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The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Many on the left contend that the Founders were deists and the advent of the First Amendment proves that church and state should be separated. Author Steven Waldman contends that neither of these claims are true in his new book Founding Faith: Providence, Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America.

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This podcast was originally broadcast on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot on April 16, 2008.

Qian Cai is the director of the Demographics and Workforce unit at the Weldon-Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. She joined Coy Barefoot on the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the Center’s recent study of Virginia’s Hispanic population.

“Virginia’s Hispanic population tripled from 150,000 in 1990 to more than 460,000 in 2006,” Cai said.

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Liz Chadderon of the Chadderdon Group, a political consultant firm, joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the Democratic primaries. Chadderdon was surprised with Senator Hillary Clinton’s win in Texas.

“I did predict that [Tuesday] would not decide anything for us, but I have to say I didn’t think it would be that indecisive,” Chadderdon said. “It’s a brand new day in this campaign.” Chadderdon and Coy talk about the effectiveness of negative campaigning, the impact of the Michigan and Florida primaries not counting towards delegate counts, and what it means that Republican Senator John McCain has his party’s nomination outright.

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Delegate Jennifer McClellan (D-71) joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the final days of the regular session of the General Assembly. However, McClellan says she thinks the two Houses have to come back into special session to discuss transportation and to pass a budget. Coy also asks McClellan’s thoughts on VDOT’s 44% reduction in road construction funds, the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and her thoughts on the possibility of a gas tax.

“You do not want to balkanize the Virginia transportation system where you’ll have localities that can afford roads have roads, and those that can’t, don’t,” McClellan said.

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Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on the February 11 edition to describe what the candidates were up to on the eve of the Virginia presidential primary. Gibson also talks about the passing of former Mayor and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres, Clinton’s question and answer period with Larry Sabato’s class, the Jefferson-Jackson dinner from Saturday, and more.

Coy Barefoot says that Senator John McCain and former President Bill Clinton will both be guests on Newsradio 1070 WINA’s Charlottesville Live program tomorrow morning.

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Super Tuesday might more appropriately be called Super Wednesday. That’s what political analyst Dave Wasserman calls this past week’s election returns, which he says were only beginning to make sense until the day after the primaries and caucuses. Wasserman is the House editor for the Cook Political Report, and he phoned in to the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the ascendancy of Senator John McCain, and about the “race for the ages” that is currently going on between Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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Author Joseph Cummins‘ new book traces the various ways in which American elections have been influenced through chicanery. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Election Campaigns. After the 2004 campaign and the “Swift-boating” of Senator John Kerry, Cummins said he wanted to write a book that describes some of the country’s least flattering examples of democracy, and the result is a year-by-year catalog of various dirty tricks that have helped elect our presidents - from both parties.

Some fun insults are used in this interview: hermaphrodite, atheist, and “lady of the night.”

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John Whitehead is the founder and CEO of the Rutherford Institute joins Coy Barefoot on the January 28 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” for a conversation about the state of civil liberties and individual rights.

Conversations include:

• A discussion of Whitehead’s upcoming new book, tentatively titled Why We Should Give a Damn
• Whitehead’s thoughts on Barack Obama
• Whitehead’s thoughts on defending Paula Jones
• Recollections of interviewing a young Bill Clinton
• Whitehead was recently featured on the cover of the Hook
• Are You a Homegrown Terrorist?
• Whitehead’s campaign against the NFL (Daily Progress)

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Logan Gibson, the unofficial Washington and Lee University correspondent for WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”, joins Coy Barefoot to talk about her school’s mock presidential convention. The convention, which will be held this weekend, has been quite accurate in predicting the opposition party’s presidential nominee.

“I think our full record is we’ve gotten it correct 18 out of 23 time, but we’ve only missed one prediction since 1948,” Gibson said. That was when the school nominated Teddy Kennedy over George McGovern.

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How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? On the January 23rd edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston discusses some possible answers. His new book is called Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest American Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With the Bill.

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