This is the long awaited un-cut installment of our interview with legendary stand-up comic and writer Bob Schimmel.  WARNING!!! This segment should contain explicit material.  No one under the age of 18, or over the age of 40 should consume this archive.  The side effects of listening to this broadcast could include: warping your mind, curving your spine, and losing the war for the allies.  Enjoy!

Robert Schimmel is an American stand-up comedian whose material is often X-rated and controversial. He is perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show. Schimmel's material almost always pertains to sex, whether he is discussing computers, his daughter, or animals.

In his stand-up act and a radio interview with Paul Harris, Bob talked about his November 8, 1999 appearance on The Hollywood Squares. The taping was reportedly stopped at least once when Bob ad-libbed jokes about Louie Anderson. (Family Feud, which Anderson hosted at the time, was taped in the same studio.)

Bob has released several comedy albums, including Robert Schimmel Comes Clean; If You Buy This CD, I Can Get This Car; Unprotected; and Reserection.

Bob is number 76 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Standups of All Time.

Bob also wrote a book entitled Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life.

Larry Winget, the Pitbull of personal development is the best-selling author of Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get A Life and New York Times Bestseller It's Called Work for a Reason!. He teaches universal principles that will work for anyone, in any business, at any time, and does it by telling funny stories.

He believes that most of us have complicated life and business way too much, take them way too seriously, and need to lighten up, take responsibility, and keep it all in perspective.

I wrote this book for the average person who has a job, makes a living and still canât seem to get ahead. I wrote it for the person who dreams of being rich but canât quite seem to turn his dreams into reality. I wrote this book for the person who is ready to turn his life around and finally have financial freedom. I wrote this book for the person who is covered in debt and canât seem to stop living paycheck to paycheck. I wrote this for the person who spends more than they make and canât figure out how to stop doing it.
--Larry Winget

If this describes you, you are not alone. Over 40% of families are feeling the pressure, spending more than they earn, and risking retiring financially dependent on the government, family, or charity. Larry Winget knowsâheâs been where you are now. He grew up poor, then made and lost a fortune when a business in which heâd invested went bankrupt. But he worked his way back from rock-bottom to become a multi- millionaire.
Now he gets paid to help people in financial crisis on A&Eâs reality series, Big Spender. On the show, he coaches people who have jobs, maybe even high-paying jobs, but are nevertheless in debt or living hand-to-mouth. His blunt take on their situations? Theyâre broke because they want to be. They all say they want stability, savings, and financial freedom, but their actions too often contradict their words. Larry helps them to see the contradiction, get back on track, and out of debt, step-by-step. He can help you, too.

Whether your aim is to get out of debt, save for a house, or simply stop kidding yourself when it comes to savings (for retirement, for your kidsâ college, whatever your goal) this book encourages you, through easy-to-complete worksheets and Larryâs bullying yet wise counsel, to make it happen. Larryâs motivating message: If you want to be rich, you can. But first, you have to stop being broke, and start getting ahead. And heâll walk you through not only the necessary attitude adjustment, but the practical choices and actions that will get you there.

Eric Roston is a science writer in Washington, DC, and author of the forthcoming book THE CARBON AGE: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat. The book, based on three years of research, traces the dynamic, fundamental science that unifies seemingly disparate parts of our experience: Climate, energy, health, industry--the fastest way to learn the most about the world is through the carbon atom. Walker & Co. will publish the book in July. The Boston Globe included The Carbon Age in its list of the most-anticipated books of 2008. The book has received endorsements from several prominent thinkers.

Roston is Senior Associate in the Washington, DC, office of The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. He is also a non-compensated Advisory Board member of Clear Standards, Inc.

Previously, Roston wrote for TIME, in its Washington bureau, where he covered economics, politics and technology. Roston joined the magazine in 2000 as a business reporter in the New York bureau, covering stories such as the collapse of Enron, China's emergence as a force in global trade, and how advanced computing technologies are reshaping the economy. An eyewitness to the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Roston was a part of the reporting team that won a National Magazine Award for best single-issue coverage.

In September 2002, Roston became a part of TIME's Washington bureau. He traveled extensively with President George W. Bush and Senators John Kerry and John Edwards during the 2004 election campaign, providing analysis and reporting to the magazine's seasoned political team. He was also a frequent contributor to the magazine's work on energy, environmental and health issues. He has penned a monthly column on technology and society for TIME Inside Business. In the spring of 2004, he became Time.com's first blogger, writing a daily commentary on "the technology that will carry us through tomorrow -- and the stuff that keeps us stuck in yesterday."

Roston has been a guest on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, CleanSkies.tv, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBC, National Public Radio and various radio stations nationwide and abroad. Prior to TIME, he wrote for LIFE magazine and contributed to Slate.com, where he wrote the "Today's Papers" column. Roston, who is fluent in Russian, holds an M.A. in Russian history, and a B.A. in modern European history, both from Columbia University.

The story of carbonâthe building block of life that is, ironically, humanityâs great threat. It could be said that all of us are a little alienâour bodiesâ carbon atoms first shot forth from supernovas billions of years ago and far, far away. Carbon has always been the ubiquitous architect and chemical scaffolding of life and civilization; indeed, all living things draw carbon from their environments to stay alive, and the great cycle by which carbon moves through organisms, ground, water, and atmosphere has long been a kind of global respiration system that helps keep Earth in balance. And yet, when we hear the word today, it is more often than not in a crisis context: carbon dioxide emissions have sped up the carbon cycle; chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the ozone layer and warming the planet; the volatile Middle East explodes atop its stores of volatile hydrocarbons; carbohydrates threaten obesity and diabetes.

In The Carbon Age, Eric Roston evokes this essential element, its journey illuminating history from the Big Bang to modern civilization. Charting the science of carbonâhow it was formed, how it came to Earth and built upâhe chronicles the often surprising ways mankind has used it over centuries, and the growing catastrophe of the industrial era, leading us to now attempt to wrestle the Earthâs geochemical cycle back from the brink. Blending the latest science with original reporting, Roston makes us aware, as never before, of the seminal impact carbon has, and has had, on our lives.

David D. Perlmutter is a professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Kansas. He received his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has served as a Board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. A documentary photographer, he is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion: Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises (Praeger, 1998); Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage (St. Martin's, 1999); (ed.) The Manship School Guide to Political Communication (LSU Press, 1999); Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement (Sage, 2000); Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); (ed., with John Hamilton) From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology (LSU Press, 2007), and Blogwars: The New Political Battleground (Oxford, 2008) . He has also written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as over 150 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC and most recently, The Daily Show. He is editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas (http://www.doleinstituteblog.org/) and his own blog about online politics, http://policybyblog.squarespace.com/.

Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have?
In Blogwars , David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be uncertain, it will not be unblogged.
For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape.

Robert Schimmel is an American stand-up comedian whose material is often X-rated and controversial. He is perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show. Schimmel's material almost always pertains to sex, whether he is discussing computers, his daughter, or animals.

In 1998, Schimmel suffered a heart attack, and in June 2000, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. His treatments included chemotherapy and required long stays in the hospital.

Schimmel's willingness to frankly and humorously discuss the tragic events of his life in his act has set him apart from other comics. Before his illness, his act included a bit about how strange it might be if a person wore a wig on their pubic area. When he lost his body hair due to chemotherapy treatment, he discovered that there really is such a thing â these wigs, or merkins, have existed for hundreds of years. He updated the comedy bit accordingly.

Bob will incorporate any aspect of his personal life into his act, even the death of his son. In perhaps his most extreme bit, Bob joked about making obscene suggestions to a lady from the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Bob cites Lenny Bruce as his all-time comedy hero. Like Bruce, Bob's raunchy act has gotten him into trouble from time to time. Bob had not been asked to perform on Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1999 until a 2008 appearance, and he believed this was because of a particularly dirty sex joke he told during his last appearance. However, his edgy style has made him a hit on The Howard Stern Show.

