Daily Briefing - Thursday, October 28, 2010

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Adele Stan is AlterNet's Washington bureau chief, and co-editor of Dangerous Brew: Exposing the Tea Party’s Agenda to Take Over America. The book is available only from Alternet alternet.org/dangerousbrew. She recently covered the Glenn Beck rally in Washington and then yesterday covered Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive.

Marc Maron writes and performs raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio and television. He has appeared on HBO, Conan, Letterman, two Comedy Central Presents specials and has a book based on his solo show, "The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah." He is the host of the #1 Comedy Podcast on iTunes--WTF w/ Marc Maron. http://wtfpod.com

Debate on Prop 19 w/ James Gray and Mark Kleiman.

James Gray is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It. He is a California Superior Court Judge, former Federal Prosecutor in the US Attorney’s office in Los Angeles, and was a Republican candidate for US Congress in 1998, and a Libertarian candidate for US Senate in 2004. Through his work with LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and other initiatives, he seeks to mobilize others to join him in exploring alternatives to the “War on Drugs.”

Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis and on drug abuse and crime control policy. He is the author of Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control and Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results, and his latest book is: When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment. He edits the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin. Mark Kleiman taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at the University of Rochester. Outside of academia, he has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as Director of Policy and Management Analysis for the Criminal Division.