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Dec. 30, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Eric Zorn Liberal Chicago Tribune columnist	Marty Geraghty Conservative Real estate executive
Arthur I. Cyr Clausen Distinguished Professor Political Science Professor, Carthage College	Tom Brokaw Former anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw Author, 'Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today'

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Dec. 23, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Eric Zorn Liberal Chicago Tribune columnist	Marty Geraghty Conservative Real estate executive
Arthur I. Cyr Clausen Distinguished Professor Political Science Professor, Carthage College

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Dec. 16, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Chris Robling Republican Principal at Jayne Thompson & Associates	Carol Felsenthal Biographer, magazine writer, and blogger for The Hill and Huffington Post Author, Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House
Tom Shaer Guest host

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Dec. 9, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Chris Varones Republican Public Affairs Expert President, Aesop Communications Group	Dan Johnson-Weinberger Democrat President, Progressive Public Affairs Attorney, lobbyist and blogger
Roland Martin CNN contributor A journalist, commentator, and author who in March 2007 joined CNN as a contributor.

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.
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Dec. 2, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Edwin Eisendrath Democrat	Lee Newcom Republican McLean County (IL) Recorder
Stump Connolly Author	Tom Bevan Co-Founder, Executive Editor of RealClearPolitics.com

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Nov. 25, 2007 - Special: Remembering Harold

Jacky Grimshaw Democrat Chicago Democratic activist Former Political Advisor to Harold Washington	Alton Miller Press Secretary to Harold Washington
Salim Muwakkil Senior Editor, In These Times, WVON Radio	Timuel Black Historian and Civil Rights Activist

November 25, 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Harold Washington. As the first African-American mayor of Chicago, Washington represented a major change in the political environment of the city. In this special presentation, civic leaders, advisors and friends of Harold Washington share their memories of him, and discuss his lasting impact on the city of Chicago.
See more about Mayor Washington at the Museum of Broadcast Communications website

Nov. 25, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Brian Boyer Liberal TV documentarian	John McCarron Liberal Adjunt lecturer in urban journalism, DePaul University Former Chicago Tribune editorial board member Chicago Tribune columnist
Dan Proft Conservative Political commentator, Don Wade & Roma Morning Show on WLS-AM 890	Mary Laney Conservative Chicago Daily Observer columnist Documentary producer Board member, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Former TV reporter and anchor

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast. (NOTE: There is no video available for this program - to listen to it, please subscribe to our podcast by clicking here).

Nov. 18, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Marty Geraghty Conservative Real estate executive	R. Craig Sautter Author of 'Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Conventions 1860-1996'
Salim Muwakkil Senior Editor, In These Times, WVON Radio

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Nov. 11, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Danial Noorani President, The Citizens Foundation, U.S.A.	Hugh Dellios Foreign Editor, Chicago Tribune
John Allen Williams Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Author, Soldiers, Society, and National Security and U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics U.S. Naval Reserve Captain, retired

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast. (NOTE: No video link is available for this show, but you can listen to audio of both hours using the link below or by subscribing to the podcast.)

Nov. 4, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Georgia Logothetis Liberal Daily Kos blogger Attorney	Dan Proft Conservative Political commentator, Don Wade & Roma Morning Show on WLS-AM 890
Jim Bohannon Talk show host on Westwood One radio network

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast. (NOTE: No video link is available for this show, but you can listen to audio of both hours using the link below or by subscribing to the podcast.)

Oct. 28, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Judy Baar Topinka Republican Republican candidate for Illinois comptroller Former Illinois State Treasurer and 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate	Rick Di Maio Democrat
Molly Andolina Professor of Political Science, DePaul University

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Oct. 21, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Jack Franks Democrat Illinois State Representative, 63rd District Illinois Co-Chair of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign	Lee Newcom Republican McLean County (IL) Recorder
Danial Noorani President, The Citizens Foundation, U.S.A.	Guity Nashat Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast. (SPECIAL NOTE: Video from *BOTH HOURS* is available for this week's show - watch by clicking the link below - although it says it is video from the first hour, you can watch both.)

Oct. 14, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Tom Pence Republican	Jim Wall Democrat
Philip Beverly Chicago State University professor, Political Science

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Oct. 7, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Marty Geraghty Conservative Real estate executive	Charles Lipson Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago Author, Doing Honest Work in College
Ray Hanania Talk show host, WJJG 1530 AM Arab-American journalist U.S. Air Force veteran

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Sep. 30, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Georgia Logothetis Liberal Daily Kos blogger Attorney	Dan Proft Conservative Political commentator, Don Wade & Roma Morning Show on WLS-AM 890
Roland Martin CNN contributor A journalist, commentator, and author who in March 2007 joined CNN as a contributor.

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Sep. 23, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

John McNeal Conservative	Mary Laney Conservative Chicago Daily Observer columnist Documentary producer Board member, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Former TV reporter and anchor
Salim Muwakkil Senior Editor, In These Times, WVON Radio

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Sep. 16, 2007 - Beyond the Beltway

Chris Varones Republican Public Affairs Expert President, Aesop Communications Group	Dan Johnson-Weinberger Democrat President, Progressive Public Affairs Attorney, lobbyist and blogger
Tom Bevan Co-Founder, Executive Editor of RealClearPolitics.com

Analysis of national politics, featuring occasional injections of rumor and innuendo, all offered up by our panel of political insiders, pundits, power brokers, public servants, and, most importantly, plain-speaking Americans from coast-to-coast.

Sep. 9, 2007 - Beyond the Classroom

Andrew Conneen Teacher, Adlai E. Stevenson High School	Dan Larsen Teacher, Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Vanessa Lal-Steinkamp Teacher, Adlai E. Stevenson High School

Three local high school teachers join Bruce DuMont to discuss a variety of issues, focusing on the 2008 presidential primary campaigns, and to respond to listener phone calls.

Sep. 2, 2007 - Current Hot Political Topics

Jeffrey Mandalis Supports Ron Paul for President Futures trader on Chicago Board on Trade	Mary Hartigan Democrat
Lee Newcom Republican McLean County (IL) Recorder

Discussion of the Sen. Larry Craig scandal, whether the United States should or should not intervene in foreign affairs, and various other current major political topics.

Aug. 26, 2007 - 2008: The GOP Candidates

Bill Brady Thompson supporter Illinois State Senator, 44th District	Jim Durkin McCain Supporter Illinois State Representative, 82nd District
David Valkema President of the Log Cabin Republicans of Chicago	Kevin Richardson Mayor of Lake Barrington

An in-depth view of the Republican presidential candidates.

- July 29, 2007

THE DEMOCRATS AND THE YOU TUBE DEBATES: REAL OR CONTRIVED?
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Conservative Joe Morris, a lawyer at Morris & De La Rosa; liberal urban affairs writer eń&@t color="#FFFFFF">John McCarron; and
Phillip Beverly, an associate professor at Chicago State University.
Also....Carl Bernstein talks to us by phone about his book on Hillary Clinton, "A Woman in Charge"

- April 15, 2007

DON IMUS: WAS HE JUDGED AND SENTENCED IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION?
WHERE ARE WE TODAY WITH RACIAL EQUALITY?
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With guest host, Chicago broadcaster Tom Shaer.
Ralph Conner (R) of the Heartland Institute, columnist Mary Mitchell - Chicago Sun Times,
Rick Perlstein - liberal, and Chris Robling (R) - political consultant.

- April 8, 2007

PELOSI'S TRIP TO SYRIA: APPROPRIATE OR NOT? MORE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, INCLUDING
AN INTERVIEW WITH REPUBLICAN HOPEFUL REP. TOM TANCREDO
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James Pethokoukis, U.S. News & World Report,  Kathy Posner - Retired Public Relations Executive,
and Rick Levin - Independent. Also, a phone report from Jordan Levy of WTAG, Worcester, Mass.