In his stand-up act and a radio interview with Paul Harris, Bob talked about his November 8, 1999 appearance on The Hollywood Squares. The taping was reportedly stopped at least once when Bob ad-libbed jokes about Louie Anderson. (Family Feud, which Anderson hosted at the time, was taped in the same studio.)

Bob has released several comedy albums, including Robert Schimmel Comes Clean; If You Buy This CD, I Can Get This Car; Unprotected; and Reserection.

Bob is number 76 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Standups of All Time.

Bob also wrote a book entitled Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life.

Richard Shenkman is the editor and founder of George Mason University's History News Network, a website that features articles by historians on current events. An associate professor of history at George Mason University, he can regularly be seen on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. He is a New York Times best-selling author of five history books, including Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History. His most recent book is Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power and Got Things Done, which was published in 1999 by HarperCollins. He is writing a new book, to be published by Basic Books, about the myths we need to face in a post 9/11 world. Educated at Vassar and Harvard, Mr. Shenkman is an award-winning investigative reporter and the former managing editor of KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle. In 1997 he was the host, writer and producer of a prime time series for The Learning Channel inspired by his books on myths. He gives lectures at colleges around the country on several topics, including American myths and presidential politics.  Click here to read his blog, POTUS.

Malakkar Vohryzek is the office coordinator in New York. He is a former prisoner of the federal government, sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years for conspiracy to distribute LSD. During his seven-year-and-six-month prison stay, he earned his four-year degree, assisted prisoners with legal work and even managed to become a licensed dairy pasteurizer in California.

Vohryzek remains ardently opposed to intrusive and coercive government policies. He views his work against drug prohibition as just one of many avenues towards achieving a just and free society. To that end, he maintains an active online presence, being published in the Los Angeles Timesâ Blowback section, on Alternet and on the Huffington Post. He also regularly contributes to the DâAlliance, the blog of the Drug Policy Alliance Network.

Opio Sokoni is a Howard University trained lawyer working as the General Manager of Portland, Oregonâs KBMS radio where he self produces a politics and Hip Hop radio show. Opio has previously worked for the Drug Policy Alliance, TransAfrica and Amnesty International. His multimedia interviews have included Congressional members and entertainment icons such as Harry Belafonte and Russell Simmons. His writings have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Black Commentator, the Washington Times, DaveyD.com and numerous popular websites. He has also appeared on C-SPAN and the O'Reilly Factor. An activist filmmaker, he has written, directed and produced two documentary films, and last year, premiered the first ever activist film, "Turn Off Channel Zero" which targets Viacom as a major source of negative media portrayals of African Americans. Opio is the author of an award-winning childrenâs book (I Want to Be a Lawyer When I Grow Up) and an activist manual (Poli-Tainment: Making Struggle Sexy). Mr. Sokoni was the lead organizer and consultant for the Appeal for Redress campaign - a movement of active duty military members appealing to end the war in Iraq - it was a featured broadcast on "60 Minutes." He runs the news and culture website www.poli-tainment.com.

Thomas Omestad covers international affairs and diplomacy. In his 10-plus years with U.S. News, he has covered Mideast peace efforts, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Cuba under Fidel Castro, Syriaâs government, anti-Americanism, Georgiaâs new democracy, Taiwanese democracy, Muslims in Europe, Libyaâs future, Moroccoâs Islamists, German politics, post-authoritarian Indonesia, North Korean political prisons and nuclear challenge, reform efforts in Iran, and more. He writes on general issues of U.S. foreign policy. He occasionally travels with the press corps that accompanies the president and secretary of state. Prior to joining U.S. News in 1997, Omestad was for 10 years the associate editor of the journal Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity, he covered firsthand the fall of the Berlin Wall, the âVelvet Revolutionâ in Czechoslovakia, and the waning days of the Soviet Union. Earlier in his career, he reported for the Los Angeles Times and for the Associated Press in South Dakota. His articles on foreign affairs have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald, among other publications. Omestad, a Minneapolis native, received a bachelor of science in economics, with honors, from the University of Minnesota in 1982, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied political science, business, German, and Japanese.

