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GOP Candidates' Fiscal Plans Would Make Federal Deficits Worse; Does Georgetown Law Student Have Libel Case Against Rush Limbaugh?

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Tags: GOP Presidential candidates, deficits, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, libel, slander, defamation, Janelle Weber

Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. First today we'll hear from Jeff Vanke who is a senior policy analyst at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He'll discuss the group's recent report that the Republican Presidential candidates fiscal proposals would increase the federal budget deficit. CRFB report on GOP candidates. Later we'll talk with Janelle Weber of the firm Shutts and Bowen regarding [Rush Limabugh's comme...

Analysis of the President's State of the Union Speech

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Tags: SOTU, Obama, Jonathan Alter, The Promise, war in Afghanistan, taxes, deficits, unemployment, health care, gun laws

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll analyze President Obama's State of the Union speech with your phone calls and analysis from Jonathan Alter who is author of the book The Promise (Simon and Scuster) about the first year of the Obama presidency and national affairs columnist for Newsweek and an analyst for NBC and MSNBC.