- April 1, 2007

DID THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DO WRONG?
THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE CONTINUES: WOULD FRED THOMPSON GIVE
THE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVES A BOOST?
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Conservative Dan Proft - political consultant, liberal - University of Chicago Professor Charles Lipson, and liberal Dan Johnson-Weinberger Also, Mike Pride reports from New Hampshire and Mike Morrow from Tennessee.  

- March 25, 2007

HOW DO THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF CANDIDATES AND THEIR SPOUSES AFFECT THEIR CAMPAIGNS? MORE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE OF 2008
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Donald Turner (D) - former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Christine Dudley (R), - political consultant, and
Tom Bevan (R) - RealClearPolitics.com editor. 

- March 18, 2007

WASHINGTON FEEDING FRENZY ABOUT ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES: IS JUSTICE BLIND?
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Richard K. Means, Independent - attorney and founder of Project Leap, Mary Hartigan (D) - attorney,
and John McGovern (R). 

- March 11, 2007

CAN SEN. FRED THOMPSON FILL THE VOID FOR THE REPUBLICANS
AS A VIABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
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Ray Hanania - columnist, comedian and author, Associate History Professor Guity Nashat - Research Fellow for the Hoover Institution, and Arthur Cyr - AW Clausen Professor of Economy and Business at Carthage College.

- March 4, 2007

CLINTON & OBAMA IN SELMA: WHO GETS THE SUPPORT OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY?
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Rick Garcia - liberal, Chris Robling (R) - political consultant,  and Rick Levin - Independent. 

- February 25, 2007

CAMPAIGN 2008: WHAT ABOUT THE PREMISE THAT CLINTON, GORE, GUILIANI, McCAIN
OR OBAMA WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT?
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Conservative Dan Proft, liberal - University of Chicago Professor Charles Lipson, and
Achy Obejas - Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University.

- February 18, 2007

WHO WERE THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS, AND WHY? FDR TO BE SPECIALLY HONORED IN JULY.
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Conservative Marty Geraghty (R), liberal Dan Johnson-Weinberger and
Tom Bevan (R) - RealClearPolitics.com editor. Also, Curt Smith, presidential speechwriter.

- February 11, 2007

BARACK OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT: A FRESH NEW FACE IN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS?
ALSO...HOW DOES THE REST OF THE FIELD LOOK TO BE SHAPING UP?
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Eric Adelstein (D) - Democratic strategist, Cliff Kelley - WVON-Chicago Talk Show Host,
and IL State Rep. Jim Durkin (R - Western Springs, IL)

- February 4, 2007

THE PRESIDENT'S IRAQ STRATEGY AND THE 2008 ELECTION CANDIDATES - ALSO, THE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE U.S.
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Conservative Marty Geraghty (R), James Wall (D) - Senior Contributing Editor, Christian Century Magazine, and
Brian Boyer - TV Producer & Documentarian.

Richard Boykin (D), Lee Newcom (R) - Conservative, and Chip Wilkins - Liberal on crime and the prisons of the U.S.

- January 21, 2007

IRAQ AND THE WAR....THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THE EMERGING CANDIDATES
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Donald Turner (D) - former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, conservative Ryan McLaughlin (R) - Public Relations Executive/political operative, and Arthur Cyr - AW Clausen Professor of Economy and Business at Carthage College.

- January 14, 2007

THE PRESIDENT'S NEW IRAQ STRATEGY AND WHAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE DOING IN RESPONSE
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Conservative Chris Varones, liberal Dan Johnson-Weinberger and Ralph Conner (R) of the Heartland Institute.

January 7, 2007

ARE AMERICA'S CHILDREN RECEIVING A GOOD EDUCATION? IS THERE EQUITY IN FUNDING FOR EDUCATION?
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Conservative Dan Proft, liberal University of Chicago Professor Charles Lipson, and Michael Golden of the Illinois Education Foundation.