Omestad has been interviewed on national radio and television programs such as CNNâs Paula Zahn Now, CNN Headline News, and ABC Radioâs The Warren Pierce Show, as well as major market radio stations across the country.  Check out some of his more recent articles regarding Brazil and the current world food crisis both here and here.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO is internationally recognized as the âvoice and face of contemporary American psychologyâ through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment, authoring the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, in its 18th Edition, and his popular trade books on Shyness in adults and in children; Shyness: What it is, what to do about it, and The Shy Child. Past president of the American Psychological Association, and the Western Psychological Association.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He is currently on the faculty of the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA. He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. His more than 300 professional publications and 50 books convey his research interests in the domain of social psychology, with a broad spread of interests from shyness to time perspective, madness, cults, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.

Zimbardo has served also as the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing 63 scientific, math and technical associations (with 1.5 million members), and now is Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation. He heads a philanthropic foundation in his name to promote student education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo adds further to his retirement list activities: serving as the new executive director of a Stanford center on terrorism -- the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT). He was an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib Prison abuses, and has studied the interrogation procedures used by the military in that and other prisons as well as by Greek and Brazilian police torturers.

Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the U.S. Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.

His new book has been a New York Times bestseller: THE LUCIFER EFFECT: UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOD PEOPLE TURN EVIL (Random House, 2007; see www.lucifereffect.org).

Alex Kingsbury writes about homeland security, the war in Iraq, and other national and international news for U.S. News & World Report.

An associate editor, he has written cover stories about the Iraq war, college accountability, trends in E-learning, and World War II history. He reported stories from Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

His articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Express, National Geographic Traveler, the Dallas Morning News, and been distributed by the New York Times. He has also written for the Watchdog Project, an initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

He appears frequently on national television, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, CBSâs Up to the Minute, CNNâs American Morning, CNN Headline News, C-SPANâs Washington Journal, FOX News Channelâs Studio B with Shepard Smith.

Kingsbury holds a bachelorâs in history from George Washington University and a Masterâs in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mark Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English at UCLA in 1988. He has taught at Emory since 1989, with a two-and-a-half year break in 2003-05 to serve as the Director, Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, TLS, and Chronicle of Higher Education. His latest book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Donât Trust Anyone Under 30 (www.dumbestgeneration.com), was published in May 2008.

Clintons4mccain was started as a grass roots effort by Cristi Adkins, Anne Franklin, Peter BoykinPeter BoykinThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   and a team of Clinton Supporters who are adamantly opposed to the DNC, the media and Hollywood selecting their presidential nominee.  âWeâre mad as hell and not going to simply fall in line like Stepford Wives.â 
The Clintons4mccain group plans to join other organizations across the country for a large army of dedicated soldiers devoted to ONE unified missionâ

Operation NOBAMA.
To Join the group, you can go to  www.clintons4mccain.com as well as the myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/clintons4mccain and get the latest updates on the www.youtube.com/clintons4mccain channel. 
 

With the pressure building on Senator Obama and masses exodus, itâs only a matter of time before the DNC realizes itâs biggest failure in âVotergate 08â was the smoke and mirrors game they played on the entire 2008 Primary âSelectoralâ process.

Philip Shenon is an investigative reporter with The New York Times, where he has worked since 1981. He was the lead reporter on the investigation of the September 11 commission and has held several of the most important assignments of the Washington Bureau, including chief Defense Department correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, Congressional correspondent and Justice Department Correspondent. He has reported for The Times from scores of countries across six continents. This is his first book.

Prof. Fagan is an archaeological generalist, with expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory. He is the author or editor of 46 books, including seven widely used undergraduate college texts. Prof. Fagan has contributed over 100 specialist papers to many national and international journals. He is a Contributing Editor to American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology Magazine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of six academic and general periodicals and has many popular magazine credits, including Scientific American and Gentleman's Quarterly.

Prof. Fagan has been an archaeological consultant for many organizations, including National Geographic Society, Time/Life, EncyclopÃdia Britannica, and Microsoft Encarta. He has lectured extensively about archaeology and other subjects throughout the world at many venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the San Francisco City Lecture Program, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Conservation Institute.

In addition to extensive experience with the development of Public Television programs, Prof. Fagan was the developer/writer of Patterns of the Past, an NPR series in 1984-86. He has worked as a consultant for the BBC, RKO, and many Hollywood production companies on documentaries. In 1995 he was Senior Series Consultant for Time/Life Television's "Lost Civilizations" series.

Prof. Fagan was awarded the 1996 Society of Professional Archaeologists' Distinguished Service Award for his "untiring efforts to bring archaeology in front of the public." He also received a Presidential Citation Award from the Society for American Archaeology in 1996 for his work in textbook, general writing and media activities. He received the Society's first Public Education Award in 1997.

Fagan is critical of non-traditional archaeology, and has written scathing reviews of rivals outside academia. His own stance, that archaeology should remain a compendium of material facts, is influential within the field. This view permits Fagan's well-known textbooks to skirt issues that are controversial or political, including issues regarding gender, migration, and pre-Columbian oceanic voyages. His expository style is a departure from the kind of serious theoretical questioning of an earlier generation of archaeologist, particularly the pre-World War II generation of archaeologists, whose work he encompasses, but whose theoretical leanings he ignores. Critics of Fagan, therefore, point to his similarity with later members of the Boasian school of anthropology, who were more interested in tracking objects on a grid than in explaining similarities among objects found in various places, or denoting how notions of similarity were to be constructed.

Fagan appeared on The Daily Show on March 17th, 2008 to discuss 'climate change and its impact on human history.'

Simon LeVay is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has also coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, parkinson's disease, and extraterrestrial life. LeVay has written a novel, Albrick's Gold, whose main character, Roger Cavendish, is partially based on LeVay himself.

LeVay held positions at Harvard from 1974 to 1984, after which he worked at the Salk Institute from 1984-1993. While at the Salk institute he was also Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology at University of California, San Diego.

Much of his early work looked at visual cortex in animals, especially cats. LeVay's textbook on human sexuality (now in its second edition) was described in one review as "an exceptional book that addresses nearly every aspect of sexuality from multiple theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives."

Professor Lichtmanâs books include Prejudice and Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928; Your Family History; Ecological Inference; and The Keys to the White House. He was named the 1992-1993 Scholar-Teacher of the Year, the universityâs highest faculty honor, and has provided commentary for all major U.S. broadcasting networks and cable companies, the Voice of America, and many foreign broadcast companies, including BBC and CBC. He worked with Dan Rather as a CBS consultant during the impeachment of President Clinton, served as the 2004 election-night analyst for BBC Worldwide, and is now political analyst for CNN Headline News. His more than 100 scholarly and popular articles have appeared in such journals and newspapers as the American Historical Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He is also a columnist for the Montgomery Gazette and has served as an expert witness in more than 70 voting rights and redistricting cases.

Prof. Munger received his Ph.D. in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following his graduate training, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission in the first Reagan Administration. His first teaching job was in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College, followed by appointments in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas (Austin, 1986-1990) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1990-7). At UNC, he served as Director of the Master of Public Administration Program, training city and county managers. He moved to Duke in 1997, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. He also became chair of the Political Science Department in 2000, and still serves in that post. Mike also has joint appointments in the Economics and Public Policy departments at Duke.

Prof. Munger's academic research has focused on Presidential - Congressional conflict, campaign finance, and regulation of markets. In addition to more than 80 articles and papers published in professional journals and edited volumes, Prof. Munger has coauthored or coedited (with Melvin Hinich) three books, Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Analytical Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (Kluwer Academic Press, 1998). His fourth and most recent book, Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices, was published in August 2000 by W.W. Norton. Current research interests include the evolution of the ideology of racism in the antebellum South, ballot access reform, and a study of how human subjects playing a computer simulation choose platforms in virtual "elections."

He blogs at Kids Prefer Cheese (link: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com).

Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books. Kessler began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald. In 1968, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became an investigative reporter with the Washington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff writer until 1985.

Kessler's first book was THE LIFE INSURANCE GAME, an exposà of the life insurance industry published in 1985. His second book, THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, is the inside story of the world"s preeminent arms dealer. Kesslerâs next book, SPY vs. SPY: Stalking Soviet Spies in America, is the only book on the FBIâs secret counterintelligence program and contains the first interview with Karl Koecher, a Soviet bloc spy who became a mole in the CIA.

Kesslerâs fourth book, MOSCOW STATION, is about the security breaches at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, the involvement of U.S. Marines, and the resulting investigations. Kesslerâs THE SPY IN THE RUSSIAN CLUB: How Glenn Souther Stole Americaâs Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscow is the bizarre tale of one of Americaâs most damaging spies who defected to the Soviet Union and committed suicide there.

Kesslerâs sixth book, ESCAPE FROM THE CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important KGB Spy Ever to Defect to the U.S., is about the defection and redefection of KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko from a restaurant in Washingtonâs Georgetown section. It contains the only interview with Yurchenko by a western journalist and portrays the CIAâs disastrous mishandling of the case. Kesslerâs INSIDE THE CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the Worldâs Most Powerful Spy Agency depicts what the CIA really does and was the only book about the agency written with the CIAâs limited cooperation.

For Kesslerâs eighth book, THE FBI: Inside the Worldâs Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency, the FBI gave Kessler unprecedented access to the bureau. The book revealed for the first time the defection of Vasili Mitrokhin, whose notes from the KGBâs archives disclosed the existence over the years of hundreds of spies in the U.S. The book is the authoritative work on the modern FBI. Its findings led to the dismissal of William Sessions as FBI director over his abuses.

Having probed the CIA and FBI, Kessler was prepared to take on the modern White House. INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the Worldâs Most Powerful Institution depicts what the presidents and first families are really like and how the White House really operates, as seen by the Secret Service, Air Force One stewards, and White House aides and residence staff who know the true story.

Kesslerâs tenth book, THE SINS OF THE FATHER: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded, is the first major biography of Joe Kennedy in more than thirty years. Based in part on the only interview ever given by the surgeon who performed the lobotomy on her, the book reveals that for political reasons, Joe Kennedy covered up the fact that his daughter Rosemary was mentally ill rather than retarded, as the family has long claimed. The book documents payoffs Kennedy made to win the presidency for Jack. And it reveals an affair with his Hyannis Port secretary that lasted nine yearsâthree times longer than his affair with movie star Gloria Swanson.

Kesslerâs latest book, THE TERRORIST WATCH: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, presents the chilling story of terroristsâ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots. Drawing on unprecedented access, the book takes readers inside the war rooms of this battle for our survivalâfrom the newly created National Counterterrorism Center to FBI headquarters, from the CIA to the National Security Agency, from the Pentagon to the Oval Officeâto explain why we have gone so long since 9/11 without a successful attack and to reveal the many close calls we never hear about.

Kessler and the book were featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, a web site with an average of 4.1 million unique visitors a month, and of Newsmax magazine, which has a readership of 600,000. His stories for Newsmax have included interviews with President Bush, Donald Trump, Andy Card, Gen. Michael Hayden, Mitt Romney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Lynne Cheney, Dana Perino, Jim Cramer, Deborah Norville, Robert S. Mueller III, Margaret Spellings, Brian Lamb, Juan Williams, Jeb Bush, and Fran Townsend. Kessler's Newsmax stories were instrumental in bringing to light Barack Obama's association with his radical minister, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. You can sign up for Kesslerâs reports here.

Kessler has won sixteen journalism awards, including two George Polk awardsâone for national reporting and one for community service. He won the top prize for business and financial reporting given by the Washington chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi society of professional journalists. Kessler has also won the American Political Science Associationâs Public Affairs Reporting Award, the Associated Pressâ Sevellon Brown Memorial Award, and Washingtonian magazineâs Washingtonian of the Year award. He is listed in Whoâs Who in America.