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The Year in Politics: A Quiz
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace:
Today's Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Democracy and Elections:
More Unfinished 2008 Election Business: Verifiable Vote Counts
Steven Rosenfeld
DrugReporter:
A New Approach to Drugs Would Save New York Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Gabriel Sayegh
Election 2008:
Franken Lawyer: "We Are Going To Win"
Sam Stein
Environment:
Forget the Polar Bears -- The Climate Crisis Is About All of Us
George Monbiot
ForeignPolicy:
What Venezuela's Regional Elections Really Mean
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri
Health and Wellness:
Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model
Marie Cocco
Hurricane Katrina:
From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Not Accomplished
Amy Goodman
Immigration:
Immigration Reform After Bush: Let's Put an End to Punitive Policies
Roberto Lovato
Media and Technology:
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Doron Taussig
Movie Mix:
Love Bites: What Sexy Vampires Tell Us About Our Culture
Sarah Seltzer
Reproductive Justice and Gender:
The Hymen Mystique
Carole Roye
Rights and Liberties:
Ban the Cluster Bomb
Brian Cook
Sex and Relationships:
Sex Ed for Seniors
Sue Katz
War on Iraq:
The Dilemma of Foreign Prisoners in Iraq
Ma'ad Fayad
Water:
Corporate Water Abusers Should Not Be Trusted As Stewards of the World's Water
Wenonah Hauter
1. What did Attorney General John Ashcroft do to a pair of partially nude statues in the Great Hall of the Justice Department?
a) Fitted them with chastity belts
b) Draped curtains in front of them at a cost to taxpayers of more than $8,000
c) Decried them as part of an epidemic of "Girls Gone Wild"
d) Serenaded them with a rousing rendition of his blockbuster hit, "Let the Eagle Soar"
2. Death Star, Fat Boy, Get Shorty and Ricochet are all names for what?
a) Domestic security programs proposed by John Ashcroft to monitor the movements of all citizens at all times
b) Schemes Enron used to manipulate California's electricity market
c) Schemes Enron used to manipulate Dick Cheney's energy task force
d) Nicknames given by President Bush to senior members of his Cabinet
e) Nicknames given by Trent Lott to his fellow Klansmen.
3. Match the politician with the quotation:
A. Bill Clinton
B. Strom Thurmond
C. Al Gore
D. Tom DeLay
E. James Traficant
1) "I wanted to have Playboy bunnies come on at night to meet with me. I wanted to be promiscuous with them."
2) "I love all of you, and especially your wives."
3) "I set up a music room in my house . . . and blow away."
4) "I'm concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off."
5) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power."
4. What did Bill Clinton say he would "grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die" for?
a) A chance to be the next Oprah
b) A chance to star on "The Bachelor"
c) The defense of America
d) The defense of Israel
e) An advance copy of Playboy's "Women of Enron" issue
5. President Bush said all of the following except:
a) "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
b) "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here."
c) "How many Palestinians were on those airplanes on Sept. 9? None."
d) "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
6. True or false: Former Vice President Al Gore was pulled aside for random airport security checks twice in two days while flying to and from Washington, D.C.
7. Beijing's largest newspaper printed as fact a satirical news story from "The Onion" that claimed:
a) Congress was threatening to relocate to Memphis or Charlotte unless a new Capitol was built with a retractable dome
b) Kevin Bacon has been linked to al Qaeda
c) Nuclear bomb instructions had been found inside the Pentagon
d) President Bush had called on the United Nations to support his "U.S. Does Whatever it Wants" plan
8. Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has referred to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle by all of the following nicknames except:
a) Hanoi Tom
b) El Diablo
c) Turd Blossom
d) Puff Daschle
9. Match the Iran-Contra scandal conspirator with his current line of work in the Bush administration:
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