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MG Show Christmas Special

The little lady with the big (and beautiful) voice, fifteen year old Opera star Holly Stell, Holly's Christmas sang at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington DC.

The Gospel of Matthew says that the Holy Family fled to Egypt. But what happened for the nearly 6 years they were there? Filmmaker and best selling author Paul Perry picks up their trail in his documentary Jesus: The Lost Years. See the trailer here: www.lostyears-themovie.com

How did 5 monks from Wisconsin create a $10 million internet business? By selling ink and toner without huge markups and giving the money to those in need. Father Bernard McCoy and Sarah Caniglia, Lasermonks: The Business Story Nine Hundred Years in the Making tell their remarkable story. Btw, need any ink or toner? www.lasermonks.com

Enjoy some music from Andrew T. Miller's Christmas Cantata, The Birth of Christ recorded at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Narration by actor Liam Neeson.

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If you're a dictatorial, brutal regime, don't despair. There are plenty of lobbying firms willing to improve your image in Washington. ... If the price is right. Journalist Ken Silverstein, Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship went undercover and posed as a businessman with interests in Turkmenistan. He exposes the strategies of foreign lobbyists.

Then... Stephen Schwartz, The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony is a Sufi Muslim who believes that Sufism is the West's natural ally against radical Islam. He describes their history and beliefs.

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All the President's Women

"Psycho-Journalism" is a term I bet you haven't heard before. Psychologist John Gartner, In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography decided to put the former President on the "couch."  He reveals how Clinton's family history and upbringing impacted his behavior in the Oval Office. Then....

It turns out that our 3rd president was quite feisty during his retirement years. Historian Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello reveals Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings and his views on race and religion.

Between Iraq and A Hard Place

Steve Fainaru, Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

Matthew Alexander, How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq