At long last, Senator Al Franken. It's official. Norm Coleman, Mr. Bad Caps, is replaced by and with an equally-interesting mouth. Ahmadinejad can't figure what took them so long. Just declare the race over. At the end of a bayonet.
University of Michigan Law School Professor Richard Primus (what a résumé) first joins us with a final word on Ricci, the now-famous New Haven case that conservatives hope and pray will shutter Sotomayor's chances for SCOTUS. Not a chance.
Sreenath Sreenivasan joins us for a look at neo-journalism. Sreenivasan is Dean of Students at Columbia University's School of Journalsim and runs the school's new media department. He specializes in helping journalists use technology better and faster. His technology reports appear once a week on WNBC-TV (he was WABC-TV's Tech Guru for six years) and he writes a weekly Web Tips column for Poynter.org. His work explaining technology for lay readers has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Time Digital and BusinessWeek. As I've stated and should be readily apparent, conventional, paleo-jouranlism is moribund.
Dr. Martin A. Regalia is senior vice president for economic and tax policy and chief economist at the United States Chamber of Commerce. In conjunction with Chamber members, he is responsible for developing Chamber policy on tax and economic issues. The good doctor will provide a mid-year review and economic forecast for 2009 and will explore the possibility of a double dip recession. He'll also address inflation concerns, the stimulus and government spending.