottesville Right Now to discuss his career, the history of political consulting, and the somewhat negative perception many political observers have of people in his profession. Campaign consultants influence the ten to twelve percent of the voters that just don t pay attention to politics, says Nordlinger. They want their information handily condensed, and that is what a political consultant does at least at my end of the business. Nordlinger also tells some stories from the campaign trail, and handicaps the 2008 Presidential election. He also gives advice on how to withstand the upcoming onslaught of political ads.

On September 13, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia held a forum on the topic of immigration reform. The speakers are Dale McGlothlin, Chief Operating Officer of the Federation of American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., and Tim Freilich, Managing Attorney of the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers. To subscribe to the CPN podcast feed, visit http://feeds.feedburner.com/cpn.

Brad Reagan is the co-author of a new book called Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can t Stand Up to the Facts. Reagan is an editor at Popular Mechanics. On the September 6 edition of WINA s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot, he outlines the scope of many theories that the U.S. government was in on the September 11 plot, and then takes them apart. Interested in receiving all of Coy Barefoot s shows? Visit feeds.feedburner.com/rightnow to find out how you can subscribe to the show.

On the September 4th edition of the show, Coy s guest is Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California Berkeley and the author of a new book Talking Right about  how conservative groups have framed the terms of debate in American politics. Interested in receiving all of Coy Barefoot s shows? Visit feeds.feedburner.com/rightnow to find out how you can subscribe to the show.