September 03, 2008

Word that Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s teen daughter is five months pregnant has become massive fodder for all kinds of political chat – for both conservatives and liberals. But looking at teen pregnancy as an issue unto itself – separate from the left or right -- might provide a different kind of conversation.

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Tracking the Taliban in Pakistan’s perilous tribal areas

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Wednesday, September 3 2008

Pakistan’s Tribal regions are packed with Taliban and Al Qaeda militants. NYT reporter Dexter Filkins slipped inside and met with Taliban leadership. We’ll talk to him about militant power, and whether Pakistan is really fighting them.

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Ron Paul’s counter convention

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Stephen Dubner
Wednesday, September 3 2008

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Cheney courts Russia’s oil-rich neighbors

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Wednesday, September 3 2008

Vice President Cheney is in oil-rich Azerbaijan today, the start of a tour that aims to show Washington's support of Russia's southern neighbors. He plans to head later to neighboring Georgia, where Washington is trying to bolster support for Mikhail Saakashvili's U.S.-allied government, battered by last month's short war with Russia.

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Vetting the modern VP pick

Wednesday, September 3 2008

Last week John McCain shook things up when he chose as his running mate the unknown Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. This week, a number of disclosures raise eyebrows about her candidacy and about how rigorously she was vetted. For a look at past Vice Presidential vetting we talk to Joel Goldstein, law professor at St. Louis University and vice presidency scholar.

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Can the GOP put the “fizz” back in the campaign bottle?

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Wednesday, September 3 2008

The GOP convention was slated to be a mega bash of Obama’s experience and organization. Instead it’s attempting to find its legs following Hurricane Gustav and the Palin pregnancy. The Republicans must desperately get back their “buzz,” if they want a bounce by Friday. Are they the dominant force they say they’ll be or the political gang that couldn’t shoot straight?

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Ch-ch changes: Chad Johnson becomes “Ocho Cinco” and other famous name changes

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Wednesday, September 3 2008

The Sports world perplexed at the recent announcement that Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco, which is the Spanish translation of his number 85 jersey. Ocho Cinco certainly isn’t the first famous person to have a change of heart about his given name.

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Are children a political liability?

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Stephen Dubner
Wednesday, September 3 2008

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Reaction to Sarah Palin at 2008 RNC

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Wednesday, September 3 2008

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Joe Lieberman changes sides

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Mark Garrison
Wednesday, September 3 2008

In 2000, Senator Joe Lieberman spoke at the Democratic Convention as Al Gore’s VP nominee. Eight years later, he’s on stage at the Republican Convention, supporting McCain. We’ll compare his convention speeches.

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Watching for hurricanes, with an eye on oil prices

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Corey Takahashi
Wednesday, September 3 2008

Oil refineries and rigs along the Gulf Coast escaped the major damage that followed Hurricane Katrina, and oil prices dropped to a five-month low. But Kevin Kerr, MarketWatch contributor and editor of the trading newsletter Global Commodities Alert, reminds us that this is just the start of a busy hurricane season. He says we’ll feel the effects of Gustav: the hurricane has caused evacuations and power outages, and that means oil production slowdowns well into next week.

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Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic”

By Jennifer Hsu
Wednesday, September 3 2008

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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — Across the Mississippi river from St. Paul, supporters of Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, converged on the Target Center in Minneapolis at Tuesday night’s “Rally for the Republic.”

Paul’s bid for the Republican nomination for president ended months ago, and in a sign that there’s ire at the GOP, the agitator Paul wasn’t invited to speak at this year’s Republican National Convention.

No matter. Paul’s supporters’ enthusiasm remains strong for his anti-war, strict Constitutionalism views. Last night I spoke with many of them, young and old, to find out just what Paul had done to endear himself to so many and what he’s promised that John McCain and Barack Obama have not.

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I sell both candidates

By Jennifer Hsu
Wednesday, September 3 2008

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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — “Is this your candidate?”

Eddie Perrell, a T-shirt seller outside the convention center, has merch for everyone: delegates all dressed up and buzzing over tonight’s big Sarah Palin speech and Barack Obama fans.

An Obama hat will set you back $10. A McCain/Palin tee? $20.

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